&gt; There&#x27;s this pattern I&#x27;ve noticed — chiefly, though not exclusively, amongst us nerds — where, when something doesn&#x27;t comport with our individual, personal experience, it&#x27;s immediately judged not merely to be wrong, but obviously wrong, and fatally flawed.<p>I think the interesting point here isn&#x27;t that it is obviously wrong but technically and factually wrong in a way that moves the subjective into the objective...but hey, I was already beaten about the head on HN over postmodernism this week...