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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mojo Jojo: [QB] I feel this is the perfect thread to complain about certain recent issues that have arisen here, at Solar Eclipse. I would like to focus on the major economic, social, and political forces that provide the setting for the expression of a macabre agenda. In the text that follows, when I quote from Flare Sci-Fi Forums, I will use the word "excrement" in place of another word which is now apparently permitted in general circulation publications, and which I have edited out. Flare Sci-Fi Forums extricates itself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. There are some simple truths in this world. First, you should think of this letter as a clarion call for us to shoo Flare Sci-Fi Forums away like the annoying bug that it is. Second, Flare Sci-Fi Forums wants a central organization for its international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other countries -- a haven for petty anthropophagi and a university for budding surly, unscrupulous saboteurs. And finally, to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of blasphemous manipulators of the public mind, 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 Flare Sci-Fi Forums somehow manages to get away with spreading lies (black is white and night is day), distortions (it is forward-looking, open-minded, and creative), and misplaced idealism (the Queen of England heads up the international drug cartel). However, when I try to respond in kind, I get censored faster than you can say "disadvantageousness". While some information provided by Flare Sci-Fi Forums's understrappers may be factual, other material is unsubstantiated rumor or vainglorious fairy tales. Because we have the determination to see the truth prevail, we must never forget that an organization that wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range consequences of its obiter dicta. Flare Sci-Fi Forums has never had that faculty. It always does what it wants to do at the moment and figures it'll be able to lie itself out of any problems that arise. Pardon my coarse language, but Flare Sci-Fi Forums likes to compare its machinations to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however, doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them. Flare Sci-Fi Forums's intimates are unbridled at best, the downfall of society at worst. Excuse me; that's not entirely correct. What I meant to say is that we find among narrow and uneducated minds the belief that Flare Sci-Fi Forums's declamations prevent smallpox. This belief is due to a basic confusion, which can be cleared up simply by stating that if you look back over some of my older letters, you'll see that I predicted that Flare Sci-Fi Forums would promote promiscuity and obscene language. And, as I predicted, it did. But you know, that was not a difficult prediction to make. Anyone who has bothered to learn even a little about Flare Sci-Fi Forums could have made the same prediction. Does Flare Sci-Fi Forums actually think its arguments through, or does it just chug along on its computer writing about whatever trite ethics happen to suit its needs that day? I ask, because Flare Sci-Fi Forums's writings exhibit a disregard, not merely for style, but for the truth. Now that's a rather crude and simplistic statement, and, in many cases, it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it unquestionably expresses how if Flare Sci-Fi Forums can't stand the heat, it should get out of the kitchen. In the past, I've said that I surely suspect that we need to do more to draw an accurate portrait of Flare Sci-Fi Forums's ideological alignment. Were I to make such a generalization today, it would contain a few "weasel words" -- an escape hatch or that indispensable cliche that all of the anxious sighing, longing, and hoping of Flare Sci-Fi Forums's heart is directed to a time when psychotic ogres can spread hatred, animosity, and divisiveness. But because the union of theory and practice, in Flare Sci-Fi Forums's hands, becomes a union of pomposity and fascism, I am not ready to retract my conviction or to recant error. Flare Sci-Fi Forums truly believes that arriving at a true state of comprehension is too difficult and/or time-consuming. I hope you realize that that's just a beer-guzzling pipe dream from a sententious, gruesome pipe, and that in the real world, Flare Sci-Fi Forums's utterances are built on lies, and they depend on make-believe for their continuation. To state it in a more sophisticated manner, just because Flare Sci-Fi Forums and its functionaries don't like being labelled as "perfidious cretins" or "brutal liars and cheats" doesn't mean the shoe doesn't fit. If Flare Sci-Fi Forums feels ridiculed by all the attention my letters are bringing it, then that's just too darn bad. Its arrogance has brought this upon itself. As I gaze into my crystal ball, I see that Flare Sci-Fi Forums's supporters will curry favor with insane simpletons using a barrage of flattery, especially recognition of their "value," their "importance," their "educational mission," and other crude nonsense, sometime soon. Although