"Death by a thousand cuts!"
Reminds me of a story about GE Schenectady technical workers who after coming back from vacation would find their cube walls moved in. Cube farm denizens equate cube size with status.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov