QUOTE(dtobias @ Tue 14th July 2009, 6:09pm)
But you've got to admit that the attitude in the above essay is a lot more cooperative, constructive, and friendly than the attitudes you like to decry in Wikipedians and free-culturists; there's no "dancing on skulls" or labeling of people with epithets, and there's an attempt to understand the motives and needs of their opponents even if they don't agree with them.
Not skull dancing, no. But still self important and inward looking. I believe Durova is a bit of a weather vain and knows (as maybe even DG knows) that the public discourse is not going as well as they might have hoped. The
poor noble kid bringing art to the world is attacked by the big greedy museum narrative is faltering.