Even if it is, there's something that rubs me the wrong way about that little SV mantra. First, the banal arrogance of it, but more importantly, the purposeles

Even if it is, there's something that rubs me the wrong way about that little SV mantra. First, the banal arrogance of it, but more importantly, the purposelessness of it—we just want to be responsible for making our mark, not to make the world better or push it in any particular direction, but just to point and say, "look, I had that effect!"