Coombzy,
Your posts have a cumulative effect. Either you are genuinely unaware how your activities are perceived in some sort of social interaction deficiency stylee or you're so fixated on trying to say something controversial that it overrides any notion of taste and tact. You alienate the entire community then seem to enjoy mocking the ones that challenge you.
I'm not unaware, I just don't care. To my eyes it's some of the comments made by others that are extremely tactless and tasteless. Not to mention plain wrong.
If I choose to fight fire with fire, rather than attempting a reasoned discussion and debate with people who are plainly incapable of such, then that's my prerogative isn't it? You may not like it, but I don't post here to make you happy. I have noticed that you are fortunate enough to be the kind of person who can read overly-patriotic and blindly nationalistic drivel, along with thinly veiled insults, and still keep a reasonably level head and respond to those people with some decorum and respect. More power to you. But that's now how I roll
I would submit that the sort of people that I butt heads with on here are already alienated from me completely by virtue of our extremely opposite world views and opinions. Yes, I enjoy mocking them when they challenge me. It's a character flaw
If any of them were sufficiently clued up to put me in my place and shut me up with a well informed, intelligent post, then I'd probably run off with my tail between my legs
But as long as they choose instead to attack my comments with more of the 'America f*** yea' attitude, as you put it, with a side helping of 'and f*** everyone else', then I will continue to enjoy mocking them.
I'm also sometimes annoyed by overly nationalistic and the 'America f*** yea' attitude but one learns to selectively ignore. You can't correct the world or make everyone value the things you value, this is anti-diversity anyway.
You say you aren't so well informed about global affairs then I suggest you reserve comment. The human race as a homogeneity entity is still very very primitive, social and cultural development lags far behind technological development, all of the present world events are typical for a culture at this stage of its development. It is not time yet to move to the stage which your comments are on the point of suggesting. There's more work to do.
This is a good point and one that I think I touched on in another thread. I agree, and if I am understanding you right (I may not be), I didn't intend for my comments to suggest that the human race should be imminently moving on into some kind of liberal paradise where there is nothing unjust in the world and everyone is groovy to one another. In fact one of the fundamental differences between me and you shida, I think, is that you think such a future is possible, whereas I am kind of convinced we're a race of self-destructive, selfish, evil b**tards. It'd be nice to be proved wrong though.
There is always someone more intelligent than you and that isn't your fault either. I think you have a weird hobby Mr. Coombz. I should of thought someone with your faculties, with time available and access to the internet and literature could find something more interesting and constructive to do with their energies.
It's not really a hobby, more of a habit inculcated over many years spent posting on another forum of a much more cut-throat nature. It's a kind of self-policing place, almost Darwinian you could say
Reading these boards is often a shocking reminder of just how many ignorant, close-minded people exist in the world, and it seems that I find it hard to get out of the habit of making fun of those people.
I'll be perma banned from here sooner or later anyway I guess, for stepping over the line one too many times. I'm already on strike 3 (one of which was for posting a supposed cheating accusation against my own CO *facepalm*) . I doubt many will weep for my departure
I could indeed think of a lot more stimulating and constructive activities to spend my time on, but sadly most of them aren't available while I'm at work and this place is (for up to an hour a day at least).
