THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

A LESSON IN BASICS FROM MEERKAT MANOR | 2010-09-28

Meerkat Manor was one of those programs everybody knew about. It was popular. But it was not unique. Many books and documentaries have been written about the rigid class systems and border wars of all social animals. This was just one of the better ones.

The real lesson of Meerkat Manor, though, is precisely that. In the 1960s Meerkat Manor would have caused a revolution. Back then it was assumed that birds sing only to attract mates, that social systems were totally absent in the natural world.

Therefore Rousseau and Marx and the libertarians assumed that all human social systems, all class divisions, all wars, all divisions between different people, are entirely the result of which system we adapt.

In other words, which Book we build our society around.

As usual, the real lesson here is so basic no one gets it. Every social and political and economic ideology which existed in 1960 should have disappeared without a trace, like the Humor Theory of Galen did in nineteenth century.

But not a single iota has changed. Everybody debates the same old crap. Marx is still a Great Philosopher.

Let's take a look at one aspect of Meerkat Manor, the struggle for the all-important top meerkat in this matriarchal society. When the old leader died of snake bite, who would take power? We could make a number of guesses, since the old leader was so powerful that she had bred a troop of over fifty.

In meerkat society, the stronger the leader, the bigger the group becomes. With Flower's death, the troop split into sections, a lead in each.

Another possibility would have been that Flower had bred one of her many offspring that was her equal

But the real lesson here is that we all know what could NOT happen.

What could NOT happen was that the overwhelming majority of the meerkats, who were kept sterile since only the leader was allowed to have offspring, would rise up and take over.

This is the critical point, so no one sees it.

Social animals do not have revolutions.

In nature every revolt is just like what REALLY happened with Communism everywhere. The dissatisfied lionesses might join an intruding male in killing their present mate if they have grown tired of him. Then the new male takes over.

A Communist "Revolution" immediately produces a new ruling class which effectively owns all the property and uses most of it for themselves or their projects. What people do not realize is that, due to our nature, it can't come out any other way.

Instead of looking at what we now know about animal and human nature, every system that collapses is declared by its proponents to have been somehow "imperfect."

Mommy Professor will tell you that Socialism would work, that Marx was Great Genius. The rulers of the Soviet Empire and Cambodia just "got it wrong."

You've hears that from the left a hundred times.

Every form of Wordism we have today was written when it was assumed that natural social animals had no property, no territory, no class system, all of which we now assume is impossible even in a society made up of meerkats with brains measured in milligrams.

But the instant we begin to discuss social systems, we go back to a way of thinking a person would be ashamed to take to a discussion of Meerkat Manor.

UNNOTICED ALLIANCES II | 2006-08-25

I was at Joe Sobran's house and he had a guy there who had joined him in his denunciation of Jewish power.

But when I tried to discuss genocide against the white race, Joe tried to shush me.

Shushing me is not an easy thing to do. So when his buddy heard what I said, he replied, "I began to criticize Jews because of their attitude toward blacks."

It turned out that he was fanatically anti-white and also he criticized Jews.

I got a call from a nut I had met in a Washington meeting of right-wingers. Every single evil we discussed he denounced as "The kind of thinking htat leads to abortions." He, too, thought Jews were bad.

When I mentioned genocide against the white race, he began to explain to me that race does not exist.

Abortion exists. Jews exist. But all this trivia about race was nonsense.

Jews consider themselves the center of the universe. Anti-semites consider Jews the center of the universe.

To a true anti-semite as to a true Jew, the rest of us are like Pluto, which has just lost its status even as a minor planet.

DAVE | 2008-05-21

It is taken for granted today that for youth in the entire third world (Japan included) the most important marker for prestige, status, and opportunity is the ability to speak English.

Our MSM media ignores this phenomenon entirely.

For example, the crush of African youth from French Africa wanting into Gambia for access to English speaking Africans is so overwhelming, Gambia must strictly control access from the surrounding countries, for without the ability to speak English, the only emigration opportunity for African young people is France with its high unemployment, or Spain with its impossibility of work visas.

In India, the ability to speak English is the major class marker as it is for the Chinese (who have as difficult a time of getting proximity to English speaking people as young people in French Africa).

But my point is the unmistakable and ever increasing desperation of third world youth who will do anything to get proximity to white people and their languages. They see it both as a matter of survival and class distinction.

We are now entering a phase where nonwhites are defending their proximity to white people violently as exemplified in the anti-immigration riots (against refugees from Zimbabwe) occurring in South Africa. (Of course, nonwhite South Africans don't perceive it as that owing to the reality of their racial segregation, but that is what is really occurring if you look at it from an economic dependence perspective.)

Meanwhile, the affluent classes throughout Asia will do anything to look more Caucasian and Black Africans will do anything to acquire mulatto children, a mark of high prestige throughout Black Africa.

Want to make money? Market an effective skin lightener in Asia. Your fortune will be assured.

None of this, not one wit of it, is reported honestly in our MSM.

It is just absurd. It really is. Meanwhile, most white Americans know none of this. They are completely ignorant.

SIEGECRAFT: LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES ARE RACIST TO THE CORE | nationalsalvation.net

In the last article I explained how Antonio Fini had raised my observations on respectable conservatives to the level of theoretical awareness.

I am now going to do the same for him. In his second comment, Antonio says, "To expand on my point Bob, the Austrian liberals are loudly condemning Governor Schwarzenegger for signing off on the execution of Black mass murderer Tookie Williams. They even want to name an Austrian football stadium after Tookie, to embarrass Arnold."

