>Exhorting people to "wake up?" C'mon man, get a grip. This is a technical forum, almost all of this rant is better off in Chatter4U.

Tacitly exhorting people to not "wake up," Al?

As living, breathing men and women, we're called to something higher than to merely go along with the flow. We're called to stand up and raise our voice and be great (collectively and individually) and do what's right in all situations (both individually and collectively).

There will always be forces trying to get us to cut corners or take shortcuts or take the easy way out. Greatness isn't achieved that way. Mediocrity and mass harm arrives via those rails. What we are called to is to raise the bar and erect the things that will move us away from where we are to where we should be.

Consider these things, Al. Even here on a technical forum, complacency and laziness can enter in. I see a lot of posts with a comment like, "I wrote a paper about that fifteen years ago... go read it here," rather than reaching out a true hand of a solution a person can receive and use. We need more people giving people that true hand of a solution rather than just a nudge in the right direction.

It's always a good thing to guide people to be and do more tomorrow than they are doing today, and it applies to each of us as it does as some people are being the way they should be quite often, and when they're not it's not for invalid reasons, but some life things which arise.