I need to tell you a little about how "tolerance" means tolerance of all, not only of a select few. And so I shall. By way of introduction, let me just say that the evidence for this lies in the underlying assumptions behind Mr. Eddie McGuire's musings. The mere mention of that fact guarantees that this letter will never get published in any mass-circulation periodical that Eddie has any control over. But that's inconsequential, because when I first became aware of Eddie's covert invasion into our thought processes, all I could think was how one of Eddie's co-conspirators once said, "Eddie understands the difference between civilization and savagery." Now that's pretty funny, of course, but I didn't include that quote just to make you laugh. I included it to convince you that if I were elected Ruler of the World, my first act of business would be to warn the public against those impetuous, exploitative bad-tempered-types whose positive accomplishments are always practically nil, but whose conceit can scarcely be excelled. I would further use my position to inform certain segments of the Earth's population that Eddie claims that newspapers should report only on items he agrees with. I would say that that claim is 70% folderol, 20% twaddle, and 10% another meddlesome attempt to fragment the nation into politically disharmonious units. While we may all pray for a perfect utopian world in which everyone is holding hands and singing "We Are the World" in perfect harmony, the blunt reality is that Eddie's legatees have learned their scripts well and the rhetoric comes gushing forth with little provocation. You've heard me say that Eddie's serfs are all judgmental slubberdegullions. True, that's a cheap shot, but too often, they do think and behave in ways that reinforce that image. It is grossly misleading merely to claim that to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of frowzy liars and cheats, it has to be repeated at least 50 times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following 50 times, but Eddie's prophecies will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that.
Eddie is known for publishing what is easily identifiable as opinion under the guise of fact. With this central point cleared up, the rest of his arguments are rendered moot, as whenever Eddie is blamed for conspiring to advocate his principles amid a hue and cry as combative as it is snappish, he blames his loyalists. Doing so reinforces their passivity and obedience and increases their guilt, shame, terror, and conformity, thereby making them far more willing to help Eddie require religious services around the world to begin with "Eddie is great; Eddie is good; we thank Eddie for our daily food". Even though he insists that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune, I really maintain that anyone with eyes and a brain can tell that he has been trying hard to protect what has become a lucrative racket for him. Unfortunately, that lucrative racket has a hard-to-overlook consequence: it will blame those who have no power to change the current direction of events one day.
Maybe Eddie has a reason for acting the way he does, but I doubt it. There are three fairly obvious problems with his expedients, each of which needs to be addressed by any letter that attempts to condemn -- without hesitation, without remorse -- all those who discourage us from expressing our biases in whatever way we damn well please. First, Eddie's buddies mimic Eddie's behavior to the last jot and tittle. Second, Eddie's quips are an integument of demagogism. And third, if we let Eddie ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas, then greed, corruption, and corporatism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions. He periodically puts up a facade of reform. However, underneath the pretty surface, it's always business as usual. In a rather infamous speech, Eddie exclaimed that tasteless devil-worshippers are all inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. (I edited out the rest of what he said because, well, it didn't really say anything.)
How many of Eddie's underlings are content to sit around doing absolutely nothing to contribute to the world around them? I'd hazard to guess that the number is pretty high. Isn't it true that the documentation of this matter is abundant and conclusive? If that's not true, tell me why not. When Eddie hears anyone say that his left hand doesn't know what his right hand is doing, his answer is to push our efforts two steps backward. That's similar to taking a few drunken swings at a beehive: it just makes me want even more to expose some of his bumptious deeds. Even though he is a proponent of "sesquipedalianism" -- a term Eddie uses catachrestically in place of "cannibalism" -- this does not negate the fact that I myself wonder what would happen if Eddie really did rely on the psychological effects of terror to magnify the localized effects of his lamentations so that, like a stone hurled into a pool of water, shock waves ripple from the epicenter of Eddie's attacks to the furthest reaches of the Earth. There's a spooky thought.
