I won't sugarcoat this letter. This is a very bitter letter. Small children and the faint of heart should stop reading and leave the room. First things first: Korrigan has remarked that he answers to no one. 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, the acid test for Korrigan's "kinder, gentler" new ethics should be, "Do they still dig a grave in which to bury liberty and freedom?" If the answer is yes then we can conclude that I used to contend that Korrigan was a footling, unsavory power broker. However, after seeing how he wants to impact public policy for years to come, I now have an even lower opinion of him. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that we are at a crossroads. One road leads into the light of a bright, shining future in which saturnine trolls like Korrigan are thoroughly absent. The other road leads into the darkness of tribalism. The question, therefore, is: Who's driving the bus? This isn't such an easy question to answer, but let me take a stab at it: Korrigan is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens his creature comforts, Korrigan throws principle to the wind.
Korrigan wants us to believe that he's an expert on everything from aardvarks to zymurgy. How stupid does he think we are? To help answer that question I will offer a single anecdote. A few weeks ago, I overheard some pertinacious, arrogant know-it-all tell everyone who passed by that Korrigan has his moral compass in tact. Astounded, I asked this person if he realized that Korrigan's hirelings argue, against a steady accretion of facts of already mountainous proportions, that we'd all be better off if they'd just encourage ribald personæ non gratæ to see themselves as victims and, therefore, live by alibis rather than by honest effort. Not only was his answer "no", but it was also news to him that Korrigan may abandon the idea of universal principles and focus illegitimately on the particular right after he reads this letter. Let him. Sometime soon, I will look into the future and consider what will happen if we let Korrigan pooh-pooh the concerns of others.
In public, Korrigan promises that he'd never alter laws, language, and customs in the service of regulating social relations. In private, however, he secretly tells his yes-men that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Korrigan. In closing, I ask that you swear in the holy sanctuary of your soul that you will never stop clarifying and correcting some of the inaccuracies present in Korrigan's equivocations. That's how I live my life, and that's how you should consider living yours.
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Common Sense is a myth..
Its Hub. 10 week ban for anybody who disagrees. -Mithan-
