b.k. barunt wrote:Joe Beevers is a multi of AK, and his sole purpose is to entice the knights and ladys of Spamalot into attacking him, so AK can lock them all up.
Ingenious.
Well I don't want to get off topic so I'll talk about "10 minutes in the city"
Cleverly hidden within this letter, for added incentive to read onward, is one lie. Not a lie of statistical or grammatical error, but a ludicrous falsehood at once so absurd as to strike the reader as an insult to human intelligence, and yet so crapulous as to convince the reader that 10 minutes in the city's catch-phrases obfuscate any attempt to locate responsibility for the consequential decisions of those who have access to the means of power. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. 10 minutes in the city ignores a breathtaking number of facts, most notably:
Fact: I would sooner let 10 minutes in the city force me to adopt a new world-view than become one of its rank-and-file followers.
Fact: Its slogans are very much in line with sexist, pathological plagiarism in that they take the focus off the real issues.
Fact: I have had to restrain myself from rebuking it more vehemently.
In addition, its obtrusive intimations are in full flower, and their poisonous petals of absolutism are blooming all around us. 10 minutes in the city recently went through a mercantalism phase in which it tried repeatedly to popularize a genre of music whose graphic lyrics explicitly urge crotchety flibbertigibbets to promote the total destruction of individuality in favor of an all-powerful group. In fact, I'm not convinced that this phase of its has entirely passed. My evidence is that I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that if I withheld my feelings on this matter, I'd be no less haughty than 10 minutes in the city. I am not embarrassed to admit that I have neither the training, the experience, the license, nor the clinical setting necessary to properly hinder the power of disdainful Neanderthals like 10 minutes in the city. Nevertheless, I do have the will to view the realms of egotism and snobbism not as two opposing poles, but as two continua. That's why I definitely think that 10 minutes in the city's lamentations are not an abstract problem. They have very concrete, immediate, and unpleasant consequences. For instance, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke 10 minutes in the city to distort the facts. And let me tell you, if it wants to reinforce the impression that wowserism-oriented New Age sluggards -- as opposed to 10 minutes in the city's toadies -- are striving to leave us in the lurch, let 10 minutes in the city wear the opprobrium of that decision. Why is it that the most wretched lummoxes you'll ever see are the biggest threat to freedom the world has ever seen? It's because the biggest difference between me and 10 minutes in the city is that 10 minutes in the city wants to silence any criticism of the brainwashing and double standards that it has increasingly been practicing. I, on the other hand, want to make this world a kinder, gentler place.
Just don't expect consistency from an organization that is completely and sincerely possession-obsessed. Nevertheless, 10 minutes in the city should slither back under whatever rock it crawled out from. End of story. Actually, I should add that it says that its blessing is the equivalent of a papal imprimatur. Yet it also wants to turn peaceful gatherings into embarrassing scandals. Am I the only one who sees the irony there? I ask because it will probably throw another hissy fit if we don't let it cause pain and injury to those who don't deserve it. At least putting up with another 10 minutes in the city hissy fit is easier than convincing 10 minutes in the city's sycophants that 10 minutes in the city has a glib proficiency with words and very sensitive nostrils. It can smell money in your pocket from a block away. Once that delicious aroma reaches 10 minutes in the city's nostrils, it'll start talking about the joy of frotteurism and how pretentious crooks and infernal malefactors should rule this country. As you listen to 10 minutes in the city's sing-song, chances are you won't even notice its hand as it goes into your pocket. Only later, after you realize you've been robbed, will you truly understand that you might have heard the story that it once agreed to help us develop a rational-empirical base for dialogue about its treatises. No one has located the document in which 10 minutes in the city said that. No one has identified when or where 10 minutes in the city said that. That's because it never said it. As you might have suspected, 10 minutes in the city should work with us, not step in at the eleventh hour and hog all the glory.
If you think that this is humorous or exaggerated, you're wrong. 10 minutes in the city's ethics are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of incendiarism. Please forgive the following sermon, but it can't be avoided in this discussion: 10 minutes in the city believes that its utterances are Holy Writ. Sorry, but I have to call foul on that one. 10 minutes in the city refers to a variety of things using the word "superphlogistication". Translating this bit of jargon into English isn't easy. Basically, it's saying that doing the fashionable thing is more important than life or liberty, which we all know is patently absurd. At any rate, if we let it weaken our mental and moral fiber, civilization itself will fall. If you doubt this, just ask around.
My prediction that 10 minutes in the city would scrap the notion of national sovereignty came true so quickly, so brutally, so horribly, that even I was stunned by the magnitude and viciousness of it all. 10 minutes in the city pompously claims that it is a perpetual victim of injustice. That sort of nonsense impresses many people, unfortunately. 10 minutes in the city says that mediocrity is a worthwhile goal. What it means by this, of course, is that it wants free reign to create widespread psychological suffering.
It's not just the lunatic fringe that's in 10 minutes in the city's corner; a number of previously respectable people have recently begun backing it. Call me old-fashioned, but it's debatable whether 10 minutes in the city's diatribes, which are constructions of dubious stability in their own right, are built on highly questionable foundations. However, no one can disagree that I am entirely shocked and angered by its militant improprieties. Such shameful conduct should never be repeated. 10 minutes in the city's older ravings were self-deceiving enough. Its latest ones are unquestionably beyond the pale.
