Archive for June, 2005
This “God is Sort of a Spirit” Thing Mystifies Me
As I have said more times than you probably wanted to hear, I understand hard-core Catholics, Calvinists, Bible literalists and atheists. In the conservative movement, the Randian Objectivists made atheism a sine qua non of belonging to their group while the Sharon Statement required with equal rigidity that one had to believe in God in some form to belong to the Young Americans for Freedom.
These were the two groups I mostly worked with in college.
In Washington rock-hard Catholics, Calvinists, Bible literalists and some atheists, all of whom considered the other positions intolerable and said so, were my regular allies.
I am about 99% atheist and 1% Christian. For me it’s one or the other.
The one position I truly find alien is wishy-washy religion.
If you believe in salvation, there is not a lot of room for a wiggle. I am completely mystified by a “sort of” God.
I guess I was just not born to be moderate ANYTHING.
They are certainly free to practice whatever this is. I will defend their right to do it, but I refuse to try to understand it.
Not That Long Ago
Not That Long Ago
Brick plants are never build in fashionable places. So when I worked on a plant in Germany in the late 1950s, it was in a tiny town. Some of the old order was still there which might be forgotten, so I thought I would record it here.
Dr. Ludowici was the plant the town’s big house, called the Landhaus. That was his official address with the post office. When he came onto the plant the older workers would take off their hats when they spoke to him.
When I ate with his family his son, who was in his late twenties, would ask his father’s permission to leave the table. Dr. Ludowici told me that when he was a boy the children STOOD at the table to eat and asked permission to leave the table.
Everyone referred to Dr. Ludowici as “Der Herr Doktor.” The servants addressed me as “Herr Robert.” which was exactly what our black workers called me back home, “Mister Bob.”
Back home, when Yankees would visit, they would hear us talking with black people and they would not understand what we were saying or what the black people were saying. When my father came to Germany, the few Germans who spoke English, even Dr, Ludowici who was fluent in English, couldn’t follow our conversation at all.
A few years ago I was talking to one of the black people from our plant and I had extreme difficulty remembering the language I had routinely spoken as a child.
It was a different world and a different language, and it gave me a glimpse of a world before then that no one has any idea of today.
Being in Pontiac, South Carolina and Jockgrim, Germany back then I half lived in the Old South and the Old Germany. This probably gives me a view of history most people lack.
Christianity is not a Patent Medicine
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 6/12/2005
After Jesus performed the miracle of loaves and fishes, the crowds returned asking for more loaves and fishes. He told them they were wrong.
When Christ came back, Saint Thomas, the original Doubting Thomas, wanted PROOF. He had to thrust his hand into Christ’s wounded side to PROVE it was Jesus.
Jesus told Thomas he was wrong.
The pagan religions, including the Old Testament, concentrated on THIS world. God punished the Israelites in the here and now.
So did Odin.
Romans actually wrote CONTRACTS with their gods.
Jesus offered NOTHING in this world. He did not promise to be the Prince of Peace. He said he brought war. He did not offer to make anybody healthy, wealthy or wise in the ways of THIS world.
When it replaced paganism, the Church had to find a replacement for the old gods, the gods of THIS world. You prayed to a particular saint if you had a particular disease, exactly as you had once prayed to a particular god to take care of your worldly ailments before Christianity arrived.
Ancient philosophers always sought some kind of Natural Perfection. So Galen built a General Theory of Medicine. The body needed its NATURAL perfect balance of humors, which Galen apparently took for granted. You bled someone to restore the Natural Balance.
All this has come down to us in a confused babble.
To most church-goers God is a complete formula. He has a Plan for this world. There is a natural balance you can find in the Bible to do what all the old pagan gods did. Cosmology is in the Bible. This version of God can’t fit into a world with Creation.
God, we are told, has A Plan for THIS world. God will make you healthy, wealthy and wise in the ways of THIS world.
Every one of the old fake Patent medicines had eye-witness testimony of how it had changed lives and made the world good for people who testified to it. True Religion must make people healthy, wealthy and wise, and we hear endless testimony of how True Faith makes you healthy, wealthy and wise in the ways of THIS world.
I don’t believe a word of it.
His Kingdom is not of this world.
The Christian Children’s Fund’s Racist Message
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 6/11/2005
I was enraged by the ad from the Christian Children’s Fund asking for money.
It shows little brown children and says they have to drink what they call “foul” water.
What do they mean by “foul?” How DARE they say that?
The water that flowed through the capitals of Egypt was muddy Nile water. It had been used for disposal of EVERYTHING by millions of people for a thousand miles before it got to them.
