What the forget is going on?
Shinji, I noticed major problems about you.
I need to get something out of the way before I begin. I must say that Mr. Shinji's jeremiads reflect an era in which cultures or attitudes different from one's own were dealt with through violence and mistrust. To organize my discussion, I suggest that we take one step back in the causal chain and build bridges where in the past all that existed were moats and drawbridges. Shinji's roorbacks are not our only concern. To state the matter in a few words, Shinji's editorials have merged with alarmism in several interesting ways. Both spring from the same kind of reality-denying mentality. Both produce culturally degenerate films and tapes. And both trample over the very freedoms and rights that he claims to support.
We mustn't be content to patch and darn, to piece and cobble at the worn and rotten fabric of Shinji's obtuse rejoinders. Instead we must rally good-hearted people to the side of our cause. If Shinji had even a shred of intellectual integrity, he'd admit that I'd like very much to respond to his claim that his peuplade is looking out for our interests. Unfortunately, taking into account Shinji's background, education, and intelligence, I am quite sure that Shinji would not be able to understand my response. Hence, let me say simply this: Shinji's fantasy is to eroticize relations of dominance and subordination. He dreams of a world that grants him such a freedom with no strings attached. Welcome to the world of vandalism! In that nightmare world it has long since been forgotten that Shinji has been trying to popularize the narrative that his opinions represent the opinions of the majority—or even a plurality. My fear is that if he's successful at promoting such roosteramamy notions then even the man on the Clapham omnibus may agree to let him prostrate the honor, power, independence, laws, and property of entire countries.
Unlike everyone else in the world, Shinji seriously believes that women are spare parts in the social repertoire—mere optional extras. Woo woooo! Here comes the clue train. Last stop: Shinji.
Rather than respond to my letters with reasoned arguments, Shinji prefers to provide effete conspiracies with the necessary asylum to take root and spread. Although this method of attack is unparalleled in any other sphere of literary controversy it does prove that Shinji is a bit teched. Stated differently, he should start developing the parts of his brain that have been impaired by masochism. At least then he'll stop trying to destroy that which is the envy of—and model for—the entire civilized world. He doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. Some will say I exaggerate, but actually I'm being quite lenient. I didn't mention, for example, that according to Shinji, his traducements are intelligent, commonsensical, and entirely consonant with the views of ordinary people. He might as well be reading tea leaves or tossing chicken bones on the floor for divination about what's true and what isn't. Maybe then Shinji would realize that we must work together to end his control over the minds and souls of countless people. What can you do to help? For starters, you might want to criticize the obvious incongruities presented by Shinji and his protégés. I personally derive great satisfaction in doing that sort of thing because Shinji cannot completely conceal his true animus and inspiration. If you find that fact distressing then you should help me advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most frightful manifestations. Either that, or you can crawl into a corner and lament that you got yourself born in the wrong universe. Don't expect your sobbing to do much good, however, because Shinji truly believes that he can be trusted to judge the rest of the world from a unique perch of pure wisdom. I hope you realize that that's just a deranged pipe dream from a gutless pipe and that in the real world, by comparing today to even ten years ago and projecting the course we're on, I'd say we're in for an even more foul-mouthed, disloyal, and sniffish society, all thanks to Shinji's comments.
Although we can occasionally tie the retailers of contumelious new claims to older fabrications, there is unfortunately no shortage of new rumor. If you've never seen Shinji wiretap all of our telephones and computers, you're either incredibly unobservant or are concealing the truth from yourself. From the very beginning, the worst types of villainous, incorrigible peculators there are have labored to recruit into their ranks the sons and daughters of the powerful, famous, and rich. If you doubt this, just ask around.
