A Guide To The Forbidden Stuff, Part The Fifth

Set the crimethink to MAXIMUM!

Trigger Warning: There’s something in this batch to offend EVERYONE, including the fellow who wrote it!

Apologies to begin with: for reasons I still don’t understand, the last post of Forbidden Quattro kept showing to most readers as private. See if this link works for you. The import process I used to bring my old articles over was far from perfect and it’s possible that some unflippable bit was flipped on this one. If you can’t see it, you’re not missing much.

This will be the doublepluscrimethink edition of Forbidden Stuff, in which I share the things that I wrote specifically to spur discussion. Please view all of them in that light, which is to say that I’m not always arguing for my personal position. The idea was to get the readers talking, which by and large they did.

Unfortunately for me, the average Twitter user cannot conceive of anything as modestly sophisticated as “devil’s advocate” or “modest proposal”. We have long since walked away from having a society where you could publicly say anything besides the line of your chosen party. Nonetheless, I expect a few subscription cancellations on this one. I’ll keep a running tally and let you know how many in Part Six. I guarantee you that at least one of them will be from someone who has no idea what “a modest proposal” means.

Alright, enough preamble. Set the controls for the heart of the sun.