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As your fellow Alan Kay fan I have a lot of sympathy with what you're saying here and I especially appreciate how heartfelt it is. I also partly agree with it—or maybe it would be better to say I fully agree with it, but think it's only a partial picture.

In any case, this is definitely not the ressentiment I was talking about; this is an opposite kind of discussion, one that is thoughtful, not cynically predictable, and opens the conversation further rather than closes it. All of which is just fine for HN.

It's also an example of what I meant by "if people would speak openly and personally about such feelings", and that takes some courage and I admire you for it.