Leonard Cohen the great deceiver of men.

Daniel Harmisson · Post by **Daniel Harmisson** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:27 pm

My entire life I have been taught to stand up for my beliefs, to be a person of high morals and ethics. That's why I feel obligated to hinder the power of selfish artists like Mr. Leonard Cohen. One of the first facts we should face is that Mr. Cohen doesn't want us to know about his plans to acquire public acceptance of his intellectually challenged hastily mounted campaigns. Otherwise, we might do something about that. It's our responsibility to create a world in which barbarism, racism, and autism are all but forgotten. That's the first step in trying to examine the social and cultural conditions that irritate an incredible number of people, and it's the only way to take away as many of his opportunities for mischief as possible.

Throughout history, there has been a clash between those who wish to kick butt and take names and those who wish to initiate a reign of nutty terror. Naturally, Mr. Cohen belongs to the latter category. On a similar note, if his devotees had even an ounce of integrity, they would show Mr. Cohen how he is as wrong as wrong can be. Mr. Cohen, get a life! An unholy alliance of counter-productive rapscallions and malignant unrestrained-types has been instrumental in devising increasingly malodorous ways to pervert human instincts by suppressing natural, feral constraints and encouraging abnormal patterns of behavior for a variety of reasons. For instance, he believes that he is a martyr for freedom and a victim of favoritism. The real damage that this belief causes actually has nothing to do with the belief itself, but with psychology, human nature, and the skillful psychological manipulation of that nature by Mr. Cohen and his materialistic backers.

Griping about Mr. Cohen will not make him stop trying to destabilize society. History has shown many times that song is capable of breaking Nations. But even if it did, he would just find some other way to give crafty simpletons far more credibility than they deserve. So what if he hates me for pointing out that I don't want my community tainted with such blatant egotism? Let him hate me. I consider such hatred a mark of honor, a mark of distinction.

Think about how easy it's become for prurient survivalists to make us less united, less moral, less sensitive, less engaged, and more perversely sectarianism-prone. Whenever Mr. Cohen is presented with the truth, he cringes like a vampire from a cross. Sounds pretty humorless, doesn't it? Critics say that he has got older he has found humour but one track, Tower of Song doesn’t dsprove a lifetie of sterness and militancy. But is it any more so than Mr. Cohen's jackbooted beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments)? Implying that everything is happy and fine and good is no different from implying that there is an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. Both statements are ludicrous. After watching his secret police feed information from sources inside the government to organizations with particularly anal-retentive agendas, one might conclude that Mr. Cohen et al. would lay out their own ideas of philosophical pedagogy, textual interpretation, and moral philosophy. Surprisingly, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Mr. Cohen's taradiddles are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us before the year is over.

For your information, it is immature and stupid of him to inflict more death and destruction than Genghis Khan's hordes. It would be mature and intelligent, however, to hold him responsible for the hatred he so furtively expresses, and that's why I say that far too many people tolerate his positions as long as they're presented in small, seemingly harmless doses. What these people fail to realize, however, is that teenagers who want to shock their parents sometimes maintain -- with a straight face -- that it is not only acceptable, but indeed desirable, to reduce human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.

The Jazz Police are everywhere.Fortunately, most parents don't fall for this fraud because they know that honor means nothing to Mr. Cohen. Was he married to Miss Joplin at the time of the Chelsea Hotel offences.. You know the answer.

Principles mean nothing to Mr. Cohen. All he cares about is how best to deny citizens the ability to draw their own conclusions about the potential for violence that he may be generating. To some extent, mere association tends to lend credence to Mr. Cohen's votaries because people assume they can't be that bad if a respected person is associated with them. No joke. One of the enduring effects of Mr. Cohen's grievances is surely the way they will strip the world of conversation, friendship, and love. I wish the most raucous nobodies I've ever seen had the gumption not to cause this country to flounder on the shoals of self-interest, corruption, and chaos, right? Right.

This moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that if Mr. Cohen truly wanted to be helpful, he wouldn't cause riots in the streets. From a public-policy perspective, if Fate desired that he make a correct application of what he had read about heathenism, it would have to indicate title and page number, since the oppressive fool would otherwise never in all his life find the correct place. But since Fate does not do this, I have reason to believe that he is about to usher in the rule of the Antichrist and the apocalyptic end times. I pray that I'm wrong, of course, because the outcome could be devastating. Nevertheless, the indications are there that it will not be easy to inculcate in the reader an inquisitive spirit and a skepticism about beliefs that Mr. Cohen's proxies take for granted. Nevertheless, we must attempt to do exactly that, for the overriding reason that he claims to have turned over a new leaf shortly after getting caught trying to prevent us from recognizing the vast and incomparable achievements, contributions, and discoveries that are the product of our culture. This claim is an outright lie that is still being circulated by Mr. Cohen's drones. The truth is that I will never give up. I will never stop trying. And I will use every avenue possible to lay out some ideas and interpretations that hold the potential for insight.

Mr. Cohen recently claimed that the ideas of "freedom" and "antagonism" are Siamese twins. I would have found this comment shocking had I not heard similar garbage from him a hundred times before. Do not let inflammatory rhetoric and misleading and inaccurate statements decide your position on this issue. Hey, it's not my fault that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Cohen and his yes-men started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that I am not ashamed to admit that Mr. Cohen has an uncanny knack for making evil appear good and good appear evil. That shouldn't surprise you when you consider that I, for one, can't follow his pretzel logic. And Steely Dan are better musicians than he can ever be! I do, however, know that Mr. Cohen's unctuous outbursts are in full flower, and their poisonous petals of neocolonialism are blooming all around us.

If, today, the urge of Mr. Cohen's war-soul can prompt him to confuse, befuddle, and neutralize public opposition, then imagine, if you can, how that same soul will express itself through the thousandfold-more-footling Mr. Cohen of tomorrow. What he is incapable of seeing is that he can get away with lies (e.g., that my bitterness at him is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from self-induced anguish), because the average person cannot imagine anyone lying so brazenly. Not one person in a hundred will actually check out the facts for himself and discover that Mr. Cohen is lying. It's precisely because he feels no guilt for any of the harm he's caused that every time he tries, Mr. Cohen gets increasingly successful in his attempts to develop a Pavlovian reflex in us, to make us afraid to advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence. This dangerous trend means not only death for free thought, but for imagination as well. Like fatuitous clowns, he will certainly trivialize the issue. This applies first and foremost to a group under whose fork-tongued brand of careerism the whole of honest humanity is suffering: postmodernist, haughty freeloaders. Never before have I encountered more bloatedly self-important prose than that which he produces.

The essential point, however, is the following: Mr. Cohen wants us to believe that he would sooner give up money, fame, power, and happiness than perform a licentious act. How stupid does he think we are? As you ponder the answer to that question, consider that the irony is that his most brusque allegations are also his most lecherous. As the French say, "Les extremes se touchent." Batten on the credulity of the ignorant if you like, Mr. Cohen, because I simply don't care.

If I hear his grunts say, "Mr. Cohen could do a gentler and fairer job of running the world than anyone else" one more time, I'm unmistakably going to throw up. He is in his 70s now, time to stop the fantasies. If he feels ridiculed by all the attention my letters are bringing him, then that's just too darn bad. Mr. Cohen's arrogance has brought this upon himself. I apologize if what I'm saying sounds painfully obvious, painfully self-evident. However, it is so extremely important that I must decidedly say it. If some people are offended by my mentioning that Mr. Cohen's recourse to propagandism as a tactical modality for waging low-intensity warfare has been successful, then so be it. I would never take a job working for Mr. Cohen. Given his unconscionable ventures, who would want to? In conclusion, let me just say that I insist that people who work with Mr. Leonard Cohen's supporters discredit themselves.

The people who frequent this forum should be ashamed of their support for this man.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:48 pm

Hi,

I'm going to just start by saying, I'm sorry, but I didn't read your entire post. I get the gist. I have the essence. You have every right to feel the way you do and I'm sure everyone appreciates a differing point of view. (I stop myself here from entering an emoticon). I don't happen to agree. Cohen is a musician/songwriter/performer and there have been many before him and there will be many after. People will either listen or not. I'll listen, you, not so much.

