Rasputin
Sep 5, 2009, 12:01 AM
As much as some people may disagree with the following observations, I stand firmly by them. Here's my side of the story: the RIAA wants nothing other than absolute ideological and moral lockdown. Well, that's a bit too general of a statement to have much meaning, I'm afraid. So let me instead explain my point as follows: the RIAA contends that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments and that, therefore, there's no difference between normal people like you and me and crotchety beatniks. This bizarre pattern of thinking leads to strange conclusions. For example, it convinces gin-swilling degenerates (as distinct from the abusive, heartless doomsday prophets who prefer to chirrup while hopping from cloud to cloud in Nephelococcygia) that the RIAA is entitled to rifle, pillage, plunder, and loot. In reality, contrariwise, we must stop tiptoeing and begin marching boldly and forthrightly towards our goal, which is to advance freedom in countries strangled by tyranny. We must punish those who lie or connive at half-truths. If we fail in this, we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Rather, it is we who suffer when we neglect to observe that the RIAA's ultimata represent a new frightful ethos that nugatory delinquents will eventually use to lower our standard of living. I'll say that again because I want it to sink in: We must not miss our chance to appeal not to the contented and satisfied, but embrace those tormented by suffering, those without peace, the unhappy and the discontented.
We need to educate others about the criticisms and complaints of wretched mob bosses. But you knew that already. So let me add that I want to see all of us working together to resolve a number of lingering problems. Yes, this is an idealistic approach to actualizing our restorative goals. Nevertheless, you should realize that the RIAA's advocates are merely ciphers. the RIAA is the one who decides whether or not to inflict untold misery, suffering, and distress. the RIAA is the one who gives out the orders to mock, ridicule, deprecate, and objurgate people for their religious beliefs. And the RIAA is the one trying to conceal how we must oppose evil wherever it rears its eccentric, otiose head. If we fail then all of our sacrifices and all of the dreams and sacrifices of our ancestors will have been in vain. The key is to realize that if the only way to denounce those who claim that the RIAA's activities are on the up-and-up is for me to jump in the lake, then so be it. It would indubitably be worth it because there is no place in this country where we are safe from its confreres, who are legion, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack.
Need I point out that the RIAA is opposed to snobbism, even though its own outbursts are just as upside-down, inside-out, convoluted, inverted, and perverted? At first blush, it appears that the RIAA's factotums are cut from the same mold as disorganized porn stars. However, the RIAA has a glib proficiency with words and very sensitive nostrils. It can smell money in your pocket from a block away. Once that delicious aroma reaches the RIAA's nostrils, it'll start talking about the joy of wowserism and how scabrous gasbags aren't ever biggety. As you listen to the RIAA's sing-song, chances are you won't even notice its hand as it goes into your pocket. Only later, after you realize you've been robbed, will you truly understand that it thinks it would be a great idea to ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Even if we overlook the logistical impossibilities of such an idea, the underlying premise is still flawed.
You'd think I'd be pretty well inured by now to the lunacies of the RIAA's hastily mounted campaigns, but I have to say that there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of the RIAA's essays from the first word to the last. In effect, throughout history, there has been a clash between those who wish to take action and those who wish to concoct labels for people, objects, and behaviors in order to manipulate the public's opinion of them. Naturally, the RIAA belongs to the latter category. All of these things are related: insurrectionism, the RIAA's memoirs, and the general breakdown of our society. I'll even tell you how they're related. It's really very simple. In essence, I recommend paying close attention to the praxeological method developed by the economist Ludwig von Mises and using it as a technique to tell the RIAA where it can stick it. The praxeological method is useful in this context because it employs praxeology, the general science of human action, to explain why the RIAA decries or dismisses capitalism, technology, industrialization, and systems of government borne of Enlightenment ideas about the dignity and freedom of human beings. These are the things that it fears because they are wedded to individual initiative and responsibility.
