Personally I have to fight the urge to go with convention every time I need to link to a column by Cecil and to instead say something like “Cecil speaks.” This could result in people missing it as our eyes are attuned to the specific phrase, “The Master speaks.”
But what about those of us for whom Cecil is not our master? Should we bow to the masses and pretend worship for this, admittedly, respectable fellow, or are we better to keep to our morals and refuse to accept His infallibility. Should we condemn Dopers who consider Cecil their master as pit-worthy sheep, and failing in the fight against ignorance?
I’ll just say “thank you” for verbalizing something that has bugged me since I got here. For the background noise at The Dope to carry the overtones of anti-religion to outright atheism, it smacks of Hypocrisy to elevate the probably fictitious (and almost certainly composite) Cecil to the level of a religious cult leader. I realize it’s most often said in a tongue-in-cheek and mocking tone, but Cecil is definitely not my Master. Christopher Walken is.
I really doubt that using the phrase “Cecil Speaks” would bring opprobrium down on your head.
I guess that I will leave this here, at least for a while, although it looks much more like an IMHO poll than a Great Debate. (Given the fact that Cece is clearly a smartass, I would doubt that most people are actually expressing reverence for his person. Very few posters, here, would ever resort to the sort of sycophancy represented by this post and I doubt that you will find any shrines to Cecil in the homes of the Teeming Millions.)
Like the supreme all-knowing master of every faith, he is self-contradictory.
So on the one hand, if you like supreme masters, he’s as good as any.
And if you think there’s only posers out to hustle the faithful, he’s just one more.
So either way it’s hard to get excited about it.
