Anger Over Mohammed Cartoon

[Flint]

Human nature is endlessly fascinating to me. What could possibly compel an anonymous stranger to insult my dead grandmother?

Originally Posted by Flint *Disclaimer: May Contain Sarcasm

It's easier to judge people on the internet, because you can see them as a one-dimensional mockery of an actual human, and that feels good. It feels good to know so much about somebody, to be so astute, like Sherlock Holmes, to be such an expert on the human condition. All it takes is a few keystrokes, and the soul spills forth onto the page. The dark, hidden truths cannot escape the righteous searchlight of this perfect, digital mechanism.

Everything that everyone ever says is just a series of symbolic dots understood to have some connection, which is understood to have some meaning; in this case facilitated exclusively by smallish bits of text, floating in a participative gray area where people's minds attempt to connect, with pitifully little information to go on. Unwittingly projective stabs at mind-reading is what often results in an atmosphere so devoid of meaningful context.