This is not intended as a criticism of the patterns movement in architecture and software of course. Software certainly needed something like patterns. Even though the Gang Of Four got all they deserved at that show trial at OOPSLA, with the screaming accusations from the auditorium started by none other than our gentle Ward Cunningham. And one of the best stories in the mythology of software has Ward as the very father of Patterns. (It's the same story that has him as the father of most things. I believe most of it.)

But Worldview Risk Management? I'm the host here and I am quite willing to apologise for being so patronizing and so damn annoying in every other way. But with all this the detached language of patterns often helps ... not at all, for me.

Having said which, good old prose in the third person can still be wonderful, after all that hot and heavy Thread Mode. Peter's excellent Jesus Is Exposed just today, for example. Even perhaps my radical recasting of What Caused The Holocaust from where Kulisz left it last year.

But worldview is perhaps too complex and too emotional for patterns? Whatever they may be.