Cheater. What is important is to appear as someone he is not and never will be
Cheater. What is important is to appear as someone he is not and never will be.
While a forum is a place to compare ideas and opinions, where it is possible to interact with other people to test one’s communication and charismatic skills, it is also a kind of “mental gym” where each person performs the exercises that he or she feels best suit his or her state of well-being.
In some cases, real competitions take place among forumists, the purpose of which is to convince others of the soundness of one’s own positions or the inconsistency of those of others.
If the whole thing were conducted on a level of mutual confrontation and fairness, such a “gymnasium” would be functional for the growth of intellectual “musculature,” which is indispensable especially in real life.
Unfortunately, this is not the case, and we often witness at least questionable behavior on the part of experienced cheaters.
There are those who cheat by mutating personalities or using several in order to be in the “majority”; those who complain to moderators because their interlocutor has been banned and thus put in a position of not being able to reply; those who delete or modify the meaning of their posts, revising them from time to time to make them seem consistent with what they intend to say later; those who attack the interlocutor’s real life or threaten him with blackmail in order to silence him.
In short, a whole series of gimmicks used for the sole purpose of “capturing” reason instead of overcoming it by one’s own strength.
It is like someone who uses Styrofoam weights in the gym to make the spectators believe that he is a champion weightlifter.
Coffin knows this very well.
But it is not important for him to pass as one of the many hucksters who populate everyday life.
What is important is to appear as someone he is not and never will be.
