Hearing this in rebuttal to a statement of mine, I began to wonder what such a remark says about the speaker. After all, I think any rational human being would agree, I am not a moron. I may be wrong; my ideology may be misguided; I am out of my depth when speaking on some topics; but I don’t think I can rationally be called a moron.
If I am not a moron but I am called a moron, what is the speaker thinking? Perhaps he is not thinking and is simply resorting to his baser side in responding to my statement. In which case, he should probably learn what any 5 year-old learns and put a filter between his brain and his mouth. We can think what we want, but thinking adults know how to filter their emotional outbursts.
Perhaps the speaker himself is a moron and is unable to comprehend my statement. In order to compensate for his ignorance, he has to project onto me what he fears about himself. When he read my statement, it made as much sense as reading the periodic table, and he had a foreboding sense of fear that he was an idiot. In reaction, he lashed out at me by calling me a moron.
I guess he may just be unskilled in the ways of blogging and online debate. Perhaps he is uneducated and rarely interacts with actual human beings, being locked up in a dirty basement, driving a car that his daddy bought him, playing video games in his free time, showering rarely, and slowly losing touch with the human race. In which case, calling me a moron was probably the most intellectually stimulating thing he had done all day. Call it a form of mental masturbation.
It’s always possible that he thought he was making an intellectual point. He thinks that my point is so foolish on its face that he believed he was doing me a favor by calling me a moron. Of course, if I am as moronic as he believes, he should know that he needs to offer an actual explanation of my idiocy because, having written the original statement, I do not see that it is facially foolish. Since he didn’t realize this, perhaps he is the moron after all.
Who would have thought that calling me a moron could reveal so much about him? It makes me glad that I didn’t respond in kind.
Why should anyone waste a reasoned argument with someone who does not listen to reason?
ReplyDeleteYou support assholes who go out of their way to treat people unfairly, thereby making you a pretty enormous asshole. Little did I know that deep down, you're actually a delicate little flower. I had no idea you were not only stupid, but also a pussy.
Do you need a tissue?
Heathen, I was going to ask in private to whom you were referring. I think I have now figured it out accordingly.
ReplyDeleteI have a certain gentleman (and I use the term very loosely) that used to debate with me up to a point and then almost invariably resorted to name-calling.
I have generally come to the conclusion that when someone of opposing ideology resorts to either name-calling or retreats in defeaning silence, it is because they no longer are able to refute my arguments intelligently. Whether they are as moronic as I am I will leave to other to decide.
T.Paine, speculate all you like but I assure you, this post is complete fiction; I had no specific target [wink, wink]. Luckily, I'll never run short of things to write about. Look for upcoming posts, "You're Stupid," "You're a Pussy," "You're a Pretty Enormous Asshole," and of course "You're a Delicate Little Flower."
ReplyDeleteBret, given this statement... "Call it a form of mental masturbation"... I think it's you who needs the tissue.
As a person who has had to deal with "morons" on the left AND the right (throughout my 5-year blogging career), I can definitively say that you are not amongst them. Just keep doing what you're doing; 9 parts analysis, 1 part irreverent humor.
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