One early morning I was looking up advice about noise pollution. From insulation, all the way to polite confrontation, went the advice I found. I found a page that I should've bookmarked which talked about gift baskets. Elsewhere I was advised to defuse the situation with some baked breads – which is disturbing if you have a perverse mind and even if you accept the words literally. Try solving anything beyond hunger with a home baked bread.
Baskets of gifts are pretty ostentatious, insulation is expense, and
confrontation is the Achilles' heel of the misanthrope. I always think I'll figure out some devious cure to problems I may just be exaggerating. At least, that's what I think I do, but the truth is probably a bit more convoluted. In any case, I went wrong by seeking advice on the internet, and that's really the extent of the issue.
I am
definitely not against the internet, but I can't imagine all the things it might've been
if it wasn't immediately harnessed by nonsense. Things the inter-ignorant don't know much about, such as
trolls, are actually becoming more common. Drastically more common, as a quick look at any forum or comment section (itself the curse of our stunningly obsessive and pathological habits) will prove.
But 'troll' has been a metaphor always, and not a bad one at that. I guess at one point a person could point at a nonsensically aggravating individual and say,
"Fuck off, you churl!"
I write that
academically, of course. I guess what I'm looking for, accurately, is advice for living with the daily trolls of the universe. I need a solution that works for any troll situation.
At the same time I have myself been guilty of being a troll in the past, and part of me looks at troll-problems as a function of karma - perhaps the ultimate expression of foot in one's mouth. If that's the case I need to be able to accurately measure karma, or else I'll never know when I should become its agent.
Agent of Karma (good movie title +/- concept).
And
noise pollution is itself kind of an interesting concept. Even good enough that someone could make a movie about it, but I suppose it is still rather misunderstood. It really exists, though, and you have to believe this. The best example is careless placement of wind chimes; maybe purposeful muffler alteration.
Wind chimes are not offensive in theory, but in practice, or windy areas, can get ridiculous. This is because they do not rest, and instead go on chiming at all hours. And chimes generate sharp noise, so the sound can travel a fair distance. Furthermore, if someone stands at a fair distance, and wishes to hear the
night's elemental silence-music, they are forced to include the ostentatious music of chimes chiming in the breeze.
Muffler alteration for the sake of, say, noise, is probably the ultimate type of pollution. I'd say it borders on
noise crime. I even know of a
direct example of the power of even a small combustion engine.
Anyhow, trolls see noise-pollution as favorable because it allows them to broadcast themselves and trouble others. It's like interpersonal agitprop, or perhaps sonic graffiti, because it is deliberately noticeable and serves no noticeable purpose. I see it as a form of offensive excess, often used indiscriminately – why else the echo-mufflers of the world, the
deafening car audio, F-1 racing?
It's always some more of that old noise pollution.
Thunder isn't noise pollution because it is part of an inescapable process. Television and radio are (or
can be, if you're conservative), because few people speak judiciously. Marching in sufficient force is kind of a noise pollution. And I almost forgot about noise cannons and sonic weaponry, which is paralleled only by microwave weaponry in terms of
odiousness.
That's all just energy pollution but with a target. And, ultimately, aren't bullets pollution as well? Couldn't we as a planet come to some sort of awakened conversation about pollution?
We are submerged in pollution, and the green team has monopolized it in the name of ecological commonsense, but other very real types of pollution exist.
Perhaps, reader, and I am sorry to bring this up, but perhaps you are ignorant and you
laugh. You think to yourself, "That untypical gentleman is throwing words together about things that he either invented or read about in an anonymous internet article written by, no doubt, a bunch of kooks and quacks." Maybe you don't even know or care about the multitude of disasters that have always existed, even that special class of
disaster which is anthropogenic. If you do not care, you may be a troll.
Pollution, depending on how one defines it, is always the source of grief and stress in organisms. Therefore it can be communicated as a bad thing, a negative. So when one repays pollution with more pollution, one has two bad things, and is sure to come to grief by both of them. If one merely accepts the initial pollution, one still deals with grief, and if one ignores it, the pollution still goes on existing. One can try to portray pollution as a good thing, and maybe even believe the delusion, but that does not change what exists.
So there's a thing called
Troll Pollution, and, to the average person, it's more of a big deal than climate change or the pole shift or
the greasy atmosphere. I've been thinking about it, and suppose it's simply just a negative aura that self-perpetuates, and if you look closely at a lot of the human world and its alleged history, you can apply the concept of troll pollution to explain such diverse topics as:
- Fights ending in death
- Theft
- Injustice – casual or severe
- Contention
- Fraud
- Noise pollution
- Jackasses
- Discrimination, hate crimes
- Psychologically damaging circumstances
- Fights ending in serious and/or life-threatening injury
- Consumerism, Postmodernism
- Authoritarianism, Feudalism, Anarchism
- 'Anarchism'
- Statism, Legalism, Recidivism, elitism
- Depression, Indigestion, Castration, Defenestration
- Charlatanism
- Entropy
- This blog post.
