[lobotryas]

You're projecting onto my comment.

I wrote: "putting [the achievements of others] in context of a greater whole". This has nowhere near the negative connotations that you're implying.

>All of this "putting things into perspective" is perhaps unnecessary

Perspective is always important as it allows us to celebrate how far we've come and remain humble at how much remains.

Personally, I've seen too many CS101 students get an over-inflated ego after they are told that they've become "hacking Gods" after setting up their own blog and playing with customizing the CSS.