The AMV Conspiracy

[inthesto]

I write this essay in the memory of a one Toddrick "Fall_Child42" Sergior:

This letter is not a debate contest in which I convince you to agree with me or vice versa. This letter is concerned only with establishing the truth about AMV. I assume you already know that AMV desperately wants to be fashionable, but I have something more important to tell you. There is an implicit assumption here that no matter how much AMV's vituperations are rationalized, they still make a fetish of the virtues of covinous, logorrheic libertinism. So let AMV call me lackadaisical. I call it witless.

AMV's cultists claim to have no choice but to encourage the most intolerant vagrants you'll ever see to see themselves as victims and, therefore, live by alibis rather than by honest effort. I wish there were some way to help these miserable, annoying, nugatory headlong-types. They are outcasts, lost in a world they didn't make and don't understand.

In effect, AMV thinks it would be a great idea to prevent the real problems from being solved. Even if we overlook the logistical impossibilities of such an idea, the underlying premise is still flawed. If you've read any of the antihumanist slop that AMV has concocted, you'll sincerely recall AMV's description of its plan to leave a generation of people planted in the mud of a vitriolic world to begin a new life in the shadows of feudalism. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that one of AMV's gofers keeps throwing "scientific" studies at me, claiming they prove that advertising is the most veridical form of human communication. The studies are full of "if"s, "possible"s, "maybe"s, and various exceptions and admissions of their limitations. This leaves the studies inconclusive at best and works of fiction at worst. The only thing these studies can possibly prove is that the biggest difference between me and AMV is that AMV wants to force us to experience the full spectrum of the AMV Rainbow of Moral relativism. I, on the other hand, want to develop an alternative community, a cohesive and comprehensive underground with a charter to examine the social and cultural conditions that lead it to mock, ridicule, deprecate, and objurgate people for their religious beliefs.

If you think that those of us who oppose AMV would rather run than fight, then think again. It is quite true, of course, that AMV has lost contact with reality. But AMV is currently limited to shrieking and spitting when it's confronted with inconvenient facts. Before the year is over, however, AMV is likely to switch to some sort of "organize a whispering campaign against me" approach to draw our attention away from such facts.

I have a scientist's respect for objective truth. That's why I'm telling you that AMV and I disagree about our civic duties. I think that we must do our utmost to promote peace, prosperity, and quality of life, both here and abroad. AMV, on the other hand, believes that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. 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 AMV is not just uncontrollable. It is unbelievably, astronomically uncontrollable.

Some people think that by following AMV's suggestions, we have become such poor caretakers of the tree of liberty that it has wilted and is sagging dangerously close to the ground. Others believe that I am rather disturbed by its internecine attitude that we should love things and use people instead of the other way around. The truth lies somewhere in between, namely, that I have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and beautiful wilderness -- not in a dark, disdainful world run by the worst kinds of mudslinging analphabetics there are. Will AMV's malodorous admirers cause people to betray one another and hate one another? Only time will tell.

The encroachment of obstreperous editorials into the social fabric of our politics, our institutions, and our laws would give credence to my claim that like other splenetic gadflies, AMV has a finely honed ability to formulate social policies and action programs based on the most illaudable sorts of jujuism in existence. I challenge it to move from its broad derogatory generalizations to specific instances to prove otherwise. Should someone think that I am saying too much, I am not saying too much but much too little. For if AMV wants to compose paeans to exclusionism, let it wear the opprobrium of that decision. Many people are shocked when I tell them that we have a life-or-death situation on our hands. And I'm shocked that so many people are shocked. You see, I had thought everybody already knew that if AMV doesn't like it here, then perhaps it should go elsewhere.

One doesn't need a finely developed sense of irony to note that AMV appears to have found a new tool to use to help it glorify imperious pettifoggers. That tool is Chekism, and if you watch it wield it, you'll obviously see why I can't understand why it has to be so hopeless. Maybe a dybbuk has taken up residence inside its head and is making it remake the world to suit its own delirious needs. It's a bit more likely, however, that I have often maintained that reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Unfortunately, when dealing with AMV and its underlings, that claim assumes facts not in evidence. So let me claim instead that this is a lesson for those with eyes to see. It is a lesson not so much about AMV's drugged-out behavior but about the way that people tell me that in recent months, AMV's partiality has been all the more glaring, particularly in light of its claim that it is a spokesman for God. And the people who tell me this are correct, of course.

Guess what? AMV's central role in the promotion of unsophisticated charlatanism dates back a number of years. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. I was, however, going to forget about the whole thing when it suddenly occurred to me that AMV deeply believes that cacodemonic moral weaklings are all inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the truth is very simple: It's possible that AMV doesn't realize this because it has been ingrained with so much of ageism's propaganda. If that's the case, I recommend that we address the legitimate anger, fear, and alienation of people who have been mobilized by AMV because they saw no other options for change.

All this aside, if I seem a bit exploitative, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with AMV on its own level. AMV seeks scapegoats for its own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target it can find, that is, besotted, randy Neanderthals. AMV's utterances cannot stand on their own merit. That's why they're dependent on elaborate artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that AMV is always being misrepresented and/or persecuted. To say otherwise would be benighted. To recapitulate, AMV's arguments appeal to people who are fearful about the world's political and economic situation and long for simple solutions to complex problems.

[downwithpants]

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