New Hampshire Public Radio (nhpr) reports on someone who sent a postcard to every single address in New Hampshire. Here’s the content:
The postcard, which contains photos of celebrities ranging from Johnny Depp to Jim Gaffigan, includes false statements and claims the “world will end” on Good Friday. The mailer includes a QR code and email address.
A person claiming to have sent the postcard declined NHPR’s request for an interview, and wouldn’t disclose their name or state of residence. According to the postcard, the person who mailed says they are taking refuge in Kansas, though the return address was a P.O. Box in Portsmouth.
And here’s the desperate attempt to rationalize what appears to be a quite silly postcard:
When asked how much they spent on the mailer via email, the person responded, “A lot. An amount of money that crazy people don’t have.”
Well. Except crazy people who inherit money. Or made it while sane and then lost that sanity.
Or, like Howard Hughes, defied their mental illness to become rich and, well, successful. Although that example tries to draw me to walk down the road of trying to define success, when he spent his last days in a room full of pots of his urine. Is that really success? Or just the part when he founded and ran his own airline?
The point is, though, is that this is an example of trying to get blatant silliness past everyone’s common sense by making an easily falsifiable claim, i.e., that crazy people don’t have money, by stating it as, well, an obvious truism. Always examine obvious truisms; they’re often not neither.
Poor dude, or so I assume this is a dude. If we don’t implode or explode on Good Friday, will they have the intellectual honesty to mail another postcard apologizing for their silliness? Or will they be stubborn and continue to try to accumulate social capital by making sillier and sillier claims?
