FacebookTwitter
Hatrack River Forum   
my profile login | search | faq | forum home

  next oldest topic   next newest topic
» Hatrack River Forum » Active Forums » Books, Films, Food and Culture » Complaining about Hatrack

   
Author Topic: Complaining about Hatrack
Scott R
Member
Member # 567

 - posted      Profile for Scott R   Email Scott R         Edit/Delete Post 
I don't know how to tell you this, but I find it most unfortunate that this letter had to be written. Instead of focusing on why Hatrack's ratiocination skills are nothing to write home about, I would like to remind people that it strikes me as amusing that Hatrack complains about people who do nothing but complain. Well, news flash! It does nothing but complain. Our battle with Hatrack is a battle between spiritualism and Jacobinism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that if the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to present another paradigm in opposition to Hatrack's blockish, twisted manifestos. One argument Hatrack makes is that everything it says is absolutely and totally true. That's just sheer arrant nonsense. The truth is that there isn't a man, woman, or child alive today who thinks that its apothegms are Holy Writ, so let's toss out that ridiculous argument of Hatrack's from the get-go.

I have two words to say about Hatrack's complaints: ungrateful poppycock. Notice the fickle tendency of Hatrack's publications. Hatrack is extraordinarily brazen. We've all known that for a long time. However, its willingness to sugarcoat the past and dispense false optimism for the future sets a new world record for brazenness. We must understand that myth is a stronger force than rationality. And we must formulate that understanding into as clear and cogent a message as possible. Hatrack's more than prodigal. It's mega-prodigal. In fact, to understand just how prodigal Hatrack is, you first need to realize that if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem.

It has been said that Hatrack is doing the very thing for which it criticizes others. I believe that to be true. I also believe that some people don't seem to mind that it likes to discredit and intimidate the opposition. What a ghastly, deluded world we live in! Hatrack says that everyone would be a lot safer if it were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions -- even our library records. Why on Earth does Hatrack need to monitor our library records? Before you answer, let me point out that Hatrack says it is within its legal right to separate people from their roots and cut their bonds to their natural communities. Whether or not it indeed has such a right, Hatrack's cheerleaders are tools. Like a hammer or an axe, they are not inherently evil or destructive. The evil is in the force that manipulates them and uses them for destructive purposes. That evil is Hatrack, who wants nothing less than to turn a deaf ear to need and suffering. Hatrack once said that children don't need as much psychological attentiveness, protection, and obedience training as the treasured household pet. Oh, please. I'm just glad I hadn't eaten dinner right before I heard it say that. Otherwise, I'd probably still be vomiting too hard to tell you that Hatrack sees itself as a postmodern equivalent of Marx's proletariat, revolutionizing the world by wresting it from its oppressors (viz., those who delegitimize it). Let me close where I began: The reasons that Hatrack gives for its proposed social programs clearly do not correspond with its real motives.

[Smile]

Complaint Generator

Posts: 14554 | Registered: Dec 1999  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
TheTick
Member
Member # 2883

 - posted      Profile for TheTick   Email TheTick         Edit/Delete Post 
Had me going for a second, Scott. Then I remembered your apathy.

This is particularly funny with the bumpage of rivka's thread right below it.

Posts: 5422 | Registered: Dec 2001  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Flaming Toad on a Stick
Member
Member # 9302

 - posted      Profile for Flaming Toad on a Stick   Email Flaming Toad on a Stick         Edit/Delete Post 
No other topic is more important and explains better the demise of our society than the saga of Mr. Scott M. Roberts. Here's a quick review: Scott's epigrams should be labeled like a pack of cigarettes. I'm thinking of something along the lines of, "Warning: It has been determined that Scott's beliefs are intended to abandon me on a desert island." Rhetoric aside, he is currently limited to shrieking and spitting when he's confronted with inconvenient facts. In the near future, however, Scott is likely to switch to some sort of "shift blame from those who benefit from oppression to those who suffer from it" approach to draw our attention away from such facts. In any case, there is something in the way of "natural law" that can be stated awkwardly as follows: "We can't just sit around and do nothing." Please do not quote me on that. Instead, work it into a better natural law and enunciate it in clearer and more concise terms. It is immaterial who is credited with the words; the objective is to renew those institutions of civil society -- like families, schools, churches, and civic groups -- that get the facts out in the hope that somebody else will do something to solve the problem. That's all I'm going to say in this letter, because if I were to write everything I want to write, I'd be here all night.
Posts: 1594 | Registered: Apr 2006  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Javert Hugo
Member
Member # 3980

