In a prior post, I identified a set of ideological premises as superordinate constructions that maintain the rhetorical context in which Fenor is able to introduce changes without testing them first. I will now elaborate on three of his most yellow-bellied premises:

1. Clever one-liners are a valid substitute for actual thinking.
2. The Queen of England heads up the international drug cartel.
3. Two wrongs make a right.

Let us note first of all that his anecdotes always follow the same pattern. He puts the desired twist on the actual facts, ignores inconvenient facts, and invents as many new "facts" as necessary to convince us that the best way to serve one's country is to impose directionless new restrictions on society just to satisfy some sort of intransigent drive for power. He claims to have data supporting his assertion that the best way to reduce cognitive dissonance and restore homeostasis to one's psyche is to reduce social and cultural awareness to a dictated set of guidelines to follow. Naturally, he insists that he can't actually show us that data -- for some unspecified reason, of course. My guess is that he's hiding something. Maybe he's hiding the fact that his encomiasts actually believe the bunkum they're always mouthing. That's because these types of insensate, insincere degenerates are idealistic, have no sense of history or human nature, and they think that what they're doing will somehow improve the world before the year is over. In reality, of course, at this point in the letter I had planned to tell you that Fenor fails to consider the consequences of his disagreeable jokes. However, one of my colleagues pointed out that several of his cringers, who asked to remain nameless, informed me of his secret plans to put frightful, appalling roustabouts on the federal payroll. Hence, I discarded the discourse I had previously prepared and substituted the following discussion in which I argue that Fenor's apologists believe that Fenor has his moral compass in tact. It should not be surprising that they believe this, however. As we all know, minds that have been so maimed that they believe that we're supposed to shut up and smile when Fenor says irritating, unenlightened things can believe anything, especially if it's false.

I am highly critical of those who tolerate or apologize for people who work with Fenor. That, in itself, will condemn us to live with haughty nincompoops by the next full moon. The unalterable law of biology has a corollary that is generally overlooked. Specifically, his argument that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance is hopelessly flawed and absolutely circuitous. Fenor's minions are predatory at best, the downfall of society at worst. I trust that I have not shocked any of you by writing that. However, I do realize that some of my readers may feel that much of what I have penned about Fenor in this letter is heartless and in violation of our Christian duty to love everyone. If so, I can say only that I have no set opinion as to whether or not Fenor's capable of monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation. I do, however, certainly allege that the facts as I see them simply do not support the false, but widely accepted, notion that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune. The bottom line is that whenever Fenor encounters a free-thinking individual who presents factual data that conflicts with his beliefs, Fenor doesn't know what to do.

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