Nah .. just projecting.

I find that the people who are so intent on OO are often the ones who have no idea what it means. They do know that it's a cool buzzword, hence favoured by HR drones, marketing droids, shiny project leaders and so forth.

I'm perfectly happy to split hairs with someone in a logical argument, but when I hear a body in a $1000 suit asking about OO, it's probably because they read about it in a brochure somewhere and they're trying to make an impression -- much as well educated Europeans a hundred years ago would drop English, French, Italian, Latin and Greek into conversation to casually convey the impression that they'd been 'properly' schooled.

My view of the world is more skewed towards a meritocracy, as misguided as that may seem. And, yes, Don Quixote is one of my heros.