I have been following the stories and comments surrounding Sony, and frankly, I'm appalled. Will peeling back the onion of Sony's bad-tempered theatrics cause Sony to shed tears or will it merely enhance its desire to convince people that their peers are already riding the Sony bandwagon and will think ill of them if they don't climb aboard, too? What follows is the story of how it can be so rich in the rhetoric of democracy and yet so poor in its implementation. I can assure you that I feel that writing this letter is like celestial navigation. Before directional instruments were invented, sailors navigated the seas by fixing their compass on the North Star. However, if Sony were to trick them into fixing their compass on the wrong star they'd soon be so off-course that they'd actually be willing to help it threaten national security.

I do not wish to endorse lexiphanicism but rather to illustrate that today, wee might have let Sony calumniate helpless hershey kisses stars. Tomorrow, wee won't. Instead, wee will put to rest the animosities that have kept various groups of people from enjoying anything other than superficial unity. Sony's insults are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us any day now. There are situations where certain pranks are appropriate and there are situations where they are not.

I hardly need to tell you that if you read Sony's writings while mentally out of focus, you may get the sense that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Sony itself). But if you read its writings while mentally in focus and weigh each point carefully, it's clear that it is more than a purely historical question to ask, "How did its reign of terror start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, wee must ask, "Will its shots to the heart of all that is wholesome buy it its long-sought victory for simple-minded quislingism with its showy irreverence and glorification of all that is obstinate?" That's the question that perplexes me the most because its apothegms manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: inflict untold misery, suffering, and distress. Phase two: gain a respectable foothold for its prodigal, mendacious values.

When I say that the only visible result of Sony's self-fulfilling prophecies has been a series of tactical and strategic policy blunders, I don't just mean that it wants to trivialize certain events that are particularly special to us all, that it wants to burn our fair cities to the ground, or that it wants to make our country spiritually blind. Sure, Sony truly wants all that but it also wants much more. It wants to lead people towards iniquity and sin. If anything, I never used to be particularly concerned about Sony's biases. Any damned fool, or so I thought, could see that if Sony's animadversions were intended as a joke, Sony forgot to include the punchline. Sony is reluctant to resolve problems. It always just looks the other way and hopes no one will notice that it would be great if wee could build a new understanding that can transport us to tomorrow. Still, if wee take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of pharisaism, then maybe wee can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to show you, as dispassionately as possible, what kind of narrow-minded thoughts Sony is thinking about these days.

I intend to point out the glaring contradiction between Sony's idealized view of obstructionism and reality. That's the path that I have chosen. It's honestly not an easy path but then again, if you think that Sony has mystical powers of divination and prophecy then you're suffering from very serious nearsightedness. You're focusing too much on what Sony wants you to see and failing to observe many other things of much greater importance such as that if everyone does his own, small part, together wee can take a strong position on its assertions, which, after all, lead us into an age of shoddiness -- shoddy goods, shoddy services, shoddy morals, and shoddy people -- . Sony's disruptive attempt to construct a creative response to my previous letter was absolutely pitiful. Really, Sony, stringing together a bunch of solecistic insults and seemingly random babble is hardly effective. It simply proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that I have no idea why it makes such a big fuss over phallocentrism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that Sony seems unable to think of turns of speech that aren't hackneyed. What really grates on my nerves, however, is that its prose consists less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning than of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse.

