I believe P. J. O’Rourke used to write for Mad magazine and, as we can now see, the USA and the West, in general, have gone mad. Three years ago, by your own admission (this will one day end up in court), [you] wrote the
Sir, I really do appreciate your style of writing to the masses. You make the point needed in an example wrapped
in a way that is actually understandable and is easy to accept as reality. Thank you for being a written voice in the vacuum of Leftist media lies and disinformation. – Ralph S.
article “A Modest Proposal for...” and look at what has happened since. Honestly, I can’t see how this can be allowed to continue. Mr. O’Rourke is single-handedly destroying Western Civilization one satirical article at a time. It’s time to go “samizdat” and get these dangerous works out of the hands of the public and into only those hands who understand. – Paul J. P.J. O’Rourke comment: Nope, Paul, I never wrote for Mad , but I did spend a decade writing for National Lampoon . And I wouldn’t say that I’m single- handedly destroying Western Civilization – I seem to be getting lots of help in that department. As for taking my “dangerous works out of the hands of the public,” that might be the right thing to do, but it doesn’t sound like a good business plan. I’m impressed with everything I’ve read and with the factual way it is written. Keep up the excellent work. – Chazz R.
P.J. O’Rourke comment: The great 17th century
Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza said, “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Spinoza was a leader of enlightenment rationalist thinking who
maintained that there is only one set of rules
governing reality – rules not always recognized by what Spinoza called “received authority” (or by what you call “leftist media lies and disinformation”). Thank you for your kind words, Ralph. And let’s hope American Consequences fares better with its devotion to the rules of reality than Spinoza did. His philosophy got him in trouble with “received authority.” His works were banned by the Catholic Church, and he was shunned by his own Jewish community in Amsterdam.
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