[McDoku]

My take away from this article is simply raise your standards of people. Esteem should not be so fickle, it should mean something.

Our culture has a very short attention spans and we exalt the wrong people. It creates a weird tension. Being a bad actor is an equal opportunity field and the doubt this creates grows until reasonable people are swallowed.

We have no willingness to forgive and this puritanism has in the end soiled us.

[pjc50]

What do you mean by "exalt the wrong people"? People like weev?

[McDoku]

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. -- Marcus Aurelius

[mkr-hn]

That sounds bleak.

[McDoku]

Not really. Ambition is like a bottle for your consciousness. It is the container. As your ambitions expands so does your mind.

If your ambition is to troll someone, that is your maximum value. I think if you look deeply many will realize that this is not the value they want. I believe that they can dream of something greater then to harass someone online.

If anything it is reminder to avoid being trivial. Ambition leads action. This cycle is who you are. It is beautiful self awareness.

[mkr-hn]

I think we're talking about different kinds of ambition.

[McDoku]

This is what I mean by ambition.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambition

[McDoku]

My dear beautiful downvoters did you disagree or not understand?

[McDoku]

Option three. Irrational emotional rejection :-)