A more intellectually secure person
I constantly grant latitude to non-idiot arguments on this platform, and engage with them in good faith.
More than once, I have been proven wrong - and had then reconsidered my views thereafter. I think any honest person here will confirm this for you.
might have some valid arguments too.
There are no arguments evident in your writing - to agree or disagree with. This is the point - do you understand?
You write non-sequiturs like Alien does, that succeed only at stopping the conversation - preventing others from carrying it on.
This certainly does feel like onanism, or some sort of auto-fellatio as Torq suggested. Gratuitous posting. You have a build up in your lower intestine, and feel you must release the next batch upon us - lest the pressure become too much - and you do it.
But at the same time - you claim you are a professor, a lover of the region, a cosmopolitan, etc - and so people engage with you... every time only to be disappointed.