Thursday, January 27, 2005
From the Archives
My sister had a link to a great webpage in her AIM profile. I've decided to write a little bit about it instead of working on the research paper I desperately need to finish.
If you've clicked the link and perused the page, you've noticed that it is a hilarious rant by a fundamentalist Christian. It starts out discussing "evolutionist propaganda" on PBS, but eventually moves to constructing a theory about how Macintosh computers are part of a satanic dark empire or some such nonsense. Really quite remarkable.
I really love the language he uses. Phrases like "forces of darkness" and "anti-Christian hate literature" make me giggle. Another great thing to look for is his use of words like "clearly" and "obviously" before outlandish statements. It's hard to argue with the fact that Apple's logo "is clearly a reference to the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple by the serpent," isn't it? It's also humorous the way he portrays the Apple Coproration as some sort of marginalized, insidious force working behind the scenes of society to advance their "evolutionist" and "satanist" (same thing, of course) agenda. I mean, I'm not a big fan of Macs either, but it's because I can't get over the one-button mouse, not because "[t]hey're not doing a very good job keeping their ties to the forces of darkness a secret," which is why Dr. Richard Paley sticks with his trusty PC, which was, of course, created by God the Father Himself. After reading his persuasive piece of scholarship (what you write has to be scholarship if you're a doctor, right?), however, I'm starting to think the liberals here at Michigan must have ulterior motives for all of those Macs in the Angell Hall computer lab. Apple computers do, after all, "promote Godless Darwinism and Communism."
I'm not sure if there's a point to all of this. I guess it would just be that this guy is a loon.
