– Back off, Paul. You are a better commentator than a fighter.
Does that make you feel good? And now you would say it to my face, man to man?
“No, you’d kick my ass.” That’s why I said it on Twitter.
-That seems fine to me.
Paul Felder is a mixed martial arts fighter and retired almost a year after this minibattle. Obviously, he did not stop competing affected by this technical KO. He had other reasons, but at that precise moment and without hesitation he took off his hat before the sagacity and the waist that the hitherto unknown user @ joshuaS_10 had. He went straight into the Twitter Hall of Fame. The athlete has also done well. He is considered one of the best commentators in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Thus, he agreed with him a posteriori, twice.
The situation is still comical and it is an anecdote, but the joke serves to affirm that Felder is a rare bird in this world of Twitter. Elon Musk’s network is fertile ground for all those free thinkers who believe that theirs is an objective and absolute truth that cannot be refuted in any way. And if they are discussed demonstrating that that statement or argument is not immutable, no matter how much they realize the error, they deploy their arts to always be right.
Arthur Schopenhauer writes in The Art of Being Right: “Innate vanity, especially susceptible with respect to intellectual capacities, refuses to admit that what we have begun to expose turns out to be false and what the adversary exposes is true.” And he continues: “The interest in the truth (…) yields in favor of the interest in vanity: what is true has to appear false and true what is false.” Today the latter has increased exponentially due to the fear of being questioned before thousands of people. It is hard to digest that your mistake or your argument apparently without storms is not valid when what you are looking for is the loa and the laurel in the head.
But there is another confirmation in the mocking response of the troll @joshuaS_10: there are those who have Twitter as the ideal place to blurt out everything they think of someone and that they would never dare to tell them in person. Say ugly things, it is understood. Anonymity often helps, but it’s by no means necessary.
It can be thought that people are just as you find them on the street. Lie. For better or worse, the true self is the one that emerges in these long-distance interactions. To really know someone, you need to pay attention to what they say in avatar mode. The good people will also be on the street.