THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

AFKAN | 2007-09-01

in reply to a masterful observation by Pain:

you wrote:

Solitary types may learn from others, but they learn it on their own. Pierce set up his own organization; his natural heir would set up HIS own organization.

in reply:

THIS is the great strength the Internet offers us; intelligent distribution of information in favor of the Intelligently Distributed Revolution."

I read "Protector," and was so moved by the ending that I reread it, seeing more each upon each re-reading.

The Take-Home Message:

We must take the responsibility to BE WHAT WE WANT THE WORLD TO BECOME, and we must frame ALL issues in the Light of The One Question: "Is It Good For My Family, as the microcosm of my RACE, and is it good for my RACE, as the macrocosm of my Family?"

No one can do it for us.

For it to have validity, it must be organic; it must come from our Soul, and the Spirit of Western Civilization.

THIS MAN WAS A POPE | 2005-04-02

The only tragedy about Pope Paul is that, in his senility, the Vatican bureaucracy took over and too often made the Papacy the servant of Fashionable Issues.

I disagreed with much the Pope said because I disagree with many things the Catholic Church stands for. But I also understand who the Pope is. I do not need to agree with a man to see him as a hero.

The real John Paul passed away some time ago. But to his last days he actually BELIEVED. To his last days he was Pope to the extent he could be.

Catholics have no right to grieve for John Paul. They have every right to grieve for themselves.

Catholics are the first to admit that throughout history they have not always had a pope who was actually a pope. Americans will readily admit that we have not always had a president who was actually a president.

Too many popes have just been Top Bureaucrats. This pope never said anything he didn't mean. You could sincerely disagree with him, but you always respected him.

And now John Paul is going Home. There is no sadness in that.

ANOTHER WHITAKER HERESY | 2002-03-30

In American society today nothing is purer heresy than saying people should "take the law into their own hands."

We have a Constitution whose only claim to authority is "We the People of the United States of America..." But liberals and conservatives agree that the only real purpose of that document is to allow judges to overrule the people's will.

For the people's own good, of course.

And here I am demanding that the people take the law back into their own hands.

I'll never be an Intellectual.

THE CALENDAR WAS THE FIRST AND LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ANCIENT WISE MEN | 2001-11-17

It is easy for our kind of history to ignore the basics because the technological basics bore us. That is why what we call history is almost entirely nonsense.

For each civilization the beginning was a calendar. Whether it is the annual Nile flood or the coming of the rainy season an exact calendar became essential to survival as agriculture advanced.

The calendar is the titanic and critical ACCOMPLISHMENT PHASE of each civilization. It is the only time when the "intellectuals" who later become a shaman class actually do something useful.

Those first real intellectuals who made the accurate calendars were very special people. But they do not interest the historian and we know nothing about them. We have no interest in this group until they transform from intellectuals into shaman and start rolling out that fascinating nonsense we call Ancient Wisdom.

The first calendar was a work of precision never before accomplished.

After all, some kind of calendar existed before the dinosaurs. Many dinosaurs were herd animals and moved with the seasons. Their pig-like predecessors probably needed some ability to anticipate the seasons too. Homo erectus could tell that rain was coming on or that it was becoming fall.

What we call a calendar was new not because it told us that winter would come soon, for that knowledge is in our bones. The human calendar tells us far ahead from year to year when each season will come. A civilization can only plant and sow and rotate crops and avoid being washed out by rain if it has a dependable calendar.

Foresight, patience, and sticking to nothing but the facts were the essential characteristics of the first and last intellectual leaders Ancient Civilizations ever had, those who developed the calendar.

In early civilizations you might have to use a third of your grain just to plant the new crop. If it got washed out twice you would starve. And as agriculture advanced, hundreds lived on land that only a single hunter-gatherer could survive on before. There was no going back so life more and more depended on the calendar.

Those who developed the calendar over the years became powerful. But once it was developed, the knowledge they had was there for the learning. At this point those who ruled the calendar could just show everybody how to predict the seasons and go back to being like everybody else.

If they did this they would still be real, productive intellectual leaders. They would say, "We have developed a great piece of knowledge. It is now time for everyone to learn it and we can go on to searching for other knowledge."

That never happened in any of the Great Civilizations.