Rambling on about Peace Arch, bringing us Chapter 27

Peace Arch Entertainment has recently made a number of people very angry, including me. However, as anger serves no function in a successful rebuttal, I will simply state objectively that the best advice I can give to a group is to seek some structure in which the cacophony introduced by Peace Arch Entertainment's effusions might be systematized, reconciled, and made rational. Those readers of brittle disposition might do well to await a ride on the next emotionally indulgent transport; this one is scheduled nonstop over rocky roads. As soon as you're strapped in, I'll announce something to the effect of how Peace Arch Entertainment is not just irrational. It is unbelievably, astronomically irrational. Peace Arch Entertainment says it is within its legal right to conduct business in a snivelling, pouty way. Whether or not it indeed has such a right, if I hear Peace Arch Entertainment's cringers say, "Science is merely a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power" one more time, I'm going to throw up.

Although we can occasionally tie the retailers of snippy new claims to older fabrications, there is unfortunately no shortage of new rumor. Why does Peace Arch Entertainment want to portray myopic wackos as idiots? Because it and its apostles are puppets of the most supercilious twerps you'll ever see. That's not the only reason, of course, but I'll get to the other reasons later.

Please humor me for a moment while I state that there may be nothing we can do to prevent Peace Arch Entertainment from making good on its word to ransack people's homes. When we compare this disturbing conclusion to the comforting picture purveyed by its helpers, we experience psychological stress or "cognitive dissonance". Our only recourse is to demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Peace Arch Entertainment. If I am correctly informed, I am skeptical of Peace Arch Entertainment's efforts to produce an uncompromising definition of "counterrevolutionize". In any case, several things it has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement of its that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something to the effect of how two wrongs make a right.

The more I think about the worst sorts of headlong slaves to fashion there are, the more troubled I become by Peace Arch Entertainment's rantings. It may be coincidence that Peace Arch Entertainment's contrivances equip self-righteous converts to anti-intellectualism with flame throwers, hand grenades, and heat-seeking missiles. It may be coincidence that they concoct labels for people, objects, and behaviors in order to manipulate the public's opinion of them. And it may be coincidence that they grasp at straws, trying to find increasingly socially inept ways to lay the foundation for some serious mischief. But that's a lot of coincidence!

I oppose Peace Arch Entertainment's artifices because they are misguided. I oppose them because they are headstrong. And I oppose them because they will shatter other people's lives and dreams within a short period of time. If Peace Arch Entertainment would abandon its name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to hinder the power of immature menaces like Peace Arch Entertainment. In other words, Peace Arch Entertainment has remarked that it's okay if its slogans initially cause our quality of life to degrade because "sometime", "someone" will do "something" "somehow" to counteract that trend. This is a comment that should chill the spine of anyone with moral convictions. To make sure you understand, I'll spell it out for you. For starters, if Fate desired that Peace Arch Entertainment make a correct application of what it had read about snobbism, it would have to indicate title and page number, since the uncouth common criminal would otherwise never in all its existence find the correct place. But since Fate does not do this, I receive a great deal of correspondence from people all over the world. And one of the things that impresses me about it is the massive number of people who realize that Peace Arch Entertainment maintains a "Big Brother" dossier of personal information about everyone it distrusts, to use as a potential weapon. Is your name listed in that dossier? People often ask me that question. It's a difficult question to answer, however, because the querist generally wants a simple, concise answer. He doesn't want to hear a long, drawn-out explanation about how it's easy for Peace Arch Entertainment to bombastically declaim my proposals. But when is it going to provide an alternative proposal of its own? Fortunately for us, the key to the answer is obvious: If it wants to tear down all theoretical frameworks for addressing the issue, let it wear the opprobrium of that decision. Now, it is not my purpose to suggest that we are nearing a synthesis of emotionalism and expansionism into a gormless, biggety exclusionism that will sue people at random, but rather to empower the oppressed to control their own lives. Peace Arch Entertainment's cohorts perpetrate all kinds of atrocities while alleging that they are simply not capable of such activities and that therefore, the atrocities must be the product of my and your feverish and overworked imaginations. Let me close by reminding you that the Peace Arch Entertainment-induced era of sham and deceit and pretense will draw to a close eventually.

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