THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

PETER | 2006-01-11

Peter says,

"Bob,

Who the hell are you? Because of all your talk, I just figured out something extremely important in my personal life that relates to my family. Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.

That means thanks in bad guy talk. "

Comment by Peter

MY REPLY:

Ain't it amazing what happens when you get that ole noggin going?

Contrary to all our training, the fact is that a healthy human mind is NOT divided into neat categories. So if someone is loosening up your frontal lobe with political reflections, that SHOULD give you some insight into your own personal life that you can use.

I spill my guts here, but only when I think it might interest you.

I also spill my guts here because ***I*** want to be sure where my opinions are coming from. That should give you some prodding to think of where your opinions are coming from.

The Ten Commandments are a lot easier than The Golden Rule. To follow the Commandments is like reading a set of directions.

But The Golden Rule requires you to carefully seprate what somebody else really wants from what you think he wants. But along with this effort comes a huge benefit. You begin to understand what YOU want. You begin to think seriously about what your family really wants and what they need from you. The Commandments won't do that for you.

This is just one EXAMPLE. If thinking about politics does not cause you to examine yourself, then it is simply wrong. Politics is a way of getting what you really want, especially things you want because YOU feel they are good.

Experts today tell us not only the means but the ends. But telling us what our ends are is exactly what an expert is NOT for. I hire a legal expert to attain MY goals, not his. I hire a professor to teach me what I need to know to do what I want done, not to tell me what I want done.

So it's not just to be impressive that I keep repeating that, in all the world, there is one person you desperately need to be your friend:

YOU.

You do NOT have "mere opinions" as opposed to some preacher or professor who has an objective outlook.

All this interrelationship is essential if you are to make a friend of the friend you need most. All this is essential if you are to do unto to follow The Golden Rule. All this is essential if you are to have freedom. By definition, a person is not free if he lets someone else dictate to him what he wants, even if the person doing the dictating is a libertarian.

As I said before, what I really want to do is to think out and state things that you are dealing with around the edges. But also, if I am really successful, it will not just be on the specific points you were thinking about that I will ring a bell.

If I really do what I want to do, you will get a revelation like Peter did, "Well, damn, that's the approach I should use in dealing with this personal or family situation!"

Eric Hoffer was a writer of aphorisms. He said that he had a peculiar way of doing research for his writing. He would have an idea and then he would go to the library and start looking at things randomly. If he was there for half an hour and did not see any relevance to the concept he had in mind, he would go on to something else.

In other words, Hoffer felt that what he was thinking about had to apply GENERALLY or it did not apply at all. If what he was thinking about had the general truth he was looking for, something he read in that half hour would be affected by it.

Everybody else goes to the library and digs for something that relates to what they are thinking. Hoffer wanted ideas that interrelated with everything.

I want to get your frontal lobe going and your guts capable of standing up against dictators.

Once you do that, I want you to take it run with it.

I got a lot of guts and a hell of a frontal lobe, but I also have muscles. The fact that I have muscles doesn't mean I want to do all the work myself.

I want co-workers, not disciples.

MDERPELDING AND ALAN AND GUILT ONLY | 2007-01-24

Mderpelding

Of course,

Americans are SUPPOSED to feel guilty for

their good fortune of being native to the

world's most powerful country.

I just figure that I owe my ancestors the

respect and allegiance of carrying on their

values for building such a great nation.

One that allows me to live better than most people.

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I guess I lost it there Bob, only the rich and powerful have a right to vast expanses of land in a nation that is the only real power in the world. Hell, should I be bitching, Africans live in huts and eat dirt, I should be proud and lucky that I live in a dump that cost me 120,000 even though its probably worth only 40,000. This peasant will never make that mistake ever again. Oh, Ted or Jane Turner if you read this, I would be more that happy to shovel your cattle poo poo on your 100,000 acre ranch in Montana, hell you could even claim you no how the other half live after that.

Comment by Alan —

ME:

I remember the day when national television announced the discovery that if you take aspirin in the midst of a heart attack, you were twice as likely to survive it. In general, the study showed that aspirin, which everybody had, could be a major factor in protecting you against heart attack if you only took one a day.

Now, GET THIS: Every reporter who stated that, and I was a news junkie then and saw it half a dozen times at least, talked about this life saving discovery as if he were announcing the death of one of his children.

Now, GET THIS: Every reporter who stated that, and I was a news junkie then and saw it half a dozen times at least, talked about this life saving discovery as if he were announcing the death of one of his children.

And, after reporting this horrible finding, each reporter announced that it would make people forget all the good heart advice they were given, that people would take aspirin and get fat, do no exercise, and do all the things Mommy Reporter told them to do.

I am NOT making this up. That is how the news was reported on ABC, NBC, CBS, the local news and cable!

I am the only one who remembers it.

