I'm not sure what pushed the buttons but it might be worth investigating.
I can see various things in his writing and by their responses that too-easily pushed some folks' sensitive buttons, perhaps not the least is, I think, his taking for his posting-name the unfortunate one of "FootKisser", immediately giving some folks direct or unconscious snap-assessment identifying that he's on board with this act we used to do and is what he currently still does and invests himself in fully even now -- rather than thinking perhaps he uses the name in looking back at it with a complex but clear remembrance of what it was all about without guilt or an angle of satire even. ...or something like that. (See how I assume even there that I might understand what I don't actually know. ...one of the points he was trying to make.
It may be I'm entirely imagining his attitude in naming himself in this way only because that's my own current attitude to that past that I reflect onto him. Like maybe pertinent: I've taken the name Tarvuist, not because I believe and have deep faith in the Great Tarvu, blessed be his very spittle, but as it's an amusing and instructive thing Tarvuism from a site someone's created to illustrate a way of group soft-headedness making hopefully informative satire it, at least for anyone clever enough to see the obvious and not imagine it's a real religious movement...like the Spaghetti Monster religion is.
Now I've spent so much time on my so-called pal FootKisser that I must go quickly now and re-read some of the passages in the Tarvunty scriptures to keep my perspective straight....
- Tarvuist -- now totally drifting on over the horizon, but not so far away yet
