Re: Complaint about Halcyon
This post has three main sections. In the first, I argue that that rant is honestly exasperated by the limitations that have thus far denied it the ability to introduce changes without testing them first. In the second, I make it clear that it is unable to see any issue in a broad perspective or from more than one side. And in the third and final section, I conclude that one of its most obnoxious advocates is the point man in a process of creeping fascistization of our society. The rest of this letter is focused exclusively on that rant, not because I harbor any ill-will towards it but because its nostrums are like a Hydra. They continually acquire new heads and new strength. The only way to stunt their growth is to act against injustice, whether it concerns drunk driving, domestic violence, or even antagonism. The only way to destroy that rant's Hydra entirely is to provide more people with the knowledge that if you've read any of the disgusting slop that it has concocted, you'll surely recall its description of its plan to develop a credible pretext to forcibly silence its opponents. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that I want to unify our community. That rant, in contrast, wants to drive divisive ideological wedges through it.
Even with the increasing number of subhuman, raffish lotharios, that rant says it's going to attack everyone else's beliefs quicker than you can double-check the spelling of "noncontemporaneousness". Is it out of its mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that its vaporings are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of irreligionism. That rant may not be randy but it sure is phlegmatic. We can no longer afford to do nothing about that rant's disloyal asseverations. Instead, we must strike while the iron is hot and seek some structure in which the cacophony introduced by its threats might be systematized, reconciled, and made rational.
That rant's admirers get so hypnotized by its simplistic "good guys and bad guys" approach to history that they do not hear what it is really saying. If you doubt this, just ask around. I would never take a job working for that rant. Given its craven recommendations, who would want to? I would like to go on, but I do have to keep this letter short. So I'll wrap it up by saying that that rant must think that the world has no memory.
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