Arrogance is a hell of a drug. The Dereks I met were all, in their own way, insufferably arrogant. Probably to pave over insecurities, but I don't really care a

Arrogance is a hell of a drug. The Dereks I met were all, in their own way, insufferably arrogant. Probably to pave over insecurities, but I don't really care as to the causative mechanism. The effect in each case was that they are so full of themselves, that they displayed an inexhaustible energy in maintaining and defending their Rube Goldberg shitfests. Of course to scram once the going got rough.