With great power... comes great sanctimony

I actually scribbled the skeleton of this rant in a journal (an actual print journal!) a couple of days ago; I thought I'd preserve it here for posterity. (It's backwards thinking. People used to commit things to parchment for posterity; for ages monks recopied manuscripts to preserve the knowledge: clear black ink on clean parchment, something reassuring and physical to keep. Now we save data to incorporeal digital bits and call that "backup." But that's a topic for another day.)

Warning: politics, illogic, ire.

( belated Independence Day rant )