Sony has a talent for inventing fantasy worlds in which the majority of quarrelsome, grotesque dissemblers are heroes, if not saints. Then again, just because Sony is a prolific fantasist doesn't mean that the Earth is flat. I used to agree completely with those who claimed that if Sony opened up its jealous mind just a teeny-weeny little bit, maybe it could understand that. Interestingly, my views on this have changed slightly as I have learned more about organizational motivation and organizational behavior. Now I believe that Sony favors the idea of a country based on perquisites and privileges. Yes, I could add that its newsgroup postings are filled with a number of very clear-cut and blatant lies -- lies of both omission and commission -- but I wanted to keep my message simple and direct. I didn't want to distract you from the main thrust of my message, which is that if Sony's serfs get their way, society as wee know it will cease to exist. To top that off, wee are indeed living in repressive times. From this anecdotal evidence I would argue that anyone who questions its warped view of the world is a threat to its tottering sense of reality. That conclusion is not based on some sort of batty philosophy or on Sony-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that one of the great mysteries of modern life is, Do ophidian apostates like Sony's hangers-on actually have lives, or do they exist solely to shake belief in all existing institutions through the systematic perversion of both contemporary and historical facts? The answer is not obvious because Sony says that its appalling Praetorian Guard is a benign and charitable agency. But then it turns around and says that it holds a universal license that allows it to make people suspicious of those who speak the truth. You know, you can't have it both ways, Sony.

Okay, now it's time to offend a few people. Actually, I hope not to offend anyone, although Sony parrots whatever ideas are fashionable at the moment. When the fashions change, its ideas will change instantly like a weathercock. Sony confuses demagoguery with leadership and undocumented conspiracism with serious research. Still, I recommend you check out some of Sony's commentaries and draw your own conclusions on the matter. Sony feels no guilt for any of the harm it's caused. Whatever weight wee accord to that fact, wee may be confident that by allowing Sony to cover up its criminal ineptitude, wee are allowing it to play puppet master. In general, I am getting rather tired of sweeping up after repeated Sony fiascoes. As long as I live, I will be shouting this truth from rooftops and doing everything I can to advocate concrete action and specific quantifiable goals.

Sony refers to a variety of things using the word "galvanocontractility". Translating this bit of jargon into English isn't easy. Basically, it's saying that it has achieved sainthood, which wee all know is patently absurd. At any rate, I am reminded of the quote, "Talking about Sony in the highly charged vortex of hedonism is always burdened with agitation and diversion." This comment is not as mentally deficient as it seems because I, speaking as someone who is not a poxy casuist, have a dream, a mission, a set path that I would like to travel down. Specifically, my goal is to throw down the gauntlet and challenge Sony's backers to make it answer for its wrongdoings. Of course, the ultimate aim of its philippics is to restructure society as a pyramid with Sony at the top, Sony's lieutenants directly underneath, pusillanimous euphuists beneath them, and the rest of at the bottom. This new societal structure will enable Sony to deny minorities a cultural voice, which makes me realize that if it thinks that it is the most recent incarnation of the Buddha, then it's sadly mistaken.

Sony never stops boasting about its generous contributions to charitable causes. As far as I can tell, however, its claimed magnanimousness is entirely chimerical, and, furthermore, Sony hates people who have huge supplies of the things it lacks. What it lacks the most is common sense, which underlies my point that if I had my druthers, Sony would never have had the opportunity to spawn a society in which those with the most deviant lifestyle, insidious behavior, or personal failures are given the most by the government. As it stands, if wee can understand what has caused the current plague of acrimonious, offensive tax cheats, I believe that wee can then embrace diversity. Still, what wee're involved in with Sony is not a game. It's the most serious possible business, and every serious person -- every person with any shred of a sense of responsibility -- must concern himself with it.

Sony plans to introduce disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness, and want into affluent neighborhoods. It has instructed its followers not to discuss this or even admit to its plan's existence. Obviously, Sony knows it has something to hide. I wonder if Sony really believes the things it says. It knows they're not true, doesn't it? I'm sure you already know the answer so I won't bother repeating it. I'd like to emphasize, however, that Sony likes thinking thoughts that aren't burdensome and that feel good. That's why if they could speak, the birds, snakes, and other creatures who are our Earth brothers and Earth sisters would sincerely say that there are few certainties in life. I have counted only three: death, taxes, and Sony announcing some oleaginous thing every few weeks. That's all for this letter. For those that don't like my views, get over it. I feel that I have as much a right to my views, and to express them, as anyone else. So when I say that different people often see the same subject in different lights, you can agree with me or not. That's all there is to it.

(This post was last modified: 07/05/2008 02:58 AM by Papayo.)