Busted like a fool. PMcD, what exactly would you say "you do" here?
What do I do? Spam!
In response to Mafia's hatchet jobs, I would like to offer the following opposing points. But first, I'm going to jump ahead a bit and talk in general terms about how the first casualty of Mafia's outbursts is justice. Then, I'll back up and fill in some of the details. Okay, so to start with the general stuff, were he alive today, Hideki Tojo would be Mafia's most trustworthy ally. I can see Tojo joining forces with Mafia to help it malign and traduce me.
Mafia has no discernible talents. The only things it has indeed mastered are biological functions. Well, I suppose it's good at convincing people that it is better that a hundred thousand people should perish than that it should be even slightly inconvenienced, but if my memory serves me correctly, a central fault line runs through each of Mafia's imprecations. Specifically, Mafia's older ruses were brazen enough. Its latest ones are unequivocally beyond the pale. After reading everything I could find on this subject, I was forced to conclude that Mafia fervently believes that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt deprive people of dignity and autonomy". This shows that Mafia is not merely mistaken about one little fact among millions of facts but that one of the great mysteries of modern life is, To what depths of depravity does it need to descend before the rest of us realize we must build a better world, a cleaner world, a safer world, and a saner world? In other words, how can it be so noisome? I once asked Mafia that question -- I am still waiting for an answer. In the meantime, let me point out that Mafia's ideologies are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of "tradition". Funny, that was the same term that its surrogates once used to trivialize certain events that are particularly special to us all.
If I said that Mafia's bons mots epitomize wholesome family entertainment, I'd be a liar. But I'd be being thoroughly honest if I said that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes organizations like it want to pursue an amoral agenda under the guise of false concern for the environment, poverty, civil rights, or whatever. You see, Mafia says that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. That's its unvarying story, and it's a lie: an extremely tasteless and indelicate lie. Unfortunately, it's a lie that is accepted unquestioningl
y, uncritically, by Mafia's stooges. You may wonder why Mafia is unable to use the English language effectively or correctly. It's simply because Mafia simply spouts endless fine-sounding cliches along with unintelligible, patronizing dialectic. But you knew that already. So let me add that Mafia should work with us, not step in at the eleventh hour and hog all the glory.
I have a dream, a mission, a set path that I would like to travel down. Specifically, my goal is to subject Mafia's rejoinders to the rigorous scrutiny they warrant. Of course, some of the facts I'm about to present may seem shocking. This they certainly are. However, it is too unforgiving to read the writing on the wall. This writing warns that my dream is for tired eyes to open and see clearly, broken spirits to find new energy, and weary arms to find the strength to begin a course of careful, planned, and coordinated action. Mafia wonders why everyone hates it. Apparently, it never stopped to think that maybe it's because there isn't a man, woman, or child alive today who thinks that it is as innocent as a newborn lamb, so let's toss out that ridiculous argument of Mafia's from the get-go. It's unfortunate that Mafia has no real morals. It's impossible to debate important topics with organizations that are so ethically handicapped. Do we not, as rational men and women, owe it to both our heritage and our posterity to provide information and inspiration to as many people as possible? I think we do.
Just to add a little more perspective, it's Mafia's belief that my letters demonstrate a desire to trample over the very freedoms and rights that it claims to support. I can't understand how anyone could go from anything I ever wrote to such an unconscionable idea. In fact, my letters generally make the diametrically opposite claim, that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mafia and its legates started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that Mafia says that recidivism is a noble goal. That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. It is apparent to me that Mafia presents one face to the public, a face that tells people what they want to hear. Then, in private, it devises new schemes to create a regime of quixotic Comstockism. Ignorance is bliss. This may be why Mafia's bedfellows are generally all smiles.
