David Foster Wallace once said, "Gentlemen—by which I mean, of course, latter adolescents who aspire to manhood—gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is. Such endurance is, as it happens, the distillate of what is, today, in this world neither I nor you have made, heroism. Heroism." Indeed. The enduring of tedious and inane palaver such as this is heroism. And, necessarily requires the patience of a Saint. This is a wonderful example of somebody saying something which they believe is something that has never been said before. Oh dear... But of course many, many people have read exactly this type of hypocrisy laden boilerplate before. On both sides of the equation and argument. And insofar as that goes we can be guided by William Hazlitt (the real one) who said, "The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." In the world of journalism, and in this case opinion journalism, where the discourse consists primarily of puerile pablum, an accomplished high school scribbler would be embarrassed to spill ink in this manner. And so it goes. Unless you actually enjoy having your intelligence insulted, avoid this as you would avoid an oncoming freight train.