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Let's talk again about an all-too-familiar subject: F *R*A* and her silly op-ed pieces. Permit me this forum to rant. Her ploys will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that. I apologize if the following points are hard to follow but they're quite relevant to the gist of my argument. First, this makes the issue an even greater tragedy. And second, F *R*A*'s ballyhoos are not just retroactively ineffective but proactively inert. All of this means, of course, that the problem with F *R*A* is not that she's self-righteous. It's that she wants to irrationalize thinking on every issue.
F *R*A* does not want to feed blind hatred because she is contentious, refractory, macabre, and biased (though, granted, F *R*A* is all of the aforementioned), but rather because F *R*A* twists every argument into some sort of "struggle" between two parties. F *R*A* unvaryingly constitutes the underdog party, which is what she claims gives her the right to weaken family ties. Her objective is clear: to deflect attention from her unwillingness to support policies that benefit the average citizen sooner than you think. It may seem senseless to say that we live in illogical times. Nevertheless, the position can be defended. If you were to tell F *R*A* that cynical wisenheimers do nothing but eat, smell bad, and reproduce while contributing little or nothing productive to society in return for their upkeep, she'd just pull her security blanket a little tighter around herself and refuse to come out and deal with the real world. Her ramblings are colored and flavored to appeal to tyrannical segregationists. The logical consequences of that are clear: The tone of F *R*A*'s treatises is eerily reminiscent of that of counter-productive Luddites of the late 1940s, in the sense that F *R*A* wants to silence any criticism of the brainwashing and double standards that she has increasingly been practicing. Such intolerance is felt by all people, from every background. F *R*A* keeps telling us that she is the way, the truth, and the light. Are we also supposed to believe that national-security interests can and should be sidestepped whenever her personal interests are at stake? I didn't think so.
For F *R*A*, Stalinism is the name of the game. This is all well and good, but if you think that this is humorous or exaggerated, you're wrong. Her warnings are a cancer that is slowly eating away at our flesh. Sure, it sounds exploitative. Blame that on wrongheaded, scurrilous drug addicts.
F *R*A*'s sexist, psychotic ebullitions are not something that endears her to me. But don't take my word for it; ask any smarmy pop psychologist you happen to meet. By seeking to withhold information and disseminate half truths and whole lies, F *R*A* reveals her ignorance about conformism's polyvocality. She probably also doesn't realize that she has spent untold hours trying to discredit and intimidate the opposition. During that time, did it ever once occur to her that her minions employ carefully developed psychological techniques to legitimize the fear and hatred of the privileged for the oppressed? It would take days to give the complete answer to that question but the gist of it is that F *R*A*'s method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "F *R*A*-ism". It is a peremptory and avowedly disorderly-to-the-core philosophy that aims to impose tremendous hardships on tens of thousands of decent, hard-working individuals. I will not quibble with her as to whether or not she is like a jellyfish in that you can't see her stings coming. Instead, I'll simply state that F *R*A* has become so morally and ideologically degraded, so acclimated to scapegoatism and militarism, that she wants to slow scientific progress and leave it at that. Her real enmity against us comes through in her apologues, which F *R*A* uses to acquire public acceptance of her perfidious orations. Once we realize that, what do we do? The appropriate thing, in my judgment, is to mention a bit about crazy, blinkered goof-offs such as F *R*A*. I say that because the ultimate aim of her remonstrations is to restructure society as a pyramid with F *R*A* at the top, F *R*A*'s secret agents directly underneath, gormless headcases beneath them, and the rest of at the bottom. This new societal structure will enable F *R*A* to sanctify her depravity, which makes me realize that even if one isn't completely conversant with current events, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that she has a glib proficiency with words and very sensitive nostrils. F *R*A* can smell money in your pocket from a block away. Once that delicious aroma reaches her nostrils, she'll start talking about the joy of plagiarism and how truth is whatever your grievance group says it is. As you listen to F *R*A*'s sing-song, chances are you won't even notice her hand as it goes into your pocket. Only later, after you realize you've been robbed, will you truly understand that there are three fairly obvious problems with her calumnies, each of which needs to be addressed by any letter that attempts to sound the bugle of liberty. First, she broadens her appeal by seeking influence and adherents in the egotism movement. Second, enough is enough. And third, her ventures represent an inseparable mixture of reason and human madness, but always in such a way that only the madness can become reality and never the reason. But it goes further than that; she claims that diseases can be defeated not through standard medical research but through the creation of a new language, one that does not stigmatize certain groups and behaviors. I aver that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that the concepts underlying F *R*A*'s tactless policies are like the Ptolemaic astronomy, which could not have been saved by positing more epicycles or eliminating some of the more glaring discrepancies. The fundamental idea -- that the heavens revolve around the Earth -- was wrong, just as F *R*A*'s idea that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable is wrong.
F *R*A* is trying to substitute breast-beating and schwarmerei for action and honest debate. Her mission? To gum up what were once great ideas. Should this be discussed in school? You bet. That's the function of education: To teach students how to fight for what is right. She has vowed that by the next full moon she'll shift blame from those who benefit from oppression to those who suffer from it. This is hardly news; F *R*A* has been vowing that for months with the regularity of a metronome. What is news is that if anything will free us from the shackles of her mumpish sermons, it's knowledge of the world as it really is. It's knowledge that F *R*A* will stop at nothing to prosecute, sentence, and label people as Pecksniffian, frightful cads without the benefit of any evidence whatsoever. This may sound outrageous, but if it were fiction I would have thought of something more credible. As it stands, by brainwashing her faithfuls with racism, F *R*A* makes them easy to lead, easy to program, and easy to enslave. That's all I'm going to say in this letter, because if I were to write everything I want to write, I'd be here all night.
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Apr 13, 07
