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« on: November 20, 2016, 09:31:36 AM »
I realize that everyone is entitled to his opinion, and I respect this. I also hope that you will all respect mine as you read this letter. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. ZeÜberMedic! has asked his dupes to insist that our society be infested with expansionism, cameralism, antagonism, and an impressive swarm of other “isms”. (There's no explicit mention of making nearby communities victims of environmental degradation and toxic waste dumping, but that's there too if you read between the lines.) This scares me because what we're involved in with ZeÜberMedic! is not a game. It's the most serious possible business, and every serious person—every person with any shred of a sense of responsibility—must concern himself with it.
We are a nation of prostitutes. By this I mean that as long as we are fat, warm, and dry we don't care what ZeÜberMedic! does. It is precisely that lack of caring that explains why many people lie. ZeÜberMedic!, however, lies with such ease it's troubling. He is currently limited to shrieking and spitting when he's confronted with inconvenient facts. Faster than you can say “phytopaleontological”, however, ZeÜberMedic! is likely to switch to some sort of “put some pesky harijan up on a pedestal” approach to draw our attention away from such facts. He can go on saying that desperadoism can quell the hatred and disorder in our society but the rest of us have serious problems to deal with that preclude our indulging in such peevish dreams just now.
If ZeÜberMedic! had even a shred of intellectual integrity, he'd admit that if his plans for the future were intended as a joke, he forgot to include the punchline. Every time he gets caught trying to create massive civil unrest, he promises he'll never do so again. Subsequently, his cronies always jump in and explain that he really shouldn't be blamed even if he does because, as they warrant, you and I are objects for him to use then casually throw away and forget like old newsprint that's performed its duty catching bird droppings. When I say that ZeÜberMedic!'s rodomontades defy common sense, I don't just mean that he wants to spread ruin widely through the land, that he wants to devise impudent scams to get money for nothing, or that he wants to detach individuals from traditional sources of strength and identity—family, class, private associations. Sure, ZeÜberMedic! undoubtedly wants all that, but he also wants much more. He wants to set the hoops through which we all must jump. Innocent children have been brainwashed by ZeÜberMedic!'s stroppy, beer-guzzling epigrams. That's all I have to say. Thank you for reading this letter.
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