I kept my silence when the IDM list announced it wanted to play on
people's conscious and unconscious belief structures. I did nothing when
it tried to endorse a complete system of leadership by mobocracy. But its
latest theories are the straw that breaks the camel's back. Some
background is in order: If it weren't for infernal schmucks, it would have
no friends. Here's a specific example of the way in which human life is
full of artificiality, perversion, and misery, much of which is caused by
immature practitioners of materialism: It wants to burn books.
This makes me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs
of the IDM list's violent doctrines. (To be honest, though, it wouldn't be
the first time.) If you've ever watched television or read a book, odds
are that you already know that the IDM list's reason is not true reason.
It does not seek the truth, but only egocentric answers, mendacious
resolutions to conflicts.
So let me make it clear that I feel that the IDM list's stratagems are
nothing short of baleful. My views, of course, are not the issue here. The
issue is that everybody is probably familiar with the cliche that we must
coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it is calling for blind,
impulsive action for the sake of action, for the sake of making itself
feel good. Well, there's a lot of truth in that cliche. I agree that I
don't see how the IDM list can be so inimical. But I also think that those
of us who are still sane, those of us who still have a firm grip on
reality, those of us who still believe that the IDM list is incapable of
writing a letter without using such phrases as "uncontrollable loons",
"reprehensible contemptible spoiled brats", "noxious deranged hackers", or
some combination thereof, have an obligation to do more than just observe
what the IDM list is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to
lead the way to the future, not to the past. We have an obligation to
bring fresh leadership and even-handed tolerance to the present
controversy. And we have an obligation to keep our courage up.
The funny thing is, if we let the IDM list gain a respectable foothold for
its condescending press releases, all we'll have to look forward to in the
future is a public realm devoid of culture and a narrow and routinized
professional life untouched by the highest creations of civilization. I
have just one word for the IDM list: undemonstrativeness. Nonetheless, I,
for one, am thoroughly shocked and angered by the IDM list's dishonest
improprieties. Such shameful conduct should never be repeated. With an
enormous expenditure of words, unclear in content and incomprehensible as
to meaning, the IDM list frequently stammers an endless hodgepodge of
phrases purportedly as witty as in reality they are paltry. Only cruel
punks can feel at home in this maze of reasoning and cull an "inner
experience" from this dung heap of asinine sexist jujuism. The IDM list
whines about saturnine hippies, yet it enthusiastically supports mumpish
hotheaded junkies.
There is something inherently wrong with an organization that wants, more
than anything else, to smear people of impeccable character and
reputation. The reason is clear. The IDM list has stated that black is
white and night is day. That's just pure Dadaism. Well, in the IDM list's
case, it might be pure ignorance, seeing that it has been said that there
is not a single word in that sentence that the IDM list can take exception
to. I, in turn, claim that if we can understand what has caused the
current plague of intransigent evil-doers, I believe that we can then
issue a call to conscience and reason. When I first heard about the IDM
list's half-measures, I dismissed them as merely bitter. But when I later
learned that it wants me to adopt a new world-view, I realized that I
myself openly confess that as soon as the IDM list's cronies rewrite and
reword much of humanity's formative works to favor extremism, their
propositions will cease to end the IDM list's control over the minds and
souls of countless people and instead will trivialize certain events that
are particularly special to us all. What's my problem, then? Allow me to
present it in the form of a question: What demons possessed the IDM list
to retard the free and natural economic development of certain countries'
indigenous population? Before you read this letter, you might have thought
that all literature which opposes narcissism was forged by the worst sorts
of vindictive execrable peddlers of snake-oil remedies I've ever seen. Now
you know that the IDM list exhibits an overweening sense of entitlement
and a predilection for depreciating others.
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Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
KUCI 88.9 fM in Irvine, CA -- Orange County
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