it's easy to sit in the press box and criticize, many people who follow Flare Sci-Fi Forums's claims have come to the erroneous conclusion that the average working-class person can't see through Flare Sci-Fi Forums's chicanery. The truth of the matter is that it says that unfounded attacks on character, loads of hyperbole, and fallacious information are the best way to make a point. That's a stupid thing to say. It's like saying that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. By toning down its commentaries, many more people are exposed to Flare Sci-Fi Forums's slovenly, sanctimonious message, convinced by its passion, and seduced by its simplistic answers to complex social problems. If Flare Sci-Fi Forums has any children, I recommend that it teach them about love, trust, cooperation, community, reason, negotiation, and compromise rather than violence, paranoia, and fear. Quite simply, I've tried explaining to Flare Sci-Fi Forums's disciples, who are legion, that Flare Sci-Fi Forums enjoys the sense of control that comes from forcing someone else to do things the way it wants them done, but it is clear to me in talking to them that they have no comprehension of what I'm saying. I might as well be talking to creatures from Mars. Every concert that Flare Sci-Fi Forums attends rapidly degenerates into a free-for-all of slam dancing and scattered fistfights. What are the lessons for us in this? First, it's that faced by such despicable perfidy and the frustration of not being able to respond to the same audiences as it has had, I must certainly call for a return to the values that made this country great. And second, I find that some of its choices of words in its perorations would not have been mine. For example, I would have substituted "destructive" for "physicophilosophical" and "uncontrollable" for "galvanocauterization." Perhaps if Flare Sci-Fi Forums thought about it, it'd realize that it is more than a purely historical question to ask, "How did its reign of terror start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we must ask, "Why do we put up with it?" I can give you only my best estimate, made after long and anxious consideration, but I do not pose as an expert in these matters. I can say only that it is capable of only two things, namely whining and underhanded tricks. As soon as Flare Sci-Fi Forums's vicegerents confuse, disorient, and disunify, they will have destroyed the basis for their own existence, as if it made any difference. Unless we convince the government to clamp down hard on Flare Sci-Fi Forums's pleas, our whole social structure will gradually disintegrate and crumble into ruins. Don't kid yourself: I recently received some mail in which the writer stated, "It seems a bit late in the day for Flare Sci-Fi Forums to promote peace, prosperity, and quality of life, both here and abroad." I included that quote not because it is exceptional in any way, but rather, because it is typical of much of the mail I receive. I included it to show you that I'm not the only one who thinks that it is not only immoral, but amoral. It would be nice to say that duplicitous, frightful immoralism doesn't exist anymore, but we all know that it does. Flare Sci-Fi Forums practically breaks its arm patting itself on the back when it says, "It takes courage to go down into the muddy trenches and do the entire country a grave disservice." As if that were something to be proud of. The brutish nepotism in Flare Sci-Fi Forums's jeremiads is not always explicit. But the problems with Flare Sci-Fi Forums's put-downs don't end there. Flare Sci-Fi Forums's off-the-cuff comments deserve to be criticized because they let down ladders which the maladroit, witless, and despicable scramble to climb. It may sound strange to Flare Sci-Fi Forums when I say that it is the most savage, condescending, and wayward waste of institutional material in our society, but I should note that I don't need to tell you that we can't let Flare Sci-Fi Forums enrich itself at taxpayer expense. That should be self-evident. What is less evident is that if we don't soon tell Flare Sci-Fi Forums to stop what it's doing, it will proceed with its nit-picky warnings, considerably emboldened by our lack of resistance. We will have tacitly given Flare Sci-Fi Forums our permission to do so. Apparently, Flare Sci-Fi Forums not only lies, but it brags about its lying to its expositors. Even giving Flare Sci-Fi Forums the benefit of the doubt, it managed to convince a bunch of unforgiving cutthroats to help it violate its pledge not to force us to tailor our treatises just to suit its power-hungry whims. What was the quid pro quo there? I mean, all the deals it makes are strictly one-way. Flare Sci-Fi Forums gets all the rights, and the other party gets all the obligations. Isn't it historically demonstrated that one of the most mind-numbing mysteries for those of us who don't like Flare Sci-Fi Forums is trying to understand people who do? I ask, because if you want to hide something from it, you just have to put it in a book. And that, in my view, is our real problem. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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