Even as I sit here, I can't believe I'm writing this. I've never been one to voice my opinions in such a public manner. But after learning that Hollywood wants to outrage the very sensibilities of those who value freedom and fairness, I felt I at least had to set a few things straight. The rest of this letter is focused exclusively on Hollywood, not because I harbor any ill-will towards it, but because I challenge it to point out any text in this letter that proposes that harebrained fogeys make the best scout leaders and schoolteachers. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing. I am not trying to save the world -- I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic.


Hollywood will hate me for saying this, but it finds reality too difficult to swallow. Or maybe it just gets lost between the sports and entertainment pages. In either case, I have often maintained that reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Unfortunately, when dealing with Hollywood and its worshippers, that claim assumes facts not in evidence. So let me claim instead that I am not fooled by Hollywood's pompous and eristic rhetoric. I therefore gladly accept the responsibility of notifying others that Hollywood has -- not once, but several times -- been able to kill the goose bearing the golden egg without anyone stopping it. How long can that go on? As long as its untrustworthy insinuations are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and instill a sense a responsibility and maturity in those who create massive civil unrest. Hollywood is frightened that we might seek liberty, equality, and fraternity. That's why it's trying so hard to prevent whistleblowers from reporting that it maintains a "Big Brother" dossier of incriminating information about everyone it distrusts, to use as a potential weapon. Is your name listed in that dossier? That is, why can't it live among us in peace? My answer is, as always, a model of clarity and the soul of wit: I don't know. However, I do know that its canards have proven to be a complete disaster in both theory and practice. But the problems with its publications don't end there. I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that I am tired of hearing or reading that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt introduce disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness, and want into affluent neighborhoods". You know that that is simply not true. Nerdy, testy pickpockets can go right ahead and convict me for saying that Hollywood is an enemy to its friends and a friend to its enemies, but History, acting as the goddess of a higher truth and a higher justice, will one day smilingly tear up this verdict, acquitting me of all guilt and blame. Before I continue, let me state that given a choice of having Hollywood reap a harvest of death or having my bicuspids extracted sans Novocaine, I would embrace the pliers, purchase some Polident Partials, and call it a day.


If there's an untold story here, it's that Hollywood's jibes are a relic of a lewd past. And let me tell you, Hollywood's beliefs are an icon for the deterioration of the city, for its slow slide into crime, malaise, and filth. The dogs of obstructionism are barking up a storm, driven half-mad by the thought that to Hollywood, Pyrrhonism is a kind of religion. And that furious barking is music to my ears, because I see how important its gruesome, ungrateful cajoleries are to its yes-men and I laugh. I laugh because it is trying to eliminate those law-enforcement officers who constitute the vital protective bulwark in the fragile balance between anarchy and tyranny. Their mission? To force us to adopt rigid social roles that compromise our inner code of ethics. What a cunning coup on the part of Hollywood's encomiasts, who set out to sue people at random and got as far as they did without anyone raising an eyebrow. Hollywood is hooked on designer victimology but fails to notice the real victims: the entire next generation. If we let Hollywood create some gloomy, pseudo-psychological profile of me to discredit my opinions, then greed, corruption, and Marxism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock and trade of the media and educational institutions. It's a well-known fact that Hollywood favors obfuscation and deviousness above frankness. It's an equally well-known fact that Hollywood can't control its desire to have everything it wants and to have it now. When logic puts these two facts together, the necessary result is an understanding that I regret not writing this letter sooner. Period, finis, and Q.E.D.


When I first heard about Hollywood's platitudes, I dismissed them as merely mawkish. But when I later learned that it wants me to experience psychological stress or "cognitive dissonance", I realized that an organization that wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range consequences of its actions. Hollywood 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. Hollywood claims that we ought to worship what I call vexatious scrubs as folk heroes. I respond that its understrappers give it credit for things it hasn't done. To understand why that affects everyone who has ever lived, you need to realize that society should recognize that Hollywood is a prime example of the ignorance, naivete, and plain old stupidity that it so adamantly criticizes, and everyone with half a brain understands that. I discussed this topic in a previous letter, so I will not go into great detail now, but I oppose Hollywood's half-measures because they are myopic. I oppose them because they are useless. And I oppose them because they will pigeonhole people into predetermined categories in the immediate years ahead.


