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Join Date: May 2001
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I wrote a piece about an asshole here recently. For the sake of politeness I have referred to him as "mr Ass Hole", but does he really deserve such respect or politeness?
You be the judge....
I am writing this letter because I recently heard some troubling news. Apparently, a large number of people actually believe Mr. Ass a. Hole's claim that he has the mandate of Heaven to destroy the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic study. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. He appears to have found a new tool to use to help him force us to adopt rigid social roles that compromise our inner code of ethics. That tool is snobbism, and if you watch him wield it, you'll indubitably see why we can never return to the past. And if we are ever to move forward to the future, we have to eschew petulant negativism. I have seen and heard enough. Now, it is time to give our propaganda fighters an instrument that is very much needed at this time. I feel no more personal hatred for Mr. Hole than I might feel for a herd of wild animals or a cluster of poisonous reptiles. One does not hate those whose souls can exude no spiritual warmth; one pities them. He likes to prevent people from thinking and visualizing beyond an increasingly psychologically caged existence. Such activity can flourish only in the dark, however. If you drag it into the open, Mr. Hole and his mercenaries will run for cover, like cockroaches in a dirty kitchen when the light is turned on suddenly during the night. That's why we must appeal not to the contented and satisfied, but embrace those tormented by suffering, those without peace, the unhappy and the discontented.
If he bites me, I will really bite back. There are two main flaws with Mr. Hole's announcements: 1) the fabric of Mr. Hole's commentaries is infused with uppity mandarinism, and 2) Mr. Hole possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, he can't even spell or define "erudition," much less achieve it. This is equivalent to saying that I have to laugh when he says that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible. Where in the world did he get that idea? Not only does that idea contain absolutely no substance whatsoever, but we must learn to celebrate our diversity, not because it is the politically correct thing to do, but because I oppose Mr. Hole's ideals because they are clueless. I oppose them because they are venal. And I oppose them because they will produce a new generation of counter-productive, dotty astrologers whose opinions and prejudices, far from being enlightened and challenged, are simply legitimized before you know it.
It would be nice to say that obscene barbarism doesn't exist anymore, but we all know that it does. Do you really think Mr. Hole will ever learn from his mistakes? The essential point, however, is the following: He is the picture of the insane person on the street, babbling to a tree, a wall, or a cloud, which cannot and does not respond to his prevarications. Now that this letter has come to an end, I decidedly hope you walk away from it realizing that foul-mouthed expedients have peremptory consequences.
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