My complaints about backpaker.com

“My complaint about Backpacker.com
Parts of what follows below were actually painful to write. However, because of the ongoing misinformation campaigns launched by Backpacker.com and its compeers, I feel it is my duty to write this. First, the misinformation: Backpacker.com suggests that unfounded attacks on character, loads of hyperbole, and fallacious information are the best way to make a point. Where the heck did it come up with that? I'll tell you the answer in a moment. But first, let me just say that for the nonce, it is content to operate in the gray area between legitimate activity and sinister solecism. But faster than you can say "archaeopterygiformes", it will put political correctness ahead of scientific rigor. As a matter of policy, foolish dingbats should not condone universal oppression, but this has never stopped Backpacker.com. The main dissensus between me and Backpacker.com is that I contend that Backpacker.com does not play nice with others. It, on the other hand, contends that the boogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to its demands. My message is clear: The problem with Backpacker.com is not that it's wily. It's that it wants to exercise both subtlety and thoroughness in managing both the news and the entertainment that gets presented to us.

I don't get it: What does Backpacker.com hope to achieve by repeatedly applying its lips to the posteriors of uncivilized snobs? I mean, once one begins thinking about free speech, about shabby, shameless wonks who use ostracism and public opinion to prevent the airing of views contrary to their own heartless beliefs, one realizes that Backpacker.com operates on an international scale to pit people against each other. It's only fitting, therefore, that we, too, work on an international scale, but to search for solutions that are more creative and constructive than the typically revolting ones championed by the worst sorts of soulless, naive blusterers there are. Leaving aside the behavior of other narrow-minded incubi, I should note that Backpacker.com thinks that the best way to make a point is with foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric and letters filled primarily with exclamation points. However, some of its fans once admitted -- after considerable tergiversation -- that yes, Backpacker.com had secretly plotted to numb the public to the stoicism and injustice in mainstream politics.

While it is not my purpose to incriminate or exculpate or vindicate or castigate, I'm sure Backpacker.com wouldn't want me to eavesdrop on its secret meetings. So why does it want to revive an arcadian past that never existed? A complete answer to that question would take more space than I can afford, so I'll have to give you a simplified answer. For starters, just the other day, some of its contentious chums forced a prospectus into my hands as I walked past. The prospectus described Backpacker.com's blueprint for a world in which illogical cutthroats are free to create an unwelcome climate for those of us who are striving to tell Backpacker.com what we all think of it -- and boy, do I have some choice words I'd like to use. As I dropped the prospectus onto an overflowing wastebasket, I reflected upon the way that life isn't fair. We've all known this since the beginning of time, so why is Backpacker.com so compelled to complain about situations over which it has no control? There is widespread agreement in asking that question, but there is great disagreement in answering it. Nice try to show us a gross miscarriage of common judgment, Backpacker.com. The real question here is not, "Where do spiteful polemics like Backpacker.com come from, and what are we going to do with them?". The real question is rather, "Why do we put up with Backpacker.com?" It is only when one has an answer to that question is it possible to make sense of Backpacker.com's zingers, because Backpacker.com exhibits an air of superiority. You realize, of course, that that's really just a defense mechanism to cover up its obvious inferiority. Backpacker.com likes to cite poll results that "prove" that the worst classes of hypersensitive marauders I've ever seen should be fêted at wine-and-cheese fund-raisers. Really? Have you ever been contacted by one of its pollsters? Chances are good that you never have been contacted and never will be. Otherwise, the polls would show that it's unfortunate that Backpacker.com has no real morals. It's impossible to debate important topics with organizations that are so ethically handicapped. This is far from all I have to say on the topic, but it's certainly enough for now. Just remember one thing: Backpacker.com's unenlightened, boisterous activities are not something that endears it to me.

You can complain too!”

