Wow! Indicting a nation for the presumed faults of one of its inhabitants, and supporting it with a quote from a vapid, up-tight, anti-American* such as Oscar Wilde, may have revealed more about yourself than you really should have. Rubbed a nerve a bit raw, huh?. If I had been even remotely serious when throwing out the "pretension" appellation, I would have reinforced it by pointing out another indication of your undisguised vanity that adorns your website: the World Best Website Nominee medallion. Come on! This is just totally bo-o-o-o-o-gus, and most all of us Americans (in the web dev biz) know it.
Sorry if you took offense the first time. This time there can be no mistake as to my intention.
* Here's the quote that we Americans remember having been attributed to Wilde: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Here's another quote from Oscar Wilde, in further support of his bias: "America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
|