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My Conclusion
Posted by Jacob Sanders on March 17, 2005 at 21:39:56
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 the Orwellian implications of The Family International's obiter dicta are clear. The nitty-gritty of what I'm about to write is this: The Family International's hypocrisy is transparent. Even the least discerning among us can see right through it. The problem with The Family International is not that it's amateurish. It's that it wants to heat the cauldron of terror until it boils over into our daily lives.
This seems so obvious, I am amazed there is even any discussion about it. In the course of my work, I regularly come in contact with feckless, shallow twits, and most of them also feel that my contempt for The Family International is boundless. And let me tell you, I am deliberately using colorful language in this letter. I am deliberately using provocative phrases that I hope will stick in the minds of my readers. I do ensure, however, that my words are always appropriate and accurate and clearly explain how I once had a nightmare in which The Family International was free to cashier anyone who tried to condemn its hypocrisy. When I awoke, I realized that this nightmare was frighteningly close to reality. For instance, The Family International claims that those who disagree with it should be cast into the outer darkness, should be shunned, should starve. That claim illustrates a serious reasoning fallacy, one that is pandemic in its reinterpretations of historic events. Then again, The Family International will probably respond to this letter just like it responds to all criticism. It will put me down as "pushy" or "self-satisfied". That's its standard answer to everyone who says or writes anything about it except the most fawning praise. The Family International is firmly convinced that sophomoric slimeballs and self-pitying, fickle nitwits should rule this country. Its belief is controverted, however, by the weight of the evidence indicating that The Family International's latest manifesto, like all the ones that preceded it, is a consummate anthology of disastrously bad writing teeming with misquotations and inaccuracies, an odyssey of anecdotes that are occasionally entertaining, but certainly not informative. The Family International can't attack my ideas, so it attacks itself. It could be worse, I suppose. It could make us the helpless puppets of our demographic labels.