THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

SCIENCE FICTION GOES SENILE | 2015-11-28

When I was young, I loved science fiction. I went to some conventions.

Back then SF looked to the future. It demanded experimentation. In a world where population and per capita income both increased steadily science fiction was the cutting edge of demands for technological progress and optimism.

Now reading SciFi is like listening to an old man grumble to himself.

"None of these new-fangled things will do anything but cause disaster."

In today's scifi, any population increase means starvation.

One story talked about the discovery of the secret of eternal life, and then showed how it was banned forever because a society that could extend life forever did not realize it might involve a population increase, and total disaster ensued.

The very idea is laughable, but nobody laughed.

They PUBLISHED this crap.

Today's clowns READ this crap!

Science fiction is now "message media." Each story is supposed to advance the "message."

So, like all Marxist output, it is BORING.

LOST IN SPACE | 2007-05-13

In "The Disposessed Majority," written when all the debates were between socialism, and capitalism, Wilmot Robertson said that our ideological obsession with economic systems like socialism and capitalism was like trying to diagnose every human illness by studying nothing but the alimentary canal.

As a professional economist, I never took economics as the center of the universe as libertarians and Marxists did. With the fall of the Soviet Empire and the earlier disaster of British democratic socialism, the twentieth-century obsession with economic systems, which killed so many, is now largely a thing of the past.

It is the TWENTY-FIRST century gang!

For example, nobody sees the US-China situation as a competition of economc ideology.

The only people left who take this stuff seriously are American professors. European "intellectuals" got so deep into the Marxist stuff that they are embarrassed about it today.

There is a parallel between European Communists and the Mir space station. The space station was sent into space as a SOVIET mission, but while it was up there the Sovet Union ceased to exist.

Almost every member of the European professorhood was some sort of Marxist. Then the Soviet Union suddenly said, "This is ridiculous" and abandoned them in space.

EXPLANATION ON DAVE'S ADVICE | 2009-10-30

Mantra thinking involves constant attention to Dave's advice below. For example, when someone tries to answer the Mantra with something about how the white race invaded non-white countries, I just say:

"You are JUSTIFYING genocide."

And that's A LOT.

Sometimes the period is the most important part of sentence.

We are trying to make ONE point. We are not arguing religion versus atheism, the South versus the North, the Right versus the Left, we are adamant on only one point: Genocide.

The good thing about BUGS is that our people take criticism from the rest of us on this point. Lord Nelson was doing a great job on Stormfront of hammering at the Mantra. Then I noticed a change. He began to say that he was arguing that the white race shouldn't be overwhelmed in its own land.

I pointed out to him that this was a whole different subject. We are not talking about power here, we are talking about SURVIVAL. He got it INSTANTLY. Most other people would say, "Well, it means more or less the same thing..." or something.

No way Lord Nelson would do that, because we have our DISCIPLINE here. LN instantly saw that he had gone to the "overwhelmed" bit because it was easier.

He did not have to criticize intermarriage. Immigration is easy. It is intermarriage where the establishment pulls out its straight razors. So it is infinitely easier to talk about voting blocks, busing, affirmative action, immigration, national birth rates, ANYTHING besides the one thing everybody has in mind. It is so easy to do this that LN reacted to my alert the way a person in a hypnotic trance wakes up at the edge of a cliff: "Of COURSE!"

Dave says to make the statement and leave. This reminds me of World War II pilots who flew in Korea. They were fully trained for flying jets, but the old experience came back when they got into combat. They tried to stay on the enemy's tail the way they did when they had propellers.

I don't understand the technical side of it, but when a pilot tries to stay on a MIGs tail, he ends up spinning out, often into unconsciousness.

A commenter actually BUILDS small airplanes, so I am a little nervous about expanding on this. I do know that the difference between fighting jets and props was that in a prop the whole idea was to get on the enemy's tail and STAY there. In a jet one had to get the enemy in his sights and fire, from any direction. You fired a blast an then went on by. Because of the GI Bill I knew a number of guys in college who had fought in the air in both wars, and they had automatically gone back to the old on-the-tail mode when the actual fight started in Korea.

What they described to me was often what would be called ten years later as "a psychedelic experience." In the jet they were suddenly totally disoriented and spinning, the blood in their heads making them half unconscious and half wildly drunk.

But the point is, the MIG survived. And the ones who talked to me survived. I assume that if you were a dizzy combat pilot you did not survive to take your Korean GI benefits. I assume that a lot of pilots who were half unconscious and half drunk in the vicinity of a MIG didn't make it.

Not to overdo the comparison, we get some chances to make our point, to fire a blast. Our natural tendency is to hang on, to throw in everything we believe in.

And very often, when we knock them back a bit with the Mantra, we may be tempted to make them good Christians, or good atheists, or to accept evolution or antievolution or, as in LN's case, to talk about being numerically overwhelmed.

Dave says:

1) Blast 'em

AND

2) Fly out of range and get 'em in your sights again for another short blast of the same kind.

Otherwise you end up with a mind that is half unconscious and half drunk.

Like a respectable conservative.

LAW: REGULATION IS A POWER STRUGGLE, NOT A MORALITY PLAY | nationalsalvation.net

I just wrote Brian that "Provigil is officially only a narcolepsy pill. Ritalin is the ADD pill, and it has been a Schedule 2, meaning it is addictive, for forty years. But Provigil is more closely regulated because it works too well."

If this had been written to him by anybody but me, Brian would naturally have asked if I didn't need some medication myself. But this is simply how the world works.

Regulation of drugs or guns or anything else, in the real world, is a power struggle.

It is true that the average doctor or brass hat policeman is fully and honestly convinced that his ideas about controlling guns or drugs are entirely objective. He has, after all, devoted his life to the public good.

Which is why you have them as specialists in things like law enforcement and medicine, but you pay people like me to deal with reality.

As committee staff, I was perfectly aware that both sides on each issue believed down to the toes of their shoes that they were the good guys.

So while others start with the assumption that a person who is expert in a field has a more objective opinion, I start with the reality that the last person who is objective on any subject is the person who has devoted his life to it.

No one wants to hear this.

When people look at a judge their first thought is that he is a successful practitioner of law and is an expert, one who has given up a lucrative law practice which a lawyer of his abilities could probably make in order to devote himself to the Law.

This is a very comforting idea. None of us want to be wheeled into the Emergency Room while having it in mind that the doctors are biased in what they do. If we are on trial, none of us wants to think that the judge has anything but Justice on his mind.

No one wants to pay a crippling fortune for tuition with the idea that the expensive professor has exactly the same mind set every other professor has.

After all, these are the areas where we do NOT understand what is going on. We want desperately to believe that when it comes to stuff we cannot understand. The people who do understand are no different from us, except for their higher knowledge on the subject.

It's a scary world if that is not true.

But if you realize that each profession has a set of steel hard prejudices, you can at least predict what they are.

Provigil gives energy, the way Ritalin does. It makes people feel energetic and good.

There is no way in God's universe that a drug that makes people feel good will ever go unregulated.

Provigil is amazing. You know the "do no operate heavy machinery" bit? Provigil has been used on jet pilots for over two days without sleep and had no ill effects!

It is true that an effective drug is usually fatal in an overdose.

But the white power that kills more people than any other is called sugar, and you do not need a prescription saying you are not diabetic to get it.

What is important here is not the facts, but the concept.

The fact is simply that if a person gets his power in the medical industry, things are really regulated first and foremost because they are effective, not because they are dangerous.

Regulation is a power struggle, but a person who is inside a field cannot recognize that fact.