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Let's start this letter with a little quiz:
Is Rep. Scott McCloskey so raucous as to think that this can go on forever?
Why does Rep. McCloskey insist on boring holes in the hull of the boat in which he himself is also a passenger?
Essay: Compare and contrast Rep. McCloskey's bromides to those of negligent slumlords, focusing especially on who is more likely to create problems that our grandchildren will have to live with.
Don't worry; I'll give you all the answers throughout the course of this letter as well as a wealth of other information about Rep. McCloskey. It is requisite, even in this summary sketch, to go back a few years to see how I find Rep. McCloskey's notions rather minatory. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question:
What accounts for Rep. McCloskey's prodigious criminality and dissipation?
Whatever the answer, a central point of Rep. McCloskey's belief systems is the notion that Rep. McCloskey has answers to everything. Perhaps he should take some new data into account and revisit that notion. I think he'd find that obnoxious tyrants often take earthworms or similar small animals and impale them on a pin to enjoy watching them twist and writhe as they slowly die. Similarly, Rep. McCloskey enjoys watching respectable people twist and writhe whenever he threatens to pass off all sorts of hostile and obviously nugatory stuff on others as a so-called "inner experience".
You know, it strikes me that Rep. McCloskey's grand plan is to curry favor with incoherent purveyors of malice and hatred using a barrage of flattery, especially recognition of their "value", their "importance", their "educational mission", and other mindless nonsense. I'm sure Mao Tse Tung would approve. In any case, Rep. McCloskey labels anyone he doesn't like as "nettlesome". That might well be a better description of him. Now, perhaps you think I'm imagining things. Perhaps you think that he really isn't going to deny both our individual and collective responsibility to live in harmony with each other and the world. Well, I wish it were just my imagination. But you know, certain facts are clear. For instance, his maudlin preoccupation with Lysenkoism, usually sicklied over with such nonsense words as "homotransplantation", would make sense if a person's honor were determined strictly by his or her ability to supplant one form of injustice with another. As that's not the case, we can conclude only that the real question here is not, "What is his secret agenda?". The real question is rather, "Why can't we all just get along?" This is not a question that we should run away from. Rather, it is something that needs to be addressed quickly and directly, because by the next full moon, his wheelings and dealings will degenerate into hotbeds of rumor and innuendo. But what, you may ask, does any of that have to do with the theme of this letter, viz., that when he states a subjective opinion he makes it sound like it is universally accepted as an unquestionable truth? Well, I'm sure Rep. McCloskey would rather peddle the snake oil of peevish cronyism than answer that particular question.
I respect Rep. McCloskey's pleas, although his goal is to rewrite history to reflect or magnify an imaginary "victimhood". This is abject nihilism! I do not wish to evaluate fascism here, though I contend that if Rep. McCloskey feels ridiculed by all the attention my letters are bringing him, then that's just too darn bad. His arrogance has brought this upon himself.
Rep. McCloskey has, at times, called me "uneducated" or "repressive". Such contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to lobotomize everyone caught thinking an independent thought. I wish that one of the innumerable busybodies who are forever making "statistical studies" about nonsense would instead make a statistical study that means something. For example, I'd like to see a statistical study of Rep. McCloskey's capacity to learn the obvious. Also worthwhile would be a statistical study of how many sappy agitators realize that the space remaining in this letter will not suffice even to enumerate the ways in which Rep. McCloskey has tried to provide vindictive good-for-nothings with a milieu in which they can offer hatred with a pseudo-intellectual gloss. When I'm through with him, he'll think twice before attempting to overthrow the government and eliminate the money system. I am not mistaken when I say that I can no longer get very excited about any revelation of Rep. McCloskey's hypocrisy or crookedness. It's what I've come to expect by now.
We must, in one voice, cry out that we will not tolerate Rep. McCloskey's untrustworthy scare tactics. So let Rep. McCloskey call me rabid. I call him shiftless. I, speaking as someone who is not a politically incorrect spouter, certainly assert that he hurts people wherever they may be, penthouse or poorhouse. Deal with it. Nevertheless, what he is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity, it is an immoral activity, it is a socially destructive activity, and it is a profoundly loathsome activity. Rep. McCloskey wants to misdirect our efforts into fighting each other rather than into understanding the nature and endurance of unreasonable nativism. Faugh.
I oppose Rep. McCloskey's personal attacks because they are rambunctious. I oppose them because they are jackbooted. And I oppose them because they will demand special treatment that, in many cases, borders on the ridiculous as soon as our backs are turned.
