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Master Egg
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Posted: Apr 09, 2008 3:07 p.m. - Subject: A letter
There are some comments I need to make regarding TecnoDestructo. Here’s my side of the story: I would be grateful if TecnoDestructo would take a little time from his rigorous schedule to comment on a phenomenon that has and will continue to create a beachhead for organized Lysenkoism. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens. While I have no proof that his hijinks are a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia, you should still believe me, as a great many of us don’t want him to put the gods of heaven into the corner as obsolete and outmoded and, in their stead, burn incense to the idol Mammon. But we feel a prodigious societal pressure to smile, to be nice, and not to object to his lousy, ridiculous precepts.
TecnoDestructo’s practices do not come without a price. Now that’s a rather crude and simplistic statement and, in many cases, it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it obviously expresses how the picture I am presenting need not be confined to TecnoDestructo’s theatrics. It applies to everything he says and does.
I indubitably can’t stress this enough, but TecnoDestructo’s grand plan is to suppress controversy and debate. I’m sure Mao Tse Tung would approve. In any case, as soon as TecnoDestructo found the resources to do so he lost no time in giving rise to footling smart alecks. The inevitable followed: Patronizing pseudo-intellectuals started to erase the memory of all traditions and all history. The scariest part of all of this is that TecnoDestructo justifies his primitive policies with fallacious logical arguments based on argumentum ad baculum. In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, it means that if we don’t accept TecnoDestructo’s claim that his ideas won’t be used for political retribution then he will convince people that their peers are already riding the TecnoDestructo bandwagon and will think ill of them if they don’t climb aboard, too. For your edification, I should honestly point out that if TecnoDestructo got his way, he’d be able to give rise to resentful suborners of perjury. Brrrr! It sends chills down my spine just thinking about that.
I have a problem with TecnoDestructo’s use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn’t need to prove his claim that a knowledge of correct diction, even if unused, evinces a superiority that covers cowardice or stupidity; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, we must work together to declare a truce with him and commence a dialogue. What can you do to help? For starters, you might want to preach a message of community and brotherly love. I personally derive great satisfaction in doing that sort of thing because by hook or by crook we must fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. I explained the reason for that just a moment ago. If you don’t mind, though, I’ll go ahead and explain it again. To begin with, whatever your age, you now have only one choice. That choice is between a democratic, peace-loving regime that, you hope, may help people see TecnoDestructo’s censorious viewpoints for what they are and, as the alternative, the unprofessional and disreputable dirigisme currently being forced upon us by TecnoDestructo. Choose carefully because you shouldn’t let TecnoDestructo intimidate you. You shouldn’t let him push you around. We’re the ones who are right, not TecnoDestructo.
It’s easy for us to shake our heads at TecnoDestructo’s foolishness and cowardice. It’s easy for us to exclaim that we should lend support to the thesis that by next weekend, TecnoDestructo will turn his back on those who need him the most. It’s easy for us to say, "TecnoDestructo cares for us in the same way that fleas care about dogs." The point is that it’s easy for us to say these things because I never used to be particularly concerned about TecnoDestructo’s activities. Any damned fool, or so I thought, could see that TecnoDestructo’s declamations are becoming increasingly self-pitying. They have already begun to con us into believing that TecnoDestructo is a spokesman for God. Now fast-forward a few years to a time in which they have enabled TecnoDestructo to construct the spectre of a terrible armed threat. If you don’t want such a time to come then help me get people to sign a petition to limit TecnoDestructo’s ability to cause trouble. Help me tell TecnoDestructo how wrong he is.
Why TecnoDestructo would even pretend that all minorities are poor, stupid ghetto trash is beyond me. The fault, dear TecnoDestructo, is not in your stars but in yourself. Incidentally, he, like many other improvident, poxy dunderheads, has joined in with the chorus of furies who have been tearing away at the remains of rationality since the dawn of Derrida. (Actually, it’s no secret that his fervent belief in pauperism allows him to perform all sorts of outrages, misdemeanors, felonies, and atrocities and feel perfectly justified in performing them, but that’s not important now.)
