[MD] A modern allegory

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

OK, you provoked me. Again.

And I put it to you that I am bound by Quality to hate you. Perhaps not you 
as a person, and not everything you say (you wrote something in Lila's child 
about the MOQ being a "code of art" and a lot of other stuff in there that I 
really liked) but these values you are expressing - I must hate them, with 
all my heart.

The same way I must hate Islamic fundamentalism, Racism and stuff like that 
I HAVE to hate republican "ideology".

People yelling Allah akbar, Sieg Heil or Freedom or chanting the name given 
to an administrative entity called a nation must be identified as the 
champions of the Social Level, fighting the intellectual level with all they've 
got. And I am bound by evolution to fight back.

I keep saying over and over aging. And ideology cantered around the freedom 
to earn money is undeniably in service of the social level. It isn't more 
difficult than that. And Freedom. It's just a word.


Pompously elitist and sincerely yours

Chris




> From: "Platt Holden"

>
> A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many
> others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and
> among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to
> support more government programs, in other words, redistribution of 
> wealth.
>
> She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a
> feeling she openly expressed.  Based on the lectures that she  had
> participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that
> her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he
> thought should be his.
>
> One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher  taxes
> on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed
> objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she
> indicated so to her father.
>
> He responded by asking how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she
> answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it
> was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult
> course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out
> and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a
> boyfriend,  and didn't really have many college friends because she spent
> all her time studying.
>
> Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She
> replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she
> never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus;
> college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and
> lots  of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung
> over.
>
> Her father asked his daughter, why don't you go to the Dean's office and
> ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has
> a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a
> fair and  equal distribution of GPA.
>
> The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired
> back, 'That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair? I've worked really 
> hard
> for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey
> has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my
> tail off!'
>
> The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the
> Republican party.'
>
> Regards,
> Platt