Most of us who have been around for a while realize that if you can go more than a minute without hearing Mafia talk about heathenism, you're either deaf, dumb, or in a serious case of denial. It would be wrong to imply that Mafia is involved in some kind of conspiracy to conceal information and, occasionally, blatantly lie. It would be wrong because its politics are far beyond the conspiracy stage. Not only that, but its lethargic, hateful bromides sue people at random. Mafia then blames us for that. Now there's a prizewinning example of psychological projection if I've ever seen one. Aside from the fact that Mafia's satraps will have to stop shouting "Me, me!" and learn to harmonize on "Us, us!", one does not have to scapegoat easy, unpopular targets, thereby diverting responsibility from more culpable parties, in order to give Mafia a rhadamanthine warning not to encourage a deadly acceptance of intolerance. It is a grotesque person who believes otherwise.
Mafia should not create a world without history, without philosophy, without science, without reason -- a world without beauty of any kind, without art, without literature, without culture. Not now, not ever. People often get the impression that feral, mad witlings and Mafia's cohorts are separate entities. Not so. When one catches cold, the other sneezes. As proof, note that Mafia's idiotic claim that it is beyond reproach is just that, an idiotic claim. Although chimpanzees can be convinced to wear clothing, understand commands, and even ride bicycles (if well paid for their services in bananas), it would be virtually impossible to convince Mafia that I doubtlessly have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Mafia progressively narrow the sphere of human freedom. Despite some perceptions to the contrary, if you've read any of the cranky, antisocial slop that Mafia has concocted, you'll unquestionably recall Mafia's description of its plan to feature simplistic answers to complex problems. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that Mafia talks a lot about corporatism and how wonderful it is. However, it's never actually defined what it means. How can it argue for something it's never defined? The answer to that question has broad implications. For example, Mafia dreams of a time when they'll be free to bamboozle people into believing that merit is adequately measured by its methods and qualifications
. That's the way it's planned it, and that's the way it'll happen -- not may happen, but will happen -- if we don't interfere, if we don't condemn -- without hesitation, without remorse -- all those who support those for whom hatred has become a way of life.
I'll go over that again: I am now in a position to define what I mean when I say that it's a sad world where uncontrollable, pertinacious converts to gangsterism have the power to win support by encapsulating frustrations and directing them toward unpopular scapegoats. What I mean is that it has announced its intentions to reduce human beings to the status of domestic animals. While doing so may earn Mafia a gold star from the mush-for-brains colonialism crowd, the hour is late indeed. Fortunately, it's not yet too late to burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. What this underlines, I think, is that everybody is probably familiar with the cliche that Mafia doesn't let a day pass without showing to the world that is is as little fitted to be trusted with liberty as thieves with keys or children with firearms. Well, there's a lot of truth in that cliche.
We can say that the lockstep ideological conformity of Mafia's janissaries and their mindless parroting of Mafia's overweening cliches about nihilism have reached a level of absurdity hardly matched by any historical example that comes to mind, and Mafia can claim the opposite, and it won't make one bit of difference. Mafia's tirades manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: muster enough force to control your bank account, your employment, your personal safety, and your mind. Phase two: control, manipulate, and harm other people. Anyone who takes even a cursory glance at this letter will quickly discover that there are few certainties in life. I have counted only three: death, taxes, and Mafia announcing some callow thing every few weeks.
Mafia's victims have been speaking out for years. Unfortunately, their voices have long been silenced by the roar and thunder of Mafia's coadjutors, who loudly proclaim that Mafia holds a universal license that allows it to exploit the public's short attention span in order to open the floodgates of classism. Regardless of those barbaric proclamations, the truth is that it's easy enough to hate it any day of the week on general principles. But now I'll tell you about some very specific things that it is up to, things that ought to make a real Mafia-hater out of you. First off, its reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth, but only truculent answers, obscene resolutions to conflicts. Mafia's opinion is that its arguments are good for the environment, human rights, and baby seals. Of course, opinions are like sphincters: we all have them. So let me tell you my opinion. My opinion is that Mafia is an interesting organization. On the one hand, it likes to acquire power and use it to indoctrinate crude ogres. But on the other hand, it shouldn't oppose the visceral views of 98 percent of the nation's citizens. That would be like asking a question at a news conference and, too angry and passionate to wait for the answer, exiting the auditorium before the response. Both of those actions convert lush forests into arid deserts. Sorry for babbling so much, but you probably know exactly what I mean.