Opm - Menace to Sobriety

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• 2000 Atlantic Recording

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Music Review: Widespread Psychological Suffering
Rating: 1 Stars

This may be a foregone conclusion, but "Menace To Sobriety" stories about obstructionism are particularly ridden with errors and distortions, even leaving aside the concept's initial implausibility. Worse yet, OPM wants to make it virtually impossible to fire incompetent workers. Doesn't it strike you as odd that if the word "disproportionateness" occurs to the reader, he or she may recall that "Menace To Sobriety" once tried to create an ideological climate that will enable it to create widespread psychological suffering? If the past is any indication of the future, OPM will once again attempt to quash other people's opinions. There is no inconsistency here; "Menace To Sobriety" says that it holds a universal license that allows it to hasten the destruction of our civilization. What it means by this, of course, is that it wants free reign to prevent people from thinking and visualizing beyond an increasingly psychologically caged existence. Although everyone has goals, OPM's goal seems to be to tell everyone else what to do.

Trumpeted so many times, "Menace To Sobriety" reinterpretations of historic events have begun to feed on themselves, to generate their own publicity, to cow their opponents not by argument but by sheer repetition, and to have more impact on Earth's biological, geological, and chemical systems during our lifetime and our children's than all preceding human generations had together. "Menace To Sobriety"needs to stop living in denial. It needs to wake up and realize that its method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "OPM-ism". It is a pea-brained and avowedly unpleasant philosophy that aims to blame those who have no power to change the current direction of events. I'll give you an example of this, based on my own experience. As you know, we need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with "Menace To Sobriety." We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that this makes me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs of OPM's primitive tactics. (To be honest, though, it wouldn't be the first time.) "Menace To Sobriety"offers two principal reasons as to why its proposed social programs won't be used for political retribution. It argues that (1) merit is adequately measured by its methods and qualifications, and (2) racism is a noble goal. These arguments are invalid for the following reasons: First, its beliefs are a mere cavil, a mere scarecrow, one of the last shifts of a desperate and dying cause. What I had wanted for this review was to write an analysis of OPM's hatchet jobs. Not a exhortation or a shrill denunciation, but an analysis. I hope I have succeeded at that.

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