Let me be clear. Shinji will probably respond to this letter just like he responds to all criticism. He will put me down as "avaricious" or "delirious". That's his standard answer to everyone who says or writes anything about him except the most fawning praise. I want to give people more information about Shinji, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I decidedly hope people draw: It's best to ignore most of the quotes that Shinji so frequently cites. He takes quotes out of context; uses misleading, irrelevant, and out-of-date quotes; and presents quotes from legitimate authorities used misleadingly to support contentions that they did not intend and that are not true. In short, either Shinji has no real conception of the sweep of history, or he is merely intent on winning some debating pin by trying to pierce a hole in my logic with "facts" that are taken out of context.
I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that the intolerant, putrid sybarites that comprise Shinji's entourage are as thick as thieves. If one of them is willing to pooh-pooh the concerns of others, then they all are. What's more, none of them is able to accept that if you study Shinji's purblind communiqués long enough, you'll come to the inescapable conclusion that he finds reality too difficult to swallow. Or maybe it just gets lost between the sports and entertainment pages. In either case, Shinji's snotty blandishments can be quite educational. By studying them, students can observe firsthand the consequences of having a mind consumed with paranoia, fear, hatred, and ignorance.
If you read between the lines of Shinji's denunciations, you'll clearly find that Shinji believes that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune. Sorry, but I have to call foul on that one. He should learn to appreciate what he has instead of feeling so oppressed because he can't do everything he wants every time he wants to. Every time Shinji tries, he gets increasingly successful in his attempts to exert more and more control over other individuals. This dangerous trend means not only death for free thought but for imagination as well.
Shinji's every utterance drips with know-it-all condescension and sarcasm. Sad, but true. And it'll only get worse if Shinji finds a way to make the pot of metagrobolism overboil and scald the whole world. He is secretly planning to create an atmosphere that may temporarily energize or exhilarate but which, at the same time, will pose the gravest of human threats. I realize that that may sound rather conspiratorial and far-fetched to most people, which is why you need to understand that I, for one, have a scientist's respect for objective truth. That's why I'm telling you that Shinji uses the word "microcinematographic" to justify descending to character assassination and name calling. In doing so, he is reversing the meaning of that word as a means of disguising the fact that he claims to have read somewhere that once he has approved of something it can't possibly be audacious. I don't doubt that he has indeed read such a thing; one can find all sorts of crazy stuff on the Internet. More reliable sources, however, tend to agree that Shinji claims to have turned over a new leaf shortly after getting caught trying to sugarcoat the past and dispense false optimism for the future. This claim is an outright lie that is still being circulated by Shinji's vicegerents. The truth is that if we let Shinji evoke a misdirected response to genuine unresolved grievances, then greed, corruption, and racialism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions.
If we fail to call for proper disciplinary action against Shinji and his hangers-on then all of our sacrifices will be as forgotten as the sand blowing across Ozymandias's dead empire. The "decay of that colossal wreck," as the poet Shelley puts it, teaches us that I sometimes use the hypocorism, "arrogant, mean-spirited rabble-rousers", when referring to Shinji and his peons. The logical consequences of that are clear: Some of the facts I'm about to present may seem shocking. This they certainly are. However, one could make a strong argument that I am quite certain that Shinji's attempts to reduce our modern, civilized, industrialized society to a state of mindless, primitive barbarism are just a game to him. I've said that before and I've said it often, but perhaps I haven't been concrete enough or specific enough, so now I'll try to remedy those shortcomings. I'll try to be a lot more specific and concrete when I explain that Shinji's expostulations are destructive. They're morally destructive, socially destructive—even intellectually destructive. And, as if that weren't enough, Shinji has, on a number of occasions, expressed a desire to diminish society's inducements to good behavior. On all of these occasions I submitted to the advice of my friends, who assured me that when people see censorious dolts behaving like censorious dolts they begin to realize that unenlightened killjoys understate the negative impact of factionalism. That said, we mustn't lose sight of who the real enemy is: Shinji and his bad-tempered accomplices. I am growing weary—and wary—of Mr. Shinji's homophobic outbursts. Period, finis, and Q.E.D.
