It would appear that I have one reader! Thank you kind sir! I do appreciate your loyalty and willingness to respond to this silliness.
Unlike some writer out there in the blogoshpere, I do want to hear from my readers!
Let me explain the exclamation point. . . .whilst ambling around on the “Internets” with my faithful guide and companion “Al Gore,” I came across a rather whimsical and interesting blog. It happened to be on one of the links that I highlighted last week, a Mr. Lord-Whimsy, and pertained to what form of personal government you would create given the chance. The ideas that were posted were the usual feel good ideas that one would expect from mediocre aesthetes and wannabe artists—communes and shires and free states. Oh my! Lord Whimsy was particularly pleased with his own organic creation.
I decided to add a little fun into the mix. I submitted a post. It was 5 minutes before I left the office and I will reveal it to you, in all of its harried ugliness. (I, for one, have nothing to hide.)
Wot, wot? Nary a mention of Empire, the cause célèbre of countless generations? Think back to the days of yore. . .No petty nationalisms, no bickering about personal identity or self worth, not a whit about politics from those in the cultured classes—which has to be the most shameful social blemish of our times, this obsession with power and influence over our fellow man. Lest we forget, the greatest flowerings of culture occur when the state is at its weakest. Empires are notoriously weak and it was that gorgeous behemoth of bureaucratic and aristocratic ineptitude, after all, that laid the foundations of our modern world. And so I say let us bring back the Empire! Let Empire strike back at the dying star of obscurity and thrust its loins once more to the fore of government! Surely tis’ a fine idea m’Lord?
And it was! But it was filtered and never posted. Dissssssed! I was a shocked and dismayed. Really. I couldn’t finish my usual 7-Eleven donut this morning. . .Now, I can understand erecting a digital shrine to your own ego, but not making it clear at the outset that dissenting opinions will be ignored is a bit disingenuous, don’t you think? In the words of Eric Cartman “&%*@ hippies!” or I might add “*&#&% Hippies-Who-Now-Make-A-Decent-Living-But-Still-Think-They-Are-Cultured-Because-They-Find-Asinine-Things-”Marvelous”!
So dear readers, I ask you, what was my mistake? What was my crime? Perhaps I lacked that hackneyed self-conscious insouciance that is the hallmark of all provincials? Did I somehow upstage the brilliant blogger with my keen Star Wars reference and faux urbanity? Was it the penetrating truth underlying the apparently verbose response? Who knows and more importantly, who cares.
But there is one thing I do want you to know, dear reader. Your posts will never be edited. I firmly believe in freedom of expression, and not just the convenient kind that happens to run concurrent with my taste. Everyone is welcome.
I hereby banish you Lord Whimsy from my kingdom, and all other pretenders to the “cultural” throne.
Mullet madness anyone?