What Is a Troll

Aren’t these people who deliberately want to engage with others because they are looking for an emotional response, pursuant in the motivation of understanding the human condition? If you think about it every action can be defined as trollish. Proposing a question to a person can be like proposing marriage to someone. You cannot say there isn’t a rush of anticipation as to what a person is going to say to that question. Face-to-Face it is not just the answer that is thrilling to hear but the tone of their voice and their facial expressions. Are they going to dance around the room or jump for joy or slap you in the face in anger and walk out on you while you’re down on your knee or will they just give you an ambiguous non-answer and leave you hanging? The possibilities of a person's emotional response can be multi colored and endless. You don’t know what anyone is going to say at any time. Did I get the job? How did you like dinner? How do I look in this dress? Do you love me? Are these questions of a troll or are they questions that anyone might ask?

People are puzzling. You don’t know what they are going to say or how they are going to say it. Even if you had an identical twin they still would probably have a completely different view from you and isn’t “WHY” the universal question?

Even if you had an identical twin they still would probably have a completely different view from you and isn’t “WHY” the universal question?

If you have ever sailed a boat you know it is not like driving a car. You can’t turn any way you want and continue down any road you choose, for as long as you care for, at the speed you desire. In a sailboat you have to constantly renegotiate your direction by readjusting the trim of your sail. And at any moment a gust of wind can redirect you. People are like this. There are often unreliable, unpredictable and at times unreasonable. You can only sail against them. You can’t control them; at best you can try to influence them, but that isn’t likely. Beliefs are generally ingrained and psyches might be nudged, rarely redirected.

Maybe they reason they only should have bigger and bigger platforms where more and more people should only LISTEN & BELIEVE them and they decree that no one has a right to pry these platforms apart

In a sailboat you constantly know where you stand because nothing is being hidden from you. You can plainly see and know how much wind is in your sails at any time. You always know if you are making progress. Yet a person can mostly agree with you and you would not necessary known it, like a game of poker you have to play games with them if you want to really understand them and isn’t that what it is like dealing with people, trying to peek and guess which cards they are holding and probing the ones close to the vest. How are you going to get at this without pointed questions meant to draw answers to the surface?

The people who complain about trolls don’t want to be challenged. Perhaps they are bomb throwers and think they can say nasty and hurtful things about others and don’t care to know how vicious they sound and have others point this out to them. Maybe they reason they only should have bigger and bigger platforms where more and more people should only LISTEN & BELIEVE them and they decree that no one has a right to pry these platforms apart

Paradoxicaly, even Gods are jealous creatures, “You shall have no other gods before Me.” People that shriek behind “safe spaces” and “microaggressions” are comically more fickle than that when they sit high in their prestigious towers of privilege above the peons they speak down to, but are so infuriated by the sight of a solitary powerless “troll” calling out in the wilderness that they are willing to burn the entire kingdom to the ground with one word.