The description of the man of ressentiment (pronounced rə-sän'tē-män') as a sick man who hates not the political state of the world, but the healthy man himself, becomes suspect when applied liberally to all the sick, and includes such passages as this one. As the logical flow of Nietzsche's writings is often unclear, such passages could have a basis in fallacy -- in particular, fallacies of attributing motives and enjoyment, of confusing lower- and higher-order wants, of attempting to justify 'natural law' with deliberate, sustained action, and of generalizing ressentiment as defined by him to all the sick at all moments in time.

To prevent objections to Nietzsche's arguments, a follower of Nietzsche could have set up the Stop Tryin' event and others in order to make it appear that I had the traits described by Nietzsche, perhaps in an attempt to persuade people to commit the Fallacy of Post Hoc Reasoning and attribute them entirely to sickness or genetic infirmity.

I will also add that Nietzsche's value comparison of the 'strong man' to the 'weak man' also seems suspect, and partly in response to this, I have written an essay called The Weaknesses of Competition for Individual Strength and the Evolutionary Value of Small Size.

Possible Motive 2: Amused by Nietzsche's writings, the culprit set up the events with humorous intent.

Alternatively, a reader of Nietzsche could have felt so amused at his high-flown, grandiloquent ridicule of the sick and unattractive (Nietzsche goes so far as to call them 'failures, physiologically unfortunate and worm-eaten' and some of them 'moral masturbators') that he simply thought it would be funny to track me down, play Stop Tryin', and set up other events, including the mugging incident.

Possible Culprit 7: Anti-drug campaigners.

Possible Motive 1: To punish drug use.
Possible Motive 2: To make it appear that drugs had a worse effect on me than they actually did.
Possible Motive 3: To prevent speech and writing on the subject of drugs.

Before I became motivated to work all day, I had been using marijuana and cocaine extensively. I had also used LSD, mescaline, ketamine, and a number of other mind-altering substances. The police knew I had been using drugs and anti-drug campaigners perhaps thought that in order to encourage people not to use drugs, it would be effective to punish people who already have. The effect of blaring Stop Tryin' at me, they might have hoped, would be to make it appear that I had amotivational syndrome or criminal tendencies caused by drug use. They would, of course, have committed the Fallacies of Post Hoc Reasoning and Single Cause. I've written more about bad arguments used against drug users in my essay, Drug Use: Anecdotes and Fallacies.

Possible Culprit 8: The meat industry.

Possible Motive: To prevent earnest inquiry into and defense of the rights of animals.

Fearing that I would refute every argument against animal consciousness and propose ingenious solutions to the problem of animal cruelty, the meat industry could have set up the Stop Tryin' event to prevent such an exercise of a plan of free speech.

Possible Culprit 9: Social Darwinists.

Possible Motive: To encourage me to commit suicide as a result of genetic unfitness.

Fearing that I would defend the less genetically fit in ways that conflicted with the motives of Social Darwinists, these groups could have set up the Stop Tryin' event in order to prevent it.

Possible Culprit 10: Satanists.

Possible Motive 1: To perform a Satanic ritual.
Possible Motive 2: To create evidence for the existence of Satan.

As would have been the case with Christians' attempt at revelation, the Stop Tryin' event falls short of proving the existence of any kind of deity that has supernatural power.

Possible Culprit 11: Al'Qaeda or Islamic terrorists.

Possible Motive: To prevent a challenge to Islam or religion in general.

Fearing my intelligence, reputation within the United States, and willingness to challenge both Christianity and Islam, a terrorist could have set up the Stop Tryin' event. This, however, would in no way prove the existence of the Muslim god Allah.

Possible Culprit 12: Concerned acquaintances.

Possible Motive 1: Out of fearful concern for my mental well-being.
Possible Motive 2: Revenge for peculiar behavior and panic following drug use.

Possible incentives include my terrifying suspicions that I, myself, was deformed in some way, that I was being plotted against (and in fact, I might be), my decision to philosophize about the nature of human cognition by studying a chart of shapes and colors while using drugs, and my occasional odd remarks -- including a request that my acquaintances "compliment me as much as possible," based on a worry I had in relation to the neurotransmitter testosterone and a sensation in my body, to which they responded that I was a genius, and after which I had a horrifying vision of a child with a physical deformity.

Possible Culprit 13: African-Americans.

