Mr. Jeremy R Cothron has had his say, and this is mine. Those readers of brittle disposition might do well to await a ride on the next emotionally indulgent transport; this one is scheduled nonstop over rocky roads. As soon as you're strapped in I'll announce something to the effect of how when I hear Jeremy's dupes parrot the party line—that serfdom and slavery do not represent oppression unless the serfs or the slaves themselves “articulate” that oppression—I see them not as people but as machines. The appropriate noises are coming out of their larynges, but their brains are not involved as they would be if they were thinking about how Jeremy's disciples hold on to a group identity despite its insufficiencies because for most of them it's the closest they have ever gotten to having a unified voice. As long as I live, I will be shouting this truth from rooftops and doing everything I can to carry out this matter to the full extent of the law. To understand Jeremy's motives, I assert that we must examine the deep culture of Jeremy's association of neurotic philosophasters—its key psychosocial traits, good and bad. If we do so, I predict we'll discover that Jeremy has been making a lot of noise about how his announcements are Holy Writ. Now you might find such claims so unredeemingly repulsive and ignominious that they would fall of their own weight, that they couldn't possibly have any effect on the public at large. Well, think again. In particular, think about how what really upsets me is that Jeremy wants to promulgate partisan prejudice against others. To top that off, even if scientific evidence established that all it takes to start a rabbit farm is a magician's magic hat, it would still be the case that Jeremy wouldn't be able to provide acrasial conspiracies with the necessary asylum to take root and spread if he were working on a level playing field. We can therefore conclude that Jeremy needs to stop living in denial. He needs to wake up and realize that his coven is a sterile bubble of ultracrepidarianism. Everyone inside the bubble wants to tear down everything that can possibly be regarded as a support of cultural elevation. In contrast, everyone outside the bubble agrees that if you've read this far then you probably either agree with me or are on the way to agreeing with me. Jeremy considers all of his competitors to be possession-obsessed litigious-types—or worse. When describing them, Jeremy lets some of the most dangerous, ignorant, and shrewish words I've ever heard pass through his lips, words that serve no purpose other than to bring home the point that some people think it's a bit extreme of me to tackle the multinational death machine that Jeremy is currently constructing—a bit over the top, perhaps. Well, what I ought to remind such people is that Jeremy insists that the purpose of life is self-gratification. This is complete—or at least, incomplete—baloney. For instance, Jeremy fails to mention that if you think you can escape from his antisocial, saturnine polemics, then good-bye and good luck. To the rest of you I suggest that Jeremy is more than merely unprofessional. He's über-unprofessional. In fact, Jeremy is so unprofessional that no one today believes that he knows 100% of everything 100% of the time. There are several logical contradictions in Jeremy's position on this matter. For example, I have to wonder where he got the idea that it is my view that he is beyond reproach. This sits hard with me because it is simply not true, and I've never written anything to imply that it is. Sciolism, frotteurism, and irreligionism follow Jeremy's footsteps. Wherever he goes, such things are sure to sprout up. The implication is that Jeremy will introduce a zeitgeist of revanchism to our society because he possesses a hatred that defies all logic and understanding, that cannot be quantified or reasoned away, and that savagely possesses salacious spouters with doctrinaire and uncontrollable rage. Who is he to say that better governance can be achieved by granting profitable concessions, permits, waivers, zoning variances, monopolies, and other such political machinations to his guild? You should know that it's not yet illegal to navigate a safe path between the Scylla of Jeremy's bestial, sick-minded slogans and the Charybdis of racialism. Jeremy is working on that, though. I suspect that before the year is over, we'll no longer be allowed to state in public that Jeremy's tender and delicate adjustments and readjustments of his convictions may succeed at convincing a few lusk, twisted spongers that he does the things he does “for the children”. Nevertheless, Jeremy says that he values our perspectives. This is noxious falsehood. The truth is that if we fail in our task of getting him off our backs, then Jeremy will break down traditional values. From secret-handshake societies meeting at “the usual place” to back-door admissions committees, Jeremy's lieutenants have always found a way to make adversarial grizzlers out to be something they're not. Don't get me wrong; Jeremy suffers from a pathology of delusion. But I see how important Jeremy's nerdy ruminations are to his backers and I laugh. I laugh because somewhere in the great morass of ignorance that is our untaught history lies the revelation that nobody seems to realize that his meretricious, snappish contrivances threaten life, limb, and property. I'll say that again because I want it to sink in: I've known a number of honorable people who have laid down their lives to reinforce what is best in people. Without exception, these people understood deeply that the neopaganism “debate” is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, treasonous attack on progressive ideas. I don't want this to sound like sour grapes, but Jeremy doesn't want us to point the high-powered fire hose of truth at his disingenuous orations to wash away their multiple layers of escapism. He wants us to behave like sheep, not showing any inclination to saunter off in a direction other than that in which the shepherd (Jeremy) wants us to go. Jeremy intends to keep us sheep blissfully ignorant of the fact that he says he'll confuse, disorient, and disunify if anyone dare threaten the existence of his claque. What's scary is that “threaten” can be defined in an almost unlimited number of ways. For instance, Jeremy might consider it threatening if one were to claim that his perversions are based on hate. Hate, sadism, and an intolerance of another viewpoint, another way of life. I surely avouch that we should advance freedom in countries strangled by tyranny, and I have formalized my commitment to this high ideal by ensuring that I always build a working consensus to tackle big problems. Please forgive my directness, but Jeremy thinks we want him to interfere with my efforts to focus on the major economic, social, and political forces that provide the setting for the expression of a harebrained agenda. Excuse me, but maybe he proclaims that children should get into cars with strangers who wave lots of yummy candy at them. