Protestors, True Believers and Trolls
Feb. 14th, 2013 06:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kokopelleNowadays I am working with a wonderful life coach. Our time together is showing that my major life challenges spring from my pretending that things are hunky-dore, when they are not. I am a protester, fighting the larger reality of the situation. The "fix" is to face these parts of my life head-on and stop living an alternate reality in my head. The disconnect will be addressed and I will be happier.
This contrasts with something else I heard recently. A talking head on the radio said that Obama talks about job creation but will really put all his energy into banning guns, running up the deficit and moving astroids into a collision course with the earth. OK, I added that last bit. The point is that the talking head seems to be living in an alternate reality from the president. Is he a pretender? I am more afraid that he is a true believer, a person who truly believes what he is saying. Or is could it be that he is a troll, a person who does not believe what he says, but says it anyway because it is fun / profitable / his job. A troll would say "your taking it out of context" or "I was just kidding" when confronted.
My disconnect with a happier life is not due to my being a true believer. I hope I am not a troll. I pretend because of denial of that larger reality. The point I want to share is that I see three models for being a pretender. The protestor is very sad to me. I find myself struggling with it. The true believers are scary when they don't agree with you. The trolls are just abhorent. An interesting place to start thinking...
This contrasts with something else I heard recently. A talking head on the radio said that Obama talks about job creation but will really put all his energy into banning guns, running up the deficit and moving astroids into a collision course with the earth. OK, I added that last bit. The point is that the talking head seems to be living in an alternate reality from the president. Is he a pretender? I am more afraid that he is a true believer, a person who truly believes what he is saying. Or is could it be that he is a troll, a person who does not believe what he says, but says it anyway because it is fun / profitable / his job. A troll would say "your taking it out of context" or "I was just kidding" when confronted.
My disconnect with a happier life is not due to my being a true believer. I hope I am not a troll. I pretend because of denial of that larger reality. The point I want to share is that I see three models for being a pretender. The protestor is very sad to me. I find myself struggling with it. The true believers are scary when they don't agree with you. The trolls are just abhorent. An interesting place to start thinking...
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Date: 2013-02-14 03:09 pm (UTC)