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[Ken Brown]

David Hansen wrote:

[...]

> Rather they are what one might call a technical person. Someone
> capable of working to a specification, but not capable of
> understanding what the specification represents (and also not capable
> of drawing up a specification).
> 
> I have worked with technical people all my working life and they
> fulfill a valuable role that I would be the first to defend. However,
> they are not being professional in their outlook or activities,
> because that involves broader considerations of society and so on.

[...]

David,

may I be the first to express the hope that this patronising elitist
bollocks, so unworthy of your previous contributions, so apparently
snide and supercilious, is due to you having a hangover after a pleasant
excess last night?

Or do you really believe that you have to have been to the right
universities and learned the right handshakes and joined the right clubs
before you can have an opinion?  "Professional" in the sense you use it
here is mostly a slogan around which well-off men in suits gather when
ignoring criticism from those outside their social circle.


Ken Brown