Matthew,

Thank you for your several dissertations, above. I think you are a remarkable and worthy man, and not a doofus at all. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that like most people with rare qualities, you spend much of your time among others who seem shallow, or unthought, or specious, or immature. To some degree this is just the numbers racket...from one perspective there are perhaps 10 per cent of people who strive for greater understanding and higher rationality in their views of existence, and 90% who content themselves with preprocessed packages of some sort of pablum or other. From another perspective, eventhe dullest has a spark of great value, and is just burying it. Finding it is a challenge sometimes.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I hear you loud and clear, and in spite of the raillery which I sometimes direct toward you, admire you. As Barky puts it, you kick @ss.

Affectionately,

Amos