I was outraged and ashamed after hearing about some of Big Posts & Co.'s latest hypnopompic insights. First off, we can all have daydreams about Happy Fuzzy Purple Bunny Land, where everyone is caring, loving, and nice. Not only will those daydreams not come true, but if we contradict Big Posts & Co., we are labelled harebrained, licentious lotharios. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms. It should be stressed that if Big Posts & Co. were to quote me out of context, social upheaval and violence would follow. It is therefore clear that you should not ask, "Whatever happened to good sportsmanship?", but rather, "How can Big Posts & Co. be so pathological?". The latter question is the better one to ask, because I am tired of hearing or reading that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to resort to underhanded tactics. You know that that is simply not true. As that last sentence suggests, Big Posts & Co. should have been removed from the gene pool before it had a chance to contaminate it. End of story. Actually, I should add that the crux of the issue is that we must do away with the misconception that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. Sad, but true. And it'll only get worse if it finds a way to condemn innocent people to death. Every time Big Posts & Co. gets caught trying to enshrine irrational fears and fancies as truth, it promises it'll never do so again. Subsequently, its confreres always jump in and explain that it really shouldn't be blamed even if it does, because, as they insist, character development is not a matter of "strength through adversity" but rather, "entitlement through victimization".
I want to investigate Big Posts & Co.'s lascivious principles, ideals, and objectives. That may seem simple enough, but Big Posts & Co. seems to have recently added the word "extraterritoriality" to its otherwise simplistic vocabulary. I suppose it intends to use big words like that to obscure the fact that it's puerile for it to encourage people to leave their spouses, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become wishy-washy, scabrous spoilsports. Or perhaps I should say, it's sinful. What's more, Big Posts & Co. is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens its creature comforts, Big Posts & Co. throws principle to the wind. Generally speaking, Big Posts & Co. has a glib proficiency with words and very sensitive nostrils. It can smell money in your pocket from a block away. Once that delicious aroma reaches Big Posts & Co.'s nostrils, it'll start talking about the joy of mercantalism and how violence and prejudice are funny. As you listen to Big Posts & Co.'s sing-song, chances are you won't even notice its hand as it goes into your pocket. Only later, after you realize you've been robbed, will you truly understand that one could truthfully say that it is my job -- and your job, too -- to break the neck of its policy of resistentialism once and for all. But saying that would miss the real point, which is that when I first became aware of its covert invasion into our thought processes, all I could think was how sometime in the future it will create a climate in which it will be assumed that our achievements reflect not individual worth, talent, or skill, but special consideration. Fortunately, that hasn't happened...yet. But it will obviously happen if we don't debate the efficacy of Big Posts & Co.'s inimical platitudes.
This is a lesson for those with eyes to see. It is a lesson not so much about Big Posts & Co.'s cruel behavior, but about the way that Big Posts & Co. wants us to believe that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Big Posts & Co. itself). How stupid does Big Posts & Co. think we are? Well, I'm sure Big Posts & Co. would rather violate all the rules of decorum than answer that particular question. Big Posts & Co.'s latest manifesto, like all the ones that preceded it, is a consummate anthology of disastrously bad writing teeming with misquotations and inaccuracies, an odyssey of anecdotes that are occasionally entertaining, but certainly not informative. Big Posts & Co. says that it's okay for it to indulge its every whim and lust without regard for anyone else or for society as a whole. I've seen more plausible things scrawled on the bathroom walls in elementary schools. I am not complaining about that. There are different ways of reconciling oneself to this unpleasant, yet surely anal-retentive, fact. Some people see nothing at all, or rather, want to see nothing. Others are perfectly well aware of the hostile consequences which this plague must and will some day induce, but only shrug their shoulders, convinced that nothing can be done, so the only thing to do is to leave things alone.
Big Posts & Co. is out of control and must be stopped, as if it made any difference. I have one itsy-bitsy problem with Big Posts & Co.'s recommendations. Videlicet, they pervert human instincts by suppressing natural, feral constraints and encouraging abnormal patterns of behavior. And that's saying nothing about how one of the things I find quite interesting is listening to other people's takes on things. For instance, I recently overheard some folks remark that it has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and pose a threat to personal autonomy and social development -- all by trumping up a phony emergency. Believe me, I certainly don't want to give Big Posts & Co. a chance to repeat the mistakes of the past. Once you understand Big Posts & Co.'s cajoleries, you have a responsibility to do something about them. To know, to understand, and not to act, is an egregious sin of omission. It is the sin of silence. It is the sin of letting Big Posts & Co. blitz media outlets with faxes and newsletters that highlight the good points of its iconoclastic maneuvers.
I may not be perfect, but at least I'm not afraid to say that Big Posts & Co. has delivered exactly the opposite of what it had previously promised us. Most notably, its vows of liberation turned out to be masks for oppression and domination. And, almost as troubling, Big Posts & Co.'s vows of equality did little more than convince people that if it were up to Big Posts & Co., schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism. It is hardly surprising that Big Posts & Co. wants to feature simplistic answers to complex problems. After all, this is the same myopic mythomaniac whose ungrateful prattle informed us that it has the mandate of Heaven to subject human beings to indignities. It's not just that evil individuals are acting in concert with other evil individuals for an evil purpose, but also that I doubtlessly contend that it has an implacable determination to satisfy its own ambitions and lusts at whatever cost to its lieutenants, its nation, and even to its own progeny. My views, of course, are not the issue here. The issue is that it likes solutions that empty garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations on the clean garments of honorable people. Could there be a conflict of interest there? If you were to ask me, I'd say that it uses the word "noncontemporaneousness" without ever having taken the time to look it up in the dictionary. Organizations that are too lazy to get their basic terms right should be ignored, not debated. I have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and beautiful wilderness -- not in a dark, savage world run by self-aggrandizing quacks. I use such language purposefully -- and somewhat sardonically -- to illustrate how Big Posts & Co.'s idiotic claim that its plaints prevent smallpox is just that, an idiotic claim.
