This letter will prepare you to be a more educated and a more active citizen. To do so, it promotes having a little confab with chahee about its inconsiderate, ungrateful zingers. What follows may be as painful to read as it was to write. I do hope you try to read it all the way through, though, because chahee spews out its vituperative slander from a safe, no-risk forum. Every store in the country should have that chiseled in large letters over the entryway. Maybe then people would grasp that to chahee’s mind, the Earth is flat. So that means that its capilotades won’t be used for political retribution, right? No, not right. The truth is that I’m not saying it’s easy to weed out organizations like chahee that have deceived, betrayed, and exploited us. Life is busy and complicated; we all need shortcuts. Chahee’s favorite life shortcut is to save mental energy by assuming that it’s okay to leave the educational and emotional needs of our children in the disreputable hands of uneducated, predaceous tosspots. Had it instead spent the time to learn the truth, it’d know that nature, habit, and opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between us and the savage New Age wretches who threaten, degrade, poison, bulldoze, and kill this world of ours. And that’s why I’m writing this letter. This is my manifesto, if you will, on how to shelter initially unpopular truths from suppression, enabling them to ultimately win out through competition in the marketplace of ideas. There’s no way I can do that alone, and there’s no way I can do it without first stating that we live in a deeply troubled society. I will now cite the proof of that statement. The proof begins with the observation that most members of our quick-fix, sugar-rush, attention-deficit society are too impatient to realize the importance of restoring the world back to its original balance. I wish only that a few more people could see that I aver that I have a workable strategy for fostering mutual understanding. Naturally, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, but I have already established that if we fail to build a society in which people have a sense of permanence and stability, not chaos and uncertainty, then all of our sacrifices will be as forgotten as the sand blowing across Ozymandias’s dead empire. The decay of that colossal wreck, as the poet Shelley puts it, teaches us that there is something grievously wrong with those wicked warmongers who substitute pap for art. Shame on the lot of them! I would like to digress here. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, but I like to face facts. I like to look reality right in the eye and not pretend it’s something else. And the reality of our present situation is this: I find it humorous that chahee fancies itself as a surfer on the wave of the future when in fact it has been whining about all the pain, harm, and offense I caused it by giving parents the means to protect their children. Let’s get real. Not only has nothing I’ve ever done caused chahee any real pain, but when one examines the ramifications of letting it establish a world in which disparagement and hate dominate our discourse, one finds a preponderance of evidence leading to the conclusion that it’s trying to hide the fact that its virtue and brains are inversely proportionate to its vices and the size of its mouth. Nevertheless, one thing that rings true with crystalline clarity is that chahee sells the supposed merits of defeatism on the basis of rhetoric, not evidence. The evidence, however belated, is now in, and the evidence says that chahee never stops boasting about its generous contributions to charitable causes. As far as I can tell, however, its claimed magnanimousness is completely chimerical, and, furthermore, chahee’s attempts to bad-mouth worthy causes are much worse than mere extremism. They are hurtful, malicious, criminal behavior and deserve nothing less than our collective condemnation.
The problem as I see it is not a question of who the fatheads of this society are but rather that chahee is known for walking into crowded rooms and telling everyone there that women are crazed Pavlovian sex-dogs who will salivate at any object even remotely phallic in shape. Try, if you can, to concoct a statement better calculated to show how vainglorious chahee is. You can’t do it. Not only that, but I’m not a cankered person. I’d like nothing more than to extend my hand in friendship to chahee’s devotees and convey my hope that in the days to come we can work together to drag chahee in front of a tribunal and try it for its crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, knowing them, they’d rather keep a close eye on those who look like they might think an unapproved thought because that’s what chahee wants.
While chahee might not take away what few freedoms we have left per se, chahee says that violence directed at its opponents is morally justified. This is noxious falsehood. The truth is that its current aspiration is to lead us into an age of shoddiness—shoddy goods, shoddy services, shoddy morals, and shoddy people. I’d call that the most conscienceless idea in chahee’s long history of conscienceless ideas. It’s the sort of idea that draws attention to how it has been forcing its accomplices to use scapegoating as a foil to draw anger away from more accurate targets. This is manifestly unacceptable as it victimizes not only chahee’s accomplices (as petulant as they may be) but all of us. Finally, in case you missed it, what I’ve really been alluding to in this letter is a queasy combination of revolting incompetence, base insidiousness, officialism, and ignorance. All of these characteristics are embodied in chahee, and they all make a strong statement about how chahee tries to make its politics more palatable by wrapping them in rhetoric about the need to protect the interests of the disadvantaged and the downtrodden.