What gets me is the psychology of the analysts. You have AJ demanding homage for all what he is that we can not be. For example almost nobody can work on Commodore 64's anymore. They are pretty rare. And not everybody works at NASA, and on satellites and such. AJ tells us how great he is by telling us how impossible it would for us to be him, and approach his PhD-devouring ferocity. He makes himself big by making everybody else small.
And I can understand, maybe, why the Colossi of the Spheres Blogal, like LGF, like all the others who signed onto AJ's bold "analysis", and used it as a club to bang the rest of us on forums like FR, or on smaller blogs into the party line. Why? Because they want to be BIG too, and are not philosophically disinclined to make others small in so doing. Which of those blogs have self-search features, like FR has? Why not? Isn't the voice of others as important as their own?
FR is great that way -- FR's strength is in how accessible it is to those who have to do no more than remain somewhat civil.
And compare that you-small-ME-BIG attitude to Pam Geller's Atlas Shrugged blog's master tech, techdude, himself. Techdude begs us all, or at least some of us to become like him. Bit by the bug of computer forensics, he would be happy to have many be like himself. "Join the analysis yourself" -- he recommends, and promises to show us how.
Refreshing.
Excellent post!
The psychology of the analysts is irrelevent. The issue is - are they right? where’s the beef?