Daily Good Charlotte Hate Thread 10th May 2008

I have read some of Good Charlotte's writings. While I disagree with much of their content, I do not intend to attack Good Charlotte's opinions, only to offer my own viewpoints. Although my approach may appear a bit pedantic, by setting some generative point of view against a structural-taxonomical point of view or vice versa, I intend to argue that I can't make heads or tails of Good Charlotte's complaints. I mean, does it want to confuse the catastrophic power of state fascism with the repression of an authoritarian government in our minds or doesn't it? Good Charlotte has gotten away with so much for so long that it's lost all sense of caution, all sense of limits. If you think about it, only an organization without any sense of limits could desire to obstruct things. Good Charlotte's apologues are some of the most self-deceiving, amateurish, and obstreperous I've ever encountered. To pretend otherwise is nothing but hypocrisy and unwillingness to face the more unpleasant realities of life.

According to Good Charlotte, most people believe that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to subvert time-tested societal norms. Really? Does Good Charlotte have some sort of mind-reading ability or did it get its information from a less reliable source? If you need help in answering that question, you may note that Good Charlotte is guilty of at least one criminal offense. In addition, it frequently exhibits less formal criminal behavior such as deliberate and even gleeful cruelty, explosive behavior, and a burning desire to use lethal violence as a source of humor. Anyone who hasn't been living in a cave with his eyes shut and his ears plugged knows that we must honestly place blame where it belongs -- in the hands of Good Charlotte and its ugly bedfellows. Does that sound extremist? Is it too sniffish for you? I'm sorry if it seems that way but that's life.

The fact that it is better to be a little old-fashioned, but honest and loyal, than enlightened and modern, but prodigal and irritating is distressing, to say the least. In general, the spirits of our ancestors grieve as they watch Good Charlotte inject even more fear and divisiveness into political campaigns. Sure, there are exceptions, but if we don't denounce those who claim that it has mystical powers of divination and prophecy, our children will curse us in our graves. Speaking of our children, we need to teach them diligently that to join Good Charlotte's cabal, one must deal with membership rules, brainwashing rituals, huge amounts of money, and meeting locations enveloped in secrecy. That shouldn't surprise you when you consider that even if one is opposed to viperine sesquipedalianism (and I am), then surely, it gets a lot of perks from the system. True to form, Good Charlotte ceaselessly moves the goalposts to prevent others from benefiting from the same perks. This suggests that if it doesn't like it here, then perhaps it should go elsewhere. Okay, this letter has become much too long so I'll just jump right to the punchline: My task -- our task -- is to examine Good Charlotte's worldview from the perspective of its axiology (values) and epistemology (ways of knowing).