• My problem with Martin Luther King.
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I've been hesitating to write this letter because I've been afraid that, if I did, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would do everything in his power to make me recant all of the claims I've made in this letter. But after reading about King's rebarbative mind games, I could hesitate no longer. Let me preface my discussion by quickly reasserting a familiar theme of my previous letters: King's opinion is that the ideas of "freedom" and "cameralism" are Siamese twins. Of course, opinions are like sphincters: we all have them. So let me tell you my opinion. My opinion is that King has no discernible talents. The only things he has indubitably mastered are biological functions. Well, I suppose King's also good at convincing people that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the lamebrained brigands in his gestapo, but my point is that for the nonce, King is content to waste taxpayers' money. But sooner than you think, he will spread clericalism all over the globe like pigeon droppings over Trafalgar Square. That fact is simply inescapable to any thinking man or woman. "Thinking" is the key word in the previous sentence. King's reasoning is circular and therefore invalid. In other words, he always begins an argument with his conclusion (e.g., that he has mystical powers of divination and prophecy) and therefore—not surprisingly—he always arrives at that very conclusion. King believes that he should make people suspicious of those who speak the truth because "it's the right thing to do". Sorry, but I have to call foul on that one. [img]http://www.writespirit.net/inspirational_talks/political/martin_luther_king_talks/martin-luther-king2.jpg[/img] Whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to justify condemnation, constructive criticism, and ridicule of King and his paltry précis. His harangues are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of charlatanism. If you read between the lines of his double standards, you'll clearly find that my general thesis is that he is doing everything in his power to make me contract leprosy and be forced to live out my benighted days shunned by humanity, ringing a bell, and shying away from sharps and open flames. The only reason I haven't yet is that I believe in the four P's: patience, prayer, positive thinking, and perseverance. I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: King is not just brazen. He is unbelievably, astronomically brazen. I don't know what sort of abuse King was subjected to as a child that made him such a craven prig but I do know that we've tolerated his devious, lackadaisical insinuations long enough. It's time to lose our patience and chill our kindness. It's time to grant people the freedom to pursue any endeavor they deem fitting to their skills, talent, and interest. It's time to shout to the world that if this letter did nothing else but serve as a beacon of truth, it would be worthy of reading by all right-thinking people. However, this letter's role is much greater than just to resolve our disputes without violence. If society were a beer bottle—something, I believe, that King holds in high regard—he would indeed be the nauseating bit at the bottom that only the homeless like to drink. King's ethics are rife with contradictions and difficulties; they're utterly reckless, meet no objective criteria, and are unsuited for a supposedly educated population. And as if that weren't enough, if you look back over some of my older letters, you'll see that I predicted that King would stir up one part of the population against another. And, as I predicted, he did. But you know, that was not a difficult prediction to make. Anyone who has bothered to learn even a little about King could have made the same prediction. Let me put it this way: he honestly believes that insincere hatemongers have dramatically lower incidences of cancer, heart attacks, heart disease, and many other illnesses than the rest of us. What kind of Humpty-Dumpty world is he living in? The answer is quite simple. I already listed several possibilities, but because King lacks the ability to remember beyond the last two seconds of his life I will restate what I said before for his sake: This makes me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs of his tyrannical whinges. (To be honest, though, it wouldn't be the first time.) You shouldn't let King intimidate you. You shouldn't let him push you around. We're the ones who are right, not King. He finds reality too difficult to swallow. Or maybe it just gets lost between the sports and entertainment pages. In either case, what we have been imparting to King—or what he has been eliciting from us—is a half-submerged, barely intended logic, contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge. When asked to mend his ways, he will give people a wink and a smile, but when the wheels begin to turn, it's business as usual. We are a nation of prostitutes. By this I mean that as long as we are fat, warm, and dry we don't care what King does. It is precisely that lack of caring that explains why incompetent, pathetic jokers crush people to the earth and then claim the right to trample on them forever because they are prostrate. That said, we mustn't lose sight of who the real enemy is: Martin Luther King and his gormless cat's-paws. [img]http://topazcambridge.com/topazblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/martin-luther-king.jpg[/img] Please note that when I finish writing this letter you might not hear from me again for a while. I simply don't have enough strength left to review the basic issues at the root of the debate. Nevertheless, if we let King pit race against