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quoted 5 lines From: Chris Fahey <chris.fahey@raremedium.com>>From: Chris Fahey <chris.fahey@raremedium.com>
>To: "'Brian MacDonald'" <brianm@kuci.org>, idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: RE: [idm] My complaint about the IDM list
>Date: Mon, Jul 24, 2000, 3:30 PM
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian MacDonald [mailto:brianm@kuci.org]
>> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 7:12 PM
>> To: idm@hyperreal.org
>> Subject: [idm] My complaint about the IDM list
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ==============================================================
>> =========
>> Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
>> KUCI 88.9 fM in Irvine, CA -- Orange County
>> ==============================================================
>> =========
>>
>>
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