Nitro Vordex
Sep 5, 2009, 04:35 PM
Once again, I am writing in response to Sony's tracts, and once again, I merely wish to point out that I invite you to talk to Sony yourself if you feel that I'm misrepresenting its position. Before examining the present situation, however, it is important that I present a clear picture of what is happening, what has happened, and what is likely to happen in the future. Sony needs to stop living in denial. It needs to wake up and realize that it has long been obvious to attentive observers that there is a tortured quality to its reasoning, a careful avoidance of obvious conclusions, and a painstaking circumnavigation of embarrassing facts. But did you know that the success of Sony's criticisms relies upon the average voter not knowing whether our nation has gone communist, socialist, fascist, or merely insane? Sony doesn't want you to know that because the key to its soul is its longing for the effortless, irresponsible, automatic consciousness of an animal. Sony dreads the necessity, the risk, and the responsibility of rational cognition. As a result, we can never return to the past. And if we are ever to move forward to the future, we honestly have to chastise it for not doing any research before spouting off.
While this country still has far to go before people are truly judged on the content of their character, some of us have an opportunity to come in contact with what I call sophomoric larcenous-types on a regular basis at work or in school. We, therefore, may be able to gain some insight into the way they think, into their values; we may be able to understand why they want to alter laws, language, and customs in the service of regulating social relations. Sony really struck a nerve with me when it said that it acts in the name of equality and social justice. That lie is a painful reminder that as soon as Sony found the resources to do so it lost no time in turning rabble-rousers loose against us good citizens. The inevitable followed: Hotheaded extremists started to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos. The scariest part of all of this is that I unquestionably contend that the lockstep ideological conformity of Sony's apparatchiks and their mindless parroting of Sony's treasonous cliches about communism have reached a level of absurdity hardly matched by any historical example that comes to mind. My views, of course, are not the issue here. The issue is that it accuses me of being narrow-minded. Does it believe I'm narrow-minded because I refuse to accept its claim that divine ichor flows through its veins? If so, then I guess I'm as narrow-minded as I could possibly be.
I heard through the grapevine that Sony's subordinates coerce children into becoming activists willing to serve, promote, spy, and fight for Sony's litanies. Whether or not this rumor is true, just the other day, some of its untrustworthy spokesmen forced a prospectus into my hands as I walked past. The prospectus described Sony's blueprint for a world in which uppity, horny troglodytes are free to prey on people's fear of political and economic instability. As I dropped the prospectus onto an overflowing wastebasket I reflected upon the way that we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Sony.
Listen up: The only weapons Sony has in its intellectual arsenal are book burning, brainwashing, and intimidation. That's all it has, and it knows it. Let us now join hands, hearts, and minds to inculcate in the reader an inquisitive spirit and a skepticism about beliefs that Sony's bootlickers take for granted.
Unsettling as that is, the more infuriating fact is that people used to think I was exaggerating whenever I said that Sony is out of control, like a runaway freight train. After seeing Sony challenge all I stand for these same people now realize that I wasn't exaggerating at all. In fact, they even realize that we ought to examine the social and cultural conditions that lead Sony to extract obscene salaries and profits from corporations that destroy all tradition, all morality, and the entire democratic system. That'll make Sony think once—I would have said "twice" but I don't see any indication that it has previously given any thought to the matter—before trying to place indecent, vulgar egotists at the head of a nationwide kakistocracy. No doubt, Sony is urging us to follow it down the rabbit hole or through the looking glass into a wonderland of jingoism. But I've known some hooligans who were impressively incompetent. However, Sony is brazen and that trumps incompetent every time.
I'm no psychiatrist. Still, from the little I know about psychiatry I can decidedly say that Sony seems to exhibit many of the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome. I don't say that to judge but merely to put Sony's unsophisticated wheelings and dealings into perspective. There isn't a man, woman, or child alive today who thinks that anyone who resists Sony deserves to be crushed, so let's toss out that ridiculous argument of Sony's from the get-go. Sony definitely believes that it is as innocent as a newborn lamb. What kind of Humpty-Dumpty world is it living in? I've excogitated one theory that almost completely answers that question. Unfortunately, it fails to take into account that some reputed—as opposed to reputable—members of Sony's terrorist organization quite adamantly aver that anyone who disagrees with Sony is ultimately wrongheaded. I find it rather astonishing that anyone could allege such a thing but then again, no clear-thinking individual would have the temerity to fortify a social correctness that restricts experience and defines success with narrow boundaries. Now, I could go off on that point alone, but if the people generally are relying on false information sown by libidinous opportunists, then correcting that situation becomes a priority for the defense of our nation.
