Enough, already

While I'm not willing to go so far as to condemn Aaron I do find the sudden cult of worship around him and his work disconcerting. He did some great work and his death was a tragedy but at a certain point all the virtual grieving about him almost becomes a parody of itself.

I deeply sympathize with the friends and family of Aaron but I find the blogospheres canonization of him creepy and misguided. Humanization of an idea (freedom of information) is great but at what point does it become distracting from the actual idea?

Can you see how much fiction is in this post? No one has made out Aaron to be a saint. There is no "cult of worship". And to call a young dead person a coward is shameful.

Aaron was loved and deeply respected for the things he said and did. Don't try and take that away from him.