> I don't have much confidence in how to counter it. It feels like a big chunk of our population have got sucked into a cult - how do you deprogram so many peop

> I don't have much confidence in how to counter it. It feels like a big chunk of our population have got sucked into a cult - how do you deprogram so many people? Up until this point, I was very much agreeing with his take, but from this point forward it devolves into the usual paternalistic, quietly self-righteous and "subtly" anti free speech narrative this type of articles way too often seem to take. This was a little sad to read. I used to think that Fowler was one of the smartest people I know about, I've now corrected that to he's one of the most "knowledgeable on software engineering and architecture" people I know about.