{"id":717,"date":"2006-09-14T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=468"},"modified":"2006-09-14T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T21:03:00","slug":"ill-up-my-yuppies-somewhat-snotty-prigs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/717","title":{"rendered":"I'll up my "yuppies" somewhat: snotty prigs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a comment to Eric Meyer’s “Angry Indeed”<\/a> I replied, in part,<\/p>\n

“[T]there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something else operating here too: my gawd, maybe you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize the awe you inspire \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Box Model Hack\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and such. You and tantek? Guys like you are what inspired me (past tense, note) to keep sloggin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. (So on the day I set up and read through a 250 page technical document and produce with a long list of quibbles large and small. *shrug* Nobody much cares? Fine. But I know that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve guarded your back. Now\u00e2\u20ac\u2122days you got bigger fish to fry? *shrug* Hey, no blame. But: I quit. Past tense. Done deal \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a long while back.)”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On a whim I visited Tantek’s Thoughts<\/a> and found, completely in keeping with the epoch, “Fight bad ideas not people<\/a>“, which reads in part:<\/p>\n

“We are not at war.<\/p>\n

Ideas are at war. We are merely their pawns and canonfodder.<\/p>\n

Fighting a war by fighting people is merely attacking symptoms rather than causes.<\/p>\n

In the long run, fighting a war by fighting people is only as effective as fighting a disease by fighting the people that have contracted it rather than fighting the disease itself.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now it just so happens that (with Krisna Dass louder than I dare in the background) I was thinking, “I was on the hippie bus in ’68 and ’69, I trained airborne infantry (49th Loyal Edmonton Regiment) and did communications intelligence … and my sympathy is more with the mohawk-haired gunman than with the snide simpering bougeois who routinely castrate democracy.” So I thought I’d share a bit of that with Mr. Tantek.<\/p>\n

Ha! Try reaching him … he’s a star<\/b><\/i> … the “Comment” at the base of his posts links to nothing, and there’s no proletarian “Contact” to be found; mere email is beneath him. Noooooooo, such as he aren’t to be triffled with by mere citizens.<\/p>\n

To yuppies all I say: Fuck you and the horse your rode in on. Yuppies … diseased pretenders to artistocracy … full of entitlement but with not a glimmer of what nobility means.
\nTo pseudo-goths and skin heads, bristling with antagonism and agression: “Who the fuck do you think you are? Get the fuck outta my face!<\/p>\n

“Fight bad ideas not people”? Ok … the idea you manifest and perpetuate is what I fight. Is all.<\/p>\n

p.s. I was a Trotskyist, a card-carrying of the International Socialists. And let me tell you: compared to what we have long known about realpolitik<\/i> tantek’s well-intentioned prattlings are a child’s babbling. But then hey, him and his friends can’t arrange decent tech_docs, so really *shrug* they’re amateurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a comment to Eric Meyer’s “Angry Indeed” I replied, in part, “[T]there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something else operating here too: my gawd,Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n

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