[Rhodes22-list] Re: Rhodes22-list Digest, Vol 795, Issue 1

[Michel Meltzer]

I can not believe it, I got this letter complaining about Slim :-) see
below, Some about "customer support"....................

-MJM


Slim's pronouncements are entirely disgusting -- so much so, that if
there are any children or sensitive people reading this letter, I
suggest that they stop now and not read what I am about to describe.
Here's a quick review: I'd advise Slim to stop being so froward. Sadly,
lack of space prevents me from elaborating further. He is bad enough
when he's alone, but Slim is even worse when he's joined by feral
fussbudgets. Daily, the truth is being impressed upon us that I am not
up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that it is more
than a purely historical question to ask, "How did his reign of terror
start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we
must ask, "Why doesn't he reveal the truth about himself?" As you ponder
the answer to that question, consider that if you can make any sense out
his profligate epithets, then you must have gotten higher marks in
school than I did. Above all, Slim has no evidence or examples to back
up his point. 

Slim's ramblings can be subtle. They can be so subtle that many people
never realize they're being influenced by them. That's why we must
proactively notify humanity that Slim writes a lot of long statements
that mean practically nothing. What's sneaky is that he constructs those
statements in such a way that it never occurs to his readers to analyze
them. Analysis would almost certainly indicate that Slim's trucklers
don't represent an ideology. They don't represent a legitimate political
group of people. They're just flat inaniloquent. Something recently
occurred to me that might occur to Slim, as well, if he would just turn
down the volume of his voice for a moment: I want to see all of us
working together to complain about huffy hell-raisers. Yes, this is an
idealistic approach to actualizing our restorative goals. Nevertheless,
you should realize that Slim ignores the most basic ground rule of
debate. In case you're not familiar with it, that rule is: attack the
idea, not the person. As stated earlier, he says that his decisions are
based on reason. What balderdash! What impudence! What treachery! This
is a free country, and I feel we ought to keep it that way. This raises
the question: In view of Slim's gormless criticisms, what does it make
sense for us to do now? The answer should be self-evident, so let me
just point out that Slim claims that individual worth is defined by
race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. I respond that there are
lessons to be learned from history. 

Now, why all this fuss about a few insolent agendas? Simply put, it's
because it has been said that one difference between Slim's yes-men and
other dark forces of anarchy and hatred is that the former intend to
pour a few drops of wormwood into our general enthusiasm. I, in turn,
maintain that even when the facts don't fit, Slim sometimes tries to use
them anyway. He still maintains, for instance, that my bitterness at him
is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from
self-induced anguish. I suspect that the best way to overcome
misunderstanding, prejudice, and hate is by means of reason, common
sense, clear thinking, and goodwill. Slim, in contrast, believes that
the sun rises just for him. The conclusion to draw from this conflict of
views should be obvious: When a mistake is made, the smart thing to do
is to admit it and reverse course. That takes real courage. The way that
Slim stubbornly refuses to own up to his mistakes serves only to
convince me that he says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were
to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions
-- even our library records. Why on Earth does he need to monitor our
library records? You see, he labels anyone he doesn't like as
"incontinent". That might well be a better description of Slim. 

Slim has, at times, called me "unenlightened" or "insipid". Such
contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being
infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to make a mockery of our
most fundamentally held beliefs. Let me give you an important hint: When
trying to understand what he is up to, look at what he is doing and what
he has done. Don't let yourself be distracted by the patter and the
hand-waving; keep your eye on the shell that has the pea under it. And
focus your mind on the fact that those of us who are still sane, those
of us who still have a firm grip on reality, those of us who still
assert that mankind, with all of its accumulated knowledge, wonderful
machines, scientific methods, and material power, still has much to fear
from lecherous trolls like him, have an obligation to do more than just
observe what he is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to
upbraid him for being so sadistic. We have an obligation to admonish him
not seven times, but seventy times seven. And we have an obligation to
beat him at his own game. 

You don't have to say anything specifically about Slim for him to start
attacking you. All you have to do is dare to imply that we should
indicate in a rough and approximate way the two depraved tendencies that
I believe are the main driving force of modern isolationism. I am not
going to go into too great a detail about deplorable miscreants, but be
assured that if you think you can escape from his deranged wisecracks,
then good-bye and good luck. To the rest of you I suggest that Slim's
desire to conspire with evil is the chief sign that he's a filthy
menace. (The second sign is that Slim feels obliged to rule with an iron
fist.) The bottom line is that Slim provides simplistic answers to
complex problems.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
> bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Robert Skinner
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:28 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Rhodes22-list Digest, Vol 795, Issue
1
> 
> Slim,
> 
> I know it's a foreign concept for someone lucky enough to be using the
> relatively stable Apple operating systems, but you did forget to tell
> him to change his internet parameters and reboot his machine.  Or, for
> that real outsourced-customer-support feel, you could have advised him
> to fire up regedit make some changes...
> 
> Carry on!
> 
> /Bob
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