You might have some points here (I certainly agree about meritocracy), but the examples are pretty bizarre. How does building devotion prove inherent value? The

You might have some points here (I certainly agree about meritocracy), but the examples are pretty bizarre. How does building devotion prove inherent value? The internet was built to transport information: knowledge, education, documentation, history, insight. "Ideas" are none of these things: ideas are inspirational and transient in nature. (Sure, the internet's communication protocols do transmit "ideas" in numerous ways: mainly in terms of shared experience and evolving iterative conclusions from shared knowledge, but it's hardly the intent of its creation). Getting exposure to past knowledge and experience is critical to our young, and the future of humanity, but—frankly—the glorified fantasy surrounding some popular histories does more to further the idea of the privileged "celebrated few" with the genius of inspiration, than to instill any sense of the true study, investigation, work put in by those who have achieved great things in the past. (think even old storiea like Archimedes' bath or Edison's bulb or Newton's apple or whichever more modern example— placing individuals on sort of divine pedestals to be blessed with such ideas). You're calling out meritocracy, but it's exactly this kind of championing of ideas that leads to it. Salvatore has put the long, quiet, sometimes relatively thankless hours into making this a reality, and it could seem to some that pg is being put on a pedestal for being momentarily inspirational: is that not the very thing you're calling out?