I am very interested in the psychology of people who present this odd mixture of abusiveness and pseudo-intellectualism. Their drive is clearly to cause upset at the same time as being recognised as intellectually superior. I don't understand it.
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You see the phenomenon on the roads. Some drivers are rude and abusive because the distance from others created by being in a car makes them feel safe about it. Same with social media. It creates a distance that makes people feel they can be rude without consequences.
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I've tended to look at it as an intersection of high functioning psychopathy with group-based & sanctioned power. Its like new religious founder dynamics combined with an obsession to punish ppl for the joy of those dynamics. Matthew Sears is a good case study. 1/2
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2/2 The new iteration seems to be the leveraging of minority groups to insulate one from blowback. I imagine it is like psychopathic magic armour. You can be as bigoted and vindictive as you want - because your acts are sanctioned as being for the "betterment of all"
#stalinesque
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Shall we possibly call it a middle-age crisis? Mixed with "I don't have to tolerate rubbish from anyone"? Obviously inaplicable to under 45s.
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Some of them just aren't pleasant people, although the couple I know lack the courage to get really ugly ftf. At least in the world of Facebook
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Trying to establish dominance in their online interactions?
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Are you familiar with the term "social vampire"?
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I suspect that the endorphins associated with that kind of behavior (I’ve seen similar among “conspiracy theorists”) come from the easy FEELING of being right where others are wrong, not the long hard scientific slog of trying to determine what is right/wrong.
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Also suspect the pseudo-intellectuals HAVE obtained some “rote” knowledge of their subject (such as can be gleaned from the Internet, etc.) but lack the ability to analyze it, go deeper, find flaws, compare views on it, etc. They fill that void with shouting and abuse.
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Perhaps they 1) feel guilty about something and feel absolved when others hate them. 2) Have the desire to be combative yet don’t want to act on it without an excuse to do so. 3) Get entertained when people appear wrong to them because it gives them the intellectual highground.
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Also: maybe the need to feel like they’re fighting an enemy. If they perceive an individual, group, ideology, etc. as an enemy and get attention from that enemy, perhaps they feel validated with their efforts.
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This part is completely par for the course for the internet. It's fundamentally based on the shield the internet gives when it comes to your genuine identity. I imagine there's gonna be an entire psychology field on internet conduct in the future.
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On a Belgian tv program they had a segment where they confronted people with their rude comments on social media and almost everyone acted like they knew nothing.
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