Linda.

Daniel Harmisson · Post by **Daniel Harmisson** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:38 am

Why is it that some people are so devoid of a sense of humor? Naturally, I'm referring to Miss Linda Lakeside's latest post. Instead of focusing on why ignorant and highly emotional persons are frequently swayed by Linda's bombast and fustian, I would like to remind people that what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a sadistic wacko. It's a fact.

She says that Cohen is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions. But then she turns around and says that going through the motions of reading my whole post is too much hard work!. You know, you can't have it both ways, Linda.

Her accomplices believe that courtesy and manners don't count for anything. I say to them, "Prove it" -- not that they'll be able to, of course, but because time cannot change Linda's behavior. Time merely enlarges the field in which Linda can, with ever-increasing intensity and thoroughness, advertise "magical" diets and bogus weight-loss pills. Do you think I'm the only one who wants to take a proactive, rather than a reactive, stance to Cohen? I assure you, I am not.

But if she would abandon her name-calling and false dichotomies, it would be much easier for me to criticize her objectives publically for their formalistic categories, their spurious claims of neutrality, and their blindness to the abuse of private power. The problem with Linda is not that she's nasty. It's that she wants to create a mass psychology of fear about an imminent threat. Since I have promised to be candid, I will tell you candidly that to say that we should avoid personal responsibility is patronizing nonsense and untrue to boot.

You may be surprised to learn that I was once like Linda. I, too, wanted to poison the relationship between singer and audience. It interfered with my judgment, my reasoning, and my ability to lend support to the thesis that Linda is operating under the misguided assumption that nonrepresentationalism and neopaganism are identical concepts. Does she really know anything about the ruses she claims to support? No, she doesn't. And now, to end with a clever bit of doggerel: United we stand. Divided we fall. Miss Linda Lakeside's bleeding-heart op-ed pieces will destroy us all.

Daniel

paints · Post by **paints** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:45 am

I don't know, but he could be right, Steely Dan probably are better musicians than LC.
Thanks for pointing that out.

Daniel Harmisson · Post by **Daniel Harmisson** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:00 am

paints wrote:I don't know, but he could be right, Steely Dan probably are better musicians than LC.
Thanks for pointing that out.

The arrogance of your reply is stunning. What is the milieu in which merciless Paints clones intensify hatred? It is the underworld of conspiracy theory, a subculture in which sick oafs share fantasies of fighting heroically against a huge conspiracy that will create a Frankenstein's monster by the end of the decade.

It is more than a purely historical question to ask, "How did her reign of terror start?" on this forum. By a devotion to Cohen or a devotion to her self. Cohen may be a despot but at least has a moral sideline claim to be an Artist.

And the even more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we must ask, "Is it possible for those who defend ethically bankrupt, censorious alarmism to make their defense look more frowzy than it currently is?"

The only clear answer to emerge from the conflicting, contradictory stances that she and her fellow Cohenistas take is that an intemperate spirit is precisely the wrong spirit in which to investigate her grotty principles, ideals, and objectives.

Teratogen · Post by **Teratogen** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:04 am

ooh, yes yes, steely dan are good.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:34 am

I didn't say it was too much work.

Linda.

PS: I smell a rat.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:36 am

There is only one person on this earth who has ever called me "Miss Linda Lakeside".

I'm done.

Linda.

paints · Post by **paints** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:52 am

Geesh, ya try to find some common ground...

I'm done as well.

Perth · Post by **Perth** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:57 am

I'm still here.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:05 am

Am I surprised?

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:07 am

Now, I will take the time to read whatever is in this loooong post. I started to read it, really I did. But I believe that was the whole point. Now I must see what's in the rest. Gibberish, probably.

Linda.

Perth · Post by **Perth** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:15 am

do you always do as you're told?
sweet.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:56 am

You're distracting me. I'm trying to read.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:01 am

I should've know from the git go. O! I'm such a fool!

Yes, an emoticon - for you.

Truly mastreful.

Linda.