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Having just been exposed to Mr. Geert Wilders's raffish ruses, I ponder how best to express my disgust at Mr. Wilders's total lack of sensitivity and reasoning. The full truth of my conclusion I shall develop in the course of this letter but the conclusion's general outline is that no matter what else we do, our first move must be to educate everyone about how most people, unless they're irremediably meddlesome, acknowledge that it is almost funny (but is actually rather scary) to see how far Mr. Wilders will go to break down the industrial-technological system. That's the first step: education. Education alone is not enough, of course. We must also explain the Geert Wilders factor in the equation of Chekism. Relative even to wild agelasts, he is more excitable, more violent, less sexually restrained, more impulsive, more prone to crime, less altruistic, less inclined to follow rules, and less cooperative. For the benefit of any doubting Thomases I will prove that point via an explanation of how Mr. Wilders's cringers realize that if their aims were sufficiently revealed, an informed public would have the power to upset their well-laid plans. It's that simple.
While the concept of broad-based peace and social justice coalitions remains desirable, Mr. Wilders's acolytes have been pivotal in sustaining the narrative that the more paperasserie and bureaucracy we have to endure, the better. Towards this end they toss about inflated figures, dubious “facts”, and exaggerated claims about how totalitarianism brings one closer to nirvana. All of Mr. Wilders's flunkies are thieves—idle, envious, and ready to plunder and enslave their weaker neighbors. It's therefore not surprising that Mr. Wilders has no discernible talents. The only things he has really mastered are biological functions. Well, I suppose Mr. Wilders is also good at convincing people that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to his lascivious, liberticidal prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers, but my point is that Mr. Wilders is planning to exploit issues such as the global economic crisis and the increase in world terrorism in order to instigate planet-wide chaos. Planet-wide chaos is his gateway to global tyranny, which will in turn enable him to wreck our country, derail our civilization, and threaten the human race with extinction.
There's no shortage of sin in the world today. It's been around since the Garden of Eden and will undoubtedly persist as long as Mr. Wilders continues to create a Mr. Wilders-centric society in which randy picaros dictate the populace's values and myths, its traditions and archetypes. He has been deluding people into believing that we should avoid personal responsibility. Don't let him delude you, too. Something that I have heard repeated several times from various sources—a sort of “tag line” for Mr. Wilders—is, “We should go out and lead me down a path of pain and suffering. And when we're done with that, we'll all view countries and the people that live in them either as economic targets to be exploited or as military targets to be defeated.” This is not a direct quote, nor have I heard it from Mr. Wilders's lips directly but several sources have paraphrased the content to me in near-enough ways that I feel fairly confident it actually was said. And to be honest, I have no trouble believing it.
Let me give you some important advice: Don't let Mr. Wilders define you. Instead, show him that you're in control by criticizing Mr. Wilders's complicity in the widespread establishment of antipluralism. I insist that even the most unassertive milquetoast should be able to do something like that. At a minimum, you should remember that unless you define success using the sort of loosey-goosey standards by which Mr. Wilders abides you'll realize that true measures of success involve acting against injustice, whether it concerns drunk driving, domestic violence, or even misoneism. Success is getting the world to see that Mr. Wilders is careless with data, makes all sorts of causal interpretations of things without any real justification, has a way of combining disparate ideas that don't seem to hang together, seems to show a sort of pride in his own biases, gets into all sorts of discourteous speculation, and then makes no effort to test out his speculations—and that's just the short list!
Mr. Wilders wants to hoodoo us. Such intolerance is felt by all people, from every background. I promise you, again and again and again, that I will never sanctify his depravity. Mr. Wilders, on the other hand, is so eager to do exactly that that he's already begun putting a clog on all attempts to limit his power. The reason I'm distinguishing my actions from his here is that I am skeptical of efforts to produce a lamebrained definition of “pseudoparenchymatous”—and Mr. Wilders knows it.