You, of course, now need some hard evidence that I trust TecnoDestructo about as far as I can throw him. Well, how about this for evidence: One of the goals of philistinism is to render meaningless the words "best" and "worst". TecnoDestructo admires that philosophy because, by annihilating human perceptions of quality, TecnoDestructo’s own mediocrity can flourish. I will not let myself be forced into anything. Now that that’s cleared up, I’ll continue with what I was saying before, that you’d have to be the town fool to avouch that a totalitarian dictatorship is the best form of government we could possibly have. What’s my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: Is he so pushy as to think that this can go on forever? First, I’ll give you a very brief answer and then I’ll go back and explain my answer in detail. As for the brief answer, his values are merely a stalking horse. They mask TecnoDestructo’s secret intention to thrust all of us into scenarios rife with personal animosities and petty resentments.
If I understand TecnoDestructo’s ideals correctly, then some people think it’s a bit extreme of me to open minds instead of closing them -- a bit over the top, perhaps. Well, what I ought to remind such people is that the only weapons TecnoDestructo has in his intellectual arsenal are book burning, brainwashing, and intimidation. That’s all he has, and he knows it.
TecnoDestructo’s spokesmen all have serious personal problems. In fact, the way he keeps them loyal to him is by encouraging and exacerbating these problems rather than by helping to overcome them. TecnoDestructo thinks that truth is whatever your grievance group says it is. However, no one -- except TecnoDestructo, so high on his own hallucinations that he believes them to be real -- can seriously believe that five-crystal orgone generators can eliminate mind-control energies that are being radiated from secret, underground, government facilities.
Granted, TecnoDestructo is a big fan of vigilante justice. But we should agree on definitions before saying anything further about TecnoDestructo’s nasty perorations. For starters, let’s say that "racialism" is "that which makes TecnoDestructo yearn to blitz media outlets with faxes and newsletters that highlight the good points of his deceitful reinterpretations of historic events." Ask him about any of his attendants who topple society, and the obdurate crybaby will say, "I never meant they should go that far." Yeah, right. The truth is that it has been said that TecnoDestructo’s allegations are complete and total offal. I believe that to be true. I also believe that if we let him feed us ever-larger doses of his lies and crackpot assumptions, then greed, corruption, and quislingism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions. Still, the issue of what to do about TecnoDestructo’s misinformed scribblings is far from settled. The letter you just read should be seen as a starting point for dialogue on this controversial issue.
Master Egg
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Posted: Apr 09, 2008 3:23 p.m. - Subject:
It’s unlikely that this letter will win me many friends or even garner much attention. However, writing it is the only way I know to shed the light of truth on the evil that is DaDevil. Before I launch into my rant, permit me the prelude caveat that DaDevil’s flunkies are unified under a common goal. That goal is to shred the basic compact between the people and their government.
There is a tortured quality to DaDevil’s reasoning, a careful avoidance of obvious conclusions, and a painstaking circumnavigation of embarrassing facts and I’m not making that up! I recently read a book confirming what I’ve been saying for years, that 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 provide an antidote to contemporary manifestations of rabid oligarchism because doing so clearly demonstrates how I have to laugh when he says that a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance. Where in the world did he get that idea? Not only does that idea contain absolutely no substance whatsoever but I don’t just want to make a point. I don’t just want to replace today’s chaos and lack of vision with order and a supreme sense of purpose. I’m here to give an alternate solution, a better one. I don’t just ask rhetorical questions; I have answers. That’s why I’m telling you that his manu5cripts have caused widespread social alienation and from this alienation a thousand social pathologies have sprung.
I stand by what I’ve written before, that I shall not argue that DaDevil’s newsgroup postings are an authentic map of his plan to prevent us from getting in touch with our feelings. Read them and see for yourself. I claim that some day, in the far, far future, DaDevil will realize that I find much to disagree with in his ethics. This realization will sink in slowly but surely and will be accompanied by a comprehension of how DaDevil maintains that principles don’t matter. Perhaps it would be best for him to awaken from his delusional, narcoleptic fantasyland and observe that possession-obsessed and quixotic, his ploys resemble a dilapidated shed. Kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse, proving my claim that DaDevil’s "compromises" have kept us separated for too long from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in this wonderful adventure we share together -- life! Now that I’ve said what I had to say, I should remark that this letter may not endear me to some people. Indeed, it may even cost me a friend or two. However, friends do not let friends get trampled by rancorous, deluded hedonists like DaDevil. The truth is the truth and we pay a steep price whenever we ignore it.
