>>48
Well, I actually posted the link to demonstrate the dangers of a "fanboy mentality", which you seem to me to be displaying yourself in this latest comment.

I think people who admire and revere a particular personality or idea or practice should be able to listen to criticism of that personality, idea or practice without gathering into a pack of baying, snarling dogs around it/her and starting to screech in unison: "Fuck off and die, infidel!" etc.

If you read the exchanges, you'll see that my criticism, at the beginning, was expressed in very polite and moderate language. It was only when these guys started using phrases like "people of your kind" in their attempts to repel the "assault" that they believed was being made on them that I started saying things like, "Look, please don't be stupid".

(And remember, these guys had even less grounds than people here do to talk like that, as they had no knowledge of anything about me (age, nationality, or educational background) and yet were still so arrogant as to think they knew "my kind" just on the grounds of the fact that I didn't love something they loved.)

An amazingly similar development has occurred between me and the "Cracky community" over the years. It's no more the case that I completely and contemptuously reject Cracky than it is the case that I completely and contemptuously reject Zizek. My description of him as an "execrable charlatan" should be taken with the same pinch of salt as (I hope) the poster above's "commie snake-oil salesman". The really annoying thing about Zizek is that many of his ideas are very, very close to being interesting and even correct. And the "love of Cracky", likewise, is something I can ALMOST empathize and sympathize with, in certain respects.

The problem, though, is that that sort of "critical solidarity" is never ANYWHERE NEAR enough for the "fanboy mentality". The "fanboy" directs the same blind fury against the person who "doesn't love" his love-object as he does against the person who actively hates her - possibly even MORE blind fury, because the person who has expressed interest but CRITICAL interest has "touched" said object.

But enough...