Capri Sun KraftFoods wrote:I've listened to much of Mr. Vince Draken's voluble oratory, but I admit I'm a little confused. Sure, I'm just an average person and not some intellectual, all-knowing brainiac, but it seems to me that Vince and his fans are wolves in sheep's clothing who will destroy, debauch, devalue, and dehumanize a wide assortment of innocent people by next weekend. It is requisite, even in this summary sketch, to go back a few years to see how whenever I highlight the threat of high-handed terrorism in a letter such as this, Vince issues a standard response. First, he denies the threat itself. Then, he condemns those who describe it as flagitious, pigheaded shirkers. This is basically Vince's way of fragmenting the nation into politically disharmonious units.
If the past is any indication of the future, Vince will once again attempt to bring this battle to a fever pitch. Just because jealous cynicism exists and has for a long time, there is no reason for us to accept it from him. Nobody wants him to effectuate the downfall of all that is decent and civilized, but Vince insists on doing it anyway. I have reason to believe that he is about to transform our little community into a global crucible of terror and gore. I pray that I'm wrong, of course, because the outcome could be devastating. Nevertheless, the indications are there that we definitely can't afford to let Vince expand, augment, and intensify the size and intrusiveness of his phalanx of satanic schmegeggies. What I'm suggesting is that we convert retreat into advance. That's the key to holding Vince to account for bringing ugliness and nastiness into our lives, and it's the only way that most people will ever learn that Vince has recently altered the tone of his codices. They're no longer a dirge-like recitation of perpetual victimization but rather a preview of new trends in GÇ£resistanceGÇ¥ propagandizing. For example, Vince has been showcasing his latest techniques for obscuring unpleasant facts, facts such as that we find among narrow and uneducated minds the belief that the majority of covinous hoddypeaks are heroes, if not saints. This belief is due to a basic confusion that can be cleared up simply by stating that it's our responsibility to induce Vince to perceive his errors of perception and judgment and make him realize that his helots do not accept the fact that mankind, with all of its accumulated knowledge, wonderful machines, scientific methods, and material power, still has much to fear from baleful doofuses like him. That's the first step in renewing those institutions of civil societyGÇölike families, schools, churches, and civic groupsGÇöthat advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most virulent manifestations, and it's the only way to tend to the casualties of his war on sanity.
Vince, like all semi-intelligible snollygosters, is unsympathetic. I do have to apologize for that; not all of them are unsympathetic. Just kidding; yes they are. All such humor aside, I overheard one of Vince's backers say, GÇ£There won't be any blowback from Vince's exploiting the feelings of charity and guilt that many people have over the plight of the homeless.GÇ¥ This quotation demonstrates the power of language as it epitomizes the GÇ£us/themGÇ¥ dichotomy within hegemonic discourse. As for me, I prefer to use language to build a true community of spirit and purpose based on mutual respect and caring. I have one final message for you before ending this letter: Any claim to the contrary is patently false.