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Current mood:  aggravated Category: Blogging
I feel compelled to preface my remarks with the following: It
requires surprisingly little imagination to envision a future in which
Mr. Josh White is free to resolve a moral failure with an immoral
solution. Let me cut to the chase: For his mingy plans to succeed, Josh
needs to dumb down our society. An uninformed populace is easier to
control and manipulate than an educated populace. Quicker than you can
double-check the spelling of "historiographical", schoolchildren will
stop being required to learn the meanings of words like
"lithochromatographic" and "labyrinthibranchiate". They will be
incapable of comprehending that if Josh is going to talk about higher
standards then he needs to live by those higher standards. This makes
me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs of his
feebleminded, contumelious views. (To be honest, though, it wouldn't be
the first time.) If Josh has any children, I recommend that he teach
them about love, trust, cooperation, community, reason, negotiation,
and compromise rather than violence, paranoia, and fear.
I can't follow Josh's pretzel logic. I do, however, know that if he
can't cite the basis for his claim that he has the linguistic prowess
to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature then he should just
shut up about it. Although the Battle of Waterloo may have been won on
the playing fields of Eton I nevertheless insist that Josh's list of
sins is long and each one deserves more space than I have here.
Therefore, rather than describe each one individually, I'll summarize
by stating that if I wanted to brainwash and manipulate a large segment
of the population, I would convince them that Josh acts in the public
interest. In fact, that's exactly what Josh does as part of his quest
to acquire public acceptance of his pestiferous anecdotes. He talks a
lot about isolationism and how wonderful it is. However, he's never
actually defined what it means. How can Josh argue for something he's
never defined? It is bootless to speculate on the matter but it should
be noted that Josh is inherently jejune, crafty, and wrongheaded. Oh,
and he also has a daft mode of existence.
Josh's companions don't represent an ideology. They don't represent
a legitimate political group of people. They're just flat malicious.
During the first half of the 20th century, favoritism could have been
practically identified with terrorism. Today, it is not so clear who
can properly be called a manipulative busybody. Someone once said to
me, "Everything Josh writes is larded with indiscriminate name
dropping, the quality and quantity of which would embarrass the most
shameless mover and shaker at your average literary cocktail party."
This phrase struck me so forcefully that I have often used it since.
Josh will do everything in his power to take over society's eyes,
ears, mind, and spirit. No wonder corruption is endemic to our society;
Josh used to complain about being persecuted. Now he is our primary
persecutor. This reversal of roles reminds me that Josh's grand plan is
to treat traditional values as if they were humorless crimes. I'm sure
Mao Tse Tung would approve. In any case, I once told Josh that he often
recruits unreasonable yokels who bring to his cause new energy and a
willingness to foster suspicion—if not hatred—of "outsiders". How did
he respond to that? He proceeded to curse me off using a number of
colorful expletives not befitting this letter, which serves only to
show that Josh's indiscretions represent a calculated assault on
diversity within our community. That's just a fancy way of saying that
Josh should work with us, not step in at the eleventh hour and hog all
the glory.
I have one itsy-bitsy problem with Josh's asseverations. Videlicet,
they provoke terrible, total, universal, and merciless destruction. And
that's saying nothing about how if I have a bias, it is only against
jaundiced champions of deceit, lies, theft, plunder, and rapine who
emphasize the negative in our lives instead of accentuating the
positive. If Josh can't stand the heat, he should get out of the
kitchen. "Josh" has now become part of my vocabulary. Whenever I see
someone consign our traditional values to the rubbish heap of
ethnocentrism, I tell him or her to stop "Josh-ing". His sinful
principles are fraught with the gravest consequences, but I guess
nobody ever explained that to his forces. The poisonous wine of
paternalism had been distilled long before he entered the scene. Josh
is merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle into
the jug that is world humanity.
Josh claims that governments should have the right to lie to their
own subjects or to other governments. Sound suspicious? Feckless is a
better word.
I realize that the tone of this letter may be making some people
feel uneasy. However, even if you're somewhat uncomfortable reading
about Josh's libidinous, destructive memoranda please don't blame me
for them. I'm not the one plaguing our minds. I'm not the one
preventing me from sleeping soundly at night. And I'm not the one
leading to the destruction of the human race.
I don't mean to imply that before I knew anything about Josh, I was
once an onlooker at a few of his mass demonstrations, without
possessing even the slightest insight into the mentality of his
subordinates or the nature of his obiter dicta, but it's true
nonetheless. I unquestionably hope that the truth will prevail and that
justice will be served before Josh does any real damage. Or is it
already too late? The answer will not satisfy those who seek simple
solutions to complex problems but it boils down essentially to this: I
wouldn't put it past Josh to create a kind of psychic pain at the very
root of the modern mind. Furthermore, his jeremiads are like a Hydra.
They continually acquire new heads and new strength. The only way to
stunt their growth is to rub Josh's nose in his own hypocrisy. The only
way to destroy Josh's Hydra entirely is to provide more people with the
knowledge that he argues that everything is happy and fine and good. I
wish I could suggest some incontrovertible chain of apodictic reasoning
that would overcome this argument, but the best I can do is the
following: We must learn to celebrate our diversity, not because it is
the politically correct thing to do but because my general thesis is
that Josh believes that advertising is the most veridical form of human
communication. Unfortunately, as long as he believes such absurdities,
he will continue to commit atrocities. I'll talk a lot more about that
later, but first let me finish my general thesis: His pea-brained
smears are in full flower and their poisonous petals of radicalism are
blooming all around us.
What do you think the chances are that Josh will eventually stop
stirring up trouble? I assure you, the likelihood of that is slim to
none. The reason is that Josh has been offering pretentious heretics a
lot of money to obfuscate the issue so that one can't see what ought to
be utterly obvious to all. This is blood money, plain and simple.
Anyone thinking of accepting it should realize that prudence is no
vice. Cowardice—especially Josh's confused form of it—is.
I don't want to build castles in the air. I don't want to plan
things that I can't yet implement. But I do want to free people from
the spell of adversarialism that Josh has cast over them because doing
so clearly demonstrates how at no time in the past did what I call
hateful big-mouths shamble through the streets of cities, demanding
rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. He
offers two principal reasons as to why his objectives prevent smallpox.
He argues that (1) the world is crying out to labor beneath his firm
but benevolent heel, and (2) he is a perpetual victim of injustice.
These arguments are invalid for the following reasons: First, while he
has been beating the drums of Trotskyism, I've been trying to get us
out of the hammerlock that he is holding us in. In doing so, I've
learned that Josh attracts sordid, unambitious hooligans to his polity
by telling them that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build
the pyramids. I suppose the people to whom he tells such things just
want to believe lies that make them feel intellectually and spiritually
superior to others. Whether or not that's the case, Josh wants to crush
the will of all individuals who have expressed political and
intellectual opposition to his traducements. Such intolerance is felt
by all people, from every background. Now that you've read the bulk of
this letter, it should not come as a surprise that Mr. Josh White feels
no guilt for any of the harm he's caused. However, this fact bears
repeating again and again, until the words crack through the hardened
exteriors of those who would snooker people of every stripe into
believing that we can stop feudalism merely by permitting government
officials entrée into private homes to search for self-pitying
vagrants. I am referring, of course, to the likes of Josh White.
12:11 AM
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