self-righteousness

The aggressive self-righteousness described in the article is very typical of criminal types.

Smug self-righteousness and self congratulation seem to get a lot of upvotes on Hacker News.

In the latter case self-righteousness can have a drug-like high, but there is often a hangover too (regret, guilt, shame etc).

The only thing I have lost since switching is the smug self-righteousness of Linux veganism and Lifehacker articles.

I see anti-establishment, but I see neither pompous or self-righteous - nor does being anti-establishment imply pomposity or self-righteousness.

Most of them don't, and your comment, to people like me who had to claw ourselves out of the trap, smacks of self-righteousness and contempt.

Try to explain that one in all your sovereigness and self-righteousness.

I've seen enough not to demand empathy from the severely ill, but human decency is non-negotiable, and her self-righteousness is off-the-charts.

I liked it better when mega-corp didn't come with a side of self-righteousness.

They would rather people put in a no-op printf to avoid the unused package error rather than letting it be a warning because of their own self-righteousness.

The self-righteousness and ignorance here is absolutely astounding.

Don't get me wrong, hubris and self-righteousness have given us great things: GNU, OpenBSD, qmail, etc.

The backlash was driven by self-righteousness ("my beliefs are superior to Eich's") and contempt ("his beliefs hurt people, so he isn't entitled to them").

Even if we ignore the bad ideas and generally superfluous stuff branded as "lifehacks," the bare-bones of lifehacking is often steeped in the smug self-righteousness of the Bay that is a throughline in OP's post.

"Oh, please come and do web development so we can bask in the glow of your self-righteousness and infinite knowledge of computers." /snark (apologies for being offensive, but good lord, what a silly statement - unless I missed the joke) I stand before you as a counterpoint to your foolish generalisation, and guess what, I know plenty of other people that don't fit your stereotype either.