Davy, a question: you said
"Methinks you are prouder of yourself than you need to be".
How proud (of inborn qualities and positive achievements both) do you believe a person "needs" to be?
Some of us are fallible
Plato once said, “Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools, because they have to say something.”
"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." "Men willingly believe what they wish to believe."
Julius Caesar
There's no natural calamity that government can't make worse.
Bill Bonner