A Rejection Letter

From: WSQPA

To: Mr. Baruch/Benedictus Spinoza, philosopher

April 10, 2024

Dear Mr. Spinoza,

Stop.

Do not bother us again.

We, the Board of the World Status Quo Protection Agency, reject your unsolicited critique of our twenty-first century.

You were the seventeenth century’s problem. Not ours.

How dare you ask questions and seek to arrive at beliefs and truth individually through reason. Citizens today have banded together in groups to hear the truth and facts from sources that comport with their worldview. We have no need of philosophers in 2024.

Thus, our status quo is groupthink.

Yes, our groups clash and there are wars that are political, spiritual, and militaristic. But they are part of our status quo.

You are free in your ivory tower to sneer at our way, and claim we are pursuing false “knowledge from random experience.” It is no wonder that you were excommunicated for your radical ideas.

We know that you worked with lenses for microscopes and telescopes. But you have no right to put our status quo under your microscope.

Warmly,

WSQPA