We are the overlords and we call the shots! We decide just who and what gets in and who and what does not no matter how distinctly unworthy the ins or overtly deserving the outs. We are the gatekeepers and our word is law! We have carte blanche to duct tape the mouths of writers we'd rather no ears ever heard or eyes ever saw — we are the gatekeepers; we are the law! As the elite troops of groupthink enforcement having spent our lives reliably conforming to all the sycophantic backslapping demands of top-drawer establishment whoredom; having been gladly seduced by the tenured fruits of its hush-money comfort and privilege only we have CV's sufficiently distinguished to highlight careers spent lying prostrate before our god and master Mammon. Only we have the wisdom and learning and the connoisseur’s taste to determine what anemic obedient works to include in the sacrosanct canon — only we are licensed to handle the practice of conferring status and bestowing prestige. We are the gatekeepers — the culture cops! We promote writings no right minds would read. We compose blurbs and citations so fraught with absurdly superlative froth that halfwits alone would be prone to believe; reviews so stuffed with sumptuous fudge they prove as a rule to be much bigger fictions than the fictions presumably being judged. Enamoured with all that's flaccid aficionados of all that's in fashion backers of the fastidiously inoffensive mediocrity's unflagging champions lovers of all things politically-correctly-pretentious only we have the right to decree what is shite and what's bad and what's good and what's great. We are the gatekeepers. We make the rules and we alone are empowered to choose just what and who gets to pass through the gates.
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Very well-penned and I will read this to my group...
Brilliant.