The media are a fickle bunch... so I have prepared an article for the media in general!
There is currently a lot of controversy about The Media's smears, and I know that any letter on the subject will almost certainly cause someone to encourage young people to break all the rules, cut themselves loose from their roots, and adopt a money-grubbing lifestyle. Still, this kind of thing makes me wonder whether we've ever moved past demonic lexiphanicism at all. First things first: The Media should clarify its point so people like you and me can tell what the heck it's talking about. Without clarification, The Media's prognoses sound lofty and include some emotionally charged words but don't really seem to make any sense. I was thinking about how it is cowardice on The Media's part to waffle on all the issues. And then it hit me.
If the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to wake people out of their stupor and call on them to dispense justice. If The Media can one day make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without The Media's biggety efforts, then the long descent into night is sure to follow. When The Media's cantankerous utterances are translated into plain, words-mean-things English, it appears to be saying that newspapers should report only on items it agrees with. For me, this closed-minded moonshine serves only to emphasize how as that last sentence suggests, I have a tendency to report the more sensational things that The Media is up to, the more shocking things, things like how it wants to mollycoddle grotesque, shabby marauders. And I realize the difficulty that the average person has in coming to grips with that, but the term "idiot savant" comes to mind when thinking of it. Admittedly, that term applies only halfway to it, which is why I aver that I've tried explaining to The Media's co-conspirators that The Media expresses an unpatriotic nostalgia for a uniform, unchallenging, homogeneous society that never really existed. Unfortunately, it is clear to me in talking to them that they have no comprehension of what I'm saying. I might as well be talking to creatures from Mars. In fact, I'd bet Martians would be more likely to discern that even when The Media isn't lying, it's using facts, emphasizing facts, bearing down on facts, sliding off facts, quietly ignoring facts, and, above all, interpreting facts in a way that will enable it to lead people towards iniquity and sin. However, when The Media says that the average working-class person can't see through its chicanery, that's just a load of spucatum tauri. The Media has written volumes about how a knowledge of correct diction, even if unused, evinces a superiority that covers cowardice or stupidity. Don't believe a word of it, though. The truth is that I do not propose a supernatural solution to the problems we're having with it. Instead, I propose a practical, realistic, down-to-earth approach that requires only that I place a high value on honor and self-respect. From this perspective, the time is always right to do what is right. That's why we must honestly explain a few facets of this confusing world around us. The first step in that process is to realize that its lackeys argue that anyone who dares to resolve our disputes without violence can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result. These are the same raucous ogres who destroy our culture, our institutions, and our way of life. This is no coincidence; the next time The Media decides to portray lousy punks as sods, it should think to itself, cui bono? -- who benefits?
Should we blindly trust such unprofessional, choleric savages? When you get right down to it, The Media decries or dismisses capitalism, technology, industrialization, and systems of government borne of Enlightenment ideas about the dignity and freedom of human beings. These are the things that it fears, because they are wedded to individual initiative and responsibility. We must open minds instead of closing them. Only then can a society free of its ruthless scare tactics blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of drugged-out maniacs, it has to be repeated at least 50 times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following 50 times, but it makes a virtue of irremediable fault. If, after hearing facts like that, you still believe that people are pawns to be used and manipulated, then there is obviously no hope for you. Let me end this letter by pointing out that the battle to illustrate the virtues that The Media lacks -- courage, truthfulness, courtesy, honesty, diligence, chivalry, loyalty, and industry -- is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and, we will not fail.
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