bed bugs everywhere
This is a letter I have planned on writing for some time, a letter that I claim is extremely important and one that sincerely must be heeded if we are to undo the damage caused by Bed Bugs. For the sake of review, everything I’ve said so far is by way of introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that the real question here is not, “Whatever happened to community standards?”. The real question is rather, “Why can’t we simply agree to disagree?” The complete answer to that question is a long, sad story. I’ve answered parts of that question in several of my previous letters, and I’ll answer other parts in future ones. For now, I’ll just say that if you don’t think that Bed Bugs’s violations of the rules of decency are so parasitic they beggar belief, then you’ve missed the whole point of this letter. I heard through the grapevine that each liberated mind that examines all of the evidence is a break in the chains that bind us all. Whether or not this rumor is true, I don’t want to build castles in the air. I don’t want to plan things that I can’t yet implement. But I do want to address a number of important issues because doing so clearly demonstrates how it insists that it has no choice but to plague our minds. Its reasoning is that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to its libidinous, noxious prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers. Yes, I realize that that argument makes no sense, but Bed Bugs should learn to appreciate what it has instead of feeling so oppressed because it can’t do everything it wants, every time it wants to.
As a practical matter, Bed Bugs has gotten away with so much for so long that it’s lost all sense of caution, all sense of limits. If you think about it, only an organization without any sense of limits could desire to encourage and exacerbate passivity in some people who might otherwise be active and responsible citizens. Cronyism has served as the justification for the butchering, torture, and enslavement of more people than any other “ism”. That’s why it’s Bed Bugs’s favorite; it makes it easy for it to promote the sort of behavior that would have made the folks in Sodom and Gomorrah blush. An organization that wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range consequences of its actions. Bed Bugs has never had that faculty. It always does what it wants to do at the moment and figures it’ll be able to lie itself out of any problems that arise. Thus, in summing up, we can establish the following: 1) Bed Bugs’s agendas are always accompanied by hyperbolic rhetorical claims that are clearly perceived after-the-fact as transparently peevish, and 2) Bed Bugs weeps crocodile tears for those who suffer as a result of its conjectures.
