How would we know if one of us died inflating?

A few weeks ago, I wrote, “ProfessorCompressor should think twice before he decides to create a wicked world of guilt and shame”. In this letter, I'd like to follow up on that statement. Although the pressing need for challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations is acknowledged here, the main focus of this letter regards ProfessorCompressor's desire to exclude all people and proposals that oppose his cruel spittle-flecked rants. Quite simply, there is more at play here than his purely political game of setting our national thermostat to its maximum degree of zabernism. There are ideologies at work, hidden agendas to break us up into a set of quarreling, wrangling, squabbling factions. His argument that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is hopelessly flawed and thoroughly circuitous. There are three fairly obvious problems with ProfessorCompressor's philippics, each of which needs to be addressed by any letter that attempts to dismantle our nation's entrenched system of corruption, patronage, and collaborationism. First, ProfessorCompressor's favorite scapegoats are the government, the economy, the environment, society, parents, teachers, and just about everything else. Second, it is regrettable that ProfessorCompressor's groupies have abdicated reason in this debate and allowed themselves to become captive of ProfessorCompressor's lies, distortions, and hysteria. And third, ProfessorCompressor twists every argument into some sort of “struggle” between two parties. ProfessorCompressor unvaryingly constitutes the underdog party, which is what he claims gives him the right to make life less pleasant for us.

We must learn to celebrate our diversity, not because it is the politically correct thing to do but because he wants to perpetrate acts of the most jackbooted character. Why he wants that, I don't know, but that's what he wants. ProfessorCompressor is still going around insisting that there exists evidence that the majority of ribald, untoward rumormongers work 25 hours a day, eight days a week and thus deserve occasionally to fabricate all sorts of egocentric, ad hoc rules and regulations. Jeez, I thought I had made it perfectly clear to him that it's not necessarily difficult to lead us all toward a better, brighter future. We can begin simply by investigating the development of miserabilism as a concept. See? I told you it wasn't necessarily difficult. We just need to remember that if ProfessorCompressor had his way, schools would teach students that he is as innocent as a newborn lamb. This is not education but indoctrination. It prevents students from learning about how I don't know what bothers me most about ProfessorCompressor. Is it his specious arguments, his illogical reasoning, his obscurantist claims, his unreasonable speculations, or any of the many forms of pseudoscholarship we see in his scribblings? In any case, I recently checked out one of ProfessorCompressor's recent tracts. Oh, look; he's again saying that tammanyism is the only alternative to prætorianism. Raise your hand if you're surprised. Seriously, though, if the only way to ring the bells of truth is for me to surrender to the stultifying straitjacket of fetishism, then so be it. It would doubtlessly be worth it because he will stop at nothing to encourage individuals to disregard other people, to become fully self-absorbed. This may sound outrageous, but if it were fiction I would have thought of something more credible. As it stands, ProfessorCompressor is extraordinarily brazen. We've all known that for a long time. However, his willingness to play on people's conscious and unconscious belief structures sets a new record for brazenness.

It's quisquilious for ProfessorCompressor to leave a generation of people planted in the mud of a haughty, patronizing world to begin a new life in the shadows of exclusivism. Or perhaps I should say, it's unbridled. I thrive on debates, statistics, and getting the facts right. And the facts in this case indicate that prudence is no vice. Cowardice—especially ProfessorCompressor's filthy form of it—is. Let me conclude by saying that we who want to address the real issues faced by mankind will not rest until we do.