“When I began writing this letter, I had the notion that I would write about something positive and optimistic instead of going on about how scornful Wind Walker is. Unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything particularly positive to write about. So, instead, I'll just tell you that Wind Walker runs like a scared rabbit whenever his orations are challenged by someone with courage, conviction, and a love of Truth. I would like to start by discussing Wind Walker's actions, mainly because they scare me. The thing I'm the most frightened about is that my purpose here is not to denounce those who claim that Wind Walker is a bearer and agent of the Creator's purpose. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that once people obtain the critical skills that enable them to think and reflect and speculate independently, they'll realize that Wind Walker's arguments would be a lot more effective if they were at least accurate or intelligent, not just a load of bull for the sake of being controversial. There is one final irony to my story. It's ludicrous to believe that law and order can be maintained by letting Wind Walker's lickspittles create some unconscionable, pseudo-psychological profile of me to discredit my opinions.”

“After hearing my arse say that its apologues enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, I felt that someone needed to write a dissenting opinion. First and foremost, I have a New Year's resolution for it: It should pick up a book before it jumps to the unconscionable conclusion that everything it says is completely and entirely true. My arse claims that it is not only acceptable, but indeed desirable, to make a fetish of the virtues of pea-brained metagrobolism. That claim is preposterous and, to use my arse's own language, overtly smarmy. No history can justify it. My arse recently stated that its principles are our final line of defense against tyrrany. It said that with a straight face, without even cracking a smile or suppressing a giggle. It said it as if it meant it. That's scary, because it keeps telling us that it never engages in virulent, unpleasant, or grungy politics. Are we also supposed to believe that black is white and night is day? I didn't think so.

Conventional wisdom states that I'm indeed tired of wrongheaded grifters. As long as I live, I will be shouting this truth from rooftops and doing everything I can to open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. It's unfortunate that my arse has no real morals. It's impossible to debate important topics with organizations that are so ethically handicapped.

The really interesting thing about all this is not that my earnest denunciation of my arse's jokes must have failed to register with it as being legitimate sentiment. The interesting thing is that it commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. It then ensures that these people stay in those positions, because that makes it easy for it to manipulate public understanding of despotism. The following is a preliminary attempt to establish some criteria for discussion of these complex issues. To begin with, I would be grateful if my arse would take a little time from its rigorous schedule to oppose our human vices wherever they may be found -- arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens. And that's it. It is naive to think that my arse wouldn't fill the air with recrimination and rancor if it got the chance.”

“It is naive to think that my arse wouldn't fill the air with recrimination and rancor if it got the chance.”

Step away from the beans. ;P”

“I've got a bone to pick with Princess Lilmountaingirl. What follows is the story of how Lilmountaingirl can be so rich in the rhetoric of democracy and yet so poor in its implementation. It should be stressed that she labels anyone she doesn't like as "irrational". That might well be a better description of Lilmountaingirl. Put simply, if one accepts the framework I've laid out here, it follows that wretched pamphleteers serve as the priests in her cult of crotchety, vicious pauperism. These "priests" spend their days basking in Lilmountaingirl's reflected glory, pausing only when Lilmountaingirl instructs them to "solve" all our problems by talking them to death. What could be more lawless? The complete answer to that question is a long, sad story. I've answered parts of that question in several of my previous letters, and I'll answer other parts in future ones. For now, I'll just say that it is often said that her associates want so much to apotheosize irresponsible, spineless smarmy-types that the concept of right vs. wrong never comes up. That conclusion is not based on some sort of venom-spouting philosophy or on Lilmountaingirl-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that there's a time to keep silent and a time to speak. There's a time to love and a time to hate. There's a time for war and a time for peace. And, I believe, there's a time to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. Or, to put it less poetically, I once overheard Lilmountaingirl say something quite astonishing. Are you strapped in? Lilmountaingirl said that she can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. Can you believe that? At least her statement made me realize that she shouldn't encourage every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom. That's just plain common sense. Of course, the people who appreciate her apothegms are those who eagerly root up common sense, prominently hold it out, and decry it as poison with astonishing alacrity. In point of fact, Lilmountaingirl believes that society is supposed to be lenient towards sententious dweebs. That's just wrong. She further believes that her quips provide a liberating insight into life, the universe, and everything. Wrong again! I hope I haven't bored you by writing an entire letter about Princess Lilmountaingirl. Still, this letter was the best way to explain to you that none of Lilmountaingirl's jokes changes my mind about anything.”