Is the Christian Children’s Fund saying that white societies are somehow SUPERIOR because their water is purified, the way “white-bread WASPs” like it?
They say that these little brown children eat food that “You wouldn’t touch.”
Once again, this is western values, which means it reflects the viewpoint of anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
There is not a word about the great sophistication and cultural values these children have. It makes no mention of the fact that these children live WITH Nature. They are not raping the environment. The Christian Children’s Fund wants these children to join the white hordes who eat artificially bred and raised food.
In plain English, the CCF is demanding more environmental rapists.
6/11/05 Bob’s Weekly WOL Articles
Posted by Sys Op in WOL Weekly Articles on 6/11/2005
Weekly WhitakerOnline.org Articles
June 11, 2005
Routine Racism
How Respectable Conservatives Save Racist Liberals
Don’t Embarrass Poor Little Jesse
Interrogator
Fun Quote:
I walked twenty miles a day to school when I was young.
I know all the other old-timers tell you that, but they lived in Minnesota or New York.
I was raised in South Carolina, and walking twenty miles in the snow in South Carolina is MUCH more difficult.
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Routine Racism
One of the main jobs of a political advisor is to analyze attitudes everybody has, but nobody realizes they have. I will be discussing one of these attitudes on this week’s internet radio broadcast. You can listen to the main program at any time:
Go To: The Untrained Eye
I call it routine racism.
When a liberal and I discuss race, we are both being very racist.
We both consider black people to be pathetic. The only disagreement we have is how to deal with the pathetic black folks.
So when blacks say whites are all racists, they are perfectly correct. But what they NEVER want to talk about is what that MEANS.
Let me give you an example of what I am talking about.
There are many black men like O.J. Simpson who make it very, very clear that they would never date a black woman. I remember watching a roast of Sammy Davis, Jr. on television. A black singer was thanking him for his help early in her career, and said:
“I couldn’t figure out why he was helping me. I wasn’t anybody special. I wasn’t white.”
Sammy Davis gritted his teeth and laughed. She was talking about his younger days when he married Mai Brit, a very blond Swedish actress. Brit had worn a revealing wedding dress that made her look like a whore. Davis would never date anybody with discernable Negroid blood in them.
In other words, O.J. Simpson would never date a woman who looked like his daughter with a white woman, and Sammy Davis would never date someone with the obvious Negroid blood in her that Davis’s son with Mai Brit has.
Every liberal understands why a black man would want a blond. Every liberal will fight for the black man’s right to have a blond.
Everybody understands a black man who is obsessed with blond beauty. That is the opposite of racism to a liberal. What the black man wants to do with that blond beauty is destroy it. He wants to produce children he would reject as a mate.
I love blond beauty. But I am a racist because I want to preserve it.
If you watch anything produced in Canada, you will see that they only have blond girls walking with very black guys or making whoopee with very dark and greasy-looking Middle Easterners. They have to pay their dues to Political Correctness.
Look at Swedish ads. The blond girls are always with very, very dark Middle Easterners or blacks.
This is required anti-racism. Liberals agree that blonds are more beautiful, and dark guys have a right to them.
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How Respectable Conservatives Save Racist Liberals
Back when Bob Jones University had its tax deductible status revoked because it did not allow interracial dating, a reporter interviewed three Bob Jones students, one black and two whites.
The liberal reporter asked the black student, “Don’t you resent being discriminated against?” The black student replied, “I can only date black women. I WANT to date black women. White students can only date whites. Why am I being discriminated against?”
That answer put the reporter in an AWFUL position.
If the other students had backed the black student up, he could have forced the reporter to admit that the reason he asked the black student that was because he looks upon black females as inferior.
Fortunately the reporter had the white students to talk to. As good respectable conservatives, they acted as if the black guy wasn’t there, and got the reporter off the hook by going into nice abstract arguments.
Liberals all agree that a black man who is denied blond beauty is being discriminated against.
Liberal or conservative or Communist, all white folks assume that non-whites are inferior. We only argue about what to do about it.
Liberals support the underdog. They take it for granted that blacks are the eternal and incurable underdogs.
So do I.
But I am the racist.
Black “leaders” live on liberal handouts. They leave it to heroes like Stokley Carmichael to go to Africa and die there working to help out black people.
Black “leaders” stay in the Maryland suburbs and make a good living attacking the Confederate flag.
They say whites are racist. We all know that. But black “leaders” never explain exactly what “racist” means. It would ruin their whole gig.
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Don’t Embarrass Poor Little Jesse
Back when Jesse Jackson first ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984, of all years, the media reported a problem the white candidates had. As the first debate approached, the media reported a concern other liberal Democrats had that they understood perfectly.
