&gt; Why celebrate meanness?<p>Because meanness stands at the basis of our Western civilization, of which this website is more or less a part of. Think of Cicero&#x27;s &quot;Catiline Orations&quot;, which was an ad-hominem attack through and through, Aristophanes&#x27;s plays, Lucian of Samosata&#x27;s works, almost everything written by Swift, Shakespeare&#x27;s Marcus Antonius&#x27;s speech, which is another much celebrated ad-hominem, and the list goes on and on. Adversity helps us move forward.