Originally Posted by Miska Bow

My complaint about alcohol

While you're probably sick of hearing about alcohol, it is crucial that you read this letter. Instead of focusing on why alcohol's central role in the promotion of overweening diabolism dates back a number of years, I would like to remind people that it's easy to tell if alcohol's lying. If its lips are moving, it's lying. It must be stated quite categorically that alcohol's the scourge of all that is good and true. We can therefore extrapolate that alcohol doesn't want us to carry out the famous French admonition, écrasez l'infâme!, against its wheelings and dealings. It would rather we settle for the meatless bone of Fabianism.

Any rational argument must acknowledge this. Alcohol's delusional machinations, naturally, do not. I know very few disloyal tax cheats personally but I know them well enough to surmise that alcohol is not interested in what is true and what is false or in what is good and what is evil. In fact, those distinctions have no meaning to it whatsoever. The only thing that has any meaning to alcohol is lexiphanicism. Why? I'm sure you already know the answer so I won't bother repeating it. I'd like to emphasize, however, that the acid test for alcohol's "kinder, gentler" new perversions should be, "Do they still submerge us in a sea of masochism?" If the answer is yes then we can conclude that 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 stop alcohol's encroachments on our heritage because doing so clearly demonstrates how if you've read any of the politically incorrect slop that it has concocted, you'll indeed recall its description of its plan to distort the facts. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I assert that there is because Nature is a wonderful teacher. For instance, the lesson that Nature teaches us from newly acephalous poultry is that you really don't need a brain to run around like a dang fool making a spectacle of yourself. Nature also teaches us that alcohol would have us believe that its long-term goals are a breath of fresh air amid our modern culture's toxic cloud of chaos. Yeah, right. And I also suppose that the kids on the playground are happy to surrender to the school bully? The fact of the matter is that there's a time to keep silent and a time to speak. There's a time to love and a time to hate. There's a time for war and a time for peace. And, I maintain, there's a time to straighten out alcohol's thinking. Or, to put it less poetically, I recommend paying close attention to the praxeological method developed by the economist Ludwig von Mises and using it as a technique to condemn alcohol's criminal ineptitude. The praxeological method is useful in this context because it employs praxeology, the general science of human action, to explain why alcohol proclaims at every opportunity that it'd never lionize pesky, ungrateful freeloaders. The organization doth protest too much, methinks.

This probably does not affect your daily life, but it is a fact. Alcohol is a bad role model for children. That said, let me continue. The practical struggle which now begins, sketched in broad outlines, takes the following course: Alcohol has remarked that there is something intellectually provocative in the tired rehashing of dastardly stereotypes. 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, we must hold alcohol responsible for the hatred it so furtively expresses. To do anything else, and I do mean anything else, is a complete waste of time.

I am worried about a new physiognomy of servitude, a compliant citizenry relieved of its burdens by a "compassionate" alcohol. It's hard to spot the compassion when you notice that it's debatable whether alcohol confuses demagoguery with leadership and undocumented conspiracism with serious research. However, no one can disagree that it is a grave injustice for it to scrawl pro-demagogism graffiti over everything. Alcohol will almost certainly tiptoe around that glaringly evident fact because if it didn't, you might come to realize that it must sense its own irremediable inferiority. That's why alcohol is so desperate to sharpen intergroup tensions; it's the only way for it to distinguish themselves from the herd. It would be a lot nicer, however, if alcohol also realized that we have a dilemma of leviathan proportions on our hands: Should we create greater public understanding of the damage caused by its asseverations, or is it sufficient to think outside the box? Here's the answer, albeit in a somewhat circuitous and roundabout style: This is a lesson for those with eyes to see. It is a lesson not so much about its deplorable behavior but about the way that I do not have the time, in one sitting, to go into the long answer as to why I myself commend to your earnest and philosophical consideration its plan to increase alienation and delinquency among our young people. But the short answer is that if Fate desired that it make a correct application of what it had read about Chekism it would have to indicate title and page number since the neo-indecent sideshow barker would otherwise never in all its existence find the correct place. But since Fate does not do this, it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by its imperious metanarratives. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and look at our situation realistically and from a viewpoint that takes in the whole picture.

It's a pity that two thousand years after Christ, the voices of self-satisfied trolls like alcohol can still be heard, worse still that they're listened to, and worst of all that anyone believes them. While there's no use crying over spilled milk, if history follows its course, it should be evident that alcohol demands that we make a choice. Either we let it assuage the hungers of its cronies with servings of fresh scapegoats or it'll dismantle the family unit. This "choice" exemplifies what is commonly known as a "false dichotomy" or "the fallacy of the excluded middle" because it denies other alternatives, such as that alcohol owns drawers and boxes full of legal documents, which it is convinced prove its position. I put that observation into this letter just to let you see that each rung on the ladder of exhibitionism is a crisis of some kind. Each crisis supplies an excuse for alcohol to defuse or undermine incisive critiques of its biggety behavior by turning them into procedural arguments about mechanisms of institutional restraint. That is the standard process by which malicious, appalling recidivists put our liberties at risk by an unbridled and militant rush to force some to live by restrictive standards not applicable to others.

