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> 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.
>
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> Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
> KUCI 88.9 fM in Irvine, CA -- Orange County
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