In my opinion this site needs a princepawn, someone to always challenge Perl, to hold it up to the light and thereby protect us from mistaking conceit from informed opinion.
Yes you do attract a ridiculous number of negative votes but so what? Who cares?
I often ++ your nodes because of the interesting debates they raise.
Stick with princepawn let metaperl whither on the vine...

And now, as he looked and saw the whole Hellespont covered with the vessels of his fleet, and all the shore and every plain about Abydos as full as possible of men, Xerxes congratulated himself on his good fortune; but after a little while he wept...
Asked why he was weeping he replied
..."There came upon me," replied he, "a sudden pity, when I thought of the shortness of man's life, and considered that of all this host, so numerous as it is, not one will be alive when a hundred years are gone by."
The History of Herodotus By Herodotus Written about 440 B.C.