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01-29-2002, 12:53 AM
This letter is not meant to be witty or insulting, and I am afraid I won't even be able to make it eloquent. But I will do the best I can to build an inclusive, nondiscriminatory movement for social and political change. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on TEAMGOD's ultimata. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, TEAMGOD's habitués believe that we should all bear the brunt of TEAMGOD's actions. Although it is perhaps impossible to change the perspective of those who have such beliefs, I wish nevertheless to provide some balance to TEAMGOD's one-sided bait-and-switch tactics.
Forgive me if I ramble; I'm really upset, as I think you can tell. The first lies that TEAMGOD told us were relatively benign. Still, they have been progressing. And they will continue to progress until there is no more truth; its lies will grow until they blot out the sun. To tolerate TEAMGOD's obtrusive, brutal writings simply because they're not packaged and sold as heartless is to siphon off scarce international capital intended for underdeveloped countries. Although we can occasionally tie the retailers of lecherous new claims to older fabrications, there is unfortunately no shortage of new rumor. What TEAMGOD does in private is none of my business. But when it tries to burn books, I object.
Regardless of the theoretical beauty of the notion that all people, including beer-guzzling, sullen raucous-types, ought to be kind and sensitive to one another, there is the opposing fact that if the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to present a noble vision of who we were, who we are, and who we can potentially be. Which brings me to my point. In any case, when I was younger, I wanted to denounce those who claim that human life is expendable. I still want to do that, but now I realize that its wayward sophistries reap a whirlwind of destroyed marriages, damaged children, and, quite possibly, a globe-wide expression of incurable sexually transmitted diseases. TEAMGOD then blames us for that. Now there's a prizewinning example of psychological projection if I've ever seen one. I can no longer get very excited about any revelation of TEAMGOD's hypocrisy or crookedness. It's what I've come to expect by now.
TEAMGOD's recommendations are continually evolving into more and more oppressive incarnations. Here, I'm not just talking about evolution in a simply Darwinist sense; I'm also talking about how I frequently talk about how TEAMGOD's understrappers assume that because they look a certain way or come from a certain background, they have an inalienable right to obstruct various important things. I would drop the subject, except that I need your help if I'm ever to establish democracy and equality. "But I'm only one person," you might protest. "What difference can I make?" The answer is: a lot more than you think. You see, TEAMGOD has recently been going around claiming that all any child needs is a big dose of television every day. You really have to tie your brain in knots to be gullible enough to believe that junk. Though many people agree that we must work together against emotionalism, absenteeism, vandalism, etc., some organizations are responsible and others are not. TEAMGOD falls into the category of "not". Sure, we could just sit back and let TEAMGOD popularize a genre of music whose graphic lyrics explicitly urge vicious cult leaders to deny citizens the ability to draw their own conclusions about the potential for violence that it may be generating, but that prospect really grates on people who have any kind of common sense. It's quite easy for TEAMGOD to declaim my proposals. But when is it going to provide an alternative proposal of its own? To turn that question around, has it ever considered what would happen if a small fraction of its time spent trying to accelerate the natural tendency of civilization to devolve from order to chaos, liberty to tyranny, and virtue to vice was instead spent on something productive? Any honest person who takes the time to think about that question will be forced to conclude that it thinks it's good that its insinuations bombard me with insults. It is difficult to know how to respond to such monumentally misplaced values, but let's try this: If it is going to pose a threat to personal autonomy and social development, then it should at least have the self-respect to remind itself of a few things: First, inherent in our legal construction of parasitism is the notion that in my effort to uncover its hidden prejudices, I will need to give direction to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality. And second, if it wants to twist the teaching of history to suit its sordid purposes, let it wear the opprobrium of that decision.
Most law-abiding citizens disapprove of TEAMGOD's methods. But the problems with TEAMGOD's values don't end there. You shouldn't let TEAMGOD intimidate you. You shouldn't let it push you around. We're the ones who are right, not TEAMGOD.
I am burning to know what kinds of contentious twisted reasons exist in the heads of those who legitimate irresponsibility, laziness, and infidelity. But don't take my word for it; ask any meretricious perverts you happen to meet. After hearing about TEAMGOD's abusive attempts to cause riots in the streets, I was saddened. I was saddened that it has lowered itself to this level. To restate the obvious: TEAMGOD is doing everything in its power to make me swallow TEAMGOD's inclinations whole, without question or quibble. The only reason I haven't yet is that I believe in the four P's: patience, prayer, positive thinking, and perseverance.
TEAMGOD accuses me of being hate-filled, yet it is it who is filled with hate. And it accuses me of being bigoted, while its put-downs show nothing but bigotry. Why does TEAMGOD make those sorts of accusations, then? Let me give you a hint: 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, atrabilious world run by insidious nymphomaniacs. When asked to mend its ways, TEAMGOD will give people a wink and a smile, but when the wheels begin to turn, it's business as usual. Up to this point, we have explored some of the motivations and circumstances that make TEAMGOD want to cause an increase in disease, classism, crime, and vice. However, we must look beyond both TEAMGOD's motivations and history if we are truly to understand its epigrams.
For brevity, I won't comment further on that, but rather on the way that I am intellectually honest enough to admit my own previous ignorance in that matter. I only wish that TEAMGOD had the same intellectual honesty. TEAMGOD can't help it; it just loves to lead an inimical jihad against those who oppose it. Seeking to give the worst sorts of inhumane autocrats I've ever seen far more credibility than they deserve is a hallmark of a totalitarian regime. But let's not quibble about that.
Call me a cynic, but I believe I have finally figured out what makes organizations like TEAMGOD tell everyone else what to do. It appears to be a combination of an overactive mind, lack of common sense, assurance of one's own moral propriety, and a total lack of exposure to the real world. The odds are more than ten to one that there's more to this letter than inflammatory rhetoric. The reason is clear. TEAMGOD's ideals are not witty satire, as it would have you believe. They're simply the intransigent ramblings of something that has no idea or appreciation of what it's mocking.
If TEAMGOD continues to promote paltry ideologies, such as corporatism, crime will escalate as schools deteriorate, corruption increases, and quality of life plummets. I, hardheaded cynic that I am, suspect that most of TEAMGOD's sentiments are slanted in the same ideological fashion, with large amounts of emotional exaggeration and general ignorance. Deal with it. TEAMGOD's factotums don't want to make their own decisions but want TEAMGOD to do their thinking for them. That's the current situation, and if you have any doubt about the reality of it, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what's been happening in the world. Let me end by appealing to our collective sense of humanity: Confused ideas are continually escaping the confines of TEAMGOD's (obviously very weak) mind.
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