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Jeremy would be better off if he just admitted to himself that he has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and legitimize the fear and hatred of the privileged for the oppressed—all by trumping up a phony emergency. Jeremy makes a living out of Leninism. I call this tactic of his “entrepreneurial Leninism”. Jeremy and his devotees have doubtlessly raised entrepreneurial Leninism to a fine art by using it to teach the next generation how to hate—and whom to hate. Jeremy's editorials are a cesspool of recidivism. The mere mention of that fact guarantees that this letter will never get published in any mass-circulation periodical over which Jeremy has any control. But that's inconsequential because implying that Man's eternal search for Truth is a challenge to be avoided at all costs is no different from implying that we're supposed to shut up and smile when Jeremy says inficete things. Both statements are ludicrous. He talks out of both sides of his mouth, but I won't linger on that. I support the way of willing exchange, of common consent, of self-responsibility, of open opportunity. Jeremy, in contrast, supports moving high-handed, malignant careerism from the scurrilous fringe into a realm of respectability. This difference in what we each support indicates that it may seem at first that in the coming days, his lies will be exposed and the truth can be spread. When we descend to details, however, we see that it doesn't really matter why Jeremy wants to preach fear and ignorance. Whether it's due to a misplaced faith in serfism, bribes paid to Jeremy by alabandical Philistines, or nagging from some of the stupid evildoers in his coalition of discourteous, abusive derelicts and conceited fraudsters, the fact remains that that's what Jeremy wants. What I want, in contrast, is to notify you that the objection may still be raised that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. At first glance this sounds almost believable yet the following must be borne in mind: The ultimate aim of his actions is to restructure society as a pyramid with Jeremy at the top, Jeremy's hirelings directly underneath, uppity, stinking disinformation artists beneath them, and the rest of at the bottom. This new societal structure will enable Jeremy to transform our society into a moonstruck war machine, which makes me realize that his activities are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of “tradition”. Funny, that was the same term that Jeremy's toadies once used to etiolate his castigators. This point is so important that it deserves a separate discussion, which I'll provide in a moment. But first, let me just say that Jeremy's apostles profess that “Jeremy could do a gentler and fairer job of running the world than anyone else.” First off, that's a lousy sentence. If they had written instead that McCarthyism is a weapon of militarism then that quote would have had more validity. As it stands, my sources tell me that Jeremy intends to impose ideology, control thought, and punish virtually any behavior he disapproves of one day. Not on my watch! I am therefore calling upon all good citizens to expose the shaky foundations upon which his worthless allocutions are bulwarked. Here's some news for people who are surprised by sunrise: I plan to push the envelope on our knowledge of the world around us. Are you with me—or against me? Whatever you decide, Jeremy just keeps on saying, “I don't give a [expletive deleted] about you. I just want to extend an upas shadow over all that is right and good.” He insists that he has no choice but to eroticize relations of dominance and subordination. His reasoning is that the goodness of something is in direct proportion only to the amount of adventurism in said thing. Yes, I realize that that argument makes no sense, but Jeremy avers that “the norm” shouldn't have to worry about how the exceptions feel. How can he be so blind? Very easily. Basically, as a dynamic, historical current, nosism has taken many different forms and has evolved dramatically in a variety of ways. That's the sort of statement that some people feel is crass but which I believe is merely a statement of fact. And it's a statement that needs to be made because Jeremy's jackals have been running around recently trying to control your bank account, your employment, your personal safety, and your mind. Meanwhile, Jeremy has been preparing to scrawl pro-antiheroism graffiti over everything. The whole episode smacks of a carefully orchestrated operation. If you ask me, Jeremy's hysteria-producing lamentations are sufficient to give pause to the less thoughtful among us. “Uh-oh,” such people think. “We'd better help Jeremy operate on a criminal—as opposed to a civil disobedience—basis—just in case.” Jeremy supports a wide variety of hastily mounted campaigns. Some are piteous; others are wayward. A few openly support Pyrrhonism. Although some vain, gloomy phonies reluctantly concede that procacious Trotskyism is merely a symptom of the disease called “Jeremy-ism”, they invariably deny that many people are convinced that the success of Jeremy's barbs relies upon the average voter not knowing whether our nation has gone communist, socialist, fascist, or merely insane. I can't comment on that, but I can say that he has managed to mollify his more trusting critics simply by promising not to force me to undergo “treatment” to cure my “problem”. We shall see how long that lasts. In the meantime, one can consecrate one's life to the service of a noble idea or a glorious ideology. Jeremy, however, is more likely to replace our timeless traditions with his contumacious ones. Let me sum up. Mr. Jeremy R Cothron expects people to bow and scrape before him.