They were afraid of making Jesse Jackson look like a dumb (N word).
Jesse Jackson has never said anything in a debate that anyone could not have written for him. It was hard for even the most devoted liberal to convince people that Jackson was saying something interesting.
We all know why. If you look at any so-called black leader on television, you see what is obvious to everybody. He never says anything that doesn’t go straight from his parietal lobe to his mouth.
The target="_blank">human brain has a frontal lobe, where new information is processed, a parietal lobe behind it from which remembered information comes, and the occipital and temporal lobes which were there from early evolution. A black “leader” spouts. He never comes up with anything that he has not perfectly memorized from endless repetition.
What I have said is far too blunt. I need to say it more diplomatically. My bluntness is the result of my peculiar experience. Let me explain that to you.
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Interrogator
I have been a professional interrogator for decades. If you want to know what that does to you, listen to a routine conversation any experienced cop will have with another experienced cop:
“He’s lying. What do you think he’s lying ABOUT?”
They know a person is lying. It may be the fluid, unhesitating lying that anyone in prison learns to do, or it may be the opposite. A normally honest person hesitates and averts his eyes. There is no formula, there’s simply experience.
My doctor brother said to me, “It is incredible what people who take the Minnesota Personality Inventory (MPI) tell me.” He went on, “if they knew what those harmless questions told me, they wouldn’t do it even anonymously.”
When you talk to me, I hear every word, or I make you repeat it. I know exactly when you didn’t hear what I said.
I know where your statements are coming from, your memory or your thought.
When a black “leader” speaks and you watch his eyes, the lights go out. Watch him. Every word comes straight from the script he has repeated hundreds of times.
That was the problem the Democratic debaters faced with Jesse Jackson.
Every professional politician is an interrogator, and the liberals were worried about what they knew about Jesse Jackson.
They didn’t embarrass little Jesse, and every word Jesse said was straight out of his memorized play book.
I remember a black man who was part of a public discussion of Thomas Jefferson’s alleged relationship with Sally Hemings, the mulatto woman who was supposed to have borne his child. All the DNA tests proved proved about this was that Jefferson or a member of his family had fathered her child. It was probably one of his cousins.
But the black guy did not know a thing about this. When someone asked him if he had read the report, he was very indignant.
Of course he hadn’t read the report. That was not why he was there.
He was there because he was black. He was there to make a point. He was there to make the point that when the child was fathered Hemings was underage so Jefferson was a child molester.
No one expected him to read the report. He was black. NO one expected him to read the report. At the end of the program he said Jefferson was a child molester. That’s what he was there for and that’s what he did.
If a white man had done exactly the same thing, he would have been ridiculed.
But black is not white. Everybody understood the Democrats’ dilemma when Jesse Jackson showed up in the debate. They were dying to prove that the other white candidates were repeating the same old crap mindlessly. But they were terrified of even hinting that the black guy, the guy they knew was going to repeat the same old crap endlessly, was doing just that.
You know that. I know that. The media knew that. We also know no one is allowed to say it.
Except for me, of course.
6/11/05 Insider Letter
Posted by Sys Op in Insider Letter Archive on 6/11/2005
(Reprinted to Blog from email list of 6/11/05)
*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***
My father and I never got along. But there was one time I was glad to see him. At the age of eighteen I was in a small town in Germany working on a brick plant.
In a sophisticated part of Germany I would have been surrounded by Germans who spoke perfect English. No brick plant is ever in a sophisticated place. In a town of two thousand or so people only three spoke English.
The problem is that, even to talk to them, I had to speak very correct English and use words they would know. For five months I spoke German and a very, very careful kind of English.
You know how I like to play with language and make jokes. I couldn’t do it there in English. And expressing myself in German was extremely hard work.
So when my father arrived, I was ecstatic to be able to speak South Carolinaese again. Nobody around me understand a word we were saying. It was the kind of English that let my father and me understand what illiterate blacks were saying.
Being able to talk freely is like water or oxygen. When you miss it, nothing else counts.
When you are dealing in a foreign language you find that all expression is a burden. It takes me at least a week to get back into Spanish.
All this sounds very classy and internationalist, but if you are on the ground, it is a pain in the keester.
When you can’t express yourself freely, it feels like suffocation.
I have the same problem in talking with people about politics or history.
You are asked to explain something. The person you are talking to thinks the BIBLE says, “All men are created equal.” He finds that that is in the Declaration of Independence. It then falls upon you to explain that the Declaration of Independence is NOT the Constitution. Then you have to explain that “all men are created equal” was written for the FRENCH. The Declaration of Independence was written in wartime as a propaganda document.