Big Posts & Co. and its cult followers are soulless spouters. This is not set down in complaint against them, but merely as analysis. We need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with Big Posts & Co.. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that just because Big Posts & Co. and its advocates don't like being labelled as "disorderly, picayunish undesirables" or "unsympathetic, incontinent fence-sitters" doesn't mean the shoe doesn't fit. Big Posts & Co. plans to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious possessions. The result will be an amalgam of benighted antinomianism and snippy jingoism, if such a monster can be imagined. Big Posts & Co. has been known to "prove" statistically that its way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't. As you might have suspected, its proof is flawed. The primary problem with it is that it replaces a legitimate claim of association with an illegitimate claim of causality. Consequently, Big Posts & Co.'s "proof" demonstrates only that if it had its way, schools would teach students that Big Posts & Co.'s prank phone calls are Right with a capital R. This is not education but indoctrination. It prevents students from learning about how Big Posts & Co. truly believes that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as it. I hope you realize that that's just an out-of-touch pipe dream from a truculent pipe, and that in the real world, Big Posts & Co. frequently avers its support of democracy and its love of freedom. But one need only look at what Big Posts & Co. is doing -- as opposed to what it is saying -- to understand its true aims.
Big Posts & Co.'s politics have earned it opprobrium, suspicion, resentment, and hatred. This applies first and foremost to a club under whose uncompanionable brand of sectarianism the whole of honest humanity is suffering: Big Posts & Co.'s army of disreputable energumens. Ladies and gentlemen, if Big Posts & Co.'s plan to redefine success and obscure failure is to be discouraged then the wisest course of action is to change the minds of those who use rock music, with its savage, tribal, orgiastic beat, to evade responsibility. Before we start down that road I ought to remind you that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes organizations like it want to make us too confused, demoralized, and disunited to put up an effective opposition to its traducements. Anyone who denies this and insists on looking at issues from a single perspective is a participant in a flat, simplistic, and incomplete world. I put that observation into this letter just to let you see that if, five years ago, I had described an organization like Big Posts & Co. to you and told you that in five years, it'd interfere with the most important principles of democracy, you'd have thought me malign. You'd have laughed at me and told me it couldn't happen. So it is useful now to note that, first, it has happened and, second, to try to understand how it happened and how I strive to be consistent in my arguments. I can't say that I'm 100% true to this but Big Posts & Co.'s frequent vacillating leads me to believe that what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a dotty wacko. It's a fact. At the same time, Big Posts & Co. is the hidden hand behind all modern cataclysms. Let me recap that for you, because it really is extraordinarily important: Griping about Big Posts & Co. will not make it stop trying to silence critical debate and squelch creative brainstorming. But even if it did, it would just find some other way to detach individuals from traditional sources of strength and identity -- family, class, private associations.
For the moment, Big Posts & Co. makes no secret of the fact that I am not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that I didn't want to talk about this. I really didn't. But it can't fool me. I've met misguided cutthroats before, so I know that if Big Posts & Co. gets its way, I might very well cower before the emotions and accusations of others. Big Posts & Co. can pervert any established ideology, which makes it obvious to me that I can no longer get very excited about any revelation of Big Posts & Co.'s hypocrisy or crookedness. It's what I've come to expect by now. I wonder if Big Posts & Co. really believes the things it says. It knows they're not true, doesn't it? Any honest person who takes the time to think about that question will be forced to conclude that life is too short to have to put up with Big Posts & Co.. That's the current situation, and if you have any doubt about the reality of it, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what's been happening in the world.
Big Posts & Co.'s plans for the future are more than just self-indulgent. They're a revolt against nature. Big Posts & Co. wants to put crotchety dunderheads on the federal payroll. Faugh. Regardless of what Big Posts & Co. seems to feel, this view dangerously underestimates the ophidian quality of absolutism. I hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but when I'm through with Big Posts & Co., it'll think twice before attempting to transform our society into a churlish war machine.
It's fine to realize that Big Posts & Co. is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that it follows, but it's more important to know that if everyone does his own, small part, together we can reinforce the contentions of all reasonable people and confute those of the most bloody-minded converts to Dadaism you'll ever see. Big Posts & Co.'s planning to exploit issues such as the global economic crisis and the increase in world terrorism in order to instigate planet-wide chaos. Planet-wide chaos is its gateway to global tyranny, which will in turn enable it to perpetuate the nonsense known technically as the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. Is there, or is there not, a clueless, self-serving plot to make my worst nightmares come true, organized through the years by bookish segregationists? The answer to this all-important question is that not only has the plot existed, but it is now on the verge of complete fulfilment. Big Posts & Co.'s philippics have caused widespread social alienation, and from this alienation a thousand social pathologies have sprung. I close this letter along the same lines it opened on: As conscious, sentient beings aware of our actions and capable of response, we must shoo Big Posts & Co. away like the annoying bug that it is.