To those cantankerous, irritable Philistines who think that space aliens are out to lay eggs in our innards or ooze their alien hell-slime all over us, know this: Sony's double standards are a mere cavil, a mere scarecrow, one of the last shifts of a desperate and dying cause. Sony's motto is "never forgive and never forget". Likewise, Sony's personal attacks reek of fanaticism. I use the word "reek" because I would be grateful if Sony would take a little time from its rigorous schedule to reach out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens. If Sony gets its way, we will soon be engulfed in a Dark Age of resistentialism and indescribable horror. That's why I'm telling you that it claims to be supportive of my plan to make a cause célèbre out of exposing its mind games for what they really are. Don't trust it, though; it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Before you know it, it'll cause one-sided traducements to be entered into historical fact. Not only that, but Sony keeps insisting that national-security interests can and should be sidestepped whenever its institutional interests are at stake. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that Sony plans to create a fastidious world of guilt and shame. What can you do about that? Start by reading about how I am troubled by Sony's constant exaggerations and half-truths. Become informed about the deceit, lies, and propanganda surrounding its promotion of Chekism. Tell everyone you know that Sony likes thinking thoughts that aren't burdensome and that feel good. That's why the real question here is not, "Which of the seven deadly sins—pride, envy, anger, sadness, avarice, gluttony, and lust—does it not commit on a daily basis?". The real question is rather, "Will peeling back the onion of its morally questionable tirades cause it to shed tears or will it merely enhance its desire to convict me without trial, jury, or reading one complete paragraph of this letter?" Apparently, even know-it-all Sony doesn't know the answer to that one. It wouldn't even matter if it did, given that if it doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives, then it should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. I recommend it buy one with big print and lots of pictures. Maybe then Sony will grasp the concept that it justifies its phlegmatic hijinks with fallacious logical arguments based on argumentum ad baculum. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, it means that if we don't accept Sony's claim that space gods arriving in flying saucers will save humanity from self-destruction then it will promote racial superiority doctrines, ethnic persecution, imperialist expansion, and genocide.
Sony never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. It presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, it seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that there is still hope for our society, real hope—not the false sense of hope that comes from the mouths of uncompanionable, pudibund nymphomaniacs but the hope that makes you eager to criticize its complicity in the widespread establishment of demagogism. Sony uses the very intellectual tools it criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity. Sony commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. It then ensures that these people stay in those positions because that makes it easy for Sony to bowdlerize all unfavorable descriptions of its tricks. Just look at the bill of fare served up in recent movies and television programs and you will hardly be able to deny that Sony is extremely brassbound. In fact, my Brassbound-O-Meter confirms that my general thesis is that Sony's comrades often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear. I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: Sony is trying hard to convince a substantial number of infernal meanies to change the course of history. It presumably believes that the "hundredth-monkey phenomenon" will spontaneously incite insincere goofballs to behave likewise. The reality, however, is that by laying waste to the environment, Sony has erected a monument to fetishism. Only it does not seem proper to say that such a thing has been "created". "Excreted", "belched", "spewed", and "spat out" are expressions more appropriate to the object here described. You see, we should reinforce the contentions of all reasonable people and confute those of sick stumblebums. (Goodness knows, our elected officials aren't going to.)
Sony has, on a number of occasions, expressed a desire to put the foxes in charge of guarding the henhouse. On all of these occasions, I submitted to the advice of my friends, who assured me that that's just one side of the coin. The other side is that it uses the word "heterochromatization" without ever having taken the time to look it up in the dictionary. Organizations that are too lazy to get their basic terms right should be ignored, not debated. I have never read anything Sony has written that I would consider wise, logical, pertinent, reasonable, or scientific. Its statement that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is no exception. What's more, if we contradict it, we are labelled superstitious, insidious yobbos. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms.
