It's compulsive behaviour directed toward a meaningless end.

Perhaps so, although you are trivializing a very important essay which you failed to discern in its correct perspective because you deemed it a meaningless flight toward the 40000th post. Hidden by that trivial and illogical flight the actual contents of the essay may be the only rational statement made on this thread!

But your Shatner obsession is meaningless behaviour towards a compulsive end. Just as shallow and just as mad. So I don' see much merit in discussing it with you. Sure you can respond with enthusiastic rhetoric about how mad everyone else is, making it perfectly understandable that you should seek to resurrect the bloated memory of a weak-chinned ex-media figure. Make sperfect sense in the midst of the madhouse. But I will have nothging more to do with it (sorry -- "him") no matter how you justify it.

Two insanities do not a sanity make, and you know it perfectly well.

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