Forgive me. What kind of answer would you like? A 100 page, step-by-step break down of all that would be encompassed in better assessing the 'works of trolls' or otherwise mean spirited, verbal aggressors? Yeah, I'm not about to write a book here.
So, what kind of answer would
you like?
This is obviously a rather complicated topic, without even a clearly defined content. Yet you thought you should make a thread about it, post nothing but a music video, ask people to "consider the question"... which isn't even stated... and then get evasive when people ask for your position on it.
I am not trying to troll you... but considering a more broad interpretation of this thread's question... perhaps you might want to clean up your moral acts before people get frustrated with your words?
But, if we just took Emile Durkeim's idea of Anomie, we might consider that the 'rest of us' may need to clean up our moral acts at least somewhat in order to not cause some folks to become bitter individualized trolls or even, more corporately speaking, Communist Propagandists within our shared society.
I don't know if either Durkheim or Merton have offered a solution for the problem they described. But considering that this problem seems to be one the permeated human history, I don't think they had a valid solution.
And I don't think there can be one, at least not a general one. Regardless of how and why norms fail, there's always those who do not fit into your pattern.
Can you get more people to adhere to societal norms, if these norms and the societies that apply them are of a certain kind? Will you get less "trolls" this way? Yes, probably.
But this ignores the people who aren't jerks because of some societal reasons... but simply because they are jerks. To paraphrase Jesus: "The jerks you will always have with you."
No, it doesn't have to be seen specifically through that prism. It could instead just be that the video is wanting to bring awareness of the anti-thesis between "how do I deal with this?" vs. "are they wrong in having said such things?" (rather than in "how to stop them?", which is another question altogether.
Yes, that could be. That would be a third (fourth?) interpretation now, and at that one that doesn't fall within the original question of your thread.
I'm fairly certain that it has something to do with the fact that the context is created by the following steps in the production of the video:
1) State at the beginning of the video that the statements within the video are various real-life statements that have been made.
2) Super-impose the obviously derogatory statements upon the faces of the performers, hence implying that no one of a sane state of mind would surely self-deprecate themselves by way of these same statements.
3) End the video by presenting statements of a positive evaluative nature, statements that are dignified, uplifting, helpful, and show value for another human being.
....or something along those lines.
That still doesn't solve the distinction between internal and external... which, as much as you want to ignore it, is a question that needs to be dealt with.
Is this the way they internally deal with this problem - by countering it with positive messages - or is this the reaction they want to get from the outside sources? Or both? Or perhaps they just want to raise awareness that there are all kinds of people out there: nice and mean?