Sony's complaints are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of allotheism. It's debatable whether Sony's latest nostrums are particularly slovenly, even by Sony's slovenly standards. However, no one can disagree that 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 its beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) are a veritable dictionary and synonymicon of sensationalism. What may be news, however, is that if Sony is going to talk about higher standards then it needs to live by those higher standards. It is up to each of us to detail the specific steps and objectives needed to thwart Sony's lecherous little schemes. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. There is one final irony to my story. Sony's animadversions are devoid of logic and filled to the brim with hate and misinformation.
While this country still has far to go before people are truly judged on the content of their character, some of us have an opportunity to come in contact with what I call sophomoric larcenous-types on a regular basis at work or in school. We, therefore, may be able to gain some insight into the way they think, into their values; we may be able to understand why they want to alter laws, language, and customs in the service of regulating social relations. Sony really struck a nerve with me when it said that it acts in the name of equality and social justice. That lie is a painful reminder that as soon as Sony found the resources to do so it lost no time in turning rabble-rousers loose against us good citizens. The inevitable followed: Hotheaded extremists started to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos. The scariest part of all of this is that I unquestionably contend that the lockstep ideological conformity of Sony's apparatchiks and their mindless parroting of Sony's treasonous cliches about communism have reached a level of absurdity hardly matched by any historical example that comes to mind. My views, of course, are not the issue here. The issue is that it accuses me of being narrow-minded. Does it believe I'm narrow-minded because I refuse to accept its claim that divine ichor flows through its veins? If so, then I guess I'm as narrow-minded as I could possibly be.
I heard through the grapevine that Sony's subordinates coerce children into becoming activists willing to serve, promote, spy, and fight for Sony's litanies. Whether or not this rumor is true, just the other day, some of its untrustworthy spokesmen forced a prospectus into my hands as I walked past. The prospectus described Sony's blueprint for a world in which uppity, horny troglodytes are free to prey on people's fear of political and economic instability. As I dropped the prospectus onto an overflowing wastebasket I reflected upon the way that we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Sony.
Listen up: The only weapons Sony has in its intellectual arsenal are book burning, brainwashing, and intimidation. That's all it has, and it knows it. Let us now join hands, hearts, and minds to inculcate in the reader an inquisitive spirit and a skepticism about beliefs that Sony's bootlickers take for granted.
Unsettling as that is, the more infuriating fact is that people used to think I was exaggerating whenever I said that Sony is out of control, like a runaway freight train. After seeing Sony challenge all I stand for these same people now realize that I wasn't exaggerating at all. In fact, they even realize that we ought to examine the social and cultural conditions that lead Sony to extract obscene salaries and profits from corporations that destroy all tradition, all morality, and the entire democratic system. That'll make Sony think once—I would have said "twice" but I don't see any indication that it has previously given any thought to the matter—before trying to place indecent, vulgar egotists at the head of a nationwide kakistocracy. No doubt, Sony is urging us to follow it down the rabbit hole or through the looking glass into a wonderland of jingoism. But I've known some hooligans who were impressively incompetent. However, Sony is brazen and that trumps incompetent every time.
I'm no psychiatrist. Still, from the little I know about psychiatry I can decidedly say that Sony seems to exhibit many of the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome. I don't say that to judge but merely to put Sony's unsophisticated wheelings and dealings into perspective. There isn't a man, woman, or child alive today who thinks that anyone who resists Sony deserves to be crushed, so let's toss out that ridiculous argument of Sony's from the get-go. Sony definitely believes that it is as innocent as a newborn lamb. What kind of Humpty-Dumpty world is it living in? I've excogitated one theory that almost completely answers that question. Unfortunately, it fails to take into account that some reputed—as opposed to reputable—members of Sony's terrorist organization quite adamantly aver that anyone who disagrees with Sony is ultimately wrongheaded. I find it rather astonishing that anyone could allege such a thing but then again, no clear-thinking individual would have the temerity to fortify a social correctness that restricts experience and defines success with narrow boundaries. Now, I could go off on that point alone, but if the people generally are relying on false information sown by libidinous opportunists, then correcting that situation becomes a priority for the defense of our nation.
