One last time, for old times sake...

There are some comments I need to make regarding Cigary. For starters, Cigary's buddies form a self-satisfied organization devoted to harassment and barratry. Let me express that same thought in slightly different terms: Were he alive today, Hideki Tojo would be Cigary's most trustworthy ally. I can see Tojo joining forces with Cigary to help him flout all of society's rules.

None but the unconscionable can deny that what we're involved in with Cigary is not a game. It's the most serious possible business, and every serious person -- every person with any shred of a sense of responsibility -- must concern himself with it. He will foster and intensify his drug-drenched drama of immorality one of these days. When that event happens, a darkness and evil exceeding anything seen in history will descend over the world. I can hope only that before it does, people will summon up the courage to build a world overflowing with compassion and tolerance. Only then can we inculcate in the reader an inquisitive spirit and a skepticism about beliefs that Cigary's protégés take for granted.

Although Cigary has unfairly depicted me and those who share my beliefs as quidnuncs and quacks, we are neither. Yes, he has no standards of decency, but Cigary has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that my position is that I cringe at the thought of how he might some day impair the practice of democracy. Cigary, in contrast, argues that he is a model citizen. This disagreement merely scratches the surface of the ideological chasm festering between me and Cigary. The only rational way to bridge this chasm is for him to admit that his dupes give him credit for things he hasn't done. Now that's a rather crude and simplistic statement and, in many cases, it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it obviously expresses how I truly feel that he has insulted everyone with even the slightest moral commitment. Cigary obviously has none or he wouldn't plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos. I've left out many criticisms of Cigary from this wailing wall of a letter. Nevertheless, I profess that it's a start -- a philosophical space where we can plant a new flag symbolizing all that is wrong with Cigary.

Goodby, Cigar-wee - I hardly knew ye...