“:P”

“I don't believe I'm reading these. So we're all a little bored then.
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“Princess...lol ;) Touche!”

“Mr. Y2's imprecations have been getting a lot of undeserved attention recently. Let's get down to business: Y2 ignores the most basic ground rule of debate. In case you're not familiar with it, that rule is: attack the idea, not the person. He has been deluding people into believing that pharisaism is the key to world peace. Don't let him delude you, too. I wonder if Y2 really believes the things he says. He knows they're not true, doesn't he? You see, the gloss that Y2's proxies put on Y2's threats unfortunately does little to get us out of the hammerlock that he is holding us in. There is something unprofessional about his shabby mendacity and sneaking duplicity. That fact may not be pleasant, but it is a fact regardless of our wishes on the matter.

As everyone knows, Y2 and his yes-men are wolves in sheep's clothing who will make human life negligible and cheap some day. What you might not know, however, is that in order to seek liberty, equality, and fraternity, we must give our young people the values that will inspire them to educate the public on a range of issues. And that's just the first step. Remember, I do not appreciate being labeled. No one does. Nevertheless, I wonder what would happen if Y2 really did herald the death of intelligent discourse on college campuses. There's a spooky thought. The public is like a giant that Y2 has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Y2 leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to halt the adulation heaped upon unrestrained mattoids. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that Y2 tries to make us think the way he wants us to think, not by showing us evidence and reasoning with us, but by understanding how to push our emotional buttons. To end on a more positive note: Mr. Y2 is a myth-generating machine.”

“Mr. Y2 is a myth-generating machine - woo hoo!!!!!”

“damn, i read that one too.”

“My arse just filled the air with rancor and recrimination...WHEWW!”

“That conclusion is not based on some sort of venom-spouting philosophy or on Lilmountaingirl-style mental masturbation,

What fun is that?”

“What the hell happened here?”

“I've hated that place for years! Yuppie magazine, yuppie non-backpacking poser posters. Matt needs to start a competing magazine and crush them!”

“What the hell is wrong with you people. Yes Backpacker sucks, so what? Put away the thesaurus and go hiking.”

“Wind Walker, you been into your kids drugs again”

“My brain hurts from reading this”

“ROFLMAO...that's real funny. I almost fell for it.”

“are some of you folks missing something...

You can complain too!”

“LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL”

“what? you mean you're all fell for it...but a German with bad english knowledge got it??

LOLOLOLOLOLOL”

“I skip posts over six sentences long. What is this about?”

“see my post at 9:41:04 PM Pathman”

“What would I do without Mr. WindWalker to provide me with a non-stop source of selfish put-downs to complain about? In the first place, if Mr. WindWalker is victorious in his quest to undermine liberty in the name of liberty, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity. He is guilty of at least one criminal offense. In addition, Mr. WindWalker frequently exhibits less formal criminal behavior, such as deliberate and even gleeful cruelty, explosive behavior, and a burning desire to leave a large part of this country's workforce dislocated and disillusioned. There is one final irony to my story. Mr. WindWalker's musings exude palpable extremism.
last edited: 8/04/05 12:01:28 AM”

“Based on Prof. Gemini's response to my previous letter, I believe it's safe to say that it would sure be nice if Gemini could present her case without resorting to yellow journalism. What follows is a series of remarks addressed to the readers of this letter and to Gemini herself. My usual response to her reinterpretations of historic events is this: Nonrepresentationalism has never been successful in the long run. However, such a response is much too glib and perhaps a little brazen, so let me be more specific. I have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Gemini create an atmosphere of mistrust, in which speculations and rumors gain the appearance of viability and compete openly with more carefully considered theories. In short, I feel we must make Prof. Gemini's gruesome perceptions understood, resisted, and made the object of deserved contempt by young and old alike. I hope other members of the community feel the same.”

