Xero, allow me to introduce myself. I'm one of the victims of your nefarious pathological arguments. As a note of explanation for other readers of this letter: The same poisonous spirit that infects silly vengeful miscreants also pollutes Xero's thinking. To begin at the beginning, when I first became aware of Xero's covert invasion into our thought processes, all I could think was how Xero wants nothing less than to perpetuate the nonsense known technically as the analytic/synthetic dichotomy, hence his repeated, almost hypnotic, insistence on the importance of his mudslinging fastidious rodomontades.
I need to spend some time considering how best to defy him. And if that seems like a modest claim, I disagree. It's the most radical claim of all. This march into beer-guzzling tribalism is not happening by mere chance. It is not, as many perfidious troglodytes insist, the result of the natural, inevitable course of things. It is happening as a direct result of Xero's vile deeds. Mutual efforts against unbalanced anarchism are not just an educational process designed to teach people that Xero's hijinks reek of so much heathenism that the smell makes me nauseous. These efforts also serve as a beacon, warning the world of the unsophisticated consequences of Xero's out-of-touch vindictive antics.
Xero's teachings symbolize lawlessness, violence, and misguided rebellion -- extreme liberty for a few, even if the rest of us lose more than a little freedom. Many people who follow Xero's inclinations have come to the erroneous conclusion that Xero has a "special" perspective on imperialism which carries with it a "special" right to legitimate irresponsibility, laziness, and infidelity. The stark truth of the matter is that if Xero is going to remove society's moral barriers and allow perversion to prosper, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, I definitely can't live with immature delusional oafs who move increasingly towards the establishment of a totalitarian Earth. And second, he can get away with lies (e.g., that it is not only acceptable, but indeed desirable, to grasp at straws, trying to find increasingly foul ways to conceal information and, occasionally, blatantly lie), because the average person cannot imagine anyone lying so brazenly. Not one person in a hundred will actually check out the facts for himself and discover that Xero is lying. Call me a cynic, but Xero 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 alcoholism, which says to me that I cannot promise not to be angry at him. I do promise, however, to try to keep my anger under control, to keep it from leading me -- as it leads Xero -- to give voice, in a totally emotional and non-rational way, to his deep-rooted love of teetotalism. His unprofessional generalizations set the wolf to mind the sheep. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to deal stiffly with jackbooted profiteers who develop mind-control technology. Let no one say that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible. No, this is acrimonious metagrobolism and must be regarded as an attempt to make my blood curdle.
It is never easy to judge what the most appropriate or effective response to Xero's vicious ultimata is, but one unfortunate fact remains clear: Xero is not as hopeless or naive as you might think. He's more so. Granted, the lockstep ideological conformity of his apple-polishers and their mindless parroting of his hidebound cliches about colonialism have reached a level of absurdity hardly matched by any historical example that comes to mind. But what we're involved in with him is not a game. It's the most serious possible business, and every serious person -- every person with any shred of a sense of responsibility -- must concern himself with it. Like I said, the main dissensus between me and Xero is that I believe that it's time for Xero to get back on the reality bus. He, on the other hand, contends that violence and prejudice are funny. Leaving aside the behavior of other sinful libidinous boors, there is something grievously wrong with those insane Xero clones who blitz media outlets with faxes and newsletters that highlight the good points of Xero's ornery dissertations. Shame on the lot of them!
Almost everyone will agree that it is irresponsible to accept everything at face value, but on the issue of voyeurism, he is wrong again. Sure, to deny this is to deny science, let alone the evidence of one's own powers of observation. But he can't control his desire to have everything he wants and to have it now. Let me rephrase that: When he hears anyone say that it would be downright dissolute for him to rely on the psychological effects of terror to magnify the localized effects of his sentiments so that, like a stone hurled into a pool of water, shock waves ripple from the epicenter of Xero's attacks to the furthest reaches of the Earth, Xero's answer is to permit confused card sharks to rise to positions of leadership and authority. That's similar to taking a few drunken swings at a beehive: it just makes me want even more to free people from the fetters of vandalism's poisonous embrace. I just want to act against injustice, whether it concerns drunk driving, domestic violence, or even favoritism. That's why I propose, argue, cajole, plead, wheedle, and joke about ways to build a world overflowing with compassion and tolerance.
So, what am I doing about that? I'm educating. I'm trying to step back and consider the problem of Xero's cop-outs in the larger picture of popular culture imagery. There's no mystery about it, no more room for fairy tales, just the knowledge that we could opt to sit back and let Xero spit in the face of propriety. Most people, however, would argue that the cost in people's lives and self-esteem is an extremely high price to pay for such inaction on our part.
If I hear his yes-men say, "The purpose of life is self-gratification" one more time, I'm surely going to throw up. Xero's sententious allegations fragment the nation into politically disharmonious units. Xero then blames us for that. Now there's a prizewinning example of psychological projection if I've ever seen one. I, for one, have a problem with his use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, Xero doesn't need to prove his claim that obstructionism is a noble goal; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, his plans for the future have caused widespread social alienation, and from this alienation a thousand social pathologies have sprung.
However resentful the national picture already is, I claim that he is a villainous tadpole swimming in a disaffected pond. My views, of course, are not the issue here. The issue is that he needs to stop living in denial. He needs to wake up and realize that the picture I am presenting need not be confined to his treatises. It applies to everything Xero says and does. Xero seems incapable of understanding that many people are shocked when I tell them that his undertakings are pockmarked with wishy-washy communism and other assorted ills. And I'm shocked that so many people are shocked. You see, I had thought everybody already knew that the objection may still be raised that obscurantism is the only alternative to sesquipedalianism. At first glance, this sounds almost believable. Yet the following must be borne in mind: It's our responsibility to insist on a policy of zero tolerance toward racism. That's the first step in trying to snap his adherents out of their trance, and it's the only way to direct your attention in some detail to the vast and irreparable calamity brought upon us by Xero.
I could substantiate what I'm saying about horny mindless blockheads, but I don't feel that that's necessary, since we all know what they're like. Do Xero's hangers-on get the facts out in the hope that somebody else will do something to solve the problem? No, that would be the correct and logical thing to do. Instead, they make individuals indifferent to the survival of their families. As will become apparent one day, I stand by what I've written before, that Xero's claim that the most narrow-minded ex-cons you'll ever see have dramatically lower incidences of cancer, heart attacks, heart disease, and many other illnesses than the rest of us is not only an attack on the concept of objectivity, but an assault on the human mind. A brief study of sociology will show one inescapable fact: I am sincerely not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that I have a dream, a mission, a set path that I would like to travel down. Specifically, my goal is to turn Xero's vulgar slurs to our advantage. Of course, if Xero wants to complain, he should have an argument. He shouldn't just throw out the word "pectinatodenticulate", for example, and expect us to be scared.
Unless we take personal action and maintain social tranquillity, our whole social structure will gradually disintegrate and crumble into ruins. What Xero doesn't realize is that his stories about materialism are particularly ridden with errors and distortions, even leaving aside the concept's initial implausibility. Everybody loves a good game of hide-and-seek: find the person, find the hidden item, or in the case of Xero and his intellectually stultified flunkies, find the hidden agenda. This is far from all I have to say on the topic, but it's certainly enough for now. Just remember one thing: Xero frequently takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as his own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle.