Kosh

I just want a little editorial balance here. What follows is the story of how Polycarp can be so rich in the rhetoric of
democracy and yet so poor in its implementation. You should not ask, "How much longer can we tolerate his
temperamental half-measures before the whole country collectively throws up?", but rather, "To what degree is he going to
wreck our country, derail our civilization, and threaten the human race with extinction?". The latter question is the better
one to ask, because it's really not bloody-mindedness that compels me to expose his allegations for what they really are.
It's my sense of responsibility to you, the reader.

Why does Polycarp want to muster enough force to turn over our country to the most abominable politicos I've ever seen?
Psychologists might suggest that what may seem insignificant or humorous to him is often hurtful and confusing to others.
Counselors might think that we must help you reflect and reexamine your views on Polycarp if we are to improve the lot of
humankind. Sociologists might point out that we need to lead each other towards the understanding that the account I have
just given of Polycarp's viewpoints honestly shows that his appeal to metagrobolism is dangerous stuff. I agree with the
above assessments, but even when Polycarp isn't lying, he'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 take control of a nation and
suck it dry. Now there will, no doubt, be untrustworthy utopians out there who will ask, "So what if his hired goons
supplant one form of injustice with another? That won't affect me." Such crippled thinking is the best example there is as to
why we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay,
cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Polycarp.

Perhaps the cardinal rule of Polycarp's rodomontades is that disorderly gnosticism is the only thing that matters, but
remember that I want to clarify and correct some of the inaccuracies present in his perversions. I want to do this not
because I need to tack another line onto my résumé, but because he refuses to come to terms with reality. Polycarp
prefers instead to live in a fantasy world of rationalization and hallucination. I recently informed him that his stooges palm
off our present situation as the compelling ground for worldwide isolationism. Polycarp said he'd "look further into the
matter." Well, not too much further; after all, I wonder what would happen if Polycarp really did take credit for others'
accomplishments. There's a spooky thought. You shouldn't let him intimidate you. You shouldn't let him push you around.
We're the ones who are right, not Polycarp. I close this letter along the same lines it opened on: The thought that someone,
somewhere, might reveal some shocking facts about Polycarp's refrains is anathema to Polycarp.

Pantera

Kosh, I accuse you of using the <a href="http://hugin.sigusr1.org/~pakin/complaint" target="_blank">Automatic Complaint Generator</a>.

Kosh

Moi?

I have been meaning to write this letter for some time now and, in light of recent developments, I believe it is appropriate. In the text that follows, I won't bother discussing the flaws in the automatic complaint generator's logic, because it indubitably doesn't use any logic. You don't have to say anything specifically about the automatic complaint generator for it to start attacking you. All you have to do is dare to imply that I should draw a picture of what we conceive of under the word "lithochromatographic".

If one accepts the framework I've laid out here, it follows that I want to thank the automatic complaint generator for its litanies. They give me an excellent opportunity to illustrate just how libidinous the automatic complaint generator can be. To most people, the idea that stereotyping and victim-blaming is not more respectable when it is performed by a member of the group being demeaned is so endemic, so long ingrained, that when others conclude that it is living testimony to the featherbrained attitudes that spit on sacred icons, this merely seems to be affirming an obvious truth. By and large, if I try really, really hard, I can almost see why the automatic complaint generator would want to infiltrate the media with the express purpose of disseminating offensive information.

I don't like to repeat myself, but the automatic complaint generator is inherently drugged-out, wayward, and insincere. Oh, and it also has a pigheaded mode of existence. In its annual report on headstrong incidents, the government concluded that if I said that the automatic complaint generator is a model organization, I'd be a liar. But I'd be being totally honest if I said that I correctly predicted that it would devalue me as a person. Alas, I didn't think it'd do that so effectively -- or so soon. Here's an eye-opener for you: I recently overheard a couple of two-faced scatterbrains say that people are pawns to be used and manipulated. Here, again, we encounter the blurred thinking that is characteristic of this the automatic complaint generator-induced era of slogans and propaganda.

If you're interested in the finagling, double-dealing, chicanery, cheating, cajolery, cunning, rascality, and abject villainy by which the automatic complaint generator may work hand-in-glove with irascible traitors when you least expect it, then you'll want to consider the following very carefully. You'll especially want to consider that prudence is no vice. Cowardice -- especially the automatic complaint generator's satanic form of it -- is. The automatic complaint generator's op-ed pieces will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that. The automatic complaint generator must think that being reckless entitles one to elevate the automatic complaint generator's screeds to prominence as epistemological principles. I have a New Year's resolution for the automatic complaint generator: It should pick up a book before it jumps to the quasi-superficial conclusion that its opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality. Is the automatic complaint generator's head really buried too deep in the sand to know that any correspondence between what it says and the truth is purely coincidental? It's an interesting question, and its examination will help us understand how the automatic complaint generator's policies work. Let me start by providing evidence that when the automatic complaint generator tells us that the worst types of xenophobic con artists there are are more deserving of honor than our nation's war heroes, it somehow fails to mention that villainous, abysmal grizzlers can't even agree among themselves as to how homicidal it is. It fails to mention that it should not be allowed to operate heavy machinery, specifically, its ego. And it fails to mention that it refers to a variety of things using the word "saccharomucilaginous". Translating this bit of jargon into English isn't easy. Basically, it's saying that the rest of us are an inferior group of people, fit only to be enslaved, beaten, and butchered at the whim of our betters. At any rate, at no time in the past did bleeding-heart mob bosses shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. The automatic complaint generator should think about how its ethics lead disruptive, ethically bankrupt gits to progressively narrow the sphere of human freedom. If the automatic complaint generator doesn't want to think that hard, perhaps it should just keep quiet.

The real question here is not, "How will the automatic complaint generator's sycophants react when they discover that the automatic complaint generator wants to give rise to apolaustic perjurers?". The real question is rather, "How laughable can it be?" To rephrase that question, where are the people who are willing to stand up and acknowledge that when it repeated over and over the rumor that anyone who resists it deserves to be crushed, its grunts, never too difficult to fool, swallowed it? I'll tell you the answer in a moment. But first, let me just say that it's easy for it to bombastically declaim my proposals. But when is the automatic complaint generator going to provide an alternative proposal of its own? The automatic complaint generator doesn't want you to know the answer to that question; it wants to ensure you don't build a true community of spirit and purpose based on mutual respect and caring. The automatic complaint generator is typical of quixotic maniacs in its wild invocations to the irrational, the magic, and the fantastic to dramatize its stances. I've heard of wrongheaded things like gnosticism and alcoholism. But I've also heard of things like nonviolence, higher moralities, and treating all beings as ends in and of themselves -- ideas which the automatic complaint generator's ignorant, unthinking, resentful brain is too small to understand. I want to get us out of the hammerlock that the automatic complaint generator is holding us in. But first, let me pose an abstract question. Why can't the automatic complaint generator simply enjoy the fruits of its own labors and let other people enjoy the fruits of theirs? Any honest person who takes the time to think about that question will be forced to conclude that the automatic complaint generator and I disagree about our civic duties. I suspect that we must do our utmost to seek some structure in which the cacophony introduced by its ideologies might be systematized, reconciled, and made rational as expeditiously as possible. The automatic complaint generator, on the other hand, believes that human life is expendable. Although the automatic complaint generator is laughing up its sleeve at us, we are here to gain our voice in this world, and whether or not the automatic complaint generator approves, we will continue to be heard.