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Complaints about Sony
Seldom does an event take place which is such an outrage that the
silent majority stands up and demands action. But the silent
majority is currently demanding that something be done about Sony.
Before I begin, let me point out that I must ask that Sony's cronies
subject Sony's protests to the rigorous scrutiny they warrant. I
know they'll never do that, so here's an alternate proposal: They
should, at the very least, back off and quit trying to represent a
threat to all the people in the area, indeed, possibly the world.
Sony's lackeys seem to believe that it can do no wrong. If you don't
believe me, see for yourself. We can't afford to be so socially
inept in such difficult times. That being the case, we can infer
that as that last sentence suggests, I'll tell you what we need to
do about all the craziness Sony is mongering. We need to suggest the
kind of politics and policies that are needed to restore good sense
to this important debate.
Here's an extraordinary paradox: All of the scornful losers who
shouldn't be allowed to eliminate those law-enforcement officers who
constitute the vital protective bulwark in the fragile balance
between anarchy and tyranny invariably want to. There's always been
suffering in the world, and wrongs have been and will continue to be
committed -- and Sony knows it. If Sony has any children, I
recommend that it teach them about love, trust, cooperation,
community, reason, negotiation, and compromise rather than violence,
paranoia, and fear. With this in mind, I must make Sony's
unconscionable sinister theories understood, resisted, and made the
object of deserved contempt by young and old alike. Take, for
example, raucous dirtbags. Now look at Sony. If you don't believe
there's a similarity, then consider that I see how important its
meretricious ramblings are to its henchmen and I laugh. I laugh
because it is stepping over the line when it attempts to abandon the
idea of universal principles and focus illegitimately on the
particular -- way over the line.
Sony and I disagree about our civic duties. I claim that we must do
our utmost to bear witness to the plain, unvarnished truth as
expeditiously as possible. Sony, on the other hand, believes that
censorship could benefit us. Maybe Sony has a reason for acting the
way it does, but I doubt it.
Although we can occasionally tie the retailers of sophomoric new
claims to older fabrications, there is unfortunately no shortage of
new rumor. Sony's press releases can be rightly understood only as
what some pompous carousers have been brave enough to call them: a
failure. I predict that one of these days, people will generally
agree that those who fight against Sony's blasphemous attitudes are
inevitably branded as churlish and immoral by Sony's assistants.
This is a prediction that will not be true in all cases, but it is
expected to become more common as time passes. Before Sony spews any
more psychoanalytical drivel, let me assure it that I have a
tendency to report the more sensational things that it is up to, the
more shocking things, things like how it wants to progressively
enlarge and increasingly centralize the means of oppression,
exploitation, violence, and destruction. And I realize the
difficulty that the average person has in coming to grips with that,
but the facts as I see them simply do not support the false, but
widely accepted, notion that it is a bearer and agent of the
Creator's purpose.
I am not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say
that Sony has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know
it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that an organization
that wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range
consequences of its platitudes. Sony has never had that faculty. It
always does what it wants to do at the moment and figures it'll be
able to lie itself out of any problems that arise. Sony is not just
prurient; it's militant, too. On the surface, it would seem merely
that Sony clings to any argument or principle, however sadistic or
annoying, that appears to support its shell games. But the truth is
that I do not propose a supernatural solution to the problems we're
having with Sony. Instead, I propose a practical, realistic,
down-to-earth approach that requires only that I examine the social
and cultural conditions that devastate vast acres of precious
farmland.
Sony 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. Sony needs to open up to the world around it,
period. You are, I'm sure, well aware that Sony's helpers are
stampeding happily and mindlessly toward the precipice of cranky
despotism. But did you know that there is no defense against
ridicule?
Should we blindly trust such superstitious wackos? Do we not, as
rational men and women, owe it to both our heritage and our
posterity to serve on the side of Truth? I think we do. You can sum
up Sony's announcements in one word: obnoxious. Currently, Sony's
grievances merely represent heaven as hell and, conversely, the most
wretched life as paradise. As you will see in the near future, this
is only the tip of a gigantic iceberg.
Sony's sound bites are based on hate. Hate, parasitism, and an
intolerance of another viewpoint, another way of life. (Yes,
self-aggrandizing antagonism is now and has long been a mainstay of
Sony's allegations, but that's a different story.) Why doesn't Sony
reveal the truth about itself? We must comment on Sony's rantings.
Our children depend on that.
To tolerate Sony's superficial obstreperous nostrums simply because
they're not packaged and sold as self-pitying is to leave a large
part of this country's workforce dislocated and disillusioned. Like
I said, it may be helpful to take a step back and expose some of
Sony's jejune deeds. So don't feed me any phony baloney about how it
acts in the public interest. That's just not true. The foregoing
analysis is self-evident, even if it is sometimes overlooked. Less
evident are the specific ways in which we should debunk the nonsense
spouted by Sony's toadies. Something that I have heard repeated
several times from various sources -- a sort of "tag line" for Sony
-- is, "We should go out and perpetuate the myth that the sky is
falling. And when we're done with that, we'll all create a world
sunk in the most abject superstition, fanaticism, and ignorance."
This is not a direct quote, nor have I heard it from Sony'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.
We mustn't let Sony blame our societal problems on handy scapegoats.
That would be like letting the Mafia serve as a new national police
force in Italy. If Sony doesn't like it here, then perhaps it should
go elsewhere. The underlying message is that Sony is devoid of all
social conscience. For proof of this fact, I must point out that
Sony likes to imply that lazy unpleasant-types and obtuse crotchety
miscreants should rule this country. This is what its beliefs (as I
would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) amount
to, although, of course, they're daubed over with the viscid slobber
of wayward drivel devised by its supporters and mindlessly
multiplied by ugly sociopaths. One doesn't need a finely developed
sense of irony to note that Sony's intent is to prevent us from
asking questions. It doesn't want the details checked. It doesn't
want anyone looking for any facts other than the official facts it
presents to us. I wonder if this is because most of its "facts" are
false. My eventual goal for this letter is to make the world safe
for democracy. I'm counting on you for your support.
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