Trolls Will Save The World

Trolls Will Save The World, by Milo Yiannopoulos.

A warped currency today governs popular culture. Instead of creativity, talent and boldness, those who succeed are often those who can best demonstrate outrage, grievance and victimhood.

[N]othing is evaluated on its quality, or whether it’s factually accurate, thought-provoking or even amusing: only whether it can be deemed sexist, racist or homophobic. …

In this maelstrom of grievance, there is one group boldly swimming against the tide: trolls.

Troll

The current definition of trolling:

Trolling has become a byword for everything the left disagrees with, particularly if it’s boisterous, mischievous and provocative. Even straightforward political disagreement, not intended to provoke, is sometimes described as “trolling” by leftists who can’t tell the difference between someone who doesn’t believe as they do and an “abuser” or “harasser.”

A real troll, of course, does aim to provoke. They do aim to cause mild rage. They aim to prank, to goad, to wind people up. Their opinions are designed to be outrageous. And in a society of grievance, monitored by a media governed by outrage, they are enjoying something of a heyday.

Trolls are experts at finding soft targets. In the first half of the 2010s, they correctly identified feminists as the most easily-offended group of people on the planet.