By this time the person you are talking to is getting very, very tired of all this.
But the fact is that the Constitution says nothing about human equality of mankind in general. And the Declaration is not the Constitution. The Constitution is the Constitution.
About the twentieth time someone asks you earnestly about something, you get very, very tired of having to go all the way back to the basics.
You get very, very tired. When I speak about politics or history with a person who learned it all from his preacher and Shawn Hannity and his granddaddy, I have the same suffocated feeling I do when I have to talk in what I know of a foreign language.
I should feel very proud. I know a lot of stuff the other guy doesn’t know. I should feel very proud that I am speaking in a foreign language. William Buckley will never get over his joy at the fact that he speaks Spanish and French and knows a lot of Latin phrases.
But for me it is all work and suffocation. I want to be able to use terms like “Wordism” and the ongoing genocide against whites and hear what you have to say about it. I want to talk to and listen to people who already understand what the tide of history is, and the difference between that and normal politics.
I want to discuss things with people who already understand why respectable conservatives have to be none too bright.
I am TIRED of beginning again and again and again. It is like one of those nightmares where you are trying to run in knee-deep molasses. I have spent my life in knee-deep molasses.
I have written it all down. I have told it all a hundred times. I am sixty-four years old. I wish a few people would read what I have to say and make themselves able to understand reality. Then I could learn from THEM.
What a glorious thought!
What a breath of fresh air!
In White Society, Not Knowing Everything is the Key to Science
Posted by Bob in History, How Things Work on 6/9/2005
My sister babysits her grandchildren, and she loves it. She also knows my kind of thinking very well, so she makes comments that are valuable to me.
One of those comments was, “They (her grandchildren) are at that age when they think grownups know EVERYTHING.”
Back in the caveman days, the idea that older people knew everything was the key to the older people’s survival. Older people could explain the whole universe.
The children they had raised by explaining how to get food still looked to them for wisdom after they had taught the young people everything they knew that was practical. After that the older person could have said, “You have learned everything I have to teach you.”
Or he could make up something to teach them. Young people wanted to know all about the universe and the stars and the gods and the spirits.
There were two possible choices:
1) After the older one had taught them every practical fact they knew they could say, “That’s all I have to teach.”
or:
2) The older guy could make up a complete cosmology and ways of dealing with the gods.
There is no record of anyone choosing 1)
Every society has a complete cosmology and complete set of gods and spirits which only the Elders understood.
Later a priesthood took over function 2)
Today the motto of white science should be “One experiment is worth a hundred Expert Opinions.” In our society, the Elders know nothing they cannot PROVE.
Other societies live in the days when Ancient Wisdom was everything.
For us, the days of the caveman are over.
When whites are at our best, if we don’t know something, we say so.
Nobody understands what a breakthrough that is.
If “Normal” Were OK, There Would Be No Evolution
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 6/8/2005
My doctor brother was doing rounds, with his students on his heels. One man had his heart on the right side instead of the left. The difference is slight, but it is big if you are placing a stethoscope.
He just smiled at me, and we watched each student put on the stethoscope, feel around and make the discovery. Every one of them was afraid he was doing something stupid. Then each one finally got up the courage to say the heart was on the OTHER side.
Nature does not produce perfect replicas. That is why we have two sexes and a random combination of genes. The genius does not produce a brood of geniuses. He produces some geniuses and other children in a random distribution. This is a matter of statistics. It allows those who do not want to believe in heredity to talk about the exceptions.
When we say an animal like the kangaroo developed big feet ( which the word “kangaroo” means) to fit his environment, we have that millions of the offspring of earlier kangaroos just had ridiculously big feet.
Nature says, “Maybe we need some big feet.” Nature says, “Maybe we need a heart on the right side.” Nature is usually wrong about that. The freaks it produces usually die out at a ration of a million to one.
In the meantime, none of us is “normal.” If all the earlier ape-men had been normal, we wouldn’t be here.
But everybody worships “normal.” Addicts need to quit drugs and they will be in that magic condition, “normal.” A person who is satisfied with life as it is cannot understand why an addict is not happy with being normal.
Which brings me back to the rule I was given, “Do unto others as you wold have them do unto you.”
And it brings me back to another thing I keep saying: The critical rules of life are simple, but none of them are EASY.
An addict’s “normal” chemical makeup makes him unhappy, just as your normal makeup makes you happy enough. If you believe in JESUS’ Golden Rule, it is not enough that you insist they do what would make YOU happy.
You have to understand THEM.
The Oriental Golden Rule is both simple AND easy: “Do NOT do unto others what you would NOT have them do unto you.” If you have a chemical balance that makes you happy enough, you do not need to understand that an addict doesn’t. If you tell him that all he needs is to get back to normal, you are not asking him to do anything you would not want someone to ask of you.