I'm unmistakably afraid of repulsive windbags. It vehemently denies that, of course. But it obviously would because its desire to sell quack pharmaceutical supplies (and you should be suspicious whenever you hear such tell-tale words and phrases as "breakthrough", "miracle", "secret remedy", "exclusive", and "clinical studies prove that...") is the chief sign that it's a mean-spirited, careless scumbag. (The second sign is that alcohol feels obliged to convince others that argumentative, intemperate fiends are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy.) To most people, the list of alcohol's pigheaded revenge fantasies reads like a comic strip but its memoranda are actually taken seriously by its adherents. However, if I withheld my feelings on this matter, I'd be no less cocky than alcohol.

Alcohol finds enemies everywhere. How does alcohol deal with this fascinating piece of information? It absolutely ignores it. If alcohol succeeds in its attempt to threaten our core values, allegiances, and beliefs, it'll have to be over my dead body. Not that I ever believed alcohol's lies, but at least before they had some kind of internal consistency -- a logic, albeit twisted, that invited refutation. But now, it seems it is desperately flailing about for any pretext, no matter how ludicrous or slight, to lower our standard of living.

If alcohol can overawe and befuddle a sufficient number of prominent individuals then it will become virtually impossible for anyone to take advantage of a rare opportunity to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It's astounding that alcohol has found a way to work the words "roentgenographically" and "deintellectualization" into its imprecations. However, you may find it even more astounding that it keeps stating over and over again that its sophistries are not worth getting outraged about. This drumbeat refrain is clearly not consistent with the facts on the ground -- facts such as that someone has been giving alcohol's brain a very thorough washing and now alcohol is trying to do the same to us. I decidedly dislike alcohol. Likes or dislikes, however, are irrelevant to observed facts, such as that alcohol likes to endorse a complete system of leadership by mobocracy. Such activity can flourish only in the dark, however. If you drag it into the open, alcohol and its loyalists will run for cover, like cockroaches in a dirty kitchen when the light is turned on suddenly during the night. That's why we must draw an accurate portrait of alcohol's ideological alignment.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into alcohol's cajoleries, but they don't seem to serve any purpose other than to intensify or perpetuate simplism. Alcohol is a stentorian deadhead. I use that label only when it's true. If you don't believe it is, then consider that I'm not a brusque person. I'd like nothing more than to extend my hand in friendship to alcohol's apologists and convey my hope that in the days to come we can work together to improve the living conditions of the most vulnerable in our society -- the sick, the old, the disabled, the unemployed, and our youth -- all of whose lives are made miserable by alcohol. Unfortunately, knowing them, they'd rather enact new laws forcing anyone who's not one of alcohol's secret agents to live in an environment that can, at best, be described as contemptuously tolerant because that's what alcohol wants. No amount of opinion or innuendo nor any string of unrelated apologues can change the fact that we must act honorably if we are ever to enable all people to achieve their potential as human beings. Yes, this is a bold, audacious, even unprecedented undertaking. Yes, it lacks any realistic guarantee of success. However, it is an undertaking that we must undoubtedly pursue because alcohol and its pals are slovenly, ribald ne'er-do-wells. This is not set down in complaint against them, but merely as analysis.

There are two related questions in this matter. The first is to what extent alcohol has tried to make me the target of a constant, consistent, systematic, sustained campaign of attacks. The other is whether or not I am making a pretty serious accusation here. I am accusing alcohol of planning to take rights away from individuals on the basis of prejudice, myth, irrational belief, inaccurate information, and outright falsehood. And I don't want anyone to think that I am basing my accusation only on the fact that some of the facts I'm about to present may seem shocking. This they certainly are. However, if you've never seen it squander irreplaceable treasures, you're either incredibly unobservant or are concealing the truth from yourself. So, sorry for being so long-winded in this letter, but according to the dictionary, "alcohol-ism" is "any of a set of histrionics that biologically or psychologically engineer dysfunctional self-proclaimed arbiters of taste and standards to make them even more disgraceful than they already are".


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Originally Posted by Stockholm

What do you think about the situation about A-Net promoting Alcohol (sale of alcohol and the title "Drunkard") in a game marketed to +12, when the general consensus in our society is that we should minimize the exposure to alcohol as much as possible. Some states even banned alchole ads in places where kids are allowed.

Any thoughts on this?

Originally Posted by Miska Bow

My complaint about alcohol

Originally Posted by Orange Milk

GTFO

Yeah, thats what they are shooting for in this game with the ANet marketing plan, Realism and life lessons, yeah whatever. Go play a Sesame Street game or something. For shame on alcohol, it's the Devil, THE DEVIL I SAY!!!

Statistically speaking a peson weighing 90 lbs with no history of alcohol cunsumption(ie no tolerance) drinking 3 beers in an hour will not be able to drive a motor vehicle at a legal blood alcohol level.

Originally Posted by shoyon456

Consuming alcohol in the game makes your char say funny things and do unintended emotes...