 - posted      Profile for Javert Hugo   Email Javert Hugo         Edit/Delete Post 
While my better instincts counsel me to follow a policy of laissez-faire, there are a couple of Library of Congress's statements I feel I cannot let pass. Before I launch into my main topic, I want to make a few matters crystal-clear: (1) It looks like there have been reports of rampant drunkenness, performances by strippers, public nudity, and other licentious and slatternly behavior at every gathering of Library of Congress's minions, and (2) as a result of that, Library of Congress wins mob bosses over to its side using big words like "scientificoreligious". Now that you know where I stand on those issues, I can safely say that if I hear Library of Congress's faithfuls say, "Library of Congress has a duty to conceal the facts and lie to the rest of us, under oath if necessary, perjuring itself to help disseminate the True Faith of imperialism" one more time, I'm obviously going to throw up. Before you declare me wily, let me assert that I am deliberately using colorful language in this letter. I am deliberately using provocative phrases that I hope will stick in the minds of my readers. I do ensure, however, that my words are always appropriate and accurate and clearly explain how Library of Congress can fool some of the people all of the time. It can fool all of the people some of the time. But it can't fool all of the people all of the time. If we don't reach out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning right now, then Library of Congress's tactics will soon start to metastasize until they equip soulless litterbugs with flame throwers, hand grenades, and heat-seeking missiles. If you think that there should be publicly financed centers of Bonapartism, then think again. Library of Congress's sycophants have already started to deny both our individual and collective responsibility to live in harmony with each other and the world. The result: absolute vapidity, footling and uneducated cacophony, lack of personality, monotony, and boredom.
Posts: 1753 | Registered: Aug 2002  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Morbo
Member
Member # 5309

 - posted      Profile for Morbo   Email Morbo         Edit/Delete Post 
I am writing this letter purely in the spirit of uplifting and sharing, as corny and dated as those sentiments may sound in the fast-moving and ever-evolving modern techno-plastic times in which we live. Primarily, I want to share with you my view that the agenda that pseudo-humor bot is attempting to advance is one of cronyism, repression, and ruffianism. What follows is a set of observations I have made about feckless thought police.

Everywhere it's gone, pseudo-humor bot has tried to gum up what were once great ideas. It can happen here, too. Verily, today, we might have let pseudo-humor bot prey on people's fear of political and economic instability. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will maintain social tranquillity. Pseudo-humor bot's methods are much subtler now than ever before. Pseudo-humor bot is more adept at hidden mind control and its techniques of social brainwash are much more appealingly streamlined and homogenized.

All such combinations of audacity with ignorance would be supremely ridiculous but for one consideration: I honestly hope that the truth will prevail and that justice will be served before pseudo- humor bot does any real damage. Or is it already too late? That is, will the world ever be free of pea-brained maggots like pseudo-humor bot? The answer is almost entirely obvious -- this isn't rocket science, you know. The key is that pseudo-humor bot would have us believe that cannibalism and fetishism are identical concepts. That, of course, is nonsense, total nonsense. But pseudo-humor bot is surrounded by splenetic fomenters of revolution who parrot the same nonsense, which is why it pompously claims that it has answers to everything. That sort of nonsense impresses many people, unfortunately. In contrast, I cannot believe how many actual, physical, breathing, thinking people have fallen for pseudo-humor bot's subterfuge. I'm thoroughly stunned. That's the end of this letter. If I was unable to convince you that pseudo-humor bot views alarmism as a succedaneous religion that authorizes it to promote violence in all its forms -- physical, sexual, psychological, economical, and social -- then you should definitely consider contacting me with your supporting or refuting evidence, opinions, personal stories, etc., so that I can make a better argument in my next letter.

Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Morbo
Member
Member # 5309

 - posted      Profile for Morbo   Email Morbo         Edit/Delete Post 
Good link, Scott. It's the best generator I've seen. [Smile]
Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
docmagik
Member
Member # 1131

 - posted      Profile for docmagik   Email docmagik         Edit/Delete Post 
Recent troubling developments prompt me to revisit a subject I've discussed in the past: Hatrack and its plan to cast the world into nuclear holocaust. What follows is the story of how it can be so rich in the rhetoric of democracy and yet so poor in its implementation. For those of us who make our living trying to disentangle people from the snares set by Hatrack and its helpers, it is important to consider that it is easy to see faults in others. But it takes perseverance to give it condign punishment. Who is Hatrack to decide what is morally acceptable for us and what is not? Hatrack does not desire to benefit humanity, but rather to condemn children to a life of drugs, gangs, drinking, rape, incest, verbal abuse, physical abuse, and a number of other horrors. I enjoy the great diversity of humankind, in our food, our dress, our music, our literature, and our forms of spiritual expression. What I don't enjoy are Hatrack's depraved, blathering witticisms which discredit legitimate voices in the racism debate.

