Missing Octafish today. That is all. nt

[Orrex]

127. Right. So saith one of DU's leading purveyors of nonsense

Whatever else can be said about you, whether it's your explicit and demonstrable dishonesty, your need to respond to critics with accusations of mental illness, your mysterious fondness for anti-Semitic, racist, or homophobic source material, or your failure to understand how rhetoric works, perhaps your greatest weakness is that demonstrate no capacity for serious self-reflection.

That, in the end, may be your tragedy. You have knowledgeable people explicitly pointing out the flaws in your posts and your methodology, and rather than considering that maybe--just maybe--their criticisms have some merit, you immediately insult them while claiming to be the victim of a years-long plot to shut you up. Many of your acolytes follow suit, assuming that any rejection of your theory-du-jour is an anti-Octafish conspiracy.

Now that I think of it, I guess I understand exactly how you attract these fawning acolytes: a certain kind of pro-conspiracy mindset is very receptive to the notion that the consensus is deliberately aligned against them. To them, it's not possible that the consensus might be correct; the victim starts with the conclusion that he's the victim, and their perception is tailored to support that conclusion.

Of course, I certainly don't presume to diagnose mental illness, so you needn't waste time making that bullshit accusation again, but such behaviors are indeed consistent with a general expectation of the conspiracy theorist.


Rather than incessantly demanding that your critics "show you where you're wrong," perhaps you might try to consider objectively why they conclude that you're incorrect. Currently, you simply declare it by fiat and you pretend that you've proven some point.