But Jesus allows us no such wiggle room. You have to DO something. You have to understand where the addict is coming from, the fact that his normal chemistry is WRONG.
Addiction
All new drugs are non-addictive.
Meprobamate, the first tranquillizer, came out in the 1950s. It was guaranteed non-addictive. It is highly addictive.
Some of the older members of my recovery club told me about the first days of Valium. Right there before a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, one woman would ask another, “Have you got a Valium on you?”
Valium was new and therefore nonaddictive. The FDA and the medical community agreed on that.
By the time I got into recovery, Valium addicts were part of the crew.
People say marijuana is not addictive, but the recovery community is full of people who abused it.
Let me tell you the secret to all this: Drugs are not addictive. PEOPLE are addictive.
The definition of “addictive” is that you suffer physical withdrawals when the drug is taken away. Anyone has who has ever quit drinking coffee will describe for you the almost unbearable pain most people get when caffeine is withdrawn. If you drink one cup of coffee a day, you will suffer a sharp head pain when you quit that is like having a needle in your head.
That is addiction.
But this physical pain is not the reason most people are alcoholics or addicts. Most people who become addicts are used to pain.
One man who called me during my time in the program was on heroin. When I arrived he was standing in the bathroom, which was covered with blood. He was naked. He was sobbing and jabbing the needle into his private parts and screaming, “I can’t find a vein!”
Addicts use the needle so much they destroy veins. Many addicts’ arms are caved in from the collapsed veins. Many junkies get to the point where they simply enjoy the pain of a needle without the drug.
I know why. Every year when I was child I would try to chew some of my grandfather’s tobacco. It was horrible. It burned my mouth and I couldn’t get the taste out all day. But my grandfather liked the taste, because he associated it with the pleasure nicotine gave him.
An addict is not afraid of the pain of withdrawal. What he suffers from is living without the comforter a drug pulls over him.
It is not the drug that is addictive. It is the addict.
The Media’s Little Dictator
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, How Things Work on 6/7/2005
There is a natural gap between those who are entertained and those who do entertaining for a living.
When you sit down to watch TV or a movie or read a story, you just finished your day’s work or you are taking a break from your normal life.
I was in a discussion about the media and a young man who wants to get into television management asked the routine question such people ask:
“Isn’t there a Public Service element in television? Is there a way to balance the Public Interest against just giving the public what it will pay for?”
He was asking the same question, and using the same code language, every socialist uses.
The consumer wants to get what He wants. This young man wants to give the consumer what he thinks the consumer NEEDS. And he leaves out the critical three word s that makes every discussion like this USELESS:
“IN MY OPINION”
So let us put this question, which occurs in every discussion of the media, in plain English:
“Isn’t there an element of WHAT I CONSIDER a Public Service Element in television? Is there a way to balance WHAT I CONSIDER is the Public Interest against just giving the public what it will pay for?”
That correction destroys the whole coded discussion.
Frankly, young man, I don’t give a flying rip about what you consider to be in the Public Interest. The very fact you can’t ask a straight question in English shows me your opinion is meaningless.
The young man thinks he has a Truth the public needs to get from him. It would never occur to him in a million years that he and the Great Experts he is talking do not have the Final Truth. He wants to balance the cheap pleasure of the paying public against the Great Truth he and the other experts have.
No. I do not think you have the slightest right to dictate Public Interest. The paying public has ALL the rights. The public has the opinions. You have no more right to force people to buy your idea of Truth than a preacher does. You have no more right to force people to buy your idea of the Public Interest any more than a contractor has the right to tell a home builder what house he wants.
Like the contractor, you can recommend. But until you get over the idea you represent the True Public Interest nobody will trust you the way they do their contractor.
Reading the Wave
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/5/2005
In response to my WOL and broadcast on “The Tide of History” I keep being asked, “How do you read the wave?”
Then everybody goes back to talking about Iraq and how Bush is a meany.
I wrote a book on exactly where the wave is. Tens of millions of angry young people are ready to take on the Professor-Priesthood.
But my huge list is BUSY talking about how Bush is not an honest man or how Jews, who DO pay attention, somehow keep taking over all the speaking for white people.
Everything I write has something to do with the wave.
One person wrote how they disagreed with me that each racial group will have its spokesmen.
I have said, over and over and over and over that the multi-racial future is NOT democratic. He who speaks for the whites will rule. And I said why. Not one person ever addresses that.
I have said over and over and over and over that the best friends our enemies have are in OUR camp. They are not just the respectable conservatives. They are every single person who sends a frantic e-mail about how Bush is not an honest person or about Iraq.
