Robert Oler has attempted to comment a few times over the past few weeks, but Word Press seems to be smart enough to not allow them through. I thought that I’d note this latest attempt, on this post, though:
well Rand ….you are the guy who believes in the Falwell theory of HRC murdering people…
Note first that it is a complete non sequitur in the context of the post.
Note second that this is nutty. I don’t even know what the “Fallwell theory of HRC murdering people” is, let alone believe in it. Robert apparently bought a copy of The Clinton Chronicles and then somehow has projected his fascination with it on to me (someone who has never even seen it).
I’m not sure why he engages in this kind of lunacy, but it is nice to have blog software that is smarter than him, so in general we don’t have to view it.
Tried this?
http://stupidfilter.org/main/index.php
Well, the world IS full of crazies. Only now the internet lets them display that craziness to whomever doesn’t have proper filtering on their website.
I assume it has something to do with Vince Foster…
Sully, even Oler’s comment quoted above didn’t ping that filter.
I’m guessing the mentioned theory is connected with the observation of the number of people connected with the Clintons dying under suspicious circumstances. And yes, the Vince Foster ‘suicide’ is counted among that number.
I thought you were free of that pest. And hey, has anybody noticed that Bob’s initials are B.O.
The reason Oler does the things he does is that he craves above all attention. He also has a very active fantasy life, but that is an entirely different story.
Well, I hope you continue to let a few of these clay e-pigeons through, Rand. It’s always fun to have a target on whom I can practise being H. L. Mencken without guilt.
Besides, hostile social reaction is the major corrective for individual pathology. One reason people behave better in person than on the Internet, I suppose; instinct tells you that in person, if you behave badly enough, you risk getting socked in the face while bystanders laugh.
Post script: Mark, I suspect you’re right about the motivation (wanting attention). The only difficulty with this widespread theory of social terrorism, so to speak, is the common additional deduction that simply not providing the attention will cause the offender to reform, rethink things, become more social.
Doesn’t work that way. They just escalate, and you end up, in the worst cases, with actual terrorism, meaning real violence.
I think the error in the theory is that it mistakenly assumes the offenders have functioning social-feedback circuits, i.e. they’re just like the rest of us, only they’ve somehow escaped getting the necessary social feedback that tells them they’re being obnoxious. But that is not likely. The problem is not that nobody’s told them they’re being pigs — it’s that they’re immune to the message, don’t get it.
Doesn’t work that way. They just escalate, and you end up, in the worst cases, with actual terrorism, meaning real violence.
That rarely happens. Most of the time they keep at it till the site boots them. By then they’ve already nurtured a couple more sites so they can move on. Like a lone wolf. Oler doesn’t seem to fit that profile. Don’t know what his motivation is, but it doesn’t seem to be attention.