I get it now. A little web search for key phrases in your doc has uncovered
the truth, and I must reveal it before the list gets too bent out of shape:
You used one of those mildly-clever "automatic complaint writer" programs to
generate your text. Ha ha, very funny.
-cf
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Fahey
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 7:30 PM
> To: 'Brian MacDonald'; idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RE: [idm] My complaint about the IDM list
>
>
> Find: x
> Replace with: "IDM list"
>
> x = ?
>
>
> > -----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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