Brainwashed?

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"the bigger self-righteous arsehole of any conversation is quite a convincing and powerful tool toward controlling people "

Dear me.

Language!

I will temporarily assume the colon implies you are describing me, not addressing?

I will further assume your smiling thingy is meant to be disarming, marking humor rather than a hard-hitting critique?

But I am known to misread these things.

But, really! Self-righteous?

I happen to be - izibongo zami, did I say this? - a lifelong teacher focussed on language, son of teachers focussed on language, grandson of two lawyers, great grandson of a preacher. I care about clarity of language and thought and have a lot of old fire horse syndrome correcting papers and classroom performance.

So I bring the stuff out. As others bring out their stuff.

Controlling people? Well, when I had the Professor nameplate on the door I could excercise some control over those actually enrolled in my courses. These days? My wife controls me. I give advice to her and Number 1 Son.

Anyone else feel resisting me is futile?

I see little sign I have controlled certain people into independent thought and checking their facts.

ROFL, no!

This:

Philologos: I think he's taking a stab at brainwashing people .

Seems like brow-beating and being able to come off like the bigger self-righteous arsehole of any conversation is quite a convincing and powerful tool toward controlling people (and no doubt he's joking but - somewhat right at the same time). Brow-beating and self-exaltation is strong stuff toward convincing people that your superior to them and that they should lift you up.

It's the medium. I suspected that, but no matter how many Smily Wileys you insert [are WE supposed to be sure what the expressions depicted imply?] ambiguities remain.

And in this case I decided to roll with it, especially because I believe this is the first time I included in my izibongo my great grandfather. By all accounts a jerk, but at least the profession of journalist turned preacher fits my verbal fetish better than my other great grandfathers, one farmer, one inn-keeper, and one accountant.

The preacher and the innkeeper are the most interesting careerwise. The innkeeper made the serious mistake of going in as a partner with his brother who, I am told, consumed more than his fair share of the establishment's liquor.

Well, if I gave you the chance to vent about family at least some good came of it.

Some may deny your value or mine, but ain't nobody going to claim we got us no opinions.