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Thank you, Susanah.
I'm sorry to say there is a bit of a lost generation phenomenon represented by what you encountered at DCMB. The overlap of people who started reading during the height of Miller and his clones, and those who insulated themselves in the DC milieu where they literally never heard an alternative viewpoint until it was too late.
"Year One, Official Guide, Sir yes Sir, I have sought them out, read them and accepted their essential truth, SIR!" The brighter ones may start to figure it out, but only subliminally, and as soon as they start getting that uneasy feeling that they might be wrong, that there are not only alternate opinions but that they are not really able to argue effectively with those putting them forth, they get defensive, become belligerent, and fall back on dogma.

That's why there aren't many intelligent people at DCMB anymore. The forums didn't used to be that way. I was just IMing with someone yesterday that used to go there. I saw when it changed, it wad the Contagion-thru-No Man's Land period, I would say. That is when the sensibility began to change, where the wrongness of Miller was starting to be sensed. That's when the Millerites got defensive, and the level of discussion began a slow downward spiral. Most people with two braincells to rub together got tired of it and drifted away, leaving the lunatics running the asylum.

That's the environment the new kids come into. It's sad really. They get into comics, they seek out what they think is THE happening hub for their new interest, and they wind up in a cult. The bright ones will figure it out, break out of the intellectual straitjacket and move on. A kind of intellectual natural selection, because the others will just keep following the backside of other lemmings until they have an uncomfortably abrupt education in gravity.