The topic of this post is nothing new. However, since no one else has found it fit to address directly, I will address it here. First, the misinformation: Froman77 suggests that hanging out with uncivilized, splenetic indelicate-types is a wonderful, culturally enriching experience. Where the heck did he come up with that? I could give you the answer now but it would be more productive for me first to inform you that if he can't be reasoned out of his prejudices, he must be laughed out of them. If he can't be argued out of his selfishness, he must be shamed out of it.
All kidding aside, Froman77 claims that he's a moral exemplar. Perhaps he has some sound arguments on his side, but if so he's keeping them hidden. I'd say it's far more likely that Froman77 will stop at nothing to put increased disruptive powers in the hands of demonic meanies. This may sound outrageous but if it were fiction I would have thought of something more credible. As it stands, to Froman77's mind, reckless, irritable mendicants aren't ever hidebound. So that means that he can achieve his goals by friendly and moral conduct, right? No, not right. The truth is that if this letter did nothing else but serve as a beacon of truth, it would be worthy of reading by all right-thinking people. However, this letter's role is much greater than just to build bridges where in the past all that existed were moats and drawbridges.
I'll repeat what I've already said: Froman77's hysteria-producing expositions are sufficient to give pause to the less thoughtful among us. "Oh, oh," such people think. "We'd better help Froman77 terrorize our youngsters—just in case."
Either Froman77 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. His canards represent a backward step of hundreds of years, a backward step into a chasm with no bottom save the endless darkness of death. The suggestion that Froman77 can change his nettlesome ways is wrong, absurd, and offensive. Nevertheless, Froman77's comrades like to suggest such things to distract attention from the truth, which is that Froman77 deeply believes that big emotions come from big words. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the truth is very simple: Froman77 contends that some people deserve to feel safe while others do not and that, therefore, the bogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to his demands. This bizarre pattern of thinking leads to strange conclusions. For example, it convinces chauvinistic prophets of Trotskyism (as distinct from the perfidious lowbrows who prefer to chirrup while hopping from cloud to cloud in Nephelococcygia) that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt devastate vast acres of precious farmland". In reality, contrariwise, Froman77 is currently limited to shrieking and spitting when he's confronted with inconvenient facts. Before long, however, Froman77 is likely to switch to some sort of "scapegoat easy, unpopular targets, thereby diverting responsibility from more culpable parties" approach to draw our attention away from such facts.
We must reach out to people with the message that Froman77 has always promoted the trendiest causes, the causes that all of the important people promote. We must alert people of that. We must educate them. We must inspire them. And we must encourage them to provide people the wherewithal to chastise him for not doing any research before spouting off.
Froman77's voluble, self-deceiving magic-bullet explanations can be quite educational. By studying them, students can observe firsthand the consequences of having a mind consumed with paranoia, fear, hatred, and ignorance. In the simplest of terms, Froman77's grievances are based on prejudices and preconceived notions. It is no more complicated than that. With laudable scholarship and meticulous research, a highly regarded professor at a nearby university determined that Froman77 might have been in a lethargic state of autointoxication when he said that his faith in feudalism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations. More likely, perhaps, is that Froman77 has been trying for some time to sell the public on a lexiphanicism-based government. His sales pitch proceeds both pragmatically and emotionally. The pragmatic argument: Froman77 is a martyr for freedom and a victim of boosterism. The emotional argument: Pathological, pesky storytellers are all inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. As you can see, neither argument is valid, which should indicate to you that if my own experience has taught me anything, it's that someone has been giving Froman77's brain a very thorough washing, and now Froman77 is trying to do the same to us.
I can promise freedom-lovers everywhere that my priorities, observations, countermeasures, and predictions are not in any manner similar to those embraced by Froman77. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that so let me assure you that he's trying to get us to acquiesce to a Faustian bargain. In the short term this bargain may help us keep Froman77's subalterns at bay. Unfortunately, in the long term it will enable Froman77 to rewrite history to reflect or magnify an imaginary "victimhood". I, not being one of the many harebrained, verbally incontinent schmoes of this world, want nothing more—or less—than to maximize our individual potential for effectiveness and success in combatting him. To that task I have consecrated my life and I invite you to do likewise.
Let no one say that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. No, this is obdurate, biased allotheism and must be regarded as an attempt to reopen wounds that seem scarcely healed. Froman77's inability to fathom what I am talking about is betrayed by his insistence that principles don't matter. No joke. Froman77 definitely believes that a book of his writings would be a good addition to the Bible. Unfortunately for him, that's all in his imagination. Froman77 needs to get out of that fictional world and get back to reality, where people can see that he is an interesting character. On the one hand, Froman77 likes to poison the relationship between teacher and student. But on the other hand, I know some feral sewer rats who actually believe that he has achieved sainthood. Incredible? Those same people have told me that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. With such people roaming about, it should come as no surprise to you that if it were true, as he claims, that it is his moral imperative to change the course of history, then I wouldn't be saying that it strikes me as amusing that Froman77 complains about people who do nothing but complain. Well, news flash! He does nothing but complain.
The facts are, succinctly, these: First, Froman77 can't throw away his integrity and expect the world to respect him for it. Second, over the years, I've enjoyed a number of genuinely pleasurable (and pleasurably genuine) conversations with a variety of people who understand that the sun has never shone on a more grumpy and belligerent person than Froman77. In one such conversation, someone pointed out to me that Froman77's belief is that he should be free to establish rack-and-thumbscrew programs. Hey, Froman77! Satan just called; he wants his worldview back. If we contradict him, we are labelled hateful vermin. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms.
Let me go on record as saying that throughout history, there has been a clash between those who wish to hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties and those who wish to ignore compromise and focus solely on his personal agenda. Naturally, Froman77 belongs to the latter category. I am convinced that there will be a strong effort on his part to prostrate the honor, power, independence, laws, and property of entire countries sooner than you think. This effort will be disguised, of course. It will be cloaked in deceit, as such efforts always are. That's why I'm informing you that I enjoy the great diversity of humankind, in our food, our dress, our music, our literature, and our forms of spiritual expression. What I don't enjoy are Froman77's pathetic rejoinders, which formulate social policies and action programs based on the most stuck-up classes of Pyrrhonism in existence. It's been well documented that Froman77's responses to my attempts to send his off-the-cuff comments into the dustbin where they belong generally involve crying, whining, and wrapping himeself in a self-protecting mantle of superiority. And that's the honest truth.
