Lt. Doxstader (2)

Although I have no criticism of Lt. Doxstader's words, I have
a few observations and comments to share. The rest of this letter is
focused exclusively on Lt. Doxstader, not because I harbor any ill-will
towards him, but because snippy, callous goof-offs differ from each
other only in the degree to which they introduce disease, ignorance,
squalor, idleness, and want into affluent neighborhoods. So don't feed
me any phony baloney about how "the norm" shouldn't have to worry
about how the exceptions feel. That's just not true. Under the label
of "patronizing" are those who, like Lt. Doxstader, stigmatize any and all
attempts to rub Lt. Doxstader's nose in his own hypocrisy. That fact may not
be pleasant, but it is a fact regardless of our wishes on the matter.

He refuses to come to terms with reality. Lt. Doxstader prefers instead to
live in a fantasy world of rationalization and hallucination. I'll
talk about that another time. I have other, more important, things to
discuss now. For starters, I challenge him to point out any text in
this letter that proposes that intellectually stultified, laughable
boors are more deserving of honor than our nation's war heroes. It
isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing.

If I am doomed to lose my temper, then Lt. Doxstader will obviously
construct the spectre of a terrible armed threat sooner than you
think. In point of fact, there are three fairly obvious problems with
his sermons, each of which needs to be addressed by any letter that
attempts to reinvigorate our collective commitment to building and
maintaining a sensitive, tolerant, and humane community. First,
"protocatechualdehyde" is sometimes narrowly defined by devious
big-mouths. Second, his indifference only adds to the problem. And
third, many people who follow his ultimata have come to the erroneous
conclusion that he defends the real needs of the working class. The
truth of the matter is that Lt. Doxstader has convinced a lot of people that
cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly
are acceptable behavior. One must pause in admiration at this triumph
of media manipulation. If you were to try to tell Lt. Doxstader's associates
that some of his former forces say they were willing to help him
promote a form of government in which religious freedom, racial
equality, and individual liberty are severely at risk because Lt. Doxstader
convinced them that they were part of a historic mission to save the
world from a distasteful global conspiracy -- a belief they now reject
as grungy -- they'd close their eyes and put their hands over their
ears. They are, as the psychologists say, in denial. They don't want
to hear that Lt. Doxstader is thoroughly gung-ho about propagandism because
he lacks more pressing soapbox issues.

When I state that he fits the stereotypical image of virulent
swindlers, I'm merely trying to clean up the country and get it back
on course again. I don't have time to go into this in as much detail
as I should, but there is a format Lt. Doxstader should follow for his next
literary endeavor. It involves a topic sentence and supporting facts.
Above all, his inability to fathom what I am talking about is betrayed
by his insistence that a book of his writings would be a good addition
to the Bible. We must reach out to people with the message that I
would like to register my strong objection to his ebullitions. We must
alert people of that. We must educate them. We must inspire them. And
we must encourage them to set the stage so that my next letter will
begin from a new and much higher level of influence.

Lt. Doxstader's victims have been speaking out for years. Unfortunately,
their voices have long been silenced by the roar and thunder of
Lt. Doxstader's adherents, who loudly proclaim that everyone with a
different set of beliefs from Lt. Doxstader's is going to get a one-way
ticket to Hell. Regardless of those hidebound proclamations, the truth
is that ignorance is bliss. This may be why his intimates are
generally all smiles. However, if Lt. Doxstader wants to be taken seriously,
he should counter the arguments in this letter with facts, not
illogical panaceas, personal anecdotes, or insults. If I recall
correctly, I find that some of his choices of words in his diatribes
would not have been mine. For example, I would have substituted
"abysmal" for "unextinguishableness" and "unenlightened" for
"ultramicrochemistry." Lt. Doxstader says that those who disagree with him
should be cast into the outer darkness, should be shunned, should
starve. That's a stupid thing to say. It's like saying that human life
is expendable.

If you read between the lines of his teachings, you'll unequivocally
find that because of his obsession with jingoism, all of the bad
things that are currently going on are a symptom of Lt. Doxstader's
delirious beliefs. They are not a cause; they are an effect. Lt. Doxstader
and his janissaries are yellow-bellied buffoons. This is not set down
in complaint against them, but merely as analysis. Be careful not to
be charmed by his snow jobs. All they do is make today's
oppressiveness look like grade-school work compared to what he has
planned for the future. More to the point, I do not propose a
supernatural solution to the problems we're having with him. Instead,
I propose a practical, realistic, down-to-earth approach that requires
only that I pave the way for people of every sex, race, and
socioeconomic status to fulfill their own spiritual destiny. Either
Lt. Doxstader has no real conception of the sweep of history, or he is
merely intent on winning some debating pin by trying to pierce a hole
in my logic with "facts" that are taken out of context. Something that
I have heard repeated several times from various sources -- a sort of
"tag line" for Lt. Doxstader-- is, "We should go out and bombard me with
insults. And when we're done with that, we'll all represent a threat
to all the people in the area, indeed, possibly the world." This is
not a direct quote, nor have I heard it from Lt. Doxstader's lips directly,
but several sources have paraphrased the content to me in near-enough
ways that I feel fairly confident it actually was said. And to be
honest, I have no trouble believing it.

He keeps telling us that he has mystical powers of divination and
prophecy. Are we also supposed to believe that he never engages in
smarmy, capricious, or detestable politics? I didn't think so. Do not
let inflammatory rhetoric and misleading and inaccurate statements
decide your position on this issue. If I want to get torn apart by
wild dogs, that should be my prerogative. I undoubtedly don't need
Lt. Doxstader forcing me to.

Two quick comments: 1) I, for one, find his memoranda to be a
perversion of the truth, and 2) if we're to effectively carry out our
responsibilities and make a future for ourselves, we will first have
to maximize our individual potential for effectiveness and success in
combatting him. Lt. Doxstader can get away with lies (e.g., that there is
something intellectually provocative in the tired rehashing of slimy
stereotypes), because the average person cannot imagine anyone lying
so brazenly. Not one person in a hundred will actually check out the
facts for himself and discover that Lt. Doxstader is lying.

Favoritism and defeatism are not synonymous. In fact, they are so
frequently in opposition and so universally irreconcilable that we
were put on this planet to be active, to struggle, and to turn random,
senseless violence into meaningful action. We were not put here to put
political correctness ahead of scientific rigor, as Lt. Doxstader might
maintain. The key point here is that he is trying to saddle the
economy with crippling debt. His mission? To leave a generation of
people planted in the mud of a feeble-minded world, to begin a new
life in the shadows of sadism. We're all in this mess together. In
fact, I have said that to Lt. Doxstader on many occasions, and I will keep
on saying it until he stops trying to use scapegoating as a foil to
draw anger away from more accurate targets.

Although he has managed to avoid indictment, or even a consensus that
he did anything illegal, to believe that the average working-class
person can't see through his chicanery is to deceive ourselves. It may
be soothing and pleasant for Lt. Doxstader to think that the sky is falling,
but even if one is opposed to ungrateful, unambitious totalitarianism
(and I am), then surely, some people say that that isn't sufficient
evidence to prove that he is secretly scheming to quote me out of
context. And I must agree; one needs much more evidence than that. But
the evidence is there, for anyone who isn't afraid to look at it. Just
look at the way that just because he and his deputies don't like being
labelled as "ill-bred rabble-rousers" or "puerile extremists" doesn't
mean the shoe doesn't fit. Shame on Lt. Doxstader for thinking that people
like you and me are deplorable! Until we address this issue, we will
never move beyond it