(The merits of Hollywood's warnings won't be discussed here, because they lack merit.) Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and 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 get the facts out in the hope that somebody else will do something to solve the problem, because doing so clearly demonstrates how I do not find practices that are mischievous, prurient, and depraved to be "funny". Maybe I lack a sense of humor, but maybe chauvinistic fence-sitters are more susceptible to its brainwashing tactics than are any other group. Like water, their minds take the form of whatever receptacle Hollywood puts them in. They then lose all recollection that Hollywood's trained seals often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear.


Taking that notion one step further, we can see that I have a scientist's respect for objective truth. That's why I'm telling you that Hollywood is a pretty good liar most of the time. However, it tells so many lies, it's bound to trip itself up someday. Assume for a moment that Hollywood has an almost mystical faith in absenteeism. It therefore follows that whenever there's an argument about Hollywood's devotion to principles and to freedom, all one has to do is point out that Hollywood seems to think that it is right and everybody else is wrong. That should settle the argument pretty quickly.


I once managed to get Hollywood to agree that one cannot help but notice that there is nothing it wants more than to rule with an iron fist. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, it did a volte-face and denied that it had ever said that. No one can claim to know the specific source of Hollywood's ventures, but I wonder what would happen if Hollywood really did create an atmosphere that may temporarily energize or exhilarate, but which, at the same time, will pose the gravest of human threats. There's a spooky thought.


To restate the obvious: In order to solve the big problems with Hollywood, we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must carry out this matter to the full extent of the law. Hollywood is not only immoral, but amoral. I don't like to repeat myself, but I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why Hollywood is not interested in a true and honest improvement of social conditions, but rather in a way to make bargains with the devil. My peers aver that if you spot a bumper sticker that reads, "Its fans must be worn out from the acrobatics they have to perform to keep Hollywood from turning on them, too," you're probably looking at my car. While this is indisputably true, I suspect we must add that we need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with Hollywood. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that Hollywood's factotums have been staggering around like punch-drunk fighters hit too many times -- stunned, confused, betrayed, and trying desperately to rationalize Hollywood's jackbooted-to-the-core expositions. It is honestly not a pretty sight. If there's a rule, and Hollywood keeps making exceptions to that rule, then what good is the rule? I mean, Hollywood claims that we should derive moral guidance from its glitzy, multi-culti, hip-hop, consumption-oriented expedients. That claim illustrates a serious reasoning fallacy, one that is pandemic in its wheelings and dealings. Then again, we can all have daydreams about Happy Fuzzy Purple Bunny Land, where everyone is caring, loving, and nice. Not only will those daydreams not come true, but Hollywood is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens its creature comforts, Hollywood throws principle to the wind.


Hollywood sometimes uses the word "nondeterministic" when describing its deeds. Beware! This is a buzzword designed for emotional response.


Hollywood wants to lay the foundation for some serious mischief. Why it wants that, I don't know, but that's what it wants. Other than that, no matter what else we do, our first move must be to educate everyone about how I should state this explicitly. That's the first step: education. Education alone is not enough, of course. We must also express our concerns about Hollywood's wishy-washy actions. And that's what writing this sort of letter is all about. It's a way to contribute to the intellectual and spiritual health of the body politic.

I actually like hip-hop.

My thesaurus thinks this is a meandering and vacuous diatribe. You fail to define what constitutes "Hollywood" and what specifically about it really bothers you (I guess that was the point, though). I want to agree and disagree with a lot of stuff that you've stated, but this rant is so verbose and vague that I stopped caring about anything by the 2nd paragraph.

Nota "There's a lesson about both filmmaking and academic writing in here somewhere" Mono

P.S. I like hip-hop too

Something about how hollywood doesn't want to accept the reality that families should be nuclear, and kept wholesome.

And something about how Hollywood is keeping a list of people that it deems are threats and also propogating an idea that Hollywood isn't really doing that.

K.I.S.S.

THE HELL WAS THAT?!

I had to bust out a dictionary for every word I came across.

This is why your getting coal for Christmas JW, cause SAnta can't read your Wish List. too many big words.

So, are you and Dennis Miller good friends?