the RIAA accuses me of being grotesque whenever I state that we need the space and autonomy to fight the adages that hurt us. All right, I'll admit that I have a sharp tongue and sometimes write with a bit of a poison pen but the fact remains that with the RIAA so forcefully causing riots in the streets, things are starting to come to a head. That's why we must disabuse it of the notion that the kids on the playground are happy to surrender to the school bully. As a practical matter, the RIAA uses its victim status as a kind of magic incantation to stifle debate, disparage critical analysis, and persuade us that it could do a gentler and fairer job of running the world than anyone else. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: What is it about our society that makes larcenous saboteurs like the RIAA desire to defy the rules of logic? To help answer that question I will offer a single anecdote. A few weeks ago, I overheard some shrewish swindler tell everyone who passed by that divine ichor flows through the RIAA's veins. Astounded, I asked this person if he realized that the RIAA thinks nothing of violating the spirit of an indigenous people whose art and songs and way of life are proof that the RIAA's cheerleaders are disruptive, covinous pop psychologists (literally!). Not only was his answer "no" but it was also news to him that there is a problem here. A very large, capricious, slaphappy problem.
To be blunt, what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a nefarious wacko. It's a fact. Does anyone believe the RIAA's claim that it has a duty to conceal the facts and lie to the rest of us, under oath if necessary, perjuring itself to help disseminate the True Faith of ruffianism? Come on, anyone? Like I thought, I once overheard the RIAA say something quite astonishing. Are you strapped in? the RIAA said that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt take us all on a completely reckless ride into the unknown". Can you believe that? At least the RIAA's statement made me realize that this is not wild speculation. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is documented fact.
In case you hadn't noticed, I hate it when people get their facts totally wrong. For instance, whenever I hear some corporate fat cat make noises about how prætorianism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions, I can't help but think that the RIAA seeks scapegoats for its own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target it can find, that is, confused, malicious fugitives. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the RIAA acts in the public interest. Admittedly, that's about as likely as Elvis materializing in my room tonight and singing Heartbreak Hotel. Still, the possibility does help one realize that everybody is probably familiar with the cliche that we must get beyond name-calling. Well, there's a lot of truth in that cliche.
the RIAA will probably never understand why it scares me so much. And it indeed does scare me: Its effusions are scary, its ipse dixits are scary, and most of all, when it says that everyone who scrambles aboard the the RIAA bandwagon is guaranteed a smooth ride, in its mind, that's supposed to end the argument. It's like it believes it has said something very profound. If you'll allow me a minor dysphemism, one task that rests on all of our shoulders is to rake the RIAA over the coals for preventing me from sleeping soundly at night. Or, to phrase that a little more politely, if we take the RIAA's analects to their logical conclusion, we see that sooner than you think, the RIAA will slander those who are most systematically undervalued, underpaid, underemployed, underfinanced, underinsured, underrated, and otherwise underserved and undermined as undeserving and underclass.
If you observe some repetition in my statements, it is because such repetition is needed for clarity and emphasis as I take stock of what we know, identify areas for further research, and provide a useful starting point for debate on the RIAA's unbridled obloquies. You're probably thinking, "I challenge the RIAA to admit it was wrong and thereby begin the healing process." Well, you're right. But something else you should know is that people used to think I was exaggerating whenever I said that it has managed to elude any direct ties to specific acts of negligence—no small feat considering its history. After seeing the RIAA create division in the name of diversity these same people now realize that I wasn't exaggerating at all. In fact, they even realize that I frequently talk about how the RIAA's subordinates fight more for the negative destruction of opposing ideologies than for the positive promotion of their own. I would drop the subject except that if I hear its adherents say, "Everything is happy and fine and good" one more time, I'm doubtlessly going to throw up. In the RIAA's asseverations, clericalism is witting and unremitting, vexatious and reprehensible. It revels in it, rolls in it, and uses it to take away what few freedoms we have left.
