My complaint about Prof. Richard Dawkins :)

While you're probably sick of hearing about Prof. Richard Dawkins, it is crucial that you read this letter. Before I launch into my rant, permit me the prelude caveat that I'm willing to accept that Prof. Dawkins has made a big mistake. I'm even willing to accept that his ballyhoos are the opiate of the snarky. But there may be nothing we can do to prevent him from making good on his word to make my blood curdle. When we compare this disturbing conclusion to the comforting picture purveyed by his representatives, we experience psychological stress or "cognitive dissonance". Our only recourse is to offer true constructive criticism -- listening to the whole issue, recognizing the problems, recognizing what is being done right, and getting involved to help remedy the problem. You can sum up his indiscretions in one word: virulent. I was, however, going to forget about the whole thing when it suddenly occurred to me that Prof. Dawkins has been trying for some time to convince people that clever one-liners are a valid substitute for actual thinking. Don't believe his hype! Prof. Dawkins has just been offering that line as a means to control what we do and how we do it.

I can no longer get very excited about any revelation of Prof. Dawkins's hypocrisy or crookedness. It's what I've come to expect by now. Prof. Dawkins would have us believe that "metanarratives" are the root of tyranny, lawlessness, overpopulation, racial hatred, world hunger, disease, and rank stupidity. Yeah, right. Certainly, I enjoy the great diversity of humankind, in our food, our dress, our music, our literature, and our forms of spiritual expression. What I don't enjoy are Prof. Dawkins's self-absorbed scribblings which take credit for others' accomplishments. Prof. Dawkins would not hesitate to deny us the opportunity to lend a helping hand if he felt he could benefit from doing so.

So, Prof. Dawkins, maybe the problem is not with purblind Luddites of various stripes, but with you. I know more about vigilantism than most people. You might even say that I'm an expert on the subject. I can therefore state with confidence that Prof. Dawkins is addicted to the feeling of power, to the idea of controlling people. Sadly, he has no real concern for the welfare or the destiny of the people he desires to lead. Now, I hope he was joking when he implied he was going to unleash an unparalleled wave of ruffianism, but it sure didn't sound like it. If I had to choose the most execrable specimen from Prof. Dawkins's welter of covinous gabble, it would have to be Prof. Dawkins's claim that stoicism and racialism are identical concepts. While Prof. Dawkins is a drooling, hydra-headed monster of force and terror, one of his pals keeps throwing "scientific" studies at me, claiming they prove that there should be publicly financed centers of militarism. The studies are full of "if"s, "possible"s, "maybe"s, and various exceptions and admissions of their limitations. This leaves the studies inconclusive at best and works of fiction at worst. The only thing these studies can possibly prove is that when Prof. Dawkins was first found trying to introduce disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness, and want into affluent neighborhoods, I was scared. I was scared not only for my personal safety; I was scared for the people I love. And now that Prof. Dawkins is planning to break our country's national and patriotic backbone and make it ripe for the slave's yoke of international pauperism, I'm indeed terrified. My goal for this letter was to question authority. Know that I have done my best while trying always to reach the broadest possible audience with the message that Prof. Richard Dawkins's plans for the future are somewhere between a scam and a sham. Let an honest history judge.

HT http://www.pakin.org/complaint/