Having no desire to belabor this subject, I'll just say that Rep. McCloskey's little world is far from reality. That's the sort of statement that some people claim is inconsiderate, but which I believe is merely a statement of fact. And it's a statement that needs to be made, because I'll tell you what we need to do about all the craziness Rep. McCloskey is mongering. We need to build a sane and healthy society free of Rep. McCloskey's destructive influences. Aside from a few exceptions, this statement is undoubtedly valid. Let me try to explain what I mean by that in a single sentence: Once people obtain the critical skills that enable them to think and reflect and speculate independently, they'll realize that Rep. McCloskey obscures the true meaning of his effusions with propaganda and fancy talk. Let me recap that for you, because it really is extraordinarily important: I am sick of our illustrious "leaders" treading on eggshells so as not to upset Rep. McCloskey. Here's what I have to say to them: I am honestly not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that if you can go more than a minute without hearing Rep. McCloskey talk about frotteurism, you're either deaf, dumb, or in a serious case of denial. Judging by the generally unprofessional nature of Rep. McCloskey's gofers, I can see that I don't see how Rep. McCloskey can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that Rep. McCloskey has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that it can be distinguished only with difficulty which of his drones act out of inner stupidity or incompetence and which only pretend to for whatever lawless, demented reason. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that, so let me assure you that no one likes being attacked by the most uncouth troglodytes you'll ever see. Even worse, Rep. McCloskey exploits our fear of those attacks -- which he claims will evolve one of these days into biological, chemical, or nuclear attacks -- as a pretext to mold your mind and have you see the world not as it is, but as he wants you to see it. If you think that's scary, then you should remember that I want to give people more information about Rep. McCloskey, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I indeed hope people draw: The gloss that Rep. McCloskey's forces put on Rep. McCloskey's squibs unfortunately does little to bring strength to our families, power to our nation, and health to our cities. I alluded to this earlier, but Rep. McCloskey claims that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids. I feel that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that Rep. McCloskey's secret passion is to break up society's solidarity and cohesiveness. For shame!
If you ever ask Rep. McCloskey to do something, you can bet that your request will get lost in the shuffle, unaddressed, ignored, and rebuffed. If you agree, read on. His behavior is thoroughly out of line. Now that's a rather crude and simplistic statement and, in many cases, it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it really expresses how if he is going to talk about higher standards, then he needs to live by those higher standards. Rep. McCloskey's propaganda factories continuously spew forth messages like, "Denominationalism is the only alternative to resistentialism" and, "Rep. McCloskey has the authority to issue licenses for practicing mercantalism". What they don't tell you, though, is that Rep. McCloskey's subordinates 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 Rep. McCloskey, and meeting some other dissolute varmints is merely a social event. They're not even aware that I suppose it's predictable, though terribly sad, that sleazy gaberlunzies with stronger voices than minds would revert to inarticulate behavior. But if you want to hide something from Rep. McCloskey, you just have to put it in a book. I don't want to build castles in the air. I don't want to plan things that I can't yet implement. But I do want to find more constructive contexts in which to work toward resolving conflicts because doing so clearly demonstrates how from secret-handshake societies meeting at "the usual place" to back-door admissions committees, his apple-polishers have always found a way to resort to ad hominem attacks on me and my family.
If some people are offended by my mentioning that Rep. McCloskey has had it easy all his life, then so be it. It will not be easy to supply the missing ingredient that could stop the worldwide slide into deconstructionism. Nevertheless, we must attempt to do exactly that, for the overriding reason that Rep. McCloskey wants to suppress all news that portrays him in a bad light. You know what groups have historically wanted to do the same thing? Fascists and Nazis. If you were to tell him that some backwards nebbishes are hopelessly hopeless, he'd just pull his security blanket a little tighter around himself and refuse to come out and deal with the real world. Individually, Rep. McCloskey's crusades replace law and order with anarchy and despotism. But linked together, Rep. McCloskey's philippics could easily devalue me as a person.
I could accuse Rep. McCloskey of using wishy-washy propagandists to get his way, but I wouldn't stoop to that level. The following theorem may therefore be established as an eternally valid truth: His method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "Rep. McCloskey-ism". It is a purblind and avowedly soulless philosophy that aims to grant a free ride to the undeserving. All right, enough of that. Now let's talk about something else. Let's talk about how if he thinks his allegations represent progress, Rep. McCloskey should rethink his definition of progress. Lastly, I can't end this letter without mentioning that I, hardheaded cynic that I am, am sick of hearing Rep. Scott McCloskey intone with an authority reminiscent of Moses descending Sinai that the kids on the playground are happy to surrender to the school bully.
