THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

RESOUNDING SILENCE | 2013-07-30

I was listening to a talk between two Italian filmmakers in the 1990s.   One got a tiny, hard smile on his face and asked the other, "Are you getting any support for your film on Trotsky?"

It was a bitter inside joke.

Until about 1990 everybody in the Italian film industry was a Communist.   To them the idea that Trotsky rather than Lenin was the Father of History was daily fare.   This is now covered by The Silence.

The fact that almost every European "intellectual" was a Communist would be horribly embarrassing to today's establishment, which depends heavily on European Intellectuals to overcome Flyover Country Provincialism.

It was big news when Solzhenitsyn's tales of the Gulag converted a huge proportion of even the French Intellectuals to the idea that the Soviet Union really DID have some oppression.

This is a critical job for The Silence.   For two generations almost every European Intellectual stated flatly that all reports of Stalin being a despot were lies.

What if people were to dwell on those generations?   Gunther's Inside Russia was dedicated to the proposition that Stalin's Purge Trials of the 1930s were genuine, fair trials!

The Silence is resounding.

Everything segregationists predicted and integrationists denied in the 1950s is now reality.

Almost every person accused of being a Communist by Senator McCarthy has been found in the KGB files.

I happened to look at White Genocide in Google.   Now that HD and I have spent endless effort bringing White Genocide out of The Silence, the reference list is huge and is growing daily.

Breach the Silence.

RAID!

No conservative will breach The Silence.   That is the price of their respectability.

AFTER THE INTERNET | 2004-12-14

The Seinfeld Show ran from 1990-1998, with one showing of its pilot in 1989.

In one of the earlier episodes, but not the first, a superefficient girl was talking to Seinfeld and talked about a number of things, including how to use e-mail. He was overwhelmed, and after she left he said to himself, "What's e-mail?"

We are not talking about Mayberry here. This was a Yuppie in the middle of New York City.

In a later episode, but not nearly the last, Kramer says he wants his mail delivery to stop. The Post Office head admits there is no reason for the Post Office to exist any more, and one of the reasons given is e-mail.

To repeat, the show ran from 1990-1998.

That is a FAST turnaround.

So when we talk about the changes the Internet will bring, we had better talk about the Internet ET AL.

Only a few years ago, there were theories about a future in which people worked at home. My niece's husband now works in California and lives in South Carolina. I spent three hours this week fixing my computer talking to several people in India – the dreaded "outsourcing." Those guys are not working in India, they're working HERE.

In the 1980s we were talking about genes and a far future in which they might even be able to look at them. Now it's routine.

You know those human-looking animated characters they've developed for TV? They are still very identifiable as non-human, but you have to look close. In a few years they will simply take pictures of humans and manipulate them as they choose. You will see NEW episodes of I Love Lucy, and Lucy's DEAD.

If you need something special today, where do you go to buy it? It used to be Macy's or Gimble's in the middle of New York City. Then it became the malls. Now it's becoming the Internet.

What next?

Just how much longer are there going to BE big cities? Certainly they're not getting bigger, and most of them have already become largely slave quarters for liberal minority voters.

When we talk about social security, it might be useful to talk about how much longer people are going to BE getting older.

And pretty soon we'll have to stop panicking about those "engineered genes" and start deciding whether kids without egentic improvements can actually compete in a world where others are giving their children higher intelligence and more drive and better looks.

I think we better stop talking like latter-day Amish.

WAS EVERYBODY BUT EGYPT ILLITERATE? | 2010-11-06

I have never seen any evidence that anybody ever actually thought the world was flat.

The reason we don't see what shape people thought the world was is because it was information that one would produce. It takes a LOT of leisure before one begins to talk about things like that.

Such information is not produced and it is not preserved. We try desperately to hook our history to that of Rome, but again, one of the most basic aspects of Rome is totally unnoted.

Rome kept records only of itself. They kept Greek records because of their claim to have come from the Trojan War, but otherwise they kept NOTHING. Yes, they did ignore all the languages of the "barbarians," but they also ignored the Etruscans, who were once their kings and from whom they actually did get a beginning of their knowledge of building.

The only Etrurian title we know of now is "chief builder of bridges." That is because it was a title given to the top man in Etruscan Rome, it was adopted as a title by the Emperors, and now is known as Pontifex Maximus, one title the Pope has.

The point is not the accuracy of that observation. The point is that we have NO survival of anything Etruscan despite the fact that the titanic record keeping capitol of Rome was built there.

Just as it is assumed that all earlier people thought the earth was flat, it is assumed they were illiterate. As a matter of fact, the first thing any Jehovan faith does is burn all writings.

In my youth, no one had any difficulty with the idea that the only writing Nordic peoples had was on rock.

Nobody knew of anything but advanced writings etched into rock. Pretty good, to learn how to etch rock without ever having any place to do your learning. No destructible writings were found, so it was assumed they didn't exist.

Destroying writing is serious business for Jehovans. We do know that when Islam took over Iran, its native script was abolished for Arabic script, as was every other native script. Today, we all know that Yiddish is a simple form of German, you can actually understand Yiddish if you speak Afrikaans

But Yiddish is written in Hebrew script.

When Christianity took over Egypt hieroglyphics was still Egyptian writing. The last hieroglyphic writing dates to about the fourth century.

The Romans outlawed the uniting factor of Celtic society, the Druids. If the Romans didn't leave a shred of Etruscan writing except on tomb walls, what do you think they would do to Druidic writing?

So we all assume the Druids wore robes, totally alien to their society, and that they had large organized seminaries but no writings.

This information is worth producing because it demonstrates that all real knowledge, the world is round, writing, so forth is entirely the product of those who own the Books today. It is one with the idea that we wouldn't have the electron microscope today if a Greek philosopher had not argued with Aristotle about whether the substance of a thing changed if it were cut down to its irreducible size, what ancient Greeks called the atom.

We have learned in the last generation that animal society is NATURALLY much like our own, and that our society is NATURALLY different from what all forms of Wordism tell us. As real history is dug out, we may have to cope with the reality that literacy was much more general, and that our real legacy from Egypt, Rome, and the Jehovan faiths is bigotry.