Possible Motive: Revenge for use of the N-word.

Possible incentives include my use of the N-word one or two times in my life, once in a file on my computer that I had no intention of revealing, in response to continual loud disturbances from passing vehicles near my apartment.

Separate from the examination of evidence, I will offer the following not as an excuse, but as an explanation, and hope for forgiveness from a victimized minority group for whom I have written in defense on political matters. Although I have been the grateful recipient of the kindness of African-Americans throughout my life, I have also been the target of fierce and violent bullying. Despite this, I don't actually consider myself racist, and since the age of 19, when I first named the file on my computer, I don't think I have used the word since. Based on following events, I might have even been manipulated into using it. For what it matters to African-Americans, I apologize.

Possible Culprit 14: A childhood bully.

Evidence that a bully from middle or high school set up the Stop Tryin' event include the severe and constant harassment I endured in middle school and to a lesser extent elementary school, as well as the unpredicted hostile reactions of specific high school students to my decision to have long hair and wear a suit. Though many students responded with friendly curiosity to my decision to wear a suit, a female student, after she lied with a seat offer one early morning, made an unprovoked comment that I was a 'goddamn freak,' a male student, also unprovoked, yanked my hair and tie one morning, and another male student routinely insulted me even after I had stopped wearing suits.

Further evidence is found in the fact that many of my auditory hallucinations are repetitions of insults made at me by other students, including "freak" and "Scott Hoagie Sandwich," and in the Gosunkugi nightmare, in which I had worn the suit, as when I had been called a freak in high school.

Possible Motive 1: To make a profit in the production of movies about me.

Evidence that M. Heinz played a part in the production of the movies discussed earlier includes the letter 'M' on Magorium's sock puppet and Mysterion, the name 'Nelson Hodge,' and various allusions to the show Doug, as well as the fact that I had left a message for 'Heinz M' in the phone book. Incentives might have included humorous intent, profit, fitness display, parenting strategy ("Don't end up like Hoagie, here"), or even an anagram of Nietzsche's name ('Heinz sect').

In school, Heinz had snipped my hair, elbowed me, and tricked me into thinking he was being friendly toward me before shoving me over a friend who ducked behind me, whom he then gave a high five.

Possible Motive 2: To intimidate me into abandoning my intellectual pursuits.

Perhaps not fully cognizant of the consequences of intellectual sabotage, a former student could have set up the Stop Tryin' event in retaliation to my decision to wear a suit in order to motivate me to abandon my projects.

Possible Culprit 15: A member of my family.

Possible Motive: To move me down on the family social ladder.

Evidence includes my family's former insistence that I was delusional and attempts to hospitalize me, my two younger brothers' decision to tease me even after the event, the decision of one to tell me he wasn't my friend and of the other to tell me he wasn't my brother, a couple of remarks made about 'killing me,' including two statements of a younger brother, first, that I was a loser, and second, at a later time, that "if you're a loser you should kill yourself." Possible incentives include my intelligence, my decision to have long hair as a child and to adopt the nickname 'Mike,' my sartorial nonconformity, comments I made about my body and childhood, and my interest in specific video games.

Possible Culprit 16: Cartoonists or movie producers.

The evidence for cartoonists or movie producers as the culprits, as I indicated earlier, is substantial. My birthday appears as a doomsdate in The Simpsons, and elements of my personality and private life are found in a number of cartoon and movie characters, including David Nelson, Nelson Hodge, Mr. Magorium, and Mysterion. Again, I had correctly predicted that the movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium would be about quantum suicide before I watched it, a prediction I based on a number of observations including the letters 'MW' and a linguistic pattern in the title of the film. Both Mysterion of South Park, who beats up Professor Chaos, and the sock puppet of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, who resembles the man who beat me up, bear the letter 'M' on their chests. The 'M' may be connected to a number of ideas, including magic, the first letter of my nickname (Mike), and the initial of a childhood bully for whom I had left a voicemail message.

Possible Motive 1: To prevent me from damaging the reputation of cartoonists.

Incentives for The Simpsons are few but include the number '106,' as mentioned in the Evidence section. Incentives for South Park are greater and include my diagnosis, my model of Professor Chaos, my internet writings, my history of being bullied, my moral outlook, my familiarity with specific subjects, my anger, and my suffering. To prevent a controversial suicide or other reputation-damaging event, a Simpsons or South Park affiliate could have set up the Stop Tryin' event.