Hatrack's attitudes are worthy of a good flush down the toilet. Yet Hatrack flagrantly abuses rules and regulations and then complains vehemently when caught. But what, you may ask, does any of that have to do with the theme of this letter, viz., that it preaches tolerance yet actively refuses to tolerate views that differ from its own? The answer to this question gives the key not only to world history, but to all human culture. Although I agree with those who claim that the antithesis of recalcitrant corporatism is moral, religious, and cultural solidarity among the people of a nation, nevertheless, I cannot agree with the subject matter and attitude that is woven into every one of Hatrack's disrespectful newsgroup postings. Hatrack sees itself as a postmodern equivalent of Marx's proletariat, revolutionizing the world by wresting it from its oppressors (viz., those who tell you a little bit about it and its mudslinging indiscretions). Be always mindful that Hatrack likes to quote all of the saccharine, sticky moralisms about "human rights" and the evils of clericalism. But as soon as we stop paying attention, it invariably instructs its accomplices to base racial definitions on lineage, phrenological characteristics, skin hue, and religion. Then, when someone notices, the pattern repeats from the beginning. Though this game may seem perverse beyond belief to any sane individual, it makes perfect sense in light of Hatrack's sniffish stratagems.

What is Hatrack's current objective? As usual, there are multiple objectives:

  • to force us to bow down low before destructive shysters,
  • to dismantle national civil rights organizations by driving a wedge between the leaders and the rank-and-file members, and
  • to legitimize the fear and hatred of the privileged for the oppressed.
We should not concern ourselves with Hatrack's putative virtue or vice. Rather, we should concern ourselves with our own welfare and with the fact that the poisonous wine of sadism had been distilled long before Hatrack entered the scene. Hatrack is merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle into the jug that is world humanity. The great irony is that I cannot believe how many actual, physical, breathing, thinking people have fallen for Hatrack's subterfuge. I'm absolutely stunned. Even though Hatrack has aired its disapproval of being criticized, I still feel that it used to complain about being persecuted. Now Hatrack is our primary persecutor. This reversal of roles reminds me that when it says that its epithets are a breath of fresh air amid our modern culture's toxic cloud of chaos, in its mind, that's supposed to end the argument. It's like it believes it has said something very profound. Is it important that I don't have a high opinion of cheeky criticasters? Of course it's important. But what's more important is that when I say that its propositions are uncompromising, I mean it. I don't mean that they remind me of something uncompromising or that they have one or two uncompromising characteristics. I mean that they are uncompromising. In fact, the most uncompromising thing about them is the way that they prevent people from seeing that there are some basic biological realities of the world in which we live. These realities are doubtless regrettable, but they are unalterable. If Hatrack finds them intolerable and unthinkable, the only thing that I can suggest is that it try to flag down a flying saucer and take passage for some other solar system, possibly one in which the residents are oblivious to the fact that Hatrack wants all of us to believe that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible. That's why it sponsors brainwashing in the schools, brainwashing by the government, brainwashing statements made to us by politicians, entertainers, and sports stars, and brainwashing by the big advertisers and the news media. To close, let me accentuate that if we feed the starving, house the homeless, cure the sick, and still find wonder and awe in the sunrise and the moonlight, we shall not only survive Hatrack's attacks; we shall prevail.

[ September 07, 2007, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: docmagik ]

Posts: 1894 | Registered: Aug 2000  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
brojack17
Member
Member # 9189

 - posted      Profile for brojack17   Email brojack17         Edit/Delete Post 
Jack D Lyons is always being misrepresented and/or persecuted? The best way to reduce cognitive dissonance and restore homeostasis to one's psyche is to win support by encapsulating frustrations and directing them toward unpopular scapegoats? A book of Jack's writings would be a good addition to the Bible? These are all claims made recently by Jack D Lyons. In the rest of this letter, I will use history and science (in the Hegelian sense) to prove that Jack wants to become an intellectual without the hardship of study and serious thought. However unruly the national picture already is, because of his obsession with mysticism, if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. In a nutshell, the drivel emanating freely from Jack D Lyons's mouth gives me cause to reach for the nearest vomit pail.
Posts: 1766 | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
CaySedai
Member
Member # 6459

 - posted      Profile for CaySedai   Email CaySedai         Edit/Delete Post 
I work at a newspaper and sometimes we get weird letters to the editor. (Okay, maybe "sometimes" is weak in comparison.) You might almost think that these people are using the letter generator. I sent a sample letter to the guy who does the editorial page. Unfortunately, I won't be working with him until Tuesday, so I won't get to see his reaction.
Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
narrativium
Member
Member # 3230

 - posted      Profile for narrativium           Edit/Delete Post 
Oh. My. God.

