Please Relax was: And don't let the door hit you on the way out

[Richard Vickery]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Richard Vickery <
richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Robert Myers <rbmyersusa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Not to worry.  Just as soon as you stop talking about me, I'll
>> disappear.  If you want to refer to someone by their last name, it is
>> customary to use the appropriate honorific, the last name by itself
>> being taken as rude.  In my case, the appropriate honorific would be
>> Dr.  So address me or refer to me as Robert or Dr. Myers, not Myers or
>> Mr. Myers.
>>
>
> Myers:
>
> Since when did you get the insane idea that you could somehow control
> others, much less how we address you? Newsflash: that's not how this
> Hobbesian state of nature that we live in works. Me thinks you need some
> more education - this time in political science, because you're an idiot.
> First you come in here shooting your degrading mouth off in disrespect to
> the rest of us, and then you have the gawd-damn gall to demand that we
> respect you? Where the f--k did you get this crazy idea? Respect is earned,
> my friend (using the term very loosely). What you chose to do instead is to
> treat us all like pee-ons, which results in the treatment you receive now.
>
> What did you get your Ph.D. in? Basket-weaving? Because it sure seems that
> you missed some very important classes: like the one that teaches you how
> to respect others in order to get respect back. You, sir, are not worth
> your papers. Clean up your act and perhaps, 20 years down the road, you may
> earn our respect.
>
>
Adding to this: the only thing a Ph. D. tells me, as a student, is that you
know how to play the game well, and for that, the university can offer you
a teaching position. It doesn't necessarily say anything about knowledge,
much less anything about wisdom; just about playing the university game.
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