“Bob, how do I read the wave?”
You START by reading what ***I*** say all the time. You start by THINKING ABOUT what **I** say.
I have a big list, but it is the world’s deadest list. That is always the case before a revolution. If people paid attention, the revolution would be under way. I could get it going right now.
If I had LIVE list.
But everybody’s BUSY.
Any time they have is dedicated to proving Bush is a meanie, the invasion of Iraq is a meanie, anything the media points at gets their full attention.
We’re BUSY, Bob!
“Now Bob, how do we read the wave?”
6/4/05 Bob’s Weekly WOL Articles
Posted by Sys Op in WOL Weekly Articles on 6/4/2005
Weekly WhitakerOnline.org Articles
June 4, 2005
The Tide of History
Hitler’s Revolution
Other Revolutions
Riding the Tide of History
Fun Quote:
You make friends by laughing WITH them.
You destroy enemies by laughing AT them.
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The Tide of History
This Saturday on my radio show I will talk about “The Tide of History.”
This comes from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the crest, leads on to fortune.”
That is the story of revolution throughout history…
It makes no difference whatever what the revolution is about. It makes no difference whether the revolution is good or bad. They all depend on riding the tide.
A revolutionary is exactly like a surfer waiting for his wave. A hundred other surfers are waiting for the big wave. None of them can CREATE the wave. If the wave does not come, they will all be left standing there with their surfboards in their hands looking a little silly.
But there WILL be a wave. That is the nature of the ocean.
There WILL be a wave.
That is the nature of men.
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Hitler’s Revolution
The reason that there are so many books about Hitler, not just the Nazis, but about Adolf Hitler himself, is because he stands out in history as a one-man show. Historians know that the Nazi Revolution could not have occurred without this unique personality.
So historians and Nazis keep asking, “What was there about Hitler that made this revolution?”
What, to use the colloquial phrase, did Hitler have going for him?
He certainly had talent. Even Churchill wryly admitted, “he was great man, if evil can be called great.”
Concentrating on Hitler personally it is easy to miss what Hitler “had going for him.”
Hitler had Germany’s defeat in World War I and the Allies insane drive to destroy Germany out of spite and greed. He had the wild German inflation in 1923. In 1933 he had the greatest and deepest Depression the world had ever experienced, with Germany suffering most because of the impossibly high reparations imposed upon them.
He had a stupid Communist Party. In 1933 the Nazis and the Communists between them held a majority in the Reichstag. No government could be formed which did not include either the Communists or the Nazis. If they had been reasonable, the Communists might have prevented the Nazi takeover. But they demanded power, so Hindenburg had no choice but to make Hitler chancellor.
The Nazi Party almost disappeared in the late 1920s. But when the tide of history rolled in, Hitler was ready for it.
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Other Revolutions
In 1776 America was a separate country from Britain. Almost every American had been born here, his father had been born here, his grandfather had been born here. The tea tax had nothing to do with it. A nation had grown up here that had no stake in the British Empire and it was time to separate. That was the tide of history.
If they had not been here at the crest of that tide, the Founding Fathers would have remained a group of talented gentlemen, nothing more.
If Robespiere and Napoleon had lived at any other time, history would have passed them over.
You can analyze Lenin all you want to, but he did not create World War I and a weak and stupid Czar and a Russian history of totalitarian rule.
A surfer who thinks he created the wave is insane.
But a revolutionary must, like a surfer, concentrate on being ready for the wave.
A person who is preparing for the Big Wave is entirely different from a swimmer who waits for nothing, but makes do with the water as it is and makes all his motions in a calm sea…
By exactly the same token, a revolutionary is entirely different from a politician, who makes his own motions.
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Riding the Tide of History
After the Battles of Lexington and Concord many patriots made impassioned speeches.
Some demanded peace. Some demanded war.
George Washington spoke very little. He just took his seat in the legislature wearing a uniform.
His message was, “There’s a war on. When you clowns get around to facing the facts, I’m ready to take over.”
In the Soviet Assembly in 1917, all was confusion. The chairman of the soviet, of which the Communist Party held only a few seats, asked, “Is there any party here that would be willing to assume complete control of the country at this time?”
Lenin stood up and said, “There is such a party.”
He was not playing politics. He was playing Revolution.
At this moment, everybody is trying to play politics. But there is a tide rising. The reason Europe and Canada have laws against discussing race is precisely because race is the elephant in the living room.
In the next age, someone will speak for the black race, someone will speak for the Asians, someone will speak for Hispanics.
And someone will speak for whites.
That is the tide of history.