Poison is countered only by an antidote, period. Do we not, as rational men and women, owe it to both our heritage and our posterity to develop an alternative community, a cohesive and comprehensive underground with a charter to condemn 10 minutes in the city's criminal ineptitude? I think we do. 10 minutes in the city's views are a mere cavil, a mere scarecrow, one of the last shifts of a desperate and dying cause.
I'm not a shiftless person. I'd like nothing more than to extend my hand in friendship to 10 minutes in the city's shock troops and convey my hope that in the days to come we can work together to solve the problems that are important to most people. Unfortunately, knowing them, they'd rather address what is, in the end, a nonexistent problem because that's what 10 minutes in the city wants. Assume for a moment that 10 minutes in the city is intentionally being evil. It therefore follows that I have a dream, a mission, a set path that I would like to travel down. Specifically, my goal is to step back and consider the problem of 10 minutes in the city's hypnopompic insights in the larger picture of popular culture imagery. Of course, failure to analyze the snivelling -- and what one can term only lazy -- underpinnings of its publicity stunts will promote, foster, and institute communism. Am I being too harsh for writing that? Maybe I am, but that's really the only way you can push a point through to it. 10 minutes in the city is a drooling, hydra-headed monster of force and terror, pure and simple. 10 minutes in the city is an interesting organization. On the one hand, it likes to make us dependent on irrational carousers for political representation, economic support, social position, and psychological approval. But on the other hand, there is a proper place in life for hatred. Hatred of that which is wrong is a powerful and valuable tool. But when 10 minutes in the city perverts hatred in order to replace our natural soul with an artificial one, it becomes clear that when one examines the ramifications of letting it stand in the way of progress, one finds a preponderance of evidence leading to the conclusion that it wants us to feel sorry for the oleaginous dummkopfs who discourage us from expressing our propositions in whatever way we damn well please. I myself suspect we should instead feel sorry for their victims, all of whom know full well that if you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you will honestly find that by preventing people from seeing that the real problem is the complexity of a changing national and world economy, 10 minutes in the city's cheerleaders can ridicule the accomplishments of generations of great men and women. Am I being unduly harsh for writing that? I think not. When the religious leaders in Jesus's time were wrong, Jesus denounced them in extremely harsh terms. So why shouldn't I, too, use extremely harsh terms to indicate that I unequivocally hate it when baleful insurrectionists like 10 minutes in the city go on with such vigor about subjects they don't even know about?
In a tacit concession of defeat, 10 minutes in the city is now openly calling for the abridgment of various freedoms to accomplish coercively what its disaffected, self-indulgent revenge fantasies have failed at. We must overcome the fears that beset us every day of our lives. We must overcome the fear that 10 minutes in the city will make life less pleasant for us. And to overcome these fears, we must take up the mantle and go placidly amid the noise and haste.
I am reminded of the quote, "It is not too far-fetched to claim that the comparison between it and out-of-touch ivory-tower academics is remarkable." This comment is not as unbridled as it seems because if you think you can escape from 10 minutes in the city's abhorrent artifices, then good-bye and good luck. To the rest of you I suggest that its misinformed, cocky expostulations can be quite educational. By studying them, students can observe firsthand the consequences of having an organization consumed with paranoia, fear, hatred, and ignorance. If we summon up the courage to do something good for others, then the sea of fogyism, on which 10 minutes in the city so heavily relies, will begin to dry up. An old joke tells of the optimist who falls off a 60-story building and, as he whizzes past the 35th floor, exclaims, "So far, so good!" But it is not such blind optimism that causes 10 minutes in the city's lickspittles to think that they can grant a free ride to the undeserving. 10 minutes in the city will probably respond to this letter just like it responds to all criticism. It will put me down as "virulent" or "sniffish". That's its standard answer to everyone who says or writes anything about it except the most fawning praise.
I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that if 10 minutes in the city were as bright as it thinks it is, it'd know that its claim that a totalitarian dictatorship is the best form of government we could possibly have is factually unsupported and politically motivated. Under these conditions, we must answer the hideous slimeballs who allow federally funded research to mushroom into a meretricious, grossly inefficient system, hampered by irresponsible ill-bred-types and besotted, muzzy-headed twaddlers. Only then can a society free of its selfish half-measures blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that in the Old Testament, the Book of Kings relates how the priests of Baal were slain for deceiving the people. I'm not suggesting that there be any contemporary parallel involving 10 minutes in the city, but 10 minutes in the city uses the word "anthropomorphotheist" without ever having taken the time to look it up in the dictionary. Organizations that are too lazy to get their basic terms right should be ignored, not debated. So you see, 10 minutes in the city's disquisitions are indistinguishable from the ones it condemns.
I MENTIONED 10 MINUTES IN THE CITY SEVERAL TIMES IN THAT POST SO IT WAS COMPLETELY ON TOPIC!!!! NYAH!