Possible Motive 2: To punish certain acts and deeds in relation to the cartoons.

Perhaps deciding to take punishment for a deed to a personal level, a cartoonist or affiliate could have used as an incentive my internet writings or, in the case of South Park, my Professor Chaos model, for which I had used textures, graphics, and audio from the cartoon itself. Based on what I have called the 'Gosunkugi nightmare,' which, I repeat, is possibly the most painful nightmare I've ever had, it could also be that someone who noticed my interest in the show Ranma ½ set up the Stop Tryin' event. Two years earlier, I had freely downloaded many episodes, which I now own legally.

Possible Motive 3: To derive cartooning and character ideas from my misfortune.

Evidence includes the above-named characters and their connections with me. It is possible that cartoonists had hoped to create new characters from certain behaviors (perhaps 'foolish' behaviors) resulting from the Stop Tryin' and mugging events.

Possible Motive 4: To prevent a revelation of the elements of final episodes in more controversial cartoons.

It is possible that in popular cartoons that preach moral messages (in particular, South Park) a plan is being made to contribute to the direction of politics in the United States by spreading certain ideals and maxims throughout culture. This could, of course, be impossible from the point of view of the script writers, who would have no such intentions, but it is still possible from the watcher's point of view. In a deliberate attempt to protect the messages from analysis or refutation, the Stop Tryin' even could have been set up by a cartoonist or affiliate to prevent it.

Possible Motive 5: To aggravate, humiliate, or otherwise disturb me to a degree that I am less able to express my thoughts in words.

This possible motive is revealed directly through the title of If You Could Say It in Words, which, while it refers to painting in the movie, could have a second, implied interpretation for me specifically. Evidence includes my occasional difficulties expressing my thoughts in words following the Stop Tryin' event, including stammers and odd pronunciations, and the common mispronunciation of my last name as 'Hodge.' The incentives, of course, would lie in aggravating me, harming my ability to speak about certain issues, and possibly in swaying me into committing suicide.

Possible Culprit 17: A prodigy, or other person of special ability.

Given the prevalence of autistic savants and other prodigies in the world, it is possible that someone who was uniquely talented set up the Stop Tryin' event with his or her superior intelligence and planning ability. The incentive for this could have lain in my interest in prodigies, my failure to perform some task, or even the ability or motivation it would have given me to perform tasks I would have otherwise not performed.

Possible Motive 1: To alert me to failure in performing a task.

Though, at the time of writing, I sincerely hope that I have not failed the species, it is possible in theory that the event was set up by someone with whom I was unknowingly cooperating, in response to my failure to perform some task for which I was qualified, such as discovering the laws of nature or planning eternal life in the universe. In spite of this possibility, I have still tried to work in support of these projects, in case they are capable of completion.

At the same time, it must be added that if one or more of my actions were, together, directly responsible for the failure of humanity to accomplish a certain task, then it would not follow that my actions were solely to blame. There could, indeed, have been other direct contributing causes, including, quite likely, social maltreatment.

Possible Motive 2: To alter my pattern of thought or behavior in some way.

Effects the event might have had on me are: increased vigilance and political activity, hypersensitivity and criticality toward undesired aspects of the world and of our culture, and increased devotion to the contemplation of possibilities (as in this essay).

Possible Culprit 18: A rival intellectual.

Possible Motive 1: To prevent me, in jealousy, from accomplishing anything of relative significance.

Noticing my precocity and willingness to help the scientific community, a rival intellectual might have become so jealous that as part of his own project, he decided to ruin all my hard work. In doing so, he may have hoped to look better in comparison to me. However, we must accept the possibility that he would have damaged my creative efforts and thus his own, and therefore that his attempt to look smarter would have backfired in self-defeat.

Possible Motive 2: To 'compete' with me on a philosophy of competition.

Alternatively, believing that competition was the solution to all problems -- to high prices, to genetic unfitness, to scarcity of resources -- a rival intellectual could have simply sabotaged my creative efforts in an effort to leave behind what is superior. However, it must be noted that competition may not be the solution to all problems. We speak of competition in the market as if it were required to produce the best service, but in truth, competition may be defined in different ways, and competition in the form of strife may only be necessary in order to eliminate itself, as when a rival company competes with its own consumers. It does not follow from the fact that competition has occasionally been required that it is always required.

