Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, November 25, 2022

Trolldom

 From Trump to Elon Musk to various online Nazis to...well, it's just everywhere...we have became suffused with trolls whose currency is attention. What did these odious creatures do before the internet? Where did they get their visceral thrills at forcing people to engage with their nonsense?

Why is this the way some people are?

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