re: #841 windsagio

That ties in to humans enjoyment of righteous outrage too tho’. Who doesn’t love getting seriously pissed off?

One of the amazing things about blogs like this with a high volume is how much you think you know about the people on the other side.

Emotionally, I think I can pretty accurately describe the real personalities behind the facade with alot of the posters on here. I’m probably wrong of course, but I feel so sure :p Amazing subject in general.

Right— some people like outrage in normal ways, probably the vast majority of political junkies like all of us do. If we didn’t we wouldn’t be here— if we were the Perpetual Outrage people, we’d be posting on fringe sites, and if we were Echo Chamber people, we’d stick to sites were you only get one viewpoint.

Some people aren’t about righteous outrage, and they’re not even about politics, per se. The vast majority of the stalkers have little to no understanding or real engagement with politics. (if they did, they wouldn’t be spending the bulk of their time wailing abou being banned years and years after the fact.)

They’re acting out some internal drama. They’re getting some kind of emotional gratification from it, from the whole fantasy they’re projecting. It didn’t have to be about CJ and LGF, they would just as easily have developed that weird attachment and fixation and outrage on a freakin knitting forum or gardening forum or something about someone there.
What I’m gesturing at here is that the anonymity of the internet, the blank screen that the lack of all physical contact provides, means that teh targets of people’s obsessions are highly fungible— if it’s not this target, then it would have been some other.
I’m fascinated by all this stuff myself, I have to say. Creepy though.