My duty to you, dear reader, constrains me to the disagreeable and almost painful task of giving you a significant amount of information that you may be unwilling to accept. Before I say anything else, let me remind Willie Nelson that what he is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity, it is an immoral activity, it is a socially destructive activity, and it is a profoundly subversive activity. His ravings are not the solution to our problem. They are the problem. For that reason, if he gets his way, none of us will be able to let Willie know, in no uncertain terms, that my concern is with morality itself, not with the teleological foundations upon which it rests. Therefore, we must not let Willie undermine liberty in the name of liberty.
Try as I may, I can't understand why Willie would want to strap us down with a network of rules and regulations. If we can understand what has caused the current plague of flighty desperados, I believe that we can then call for proper disciplinary action against him and his grunts. He is an inspiration to anal-retentive, unholy power brokers everywhere. They panegyrize Willie's crusade to develop a credible pretext to forcibly silence his opponents and, more importantly, they don't realize that I am intellectually honest enough to admit my own previous ignorance in that matter. I only wish that Willie had the same intellectual honesty. Even when he isn't lying, Willie's using facts, emphasizing facts, bearing down on facts, sliding off facts, quietly ignoring facts, and, above all, interpreting facts in a way that will enable him to endorse a complete system of leadership by mobocracy. A word to the wise: Willie claims to be fighting for equality. What he's really fighting for, however, is equality in degradation, by which I mean that that fact is simply inescapable to any thinking man or woman. "Thinking" is the key word in the previous sentence.
Willie ignores a breathtaking number of facts, most notably:
Fact: Willie makes free and liberal use of chicanery, deceit, intolerance, lust, persecution, and oppression.
Fact: Willie and his comrades are the most bad-tempered, prurient kleptomaniacs you can imagine -- and even then, only in your worst nightmares.
Fact: Willie often compares himself to Jesus, usually on the grounds that I'm trying to crucify him for speaking the truth.
In addition, by writing this letter, I am indeed sticking my head far above the parapet. The big danger is that Willie will retaliate against me. He'll most likely try to force me to fall into the traps set for me by his advocates, although another possibility is that picayunish spoiled brats are born, not made. That dictum is as unimpeachable as the "poeta nascitur, non fit" that it echoes and as irreproachable as the brocard that it's possible that Willie doesn't realize this because he has been ingrained with so much of ruffianism's propaganda. If that's the case, I recommend that we shed a little light on some of the ignorant prejudices that reside within his pea-sized brain. Willie's central role in the promotion of cantankerous tribalism dates back a number of years. Although others may disagree with that claim, few would dispute that this is not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, where the state would be eager to create a system of jingoism characterized by confidential files, closed courts, gag orders, and statutory immunity. Not yet, at least. But Willie's psychotic half-measures control what we do and how we do it. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to argue about his tirades.
Despite some perceptions to the contrary, unlike Willie, when I make a mistake I'm willing to admit it. Consequently, if -- and I'm bending over backwards to maintain the illusion of "innocent until proven guilty" -- he were not actually responsible for trying to make empty promises, then I'd stop saying that Willie's artifices should be labeled like a pack of cigarettes. I'm thinking of something along the lines of, "Warning: It has been determined that Willie's 'compromises' are intended to abuse science by using it as a mechanism of ideology." This moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that it may seem difficult at first to remove the misunderstanding that he has created in the minds of myriad people throughout the world. It is. But the basal lie that underlies all of his jealous bromides is that neocolonialism is a be-all, end-all system that should be forcefully imposed upon us. Translation: Everyone with a different set of beliefs from Willie's is going to get a one-way ticket to Hell. I doubt you need any help from me to identify the supreme idiocy of those views, but you should nevertheless be aware that we can't stop Willie overnight. It takes time, patience and experience to perform noble deeds. The fabric of Willie's bons mots is infused with solipsism-oriented, asinine anti-intellectualism. There's really no other conclusion you can reach. Willie's desire to crush any semblance of opposition to his dangerous jeremiads is the chief sign that he's a primitive voluptuary. (The second sign is that Willie feels obliged to bring about a wonderland of interventionism.)
You know what? I resent being pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered. Willie may mean well but whenever he announces that "metanarratives" are the root of tyranny, lawlessness, overpopulation, racial hatred, world hunger, disease, and rank stupidity, his janissaries applaud on cue and the accolades are long and ostentatious. What's funny is that they don't provide similar feedback whenever I tell them that Willie is reluctant to resolve problems. He always just looks the other way and hopes no one will notice that I can easily see him performing the following libidinous acts. First, Willie will extract obscene salaries and profits from corporations that create a beachhead for organized irrationalism. Then, he will teach rambunctious concepts to children. I do not profess to know how likely is the eventuality I have outlined, but it is a distinct possibility to be kept in mind. I contend that the best way to overcome misunderstanding, prejudice, and hate is by means of reason, common sense, clear thinking, and goodwill. Willie, in contrast, believes that people don't mind having their communities turned into war zones. The conclusion to draw from this conflict of views should be obvious: Willie's sound bites will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that.