Possible Culprit 19: A cyber-bully.

Possible Motive: Amused (or offended) by my actions on the internet, a cyber-bully decided to track me down.

The possible culprits include two players of the game EverQuest: 'Puinsai,' a rather aggressive player who was extremely popular and yet also very obnoxious, and 'Faandar,' a powerful player I admired. Due in part to my actions on a number of characters I played, including Kino, Cerilius, and Toristan, it is possible that one (or both) of these players decided to track me down to my city of residence after I had declared on a character named 'Alendine' that I was leaving the game.

I had decided to leave after Puinsai delivered a long chain of insults that left me shaking in fury. Though I returned later, I did not reveal my identity as Alendine, largely out of fear that I would encounter Puinsai's vicious teasing again. Possible incentives for tracking me down include humorous intent, my decision not to reveal my identity, and my habit of saying 'heh,' which I borrowed from Faandar. This was during a phase in my life when I did not have much social contact with anyone outside my family and the game EverQuest.

I will not go into detail about these players, but I will add that we had all played on one of three Player versus Player (PvP) servers, out of a total of 20-30 servers, and it is possible that these servers housed players of personality types that predisposed them to crime. (Because two other players named Phargan and Cybernine played on the server, this may have also been the server on which Shawn Woolley committed suicide.)

Another possible culprit could have been someone who viewed a website I created at age 15. Aside from showing a popular essay of mine on utilitarianism (10,000 hits), I had also added both background music ('One-Winged Angel' from Final Fantasy 7) and orange text to the main page about how angry I had been at people who bullied me. The orange text, the background music, and other additions might have made someone chuckle so hard that he decided to track me down and beat me up.

I will conclude by saying that it would truly be a shame if one of these EverQuest players really is a culprit, as he would not only have 'pwned' someone in a legally dishonorable way, but possibly even have set back the progress of human knowledge.

Possible Culprit 20: A video game company.

This brings me to the next possible culprit: a video game company such as Squaresoft, whose games I have long admired. Due in large part to my fascination with the character Sephiroth, to a few musical tracks I've sequenced, songs I've downloaded and now own legally, and possibly to specific comments I have made, it is possible that Square-Enix (or some other company) decided to set up the Stop Tryin' event in retaliation. It is even possible that this was intended as a political signal to a Sephiroth fan -- though as a long-time player of these games, I doubt that in the grand scheme Square-Enix has any hostile intentions.

Possible Culprit 21: Someone who noticed my interest in the character Sephiroth.

Even if Square-Enix was not responsible, someone else who noticed that I had a long-standing interest in the character Sephiroth could have set it up.

Possible Motive 1: To attack me for any motives I might have had in relation to Sephiroth.

Possible incentives include an attack of Sephiroth called 'Deen' in the final battle against him, alluding to Muslim faith, various other attacks therein, the incentive of vainglory they would have thought the final battle might give me, and the appearance of calculus equations in the battle. Sephiroth's name is also Hebrew for 'numbers' or 'enumerations.'

In the Relevant Facts section, I explained that I had very long hair while teaching myself calculus at age 13. At the time I first saw 'Sephiroth,' my hair was waist-length, I had dressed in a business suit for school every day, and I was learning tensor calculus. I had such long hair, and was so advanced a student of mathematics, that the connection between me and Sephiroth could have inspired enough fear for a culprit to set up the Stop Tryin' event.

Possible Motive 2: To use specific character traits and script lines of Sephiroth as an excuse to harm me.

Possible incentives and relevant lines include Sephiroth's decision to kill Aeris in the game, his remarks that the main character, Cloud, is "just a puppet; he has no heart, and cannot feel any pain," and his deliberate attempts to manipulate Cloud later in the game. Deciding wrongly that I had already 'embraced' Sephiroth's character traits, the culprit could have tried to use my interest in Sephiroth (and my occasional decision to roleplay or use the name 'Sephiroth' on the internet) as a moral justification for manipulating me and treating me as if I could not feel pain.

In truth, I don't admire or embrace any of these traits of Sephiroth. I wouldn't manipulate people in the belief that they did not have feelings, and I wouldn't kill a nice woman like Aeris. Such a culprit would need to understand the boundary between reality and fantasy, that I am not the character I roleplayed, and that I can have traits in common with Sephiroth and an interest in Sephiroth without being Sephiroth.

