On Dec 10, 3:16 am, Marshall <marshall.spi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 9, 6:48 am, Tonico <Tonic...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > By now I think he's so deeply bored with his life and/or with his > > professional achievments that he feels he must make up stuff in a > > forum on mathematics, something he never studied, in order not to > > appear as a round ass in his own eyes, and what we read above seems to > > be one of his favourite tacticts and not only a naive mistake: he > > messes on purpose with pretty easy, clear concepts in order to have > > some "grounds" on which continue to toss nonsenses in to cyberspace, > > tring to confuse the people he's discussing with. > > Pretty much. However rather than boredom, I think it more likely > that his dysfunctional behavior is a reaction to some past trauma > he suffered that he never managed to come to terms with. His > aggression is explicitly addressed to all of us, but subconsciously > he's acting out against whoever wronged him. At some level he knows > he's doing bogus math, but the point of the behavior isn't to do > good math, but rather to have a safe way to act aggressively. > > Unfortunately this behavior won't ever help him come to terms with > his past trauma, but it does help in the short term with the anxiety > or feelings of powerlessness that he's struggling with. > > I think this is pretty much the dynamic with all the cranks. > > And Now The Bad News: I think a comparable dynamic is pretty > much what motivates the anti-cranks as well. > > Marshall
Yes, I probably agree with most of what you wrote, yet anticranks AT LEAST have much of their mathematics and logic right, though it is not unthinkable to have anticranks acting out of sheer respect for authority...not that I had met some here.
I think cranks, trolls and simply stupid people have always existed, but nowadays they have internet to show off their "skills" to thousands. Nothing really important to worry about.
