Agustus,
It's not about me, pal. It's about the issues. And for your information, I am interacting with a machine. So are you. So is everyone else here. If I wanted to interact face to face, I'd go a coffee house, a social club or a pub. And, no, I do not insult people to their face when I meet them in such social settings. But I do speak of the moronicity of a nation that is going off the tracks into criminal depravity with its insane religious ridiculousness.
Every decent thinking person in America understands fundamentalism to be just as depraved, just as mad, just as socially destructive and narcissistic if it practiced in cave-based madrassas in Southern Waziristan or in the hollows of Kentucky.
And to your suggestion that my ego is out of control, I haven't any idea how you came to the conclusion from my scattershot of pixels on your machine. Your suggestion that I feel that I'm "the smartest man on the planet" is way wide of the mark. Your rhetorical overshoot with that bit of bombast is quite uncharacteristic. You're usually much keener observer.
But you did remind me of my "favorite" electrical sub-contractor. When I found him on a job chainsawing drywall so that he could install his romex wiring, (a scheduling fiasco), he told me that if "I were a genius, I sure wouldn't be in this line of work."
That's how I feel about SI. If I were a genius, why would I ever bother to deign to visit the denizens of this particular dysfunctional corner of the gambling establishment called Wall Street? If I were really smart, I'd be on my 300' sloop laughing my ass off about how incompetent most people are at understanding the world. Such is not the case, I'll assure you. |
