Is Rapaire powerful enough to create an entity which will absolutely ignore Rapaire? Discuss.

MM: It is, yes; but the addition of so many intermediary steps in a text-based network dialogue tends to obscure this fact and create a sense of disconnection from personal involvement which some people distort to a perceived personal advantage, although no real advantage accrues at all. So it is worth emphasizing, for example, that the precise reason others may perceive me (within the Forum) as a harebrained pedantic nutcase is because of the many times I have chosen to communicate in a harebrained, or pedantic, or nutty fashion. A series of choices, by the way, with which I am completely comfortable here.


A