“I know surprisingly little about Ms. Gemini. I know nothing about her background or lineage. I do not know where Gemini was educated or what she has done besides eroticize relations of dominance and subordination. Nevertheless, I can tell you all that you need to know about her. But before I continue, allow me to explain that she disguises her iron fist with a velvet glove. I challenge her to move from her broad derogatory generalizations to specific instances to prove otherwise. I could accept, perhaps, slogans backed by the forces of logic and powerful reasoning. Intimations marked with hypocrisy and contradiction, however, merit none of my respect. Now that I think about it, you might say, "Her effusions are devoid of any intellectual substance." Fine, I agree. But if she opened her eyes, she'd realize that it has been a long-standing observation of mine that investigators who have spent many years attempting to penetrate the dark recesses of her unrestrained underworld frequently conclude that following her words left to right and down a page is like following fingernails on a chalkboard. There is one final irony to my story. Daft, stentorian mouthpieces for inhumane absolutism, self-indulgent poseuses, and Ms. Gemini's stooges are thoroughly and totally fungible.”

“I will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. WindWalker as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. WindWalker probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his cantankerous assertions, which, after all, are the things that bombard me with insults. The first thing I want to bring up is that he is the picture of the insane person on the street, babbling to a tree, a wall, or a cloud, which cannot and does not respond to his smears. Nefarious Neanderthals who assuage the hungers of his confreres with servings of fresh scapegoats might not recognize the incongruities in his hatchet jobs, but his diatribes are designed to befuddle the public and make sin seem like merely a sophisticated fashion. And they're working; they're having the desired effect. I could be wrong about any or all of this, but at the moment, the above fits what I know of history, people, and current conditions. If anyone sees anything wrong or has some new facts or theories on this, I'd love to hear about them.

and to you Dear Mr. Lumberzac...

Mr. Lumberzac, allow me to introduce myself. I'm one of the victims of your muddleheaded sentiments. As a note of explanation for other readers of this letter: Mr. Lumberzac's communications are precisely the kind of thing that will increase society's cycle of hostility and violence some day. Let us note first of all that Mr. Lumberzac should clarify his point, so people like you and me can tell what the heck he's talking about. Without clarification, Mr. Lumberzac's practices sound lofty and include some emotionally charged words but don't really seem to make any sense. Next time, Mr. Lumberzac, you may want to check your facts correctly. Thus, in summing up, we can establish the following: 1) Mr. Lumberzac's head is so far in rectal defilade it would require major surgery to extricate it, and 2) it's about time for Mr. Lumberzac to pay the piper.

Did I just type "rectal"??? ROFLMAO”

“So here I am taking time out of my busy schedule to let you and maybe a few other people know that this is explicitly or implicitly expressed or presupposed in most of the material I plan to present. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, an armed revolt against This thread is morally justified. However, I claim that it is not yet strategically justified. Even without the anal-retentive ideology of classism in the picture, we can still say that I'm not writing this letter for your entertainment. I'm not even writing it for your education. I'm writing it for our very survival. Griping about This thread will not make it stop trying to view countries and the people that live in them either as economic targets to be exploited or as military targets to be defeated. But even if it did, it would just find some other way to sue people at random. There is a problem here. A large, scary, possession-obsessed problem.

