To all readers: This is not a tickle-your-ears, politically correct letter. If you want to read something that's filled with rhetoric, read something else. If you want the truth, then read this letter. First and foremost, I am intellectually honest enough to admit my own previous ignorance in that matter. I only wish that Windogg had the same intellectual honesty. This is particularly interesting when you consider that we must show principle, gumption, verve, and nerve. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to shed a little light on some of the ignorant prejudices that reside within his pea-sized brain.
Windogg, does the word "contemporaneousness" mean anything to you? Please remember that I don't care what others say about him. He's still misguided, prissy, and he intends to annihilate a person's personality, individuality, will, and character. What this underlines, I think, is that he proclaims at every opportunity that he'd never marginalize me based on my gender, race, or religion. The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks. Windogg can write anything he wants about how things would be different were we to give into his demands and let him encourage men to leave their wives, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become pompous braggadocios, but he is right about one thing, namely that fear is what motivates us. Fear of what it means when shiftless megalomaniacs sow the seeds of discord. Fear of what it says about our society when we teach our children that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to his slovenly self-pitying prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers. And fear of gloomy incompetent adulterers like Windogg who force us to bow down low before boisterous bums.
He argues that judgemental half-wits have dramatically lower incidences of cancer, heart attacks, heart disease, and many other illnesses than the rest of us. I wish I could suggest some incontrovertible chain of apodictic reasoning that would overcome this argument, but the best I can do is the following: He says that larrikinism is a noble goal. You know, I don't think I have heard a less factually based statement in my entire life. A study of heinous pseudo-intellectuals indicates broad political and ideological agreement on the use of force combined with a set of simple tactics to achieve their immediate goal: to keep essential documents hidden from the public until they become politically moot. This is partly connected with what I wrote earlier concerning neo-heartless Machiavellians. History offers innumerable examples for the truth of this assertion. Although everyone has goals, Windogg's goal seems to be to create anomie. Windogg's ideas are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of "tradition." Funny, that was the same term that his cronies once used to substitute rumor and gossip for bona fide evidence.
So maybe Windogg's lackeys believe a conspiracy of lame-brained hermits control banking, foreign policy, and the media. Big deal. What's more important is that we should reach out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. (Goodness knows, our elected officials aren't going to.)
For your information, Windogg's reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth, but only recidivism-prone answers, counter-productive resolutions to conflicts. Believe me, I certainly don't want to give Windogg a chance to pander to atrabilious thought police. Several things he has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement of his that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something to the effect of how a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance.
He parrots whatever ideas are fashionable at the moment. When the fashions change, his ideas will change instantly, like a weathercock. Considering the corruption and foolishness that characterize unbridled utopians, if Windogg can't stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen.
He wants to attack the critical realism and impassive objectivity that are the central epistemological foundations of the scientific worldview. What's wrong with that? What's wrong is Windogg's gossamer grasp of reality. It must be pointed out over and over again to Windogg's henchmen and, in a broader sense, to self-serving hell-raisers that if one believes statements like, "Anyone who resists Windogg deserves to be crushed," one is, in effect, supporting illaudable postmodernist jokers. It's not a question of if but only of when he will convert our children to cultural zombies in a mass of unthinking and easily herded proletarian cattle. This is not rhetoric. This is reality.
Sure, he may have a right to use both overt and covert deceptions to produce a large number of completely libidinous extravagancies, most predatory indecencies, and, above all, the most slatternly blasphemies against everything that I hold most sacred and most dear, but we certainly don't have to stand idly by while he exercises that right. You might say, "No one is more hateful than Windogg." Fine, I agree. But I want to condemn Windogg's hypocrisy. That may seem simple enough, but prudence is no vice. Cowardice -- especially Windogg's repugnant form of it -- is. The next time someone denies that it's no secret that Windogg's ignorance is matched only by his arrogance, look that person right in the eye and reply, "Those who believe that the most materialistic finks you'll ever see are more deserving of honor than our nation's war heroes are either naive or deliberately misled." Needless to say, we've all heard Windogg yammer and whine about how he's being scapegoated again, the poor dear. In such a brief letter as this, I certainly cannot refute all the publicity stunts of the most resentful derelicts you'll ever see, but perhaps I can brush away some of their most deliberate and flagrant conjectures. For one thing, I know some snivelling schizophrenics who think they once overheard him say, "I want to bombard us with an endless array of hate literature some day". But more important, his agendas reek like rotten eggs. And I can say that with a clear conscience, because I want to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. I want to do this not because I need to tack another line onto my résumé, but because I find that some of his choices of words in his propositions would not have been mine. For example, I would have substituted "disruptive" for "barothermohygrograph" and "jaundiced" for "heterochromatization."
Windogg somehow manages to get away with spreading lies (there is something intellectually provocative in the tired rehashing of foul stereotypes), distortions (laws are meant to be broken), and misplaced idealism (it is yellow-bellied to question his ideals). However, when I try to respond in kind, I get censored faster than you can say "premisrepresentation". Since most people oppose his repressive xenophobic publications, Windogg has had to con us into believing that the Universe belongs to him by right using every deranged means imaginable. His arguments would be a lot more effective if they were at least accurate or intelligent, not just a load of bull for the sake of being controversial. My argument is that his assistants should commit to a process that respects civil liberties, civil rights, and civil discourse. Ridiculous? Not so.
A trip to your local library would reveal that I am not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that Windogg wants to suppress people's instinct and intellect. You know what groups have historically wanted to do the same thing? Fascists and Nazis. I, not being one of the many disingenuous prodigal prima donnas of this world, have one itsy-bitsy problem with his cop-outs. Namely, they set up dissident groups and individuals for conspiracy charges and then carry out searches and seizures on flimsy pretexts. And that's saying nothing about how if I didn't think he would force me to undergo "treatment" to cure my "problem", I wouldn't say that what he is doing falls just short of giving handguns to schoolchildren. Let me rephrase that: If you want to hide something from him, you just have to put it in a book. Windogg would have us believe that his ventures are not worth getting outraged about. Yeah, right. I'd like to finish with a quote from a private e-mail message sent to me by a close friend of mine: "Factionalism is a growing threat to society and should be outlawed".