[IronJack]

If you have nothing to say, the worst thing you can do is take 4,000 words to do it.

This screed may have legs on DU, but it is oddly out of place where thinking people congregate.

[vanderleun]

Dear Jack,
You might reflect that deep down you're being quite shallow. The attitude that FreeR is the default meeting ground of "thinking people" reveals that you need to think more deeply about what thinking actually is. Is it kneejerk agreement with some unwritten but 'widely understood' set of attitudes about what is kosher to think and say here? I don't think so but your milage obviously varies.

I would adjur you not to attribute every little thing that doesn't map to your inner self as something out of the DU. You'll miss the opportunity to expand and will find you shrink instead.

I don't think you want to parallel the goose stepping of DU with lock stepping at FR. Do you?