Um, but the author surely is exempt, right? I mean he very clearly thinks he's right about all those "Jerks" being kind of over-inflated. If he's right, then

Um, but the author surely is exempt, right? I mean he very clearly thinks he's right about all those "Jerks" being kind of over-inflated. If he's right, then the very best, very most creative and correct people who have vision and the most (deserved) self-confidence are still "Jerks" if they recognize that any of their peers are bloom'in idjits. And the bloom'in people taking pot-shots at them, like this author, are then "Not Jerks"... right... got it. So unless everyone is exactly equal in worth, nearly everybody with awareness is a "Jerk", and many, but not all, of them are wrong.