In the Jobs interview that Mossberg just released, Jobs said something along the lines of, "People need a symbol to latch onto, which is me."

We may not like that people behave this way, but I take it as a mark of intelligence when someone can accept an unpleasant yet immutable fact rather than fighting it or sweeping it under the rug.

Whether the population of HN is such that our collective behavior is immutable could be the subject of endless debate, of course.