On the World's Chief Supplier of Industrial Strength SpitballsQUOTE(Milton Roe @ Fri 24th April 2009, 12:24am)
The WMF clings to its BLPs with the hopeless tenacity of an addict to a drug. It's difficult to understand why.
What really puzzles me is why semi-intelligent people keep puzzling about this, when the answer is too obvious to bother mentioning again. I think the answer — to the meta-puzzle, I
said the answer to the object puzzle was too obvious to bother mentioning again — must lie somewhere in the theory of cognitive dissonance.
The theory of cognitive dissonance predicts that people who regard themselves as reasonably intelligent will eventually find themselves puzzled as to why they wasted so much time on what they eventually realize is a totally futile activity — and with utterly insufficient reward to boot — and their self-image of themselves as intelligent persons will then cause them to make up some bogus explanation for why they did that. Invoking Cosmic Archetypes, the Greater Glory of the <pick one> Tribe, Cave, Market, or Theatre, the Interests of Science, or the Tragicomic Sense(lessness) of Life are popular sources of dramatic hamburger-helper, but I'm sure you have your own personal favour-rites.
Jon Awbrey
Meta-Templates For Meta-Con-Templation, If I've Said This Once, I'll Say It 10³ Times