race, religion against religion, and country against country, all we'll have to look forward to in the future is a public realm devoid of culture and a narrow and routinized professional life untouched by the highest creations of civilization. I hope it will not disappoint you to learn that I can't understand why King has to be so brutish. Maybe a dybbuk has taken up residence inside King's head and is making him use terms of opprobrium such as "peremptory pamphleteers" and "feckless pissants" to castigate whomever he opposes. It's a bit more likely, however, that I recently checked out one of his recent tracts. Oh, look; King's again saying that going through the motions of working is the same as working. Raise your hand if you're surprised. Seriously, though, if you've never seen King abridge our basic civil liberties, you're either incredibly unobservant or are concealing the truth from yourself. King's beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) represent explicitly his overly accepting attitude towards namby-pamby scatterbrains. Am I being unduly harsh for writing that? I think not. When the religious leaders in Jesus's time were wrong, Jesus denounced them in extremely harsh terms. So why shouldn't I, too, use extremely harsh terms to indicate that King is as unbalanced as he is drossy? If it were up to King, schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism. Even people who consider themselves mutinous, wretched tyrants generally agree that whatever your age, you now have only one choice. That choice is between a democratic, peace-loving regime that, you hope, may reverse the devolutionary course that King has set for us and, as the alternative, the uncongenial and satanic dirigisme currently being forced upon us by King. Choose carefully because King's screeds are intellectually and morally indefensible. Let me recap that for you because it really is extraordinarily important: "King" has now become part of my vocabulary. Whenever I see someone sue people at random, I tell him or her to stop "King-ing". Although chimpanzees can be convinced to wear clothing, understand commands, and even ride bicycles (if well paid for their services in bananas), it would be virtually impossible to convince King that he tries to make us think the way he wants us to think, not by showing us evidence and reasoning with us, but by understanding how to push our emotional buttons. So that there may be no misunderstanding, let me make it clear that he wants all of us to believe that the few of us who complain regularly about his animadversions are simply spoiling the party. That's why he sponsors brainwashing in the schools, brainwashing by the government, brainwashing statements made to us by politicians, entertainers, and sports stars, and brainwashing by the big advertisers and the news media. [img]http://www.thedctraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/march-on-washington-aug-28-1963.jpg[/img] A long time ago I wrote that "we must fix our sights on the distant future, when we will have finally cleared away the spiritual and physical debris of the Martin Luther King era". Today I might add that King has spent untold hours trying to discredit legitimate voices in the escapism debate. During that time, did it ever once occur to him that I am fed up with his dour and pouty behavior? As you ponder the answer to that question, consider that I wish that one of the innumerable busybodies who are forever making "statistical studies" about nonsense would instead make a statistical study that means something. For example, I'd like to see a statistical study of King's capacity to learn the obvious. Also worthwhile would be a statistical study of how many garrulous, whiney beatniks realize that I correctly predicted that King would force his moral code on the rest of us. Alas, I didn't think he'd do that so effectively—or so soon. I would like to close by saying that we must draw the line somewhere. Do you guys get my point? [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Copy/paste plug in Martin Luther King's name." - ventilated))[/highlight]
a. specifics b. specifics c. specifics You're flinging around words without giving any example or proof.
racist
Look man, he was a hero... not a nazi. He changed america and forced his ideals for all the right reasons.
Did not read, nor did anyone else. Please make a summary. We celebrate him cause of what he represents.
[quote]Do you guys get my point?[/quote] No
It seems like you used essay generator on this, considering I've never heard anyway use the phrase "King-ing"
I read it. I like your writing style. I agree with you to an extent. You guys need to actually read the OP if you're going to respond. Especially if you're going to move against what you think it says. [editline]11:32AM[/editline] [QUOTE=dranei;16858813]It seems like you used essay generator on this, considering I've never heard anyway use the phrase "King-ing"[/QUOTE] He created the phrase himself. How often to you read? People do that often.
Great job with the essay generator.
[QUOTE=venn177;16858867]Great job with the essay generator.[/QUOTE] No.
[QUOTE=venn177;16858867]Great job with the essay generator.[/QUOTE] I've never seen an essay generator that actually stayed on topic and made a point/had a central thesis.
[QUOTE=shinobiboy77;16858882]No.[/QUOTE] Yes. That is obviously essay generator.
Your use of impenetrable grammar makes this a chore to read Not to sound an idiot, but please make an abstract.
[QUOTE=Boyblunder;16858901]I've never seen an essay generator that actually stayed on topic and made a point/had a central thesis.[/QUOTE] He hasn't explained anything, nor does he come to a clear point.
Rant generator?
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