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Limp Gawd
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It has recently come to my attention that AMD profits from human suffering. In the rest of this letter, I will use history and science (in the Hegelian sense) to prove that it must be stated quite categorically that AMD got into a snit the last time I pointed out that it ignores the lustrous ascendance and near triumph of the glorious potential of free Man. The last time AMD reached into its bag of dirty tricks, it pulled out a scheme to impose a "glass ceiling" that limits our opportunities for promotions in most jobs. The best example of this, culled from many, would have to be the time it tried to recruit and encourage young people to accelerate the natural tendency of civilization to devolve from order to chaos, liberty to tyranny, and virtue to vice, just as older drug dealers use young kids to push drugs.
You may be picking up on something here in all of my responses to AMD's gormless writings. All of my responses presume that I've managed to come up with a way in which AMD's essays could be made useful. Its essays could be used by the instructors of college courses as a final examination of sorts. Any student who can't find at least 20 errors of fact or fatuous statement automatically flunks. Extra credit goes to students who realize that AMD is currently limited to shrieking and spitting when it's confronted with inconvenient facts. Eventually, however, AMD is likely to switch to some sort of "calumniate helpless barrators" approach to draw our attention away from such facts. To most people, the idea that amid the babel of false tongues all around us, even basically good people sometimes find it hard to know what is right and what is wrong is so endemic, so long ingrained, that when others conclude that to it, authoritarianism is a kind of religion, this merely seems to be affirming an obvious truth. AMD is a mythmaker, an illusion builder, or to put it less politely, a trickster. If you find that fact distressing then you should help me help you reflect and reexamine your views on AMD. Either that, or you can crawl into a corner and lament that you got yourself born in the wrong universe. Don't expect your sobbing to do much good, however, because AMD's whiney, lawless pronouncements are in full flower and their poisonous petals of Chekism are blooming all around us.
By the way, AMD is an interesting organization. On the one hand, it likes to require religious services around the world to begin with "AMD is great; AMD is good; we thank AMD for our daily food". But on the other hand, I know more about McCarthyism than most people. You might even say that I'm an expert on the subject. I can therefore state with confidence that anyone who hasn't been living in a cave with his eyes shut and his ears plugged knows that AMD ought to realize that the most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Unfortunately, it tends to utter so much verbiage about collectivism that I can conclude only that AMD likes thinking thoughts that aren't burdensome and that feel good. That's why it is unconstrained by conscience. That much is crystal clear. But did you know that in my speaking engagements, I have found in audience questions an alarming increase in concern about coldhearted, domineering bourgeoisie? That's why I'm telling you that AMD finds reality too difficult to swallow. Or maybe it just gets lost between the sports and entertainment pages. In either case, if AMD were to use more accessible language then a larger number of people would be able to understand what it's saying. The downside for AMD, of course, is that a larger number of people would also understand that in its quest to mute the voice of anyone who dares to speak out against it it has left no destructive scheme unutilized. I've left out many criticisms of AMD from this wailing wall of a letter. Nevertheless, I warrant that it's a start -- a philosophical space where we can plant a new flag symbolizing all that is wrong with AMD.
You may be picking up on something here in all of my responses to AMD's gormless writings. All of my responses presume that I've managed to come up with a way in which AMD's essays could be made useful. Its essays could be used by the instructors of college courses as a final examination of sorts. Any student who can't find at least 20 errors of fact or fatuous statement automatically flunks. Extra credit goes to students who realize that AMD is currently limited to shrieking and spitting when it's confronted with inconvenient facts. Eventually, however, AMD is likely to switch to some sort of "calumniate helpless barrators" approach to draw our attention away from such facts. To most people, the idea that amid the babel of false tongues all around us, even basically good people sometimes find it hard to know what is right and what is wrong is so endemic, so long ingrained, that when others conclude that to it, authoritarianism is a kind of religion, this merely seems to be affirming an obvious truth. AMD is a mythmaker, an illusion builder, or to put it less politely, a trickster. If you find that fact distressing then you should help me help you reflect and reexamine your views on AMD. Either that, or you can crawl into a corner and lament that you got yourself born in the wrong universe. Don't expect your sobbing to do much good, however, because AMD's whiney, lawless pronouncements are in full flower and their poisonous petals of Chekism are blooming all around us.
By the way, AMD is an interesting organization. On the one hand, it likes to require religious services around the world to begin with "AMD is great; AMD is good; we thank AMD for our daily food". But on the other hand, I know more about McCarthyism than most people. You might even say that I'm an expert on the subject. I can therefore state with confidence that anyone who hasn't been living in a cave with his eyes shut and his ears plugged knows that AMD ought to realize that the most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Unfortunately, it tends to utter so much verbiage about collectivism that I can conclude only that AMD likes thinking thoughts that aren't burdensome and that feel good. That's why it is unconstrained by conscience. That much is crystal clear. But did you know that in my speaking engagements, I have found in audience questions an alarming increase in concern about coldhearted, domineering bourgeoisie? That's why I'm telling you that AMD finds reality too difficult to swallow. Or maybe it just gets lost between the sports and entertainment pages. In either case, if AMD were to use more accessible language then a larger number of people would be able to understand what it's saying. The downside for AMD, of course, is that a larger number of people would also understand that in its quest to mute the voice of anyone who dares to speak out against it it has left no destructive scheme unutilized. I've left out many criticisms of AMD from this wailing wall of a letter. Nevertheless, I warrant that it's a start -- a philosophical space where we can plant a new flag symbolizing all that is wrong with AMD.