Any time I claim to be Sephiroth, it is with vain, metaphorical, humorous, or facetious intent, not meant to be taken literally, and often to indicate certain aspects of my knowledge and character as opposed to any grand desire to manipulate or kill anyone. In response to the Stop Tryin' event, I would like to reassure everyone that I am not really Sephiroth.

Possible Culprit 22: Quantum mechanics.

A more scientific explanation of the Stop Tryin' event is founded on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and more specifically on a quantum suicide hypothesis. According to this explanation, the event was formed by my failure to recognize alternate worlds in which I've already committed suicide. If so, then in this world, the coincidence might function as a motivator to keep me alive, and as a result, I notice only the world in which the coincidence occurs.

This possibility is perhaps more likely from my point of view than from the point of view of the reader. I will also add that at the time of writing, I am not an expert on quantum mechanics, nor have I shown that an epistemologically secure derivation of probabilities is possible in a universal wavefunction. However, I have written more about the many-worlds interpretation in my essay, Many-Worlds and the Origin of Life in the Universe.

Possible Culprit 23: Objective pattern formation in nature caused by drug use.

Research has been done to suggest that the chemical dopamine allows human beings to recognize and form patterns. If drugs can alter our cognition in pleasurable ways, then perhaps they allow us, in rare cases, to form objective patterns in perception, experienced as real-world events, connected with both the sensation of pleasure in using drugs and the way in which they alter human behavior in relation to the world.

For example, cocaine might have altered my behavior in such a manner that I would have eventually encountered Stop Tryin' in a way that encouraged further cocaine use. It could also have led to my conception of (and possible encounter with) a man who wore dreadlocks in the shape of cylinders. This possibility is further supported by the occasional joy and laughter I have found in these coincidences. It may be that certain drugs have a special power to cause the user to follow a path through spacetime on which events like these are encountered as patterns in nature.

The evidence for this possibility lies in the sheer number of coincidences I've encountered, many I've deliberately withheld from the list, for which there are few alternative explanations. I imagine that there will already be a great deal of opposition to this idea, but we must remember that it is still an idea, that many such ideas now commonplace were once derided, and that we must not discount it merely on the basis that it sounds 'magical.'

Possible Culprit 24: Karma.

As a few people have suggested, the horrendous sequence of misfortunes I've endured in my life, including the Stop Tryin' event, could have resulted from an as-yet scientifically unverified law of Karma, in which certain actions, such as indolence and drug use, were punished in a way that led to my near-unbearable misery and difficulty in helping others, even despite prior maltreatment by the world.

An explanation might be suggested by a follower of Hinduism, or other religion in which reincarnation plays a role, that my lifelong suffering and misfortune could have resulted from actions in a previous life, which, gauging from the sheer intensity of my misfortune, must have been a life filled with wrongdoings: a criminal, an arrogant strong man, a child-molesting priest, a school bully, a Nazi supremacist, a follower of Nietzsche, any of the massive number of people who teamed up on me or the various culprits here described.

Nevertheless, Karma becomes a questionable form of punishment when a connection between crime and punishment cannot be made easily.

Possible Culprit 25: God.

Although I think that this event was far more likely concocted by Christians as evidence for God's existence than a direct signal from God, I will be fair and ask, "If God were responsible, why might he have given me the signal?" None of these possibilities should be taken to imply that God exists. The idea that God might have sent me the Stop Tryin' signal also appears in a poem I wrote called If God Were a Bully.

Possible Motive 1: To prevent exposure of faults in Christian dogma.

Faults of Christianity as observed in the Bible include ambiguous moral imperatives, vagueness as well as allusion to life-promoting activities such as eating and sex in the conception of 'sin,' and unverifiable accounts of revelation. I've written more about the logical faults of Christianity in my essay, Christianity as a Tool of Oppression Against the Romantically Unsuccessful.

Possible Motive 2: To drive me into crime or violence in order to make it appear that I deserve to suffer.

The Christian God, if he existed, might have felt so defensive about the suffering of the less fortunate that when it passed an extreme, he would manipulate them into behaving violently in order to make them appear guilty or deserving of suffering.

Possible Motive 3: To encourage me to commit suicide after using drugs to avoid crime and suffering.

