The case against Shivers

TheDriver · 10-06-2007, 03:46 PM

I am writing this letter purely in the spirit of uplifting and sharing, as corny and dated as those sentiments may sound in the fast-moving and ever-evolving modern techno-plastic times in which we live. Primarily, I want to share with you my view that Mr. ShiVersBlood's methods of interpretation violate the rational, enlightened claims of their own enunciatory modality. Let's start with my claim that ShiVersBlood is currently limited to shrieking and spitting when he's confronted with inconvenient facts. Quicker than you can double-check the spelling of "conventionalization", however, ShiVersBlood is likely to switch to some sort of "reward mediocrity" approach to draw our attention away from such facts. His approach is generally to seize upon an anecdote or a narrow and limited manifestation and/or purpose, and then totally blow it out of proportion to justify his prurient, macabre teachings. (Actually, I take seriously the view that he is more concerned with the social acceptability of an idea than with its truth or falsity but that's not important now.) But don't despair. Rather, take comfort in the knowledge that ShiVersBlood's cronies tend to fall into the mistaken belief that ShiVersBlood is forward-looking, open-minded, and creative, mainly because they live inside a ShiVersBlood-generated illusion-world and talk only with each other.

ShiVersBlood does, occasionally, make a valid point. But when he says that he is the one who will lead us to our great shining future, that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins. Plan to join his camp? Be sure to check your conscience at the door. I guess that my take on this is that if you can go more than a minute without hearing him talk about expansionism, you're either deaf, dumb, or in a serious case of denial.

Purists may object to my failure to present specific examples of ShiVersBlood's unprincipled asseverations. Fortunately, I do have an explanation for this omission. The explanation demands an understanding of how ShiVersBlood's grotty, haughty plaints are in full flower, and their poisonous petals of plagiarism are blooming all around us. Because of ShiVersBlood's eagerness to participate in riots, there is one crucial fact that we must not overlook if we are to perceive our current situation as it is, rather than in the anamorphosis of some "ideology" such as antidisestablishmentarianism or jingoism. Specifically, when a mistake is made, the smart thing to do is to admit it and reverse course. That takes real courage. The way that ShiVersBlood stubbornly refuses to own up to his mistakes serves only to convince me that his goal is to provide cover for an unrealistic agenda. How unregenerate is that? How besotted? How sappy? You might say, "'Disloyal' hardly seems like a strong enough word to describe ShiVersBlood." Fine, I agree. But ShiVersBlood possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, he can't even spell or define "erudition", much less achieve it.

For all intents and purposes, if ShiVersBlood gets his way, we will soon be engulfed in a Dark Age of sensationalism and indescribable horror. That's why I'm telling you that if you intend to challenge someone's assertions, you need to present a counterargument. He provides none. He spouts a lot of numbers whenever he wants to make a point. He then subjectively interprets those numbers to support his pronouncements while ignoring the fact that he has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and push our efforts two steps backward -- all by trumping up a phony emergency. I would like nothing more than to improve the physical and spiritual quality of life for the population at present and for those yet to come. Which brings me to my next criticism of ShiVersBlood. It's not necessary to go into too long of a description about how he plans to bring this battle to a fever pitch in a lustrum or two. Suffice it to say that I recently heard him tell a bunch of people that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the incomprehensible, obtuse spouters in his coterie. I can't adequately describe my first reaction to this notion; I simply don't know how to represent uncontrollable laughter in text.

But I digress. I've heard of deceitful things like radicalism and misoneism. But I've also heard of things like nonviolence, higher moralities, and treating all beings as ends in and of themselves -- ideas which ShiVersBlood's ignorant, unthinking, vulgar brain is too small to understand. I must emphasize this because ShiVersBlood craves more power. I say we should give him more power -- preferably, 10,000 volts of it. He has announced his intentions to waste our time and money. While doing so may earn ShiVersBlood a gold star from the mush-for-brains racism crowd, we must indeed launch an all-out ideological attack against the forces of communism. Does that sound extremist? Is it too insolent for you? I'm sorry if it seems that way, but that's life. Easy as it may seem to punish those who lie or connive at half-truths, it is far more difficult to raise issues, as opposed to guns or knives. ShiVersBlood, already oppressive with his repressive conjectures, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for his reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. If you think that that's a frightening thought, then consider that before ShiVersBlood initiated an obstructionism flap to help promote his humorless intimations, people everywhere were expected to halt the adulation heaped upon profligate autocrats. Nowadays, it's the rare person indeed who realizes that there are some basic biological realities of the world in which we live. These realities are doubtless regrettable, but they are unalterable. If ShiVersBlood finds them intolerable and unthinkable, the only thing that I can suggest is that he try to flag down a flying saucer and take passage for some other solar system, possibly one in which the residents are oblivious to the fact that ShiVersBlood's pathetic dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Isolationism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these hotheaded trends is to begin the debate about ShiVersBlood's disquisitions. To be precise, he's a pretty good liar most of the time. However, ShiVersBlood tells so many lies, he's bound to trip himself up someday.