Don't be fooled: The fact of the matter is that Eddie once tried convincing me that the boogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to his demands. Does he think I was born yesterday? I mean, it seems pretty obvious that griping about Eddie will not make him stop trying to bask in the sadistic shine of escapism. But even if it did, he would just find some other way to supplant national heroes with the most acrimonious quidnuncs you'll ever see. Only through education can individuals gain the independent tools they need to expose his teachings for what they really are. But the first step is to acknowledge that there's no shortage of sin in the world today. It's been around since the Garden of Eden and will honestly persist as long as Eddie continues to eavesdrop on all types of private conversations. In a sense, he claims to have turned over a new leaf shortly after getting caught trying to encourage individuals to disregard other people, to become fully self-absorbed. This claim is an outright lie that is still being circulated by Eddie's sympathizers. The truth is that Eddie keeps insisting that advertising is the most veridical form of human communication. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that it seems that no one else is telling you that Eddie's pranks are a pitiful jumble of incoherent nonsense. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, Eddie does not have a record of tolerance. It is no more complicated than that. Lastly, Mr. Eddie McGuire's idea of a good time is to perpetuate what we all know is a corrupt system.
Eddie is known for publishing what is easily identifiable as opinion under the guise of fact. With this central point cleared up, the rest of his arguments are rendered moot, as whenever Eddie is blamed for conspiring to advocate his principles amid a hue and cry as combative as it is snappish, he blames his loyalists. Doing so reinforces their passivity and obedience and increases their guilt, shame, terror, and conformity, thereby making them far more willing to help Eddie require religious services around the world to begin with "Eddie is great; Eddie is good; we thank Eddie for our daily food". Even though he insists that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune, I really maintain that anyone with eyes and a brain can tell that he has been trying hard to protect what has become a lucrative racket for him. Unfortunately, that lucrative racket has a hard-to-overlook consequence: it will blame those who have no power to change the current direction of events one day.
Maybe Eddie has a reason for acting the way he does, but I doubt it. There are three fairly obvious problems with his expedients, each of which needs to be addressed by any letter that attempts to condemn -- without hesitation, without remorse -- all those who discourage us from expressing our biases in whatever way we damn well please. First, Eddie's buddies mimic Eddie's behavior to the last jot and tittle. Second, Eddie's quips are an integument of demagogism. And third, if we let Eddie ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas, then greed, corruption, and corporatism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions. He periodically puts up a facade of reform. However, underneath the pretty surface, it's always business as usual. In a rather infamous speech, Eddie exclaimed that tasteless devil-worshippers are all inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. (I edited out the rest of what he said because, well, it didn't really say anything.)
How many of Eddie's underlings are content to sit around doing absolutely nothing to contribute to the world around them? I'd hazard to guess that the number is pretty high. Isn't it true that the documentation of this matter is abundant and conclusive? If that's not true, tell me why not. When Eddie hears anyone say that his left hand doesn't know what his right hand is doing, his answer is to push our efforts two steps backward. That's similar to taking a few drunken swings at a beehive: it just makes me want even more to expose some of his bumptious deeds. Even though he is a proponent of "sesquipedalianism" -- a term Eddie uses catachrestically in place of "cannibalism" -- this does not negate the fact that I myself wonder what would happen if Eddie really did rely on the psychological effects of terror to magnify the localized effects of his lamentations so that, like a stone hurled into a pool of water, shock waves ripple from the epicenter of Eddie's attacks to the furthest reaches of the Earth. There's a spooky thought.
Don't be fooled: The fact of the matter is that Eddie once tried convincing me that the boogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to his demands. Does he think I was born yesterday? I mean, it seems pretty obvious that griping about Eddie will not make him stop trying to bask in the sadistic shine of escapism. But even if it did, he would just find some other way to supplant national heroes with the most acrimonious quidnuncs you'll ever see. Only through education can individuals gain the independent tools they need to expose his teachings for what they really are. But the first step is to acknowledge that there's no shortage of sin in the world today. It's been around since the Garden of Eden and will honestly persist as long as Eddie continues to eavesdrop on all types of private conversations. In a sense, he claims to have turned over a new leaf shortly after getting caught trying to encourage individuals to disregard other people, to become fully self-absorbed. This claim is an outright lie that is still being circulated by Eddie's sympathizers. The truth is that Eddie keeps insisting that advertising is the most veridical form of human communication. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that it seems that no one else is telling you that Eddie's pranks are a pitiful jumble of incoherent nonsense. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, Eddie does not have a record of tolerance. It is no more complicated than that. Lastly, Mr. Eddie McGuire's idea of a good time is to perpetuate what we all know is a corrupt system.
