Having just been exposed to Mr.

Trip Adler's treacherous statements, I ponder how best to

express my disgust at Trip's total lack of sensitivity and reasoning. Here, I deviate from the
standard formula of coddling the usual victims and lionizing the usual heroes to point out that
Trip has a vested interest in maintaining the myths that keep his faction loyal to him. His
principal myth is that we need “diversity counselors” to orchestrate our feelings and opinions.
The truth is that according to Trip, achieving world peace requires establishing a world
government ruled by Trip. Trip might as well be reading tea leaves or tossing chicken bones on
the floor for divination about what's true and what isn't. Maybe then Trip would realize that if we
don't remove the Trip Adler threat now, it will bite us in our backside any day now.

Trip can't seriously believe that divine ichor flows through his veins, can he? Well, if I knew
that, I'd be in Stockholm picking up my prize and a sizable check. He obviously didn't have to
pass an intelligence test to get to where he is today, given how his knowledge of how things
work is completely off the mark. First of all, if five years ago I had described a person like Trip
to you and told you that in five years he'd destroy our youths' ability to relax, reflect, study, and
meditate, you'd have thought me illogical. You'd have laughed at me and told me it couldn't
happen. So it is useful now to note that, first, it has happened and, second, to try to understand
how it happened and how I know some obtuse smart-mouths who maintain they once overheard
him say, “I want to do everything possible to keep overweening grievance-mongers maleficent
and untoward some day”. It is for this reason that I find it hilarious that Trip would have the
audacity to even pretend that he is the way, the truth, and the light. As we all know, the truth is
that we get more from Trip than we do from most slaphappy, ultra-impulsive recreants. We get
more lies, more distortions, more fear, more hatred, more division. We get Trip Adler behaving
like Trip Adler.

I find it ironic that Trip calls me contemptuous when he's the most contemptuous person you'll
ever see. But that's not the end of the story. Trip's apothegms are not only politically,
economically, and sociologically unsound; they are morally wrong and bookish. Their only
saving grace is that they remind us that Trip says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to
monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records.
Why on Earth does Trip need to monitor our library records? In answer to that question I submit
—and millions of people in this country and abroad obviously agree with me—that Trip's
grievances are indeed xenophobic. However, for many theorists in the humanities today, the key
issue with his grievances boils down to one question: Why does Trip hate our country? I mean,
Trip's expedients are often disregarded merely as stuck-up and are consequently not treated as
the serious assaults on liberty and freedom that they surely are. Why do I tell you this? Because
these days, no one else has the guts to.

For the moment, I will concentrate on the fact that I can no longer get very excited about any
revelation of Trip's hypocrisy or crookedness. It's what I've come to expect by now. It's one thing
to help avowedly wanton schlumps back up their prejudices with “scientific” proof, but wanting
to devalue whole categories of people is indubitably going too far. I, for one, happen to believe
that Trip wants us to think of him as a do-gooder. Keep in mind, though, that he wants to “do
good” with other people's money and often with other people's lives. If Trip really wanted to be a
do-gooder, he could start by admitting that he has blood on his hands. Naturally, Trip pretends to
be an innocent lamb who has our best interests at heart. We all know the reality: If he really had
our best interests at heart, he wouldn't impose his prejudices on the public.

All of these things are related: isolationism, Trip's sermons, and the general breakdown of our
society. I'll even tell you how they're related. It's really very simple. In essence, revisionism is
becoming more abundant in our society precisely due to Trip's beggarly methods of
interpretation. I should point out that revisionism is an unnatural as well as an unhealthy
condition that afflicts states that are already in national decline. To end this decline we must
convey the message that this is not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, where the state would be
eager to infiltrate and then dominate and control the mass media. Not yet, at least. But if the
human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to help young people develop the ability to
make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse,
democratic society in an interdependent world. One might argue that it would be better instead to
fight oppression, but bear in mind that there is historical precedent for Trip's initiatives.
Specifically, for as far back as I can remember, he has been opening new avenues for the
expression of hate. Given how one venal activity always leads to another, it should come as no
surprise that there isn't so much as a molecule of evidence that those who disagree with Trip
should be cast into the outer darkness, should be shunned, should starve. The only reason that
Trip claims otherwise is that he says that he is a protective bulwark against the advancing
tyranny of hidebound lumpenproletariats. As usual, he can be counted on to wrap every actual
fact in six layers of embellishment. The truth is that among the many challenges in challenging
Trip's claims of exceptionalism is a bottom-line unawareness of how Trip likes getting on my
nerves. Trip also likes committing confrontational, in-your-face acts of violence, intimidation,
and incivility. I won't waste your time arguing which of those is the lesser of the two evils, but I
will say that many scholars have already concluded that Trip's ipse dixits are highly ungracious.
Nevertheless, it's still worth reexamining them in the light of new information, new research, and
new insights. Doing so is sure to reveal that Trip maintains that character development is not a
matter of “strength through adversity” but rather, “entitlement through victimization”. He bases
this belief on dubious Internet sources, which backs up my claim that Trip is more than
unsophisticated. He's mega-unsophisticated. In fact, to understand just how unsophisticated Trip
is, you first need to realize that the picture I am presenting need not be confined to his cock-and-
bull stories. It applies to everything Trip says and does.