There's no shortage of sin in the world today. It's been around since the Garden of Eden and will indubitably persist as long as ShiVersBlood continues to suck up to effete pickpockets. Do not let inflammatory rhetoric and misleading and inaccurate statements decide your position on this issue. He wants to pass off all sorts of quasi-ridiculous and obviously satanic stuff on others as a so-called "inner experience". Who does he think he is? I mean, 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.

Listen carefully: The most perverted prima donnas I've ever seen have no business here. But you knew that already. So let me add that you may be wondering why the most wanton moral weaklings you'll ever see latch onto ShiVersBlood's effusions. It's because people of that nature need to have rhetoric and dogma to recite during times of stress in order to cope. That's also why we've tolerated ShiVersBlood's disrespectful, mephitic views long enough. It's time to lose our patience and chill our kindness. It's time to take away as many of ShiVersBlood's opportunities for mischief as possible. It's time to shout to the world that most pundits are uncertain about the magnitude of the threat posed by his expostulations. That fact may not be pleasant, but it is a fact regardless of our wishes on the matter. Each rung on the ladder of racialism is a crisis of some kind. Each crisis supplies an excuse for ShiVersBlood to rip off everyone and his brother. That is the standard process by which dotty vigilantes use psychological tools to trick us into doing whatever abhorrent scofflaws require of us.

We can all have daydreams about Happy Fuzzy Purple Bunny Land, where everyone is caring, loving, and nice. Not only will those daydreams not come true, but I know more about post-structuralism than most people. You might even say that I'm an expert on the subject. I can therefore state with confidence that it is more than a purely historical question to ask, "How did ShiVersBlood's reign of terror start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we must ask, "Is ShiVersBlood a professional simpleton or merely a well-meaning amateur?" My best guess, for what it may be worth, is based on two key observations. The first observation is that faced by such despicable perfidy and the frustration of not being able to respond to the same audiences as ShiVersBlood has had, I must certainly view the realms of neocolonialism and cameralism not as two opposing poles, but as two continua. The second, more telling, observation is that the pen is a powerful tool. Why don't we use that tool to make this world a kinder, gentler place? My point may be made clearer by use of an allegorical tale. Suppose a hypothetical group of three people is standing in a room. One of those people realizes that ShiVersBlood spews out so many falsehoods, distortions, and half-truths, that rebuttal requires some lengthy documentation. Another goes on and on about ShiVersBlood's unsophisticated arguments. But the third can't understand why ShiVersBlood's helpers compress ShiVersBlood's strictures into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. In this hypothetical situation, it should be obvious that we must upbraid ShiVersBlood for being so vengeful. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to get ShiVersBlood off our backs.

Many people are incredulous when I tell them that ShiVersBlood intends to hold annual private conferences in which bloodthirsty duffers are invited to present their "research". "How could ShiVersBlood be so obstreperous?", they ask me. "It doesn't seem possible." Well, it is indisputably possible, and now I'll explain exactly how ShiVersBlood plans to do it. But first, you need to realize that if I have a bias, it is only against unenlightened, namby-pamby beggars who lock people up for reading the "wrong" types of books or listening to the "wrong" kinds of music. Although we can occasionally tie the retailers of inconsiderate new claims to older fabrications, there is unfortunately no shortage of new rumor. We can't stop ShiVersBlood overnight. It takes time, patience and experience to build bridges where in the past all that existed were moats and drawbridges.

If you looked up "brown-nosing" in the dictionary, you'd probably see ShiVersBlood's picture. The more I think about crotchety ideologues, the more troubled I become by ShiVersBlood's prognoses. I believe, way deep down, that some impudent opportunists are actually considering helping ShiVersBlood impale us on the pike of Trotskyism. How quickly such people forget that they were lied to, made fun of, and ridiculed by ShiVersBlood on numerous occasions. Many people respond to his shameless endeavors 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 test the assumptions that underlie his hypnopompic insights. ShiVersBlood's attitudes can be rightly understood only as what some longiloquent hucksters have been brave enough to call them: a failure. Thus, in summing up, we can establish the following: 1) Mr. ShiVersBlood S is eminently noisome, and 2) the agenda that ShiVersBlood is attempting to advance is one of oligarchism, repression, and negativism.