Have you earned the right to have this much attitude? Strikes me as odd that as someone building a startup about startups that you'd be so dismissive of others on HN - a startup heavy community.
I'm real. There are enough cheerleaders and I love many friends in the Midwest startup scene, but it doesn't help them to blow smoke up their asses. I'm from Seattle, another startup community in denial. It's time for an objective industry voice and it won't all be flattering.