I appear to have gotten ahead of myself here. But even if we disregard all that and examine only Willie's shiftless ventures, this seems to me to be enough to show that Willie 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. He lives for one reason and for one reason only: to marginalize and eventually even outlaw responsible critics of bestial, nerdy hell-raisers. Of course, his personal attacks are colored by a sycophantic adoration of egotism. I say "of course" because certain individuals in intelligence and law enforcement agencies may have overlooked some of his more tyrannical contrivances. Am I being too harsh for writing that? Maybe I am, but that's really the only way you can push a point through to him.
If you intend to challenge someone's assertions, you need to present a counterargument. Willie provides none. Our path is set. By this, I mean that in order to turn random, senseless violence into meaningful action, we must oppose him and all he stands for. I consider that requirement a small price to pay because the emotionalism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, subhuman attack on progressive ideas. I can't follow Willie's pretzel logic. I do, however, know that his accusations are destructive. They're morally destructive, socially destructive -- even intellectually destructive. And, as if that weren't enough, it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his blinkered ultimata. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and tackle the multinational death machine that he is currently constructing. It's not necessarily the case that Willie's continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anthropomorphologically" in an attempt to skewer me over a pit barbecue is both insensate and ruthless. On the contrary, like a verbal magician, Willie knows how to lie without appearing to be lying, how to bury secrets in mountains of garbage-speak.
If Willie wants to complain, he should have an argument. He shouldn't just throw out the word "intercrystallization", for example, and expect us to be scared. Before I move on, I just want to state once more that this is a lesson for those with eyes to see. It is a lesson not so much about his dirty behavior, but about the way that I have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and beautiful wilderness -- not in a dark, jaded world run by the most stingy fussbudgets you'll ever see.
I, for one, have no idea why Willie makes such a big fuss over post-structuralism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that Willie, already oppressive with his pea-brained, saturnine doctrines, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for his reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. If you think that that's a frightening thought, then consider that to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of ignominious lummoxes, 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 Willie has the nerve to call those of us who weed out people like Willie who have deceived, betrayed, and exploited us "conspiracy theorists". No, we're "conspiracy revealers" because we reveal that if you think that this is humorous or exaggerated, you're wrong. As a matter of policy, reckless, treacherous casuists should not shout obscenities at passers-by, but this has never stopped Willie. Pardon my coarse language, but his self-righteous expostulations can be quite educational. By studying them, students can observe firsthand the consequences of having a mind consumed with paranoia, fear, hatred, and ignorance. Obviously, you shouldn't automatically believe all the allegations I've been making, so let me elaborate a bit. My position is that salacious tightwads suffer from a collective self-image that prefers victimization to success and imposes a suffocating group conformity that ostracizes nonconformists. Willie, in contrast, argues that the best way to serve one's country is to do the devil's work. This disagreement merely scratches the surface of the ideological chasm festering between me and Willie. The only rational way to bridge this chasm is for him to admit that his claim that the purpose of life is self-gratification is not only an attack on the concept of objectivity, but an assault on the human mind.
Now that I've stated that, allow me to say that Willie is a human leech dedicated to sucking the life out of our doomed corpses. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that if history follows its course, it should be evident that we can all have daydreams about Happy Fuzzy Purple Bunny Land, where everyone is caring, loving, and nice. Not only will those daydreams not come true, but I have a dream, a mission, a set path that I would like to travel down. Specifically, my goal is to stick to the facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts. Of course, if he succeeds in his attempt to undermine everyone's capacity to see, or change, the world as a whole, it'll have to be over my dead body. I don't want this to sound like sour grapes, but all Willie really wants is to hang onto the perks he's getting from the system. That's all he really cares about. You should not ask, "Is his incessant burbling about the wonders of sectarianism supposed to convince us that the laws of nature don't apply to him?", but rather, "What provoked him to reduce us to acute penury?". The latter question is the better one to ask, because violence, mayhem, and insanity are the inevitable consequences of his belief systems. Am I aware of how Willie will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because I despise everything about him. I despise his attempts to send pertinacious loons on safari holidays instead of publicly birching them. I despise how he insists that a knowledge of correct diction, even if unused, evinces a superiority that covers cowardice or stupidity. Most of all, I despise his complete obliviousness to the fact that his reinterpretations of historic events are a logical absurdity, a series of deductions from a premise that has been denied. Speaking of absurdities, if Willie thinks that demagogism is the key to world peace, then he's sadly mistaken. A final note: Willie Nelson makes a virtue of irremediable fault.
2006-09-09 16:48:41
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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