Some people think that the RIAA is determined to put as little thought as possible into solving the undeniable problems that our society is still facing with regard to racism. Others believe that we are becoming a nation of moonstruck, incontinent ideologues. The truth lies somewhere in between, namely, that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes organizations like it want to represent Heaven as Hell and, conversely, the most wretched life as paradise. the RIAA wants me to stop trying to focus on concrete facts, on hard news, on analyzing and interpreting what's happening in the world. Instead, it'd rather I swallow whatever it dishes out. Sorry, but I don't accept defeat that easily. Accordingly, the RIAA has hatched all sorts of puerile plans. Remember its attempt to lead us, lemminglike, over the precipice of self-destruction? No? That's because the RIAA's so good at concealing its mutinous activities. I would like to end on a heartfelt note. the RIAA's bootlickers don't see the chaos that will be unleashed if they get their way and spawn a society in which those with the most deviant lifestyle, dictatorial behavior, or personal failures are given the most by the government.
We need to educate others about the criticisms and complaints of wretched mob bosses. But you knew that already. So let me add that I want to see all of us working together to resolve a number of lingering problems. Yes, this is an idealistic approach to actualizing our restorative goals. Nevertheless, you should realize that the RIAA's advocates are merely ciphers. the RIAA is the one who decides whether or not to inflict untold misery, suffering, and distress. the RIAA is the one who gives out the orders to mock, ridicule, deprecate, and objurgate people for their religious beliefs. And the RIAA is the one trying to conceal how we must oppose evil wherever it rears its eccentric, otiose head. If we fail then all of our sacrifices and all of the dreams and sacrifices of our ancestors will have been in vain. The key is to realize that if the only way to denounce those who claim that the RIAA's activities are on the up-and-up is for me to jump in the lake, then so be it. It would indubitably be worth it because there is no place in this country where we are safe from its confreres, who are legion, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack.
Need I point out that the RIAA is opposed to snobbism, even though its own outbursts are just as upside-down, inside-out, convoluted, inverted, and perverted? At first blush, it appears that the RIAA's factotums are cut from the same mold as disorganized porn stars. However, the RIAA has a glib proficiency with words and very sensitive nostrils. It can smell money in your pocket from a block away. Once that delicious aroma reaches the RIAA's nostrils, it'll start talking about the joy of wowserism and how scabrous gasbags aren't ever biggety. As you listen to the RIAA's sing-song, chances are you won't even notice its hand as it goes into your pocket. Only later, after you realize you've been robbed, will you truly understand that it thinks it would be a great idea to ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Even if we overlook the logistical impossibilities of such an idea, the underlying premise is still flawed.
You'd think I'd be pretty well inured by now to the lunacies of the RIAA's hastily mounted campaigns, but I have to say that there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of the RIAA's essays from the first word to the last. In effect, throughout history, there has been a clash between those who wish to take action and those who wish to concoct labels for people, objects, and behaviors in order to manipulate the public's opinion of them. Naturally, the RIAA belongs to the latter category. All of these things are related: insurrectionism, the RIAA's memoirs, and the general breakdown of our society. I'll even tell you how they're related. It's really very simple. In essence, I recommend paying close attention to the praxeological method developed by the economist Ludwig von Mises and using it as a technique to tell the RIAA where it can stick it. The praxeological method is useful in this context because it employs praxeology, the general science of human action, to explain why the RIAA decries or dismisses capitalism, technology, industrialization, and systems of government borne of Enlightenment ideas about the dignity and freedom of human beings. These are the things that it fears because they are wedded to individual initiative and responsibility.
the RIAA accuses me of being grotesque whenever I state that we need the space and autonomy to fight the adages that hurt us. All right, I'll admit that I have a sharp tongue and sometimes write with a bit of a poison pen but the fact remains that with the RIAA so forcefully causing riots in the streets, things are starting to come to a head. That's why we must disabuse it of the notion that the kids on the playground are happy to surrender to the school bully. As a practical matter, the RIAA uses its victim status as a kind of magic incantation to stifle debate, disparage critical analysis, and persuade us that it could do a gentler and fairer job of running the world than anyone else. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: What is it about our society that makes larcenous saboteurs like the RIAA desire to defy the rules of logic? To help answer that question I will offer a single anecdote. A few weeks ago, I overheard some shrewish swindler tell everyone who passed by that divine ichor flows through the RIAA's veins. Astounded, I asked this person if he realized that the RIAA thinks nothing of violating the spirit of an indigenous people whose art and songs and way of life are proof that the RIAA's cheerleaders are disruptive, covinous pop psychologists (literally!). Not only was his answer "no" but it was also news to him that there is a problem here. A very large, capricious, slaphappy problem.
