Thread:Sannse/@comment-39977730-20190727013144

I don't intend to rock the boat by writing this letter, but I do need to let people know that I must undoubtedly reach out even to my most ostrich-like readers and show them how Sannse has worn out her welcome. In the text that follows, when I quote from Sannse, I will use the word “excrement” in place of another word which is now apparently permitted in general circulation publications and which I have edited out. I want to say a few things about her crabby allegations. First, Sannse's allegations take us all on an absolutely reckless ride into the unknown. Second, they toss quaint concepts like decency, fairness, and rational debate out the window. Third, they inspire a recrudescence of meretricious fatuity. I could list a few more things, but you get the picture. The important part is that I suggest that we lend support to the thesis that when it comes to issues like collectivism, Sannse is as startlingly fact-resistant and reason-impervious as a mutt that always follows its instinct over rational sense. This right and truthful proposition, practically established, will help us extricate as many people as possible from Sannse's grip. One might argue that it would be better instead to uphold peace, freedom, democracy, and justice, but bear in mind that we must tell you a little bit about Sannse and her renitent opuscula. Those who claim otherwise do so only to justify their own unstable philosophies.

After encountering daily examples of how brash Sannse can be, most of us are no longer surprised by any of her actions, no matter how appalling they are and no matter how likely they are to dominate the whole earth and take possession of all its riches. If she thinks that she has the experience, ideas, leadership, and integrity to move our nation forward then maybe she should lay off the wacky tobacky. How I pity Sannse if I were to be her judge. I would start by notifying the jury that all of Sannse's proposed social programs share elements of traditional, stiff-necked conspiracy themes in which the most uninformed flakes I've ever seen secretly scapegoat easy, unpopular targets, thereby diverting responsibility from more culpable parties. So let Sannse call me cynical; I call her balmy. I am not mistaken when I say that her epithets are a load of bunk. I use this delightfully pejorative term, “bunk”—an alternative from the same page of my criminal-slang lexicon would serve just as well—because the caricature that often passes today for a critique of her bait-and-switch tactics assumes that fetishism is a wonderful thing. This caricature has been proven wrong historically. The reality is that if I were a complete sap, I'd believe Sannse's line that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to her daffy prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers. Unfortunately for her, I realize that this is hardly an ersatz sideshow. It is instead a matter of Sannse not bothering to listen, not taking seriously the foundational work being done to demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Sannse. If Sannse were listening, she would find that she keeps saying that her writings are a veritable encyclopedia of everything that is directly pertinent to mankind's spiritual and intellectual development. You might think that no one could fall for such nonsense, but keep in mind that Sannse's ill-natured jeers add up to a snappish, louche message. This message is that you should be afraid—afraid of people whose ethnicity is different or whose religious faith is different or who were born in a different country or who hold different political beliefs from yours. In contrast, my message is that Sannse's cabal is a sterile bubble of dogmatism. Everyone inside the bubble wants to harvest what others have sown. In contrast, everyone outside the bubble agrees that the first response to this from Sannse's followers is perhaps that the Earth is flat. Wrong. Just glance at the facts: If Sannse's sniffish fibs became more widespread, it would spell the ruination of this country.

I do not wish to endorse recidivism but rather to illustrate that Sannse is a psychologically defective person. She's what the psychiatrists call a constitutional psychopath or a sociopath. 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 we need to keep our eyes on Sannse. Otherwise, she'll initiate a reign of craven terror before the year is over. If that thought doesn't send chills down your spine then you are dead to the love of freedom. The rest of us are concerned that Sannse speaks like a true defender of the status quo—a status quo, we should not forget, that enables her to represent Heaven as Hell and, conversely, the most wretched life as paradise. The struggle to seek some structure in which the cacophony introduced by Sannse's equivocations might be systematized, reconciled, and made rational takes center stage these days, both locally and nationwide. That's all I have to say. Thank you for reading this letter. 