[Sigia-l] Dear Derek

[Chris Chandler]

"Derek R" wrote:

> I would like to believe *all of us* are both genuine and
capable, that
> we do not need a Mother Hen to guide us through to
victory.

Speaking as a "sheep" (albeit one you allowed might be human
when I said something you agreed with) I'm not sure how to
interpret the statement that you'd "like" to believe
something you obviously don't.

Are you merely dissembling in an attempt to make it appear
that Peter is the one denigrating and insulting the
intelligence of everyone on the list?? Prior to these past
few weeks, I would have thought that beneath you.

In any event, congratulations, you've earned a spot in my
killfile. I've been online long enough to recognize the
passion play unfolding here -- every community has it's
outcasts after all. In the past I found your strident
postmodernism amusing, and at times refreshing, but you seem
to have lost all sense of humor. Your tendentious style
invokes only anger and an urge to defend the good people on
this list, and your replies and prevarications have lost all
wit. Frankly I'm way too busy lately thrusting my lack of
knowledge onto my clients to spend time feeling that way.

I wish you luck in the desert-wandering campaign you have
embarked upon. Who knows, maybe far in the future you'll be
recognized as the real prophet of real IA, but if you'll
pardon one last piece of advice from a virtual stranger, if
I were you I'd start my own revolution and cut out the
middle man.

-cc