While mealy-mouths are playing politics, whites are soon going to have to take on spokesmen. Not spokesmen for protecting the border and a melting pot. Spokesmen for WHITES.
Like Lenin and Hitler and, oddly enough, Washington, someone is going to have to see the wave and ride it. All regular politics will, quite simply, drown.
6/4/05 Insider Letter
Posted by Sys Op in Insider Letter Archive on 6/4/2005
(Reprinted to Blog from email list of 6/4/05)
*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***
Con men make their livings on the fact that you can make plenty of money by selling something that doesn’t WORK. Great inventors die broke all the time.
All of the history of science may be deduced from one fact:
A product can either be saleable or it can WORK.
Millions of people died because the old Humor Theory of Galen was so saleable. First of all, it was written in ancient Rome in Latin, so universities stood by it to the death. Only the intellectuals could understand it.
As early as the 1500′s the germ theory of disease was in circulation. But, as I explain in my book, it was rejected because it struck at the very basis of the Galen theory of the intellectuals. Galen wrote, in Latin, that human health was a balance of “humors”. To cure disease, you bled people so that these non-existent “humors” were balanced.
It didn’t work, but it was written in ancient Rome, in Latin.
I have exactly the same problem. I teach a history where the good guys don’t always win.
If someone tries to bring some reality into history, he gets questions like, “But doesn’t that mean that men are not equal?” Or “But doesn’t that mean the conversion to Christianity was a step backwards instead of a step forward?”
My version is Christianity depends entirely on its being TRUE, not on its being a social step forward. But the average church-goer demands that the church be more than just the saving of an individual soul. It must be everything else, too.
What good is God if He just saves souls. He had to invent the world in six days, too or He’s no fun.
In my version of history, facts are simply true.
But history has to be saleable, history has to be fun, and history has to come out right. The people who do all the good things have to be kind, pretty, and well-intentioned. That is history you can sell.
But it isn’t true.
You can sell a giant conspiracy theory. A giant conspiracy theory, on the left where it is the rich people getting together to exploit everyone else, or on the right where Communists sit at a table and plan everything, is exciting.
A giant conspiracy theory has another great advantage. If you believe in it, it takes all the responsibility off of you. It’s THEIR fault, not yours, and there is nothing you can do about it.
You can have a theory where democracy, free enterprise and goodness will make a new world.
My stuff brings you down from all that with a disappointing thump. It just sees people as people, and it concentrates on what WORKS for human beings as they are.
But I attack problems one at a time. I do not offer a giant ultimate solution.
Right now I am attacking the academic bureaucracy. It would solve a lot of very serious problems if people joined me. But they want to join something that takes on all the problems at once, something that sounds exciting.
University professors are not geniuses in on a giant conspiracy. They are hothouse bureaucrats gone wild just like every other group of hothouse bureaucrats gone wild. Meanwhile, the guys who get the attention are those like Bill O’Reilly, who sit around and wonder how those great minds have gone wrong.
The truth is a very hard sell.
The Political Ratchet
Posted by Bob in History, How Things Work on 6/4/2005
France and Holland rejected the European Constitution. But remember, they can reject it a hundred times. They only have to accept it once.
One of the many tricks used to get through the fourteenth amendment, barely, was accepting California’s ratifying it and rejecting their rejection of it. California accepted the fourteenth amendment and then, before it became law, turned around and rejected it. The Federal Administration said that once a state ratified an amendment, it could not reverse its action. Otherwise, the fourteenth amendment would not have been ratified, despite the fact the fact that Republicans owned ten Southern states at the time.
In other words, European unionists just have to try and try again. Once a country signs on, it can’t get out, as in the case of our Federal Union.
Why Don’t TheyReport?
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 6/3/2005
I am about to listen to a UN staffer who was the first to get fired in the UN “Oil for Food” Scandal. He will be on Fox, of course.
He says he’s a scapegoat.
We all know that.
But I doubt any of this will be on CNN. If it is, it will be because it is on Fox.
For decades, the people who are now in charge of CNN played by the rules.
Have you ever noticed that, in all the years since 1945, the KGB was rounding up millions of people for the Gulag, our media referred to any oppression as “like the Gestapo?”
Nobody said “like the KGB” because if you did, your network would be out of Moscow.
So CNN never reports on somebody who can get them back.
Now that Fox has stuck it under their nose, viewers are slowly beginning to smell a rat.
But they have to talk about Iraq first.
Zoroaster and Iraq.
I forgot to make point which I supposed seemed obvious to me, but there is no reason it should be.
The reason I keep harping on the Magi and Zoroastrianism is a matter of stark political reality today.