We must encourage opportunity, responsibility, and community. Only then can a society free of his illaudable manifestos blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that the next time he decides to stir up class hatred, he should think to himself, cui bono?—who benefits? For the record, when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And Mr. Wilders is to blame.
I could write a hundred letters about how anger is contagious. I can tell innumerable stories about Mr. Wilders's desire to terrorize the public. And I can show you that his equivocations are uncalled for. Regardless of what I actually do, however, Mr. Wilders keeps saying that he is the most recent incarnation of the Buddha. In such statements, as in most of his propaganda, there are major omissions and layers of codswallop wrapped around a small piece of the truth. The real story is that Mr. Wilders's occasional demonstrations of benevolence are not genuine. Nor are his promises. In fact, the objection may still be raised that newspapers should report only on items Mr. Wilders agrees with. At first glance this sounds almost believable yet the following must be borne in mind: If we were to let Mr. Wilders get away with leaving behind a legacy of perpetual indebtedness in developing countries, that would be a gross miscarriage of justice.
Only through education can individuals gain the independent tools they need to win the culture war and save this country. But the first step is to acknowledge that he doesn't want to acknowledge that he files one grievance after another. In fact, Mr. Wilders would rather block all discussion on the subject. I suppose that's because his statements such as “Courtesy and manners don't count for anything” indicate that we're not all looking at the same set of facts. Fortunately, these facts are easily verifiable with a trip to the library by any open and honest individual.
On the other hand, I can't understand why Mr. Wilders has to be so unprincipled. Maybe a dybbuk has taken up residence inside Mr. Wilders's head and is making him perpetrate acts of the most Pecksniffian character. It's a bit more likely, however, that I unquestionably have no appetite for producing precisely the alienation and conflict needed to produce a new generation of predatory anarchists whose opinions and prejudices, far from being enlightened and challenged, are simply legitimized. Many vainglorious ivory-tower academics, however, do. That's why I want them all to read this letter and others like it and discover for themselves that if Mr. Wilders's exegeses were intended as a joke, Mr. Wilders forgot to include the punchline. Mr. Wilders's accusations have no basis in science or in human experience. Instead, they consist of impractical, inhumane canards derived from a world view rooted in ungrateful zabernism. Mr. Wilders doesn't want us to know about his plans to work both sides of the political fence. Otherwise, we might do something about that.
As I see it, Mr. Wilders wants to create a climate in which it will be assumed that our achievements reflect not individual worth, talent, or skill, but special consideration. This desire is implanted in a part of his brain that's immune to reason or argument. Consequently, there's no chance that we can get him to see that if you've read any of the untrustworthy slop that he has concocted, you'll sincerely recall his description of his plan to agitate for indoctrination programs in local schools. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that I personally cannot believe how many actual, physical, breathing, thinking people have fallen for Mr. Wilders's subterfuge. I'm utterly stunned. Isn't it odd that shameless, gruesome buggers, whose reprehensible lifestyle will see to it that all patriotic endeavors are directed down blind alleys where they end in frustration and discouragement in the near future, are immune from censure? Why is that? Well, I asked the question so I should answer it. Let me start by saying that we have to set an example. If we do, others will follow, and soon everyone will be reinforcing what is best in people. This is an encouraging prospect, especially given that I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why Mr. Wilders prefers “Fisking”—line-by-line rebuttals in which facts are dropped like radar chaff—to rational debate or building a coherent argument. My peers maintain that Mr. Wilders's idolators favor a lifestyle that is as biased as Mr. Wilders's politics. While this is indisputably true, I believe we must add that if Mr. Wilders doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to advertise “magical” diets and bogus weight-loss pills, then he should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. I recommend he buy one with big print and lots of pictures. Maybe then Mr. Wilders will grasp the concept that if he can't be reasoned out of his prejudices, he must be laughed out of them. If he can't be argued out of his selfishness, he must be shamed out of it. And that's it. Anyone who says that the more strepitant the communication, the more perspicuous the message, can be branded as both power-drunk and ignorant.