“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it,” said Martin Luther King, knee-deep as he was in the struggle for Civil Rights. “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” But practicing a careful deconstruction (Isn’t it glorious how we’ve made that word so pliable, even though we use it improperly 99% of the time? For example, I’m using it improperly right there.), we can exculpate through mimetic exegesis the true meaning of King’s statement. “Texas,” he argues, “will always exist. We define functional goods in relation to oppositional bads. Therefore, no Texas, no Make-A-Wish Foundation. That being the case, though we hope and pray for a nuclear strike in the center of the Austin campus, we can never actually expect it to come. This baseline truth, however, does not give us the right to ‘passively accept’ it. Passive acceptance—the dreaded sin of omission—makes us no better than the perpetrators of the original evil in the first place. We ignore Texas, we are become Texas. This simple fact lies somewhere along the comparative sliding scale next to the doctrines of Original Sin and Human Depravity. Sure, say Moses, Jesus, and Paul—the three amigos, as it were, of that great semi-literary monolith often referred to as the protestant bible—we carry with us an innate depravity (‘Thanks, Eve.’) but just because perfection is far out of reach, it does not excuse each one of us from trying to attain it. Such is the nature of discipline as lived through a life of faith.”
By deconstructing my original deconstruction, I come to the following conclusions:
- If you don’t actively hate Texas, then you actively hate Martin Luther King.
- Since Martin Luther King was the representative godhead of first-wave Civil Rights after Brown v. Board of Education, then if you actively hate Martin Luther King, you actively hate Civil Rights.
- If you actively hate Civil Rights, then you actively hate (1) equality and/or (2) black people and/or (3) other minority groups.
- (1) If you actively hate equality, then you actively the liberal republican ideal.
- If you actively hate the liberal republican ideal, then you therefore support one of a number of forms of despotism.
- If you support a form of despotism, then you most likely support a military dictatorship, since that is the form of despotism most common in the world.
- (2) If you actively hate black people, then you actively hate every American civic institution, because every American civic institution includes black people.
- (3) If you actively hate minority groups, then you actively support the regeneration of a genetically superior white race, be that regeneration from science or good, old-fashioned, unprotected sex.
Ergo: If you don’t actively hate Texas, you support military dictatorship, you hate every American civic institution, and you believe in the viability of a genetically superior white race. You are, for lack of a better term, a fascist. (Isn’t it glorious how we’ve made that word so pliable, even though we use it improperly 99% of the time? For example, I’m using it improperly right there.)
These facts being what they are, then the Razorbacks’ third game of the season against the Texas Longhorns is nothing less than a fight against the rise of another Nazi Menace. I have no funny hyperlinks for you this week. I have no flippant statements about the nature of football and its relation to the human condition, cosmic or otherwise. Our third game of the season will be the most important date in the history of the world as lived to that point. It will be a battle between good (No, Martin, not perfect good. We all have sinned and fallen short in the eyes of god.) and evil. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s the great semi-literary monolith often referred to as the protestant bible or the great actually-literary monolith often referred to as the dramatic oeuvre of Shakespeare: EVIL ALWAYS OUTS.
The Razorbacks will win this game because they are better people than the Longhorns. Because they do not passively accept evil. Because, though they willingly acknowledge that he plagiarized his doctoral dissertation and that some of his personal proclivities were less than morally ideal, they still like Martin Luther King.
The Razorbacks will win this game because unlike the Longhorns, they are not Nazis.
Quod erat demonstrandum, you dirty burnt orange motherfuckers. I hope to see you all in hell.
50-48
Fuck Texas
WPS
PS: Against my better judgment, please allow me to briefly provide one analogous hyperlink, wherein the Razorbacks are represented by Mr. Alfonse Capone, and the Longhorns Mr. Eliot Ness.
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