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Maybe that DOES bring us a little closer to the fundamental difference between me and most of the people in this "community".
There's a difference, you know, between taking ONESELF seriously and taking seriously things that have proven their seriousness and deservingness of reverence down centuries and millenia.
You lot hold your own petty SELVES - including your faddish adulation of a 15-year-old girl off the Internet - to be infinitely worthy of respect and reverence, to the point of feeling justified in "punching out the lights" of anyone who suggests you might not be the cleverest, coolest people in the world. But everything else in the world is just shit to you, for you to scrawl over and leave your "tags" on.
With me, things are pretty much the opposite way round. I don't consider myself to deserve very much reverence or respect at all, and am generally much happier to take myself as an object of mockery than I am to take others, if only because the material lies nearer to hand. But if I've been fortunate and "privileged" in anything it's in having had instilled in me a certain respect and appreciation for things that embody those better and best aspects of humanity that most of us catch, at best, very fleeting glimpses of. I.e. there are certain things that I would feel revolted at the idea of leaving my trivial little "tags" on, or of creating parodies and travesties of on the basis of a vulgar, superficial familiarity.