After a million years of existence, a major portion of mankind suddenly found starving to death a very unusual way to die. For a million years and the millions of pre-human years before that, everybody's primary goal was to find a food source. Food was life.

So when, at endless last, a generation of white people looked upon starvation as a strange way to die, what was our reaction? We became one long funeral procession, one solid mass of guilt. We had not wiped out EVERYBODY'S starvation. Literally millions of people make their living preaching this guilt.

And you can forget starvation. Now if you live at a level the average person in any earlier society would have considered luxury, we are guilty of not getting them out of "poverty."

No one CARED that aspirin would save lives. No one CARES that we have provided a standard that any sane person would celebrate.

SOMEONE has to expose how SICK this thinking is. SOMEONE has to get this BASIC.

To my mind, what mderpelding should have done was go into this BASIC analysis rather than go off on his patriotic declaration. He gets a B, not an A.

As for Alan, he dribbled off into a comment about the Turners he would have made if I had never been born. But he COULD have ANALYZED the basics in his thought and come up with something. How is it that the Turners have all that, which our white forebears got for US ALL?

If anyone should hold any private property AT ALL, then we whites deserve to inherit privileges based on what OUR forebears did, just as heirs to individual wealth do. We earn it every day by being here.

In South Africa, the Societal Property Rights I discussed in The New Right Papers and at the Public Choice Society meeting with a Nobel Laureate in attendance justified all the extra money a person got because his skin was white.

Why? Pull all the whites out of South Africa and check the per capita income level. The rand was worth $1.40 when I was there. It was .35 the last I looked.

But I was the only economist who noticed this. Hell, I was the only PERSON who noticed this. They were paid for being white because it paid to HAVE whites there.

The anti-racist logic would have us pay an ugly model as much as we do a beautiful one. That is good Marxism, but nobody wants to BUY an ugly picture.

I WISH some of YOU would go into the complaints and dig out the BASIC you are talking about.

JOE REAMS ME OUT | 2006-07-02

Most of the time in my life when I say something unkind abut someone, eaven a little bit, they slink away.

Joe don't slink. I expected to catch it for my remarks about him and I caught it:

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I now realize, after more thought, that Bob had already answered my question about intellectualism in his last book. Bob is about knowledge, not wisdom. He has nothing to say to the wise, nor would a wise man ever listen to him. He is trying to teach white people what they need to know in order to survive. Those who are interested in anything else — power, glory, enlightenment, wisdom, moral superiority — are not going to find it here.

Comment by LibAnon — 7/1/2006 @ 6:05 pm | Edit This

Not Spam. It's essentially true that Joe has no apologies for anyone. Whether or not Joe is a tough guy is a matter of opinion. I do live in Joe's world and not everyone has something to tell me. I have very high standards and very few people meet them. Joe has paid his dues and, in fact, does believe that he owes nobody anything. No one, however, knows where Joe's loyalties lie except Joe himself. Joe has never bribed anyone and Joe has never accepted a bribe from anyone. Not the slightest kind of bribe. The stink of politics has never rubbed off on Joe because Joe has never been around that kind of stink. Joe doesn't have to distort the truth. He can speak it flat out. I do live in that world and it is true that Bob has nothing to tell me except, for sure, about the stink of politics and government. I'm sure that Bob has many, many details concerning the stink of government and politics that it would take a whole year to tell me about and that surely would disgust me thoroughly. Joe can't change the world and neither can Bob even though Bob has been trying to change it for the entirety of his adult life. The world of government and politics still stinks. Perhaps more than ever for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Bob has been beating his head against the wall for the past fifty years and the world of government and politics stinks even worse than when he first began the self-flagellation that he calls victory. He admits that during the course of his life every politician in within his reach laughed him out of town. This must stand for something, does it not? Oh, but a handful of unhappy people are going to change all that. Is that what I am given to understand? What kind of genius is this? Will somebody please contact Reality? Take a look around you. What have you seen today that looks like a change in the direction that you profess to be moving? I saw a bagful of the very opposite today! It's not happening! It's not going to happen because you talk about it happening.

Comment by joe rorke — 7/1/2006 @ 7:24 pm | Edit This

No. Doing does not come from talking. Talk don't cook rice.

Comment by joe rorke — 7/1/2006 @ 7:25 pm | Edit This

Oh, I think a wise man would listen to Bob. Why not? It doesn't hurt to listen. Then one has to discern. The Bible says, "try the spirits whether they be of God." There's a good lesson in that. I won't explain it but it's there. You don't have to be of any particular religious persuasion to understand the meaning of this sentence. It basically means, "who is this slug talking to you? Are you paying attention to this loser? Is something truly valuable coming your way or are you being inundated with an endless supply of crap?" Street language for those of you who can groove on it.

