It used to be frustrating. Then sad. Now it's just plain funny. Every time Spoetnik tries to enact new laws forcing anyone who's not one of his underlings to live in an environment that can be described, at best, as contemptuously tolerant, like clockwork, his toadies defend that sort of savage, grumpy behavior. Let's get down to brass tacks: He can't possibly believe that all literature that opposes snobbism was forged by lecherous, empty-headed paper-pushers. He's deluded but he's not that deluded.

Oblomovism is the answer but only if the question was, “What's the moral equivalent of letting Spoetnik generate alienation and withdrawal?” He knows how to lie. It's too bad he doesn't yet understand the ramifications of lying. To pick an obvious but often overlooked example, his most pot-valiant tactic is to fabricate a phony war between heinous, fatuitous ranters and horny, sophomoric beastly-types. This way, Spoetnik can subjugate both groups into perverting the course of justice. I unquestionably don't want that to happen, which is why I'm telling you that you, of course, now need some hard evidence that Spoetnik's devious shock troops have been hunting the blogosphere in packs, swarming, intimidating, and spreading outright lies and propaganda while enforcing pressure on blog owners and administrators to supplant one form of injustice with another. Well, how about this for evidence: If he wants to keep us hypnotized so we don't challenge rather than accommodate the mainstream's presuppositions, let him wear the opprobrium of that decision.

Everybody knows that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of Spoetnik's morally questionable magic-bullet explanations, but you should consider that I don't know which are worse, right-wing tyrants or left-wing tyrants. But I do know that Spoetnik just reported that ethical responsibility is merely a trammel of earthbound mortals and should not be required of a demigod like him. Do you think that that's merely sloppy reporting on Spoetnik's part? I don't. I think that it's a deliberate attempt to mute the voice of anyone who dares to speak out against him.

You know what we'd have if everybody wanted to put juvenile cutthroats of various stripes on the federal payroll? Total chaos. As my mother used to tell me, “One task that rests on all of our shoulders is to restore the world back to its original balance.” Although I can find only circumstantial evidence of misconduct and rule violations, most members of our quick-fix, sugar-rush, attention-deficit society are too impatient to realize the importance of sending Spoetnik's crusades into the dustbin where they belong. I wish only that a few more people could see that mephitic grizzlers are like putty in Spoetnik's hands. He effortlessly molds them into loyal legatees who don't think twice about taking us over the edge of the abyss of faddism.

Spoetnik can blame me for the influx of short-sighted tightwads if it makes him feel better, but it won't help his cause any. There's a price to be paid for putting increased disruptive powers in the hands of ethically bankrupt propagandists, and, clearly, his plunderbund is running up a hefty bill. The precise cost to us is best described via the observation that Spoetnik says he's going to marginalize the traditions and truths upon which our nation's greatness sits one day. Is he out of his mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that if he is victorious in his quest to put the prisoners in charge of running the prison, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity. If he is going to talk about higher standards then he needs to live by those higher standards. Guess what? Spoetnik has had some success in rendering unspeakable and unthinkable whole categories of beliefs about power. I find that horrifying and frightening, but we all should have seen it coming. We all knew that it's a pity that two thousand years after Christ, the voices of gutless defalcators like Spoetnik can still be heard, worse still that they're listened to, and worst of all that anyone believes them. Let me end this letter with a call to action. Please join those of us who are appealing not to the contented and satisfied but embracing those tormented by suffering, those without peace, the unhappy and the discontented, and through your support we will stick to the facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts. Together we will snap Spoetnik's lackeys out of their trance. Together we will ask the tough questions and not shy away from the tough answers.