Comrade Hucul!
I am pleased to see you denouncing the fascist tendencies of the American Right, who seek to opress critical-thinking comrades such as yourself by using such subversive weapons as humor and wit. In truth, however, it is hard to tale seriously someone who criticizes other for writing emotionally (what are we to use to write about politics? Mathematical forumlae?) and then produces a point like the one which follows:
"10. Wow. What can I say to this one? I mean... wow. I would be embarrassed to write her point number 10."
Pot calling the kettle black, eh, comrade?
But more seriously: can you reasonably expect your fellow comrades to write without any tincture of emotion whatsoever? And if so, what would that makes us? It seems reasonable to me that only apparatchiks (who needn't think on their own in the first place) and automatons could do so; and, as your fellow scientific comrades have failed as of yet to create automatons (though knee-jerk college neo-Marxists may qualify), the possibility of writing without emotion seems impossible for the forseeable future. In the next Five-Year Plan, perhaps?
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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