Re: [FWP] For your amusement

[Tushar Samant <D@i-works.com>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Andy Lester wrote:
>Don't get what?  Don't get the concept that "because people are smart, the
>presentation of their ideas is irrelvant"?

Sounds like you don't get it At All.

>Your parallel to Botticelli doesn't hold, because Botticelli handed off a
>finished product.

Since I don't even slightly understand the relevance of this
point, I will let it go. The most I will say is that since the
definition of acceptable product and what constitutes an artistic
career were themselves at stake, any talk of "finished product"
is beside the point.

I am not condoning being a jerk. I am saying that this constant
wondering about why "smart people" act like jerks is either ill-
informed or dishonest. BTW, what you say amounts to "Botticelli
had a right to be a world-class jerk"--which is telling. Actually,
he was only demanding the kind of respect that seems reasonable
now. But I am sure there were people wondering how someone could
violate elementary good manners such as sucking up to the aristo-
cracy. (This is highly simplified, of course...)

>The revolution which we're going through is not about computers.  It's
>about communication between human beings.  Unfortunately, it seems that so
>many of the people who drive this revolution really don't care about other
>human beings.

Actually, petty manners-cops can't possibly know the first thing
about revolutions. Hence, their characterizations fall flat. Cast
your mind back to when bogus considerations of "niceness" prevented
you from telling the truth to some ignorant person... If we ARE full-
tilt into a revolution I am amazed we aren't seeing more malcontents,
and blood and -atra bilis-.

My liking and using Perl doesn't bind me to some community standard
of niceness. However, my niceness level does determine the strength
of my bond to the community. There's a difference.

--
Tushar Samant
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