Troll Town
As we explore
Overcoming creative limitations
And procrastination
And all the factors of resistance from within
Let’s also take a look and overview
Of that resistance that manifests itself externally
And shows up as what are known as
Trolls
Or haters
And let’s take an unemotional look at this phenomenon to really try and get under the hood of it so to speak
And as best we can try and find out what’s behind it in a general way.
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Troll town
What is it and how did it come to be?
Before social media’s big takeover of the psyche of the world
Trolls were known as Bullies
And bullies (at least the overt variety)
We’re largely left on the schoolyards of our past
Bullies would obsessively stalk targets on playgrounds
And then push em around
Hurl insults
Enlist cohorts to join in the torture campaign
And generally make miserable the life of someone
Who in someway apparently irked or threatened the bully to become the focus of his or her ire
I suppose
Psychological analysis of the bully has shown
That obviously they were expressing
Their own trauma and fear and finding an external character to project it all on
Usually somebody who was different
Maybe a bit nerdy
Or socially awkward
The bully would seek out what he saw as a safe target
Someone he knew wouldn’t fight back.
Incidentally I was bullied a great deal when I was very young
In fact I was bullied so bad in first grade that I was held back to repeat that grade
So that I didn’t lean on the younger side of the class but rather the older side
That actually worked. I also discovered humor that second year of first grade and
Became the class clown and somewhat popular in an outcast kinda way.
But from then on I always hated bullies and bullying
And would stand up for the victims of it in my various classrooms
The empathetic response I had to it was overwhelming and I wanted to beat the phenomenon down.
You could say the process of writing and making videos about defeating procrastination and overcoming creative limitation is a direct outreach of that
It’s not dissimilar on some level
The bullies as I said are both internal and external
We need to analyze and overcome them all to arrive at our voice undeterred
But before social media
We left the bullies on the playground
People out grew that dance to a large degree
And would apologize for acting that way at class reunions the world over
Sometimes with tearful confessions of abuse they incurred at the home front
Or else the revelation that they had been jealous of their target the whole time
These cliches of bully dom usually had
Some form of a sob story contained within
Because everything is energy
And why would anyone invest their energy focusing on something or someone outside of themselves
Only to give or express
Animosity and hate
Someone or something that they’ve chosen to follow and seek out in the case of social media
Who has time for that
Or the psychological make up for it
And as any of us who have pushed ourselves even slightly beyond the surface
Of what makes people tick
Understand that bully’s
Or trolls are really just expressing garbage from their own internal world
Kinda like literbugs of the soul
You don’t need to be sigmund Freud to understand this
It’s an elementary level of understanding of the psychology of man
To the point that one wonders why the public troll
The one who is trolling as his actual self rather than some shadowy anonymous profile
Isn’t more embarrassed
To most of us with any understanding of how humans work
He is literally trolling himself
What is the troll or bully expressing about himself?
First and foremost that he has time to do this
And you might say
Yeah but writing a mean comment doesn’t take a whole lotta time
And where that may be true
To be in the psychological space where that becomes an option for you though does
We can only give others what we give ourselves
For instance I’ve decided to make a prolonged attempt at overcoming limitations
And factors that have held me back from
Fulfilling certain ambitions
And in doing that write an account of that journey to help other people do the same
I am giving to others what I am giving to myself
And that cycle feeds on itself
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