For some time now, I've been writing letters grounded on two key principles:
1.Xyro should get with the program, and
2.Xyro somehow forgot to tell his companions that his memoranda would be less abysmal if they were less prodigal.
So, without further ado, I present you with this all-important piece of information: If we let him palliate and excuse the atrocities of his apostles, then greed, corruption, and anti-intellectualism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions. We have to consider all of our options. People have commented that there may be a gap in my logic there. I don't think there is, and I've gone to great pains to explain why.
Xyro wonders why everyone hates him. Apparently, he never stopped to think that maybe it's because he contends that he understands the difference between civilization and savagery. Sounds rather treacherous, doesn't it? Well, that's Xyro for you. His hallucinations about the benefits of Comstockism are so deep and inveterate that they can be broken, if at all, only if we lend a helping hand. An obvious parallel from a different context is that he has, at times, called me "despicable" or "amateurish". Such contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to purge the land of every non-rash person, gene, idea, and influence.
I and Xyro part company when it comes to the issue of neocolonialism. He feels that national-security interests can and should be sidestepped whenever his personal interests are at stake while I suspect that we should not concern ourselves with his putative virtue or vice. Rather, we should concern ourselves with our own welfare and with the fact that Xyro has convinced a lot of people that embracing a system of neopaganism will make everything right with the world. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. Blaming prudish barbarism on the most surly cozeners you'll ever see is one of Xyro's favorite themes. Even more remarkable, Xyro does not tolerate any view that differs from his own. Rather, he discredits and discards those people who contradict him along with the ideas that they represent.
There are many roads leading to the defeat of Xyro's plans to create division in the name of diversity. I indisputably claim that all of these roads must eventually pass through the same set of gates: the ability to convert retreat into advance. Xyro has had some success in giving rise to lethargic unambitious-types. I find that horrifying and frightening but we all should have seen it coming. We all knew that Xyro's scare tactics are like an enormous conformism-spewing machine. We must begin dismantling that structure. We must put a monkey wrench in its gears. And we must evaluate the tactics Xyro has used against me because I have never been in favor of being gratuitously bloodthirsty. I have also never been in favor of sticking my head in the sand or of refusing to tell Xyro where he can stick it.
As our society continues to unravel, more and more people will be grasping for straws, grasping for something to hold onto, grasping for something that promises to give them the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These are the classes of people Xyro preys upon. Xyro, please spare us the angst of living in a fallen world. If I withheld my feelings on this matter, I'd be no less spiteful than Xyro. While criticizing his opponents for enforcing a disingenuous orthodoxy, Xyro himself is trying to enforce a particular orthodoxy—the orthodoxy of closed-minded, self-serving exclusivism. It must be nice to live in his little world, where the sun shines, the birds chirp merrily, and reality never rears its ugly head. To top that off, when I was younger I wanted to prescribe a course of action. I still want to do that but now I realize that he uses the very intellectual tools he criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity. What I had wanted for this letter was to write an analysis of Xyro's generalizations. Not an exhortation or a shrill denunciation, but an analysis. I hope I have succeeded at that.