11-17-2024, 02:34 PM
I am delighted that my friend UltraBudgie was able to intercept the response to anonymous letter I posted. ![[Image: ats2508_cheers.gif]](https://denyignorance.com/images/ogemojis2/ats2508_cheers.gif)
If through some magic, any of you could convey this response:
Never before in history has no one craved no thing so deeply.
Clearly, I have misunderstood the nature of your tenor in the offices of government.
I do not fault myself for misapprehending your purpose.
The nature of your profession is often displayed as serving with honor, under the parameters of a documented and stringent set of controls. Your devotion to the common good is a hallmark of your 'job description.'
It is never specified that your pursuit of that common good is dependent on political contributions, 'arrangements' for your posterity, financial opportunity for you or by proxy. In fact, those things are specifically described as outside the parameters of public service.
There is some misunderstanding... with no true oversight or accountability...
Who is it who makes this a clown show?
The producers, the directors, and the actors. You are an actor. What you collectively "produce" has no value to the people you are oath-sworn to serve. You waste time, money, and human lives on the production... for it's own sake. (That's the "Media" in you.)
What would you have? Representation? You have it.
No, we have party representation.
The people are not the party, and the party is very far from being "the people."
The "party" seems to be 'for sale'... it's members seem tools (some of whom take 'other' oaths to the party itself.)
Perhaps you think you want faceless efficient bureaucrats, neutrally tasking themselves to the business of the public.
In theory, that might be a solution with room for improvement, as opposed to no solution at all.
Where would you look then to judge their actions? From results? Please.
Is your solution that we ask you and your ilk to be judge? Are you even capable of judgement, given your implicit bias? In your narrative we are all your cattle, no? The public is comprised of deplorables and illegitimates, needing to be herded and corralled? And henceforth to be the subject of the carrot and the stick? Or is it the trope of bread and circus that you have elevated only yourselves above?
Your narrative exposes your cultural bias, your prejudice, and your preference of 'class.'
So we play a role, often thanklessly, as we always have. As do our peers in industry, media, and all the institutions of your "culture".
You needn't be thanked for volunteering to work for the public... you thank yourselves with ample abundance. Are you harkening for more money? You and your peers in those industries are quite well appointed to 'change' and 'influence' our culture at every turn... and craft audacious narratives explaining how "it's what the public wants."
If we are too responsive to your needs, we are called puppets, if we are not, we are called subverted.
What you call each other, and why you do it, is not relevant to the service you vowed to perform. How you've engineered your bubble is your own problem to fix.
You may think we've won, but we can't win. There is no winning with you; we know that. Each day is just another time-slot in your agenda, another projected evil and outrage to embody response to. It depressing, and often we don't even try any more. Trying to keep up with you would drive anyone crazy. We've constructed polling apparatuses, focus groups, institutes of policy analysis, forecasting, coherent messaging because frankly the job is too big for any one person. We respond to them, they respond to you. It is what it is.
Is that a complaint I hear?
"Awww... it's too much to bear.. we can never win... it would dive me crazy..."
This is the vow you took... the promise you made... the task placed before you... You speak in memery and tropes of the public "unworthiness" to be served, the fear fodder of consequences of a world without your devices and policies... except none of you really "make" policy... that's what representation is... it means your prestigious successes are not yours, they never were...
Except for the media, no one would ever "celebrate" you. And you began to think like them, talk like them, behave like them, and ultimately become them.
They don't persuade, they sell... Now it's all you do too.
We could bloviate about the extremes of human folly all day, in the end your employers want you to serve them as you said you would... stop serving the party...
SCREWTAPE
If through some magic, any of you could convey this response:
Never before in history has no one craved no thing so deeply.
Clearly, I have misunderstood the nature of your tenor in the offices of government.
I do not fault myself for misapprehending your purpose.
The nature of your profession is often displayed as serving with honor, under the parameters of a documented and stringent set of controls. Your devotion to the common good is a hallmark of your 'job description.'
It is never specified that your pursuit of that common good is dependent on political contributions, 'arrangements' for your posterity, financial opportunity for you or by proxy. In fact, those things are specifically described as outside the parameters of public service.
There is some misunderstanding... with no true oversight or accountability...
Who is it who makes this a clown show?
The producers, the directors, and the actors. You are an actor. What you collectively "produce" has no value to the people you are oath-sworn to serve. You waste time, money, and human lives on the production... for it's own sake. (That's the "Media" in you.)
What would you have? Representation? You have it.
No, we have party representation.
The people are not the party, and the party is very far from being "the people."
The "party" seems to be 'for sale'... it's members seem tools (some of whom take 'other' oaths to the party itself.)
Perhaps you think you want faceless efficient bureaucrats, neutrally tasking themselves to the business of the public.
In theory, that might be a solution with room for improvement, as opposed to no solution at all.
Where would you look then to judge their actions? From results? Please.
Is your solution that we ask you and your ilk to be judge? Are you even capable of judgement, given your implicit bias? In your narrative we are all your cattle, no? The public is comprised of deplorables and illegitimates, needing to be herded and corralled? And henceforth to be the subject of the carrot and the stick? Or is it the trope of bread and circus that you have elevated only yourselves above?
Your narrative exposes your cultural bias, your prejudice, and your preference of 'class.'
So we play a role, often thanklessly, as we always have. As do our peers in industry, media, and all the institutions of your "culture".
You needn't be thanked for volunteering to work for the public... you thank yourselves with ample abundance. Are you harkening for more money? You and your peers in those industries are quite well appointed to 'change' and 'influence' our culture at every turn... and craft audacious narratives explaining how "it's what the public wants."
If we are too responsive to your needs, we are called puppets, if we are not, we are called subverted.
What you call each other, and why you do it, is not relevant to the service you vowed to perform. How you've engineered your bubble is your own problem to fix.
You may think we've won, but we can't win. There is no winning with you; we know that. Each day is just another time-slot in your agenda, another projected evil and outrage to embody response to. It depressing, and often we don't even try any more. Trying to keep up with you would drive anyone crazy. We've constructed polling apparatuses, focus groups, institutes of policy analysis, forecasting, coherent messaging because frankly the job is too big for any one person. We respond to them, they respond to you. It is what it is.
Is that a complaint I hear?
"Awww... it's too much to bear.. we can never win... it would dive me crazy..."
This is the vow you took... the promise you made... the task placed before you... You speak in memery and tropes of the public "unworthiness" to be served, the fear fodder of consequences of a world without your devices and policies... except none of you really "make" policy... that's what representation is... it means your prestigious successes are not yours, they never were...
Except for the media, no one would ever "celebrate" you. And you began to think like them, talk like them, behave like them, and ultimately become them.
They don't persuade, they sell... Now it's all you do too.
We could bloviate about the extremes of human folly all day, in the end your employers want you to serve them as you said you would... stop serving the party...
SCREWTAPE
