The Trolls Among Us
“We’re waiting,” Weev said. “We need someone to show us the way. The messiah.”
“How do you know it’s not you?” I asked.
“If it were me, I would know,” he said. “I would receive a sign.”
Zeno of Elea, Socrates and Jesus, Weev said, are his all-time favorite trolls. He also identifies with Coyote and Loki, the trickster gods, and especially with Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. “Loki was a hacker. The other gods feared him, but they needed his tools.”
Alison comment on August 4, 2008 9:50 am:
Hmm. I think this Time’s article opens up a very interesting topic and points to a moral dilemma. I have had questions about the use of the internet and posting without permission of personal photos, stories that are then public and can be widely distributed, viewed, misinterpreted, misused. THe bridge boundaries of people without them evenbeing aware at times.
There are potential legal issues, safety issues, and social ones. There is the question of caring, consideration, respect, responsibility that has seemed to gone over the head of the younger generation raised with this medium. Virtual communication and relationships have allowed many to be so distanced from the people they have effects on, and may harm and so perhaps to disconnect from a humaness and compassion they might otherwise have, or have developed from more direct interactions(and social sanctions?). Where is the spirit and support of life in this . It seems the rights of self and to destroy are held up as more ’supreme’ and cool. Where should the line be drawn…..when is a social or artistic statement or experiment over the line–when it offends simply – or when indeed it causes harm, like death or destruction of someone’s life, well being.?
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