Sunday, May 11, 2008

CM PRESS # 360










NUTS ON THE NET--OUR START ON A BESTIARY FOR THE COMPUTER AGE

In the past, nuts were limited to writing their nutty thoughts in letters to newspapers. Most of the nuttier ones were caught by editors and never saw the light of day.

Now, however, every nut with even a chimp's level of intelligence can reveal his or her nuttiness via the Internet. And, they do. Today, mountains of opinions come our way unedited by a third party who, in the past, would have filtered and weighed everything before putting it into print.

And, from blog entries and counter blog entries that we sometimes see, it seems that many people are having trouble distinguishing reasonable and intelligent opinions based on facts and reality from the baseless opinions of nuts and those with agendas.

Not all opinions are equal and not all opinions are worth reading.


THE STALKER

Mr. A
--Mr. A. is middle aged. Physically, he is shorter than average and unattractive. Mr. A has a marked oily appearance which may be the result of over active sebaceous glands and too much of the female hormone estrogen. His manner and speech are effeminate. He has a psychotic borderline personality and low self-esteem born of deep seated feelings of inadequacy. He blames his lack of respect in the community on his victim(s). His intelligence is below normal, but not markedly so.

Mr. A fits the profile of a psychotic stalker. Some, but not all, of the characteristics of such a person with this mental disorder are shown below:


Motivation
(a) Wants to frighten and distress his victim.
(b) Stalks his victim to get revenge against someone who has upset him.
(c) Views his victim as being similar to those who have oppressed and humiliated him in the past.
(d) May view himself as a victim striking back against an oppressor.

Personality

(a) Is often irrationally paranoid.
(b) Has an inflated but irrational sense of self-worth as a defense mechanism for his deep seated feelings of inadequacy.

Victim Characteristics
(a) Stalks victims that may have upset him directly or are representative of a group at which he is upset.
(b) May stalk someone he knows or a complete stranger.
(c) Stalker feels inferior to the victim and tries to overcome these feelings by harming the victim.

Stalking Behaviors
(a) Is obsessed with and fixated on his victim such that he thinks of little else.
(b) Is likely to verbally threaten his victim.
(c) Is likely to send anonymous threatening letters, make middle of the night hang-up phone calls, use victim's name to sign victim up for magazine subscriptions, etc.

Long term
(a) If threats and actions against the victim have little result, the stalker often becomes frustrated and increases his actions against the victim. The stalker wants to be noticed--to be someone important--but he also wants the safety of being anonymous. The stalker irrationally believes that his victim stands in the way of the stalker becoming a fully realized human being.

(b) The stalker wants desperately to overcome his life long feelings of inadequacy and will sometimes be an overachiever to prove to himself that he has self-worth. When others do not recognize his "importance," he becomes even more frustrated.

THE INADEQUATE PERSONALITY

Mr. B--Physically, Mr. B is of average height and weight. His muscles are flaccid and his skin appears overly soft and "plump,"possibly due to a lack of testosterone. He has small "man" breasts. His physical appearance is not inconsistent with what is seen in eunuchs. The possible lack of testosterone may explain both Mr. B's physical characteristics and why Mr. B. is childless.

After spending his working life in a dead end job, Mr. B is now confronting his own mortality and is growing increasingly bitter as he looks back and realizes that he has accomplished little in his life.

Mr. B appears to have average or slightly below average intelligence. This is reflected in what Mr. B writes, which is usually mundane and unoriginal. Mr. B, in order to appear more intelligent than he is, will often adopt words and phrases of more intelligent people.

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