The Blame Game

Note from the proxy: The following post is a response to comments left for Texas Inmate after he scribed a guest article on Jon's Jail Journal.

Regarding the responses to my post about my ex-celli’s masturbatory brouhaha at the schoolhouse, I must take issue with anonymous’ comment first…

…and foremost, within the context of my opinion on rap, the phrase you used, “favorite rapper” is an oxymoron. And no, if a rapper told me to do something irrational now, as a philosophically sound man, I’d refrain from doing so. But as a 15-year-old boy, I had no such fortitude.

Please try and substantiate your condemnation of me (“always blaming others”) by using my blog posts of the past as evidence. If you remain objective, I doubt you’ll be able to. But I will condemn what I believe to be demonstratively evil. Rather than always blaming others, I think your real beef is with ever blaming others.

Yes, I will condemn evil, and I’ll try my hardest to never do anything that merits deserved condemnation. And it’s a grotesque inversion of logic to blame the blamer of evil for blaming evil! But, other than that fact, I appreciate your feedback.

Regarding another criticism of initial masturbation post, “The Justice League of America” – I’m sorry. I read it to about ten guys in my accounting class the other evening, and they were hanging with feverish grins and barely stifled laughs on every word. I guess it’s only funny within the context of prison, where sensibilities erode markedly all across the board. But, regarding this “blame game” I’m accused of partaking in, Chris Phoenix nailed it on the head when he wrote that I was merely pointing out association, and not cause and effect.

Chris, you brought up some good points. The media’s only role is bringing a man down is by facilitating and fostering the spread of irrational ideas with which he can bring himself down. The media, per se, cannot be blamed for the substance it contains, because as freedom is an ideal, people can say whatever they want. Rather, it’s media’s form, that is, its way of validating its substance to its consumers. So when said substance is evil, it creates a damnable offense. That said, man’s volition is still the supreme element in all that he says or does.

Thank you all for your comments. Please keep reading, peruse my blog’s archives and ask any questions you wish (only forgive my delayed response, as my partner and I must deal with two rounds of snail mail in our information conduit). Let’s keep this conversation alive.