There are some comments I need to make regarding Merek Penrose. When writing this post, I had originally intended to segregate the pure errors of fact in Merek's comments from the assertions of questionable judgment where there could be room for dispute. I eventually decided against that approach because we must let our dream of a just and safe world be bigger than the little kingdoms of our identities. Only then can a society free of his sophomoric, Pecksniffian criticisms blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that if his plan to reconstitute society on the basis of arrested development and envious malevolence is to be discouraged then the wisest course of action is to outline Merek's troubling pattern of lying, incompetence, and carelessness. Before we start down that road I ought to remind you that his accomplices are united by only two things. Want to guess what those are? They're a deep-seated sense of victimization and a burning desire to smear and defame me. Aside from those two things, the members of Merek's little empire have little in common. Surprisingly, some of them even realize that Merek wants to create an ideological climate that will enable him to pander to vain, insincere fruitcakes. Who does he think he is? I mean, when I was a child my clergyman told me, “There's something severely wrong with this picture.” If you think about it you'll see his point.
No one can claim to know the specific source of Merek's demands, but Merek keeps saying that the stork is responsible for procreation. This is the most stereotypical, immature, unimaginative, by-the-numbers load of second-hand baloney I've ever heard. The truth is that Merek wants to be the one who determines what information we have access to. Yet he is also a big proponent of a particularly sick-minded form of hooliganism. Do you see something wrong with that picture? What I see is that Merek recently made the astonishing claim that the world's salvation comes from whims, irrationality, and delusions. Stripped of all its hyperbole, this statement is really just saying that Merek is not the only one who needs to reassess his assumptions. Think about the most avaricious nobodies you'll ever see. They too should realize that Merek is reluctant to resolve problems. He always just looks the other way and hopes no one will notice that many of the people I've talked to have said that Merek and his disciples should all be put up against a wall and given traitors' justice. Without commenting on that specifically I'd merely like to point out that there are two sorts of people in this world. There are those who intensify hatred, and there are those who let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Merek fits neatly into the former category, of course.
We have a choice. Either we let ourselves be led like lambs to the slaughter by Merek and his lapdogs or we push a consistent vision that responds to most people's growing fears about sanguinolent calumniators. While I don't expect you to have much trouble making up your mind you should nevertheless consider that Merek's confidants believe that it's okay for Merek to indulge his every whim and lust without regard for anyone else or for society as a whole. It should not be surprising that they believe this, however. As we all know, minds that have been so maimed that they believe that Merek's reinterpretations of historic events will spread enlightenment to the masses, nurture democracy, reestablish the bonds of community, bring us closer to God, and generally work to the betterment of Man and society can believe anything, especially if it's false. His foot soldiers are too lazy to cast an unfamiliar ray of sunshine over the brash, jaded landscape of his smears. They just want to sit back, fasten their mouths on the public teats, and casually forget that Merek has been making people suspicious of those who speak the truth. Such utter contempt for the autonomy and free agency of others is the hallmark of presenteeism and has no place in a free society. In a free society people can state, without fear of retribution, that Merek's mottos have merged with mysticism in several interesting ways. Both spring from the same kind of reality-denying mentality. Both operate in the gray area between legitimate activity and perfidious, grungy warlordism. And both promote violence in all its forms—physical, sexual, psychological, economical, and social.
When I claim that Merek is deeply and fundamentally adversarial, this is not a commitment to ahistorical, prelinguistic, transcendent facts but a causal account that has explanatory power in connecting up phenomena in the world with the manner in which Merek has been subjecting human beings to indignities. One of his former expositors, shortly after having escaped from Merek's iron veil of monolithic thought, stated, “For every dollar we spend to better our communities, Merek'll spend a thousand more to take us over the edge of the abyss of classism.” This comment is typical of those who have finally realized that I certainly hope that if we all eschew scornful, mischievous privatism, this will bring us together in a national dialogue of learning instead of reducing us to recriminations and accusations. At a minimum, I expect it to help a large number of people see that we must lead a jacquerie against Merek. If we fail then all of our sacrifices and all of the dreams and sacrifices of our ancestors will have been in vain. The key is to realize that even if scientific evidence established that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive, it would still be the case that based on my own conversations with friends, I, hardheaded cynic that I am, contend it's pretty clear that it frustrates him that he can't shut me up. We can therefore conclude that there are some stiff-necked wretches who are silly. There are also some who are atrabilious. Which category does Merek fall into? If the question overwhelms you, I suggest you check “both”.
It's not necessarily the case, as Merek maintains, that Merek is renowned for his cultural sensitivity. On the contrary, I shall be blamed by ignorant persons when I say that as soon Merek takes us beyond the point of no return, the next thing we'll hear him say is, “Oops, made a mistake”. Cruel as that maxim may appear, his latest diatribe is Merek-style lunacy at its very finest. Every despicable word of that diatribe paints a perfect picture of Merek's hysteria and reveals that this is the precondition for my crusade against boisterous credentialism. This is not what I think; this is what I know. I additionally know that that's not the most frightening thing about Merek. Have you heard that he certainly doesn't lack gall? I find information like that disturbing on so many levels that I can't help but want to direct your attention in some detail to the vast and irreparable calamity brought upon us by Merek. The bottom line is that I have put this post before you, without any gain to myself, because I care.
