My complaint about Mr. Eric A Peacock

My religion has taught me not to be afraid to call someone wrong when he does something, says something, stands for something, or engages in something that violates the values in which I believe. The nitty-gritty of what I’m about to write is this: Mr. Eric A Peacock consumes, infests, and destroys. He lives off the death and destruction of others. For that reason alone we need to point out the glaring contradiction between Eric’s idealized view of imperialism and reality.

If one dares to criticize even a single tenet of Eric’s ventures, one is promptly condemned as disdainful, frightful, cankered, or whatever epithet Eric deems most appropriate, usually without much explanation. Unlike him, I stand for progression, not regression. So please permit me to appropriate and paraphrase something I once heard: “Only a fool can believe that the ideas of ‘freedom’ and ‘libertinism’ are Siamese twins.” We must increase awareness and understanding of our similarities and differences. We must compare, contrast, and identify the connections among different types of ethically bankrupt, unprincipled priggism. And we must raise several issues about Mr. Eric A Peacock’s libidinous homilies that are frequently missing from the drivel that masquerades for discourse on this topic. Please join me in incorporating these words into our living credo.

-anonymous critic