Mark Whittington over at Curmudgeons Corner administers a fisking to an essay by John Carter McKnight.
I’d do the same, but I’m waaay too busy at the moment to spend the time to do it justice. I’ll just give JCM a few suggestions:
- Before criticizing space settlement outreach and popularization efforts which seem to reflect an extravagant faith in the future, try reading some Hoffer (for applicability to space, check here, here, and here).
- Don’t patronize and harangue your audience if you want them to listen to you.
- For Pete’s sake, get someone to fix your website.