Jammer: Critical Thought in the Post-Modern Age; A Discussion.

Recently, an article was penned in this publication by a new contributor using the nom de plume "jammer".  The contribution was harshly criticized by many -- with even stalwart author larry referring to it as possibly the least perceptive "post" offered in these pages in many a moon. 

It is the considered opinion of this author, however, that the missive in question is not only unworthy of our scorn, fellow readers, but that it is indeed simultaneously both revolutionary and evolutionary.  Ingenious in his use of apparently simple language and his use of the vulgar tongue, "jammer" has, with his manifesto (for it is, in fact, certainly no less than a manifesto), "Ozzie the Moron Strikes Again!", done no less than capture, in 12 brief sentences, the plight of post-modern man in the post-post-modern world. 

Let us now examine the treatise in question in a sentence-by-sentence manner in the perhaps futile hope that we might perhaps catch a passing glimpse of its dazzling brilliance; to perhaps at least scratch the surface of its many-layered and perhaps impenetrable depths.

Because this task will be exceedingly difficult, requiring many hours of research, back-breaking labor and the assistance of many research fellows (and perhaps grants), I will begin today with an analysis of the first sentence of the “OTMSA” only.  Future analysis will hopefully follow, should the initial attempts not further enfeeble this author's somewhat delicate constitution.

"Ozzie is an IDIOT!" 

Even with his brief introductory assertion, “jammer” lets the reader know that this will not be a literary walk in the park.  The term "Ozzie" appears at first glance to be a simple reference to major league baseball manager, Ozzie Guillen, the leader of the team bearing the moniker, "White Sox" and hailing from Chicago, Illinois.  However, the use of the double "zz", or the last letter of the alphabet, has quite another possible meaning to the more literarily inclined. 

In Greek, of course, the final letter of the alphabet is Omega.  Accordingly, a reasonable interpretation of the use of the double "z" in the term "Ozzie" is that it is a in fact a reference to a double Omega.  As we all know, the Double Omega reference (http://www.mentoring.org/about_mentor/mentor_store/double_omega/) in modern western society is most commonly associated with the award winning adult mentoring program known simply as Mentor.  The term Mentor, of course, synonymous with the term Teacher. 

With the statement that "Ozzie is an IDIOT" (emphasis in original), then, jammer makes a definitive (and quite devastating) statement concerning the futility of modern man's obsession with education and science as a means to gain perfect knowledge; to equal God himself.  There are, says jammer, mysteries (whether one wishes to call them "religion", "quantum theory", or otherwise) that mankind simply cannot fathom; an abyss which has no bottom.  jammer's critique is that, like those of Icarus himself, mankind's attempts to soar gracefully to the heavens are doomed to broken failure on the rocky shoals of reality.  Prometheus Unbound, indeed.

Next:  "He has to be at the bottom 5 of mlb managers.  He either leaves his pitchers in too long or he can't get runs.":  A simple rumination regarding obscure baseball strategy, or a bold prediction concerning the cataclysmic ruin of the so-called "rationality" of western society when confronted by the mysteries and intrigues of the orient?