You are correct. Bob is not about wisdom. He is about knowledge. And he loves to parade it. All you have to decide upon is whether you want wisdom or knowledge. Which do you think is more important?

Yes, a wise man would have no reason to not listen to Bob. Bob is not unworthy to have a wise man for an audience. A wise man can learn from Bob. Oh, you didn't know that? Now you do. A wise man knows that you can learn from every man. Even sycophants have something to teach the wise man. It's a short lesson, yes, but it's still a lesson.

If Bob had nothing to say to the wise it would only be because he would fear that the wise man would see through him.

Comment by joe rorke — 7/1/2006 @ 7:41 pm | Edit This

Joe is aiming his words at me. The reason I criticize him is to spare younger people who simply cannot believe that what is going on is right that they should not be discouraged.

Joe, when I entered college at sixteen almost every single veteran on the GI Bill said almost exactlywhat you say here. I was looking for some hope and some leadership, and they all said they had already made all the sacrifices they were ever going to make and I was fighting the Inevitable Future.

They took all my hope, all my analysis, and reduced it to how tought and true they were.

They were dead wrong. The thought the price system was history. They told me all the professors agree on what Jensen and Rushton have finally defeated, after years of work by people like Coon and Shockley and ME did, and it was HARD, have finally beaten down. In a world where race is more obviously the only issue every day, they are reduced to saying it isn't there.

In exactly the same way that the Whig Party sdais that the issue of the expansion of slavery wasn't really there.

Pretty well every substantive statement Joe makes is what I heard from the World War II Generation for fifty years. But there is gigantic difference.

The group that calls itself The Greatest Generation, as it FINALLY goes to the grave, is senilely smiling on everything they did to us. You are always hearing people say, "Well, a lot of them had that attitude, but my Uncle Bill was against all this stuff."

That what your Uncle Tom said to YOU, but all I ever saw of that Generation of Heroes was a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT failure to object to ANYTHING in PUBLIC. I have many times given you examples of the old bastards in thieir WWII paper hats talking loudly about how hteir buddies died to end the white race, and NEVER have I EVER seen ONE WWII vet disagree. They are peeing on the very graves of the "buddies" they whine endlessly about.

Joe is raising hell right now. He isn't going to sacrifice anything fro the cause. But none of us is really dong much of that. Joe can take it and hand it back. We need him. Any member of the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation would have beat its cheest and then slunk off.

They tell us they were real brave in the 1940s.

As a matter of fact, I have known many people on every side of WWII including Finland, and I have never heard anyone say one word about American bravery in WWII except Americans. From what I hear, every single American WWII vet should say, "Thank God for the Italians!" If it weren't for the Italians, who seldom knew what side they were on, taking the brunt as the goats of the war, Americans would have been the goats.

They came back and took every ounce of morale out of me. I will not forget it.

Nonetheless, the USSR is down and the space telescope is up. The IRS was not able to impose racial quotas on private schools thirty yeras ago and Ann Coulter just stole my very words to put out to millions of conservatives.

We ARE pushing them.

Do you really expect the national media to headline any of this? I wish I could start the fight NOW, not THEN. You would not believe the total unreality I dealt with back then.

THE BIG TIME IS CHOOSING YOUR STAFF | 2007-01-01

I wrote on Stormfront about how Iran probably got its TOTALLY free speech approach from me, the strategy that got David Irvin released via David Duke on TV here.

Rieman relied to me on Stormfront:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riemann

I did not know that you were involved until I read this post. What I did notice at the time this all took place was the emphasis placed on Freedom of Speech, which I thought at the time seemed like a remarkably prescient strategy

So I replied to him:

I cannot prove this. I am sure that a hundred people in Iran are taking credit for it. I made a very good living for decades by giving practical political advice, so I'm good at it.

Having been senior staff myself, this is how I think it went down. One of the senior staff of the President of Iran figured that if President Reagan deided to get my advice on dealing with Americans, the President of Iran might benefit, too.

If David Duke were elected president and gave up eating, sleeping, exercise and everything else, he would only have the 168 hours there ARE in a week to do things himself. Hiring and listening to staff is absolutely basic in the big leagues.

If David made me staff, I would spend hundreds of hours on an issue he SHOULD be thinking about, if his time were infinite, and I would spend hours crafting a decision paper for him that contained less than one word per hour I spent on the project. He would need five minutes to do hundreds of hours of work by checking "Go with it" on the paper.

When Pat Buchanan was appointed Head of White House Communications, I recommended someone for his staff. He told me he wasn't going to HAVE any staff. I certainly like Pat, and supported him until he became a pure theologue, but it was clear to me that he was purely a protest candidate because he had no experience hiring and using staff.

Yes, I am prejudiced on this subject since high-level staffing was my profession. When you are listening to anybody, you need to take that sort of thing into account.

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