However, in order to fulfill this motive, he would have needed something more direct and convincing than "Stop tryin', nigga." As I mentioned earlier, the event has only heightened my sense of danger in the world and of the degree to which others need my protection.

Possible Motive 4: To provoke me to act 'foolish.'

If, for one reason or another, God truly enjoyed the stupidity of his creations, he could have set up the Stop Tryin' event and other misfortunes in order to elicit foolish behavior or rage attacks for his personal amusement.

In response to drug use, God's command would appear as a mixed signal:

Possible Motive 5: To discourage further drug use.
Possible Motive 6: To encourage continued drug use.

It would be difficult to decide whether God wanted me to stop using drugs or continue using them. "Stop tryin', nigga" could either be a metaphorical command to the 'drug user' to stop trying -- in other words, a command to stop using drugs -- or a suggestion to stop working so hard and return to drug use, with understanding of my unsatisfactory social life.

Possible Motive 7: To attempt revelation.

As much as some Christians would like to believe that this event was a revelation from God, I feel that "Stop tryin', nigga" is both too obscene, and has far too many alternative explanations, to be reliable evidence for the existence of a God who is worthy of worship.

Possible Motive 8: To test me.

In an effort to help me understand and control my anger, the Christian God could have ordained a sequence of aggravating and unbearable misfortunes to acquaint me with the thought processes involved in feeling angry. However, the Christian God would also have to understand that from my point of view, his testing me is only one possibility among many, including the possibility that he is just trying to goad me into acts of violence to make me appear deserving of suffering. The coexistence of multiple possibilities leads me to contemplate actions that I might not have contemplated if I knew I were simply being tested.

Possible Motive 9: To threaten damnation.

Unfortunately, threatening damnation wouldn't be sufficient to convince me to follow what I regarded as sadistic doctrines in which God played favorites with the genetically healthy and less tempted. It is because I have such empathy for other conscious beings that in all likelihood, I would not selfishly accept a ticket to Heaven when I knew that others would suffer eternally in Hell. Even if I would live in paradise, the thought of real, live people burning in Hell would be too much to bear.

I hope that I can set an example for Christians with my compassion for potential sufferers, and that others will look upon my refusal to give into possible 'threats' as inspiration to look upon the crueler teachings of Christianity with confident disdain, if needed.

Possible Culprit 26: Satan.

Again, I do not believe in the Christian God, nor do I believe in the Christian Satan. We must also admit that Satan, if he existed, would have many possible personalities, and that it would be hasty to jump to the conclusion that Satan was bad. Though the word 'Satan' and the image of a devil with a pitchfork are enveloped in fear and threats of damnation, it can easily be imagined that Satan would have a less threatening image, if he existed, and even that he would want to rescue certain people from the suffering that God inflicted upon them in creating the world.

Many of the possible motives of Satan are identical to those of God: to provoke 'foolish' behavior, to tempt me with violence, to encourage drug use, to threaten damnation, or to sway me into committing suicide. I will add one more:

Possible Motive: To prepare me to challenge Christianity.

If Satan really were the rescuer of the tortured in God's plan, then, while still unlikely, he could have ordained the Stop Tryin' event for this aim.

Conclusion

This concludes my tentative analysis of what was possibly the most frightening coincidence I have ever encountered in my life. Again, nothing in this essay should be taken to imply that I'm delusional or that I have a thought disorder, as I have refrained from accusing anyone in particular and focused instead on possibilities.

The events I have described have colored my life in unpleasant ways. In addition to retching and having nightmares, I feel as if I have been made ruder, angrier, more dismissive, more dominating, more paranoid, more violent, and more insulting than I perhaps would have been if the Stop Tryin' event had never occurred. I reassure those with whom I am acquainted, and at whom I have had such feelings, that they are far from being solely to blame, and that in terms of individual people the blame lies primarily with the Stop Tryin' culprit, if any such culprit exists.

If it does turn out that I am a victim of intellectual sabotage, that someone out there really didn't want me to speak my mind or share my thoughts and sentiments on certain issues, then at the time of writing, I have one thing to say: in reacting so fiercely, you have exposed the possibility that there is a dreadful secret you're not sharing with the public, and you have thereby raised suspicion about the political foundations of present-day society. On that matter, America might really be a society of lying freak torturers -- an image that is, in my opinion, unbefitting of the most advanced nation on Earth. Will we ever move past this predatory ape-phase? Time will tell.


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