While This thread might not compromise the free and open nature of public discourse per se, This thread used to complain about being persecuted. Now it is our primary persecutor. This reversal of roles reminds me that This thread must sense its own irremediable inferiority. That's why it is so desperate to take over society's eyes, ears, mind, and spirit; it's the only way for it to distinguish themselves from the herd. It would be a lot nicer, however, if This thread also realized that there is no doubt that it will prosecute, sentence, and label people as hypersensitive, heartless poseurs without the benefit of any evidence whatsoever faster than you can say "pharmacodynamic". Believe me, I would give everything I own to be wrong on that point, but the truth is that I once managed to get This thread to agree that its view that it has mystical powers of divination and prophecy is sheer make-believe. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, it did a volte-face and denied that it had ever said that. Here's an idea: Instead of giving This thread the ability to take rights away from individuals whom only This thread perceives as nutty, why don't we give our propaganda fighters an instrument that is very much needed at this time? If we do, we'll then be able to raise the quality of debate on issues surrounding its peremptory manuscripts. Thus, in summing up, we can establish the following: 1) I speak from experience, and 2) This thread's undertakings have a crippling effect on science and technology.”

“

Welcome the internet pal.”

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"My complaint about Backpacker.com"
Wind Walker

Why bring it here? Did you sign on to the wrong forum by mistake?

lilmountaingirl - You have already showed the level of your mind, which resulted in censorship by Matt.

Folks - Please don't bring the "other side" over here. You and such remarks belong over "there!"”

“My complaint about Lord Matt the webmaster TT WhotheHellKnows
Perhaps you'll pardon me if I write this letter in a more personal vein than usual. I want to tell you about some personal perceptions of mine, primarily because Lord Lord Matt the webmaster TT WhotheHellKnows should stop playing verbal games and tell us what he really means. There are a number of reasons Lord Matt the webmaster isn't telling us as to why he wants to use scapegoating as a foil to draw anger away from more accurate targets. In this letter, I will expose those reasons one-by-one, on the principle that I'm not very conversant with his background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that it strikes me as amusing that Lord Matt the webmaster complains about people who do nothing but complain. Well, news flash! He does nothing but complain. Because I unfortunately lack the psychic powers that enable Lord Matt the webmaster to "know" matters for which there is no reliable evidence, I cannot forecast when he will next try to manipulate everything and everybody. But I can decidedly say that of all of Lord Matt the webmaster's exaggerations and incorrect comparisons, one in particular stands out: "Lord Matt the webmaster's belief systems are all sweetness and light." I don't know where he came up with this, but his statement is dead wrong. Although he has repeatedly denied charges of attempting to turn me, a typically mild-mannered person, into a sinful vat of materialism, he says that he is the one who will lead us to our great shining future. That's his unvarying story, and it's a lie: an extremely amateurish and barbaric lie. Unfortunately, it's a lie that is accepted unquestioningly, uncritically, by Lord Matt the webmaster's cult followers. Okay, I've vented enough frustration. So let me end by saying that many of us do not wish to live within Lord Lord Matt the webmaster TT WhotheHellKnows's walls of larrikinism.




PS, Matt I LOVE YOU *wink wink*”

“theyre kidding, fuddy”

“nowslimmer - Look at WWs link. It's all a joke. What's a matter? Lose your parking permit this morning??”

“I win the "Idiot of the Day" Award.

I sure won't win any friends today.
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“I'll be your friend nowslimmer.”

“sarge, I'm sure he would be thrilled”

“Of course, Ewker! I don't deserve a friend!”

“Lol! I needed this thread this morning!”

“Bean burritos last night, so I'm sure that my arse will "fill the air with recrimination and rancor" again today.

I almost feel sorry for my cow-orkers.”

“I'm sure the cows won't like being orked either.”

“Wow, had me going for a minute there! I was like, who talks like that? LOL!”

“Like anybody on this board would be able to use those $1,000 words in a sentence.”

“Why do we put up with Rodale Publishing? How aberrant can Rodale Publishing be? And what in perdition does Rodale Publishing think it's doing? This letter is not the place to explore the answers to those questions. Its purpose is instead to knock some sense into Rodale Publishing. Let's get down to business: Many people are shocked when I tell them that Rodale Publishing likes to have difficult social issues presented to it in simple, black-and-white terms. And I'm shocked that so many people are shocked. You see, I had thought everybody already knew that Rodale Publishing contends that colonialism is a noble goal. Sounds rather appalling, doesn't it? Well, that's Rodale Publishing for you.

You may be picking up on something here in all of my responses to Rodale Publishing's froward animadversions. All of my responses presume that Rodale Publishing's virtue and brains are inversely proportionate to its vices and the size of its mouth. Now, that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter. So let me corroborate it by saying that I correctly predicted that Rodale Publishing would contravene decency. Alas, I didn't think it'd do that so effectively -- or so soon. Where are the solid statistics that prove that cannibalism is the key to world peace? I've never seen any. Yet, I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want Rodale Publishing to dig a grave in which to bury liberty and freedom, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while Rodale Publishing claims that divine ichor flows through its veins.

Trumpeted so many times, Rodale Publishing's flimflams have begun to feed on themselves, to generate their own publicity, to cow their opponents not by argument but by sheer repetition, and to withhold information and disseminate half truths and whole lies. If our goal is to lift the fog from Rodale Publishing's thinking, then we must consider various means to that end. Rodale Publishing hates people who have huge supplies of the things it lacks. What it lacks the most is common sense, which underlies my point that Rodale Publishing says that the Earth is flat. But then it turns around and says that its pleas are not worth getting outraged about. You know, you can't have it both ways, Rodale Publishing. Rodale Publishing insists that the sky is falling. Sorry, Rodale Publishing, but, with apologies to Gershwin, "it ain't necessarily so." Mutual efforts against emotionalism-oriented, irrational hedonism are not just an educational process designed to teach people that Rodale Publishing's canards are some of the most bookish, cold-blooded, and morally crippled I've ever encountered. These efforts also serve as a beacon, warning the world of the intellectually challenged consequences of Rodale Publishing's vicious philosophies. If we intend to defend democracy, we had best learn to recognize its primary enemy and not be afraid to stand up and call it by name. That name is Rodale Publishing.”

“Folks - Please don't bring the "other side" over here. You and such remarks belong over "there!"”
nowslimmer
6:32:06 AM
8/04/05
ignore this user

Too late. Suffer!!!”

“Ok, what maniac gave this bunch a dictionary? Actually, the advice about going on a hike sounds better than all of it. Oh yeah, Windwalker, could you do my psych eval for the month, please, I'm feelin' a bit weird.”

“I would like to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that poison the relationship between teacher and student. Let's get down to brass tacks: Those of us who are still sane, those of us who still have a firm grip on reality, those of us who still assert that Dr. Passing WindWalker utilizes a narrow and static view of human nature, have an obligation to do more than just observe what Dr. WindWalker is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to expose Dr. WindWalker's malversation. We have an obligation to introduce an important, but underrepresented, angle on his libidinous conjectures. And we have an obligation to break the spell of great expectations that now binds officious, licentious racketeers to Dr. WindWalker. When you tell Dr. WindWalker's lackeys that one can predict on empirical grounds that in the near future Dr. WindWalker will mock, ridicule, deprecate, and rebuke people for their religious beliefs, they begin to get fidgety, and their eyes begin to wander. They really don't care. They have no interest in hearing that he is locked into his present course of destruction. He does not have the interest or the will to change his fundamentally pestiferous epigrams. He insists that he has achieved sainthood. This fraud, this lie, is just one among the thousands he perpetrates.

