State of The Club Address

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Reed, distinguished readers of all nationality, my fellow bloggers:

Since we were first introduced a couple of months back the landscape, in which we work, has undergone a glorious transformation - a blooming of the like few before us have witnessed. What I am talking about is of course is the establishment, and continuing development of this club of ours. During the course of this speech I will present to you the mission and purpose of the club, as well as the three resolute pillars that make up the foundation, on which our club rests.

We can look back at times of accomplishments and see that we have done so much already. But fellows, we have yet more goals to reach. I stand before you now in order to share a vision of those goals - a vision that like candlelight hopes to illuminate any dark and wavering regions of your minds.

According to the theory of cognitive dissonance, we all seek to minimise the difference between our thoughts about the world along with it's state of affairs and the way in which they come to us through perception.
If you are, for example, an ample ufologist, then you tend to seek approval from like-minded individuals and avoid people of conflicting mindset.
Birds of a feather flock together, so to speak.

That's why the formation of the club came so naturally to me and the good Mr. Reed. We share so many a virtues, and perhaps more importantly - vices. That says: we are both living the high life with fast cars and easy women.
Coming from various backgrounds and having different reasons for writing stuff on your Internet we can clearly state this: some forms of diversity is uniting. It is that form of creative harmony we seek to continually distill when writing for this thingy-thingy treatise.
In the treatise I believe to have found a no strings attached expressive outlet and a way to make the public heed the grave issues that so often is found on our club's agenda.

Though the posting has been rather sporadic, quality and satisfaction have always been two common denominators. All was good and fine with this until very recently.
The vultures of senseless criticism have started to besiege our safe nest of enlightenment and brotherly companionship. The situation at hand demands immediate action. I say the time has come to show them what we're made of. When our strength is unified and when we're pulling in the same direction, no force on Earth can hinder us from prevailing.

My dear fellows, this is the reason why I can assure you that the state of the club is strong. For every day that goes by, our combined efforts solidifies this - making it something you can take to the bank. The compoundable nature of our club sees to that this triumphs.

The mission of the club is of a strictly observational and organising nature. It is led forward towards culmination through the ongoing writing of the treatise on humankind. The discourse is by all intents and purposes both the end and the mean. Here we have only our own shoes to fill, and while some may deem it a daunting task, in the back of our heads we know that we are mere observers, and try to act accordingly.
To depict the common, uniting and unique aspects of humankind and civilisation; that has always, and will always be the goal of the club. Examples of topics from the treatise include: the plastic mind and body, the relation between self and others, the pleasures of the flesh, and language and truth.
With such wide an array of subjects, not even the sky is the limit. And to my delight we keep aiming higher and higher, my dear fellows.

Nothing appears out of nothing. Why is it that the need for a club has arisen? Put bluntly, the main purpose of the club is distribution of admiration between members. The first pillar is thus admiration.
Some find it fulfilling to admire themselves. Alas! This has in our culture some mental and social implications, so we are better left to find reverence for ourselves through others. It is not obvious, but this seems to be more rewarding than the alternative.
Others lack both foresight and hindsight. The alternative is selfish indulgence in activities that can only lead a sound person to start questioning one's own sanity. With a select few members the club restricts these portending megalomaniacally scavenging tendencies. Left alone you lack this protective net designed to enforce success. The club works. Hail to the club! (pause for unanimous ovation)

Now, are there any other essential components other than inner admiration operating in the group? I say, apart from admiration: a healthy dose of competition. This competition that is the second pillar first and foremost takes the form of a greater struggle within, a personal jihad of sorts, designed to bring top performance to the writing process.
On a comment to an earlier post I insinuated that one of the distinctive, if not key feature of the club implemented a raising of the verbal and expressive bar. This is the lesser of the struggles. Although the usage of fancy words might lead some to suspect some kind of Sokal hoax, remember that in doing so you tread on dangerous grounds. This has already been treated in the earlier rebuttal of such postmodern death sports.

The third and last pillar is that of ferocity. Eagle-like instincts and a simple understanding of the surrounding world has led us to adopt this doctrine. Our constant questioning of dogma has not yet been able to raize this notion to the ground. It's eat of be eaten, and as long as we are breathing there is no way that we are letting the vultures pick our corpses clean.
Through the ferocity we have attained a stance of disregard or disrespect. You may find it hard to believe that one can care a great deal, and have lots of respect for other peoples' thoughts and opinions, and at the same time not give a fuck about them. That is however what the third pillar is about.

As a representative of the club, I would like for the future to bear as much fruit as the past has done, and perhaps even more since the tree of wisdom continually grows higher and mightier alongside the club. To make this come true we shall continue our struggle, and we shall gladly do so with determination.

We must never forget that we are the vanguard of reason and the hour for our decisive battle is yet to come. So let us not be bothered by the croaking of the critics, but gaze forward at the challenges up ahead. If admiration, competitiveness and ferocity makes the club strong, so will our unwavering determination lead the club into a bright and promising future.

Thank you.