This is for the interest of those following the events surrounding the
charges from certain objectivist circles that the production and
presentation of the album, Concerto of Deliverance, is "immoral" or at
least "arrogant". I assume your interest includes the more general
issues of which my particular venture with the album is one example.

Since I posted my response to the detractors last weekend at Objectivism
Online, my "warning meter" has been raised to 40% from 20% by the
moderators there, while the meters of the detractors, with their
repeated insults, smears, and no answering arguments, continue to be at
0%. It's as if ridicule, sarcasm, and such (and a juvenile level at
that) are to be encouraged, while cool, calm, civil reasoning is not.

On August 12, the final act of the administrator of the site was to
"lock" the thread, closing it to any further posting from anyone, for
the stated reason that "far too much time and bandwidth has been wasted
on it already". This administrator is some kid called "Greedy
Capitalist", whose thread-ending post is full of statements that
conflict with each other and with his screen name.

He's right about one thing: the thread has been read 1254 times (the
count just now) since it was started Aug 1, accelerating from the time
of my "Immorality..." post last weekend; no other single thread there,
(that began just as a new subscriber's introduction) has attracted so
much attention in so short a time. No wonder the "Greedy Capitalist" has
noticed the bandwidth being consumed. Except, his "greed" operated in
reverse when he closed down a thread that brought so much traffic so
quickly to the site -- a traffic that ought to be a desirable capitalist
trend. A lot of people came to see the "far-out" Pon in action and see
the likes of Stephen Speicher, and his ridiculous attempts at ridicule,
being evaporated "like a laser beam going through a pile of horseshit".

That the not-so "Greedy Capitalist" closed the thread at the time he
did, and just after I had the last word, saves me the trouble of having
to keep minding the posts there, so I can then move on to other venues.
Mark up one round for the good guys!

(I'll be compiling a report of the follow-up posts to "Immorality...",
but for those who haven't been there yet, or recently, for an
educational and entertaining study of impotent mediocrity, here's the
link http://forum.objectivismonline.net/index.php?showtopic=1291&st=40 )


-Monart