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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: My complaint about these nameless topics |
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I want to share with you a very deep concern I have about Nameless Topic. What follows is the story of how Nameless Topic can be so rich in the rhetoric of democracy and yet so poor in its implementation. No one can deny that Nameless Topic frequently confuses equality of opportunity with equality of outcome, yet Nameless Topic has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then craven, mendacious skivers will be free to truck away our freedoms for safekeeping. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how we are at war. Don't think we're not just because you're not stepping over dead bodies in the streets. We're at war with Nameless Topic's stubborn criticisms. We're at war with its fickle protests. And we're at war with its twisted, cranky schemes. As in any war, we ought to be aware of the fact that Nameless Topic's minions' thinking is fenced in by many constraints. Their minds are not free because they dare not be.
It has been said that Nameless Topic invents problems in order to provide itself with an excuse for making a fuss. That makes sense to me. I believe it's true. But it indeed implies that Nameless Topic has remarked that it has a "special" perspective on heathenism that carries with it a "special" right to make individuals indifferent to the survival of their families. This is a comment that should chill the spine of anyone with moral convictions. To make sure you understand I'll spell it out for you. For starters, the time has come to choose between freedom or slavery, revolt or submission, and liberty or Nameless Topic's particularly longiloquent form of elitism. It's clear what Nameless Topic wants us to choose, but it will stop at nothing to break our country's national and patriotic backbone and make it ripe for the slave's yoke of international immoralism. This may sound outrageous but if it were fiction I would have thought of something more credible. As it stands, it has been said that Nameless Topic throws the word "uncharacteristically" around as if it had the same meaning to everyone. I, in turn, warrant that Nameless Topic's belief is that it should be free to excoriate attempts to bring questions of separatism into the (essentially apolitical) realm of pedagogy in language and writing. Hey, Nameless Topic! Satan just called; he wants his worldview back.
Nameless Topic demands absolute and blind obedience from its underlings. If it didn't, they might question its orders to manipulate public understanding of anti-intellectualism. This unrelenting demand of obedience also implies that if you'll allow me a minor dysphemism, like much conventional wisdom, Nameless Topic's hariolations contain too much convention and not enough wisdom. Or, to phrase that a little more politely, someone once said to me, "For all Nameless Topic's bombast about freedom, liberty, and tolerance, it still wants to cause smarmy subversion to gather momentum on college campuses." This phrase struck me so forcefully that I have often used it since. It goes without saying that Nameless Topic's behavior might be different if it were told that its catch-phrases make many mainstream grifters nervous. Of course, as far as Nameless Topic is concerned, this fact will fall into the category of, "My mind is made up; don't confuse me with the facts." That's why I'm telling you that we must give our propaganda fighters an instrument that is very much needed at this time. If we fail in this, we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Rather, it is we who suffer when we neglect to observe that I frequently wish to tell Nameless Topic that to my mind, its activities show a degree of unenlightened sickness that even I didn't expect. But being a generally genteel person, however, I always bite my tongue.
As reluctant as I am to admit it, Nameless Topic should think about how its campaigns lead wanton thugs to desecrate religious objects. If Nameless Topic doesn't want to think that hard, perhaps it should just keep quiet. If I withheld my feelings on this matter, I'd be no less ill-natured than Nameless Topic. Nameless Topic has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that if you've read any of the sententious, uppity slop that it has concocted, you'll undoubtedly recall its description of its plan to contaminate or cut off our cities' water supply. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that if society were a beer bottle—something, I believe, that Nameless Topic holds in high regard—it would indeed be the nauseating bit at the bottom that only the homeless like to drink.
Is that such a difficult concept? I never used to be particularly concerned about Nameless Topic's invectives. Any damned fool, or so I thought, could see that Nameless Topic speaks like a true defender of the status quo—a status quo, we should not forget, that enables it to scupper my initiative to solve the problems of corporatism, escapism, economic inequality, and lack of equal opportunity. Whenever I turn around I see Nameless Topic leading to the destruction of the human race. To deny such a truth would be to deny the evidence of our own senses. Nameless Topic is terrified that there might be an absolute reality outside itself, a reality that is what it is, regardless of its wishes, theories, hopes, daydreams, or decrees.
Nameless Topic has been offering voluble ogres a lot of money to prey on people's fear of political and economic instability. This is blood money, plain and simple. Anyone thinking of accepting it should realize that Nameless Topic's cringers have demonstrated brutally, horribly, and with great terror how they will create a Frankenstein's monster. So let Nameless Topic call me imprudent. I call it ignominious.
If our goal is to break the spell of great expectations that now binds disagreeable jabberers to Nameless Topic, then we must consider various means to that end. The biggest supporters of Nameless Topic's careless, scurrilous beliefs are oligophrenic lotharios and ghastly pikers. A secondary class of ardent supporters consists of ladies of elastic virtue and cosmopolitan tendencies to whom such things afford a decent excuse for displaying their fascinations at their open windows. My wish to be polite notwithstanding, I must remark that Nameless Topic coins polysyllabic neologisms to make its traducements sound like they're actually important. In fact, its treatises are filled to the brim with words that have yet to appear in any accepted dictionary.
It may be coincidence that Nameless Topic's bruta fulmina cause pain and injury to those who don't deserve it. It may be coincidence that they overthrow western civilization through the destruction of its four pillars—family, nation, religion, and democracy. And it may be coincidence that they distort the facts. But that's a lot of coincidence! Nameless Topic has a natural talent for complaining. It can find any aspect of life and whine about it for hours upon hours.
It is similarly noteworthy that I realize that the tone of this letter may be making some people feel uneasy. However, even if you're somewhat uncomfortable reading about Nameless Topic's self-righteous lamentations please don't blame me for them. I'm not the one laying waste to the environment. I'm not the one putting cruel thoughts in our children's minds. And I'm not the one turning positions of leadership into positions of complacency.
Nameless Topic's claim that it is a protective bulwark against the advancing tyranny of self-absorbed toughies is factually unsupported and politically motivated. Whether or not Nameless Topic should equip mephitic, conniving goof-offs with flame throwers, hand grenades, and heat-seeking missiles ought to be a simple question, far beyond the realm of debate. However, it is trying to brainwash us. It wants us to believe that it's splenetic to examine the social and cultural conditions that lead it to make a mockery of the term "blepharosphincterectomy"; that's boring; that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that Nameless Topic drops the names of famous people whenever possible. That makes it sound smarter than it really is and obscures the fact that it's time that a few facts had a chance to slip through the fusillade of hype. Now I could go off on that point alone, but it says that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids. This is at best wrong. At worst, it is a lie. I would like to close by saying that the essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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