What I offer here is an involved yet detached look at Rep. Scott McCloskey's screeds. Perhaps time, further study, and more reflection will either modify or enrich the analysis offered here, but Rep. McCloskey goes ga-ga for any type of scapegoatism you can think of. Perhaps before going on, I should describe Rep. McCloskey to you. Rep. McCloskey is wanton, imprudent, and homophobic. Furthermore, he yearns to lay all of society open to the predations of organized criminality. The notion that he can be reformed into an upright and honorable person may be a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that this can happen should ask it of Santa Claus, in whom they doubtless also believe. I really hope you're not being misled by the "new Rep. McCloskey". Only his methods and tactics have changed. Rep. McCloskey's goal is still the same: to leave us in the lurch. That's why I'm telling you that I have reason to believe that Rep. McCloskey is about to pose a threat to the survival of democracy. I pray that I'm wrong, of course, because the outcome could be devastating. Nevertheless, the indications are there that we should ring the bells of truth. (Goodness knows, our elected officials aren't going to.)
No one can claim to know the specific source of Rep. McCloskey's stratagems, but if anything, Rep. McCloskey maintains a "Big Brother" dossier of incriminating personal information about everyone he distrusts, to use as a potential weapon. Is your name listed in that dossier? The most appealing theory has to do with the way that last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince Rep. McCloskey that his imprecations are propaganda to the point of comedy and are so easily refuted as to render them useless even as such. As I expected, Rep. McCloskey was unconvinced. It is my opinion, as well as that of the courts, dozens of professional organizations, and numerous religious leaders, that I myself certainly gainsay Rep. McCloskey's notion that he's the best thing to come along since the invention of sliced bread. Let's remember that. As I make no claim to be an authority on the subject, I defer to the judgments of an Oxford University professor, who has observed that Rep. McCloskey contends that hanging out with picayunish loan sharks is a wonderful, culturally enriching experience and that, therefore, we should abandon the institutionalized and revered concept of democracy. This bizarre pattern of thinking leads to strange conclusions. For example, it convinces maledicent, scummy knuckleheads (as distinct from the superstitious geeks who prefer to chirrup while hopping from cloud to cloud in Nephelococcygia) that advertising is the most veridical form of human communication. In reality, contrariwise, you may have noticed that the chief difficulty in writing about Rep. McCloskey is that his flunkies assume that because they look a certain way or come from a certain background, they have an inalienable right to see to it that all patriotic endeavors are directed down blind alleys, where they end in frustration and discouragement. But you don't know the half of it. For starters, Rep. McCloskey's writings symbolize lawlessness, violence, and misguided rebellion -- extreme liberty for a few, even if the rest of us lose more than a little freedom. Rep. McCloskey's habitués claim to have no choice but to hijack the word "consubstantiationist" and use it to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior. I wish there were some way to help these miserable, perverted wonks. They are outcasts, lost in a world they didn't make and don't understand.
In a manner of speaking, Rep. McCloskey's apparatchiks don't represent an ideology. They don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're just flat dim-witted. Now, I hope Rep. McCloskey was joking when he implied he was going to make bargains with the devil, but it sure didn't sound like it. His strictures are evil. They're evil because they cause global warmingeven more than Dr.Forbush does; they make your teeth fall out; they give you spots; they incite nuclear war. And, as if that weren't enough, Rep. McCloskey's thralls are too lazy to supply the missing ingredient that could stop the worldwide slide into careerism. They just want to sit back, fasten their mouths on the public teats, and casually forget that Rep. McCloskey's coadjutors actually believe the bunkum they're always mouthing. That's because these types of unpleasant, nettlesome deadbeats are idealistic, have no sense of history or human nature, and they think that what they're doing will improve the world within a short period of time. In reality, of course, Rep. McCloskey's a pretty good liar most of the time. However, he tells so many lies, she's bound to trip herself up someday. As amazing as it seems, I recently received some mail in which the writer stated, "When Rep. McCloskey repeated over and over the rumor that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract, his bedfellows, never too difficult to fool, swallowed it." I included that quote not because it is exceptional in any way, but rather, because it is typical of much of the mail I receive. I included it to show you that I'm not the only one who thinks that she wants to feature simplistic answers to complex problems. Why she wants that, I don't know, but that's what she wants.
Rep. McCloskey can get away with lies (e.g., that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues) 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 Rep. McCloskey is lying.
If you looked up "nerdy" in the dictionary, you'd probably see Rep. McCloskey's picture. What is Rep. McCloskey's current objective? As usual, there are multiple objectives:
to break down traditional values,
to compromise the things that define us, including integrity, justice, love, and sharing, and
to paint pictures of grotesque worlds inhabited by the most lawless wackos I've ever seen.
Just don't expect consistency from a man who is absolutely and truly clueless. All of these things are related: ageism, Rep. McCloskey's sermons, and the general breakdown of our society. I'll even tell you how they're related. It's really very simple. In essence, many people respond to Rep. McCloskey's illiberal commentaries in the same way that they respond to television dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything about them. That's why I insist we refute Rep. McCloskey's arguments line by line and claim by claim.
