Reguarding Our Last Communication...

After consulting with Voignier last night, I would like to reiterate my position and record these minutes for posterity. For the record, Voignier called, with concern in his voice to sound me out about my latest study.  The object of his concern, was my apparent "anger" and rage at the circumstances surrounding the cultural decline and moral decay to which we bare witness each day.  My conclusion: that boxed wine could reduce the stress levels of certain individuals, and thereby improve the overall mental health of the many who engage in depraved acts across out land, which I continue to stand by.

 

My dear misguided associate, as I explained last evening from my study at the boat basin, with you in yours' on Central Park south, overlooking the seasonal change in the Manhattan's magnificent Central Park, it is not Merlot who is the true subject of his last communication. The questions we posed were addressed to a typical angry American man and woman, if you will, or those individual citizens of the United State who comprise a group of angry malcontents, who in spite of their relative material good fortune, engage in acts of violence, abuse, and miscellaneous psychopathogies that are writ large in national media coverage. By this, I mean the thousands who are convicted of "road rage" for example, as well as child abuse, animal cruelty, spouse abuse, and countless assaults and batteries that plague in evidence everywhere one looks.

 

Take another example, how many individuals "go postal" each year, if you will. It appears there is fresh case every time one turns on the television. Are these instances of misery and violence concoctions for Merlot's imagination.  In short, I think not.

 

Ergo, my conclusion stands: boxed wine can make a good and great difference in this land.