My brains! [Eek!] [Angst]

Posts: 1357 | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Mr.Funny
Member
Member # 4467

 - posted      Profile for Mr.Funny           Edit/Delete Post 
I know! Your brains are so mean that I wrote a complaint letter about them!

Please forgive me, but I told you so. I predicted long ago that narrativium's brains would cultivate the purest breed of irresponsibility. Now that it has, I'd like to express my thoughts on the matter. For the sake of review, while we do nothing, those who reap a harvest of death are gloating and smirking. And they will keep on gloating and smirking until we honor our nation's glorious mosaic of cultures and ethnicities. Why does narrativium's brains want to address what is, in the end, a nonexistent problem? Psychologists might suggest that it is our responsibility to ourselves, to our posterity, to our ancestors, and to the God of Nature, which made us what we are, to build an inclusive, nondiscriminatory movement for social and political change. Counselors might assert that narrativium's brains speaks with such certainty and self-confidence that its shock troops are absolutely convinced that censorship could benefit us. Sociologists might point out that narrativium's brains's hallucinations about the benefits of statism are so deep and inveterate that they can be broken, if at all, only if we solve the problems that are important to most people. I agree with the above assessments, but narrativium's brains is extraordinarily brazen. We've all known that for a long time. However, its willingness to scrawl pro-despotism graffiti over everything sets a new world record for brazenness. The facts are in: The final product of narrativium's brains's diatribes will be a dysfunctional society, wherein every natural self-defense mechanism has been short-circuited in some baleful effort to gain short-term financial benefits.

Posts: 1466 | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
narrativium
Member
Member # 3230

 - posted      Profile for narrativium           Edit/Delete Post 
I always know I'd be the downfall of civilized society, somehow. . .
Posts: 1357 | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Morbo
Member
Member # 5309

 - posted      Profile for Morbo   Email Morbo         Edit/Delete Post 
Your mother must be so proud!
Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Mucus
Member
Member # 9735

 - posted      Profile for Mucus           Edit/Delete Post 
Your Mother's worst transgressions are systematically whitewashed by the press. To counteract that whitewash, I will use the remainder of my space here to expose your Mother for who she really is. With this letter, I hope to rise to the challenge of thwarting your Mother's homicidal plans. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: I have a dream, a mission, a set path that I would like to travel down. Specifically, my goal is to set the record straight. Of course, we are being insidiously, conspiratorially, and treasonously led by deception, by bribery, by coercion, and by fear to replace intellectual integrity with sex-crazed sloganeering. More than that, in order to solve the big problems with her, we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must reveal the constant tension between centripetal and centrifugal forces of dialogized heteroglossia resulting from her belief systems. To simplify, I've heard of prurient things like antagonism and totalitarianism. But I've also heard of things like nonviolence, higher moralities, and treating all beings as ends in and of themselves -- ideas which your Mother's ignorant, unthinking, uncompromising brain is too small to understand. I'm oversimplifying things a little here. There, my ranting is finished.
Posts: 7593 | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Morbo
Member
Member # 5309

 - posted      Profile for Morbo   Email Morbo         Edit/Delete Post 
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 the Weather. Instead of focusing on why anyone who says that embracing a system of revanchism will make everything right with the world can be branded as both prurient and impolitic, I would like to remind people that if we contradict the Weather, we are labelled morally repugnant energumens. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms. And what about the Weather's compeers? They, like the Weather, are chthonic, ungrateful bullies. I think I've dished it out to the Weather as best as I can in this letter. I hope you now understand why I say that a recent fact-finder's report revealed that brutal ruffians would be far more bearable if they didn't treat anyone who doesn't agree with the Weather to a torrent of vitriol and vilification.
Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
   

   Close Topic   Feature Topic   Move Topic   Delete Topic next oldest topic   next newest topic
 - Printer-friendly view of this topic
Hop To:


Contact Us | Hatrack River Home Page

Copyright © 2008 Hatrack River Enterprises Inc. All rights reserved.
Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.


Powered by Infopop Corporation
UBB.classic™ 6.7.2