From ASK MICK LASALLE, CHRONICLE MOVIE CRITIC comes a wonderful description that fits me as well… just substitute ‘technology’ for ‘movies’ in the question…
Dear Mick LaSalle: Where do you get off setting yourself up as the final authority and unquestioned arbiter of all things pertaining to movies? Your unmitigated arrogance and smarmy self-assuredness make me want to hurl.
Webb Stagner, Healdsburg
Dear Webb Stagner: Wow. You misunderstand me. You’re interpreting as arrogance something that has been arrived at with great humility and only after years of empirical observation. When day after day, month after month, year after year you keep noticing that you tend to be right — when unalterable consistency reveals that your rightness is, in fact, something almost akin to a law of the universe — you can’t help but allude to it every so often. You would, too. It just happens. Moreover, knowing the truth makes you feel an obligation to offer that clear water of insight to thirsting minds everywhere. It’s pretty dry out there, as you know. But certainly what drives the impulse to share the light and the truth is nothing like arrogance. It’s more like an overwhelming generosity and a deep, abiding love for one’s fellow creatures — everywhere on this cockeyed caravan.
