Hamilton Nolan schreibt davon, wie es sich anfühlt, ständig von Idioten angebrüllt zu werden und vergleicht das mit der aktuellen politischen Situation in den USA.

If you make a joke, they won’t get it. If you use sarcasm, they won’t detect it. If you exaggerate for effect, you will be taken literally, and if you try to be understated, you will be accused of a contemptible lack of urgency. If you make a reference, it will not be understood; if you choose one topic, they will wonder why you didn’t choose another; if you try to focus on one thing, they will ask why you didn’t focus on something else. Your high-minded arguments will be dismissed as inscrutable, your simple arguments will be dismissed as unsophisticated, and you, personally, will be dismissed as the sort of lightweight who should try getting a real job. Ever thought of that?

Als Internetschreiberling weiß ich recht gut, was er meint. Allerdings habe ich auch ein so überschaubares Publikum, dass ich bisher immer die Chance hatte, Idioten vor die Tür zu setzen, sonst hätte ich längst die Kommentare deaktiviert, wobei ich dann wahrscheinlich komplett den Stecker gezogen hätte, denn ohne Kommentare kann ich mir mein Blog gar nicht vorstellen.

Wie dem auch sein, Hamiltons Artikel ist auf jeden Fall die Lektüre wert. Noch ein Zitat:

Stalin. Hitler. Mussolini. Trump. All sort of buffoonish men, genuinely disturbed and disturbing men whose own lack of human empathy was capitalized upon by surrounding hordes of enablers, grifters, and sociopaths. The authoritarian strongman figure at the heart of awful regimes may possess some unique and interesting, if horrifying, characteristics, but the regimes themselves are built, always, of mean and damaged dumbasses who see in the breakdown of society a chance to finally let their own stupid voices be heard. (There are, too, always a class of smart, calculating, and completely amoral men who believe that they can cynically exploit the strongman for their own ends. Historically most of these people end up in a ditch.)

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