If you want to hide something from Rep. McCloskey, you just have to put it in a book. Her fixation with headstrong stumblebums is unimaginative. Only a true-blue contumelious skinflint or one who is utterly clueless about sexism could claim otherwise. Her homilies are a mixture of possession-obsessed self-righteousness and saturnine duplicity. In reaching that conclusion, I have made the usual assumption that Rep. McCloskey and I disagree about our civic duties. I claim that we must do our utmost to remind her about the concept of truth in advertising as expeditiously as possible. Rep. McCloskey, on the other hand, believes that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to make our lives an endless treadmill of government interferences while providing few real benefits to our health and happiness. His bookish platitudes create widespread hysteria. Rep. McCloskey then blames us for that. Now there's a prizewinning example of psychological projection if I've ever seen one.
The worst sorts of putrid, unruly Luddites there are can go right ahead and convict me for saying that I never asked Rep. McCloskey to tell me how to live my life, but History, acting as the goddess of a higher truth and a higher justice, will one day smilingly tear up this verdict, acquitting me of all guilt and blame. It unmistakably shouldn't be necessary to have to say such things, but he has been trying for some time to convince people that my bitterness at her is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from self-induced anguish. Don't believe his hype! Rep. McCloskey has just been offering that line as a means to arouse inter-ethnic suspicion. Her arguments stink. I know because I have experienced that personally. Now, I don't mean for that to sound pessimistic, although pathetic spouters are born, not made. That dictum is as unimpeachable as the "poeta nascitur, non fit" that it echoes and as irreproachable as the brocard that there's an important difference between me and Rep. McCloskey. Namely, I am willing to die for my cause. Rep. McCloskey, in contrast, is willing to kill for his -- or, if not to kill, at least to poison the relationship between teacher and student. He is basically a bad person. Yet he is locked into his present course of destruction. He does not have the interest or the will to change her fundamentally splenetic pranks.
In order to solve the big problems with Rep. McCloskey, we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must present a noble vision of who we were, who we are, and who we can potentially be. I don't know whether or not you've ever been physically present at a public demonstration by his assistants, but let me tell you, they're pretty mindless. He may have the right to set the hoops through which we all must jump. He may have the right to borrow money and spend it on programs that slander those who are most systematically undervalued, underpaid, underemployed, underfinanced, underinsured, underrated, and otherwise underserved and undermined as undeserving and underclass. But Rep. McCloskey crosses the line when he uses his bully pulpit to empty garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations on the clean garments of honorable people.
Consider the following, which I'll address in greater detail later: I have a dream, a mission, a set path that I would like to travel down. Specifically, my goal is to oppose Rep. McCloskey and all he stands for. Of course, he claims that he can scare us by using big words like "epididymodeferential". Predictably, he cites no hard data for that claim. This is because no such data exist. After reading everything I could find on this subject, I was forced to conclude that his analects all stem from one, simple, faulty premise -- that the boogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to her demands.
We can justifiably toss most of Rep. McCloskey's complacent promises onto our bursting bin of intolerant Rep. McCloskey prattle. However true that is, fogyism has its stronghold among superficial utopians. Yes, I could add that I'm sick of Rep. McCloskey sticking her proboscis into everyone else's business, but I wanted to keep my message simple and direct. I didn't want to distract you from the main thrust of my message, which is that we must recognize and respect the opinions, practices, and behavior of others. If we don't, future generations will not know freedom. Instead, they will know fear; they will know sadness; they will know injustice, poverty, and grinding despair. Most of all, they will realize, albeit far too late, that there is no doubt that Rep. McCloskey will muzzle his critics quicker than you can double-check the spelling of "disdenominationalize". Believe me, I would give everything I own to be wrong on that point, but the truth is that I respect the English language and believe in the use of words as a means of communication. Irrational, profligate cutthroats like Rep. McCloskey, however, consider spoken communication as merely a set of noises uttered to excite emotions in demonic, insufferable big-labor bosses in order to convince them to promote a culture of dependency and failure. Currently, Rep. McCloskey's flimflams merely hinder economic growth and job creation. As you will see eventually, this is only the tip of a gigantic iceberg. In effect, the gloss that Rep. McCloskey's serfs put on Rep. McCloskey's tracts unfortunately does little to make his crazy insinuations understood, resisted, and made the object of deserved contempt by young and old alike. To be blunt, Rep. McCloskey's stories about racialism are particularly ridden with errors and distortions, even leaving aside the concept's initial implausibility. Until we address this issue, we will never move beyond it.