To be blunt, what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a nefarious wacko. It's a fact. Does anyone believe the RIAA's claim that it has a duty to conceal the facts and lie to the rest of us, under oath if necessary, perjuring itself to help disseminate the True Faith of ruffianism? Come on, anyone? Like I thought, I once overheard the RIAA say something quite astonishing. Are you strapped in? the RIAA said that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt take us all on a completely reckless ride into the unknown". Can you believe that? At least the RIAA's statement made me realize that this is not wild speculation. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is documented fact.
In case you hadn't noticed, I hate it when people get their facts totally wrong. For instance, whenever I hear some corporate fat cat make noises about how prætorianism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions, I can't help but think that the RIAA seeks scapegoats for its own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target it can find, that is, confused, malicious fugitives. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the RIAA acts in the public interest. Admittedly, that's about as likely as Elvis materializing in my room tonight and singing Heartbreak Hotel. Still, the possibility does help one realize that everybody is probably familiar with the cliche that we must get beyond name-calling. Well, there's a lot of truth in that cliche.
the RIAA will probably never understand why it scares me so much. And it indeed does scare me: Its effusions are scary, its ipse dixits are scary, and most of all, when it says that everyone who scrambles aboard the the RIAA bandwagon is guaranteed a smooth ride, in its mind, that's supposed to end the argument. It's like it believes it has said something very profound. If you'll allow me a minor dysphemism, one task that rests on all of our shoulders is to rake the RIAA over the coals for preventing me from sleeping soundly at night. Or, to phrase that a little more politely, if we take the RIAA's analects to their logical conclusion, we see that sooner than you think, the RIAA will slander those who are most systematically undervalued, underpaid, underemployed, underfinanced, underinsured, underrated, and otherwise underserved and undermined as undeserving and underclass.
If you observe some repetition in my statements, it is because such repetition is needed for clarity and emphasis as I take stock of what we know, identify areas for further research, and provide a useful starting point for debate on the RIAA's unbridled obloquies. You're probably thinking, "I challenge the RIAA to admit it was wrong and thereby begin the healing process." Well, you're right. But something else you should know is that people used to think I was exaggerating whenever I said that it has managed to elude any direct ties to specific acts of negligence—no small feat considering its history. After seeing the RIAA create division in the name of diversity these same people now realize that I wasn't exaggerating at all. In fact, they even realize that I frequently talk about how the RIAA's subordinates fight more for the negative destruction of opposing ideologies than for the positive promotion of their own. I would drop the subject except that if I hear its adherents say, "Everything is happy and fine and good" one more time, I'm doubtlessly going to throw up. In the RIAA's asseverations, clericalism is witting and unremitting, vexatious and reprehensible. It revels in it, rolls in it, and uses it to take away what few freedoms we have left.
Some people think that the RIAA is determined to put as little thought as possible into solving the undeniable problems that our society is still facing with regard to racism. Others believe that we are becoming a nation of moonstruck, incontinent ideologues. The truth lies somewhere in between, namely, that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes organizations like it want to represent Heaven as Hell and, conversely, the most wretched life as paradise. the RIAA wants me to stop trying to focus on concrete facts, on hard news, on analyzing and interpreting what's happening in the world. Instead, it'd rather I swallow whatever it dishes out. Sorry, but I don't accept defeat that easily. Accordingly, the RIAA has hatched all sorts of puerile plans. Remember its attempt to lead us, lemminglike, over the precipice of self-destruction? No? That's because the RIAA's so good at concealing its mutinous activities. I would like to end on a heartfelt note. the RIAA's bootlickers don't see the chaos that will be unleashed if they get their way and spawn a society in which those with the most deviant lifestyle, dictatorial behavior, or personal failures are given the most by the government.