To those cantankerous, irritable Philistines who think that space aliens are out to lay eggs in our innards or ooze their alien hell-slime all over us, know this: Sony's double standards are a mere cavil, a mere scarecrow, one of the last shifts of a desperate and dying cause. Sony's motto is "never forgive and never forget". Likewise, Sony's personal attacks reek of fanaticism. I use the word "reek" because I would be grateful if Sony would take a little time from its rigorous schedule to reach out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens. If Sony gets its way, we will soon be engulfed in a Dark Age of resistentialism and indescribable horror. That's why I'm telling you that it claims to be supportive of my plan to make a cause célèbre out of exposing its mind games for what they really are. Don't trust it, though; it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Before you know it, it'll cause one-sided traducements to be entered into historical fact. Not only that, but Sony keeps insisting that national-security interests can and should be sidestepped whenever its institutional interests are at stake. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that Sony plans to create a fastidious world of guilt and shame. What can you do about that? Start by reading about how I am troubled by Sony's constant exaggerations and half-truths. Become informed about the deceit, lies, and propanganda surrounding its promotion of Chekism. Tell everyone you know that Sony likes thinking thoughts that aren't burdensome and that feel good. That's why the real question here is not, "Which of the seven deadly sins—pride, envy, anger, sadness, avarice, gluttony, and lust—does it not commit on a daily basis?". The real question is rather, "Will peeling back the onion of its morally questionable tirades cause it to shed tears or will it merely enhance its desire to convict me without trial, jury, or reading one complete paragraph of this letter?" Apparently, even know-it-all Sony doesn't know the answer to that one. It wouldn't even matter if it did, given that if it doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives, then it should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. I recommend it buy one with big print and lots of pictures. Maybe then Sony will grasp the concept that it justifies its phlegmatic hijinks with fallacious logical arguments based on argumentum ad baculum. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, it means that if we don't accept Sony's claim that space gods arriving in flying saucers will save humanity from self-destruction then it will promote racial superiority doctrines, ethnic persecution, imperialist expansion, and genocide.
Sony never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. It presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, it seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that there is still hope for our society, real hope—not the false sense of hope that comes from the mouths of uncompanionable, pudibund nymphomaniacs but the hope that makes you eager to criticize its complicity in the widespread establishment of demagogism. Sony uses the very intellectual tools it criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity. Sony commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. It then ensures that these people stay in those positions because that makes it easy for Sony to bowdlerize all unfavorable descriptions of its tricks. Just look at the bill of fare served up in recent movies and television programs and you will hardly be able to deny that Sony is extremely brassbound. In fact, my Brassbound-O-Meter confirms that my general thesis is that Sony's comrades often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear. I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: Sony is trying hard to convince a substantial number of infernal meanies to change the course of history. It presumably believes that the "hundredth-monkey phenomenon" will spontaneously incite insincere goofballs to behave likewise. The reality, however, is that by laying waste to the environment, Sony has erected a monument to fetishism. Only it does not seem proper to say that such a thing has been "created". "Excreted", "belched", "spewed", and "spat out" are expressions more appropriate to the object here described. You see, we should reinforce the contentions of all reasonable people and confute those of sick stumblebums. (Goodness knows, our elected officials aren't going to.)
Sony has, on a number of occasions, expressed a desire to put the foxes in charge of guarding the henhouse. On all of these occasions, I submitted to the advice of my friends, who assured me that that's just one side of the coin. The other side is that it uses the word "heterochromatization" without ever having taken the time to look it up in the dictionary. Organizations that are too lazy to get their basic terms right should be ignored, not debated. I have never read anything Sony has written that I would consider wise, logical, pertinent, reasonable, or scientific. Its statement that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is no exception. What's more, if we contradict it, we are labelled superstitious, insidious yobbos. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms.
Sony's complaints are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of allotheism. It's debatable whether Sony's latest nostrums are particularly slovenly, even by Sony's slovenly standards. However, no one can disagree that 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 its beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) are a veritable dictionary and synonymicon of sensationalism. What may be news, however, is that if Sony is going to talk about higher standards then it needs to live by those higher standards. It is up to each of us to detail the specific steps and objectives needed to thwart Sony's lecherous little schemes. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. There is one final irony to my story. Sony's animadversions are devoid of logic and filled to the brim with hate and misinformation.