Apparently, everybody who had something to say had already said it. I smiled with satisfaction at the outcome for days, applauding myself for my willingness to go down in flames, rather than recant my dearly held philosophies. And after a while I came to realize, yes it does. Yes, all but my own. You see, by not drawing the line, by not setting limits, I had failed to define either the publication or myself.
Limits are the membrane of any functional system.
What's inside the membrane is part of it, what's outside is not. It is a subset of a greater whole, but not homogeneous with its parent set. But without arbitrary definitions, there is nothing but the whole, the mean equilibrium as if there were no currents and eddies, no concentrations and rarifications in an even and balanced amalgam. But the world is not a steady-state. It is not a bland sameness.