[leephillips]

Thanks, and I’m glad that you got some value from the essay and the responses to it. It expresses an attitude and set of opinions that I largely share and that have fallen into obscurity in the midst of a widespread apotheosis of the hive mind. I didn’t mean to misrepresent it; my comment is my own conclusion, guided by this essay, by other analyses, and by observing the, yes, cancerous affect that Wikipedia has on the web.