My words were in service of the intellect interested in understanding, never intended as platitude for those enslaved by ego.


Actually, there is a lot more might have been said on the topic, but then as Jim Thomerson so sagaciously said, "To learn about a subject, you must first understand, both intellectually and emotionally, that your present knowledge of the subject is at best incomplete, and at worst wrong." My post was intended to assist in that offering as concisely as one might, a perspective which brevity can't dutifully illustrate to those without the comparitive experience. Of course, even were it the post's objective, it can do nothing about one's willingness to want to understand.

And that should bother me how exactly? Expressed slight? Implied rejection? How should your choice to be intellectually lazy and remain unformed bother me? I wrote it for intellectual and emotional adults.

Ergo, except where unmistakably labelled otherwise, my post was generally intended for the cogent reasoning intellect, and contributory to the topic. Some, not much really, necessarily detailed to explain to those without any experienced true basis of comparison and understanding the why, so they might. Of course, worthy of repetition as reinforcment is one of the foundations of how we mere mortals learn, genuine interest, an attention span longer than a flea and the will to want to are prerequisites.

Which coincidentally, is how it also is in aviation.

Nothing in my post was motivated by an unhealthy or out of proportion ego. Having seen most of the geographic world and its impoverished peoples up close and personal, I am well aware of my own relative insignificance on this planet, and of our temporality. You mistake my articulation in service of truth, knowledge and understanding for ego, confidence derived of experience and acquired knowledge for arrogance, and erudition on topic for pomposity if you think otherwise.

I already took into consideration my post wasn't going to reach all, notably those who didn't want to understand, those deficit of the capability for understanding for one reason or another including obstinacy born of bias, selective thinking, illiteracy, an attention span deficit or those simply reproachfully lazy. Only one of those presents as a viable excuse.

So perhaps you can tell us why it is you consider your entirely ad hominem indulgence contributory to the topic, share with us how it is in fact contributory ...other than in its utter subservience of your own ego running rampant with intended slight and insult?