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Of course you are, Jazz. The medium almost demands it.
When you give someone a mode of interaction like ours, where one can proof read and edit and come back three hours later with the perfect pithy one liner and where there are few negative consequences to being an asshole, that person is going to present themselves differently. Eventually, if these changes form a consistent framework, you end up with a different persona altogether. It's not necessarily a conscious thing, but more just a consequence of the forum style if interaction. Perhaps all online interaction.
Condescension as a rhetorical device stems from certainty -- every idiot knows that. And it's easy to be sure of what you're saying when you've got Wikipedia at your fingertips and time to look it up beforehand.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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