A decade ago, when I was a young blogger, I made fun of pompous opinion makers who stated that loop quantum gravity and string theory were the way to go. They were riding sick horses, and some of them still do.
Today, the opinion makers have changed. Now they criticize string theory and quantum gravity. But they are more pompous than their predecessors. The older generation was at least trying something out and encouraging others to come with them. It did not work, but they tried to achieve something. The new generation are not even searching any more; they are not trying anything. They are just discouraging everything and everybody else.
The new generation is more disillusioned, more bitter and more pompous than the old one. Like the catholic church, we now have opinion makers commenting the mistakes of others. These opinion makers in public pretend to do nothing wrong and to be holy, but in private they sin more than the average, while commenting the mistakes of others.
