The funny thing is he will see this response as failing to solve conflicting goods, as if that was my aim.
barbarianhorde wrote:Hey Marionettes

Don't you realize by now that the dude is misconstruing everything you say, mostly having not read it, in order to get you pissed off and posting, giving him energy and internet-credits?
What are internet credits?
Im trying to help you guys see why his understanding doesn't progress, but its like you're addicted to his snort. In any case the answer is; because if he would understand and concede to this understanding, you would stop typing out impassioned replies to him.
I appreciate the heads up, I do. I find him oddly fascinating. I could be wrong, but I don't think he is a conscious troll. IOW he is doing what you are saying, but I don't think he knows it. A few times I have managed to get him to look at one of his communicative acts. But then he moves away and denies and distracts. I am sure there is some kind of addiction involved on my part, also, but truly it is the most amazing thing. We are all like him somewhere in our cognitive make up. There is something we treat in this way. We think we are rational or reading or listening, but really we don't - because it would be challenging, or whatever. So to me he represents that portion of the human mind that will not look at itself, will not self-evaluate. And with amazing resilience. Utterly amazing how many approaches he manages to be clueless in the face of.
I don't expect him to ever make a major acknowledgement. I truly don't. Yet, I still find it interesting, perhaps to my detriment, to keep holding that mirror up.
However unimportant an individual case is in the scheme of things, that process of evasion and denial is important. since I deal with it daily in relation to others and in myself.
How does it hold itself up? How does it maintain, for so long, this utter cluelessness? Why can it not see itself despite a rather broad range of intelligent methods pointing out its blind spots.
And each time I find another thing he denies, will not look at, distracts in relation to, I see how deeply confused a person can be while stringing together seemingly intelligent sentences - that is sentences that in some other context might show some smarts.
This makes me less likely to fall for a .....
Vampire!
in real life. Because yes, someone who could be even very intelligent can tell you there is no chair in front of you even when you have your hands on it. This whittles away at the mystification these people use in general.
IOW when I point out, for example his idiocy in the way he responded to Pedro, I wasn't just telling him, but I was actually writing out the form and specifics of his idiocy there. Noting the tactics, the oddness, the actual form of his denial. That's useful. That he will finally say 'Oh, my God, you're right. I wasn't answering his questions and I did act as if he owed me an explanation of Rawls, when that expectation makes not the slightest bit of sense.' No, that's not going to happen. The process of untying the specific knots of his not responding, not accepting responsibility, that however is useful.
It also stands as a warning. There may be places where I act out in similar ways, despite my own evaluation that I am an adult communicating intelligently.
He does a good job at it. I bet he has an IQ somewhat above a hundred.
Above a certain IQ vampires don't exist because smart people have better things to do than steal. They can like,
make stuff. Like a capitalist

I think there is revenge in there. I think a strong motive is revenge. To hit to objectivists. To embarrass them. To draw people down into his hole. To mock anyone who finds any meaning or pride or joy.
I suppose I can relate. The shiny happy people out there who are not grounded, I can feel an urge to remind them what reality is like.
But I think that is an underlying motive. IOW his supposed motive is to find how he ought to live. But I think underneath he wants everyone to focus on lifting him up, which brings them down, and that is the real goal.
I can't be sure of this, but there is disease here, with no interest in actually investing in healing. He'd rather be patient zero.
And it is so ego-dystonic for him to acknowledge that a part of him is cruel and vengeful, he will never notice this himself.