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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Your defensiveness after having missed a non-sequitur joke says more about you than any vain appeal to the hivemind will ever say about anyone else. Everyone misses a joke from time to time.
Show of minds: Why would that ever matter to anyone but an anti-intellectual evangelist in the mood for a public burning?
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I acknowledge I seemed to have missed the joke.
It was only after you explained it that I decided it wasn't all my failing. Anti-intellectual? If this were a classical music forum, that might be a fair criticism. Here, that analogy wasn't intellectual. At best it was likely to be missed by a large segment of your audience, which is poor for both rhetoric and humor, and at worst it was pompous snobbery.
I was trying to say that in a tone I meant to be humorously and inoffensively flippant. Maybe I failed at that or maybe you just didn't get it. We could ask the hive....
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The personality of the writer always does find ways in, political and otherwise -- but that has nothing to do with the merits of said fiction, which is all that matters unless the aim is propaganda.
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Among the merits of fiction are supposed to be enjoyment and relatabilty to the reader. You appear to be discounting that.
And another thing, while "Show of hands" was really just rhetorical, like "Is it just me....?" I'd have happily acknowledged responses along the lines of "It's just you, we all got it."