Nokarot
07-02-2006, 07:00 PM
To my many friends, both known and unknown, wherever you may be, I submit these thoughts for your consideration. Let me cut to the chase: I frequently wish to tell Myspace that like a grumpy moocher, it will scapegoat easy, unpopular targets, thereby diverting responsibility from more culpable parties. But being a generally genteel person, however, I always bite my tongue. Whereas Myspace claims that its projects enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, I claim that its thesis is that the moon is made of green cheese. That's entirely drugged-out, you say? Good; that means you're finally catching on. The next step is to observe that Myspace claims that censorship could benefit us. Predictably, it cites no hard data for that claim. This is because no such data exist. While I insist that Myspace has every right to its neurotic, brown-nosing opinions, if you think that this is humorous or exaggerated, you're wrong. I believe, way deep down, that we need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with Myspace. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that Myspace contends that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Myspace itself) and that, therefore, Myspace's opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality. This bizarre pattern of thinking leads to strange conclusions. For example, it convinces vulgar cheapskates (as distinct from the treasonous, subversive anthropophagi who prefer to chirrup while hopping from cloud to cloud in Nephelococcygia) that going through the motions of working is the same as working. In reality, contrariwise, Myspace, already oppressive with its prudish memoirs, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for its 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 Myspace can get away with lies (e.g., that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to its spineless, myopic prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers) because the average person cannot imagine anyone lying so brazenly. Not one person in a hundred will actually check out the facts for himself and discover that Myspace is lying. The tone of Myspace's imprecations is so far removed from reality, I find myself questioning what color the sky must be in Myspace's world.
Myspace and I disagree about our civic duties. I maintain that we must do our utmost to take personal action and counteract the subtle, but pervasive, social message that says that it's inappropriate to teach children right from wrong as expeditiously as possible. Myspace, on the other hand, believes that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. I like to speak of Myspace as "blinkered". That's a reasonable term to use, I assert, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, we must refute its arguments line by line and claim by claim. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to direct your attention in some detail to the vast and irreparable calamity brought upon us by Myspace. I don't like to repeat myself, but those of us who are too lazy or disinterested to overcome the obstacles that people like Myspace establish have no right to complain when it and its lickspittles regulate incendiarism.
To say that human life is expendable is noisome nonsense and untrue to boot. The point is that if everyone spent just five minutes a day thinking about ways to get my message about Myspace out to the world, we'd all be a lot better off. Is five minutes a day too much to ask for the promise of a better tomorrow? I hope not, but then again, Myspace wants us to think of it as a do-gooder. Keep in mind, though, that it wants to "do good" with other people's money and often with other people's lives. If Myspace really wanted to be a do-gooder, it could start by admitting that its jokes always follow the same pattern. It puts the desired twist on the actual facts, ignores inconvenient facts, and invents as many new "facts" as necessary to convince us that truth is whatever your grievance group says it is.
Myspace's bedfellows get a thrill out of protesting. They have no idea what causes they're fighting for or against. For them, going down to the local protest, carrying a sign, hanging out with Myspace, and meeting some other covinous flimflammers is merely a social event. They're not even aware that Myspace's roorbacks may have been conceived in idealism, but they quickly degenerated into asinine classism. It's possible that I must, on principle, defy the international enslavement of entire peoples. However, I cannot speculate about that possibility here because I need to devote more space to a description of how Myspace's legatees think that Myspace commands an army of robots that live in the hollow center of the earth and produce earthquakes whenever they feel like shaking things up a bit on the surface. This is precisely the non-equation that Myspace is trying to patch together. What it's missing, as usual, is that its method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "Myspace-ism". It is a putrid and avowedly oleaginous philosophy that aims to encourage every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom. I do not wish to evaluate jujuism here, though I aver that everything Myspace tells you is a lie. For proof of this fact, I must point out that Myspace has convinced a lot of people that the Universe belongs to it by right. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation.
While I don't question Myspace's motives, and I certainly understand the frustrations of its agents provocateurs, its goons believe that the few of us who complain regularly about its paroxysms are simply spoiling the party. Although it is perhaps impossible to change the perspective of those who have such beliefs, I wish nevertheless to snap its shills out of their trance. There's only one proper consideration here: the harm that'll indisputably be caused if Myspace's allowed to crush people to the earth and then claim the right to trample on them forever because they are prostrate. All else is abstract, depraved, intellectual hooey. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that Myspace apparently can't tell the difference between flirting and sexual harassment, between white lies and perjury, or between a schoolboy carrying a butter knife and carrying a switchblade.
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Myspace and I disagree about our civic duties. I maintain that we must do our utmost to take personal action and counteract the subtle, but pervasive, social message that says that it's inappropriate to teach children right from wrong as expeditiously as possible. Myspace, on the other hand, believes that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. I like to speak of Myspace as "blinkered". That's a reasonable term to use, I assert, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, we must refute its arguments line by line and claim by claim. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to direct your attention in some detail to the vast and irreparable calamity brought upon us by Myspace. I don't like to repeat myself, but those of us who are too lazy or disinterested to overcome the obstacles that people like Myspace establish have no right to complain when it and its lickspittles regulate incendiarism.
To say that human life is expendable is noisome nonsense and untrue to boot. The point is that if everyone spent just five minutes a day thinking about ways to get my message about Myspace out to the world, we'd all be a lot better off. Is five minutes a day too much to ask for the promise of a better tomorrow? I hope not, but then again, Myspace wants us to think of it as a do-gooder. Keep in mind, though, that it wants to "do good" with other people's money and often with other people's lives. If Myspace really wanted to be a do-gooder, it could start by admitting that its jokes always follow the same pattern. It puts the desired twist on the actual facts, ignores inconvenient facts, and invents as many new "facts" as necessary to convince us that truth is whatever your grievance group says it is.
Myspace's bedfellows get a thrill out of protesting. They have no idea what causes they're fighting for or against. For them, going down to the local protest, carrying a sign, hanging out with Myspace, and meeting some other covinous flimflammers is merely a social event. They're not even aware that Myspace's roorbacks may have been conceived in idealism, but they quickly degenerated into asinine classism. It's possible that I must, on principle, defy the international enslavement of entire peoples. However, I cannot speculate about that possibility here because I need to devote more space to a description of how Myspace's legatees think that Myspace commands an army of robots that live in the hollow center of the earth and produce earthquakes whenever they feel like shaking things up a bit on the surface. This is precisely the non-equation that Myspace is trying to patch together. What it's missing, as usual, is that its method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "Myspace-ism". It is a putrid and avowedly oleaginous philosophy that aims to encourage every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom. I do not wish to evaluate jujuism here, though I aver that everything Myspace tells you is a lie. For proof of this fact, I must point out that Myspace has convinced a lot of people that the Universe belongs to it by right. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation.
While I don't question Myspace's motives, and I certainly understand the frustrations of its agents provocateurs, its goons believe that the few of us who complain regularly about its paroxysms are simply spoiling the party. Although it is perhaps impossible to change the perspective of those who have such beliefs, I wish nevertheless to snap its shills out of their trance. There's only one proper consideration here: the harm that'll indisputably be caused if Myspace's allowed to crush people to the earth and then claim the right to trample on them forever because they are prostrate. All else is abstract, depraved, intellectual hooey. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that Myspace apparently can't tell the difference between flirting and sexual harassment, between white lies and perjury, or between a schoolboy carrying a butter knife and carrying a switchblade.
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