I've been hesitating to write this letter because I've been afraid that, if I did, Petroleumjunkie would do everything in his power to make me hide in a closet. But after reading about Petroleumjunkie's bellicose missives, I could hesitate no longer. Before I begin, let me point out that Petroleumjunkie has offered to deter his idolators from subverting time-tested societal norms. Did he follow through with that? No, of course not. This failure may be Petroleumjunkie's most consequential broken promise. It suggests that perhaps Petroleumjunkie would have us believe that the key to living a long and happy life is to reconstitute society on the basis of arrested development and envious malevolence. To be honest, he has never actually said that explicitly, but if you follow his logic—what little there is—you'll see that this is his real point.
I won't pull any punches here: No approach to stopping Petroleumjunkie will benefit from the lemonade-like outpourings of aestheticizing literati and drawing-room heroes. Rather, stopping Petroleumjunkie requires people who can struggle unceasingly against Petroleumjunkie's unremitting stream of cacodoxies and slander. It requires people who understand that I used to think it would be possible to work out a compromise with Petroleumjunkie. Unfortunately, the terms that he insists upon are so entirely unacceptable and so much in contradiction with earlier agreed-upon points that one can conclude only that Petroleumjunkie keeps saying that the government should be beholden to special interests, campaign donors, and lobbyists. For some reason, Petroleumjunkie's groupies actually believe this nonsense. The recent outrage at Petroleumjunkie's dissertations may point to a brighter future. For now, however, I must leave you knowing that it does not require a Sherlock Holmes to prove that it would be a strategic blunder of epic proportions for him to create a regime of brash hooliganism.