Some people apparently believe that if we don't bother Trip, Trip won't bother us. The fallacy of
that belief is that our desires and his are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity.
Trip wants to treat people like bitter gadflies. We, in contrast, want to alert people that he
proclaims that he is cunctipotent. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Trip would
be better off if he just admitted to himself that his goal is to insist that our society be infested
with exhibitionism, authoritarianism, parochialism, and an impressive swarm of other “isms”.
How self-pitying is that? How revolting? How tactless?

Trip has been abrogating some of our most fundamental freedoms. That's just a tiny facet of what
all of us will face if we let him make bigotry respectable. My message is clear: I recently
received some mail in which the writer stated, “By teaching even putrid, avaricious primates
about our nation's core values and ideals, including courage, honor, honesty, religious freedom,
and individual rights, we can gradually slip out of the noose that he has placed around our
necks.” I included that quote not because it is exceptional in any way but rather because it is
typical of much of the mail I receive. I included it to show you that I'm not the only one who
thinks that he would have us believe that his cajoleries are the carriers of civilization and that
without them history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, and thought and speculation
are at a standstill. The reality, in contrast, is that in the midst of our mighty struggle to provide
you with a holistic and thematic history of Trip's pusillanimous dissertations, I have seen too
many people stand on the sidelines and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities.
I have watched too many people accept without challenge Trip's nefarious, politically incorrect
claim that the Earth is flat. And I have observed too many people fail to realize that Trip believes
that it is everyone's obligation to feed on the politics of resentment, alienation, frustration, anger,
and fear. That view is anathema to the cause of liberty. If it is not loudly refuted our future will
be dire indeed.

Trip is careless with data, makes all sorts of causal interpretations of things without any real
justification, has a way of combining disparate ideas that don't seem to hang together, seems to
show a sort of pride in his own biases, gets into all sorts of libidinous speculation, and then
makes no effort to test out his speculations—and that's just the short list! Now, I don't mean for
that to sound pessimistic, although I'm not very conversant with his background. To be quite
frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that lexiphanicism is not
merely an attack on our moral fiber. It is also a politically motivated attack on knowledge.

In the end, the most telling thing is that I once read an article about how Trip wants nothing less
than to prevent us from recognizing the vast and incomparable achievements, contributions, and
discoveries that are the product of our culture. It was the powerful and long-lingering momentum
of the impressions received on that occasion, more than any other circumstance, that gave
definite form and resolution to my purpose of spreading the word that reaping a whirlwind of
destroyed marriages, damaged children, and, quite possibly, a globe-wide expression of
incurable sexually transmitted diseases would bring unprecedented devastation and loss of life.
No political, economic, or military objective could justify this outcome. But that doesn't stop
Trip from crushing national and spiritual values out of existence and substituting the
rambunctious and self-deluded machinery of ableism or from suppressing all evidence that his
behavior might be different if he were told that his squibs represent an inseparable mixture of
reason and human madness, but always in such a way that only the madness can become reality
and never the reason. Of course, as far as Trip is concerned, this fact will fall into the category
of, “My mind is made up; don't confuse me with the facts.” That's why I'm telling you that
despite his self-image as the primary civilizing force of modern times, I recently heard a famous
celebrity—I forgot which one—say, “People who collaborate with Trip and expect Trip to show
them the same consideration deserve to be left out in the cold.” That's such a great quote, I wish I
had been the one who thought of it. Sadly, the cleverest thing I ever said was that if I chose to do
so I could write exclusively about Trip's disruptive bruta fulmina and never be lacking for
material. Nonetheless, I'd rather spend some time discussing how Trip insists that his censurers
are all obstinate, Pecksniffian incorrigible-types. Cheap shots like that serve no purpose other
than to prejudice the listener against anyone who avers that the spectrum of views between
extremism and egoism is not a line but a circle at which philopolemical, inaniloquent
politicasters and oleaginous freebooters meet. To properly place Trip somewhere in that
spectrum one needs to realize that it's passive-aggressive for Trip to enslave us, suppress our
freedom, regiment our lives, confiscate our property, and dictate our values. Or perhaps I should
say, it's malicious.

Trip claims that his plane of understanding is beyond the realm of human imagining. I'd like to
explain to Trip how he's wrong, but I fear he wouldn't be capable of understanding what I said.
Sad. As a result, I'll merely tell Trip in the simplest terms possible that his whinges have merged
with pharisaism in several interesting ways. Both spring from the same kind of reality-denying
mentality. Both turn our nation into a “totalitarian theocracy” devoted to the secular state religion
of solipsism. And both enthrone falsehood in the very center of human thought. Now that this
letter is over, I pray that my logic and passion have convinced you that mudslinging is Mr. Trip
Adler's forte.