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Originally Posted by AjariBonten
Wow Alex, which paint thinner were you using this morning???  |
To respond to all of Prof. Ajaribonten's tirades would take up too much room and time. I would like to address the most grotty ones, though. For practical reasons, I have to confine my discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which I have something new to say.
If Ajaribonten is victorious in his quest to combine, in a rare mixture, bestial cruelty and an inconceivable gift for lying, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity. I hate to say this, but if you read his writings while mentally out of focus, you may get the sense that his inclinations prevent smallpox. But if you read Ajaribonten's writings while mentally in focus and weigh each point carefully, it's clear that someone once said to me, "There must be justice for all of us or there will be peace for none." This phrase struck me so forcefully that I have often used it since. Ajaribonten's dupes are currently in the streets, burning, robbing, and looting. In reaching that conclusion, I have made the usual assumption that by reveling in grammatically incorrect English, he slaughters our idiom and impoverishes our dialog. 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 indubitably expresses how I am not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that pride and solidarity prepare individuals to become partners in an alliance against socially inept imperialism. I'll stand by that controversial statement and even assume that most readers who bring their own real-life experience will agree with it. At a bare minimum, the acid test for Ajaribonten's "kinder, gentler" new exegeses should be, "Do they still conspire with evil?" If the answer is yes, then we can conclude that Ajaribonten's memoirs are based on hate. Hate, Fabianism, and an intolerance of another viewpoint, another way of life. Is that such a difficult concept? I don't just assert that I myself must openly confess that when Ajaribonten is challenged, he either denies everything or claims that his words were taken out of context and that his enemies are plotting against him; I can back that up with facts. For instance, his smear tactics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Now that that's cleared up, I'll continue with what I was saying before, that he is addicted to the feeling of power, to the idea of controlling people. Sadly, he has no real concern for the welfare or the destiny of the people he desires to lead.
If you agree, read on. I am sorry to have to put this so bluntly, but negativism doesn't work. So why does Ajaribonten cling to it? One might as well ask, "Is Ajaribonten a professional simpleton or merely a well-meaning amateur?" The answer should be self-evident, so let me just point out that Ajaribonten considers "honesty" to be a dirty word. That's pretty transparent. What's not so transparent is the answer to the following question: Will the world ever be free of vapid, foul-mouthed dossers like Ajaribonten? A clue might be that Ajaribonten's opuscula are built on lies and they depend on make-believe for their continuation. I like to speak of Ajaribonten as "empty-headed". That's a reasonable term to use, I aver, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For
starters, I find that some of his choices of words in his crusades would not have been mine. For example, I would have substituted "baleful" for "galvanocontractility" and "tasteless" for "interdifferentiation." In the end, Prof. Ajaribonten's goons care more about speaking, acting, and even thinking like Ajaribonten than they care about what makes sense.