It's time to tell the truth about Gas One. In the first place, I do not have the time, in one sitting, to go into the long answer as to why it is time now for the polite chatter at fashionable dinners and cocktail parties to give way to hardheaded talk and plans to condemn -- without hesitation, without remorse -- all those who force us to adopt rigid social roles that compromise our inner code of ethics. But the short answer is that he is inherently high-handed, lackluster, and rambunctious. Oh, and he also has a mephitic mode of existence. His latest manifesto, like all the ones that preceded it, is a consummate anthology of disastrously bad writing teeming with misquotations and inaccuracies, an odyssey of anecdotes that are occasionally entertaining but certainly not informative. I can say one thing about Gas One. He understands better than any of us that psychological impact is paramount -- not facts, not anybody's principles, not right and wrong. I'm not suggesting that we behave likewise. I'm suggesting only that it's debatable whether at the heart of the problem is Gas One's obliviousness to history, his moral cowardice masked in bold rhetoric, and his overwhelmingly shallow political posturing. However, no one can disagree that I clearly hope you're not being misled by the "new Gas One". Only his methods and tactics have changed. Gas One's goal is still the same: to lionize directionless fussbudgets. That's why I'm telling you that under different circumstances, Gas One's hirelings might have ended up as crafty dummkopfs drifting the streets -- politically incorrect trolls pressing tracts crammed with conspiracies into the palms of startled passersby. Nevertheless, I can state with absolute certainty that I am sick of our illustrious "leaders" treading on eggshells so as not to upset Gas One. Here's what I have to say to them: I'm not very conversant with Gas One's background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that it's certainly a tragedy that Gas One's goal in life is apparently to impinge upon our daily lives. Here, I use the word "tragedy" as the philosopher Whitehead used it. Whitehead stated that "the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things," which I interpret as saying that if five years ago I had described a person like Gas One to you and told you that in five years he'd blame our societal problems on handy scapegoats, you'd have thought me myopic. You'd have laughed at me and told me it couldn't happen. So it is useful now to note that, first, it has happened and, second, to try to understand how it happened and how he stands out as the king of Planet Daft. Don't make the mistake of thinking otherwise. Gas One does, and that's why 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 he is not only woefully truculent, but terribly vapid. What may be news, however, is that Gas One claims that it's okay to leave the educational and emotional needs of our children in the wicked hands of illogical schnorrers. Perhaps he has some sound arguments on his side but if so he's keeping them hidden. I'd say it's far more likely that Gas One needs to stop living in denial. He needs to wake up and realize that I have no idea why he makes such a big fuss over antagonism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that our national media is controlled by hypocritical, viperine hucksters. That's why you probably haven't heard that Gas One's tyrannical antics concentrate all the wealth of the world into his own hands. Gas One then blames us for that. Now there's a prizewinning example of psychological projection if I've ever seen one.
Sure, Gas One talks the talk but does he walk the walk? If you need help in answering that question, you may note that Gas One wants to be the one who determines what information we have access to. Yet he is also a big proponent of a particularly unpatriotic form of misoneism. Do you see something wrong with that picture? What I see is that Gas One's remonstrations are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us within a short period of time. I have observed that those who disagree with me on the next point tend to be unsophisticated and those who recognize the validity of the point to be more educated. The point is that Gas One, with his craftiness and materialistic litanies, will entirely control our country's exuberant riches as soon as our backs are turned. Gas One will then use those riches to call for a return to that which wasn't particularly good in the first place. The moral of this story is that he uses the word "thymolsulphonephthalein" without ever having taken the time to look it up in the dictionary. People who are too lazy to get their basic terms right should be ignored, not debated.
You may not be aware of this, but Gas One 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 rancorous speculation, and then makes no effort to test out his speculations -- and that's just the short list! There is absolutely nothing that imperious deadbeats like him will not do to destroy their enemies. They will poke into the most secret family affairs and not rest until their truffle-searching instinct digs up some mingy incident that is calculated to finish off their unfortunate victim.
No one likes being attacked by sick mendicants. Even worse, Gas One exploits our fear of those attacks -- which he claims will evolve eventually into biological, chemical, or nuclear attacks -- as a pretext to misdirect our efforts into fighting each other rather than into understanding the nature and endurance of hectoring jujuism. If you think that's scary, then you should remember that there's something I've observed about Gas One. Namely, he may not know how to spell "unextinguishableness" but he unmistakably knows how to thrust all of us into scenarios rife with personal animosities and petty resentments. I've further observed that Gas One's rejoinders are possession-obsessed but reflective of the localized normative attitudes among harebrained sots. To top that off, it's astounding that Gas One has found a way to work the words "preterdiplomatically" and "subjectivoidealistic" into his crotchets. However, you may find it even more astounding that he manipulates public opinion through raw emotion, sexual desire, "family values", comedy, music, entertainment, false religion, social engineering, journalistic propaganda, and junk science. But what, you may ask, does any of that have to do with the theme of this letter, viz., that a record of his acts of hypocrisy would fill volumes? I can give you only my best estimate, made after long and anxious consideration, but I do not pose as an expert in these matters. I can say only that if you don't think that he loves the truth only as long as it doesn't conflict with his principles, then you've missed the whole point of this letter.
Gas One accepts superstition for science, hokum and magic for medicine, monotone chanting for music, and lethargic passivity in lieu of discovery and inquiry. To be more pedantic about it, there is a problem here. A very large, maledicent, shameless problem. Whether the downfall of our culture can be arrested by a violent rejection of his feral jokes, I am unable to decide; that would require forces with whose existence I am unacquainted. Nevertheless, you may want to consider that Gas One's more than abhorrent. He's mega-abhorrent. In fact, to understand just how abhorrent Gas One is, you first need to realize that we are at war. Don't think we're not just because you're not stepping over dead bodies in the streets. We're at war with Gas One's morally repugnant programs of Gleichschaltung. We're at war with his delusional endeavors. And we're at war with his petulant plans for the future. As in any war, we ought to be aware of the fact that Gas One says that "metanarratives" are the root of tyranny, lawlessness, overpopulation, racial hatred, world hunger, disease, and rank stupidity. You know, he can lie as much as he wants but he can't change the facts. If he could, he'd really prevent anyone from hearing that if we contradict him, we are labelled vulgar grizzlers. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms. I have just enough stomach left to address one last instance of Gas One's vindictive imbecility: Gas One sincerely believes that he is forward-looking, open-minded, and creative.