The Invidious Mr. Creighton

Courtesy of the Random Complaint Generator:

At times, we all have an axe to grind. Currently, I'm grinding my axe in regards to Mr. Steve Creighton's insults. So let's begin, quite properly, with a brief look at the historical development of the problem, of its attempted solutions, and of the eternal argument about it. With all due respect, if he has spurred us to turn random, senseless violence into meaningful action, then Mr. Creighton may have accomplished a useful thing. He has been deluding people into believing that he has mystical powers of divination and prophecy. Don't let him delude you, too.

If you delve deeply into Mr. Creighton's op-ed pieces and thus, in tranquil clarity, submit to contemplation the expositions of disaffected hellions, you will indubitably discover why Mr. Creighton is terrified that there might be an absolute reality outside himself, a reality that is what it is, regardless of his wishes, theories, hopes, daydreams, or decrees. There are no two ways about it; one could truthfully say that his behavior is beneath contempt. But saying that would miss the real point, which is that I have never been in favor of being gratuitously insecure. I have also never been in favor of sticking my head in the sand or of refusing to reveal the constant tension between centripetal and centrifugal forces of dialogized heteroglossia resulting from his opuscula. Take a good, close look at yourself, Mr. Creighton. What you'll probably find is that you're invidious. Let me close by reminding you that the statements I made about Mr. Steve Creighton in this letter are in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch. And I will be heard.

And that's all I have to say about that. Dirks referred me to this site or its precursor several years ago, and he somehow hit upon Creighton as the obvious choice of subject with which to provide a sample. The last sentence of that one was "A day without Steve Creighton is like a day without uncontrollable nihilism."

Try it sometime, it's very cathartic. Although sometimes I think being gratuitously insecure has its good points.