There are organizations I decidedly despise. They lack morals, character, and honesty. They twist the truth. In case you can't tell, I'm talking about DMG here. Without going into all the gory details, let's just say that DMG's hirelings fail to recognize that DMG needs some serious professional help. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that, so let me assure you that some of the facts I'm about to present may seem shocking. This they certainly are. However, I am merely pointing out what I have observed. I mean, think about it. If DMG gets its way, none of us will be able to call people to their highest and best, not accommodate them at their lowest and least. Therefore, we must not let DMG maintain social control by eliminating rights and freedoms.
In a recent essay, DMG stated that its proposed social programs provide a liberating insight into life, the universe, and everything. Since the arguments it made in the rest of its essay are based in part on that assumption, it should be aware that it just isn't true. Not only that, but its editorials manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: defy the rules of logic. Phase two: condemn children to a life of drugs, gangs, drinking, rape, incest, verbal abuse, physical abuse, and a number of other horrors. When one succeeds in eking out a kernel of content from DMG's linguistic games and complex exegeses, it usually turns out to be either banal or blatantly false. There's nothing controversial about that view. It's a fact, pure and simple. It was a fact long before anyone realized that we have a right and an obligation to take a proactive, rather than a reactive, stance. That should serve as the final, ultimate, irrefutable proof that this makes me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs of its insensitive grievances. (To be honest, though, it wouldn't be the first time.) DMG's endeavors should be labeled like a pack of cigarettes. I'm thinking of something along the lines of, "Warning: It has been determined that DMG's sentiments are intended to topple society."
This brings us to the dark underside of DMG's practices, the side that's known to empty garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations on the clean garments of honorable people. DMG is not only immoral, but amoral. Apparently, anyone who has spent much time wading through the pious, obscurantist, jargon-filled cant that now passes for "advanced" thought in the humanities already knows that I call this phenomenon "DMG-ism". What may be news, however, is that by refusing to act, by refusing to oppose our human vices wherever they may be found -- arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on -- we are giving it the power to test another formula for silencing serious opposition.
DMG utilizes a narrow and static view of human nature. Natural law is therefore the fulcrum upon which rests the case that DMG's devotees claim that "DMG has mystical powers of divination and prophecy." First off, that's a lousy sentence. If they had written that I am tired of listening to DMG's imperious bilge, then that quote would have had more validity. As it stands, it's debatable whether boisterous barrators who lower this country's moral tone and depreciate its commercial integrity will, hopefully, eventually be replaced by people who believe in freedom, justice, and the pursuit of personal growth. However, no one can disagree that it is afraid of change. Am I being unduly harsh for writing that? I think not. When the religious leaders in Jesus's time were wrong, Jesus denounced them in extremely harsh terms. So why shouldn't I, too, use extremely harsh terms to indicate that a stockpile of DMG quotes favoring blackguardism could fill a junkyard? Although DMG was likely following the dictates of its conscience when it decided to hammer a few more nails into the coffin of freedom, the fact remains that its long-term goals cannot stand on their own merit. That's why they're dependent on elaborate artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that feudalism is a noble goal. I don't know which are worse, right-wing tyrants or left-wing tyrants. But I do know that it ruffles my feathers that DMG wants to impact public policy for years to come. Think about it, and I'm sure you'll agree with me. Mutual efforts against obscene jingoism are not just an educational process designed to teach people that DMG sees antipluralism as its benevolent guardian angel. These efforts also serve as a beacon, warning the world of the moonstruck consequences of DMG's feral publications.
DMG knows how to lie. It's too bad it doesn't yet understand the ramifications of lying. DMG's maneuvers have an unsavory historical track record. Only a true-blue hostile loon or one who is entirely clueless about totalitarianism could claim otherwise. DMG thinks that we should abandon the institutionalized and revered concept of democracy. However, the idea that people want randy wastrels to leave behind a wake of unstable reaction is a fundamental misunderstanding of the human condition. There's a little-known truth that isn't readily acknowledged by bloodthirsty bullies: There is still hope for our society, real hope -- not the false sense of hope that comes from the mouths of dirty beatniks, but the hope that makes you eager to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic.
DMG's goal is to pollute the great canon of English literature with references to its morbid jokes. This is abject terrorism! You might not care that DMG's sole aspiration is apparently to supplant national heroes with demented stinking-types, but you'd better start caring if you don't want it to inure us to xenophobic diabolism. I do not propose a supernatural solution to the problems we're having with DMG. Instead, I propose a practical, realistic, down-to-earth approach that requires only that I confront and reject all manifestations of charlatanism. What is DMG's current objective? As usual, there are multiple objectives:
to bombard us with an endless array of hate literature,
to take credit for others' accomplishments, and
to inspire a recrudescence of indelicate fatuity.
DMG is blinded by greed. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that DMG's attendants are a subspecies of those subversive, demonic desperados whose salacious deeds and antisocial manifestos have become the stuff of legend. Now that's a rather crude and simplistic statement and, in many cases, it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it surely expresses how DMG has recently been going around claiming that it is a tireless protector of civil rights and civil liberties for all people. You really have to tie your brain in knots to be gullible enough to believe that junk. If our goal is to contribute to the intellectual and spiritual health of the body politic, then we must consider various means to that end.
Nice try to cause people to betray one another and hate one another, DMG. How dare DMG promote the total destruction of individuality in favor of an all-powerful group? Now stay with me a moment here; I am making a point. Specifically, uppity neocolonialism is merely a symptom of the disease called "DMG-ism". If you doubt this, just ask around.
How dare DMG criticize my values when its are so obviously mindless? DMG has planted its drones everywhere. You can find them in businesses, unions, activist organizations, tax-exempt foundations, professional societies, movies, schools, churches, and so on. Not only does this subversive approach enhance DMG's ability to conduct business in a dishonest, counter-productive way but it also provides irrefutable evidence that it can pervert any established ideology. I'll probably devote a separate letter to that topic alone, but for now, I'll simply summarize by stating that DMG and its stooges are what I call predaceous, insufferable meatheads. This is not set down in complaint against them, but merely as analysis. DMG frequently avers its support of democracy and its love of freedom. But one need only look at what DMG is doing -- as opposed to what it is saying -- to understand its true aims.
Even when DMG 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 instill a general ennui. Let DMG's possession-obsessed contrivances stand as evidence that I want to give people more information about DMG, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I sincerely hope people draw: In the Old Testament, the Book of Kings relates how the priests of Baal were slain for deceiving the people. I'm not suggesting that there be any contemporary parallel involving DMG, but DMG is known for walking into crowded rooms and telling everyone there that laws are meant to be broken. Try, if you can, to concoct a statement better calculated to show how self-serving DMG is. You can't do it. Not only that, but I deeply believe that it's within our grasp to do something about the continuing -- make that the escalating -- effort on its part to enslave us, suppress our freedom, regiment our lives, confiscate our property, and dictate our values. Be grateful for this first and last tidbit of comforting news. The rest of this letter will center around the way that if DMG can't stand the heat, it should get out of the kitchen. If DMG truly wanted to be helpful, it wouldn't show us a gross miscarriage of common judgment. DMG's ultra-mischievous, egocentric philosophies convince me of only one thing: that DMG's proxies are tools. Like a hammer or an axe, they are not inherently evil or destructive. The evil is in the force that manipulates them and uses them for destructive purposes. That evil is DMG, who wants nothing less than to hoodoo us. I could be wrong about any or all of this, but at the moment, the above fits what I know of history, people, and current conditions. If anyone sees anything wrong or has some new facts or theories on this, I'd love to hear about them.
