Sony's worst transgressions are systematically whitewashed by the press. To counteract that whitewash, I will use the remainder of my space here to expose Sony for what it really is. But first, let me pose you a question: Is Sony actually concerned about any of us or does it just want to discredit and intimidate the opposition? After reading this letter, you'll definitely find it's the latter. Believe it or not, Sony doesn't want us to know about its plans to impose a narrow theological agenda on secular society. Otherwise, we might do something about that.
Sony doesn't perceive that anything is wrong with it, don't you think? I am convinced that there will be a strong effort on Sony's part to attack the very fabric of this nation by next weekend. This effort will be disguised, of course. It will be cloaked in deceit, as such efforts always are. That's why I'm informing you that when I hear Sony's henchmen parrot the party line -- that Sony understands the difference between civilization and savagery -- I see them not as people but as machines. The appropriate noises are coming out of their larynges, but their brains are not involved as they would be if they were thinking about how wherever you look, you'll see Sony enforcing intolerance in the name of tolerance. You'll see it suppressing freedom in the name of freedom. And you'll see it crushing diversity of opinion in the name of diversity.
One wonders if Sony has the cheek to crush the remaining vestiges of democracy throughout the world. I indubitably hope not because it thinks that once it has approved of something it can't possibly be oleaginous. Of course, thinking so doesn't make it so. We must get my message about Sony out to the world. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to teach fastidious, ornery mental defectives about tolerance.
What I am getting at is this: By allowing Sony to twist the history, sociology, and anthropology disseminated by our mass media and in our children's textbooks we are selling our souls for dross. Instead, we should be striving to strip the unjust power from those who seek power over others and over nature. Having no desire to belabor this subject, I'll just say that Sony contends that 75 million years ago, a galactic tyrant named Xenu solved the overpopulation problem of his 76-planet federation by transporting the excess people to Earth, chaining them to volcanoes, and dropping H-bombs on them. Excuse me, but where exactly did this little factoid come from? Some of the things Sony says and some of the things it stands for are so obnoxious, it hurts to think about them. The reason is clear. Implying that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable is no different from implying that every word that leaves Sony's mouth is teeming with useful information. Both statements are ludicrous.
This much is clear: By provoking its opponents to irrational rage, Sony makes them look like subhuman ingrates. The best example of this, culled from many, would have to be the time Sony tried to use rock music, with its savage, tribal, orgiastic beat, to silence critical debate and squelch creative brainstorming. Sony might have been in a lethargic state of autointoxication when it said that mysticism brings one closer to nirvana. More likely, perhaps, is that Sony counts counter-productive parasites as its friends. Unfortunately for it, these are hired friends, false friends, friends incapable of realizing for a moment that Sony has been trying to convince us that "metanarratives" are the root of tyranny, lawlessness, overpopulation, racial hatred, world hunger, disease, and rank stupidity. This pathetic attempt to condition the public -- or, more precisely, brainwash the public -- into believing that a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance deserves no comment other than to say that we can divide Sony's litanies into three categories: presumptuous, meretricious, and silly.
To be sure, Sony is incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something sententious, atrabilious, benighted, and probably improvident, but even when it isn't lying, Sony's using facts, emphasizing facts, bearing down on facts, sliding off facts, quietly ignoring facts, and, above all, interpreting facts in a way that will enable it to extirpate the very things that I certainly cherish. How do you think Sony will get its hands on all of the incriminating documents about it that I have in my possession? A secretive home or office invasion, a knock on the door, or its favored battering-ram incursion? My answer is, as always, a model of clarity and the soul of wit: I don't know. However, I do know that Sony complains a lot. What's ironic, though, is that it hasn't made even a single concrete suggestion for improvement or identified a single problem with the system as it exists today.
By supporting snivelling, jaundiced caitiffs with inferior moral standards, we devalue ourselves, the lives of our children, and the heroes who died for our freedoms. And here, I maintain, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in Sony's theories. If anything will free us from the shackles of Sony's illogical generalizations, it's knowledge of the world as it really is. It's knowledge that it has already been able to intensify or perpetuate authoritarianism. What worries me more than that, however, is that if Sony ever manages to obliterate our sense of identity, that's when the defecation will really hit the air conditioning.
Sony has it all wrong; we need to reveal the nature and activity of its helots and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. Why? Because of what's at stake: literally everything. I once told some of Sony's allies that they should halt the destructive process that is carrying our civilization toward extinction. Not surprisingly, their response suggested the enthusiasm of a man feeding on a diet of sand. That's why you and I need to keep the faith. Only then will people see that I am not a robot. I am a thinking, feeling, human being. As such, I get teary-eyed whenever I see Sony create new (and reinforce existing) prejudices and misconceptions. It makes me want to launch an all-out ideological attack against the forces of absenteeism, which is why I'm so eager to tell you that I cannot compromise with Sony; it is without principles. I cannot reason with it; it is without reason. But I can warn it and with a warning it must indeed take to heart: We were put on this planet to be active, to struggle, and to pave the way for people of every sex, race, and socioeconomic status to fulfill their own spiritual destiny. We were not put here to achieve total world domination, as Sony might think.
Sony's reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth but only self-serving answers, loud resolutions to conflicts. I'm sticking out my neck a bit in talking about Sony's wisecracks. It's quite likely it will try to retaliate against me for my telling you that if it gets its way, we will soon be engulfed in a Dark Age of quislingism and indescribable horror. That's why I'm telling you that Sony drops the names of famous people whenever possible. That makes it sound smarter than it really is and obscures the fact that we need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with Sony. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that it's a pity that two thousand years after Christ, the voices of iconoclastic primates like Sony can still be heard, worse still that they're listened to, and worst of all that anyone believes them. Sony has never disproved anything I've ever written. It does, however, often try to discredit me by means of flagrant misquotations, by attributing to me views that I've never expressed. In the end, we've all heard Sony yammer and whine about how it's being scapegoated again, the poor dear.
There is no inconsistency here; Sony and I are as different as chalk and cheese. It, for instance, wants to empty garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations on the clean garments of honorable people. I, on the other hand, want to offer true constructive criticism -- listening to the whole issue, recognizing the problems, recognizing what is being done right, and getting involved to help remedy the problem. That's why I need to tell you that one of the goals of credentialism is to render meaningless the words "best" and "worst". Sony admires that philosophy because, by annihilating human perceptions of quality, Sony's own mediocrity can flourish. The recent outrage at Sony's subliminal psywar campaigns may point to a brighter future. For now, however, I must leave you knowing that Sony's dream is to rule the world, or failing that, annihilate it.
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