I was just about to - -

Having digested your spot-on excerpts from the esteemed Mr. Hoffer, recalled for myself a first encounter with this eminent ex-longshoreman of erudite kind, remembering the pure microtome-like keenness of his scimitar - wielded with the skill of a brain surgeon against the purveyors of cant. Seeing again his peeling away of each layer of vacuous and tedious abstraction Signifying Nothing except illness of internal kind... {sigh} a thing of Beauty, that small book.

Unavoidably, I envisioned the True Believer response to this [to Any!] - to even the most perfectly expressed disassembling of that odious and onerous mindset so desperately embraced. (Onerous for necessity of keeping available for rephrasing.. all those unfortunate blurtings-out of visceral hatred _{just beneath the surface} of the maudlin Patriojaculations so trippingly oozed over all counter-views.)

Recalled little phil's pointed abandonment of every such thread - whenever a truly Embarrassing question on some new absurdity had hit the core of the affliction; then, like some perverted bastard-cross twixt the freshly-smoking Phoenix and a salamander:

^{Rises up elsewhere!} with a new dose of trite homilies .. later .. as if that thread had never been. Ahhh the simple satisfiction which some derive from practised casuistry made more treacly for being cloaked in the thin veneer of an adequate vocabulary .. .. twisted once again down to My Gramma's wavelength (a short-wave; as befits its horizons).

See - -

I Expected next (at least 2/3 of *this* fershure!)

..if your own life is not only meaningless, but actually has a negative meaning, that's your own fault. Nobody ordered you to be so petty, and to put your own ego above logic, facts and decency.

How utterly spooky -- Worship again of the Fact-God as the massive egoist limns his congenital condition, assigns that blob to another {don't the psych folks call that projection?} - - that uttering the word shame! May it somehow become a .357 calibre hollow-point curse, even when uttered by the shameless! curse? nay re-cursiveness.

Then, for denouement - - follow with a full-psyche inventory and pronounce [every opponent] devoid of a Suitably Decent Life !! (And we may only surmise Who shall willingly next install for one, a New Life of suitable decency, circumspection and Righteousness.) Let us not parse further into this morass.

[Pity, Rand - that you missed the Fundamentalist Warz of a time back, wherein an ex-forumist {a One noted for Good Works against our temporal techno-Beast\ufffd} - performed a similar public reductio: of all who sailed in the dastardly charnel-ship of Evolution..]

Yes, We Were Warned that: Our Fate had been sealed before birth! and we Would NOT be brushing elbows with ^#1-Honcho and watching the hilarious funandgames of the Bad Guys boiling in oil while the Good Guys applauded at ^His elbow -
(after the Rapture Series had been called on account of darkness, natch & etc.)

Hubris .. Where is Thy Sting !?
At what level of hyperbolic critical mass leading to irreversible implosion.. is Cosmic Justice wreaked upon such pusillanimous popinjays .?. Language Murder is the crime. Who then shall execute the execrable?





Ahh.. and a deafening Cosmic Silence reminds of the actual remedy, after all has been said, done and undone.