Cary L. Brown said:
archeryguy1701 said:
You know Superman, I don't agree with what Jessop said, but everytime something slightly insulting is said about Shatner, you need to make a counter comment, and I don't think it's particularly effective in stopping it from happening. It admitedlty doesn't happen all that often, but still...
I haven't been here all that long myself, but when you're commenting on all the silly little noobs, keep in mind you've been here all of a month.
My take on this is pretty simple...
The internet is just filled with people who THINK that they have "special rights" and that nobody else out there is as "real" as they are.
The same people who go crying and whining to
mommmmy the first time someone says something even SLIGHTLY "less than fawning" about them, they go ballistic (or at least get together and get a group of pals to hit "report to mod" en-masse)... those people are typically the ones who are the LEAST concerned about the feelings of anyone else.
It seems that it's because they really don't see anyone else as being "real" except for them. I'm reminded of a guy who I saw on some late-night TV show a few years ago... a fairly popular guy, central-asian descent, a professor at some east-coast school who's written a bunch of fairly well-selling books... who claimed that he believed that he is the entire universe and that everything else... that's ALL OF US... we're just figments of his imagination, effectively.
It's a way of sounding "enlighted" while at the same time propping up one's own sense of absolute and total self-absorption as somehow being something other than the abject immorality that most people would treat it as.
That's what I see every time I see someone here go into a flame on someone who's not there to defend themself. The two people who most commonly get that, here on the "oh-so-open-minded TrekBBS" where "IDIC" is supposed to be central to everything, would be JMS (Babylon 5) and Shatner. I think that they're both just about tied for the sheer volume of brattish hatred spewed on them by the utterly self-absorbed types on here.
Superman is entirely correct, though I think Shatner would be the first guy to point out that the defense really isn't needed. Shatner is happy, successful, and doesn't feel the need to go on the internet and flame people he's never met.
Shatner is also 70 years old. I'd hazard a guess that he's in FAR better health and better shape than any of his "detractors" will be at that age. Hell, the guy still rides horses... at an age when I'd bet his biggest "flamers" on here will be drooling and wetting themselves.
So the ongoing bratty "flames" on Shatner (and similarly on JMS) don't really do any harm. But they DO tell us alllll about the person doing the flaming. :thumbsup:
