Re: Foreach

[Roving Curmudgeon <ro...@hotmail.com>]

My complaint about Mr. Jonathan Revusky

I am writing this letter to persuade you that the Mr. Jonathan 
Revusky-induced era of sham and deceit and pretense will draw to a close 
eventually. I will persuade you of this by providing a few examples and 
illustrations of the way in which Mr. Revusky seeks to force me to undergo 
"treatment" to cure my "problem". Some background is in order: It's easy for 
armchair philosophers to theorize about him and about hypothetical solutions 
to our Mr. Revusky problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, 
when one considers that if he can give us all a succinct and infallible 
argument proving that going through the motions of working is the same as 
working, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Churlish Rhetoric. In 
the meantime, Mr. Revusky 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 rantings. Mr. Revusky does not merely deprive individuals of the right 
to carry out the famous French admonition, écrasez l'infâme!, against his 
fibs. He does so consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically. Put 
simply, his understrappers insist that anyone who resists him deserves to be 
crushed. I say to them, "Prove it" -- not that they'll be able to, of 
course, but because Mr. Revusky's slurs have kept us separated for too long 
from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in 
this wonderful adventure we share together -- life! Mr. Revusky has nothing 
but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel 
obligated to inform you that he is so tied up in his personal dreams that he 
is oblivious to what is happening in the world around him. In fact, I have 
said that to Mr. Revusky on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it 
until he stops trying to cure the evil of discrimination with more 
discrimination.

I decidedly don't know what his problem is, but Mr. Revusky maintains that 
he is omnipotent. Perhaps it would be best for him to awaken from his 
delusional narcoleptic fantasyland and observe that as our society continues 
to unravel, more and more people will be grasping for straws, grasping for 
something to hold onto, grasping for something that promises to give them 
the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These are 
the sorts of people Mr. Revusky preys upon. He spouts the same bile in 
everything he writes, making only slight modifications to suit the issue at 
hand. The issue he's excited about this week is corporatism, which says to 
me that Mr. Revusky's subalterns' thinking is fenced in by many constraints. 
Their minds are not free because they dare not be. Mr. Revusky's stooges 
believe that the average working-class person can't see through Mr. 
Revusky's chicanery. Although it is perhaps impossible to change the 
perspective of those who have such beliefs, I wish nevertheless to point out 
the glaring contradiction between Mr. Revusky's idealized view of feudalism 
and reality.

I have just one word for Mr. Revusky: individualistic. I challenge him to 
point out any text in this letter that proposes that his notions are not 
worth getting outraged about. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a 
suggestion of such a thing. Although grotesque autocrats are relatively 
small in number compared to the general population, they are rapidly 
increasing in size and fervor. In closing, we must work together to place a 
high value on honor and self-respect. Together, we can make a difference. 
Forever and always.


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Re: Foreach

[Daniel Dekany <dd...@freemail.hu>]

Sunday, May 5, 2002, 5:17:44 AM, Roving Curmudgeon wrote:

> My complaint about Mr. Jonathan Revusky
>
> I am writing this letter to persuade you that the Mr. Jonathan
[snip]

Holy shit! :) This mail was just a joke, wasn't it?


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