Whitaker's Current Articles December 6, 2003
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December 6, 2003 --
Pain is Cheap, So is Philosophy
December 6, 2003
-- Great Philosophers Excuse the
Rulers Who Do Nothing for Us
December 6, 2003 --
Only Western Civilization Has Been Based on Real Benefits
December 6, 2003 --
The First Step to Wisdom is to Stop Being a Damned Fool
Fun Quote:
Let me save you some pain.
You're worrying about what they they are
thinking about you, right?
They're not.
Pain is Cheap, So is Philosophy
The Spanish have a saying, “Of course life is
mostly pain. If it weren’t we wouldn’t need so many philosophers.”
The more miserable a place is, the more
philosophers it has. Even sub-Saharan Africa produced, “It takes a
village to raise a child.”
China has had wall-to-wall philosophers
throughout its history of agony and tyranny. India is the homeland
of Buddhism and of an endless string of gurus.
Is it agony that produces philosophers or
philosophers that produce agony?
Great Civilizations, the ones that produce all
that pain and all those great Thinkers, are based on two things, 1)
threats and 2) promises they never have to fulfill.
The Pharaohs used the whip and a promise of
everlasting life in The Book of the Dead. India used the whip and
the promise of Nirvana after a lot of lifetimes. Before Nirvana, if
you were obedient, you too would be in the upper classes in your
next life.
I make fun of all this because I am in the
modern West. This is the first civilization in history that
justifies its existence mostly on promises kept.
When Western Civilization gets to a country,
all its Great Philosophers are dumped. The Great Civilization melts
like thin ice.
Conservatives tell us that is because we are
superficial. Liberals tell us that is because we are Evil.
I think it’s because the great Cultures were
frauds, and so are leftists. Conservatives are retards.
Great Philosophers Excuse the Rulers Who Do
Nothing For Us
Pain is cheap. Pain is easy.
Any retard knows how to hurt people. A
brilliant person can work all day and not come up with anything to
amuse the people around him.
You can hurt anybody. You can’t give pleasure
to everybody. So society is based on punishment. Pre-humans
could break an arm ten thousand years ago. We only very recently
found out how to set a broken arm.
Pain is cheap, and that is what society is
built on.
Promises are free. I can promise you eternal
joy at no cost to me, and I can get you to pay for it here and now,
big time. Jesus offered salvation “free and without price.” Paul
was a tentmaker and Peter earned his living and was a married
man. The idea of a working preacher or a married Pope is heresy
now.
The Pharaoh said that if he didn’t do his daily
prayers, the sun wouldn’t come up tomorrow. He did his prayers and
the sun did come up, every single day. Pharaoh promised those who
built his pyramids they would live forever after their earthly
death.
Maybe the Pharaoh was right. We have heard no
complaints from dead people and the sun is still coming up.
So every Great Civilization has produced great
Philosophers and Great Moralities, and the West produces Coca-Cola
and computers.
The one thing Americans don’t seem to produce
is Great Philosophers.
Only
Western Civilization Has Been Based on Real Benefits
A Great Philosopher explains to you why you
need all that pain. A Great Philosopher explains to you why you
should forget this world and talk about the Next.
A Great Philosopher will tell you to forget
what you Want. The Great Philosopher tells you what you Need.
This is very convenient, since no Great Civilization ever produced
what people wanted.
Great Civilizations melt like thin ice when the
West shows up. India can talk itself blue about what great
Philosophers it used to have , but there is no way they are going to
go back to their loin cloths.
Not a single eskimo lives on the old ice fields
any more. They sit around on welfare and bitch about people who
forget to call them Inuits.
In all the old so-called Great Civilizations
anybody who could write worked for the ruler. They sat around and
tried to find ways to justify why everybody should obey the Pharaoh
or the Emperor and why everybody should be grateful that were so
miserable.
We have lawyers and liberals to do that.
Oops. I almost forgot to give
respectable conservatives their share of the credit!
But the rest of our literate population spends
its time trying to figure out a way to give people what they want.
They make money by giving people what they want. They get elected
by giving people what they want. That’s where Coca-Cola comes from.
That’s where computers come from.
Those who love Great Philosophers also love
huge tomes like Karl Marx’s “Capital” or the Old Testament.
People like me want to take the Golden Rule and
get on with the business of making things better for people.
You don’t need me to justify misery. There’s
plenty of misery to go around already.
The First Step to
Wisdom is to Stop Being a Damned Fool
Get up off your stomach! Stop trying to find
somebody to be wildly grateful to.
Demand more! Don’t try to Understand why the
poor government can’t help. Don’t tell yourself that everybody
deserves big money for sitting in a big office. What have they
done for us LATELY?
They sure as hell got PAID lately. So what did
they DO lately? Gathering cobwebs and seniority and what they call
Experience won’t do us any good.
So let’s stop paying for it.
Every time you want to know why you aren’t safe
on the street, the government tells you about its programs in
Southeast Gooboobyland and what you owe to All Mankind.
Please, please stop being a fool.
Fools get robbed. Fools get lied to. Fools get
cheated. Fools get everything we keep complaining that we are
getting.
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