Civilization is when, after raiding your village and raping your daughters, the bandits tell you it was for your own good. "You'll thank me later."
Barbarism is when, after you kill a bandit for trying to rape your daughter, your neighbours don't turn on you and try to hand you over to the head bandit.
Social status is epistemically disqualifying.
Quality epistemology is socially disqualifying.
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New failcomment system also fails to publish my comments, it's not limited to yours. Keep trying, it will usually work, eventually.
Blogger deliberately trying to kill itself, I expect.
Captchas should be off. If it gives you one anyway, it's against my explicit instructions.