Where did you get this quote from?
It's on his website and was in the magazines about 11-12 years ago. A few months before Testosterone had published a fake satirical interview with Mentzer in the first or second issue, this was his response-
"Approximately one-and a-half years ago, I received a phone call from a prominent HIT advocate informing me of a new Web site going by the name “Testosterone. . .muscle with attitude.” My informant was all but in a state of shock, as Testosterone, he reported, was promulgating a philosophy that was antithetical to mine; but doing so whilst utilizing the services of Ellington Darden, Ph.D., and a friend of mine for over 20 years, Tim Patterson. As Ellington and Tim had long been two of the most stalwart proponents of high-intensity training, each having worked closely with Arthur Jones for years, I wasn’t merely stunned by the news – I was literally incredulous. Believing such infidelity impossible, I decided to check the veracity of my source, and immediately went to the computer and pulled up Testosterone.
The first thing I observed was Ellington’s and Tim’s names on the masthead (Tim, as it turns out, is the owner and publisher of Testosterone); then I set about rapidly perusing Testosterone’s information. Antithetical to say the least, the polar opposite of all of my convictions and values; its content resolutely anti-philosophic, motivated by a sophomoric enthusiasm in its literally incessant stream of vile obscenities, scatological innuendoes, scrofulous references and malignant sarcasm; all in the name, as Mr. Patterson proclaims, of modern entertainment. The Testosterone Web site is making every effort, it seems, to eclipse the low-grade mentality expressive of a cheap, third-rate tabloid; and it is succeeding.
I was somewhat surprised that Ellington and Tim would align themselves with such, as both had strong moral upbringings, albeit mystic, i.e., religious. (I clearly recall the time – 18 years ago – when Tim, while visiting my home, was in the midst of a very intense spiritual crisis, and spent hours alone in his bedroom studying the Bible.) I say “somewhat surprised” because few religious mystics make any consistent effort to adhere to their ethical values, as religion, being devoid of reason, makes the living up to its ideals literally impossible. (Presumably owing to the pressure Mr. Darden incurred from his long-time friends and associates in the HIT movement, he left Testosterone soon after its inception.)
Given the continuous erosion of our culture’s values, Mr. Patterson’s embrace of a vicious, man-hating philosophy is at least understandable. (Few, very few, only those committed to reason, can fully escape the modern descent into the maelstrom of irrationality.) More difficult to fathom is his spurning of the science he had learned from Arthur Jones, using Testosterone as a forum to promulgate that grab-bag of unscientific training notions held by the explicitly anti-philosophical Charles Poliquin.
Having had all I could stomach – my capacity for intellectual slumming being limited – I shut down the computer and placed a call to Mr. Patterson. The “conversation” was brief, to the point. Not allowing him to get a word in edge-wise, I told the publisher of “T”, essentially, that any one who could reject his life-long convictions and – for no good reason – embrace their opposite was no friend of mine; whereupon, I hung up.
Mr. Patterson informed me in a subsequent phone call, prompted by a desire to patch up our friendship and rationalize his renunciation of values, that while he didn’t believe in everything appearing on Testosterone, it was receiving over one million hits a month; then implied that I was receiving nowhere near that many – which is true. I am not on this earth to win a popularity contest. I refuse to abandon rational values in order to “appeal to the masses,” as both Tim Patterson and Joe Weider told me, on separate occasions, is their goal. In doing just that these two individuals have relinquished their personal sovereignty and become slaves of the people…
Mr. Patterson was wrong, however, when he suggested, during that follow-up phone call, that my past 20 years of effort have been a waste of time. My efforts to educate people have changed the lives of tens of thousands for the better." .