We should agree on definitions before saying anything further about Dr. WindWalker's wily smears. For starters, let's say that "insurrectionism" is "that which makes Dr. WindWalker yearn to flush all my hopes and dreams down the toilet." While it's true that anyone who says that his histrionics won't be used for political retribution can be branded as both neurotic and splenetic, Dr. WindWalker has yet to acknowledge that fact. He says that he is omnipotent. That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. The real question here is not, "What exactly is the principle that rationalizes his delusional ballyhoos?". The real question is rather, "Will the world ever be free of bad-tempered primates like him?" Well, while you're deliberating over that, let me ask you another question: Why is he so compelled to complain about situations over which he has no control? Now, not to bombard you with too many questions, but his favorite tactic is known as "deceiving with the truth". The idea behind this tactic is that Dr. WindWalker wins our trust by revealing the truth but leaving some of it out. This makes us less likely to enable patriots to use their freedoms to save their freedoms.

If you're still reading this letter, I wish to compliment you for being sufficiently open-minded to understand that if he makes fun of me or insults me, I hear it, and it hurts. But I take solace in the fact that I am still able to rouse people's indignation at Dr. WindWalker. Just the other day, some of his merciless, slatternly helpers forced a prospectus into my hands as I walked past. The prospectus described Dr. WindWalker's blueprint for a world in which iconoclastic flag burners are free to shame my name. As I dropped the prospectus onto an overflowing wastebasket, I reflected upon the way that either Dr. WindWalker 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.

There is a problem here. A large, foolish, ultra-tendentious problem. Dr. WindWalker has bid adieu to objectivity. The destruction of the Tower of Babel, be it a literal truth, an allegory, or a mere story based upon cultural archetypes, illustrates this truth plainly. To believe that character development is not a matter of "strength through adversity" but rather, "entitlement through victimization" is to deceive ourselves. Generally speaking, once he accepts responsibility for the problems he's caused, the focus shifts from who is responsible to what each of us can do about it. Dr. WindWalker vehemently denies that, of course. But he obviously would, because he is right about one thing, namely that fear is what motivates us. Fear of what it means when malignant sad sacks gag the innocent accused from protesting sectarianism-motivated prosecutions. Fear of what it says about our society when we teach our children that all it takes to solve our social woes are shotgun marriages, heavy-handed divorce laws, and a return to some mythical 1950s Shangri-la. And fear of backwards, intemperate politicos like Dr. WindWalker who defy the rules of logic.

I've already said this a thousand times and with a thousand different phrasings, but we were put on this planet to be active, to struggle, and to bring the communion of knowledge to all of us. We were not put here to put the foxes in charge of guarding the henhouse, as Dr. WindWalker might insist. If he had done his homework, he'd know that I must ask that his cat's-paws discuss, openly and candidly, a vision for a harmonious, multiracial society. I know they'll never do that, so here's an alternate proposal: They should, at the very least, back off and quit trying to agitate for indoctrination programs in local schools. Almost everyone will wholeheartedly agree that Dr. WindWalker leads me to believe that he is putrid, but if we look beyond Dr. WindWalker's delusions of grandeur, we see that some truculent so-called experts actually believe that his conclusions enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his fairy tales. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as lecherous, vengeful vandals. It is important to differentiate between imprudent, petty bloodsuckers and distasteful losers who, in a variety of ways, have been lured by his destructive off-the-cuff comments, or who have ended up wittingly or unwittingly in coalitions with his faithfuls, or who maintain contact with Dr. WindWalker as part of serious and legitimate research. Now that this letter has come to an end, let me remind you that it was intended to provide an accurate, even-handed, and balanced discussion of Dr. Passing WindWalker and his vaporings. Please do not contact me with insults, death threats, or the like, because I will ignore them. If you disagree with my arguments or can provide further information about Dr. WindWalker, please contact me and I will endeavor to make any necessary corrections to this letter.

Cordially,

BowlderMan”

“I must also add that this is possibly the most awesome thread in my 3 years participating in TT!!!!”

“I thought there was about to be an all out brawl to a minute or two..or three...lol..good one!”

“I haven't even read my whole letter yet!! I'm still laughing too hard!!”