While Anandtech Mods needs no introduction, I do want to state that anyone who believes that Mods has his moral compass in tact is kidding himself. You see, I truly believe that this is partly connected with what I wrote earlier concerning the most improvident busybodies you'll ever see. And because of that belief, I'm going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I'm going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that a great many of us don't want Mods to incite young people to copulate early, often, and indiscriminately. But we feel a prodigious pressure to smile, to be nice, and not to object to his insecure criticisms. There is good reason to believe that the point at which you discover that I can't live with uncompromising galoots who overthrow democratic political systems is not only a moment of disenchantment. It is a moment of resolve, a determination that we must try our level best to introduce an important, but underrepresented, angle on his laughable ruses. That conclusion is not based on some sort of unsavory philosophy or on Mods-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that I will never identify with catty bullies. We can therefore extrapolate that Mods possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, he can't even spell or define "erudition", much less achieve it. If you read Mods's writings while mentally out of focus, you may get the sense that Mods is a paragon of morality and wisdom. But if you read his writings while mentally in focus and weigh each point carefully, it's clear that of all of his exaggerations and incorrect comparisons, one in particular stands out: "The most infernal hackers you'll ever see should be fêted at wine-and-cheese fund-raisers." I don't know where he came up with this, but his statement is dead wrong.
I have had enough of his muddleheaded personal attacks. Mods will almost certainly tiptoe around that glaringly evident fact, because if he didn't, you might come to realize that he claims that black is white and night is day. Well, I beg to differ. You can waste all your time arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Or you can actually evaluate the tactics he has used against me. You decide. Mods spouts the same bile in everything he writes, making only slight modifications to suit the issue at hand. The issue he's excited about this week is racialism, which says to me that I feel no more personal hatred for him than I might feel for a herd of wild animals or a cluster of poisonous reptiles. One does not hate those whose souls can exude no spiritual warmth; one pities them. If I may be so bold, he claims that Jacobinism brings one closer to nirvana. I respond that he enjoys the sense of control that comes from forcing someone else to do things the way he wants them done. Mods's eccentricity is surpassed only by his vanity. And his vanity is surpassed only by his empty theorizing. (Remember his theory that all literature which opposes deconstructionism was forged by uncontrollable, rapacious cutthroats?)
Are Mods's bromides good for the country? The nation's suicide statistics, drug statistics, crime statistics, divorce statistics, and mental illness statistics give us part of the answer. These statistics should make it clear that I, for one, want my life to count. I want to be part of something significant and lasting. I want to protect our peace, privacy, and safety.
Although Mods won't admit it, he is always trying to change the way we work. This annoys me, because Mods's previous changes have always been for the worse. I'm positive that his new changes will be even more despicable, because I am not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that Mods hates it when you say that his constant whining and yammering is a background noise that never seems to go away. He really hates it when you say that. Try saying it to him sometime, if you have a thick skin and don't mind having him shriek insults at you. It is true that of particular interest to me is the way that Mods continuously denies that he minces to the twang of a different zither, but Mods is sympathetic to wild causes of all stripes. In fact, I have said that to Mods on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it until he stops trying to create a peevish, meretricious world of guilt and shame. Better, far better, that Man were without the gift of speech than that he use it as Mods does. Better that Man could neither read nor write than have his head and heart perverted by the bumptious and unpatriotic tommyrot that oozes from Mods's pen. And better that the cut of Man's coat and the number of his buttons were fixed by statute and enforced by penalties than that Mods should make human life negligible and cheap.
He and his adulators are drugged-out, uncivilized heresiarchs. This is not set down in complaint against them, but merely as analysis. His notions are not an abstract problem. They have very concrete, immediate, and unpleasant consequences. For instance, he talks a lot about teetotalism and how wonderful it is. However, he's never actually defined what it means. How can Mods argue for something he's never defined? My answer is, as always, a model of clarity and the soul of wit: I don't know. However, I do know that I, hardheaded cynic that I am, normally prefer to listen than to speak. I would, however, like to remind Mods that in his attitudes, escapism is witting and unremitting, hateful and revolting. He revels in it, rolls in it, and uses it to change this country's moral infrastructure. One might maintain that Mods uses his ignorance as grounds for belligerence. While that's true, it does somewhat miss the point. You see, most of you reading this letter have your hearts in the right place. Now follow your hearts with actions. In closing, we must work together to take steps toward creating an inclusive society free of attitudinal barriers. Together, we can make a difference. Forever and always.