"Now the Austrians I know are a pretty lawful, even obedient bunch of people. They won't cross against a red light on an empty street at 2am. "

"So what would Austrian liberals do if a white man walked into a store and shot gunned an entire family of Chinamen? Probably revive the death penalty for him. But a Black mass murderer is said to be "Most admirably rehabilitated" when he refrains from knifing any corrections officers. Why?"

"Because liberals expect Blacks to commit senseless acts of violence and Whites to obey the law. Liberals are racist to the core."

Conservatives on the other hand know that if only Tookie had read Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises he could have developed into a brilliant capitalist entrepreneur. It is conservatives, not liberals who believe in the infinite perfectibility of man."

"We need to expose liberal racial hypocrisy to conservatives. They already know about liberal economic hypocrisy."

By pointing out how OBEDIENT Austrians are, you have answered your own question.

If Europeans ever realized how OBEDIENT they are, it would embarrass many of them into rebelliousness.

You ask some very logical questions. But you are dealing with a continent that for over a millennium fed the poor when told to and burned people alive when told to.

Many of those who were burned alive were exactly the people who pointed out that this was a contradiction. Today those are being imprisoned are the ones who ask exactly the kind of questions you are asking.

Remember that we are dealing with an established RELIGION today, Political Correctness. Europe's reaction today does not vary by one molecule from its blind obedience of the old established religion.

You asked why an obedient people could not be logical. You have answered your own question. Sitting at a stuck red light at 2 am is not logical. It is obedient.

The most ironic aspect of this is that Austrians think they are being rebellious in attacking Schwarzenegger. They think they are being independent-minded.

Why? Because they are TOLD that what they are doing they have been ordered to do because it represented independent, radical thought.

Karl Marx died in 1883. In his name, Joseph Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot ran the most totally reactionary regimes in human history, including the cavemen. Those regimes DIED of terminal inability to deal with ANYTHING modern.

But to this day a follower of Karl Marx is still referred to in Europe as a "radical."

Why? Because Europeans have been TOLD that a "radical" is a follower of a man who was out of date when he died in 1883. An opponent of that particular corpse is officially a "right winger," one who advocates YESTERDAY'S ideas.

To me, as a freeborn American, this is hilarious. To Europeans it is, quite literally, Gospel.

No matter how badly I feel about what I said before, I NEVER try to make up for it by giving false praise.

Antonio, unfazed by my attacks, gave us two great additions to our seminar before I even apologized.

Let me quote them and then explain why they are on target:

Antonio Fini: "Bob I've been thinking about your comment to my comment and I've yet to think of a magic bullet solution. What I'm going to start doing is hammering on the racism of liberals."

"My observation about conservatives is they spend their lives secretly wondering when blacks and browns are going to undergo a flash of inspiration and realize that America is a great country, Ronald Reagan was a great President and the welfare affirmative action state is destructive and wrong."

"In other words they believe every intelligent black man has a level headed, white, middle class conservative inside of him struggling to get out. Same thing with Jews."

"Liberals on the other hand suffer no such delusions. They know Negros are hopeless, and homosexuals are incurably sick. But it makes them feel good to give away other peoples money and rights to help the underclass."

"I mean to keep pounding away on my liberal friends that they don't really believe in equality. They believe in White Man's Burden and the eternal misery and hopelessness of non-whites."

"Also, the vengeful ruthlessness of Jews. The last thing they want is for blacks and browns to become answerable for their own problems, like adult human beings."

"What I mean to hammer home to conservatives is that the liberals are exactly right in their racist assessment of non-whites. It's OK to have racist feelings because Hillary and Oprah and Rosie O'Donnell have the exact same feelings. They're just willing to exploit other people's misery to demonstrate their holiness to the world."

Antonio, the only magic bullet there is the kind of hard thought you have given here.

Notice how Antonio's discussion is TARGETED. It outlines a different approach of each of a group of our enemies. It doesn't make the whole problem the Jews or the Communists or any other single group of evil geniuses.

Respectable conservatives are masters of self-deception. They are MASTERS of Goodthink. That is the only way to stay respectable and never see anything liberals do not want you to see.

But I did not go the next step Antonio has here.

Respectable conservatives may be the only people on earth, including blacks, who BELIEVE that blacks are innately equal to whites.

As Fini says, "In other words, respectable conservatives believe every intelligent black man has a level headed, white, middle class conservative inside of him struggling to get out."

Brilliant. What is funny is that I have OBSERVED this for decades as a conservative attitude, but I have never brought it right out the way Antonio does. I know now that the strange feeling I had in dealing with conservatives was that they BELIEVED this crap.

Now this is what a seminar is all about. Somebody else analyses what a grizzled old veteran has seen and seen and puzzled about but never really understood.

Working all alone leaves you in a lot of intellectual blind alleys like that.

Fini finishes his thought in the second comment brilliantly, "It is conservatives, not liberals who believe in the infinite perfectibility of man."

I very nearly stood up and cheered. If you read National Review, you see that all the time. I have a free lifetime subscription to NR and have seen that over and over.

But, as Sherlock Holmes kept telling Doctor Watson, I have SEEN it, but I have not previously OBSERVED it.

The technical term for this, by the way, is, "Bringing an idea to the level of theoretical awareness."

It is one of the basic functions of a seminar.