Tens of millions of our best anti-liberals are dedicated to tying American foreign policy directly to Israel. This is a direct result not only of their fixation on the Old Testament, but also on the idea that Jews are God’s Chosen People and Israel is the Only True Holy Land.
If you think this is an abstract discussion, take a look at the American casualty list from Iraq this week.
Codes and Parables
Posted by Bob in History, How Things Work, Musings about Life on 6/1/2005
A lot of people seem to think that when Christ came to earth, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution was in full force in Roman Palestine.
So naturally Jesus said exactly what He meant. So when someone asked Him if He meant to replace the Law and Prophets, He said, “No.” Jesus said He was there to FULFILL the Law and the Prophets. When He reduced the ten commandments to two, he said that his two commandments were what the Law and Prophets were about.
And when one of His disciples said Jesus was the Messiah, Jesus did not say he was wrong. He told him not to mention that to anybody else.
No, I’m afraid the First Amendment guaranteeing free speech was not in force in Roman Palestine.
So two thousand years of preachers have made their livings on the Old Testament, quoting Jesus as saying he would not change “a jot or tittle” of it.
The Magi didn’t know anything about the Old Testament and they were saved, but the High Priest, who knew every word of the Old Testament and genuinely lived up to it, was specifically damned by Christ.
I don’t know much theology, but I do know all about the code language you have to use in a society which does not have free speech. What Jesus said is as clear as a bell to me.
Whitaker Cuts You NO Slack
The story of The Galloping Gourmet below has a direct relevance to me. I am ALWAYS being told, “Watch what you say around the Christians, they’ll get offended.”
No way.
I am a Christian and I was raised in the Bible Belt. If someone is a bigot and goes to pieces at what I say, I have no respect for them. And this happens to me a LOT more among Politically Correct people than it does among religious people.
When I entered college at age sixteen, I was immediately struck by how much less people spoke freely than they did where I came from. I wrote a letter to the Gamecock, the student newspaper, about it.
No, no one gets a pass from me. If they disagree they can say so, just like grownups.
I am not trying to convert you. I want you to stay exactly who you are and learn a little from what I say.
As for Christians being hurt by what I say, I have a humorous little dialogue in my head. This Christian who is being hurt by my words has a quick dialogue with one of the Christian Martyrs. He is talking to a man who is being roasted slowly alive and says, “This guy hurt my feelings.”
The martyr being roasted slowly alive replies,
“Yea, tell me about it.”
The Pot Calls the Kettle African-American
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 6/1/2005
Many years ago there was a very popular TV show called “The Galloping Gourmet.” The Galloping Gourmet was an Englishman who was among the first to make cooking instructions fun.
He goofed up and made jokes about it.
One day The Galloping Gourmet announced that he had become a born-again Christian. He said that his staff started treating him like a basket case.
Remember, this was TV Land. The only born-again Christians they had ever seen were the ones on television who were self-righteous bigots. None of them ever watched the evangelists on television who cracked jokes all the time.
The Galloping Gourmet said he got the impression that his staff thought his program would now begin with mournful church organ music and feature him mournfully talking, avoiding all humor, and going to pieces over an off-color word spoken.
In short, they expected this entertaining man to turn into the screaming bigot portrayed on the shows they watched.
The scary thing is that I am NOT joking. And The Galloping Gourmet was NOT joking.
And what makes it really hilarious is that the nutcases who expected him to turn into a raving basket case thought HE was the basket case.
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If Political Correctness Means Everything You Don’t Like, It Means Nothing
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Comment Responses on 6/10/2005
HS says evolution is the basis of Political Correctness. Elizabeth might say that deviation from orthodox Catholicism is the basis of Political Correctness. Liberals are now saying that evangelical Christianity is forcing them to be Politically Correct.
All this does is make the term Political Correctness irrelevant, as the use of “racism” by conservatives to attack affirmative action and by liberals to attack everything makes that word meaningless
The Professor-Priesthood has no interest in evolution one way or the other. It has no interest in genetics at all except to ignore it.
If you want to trot away on your hobby horse that is entirely your affair. IN MY OPINION it just makes you intellectually useless except to our enemies who would like nothing better than to make Political Correctness a useless term.
Someone asked me why they should follow the Golden Rule in any form. What rule you follow is none of my business.
I am too old to be chasing people’s hobby horses.
Political Correctness is a very specific and natural growth of a powerful academic hothouse. I described it in detail in Why Johnny Can’t Thin: America’s Professor-Priesthood.
I wish I could say that Political Correctness included ALL my pet peeves. If I did that, I would be happy but the term would be absurd and useless.
The use of Political Correctness as a hobby horse is exactly like the conservative use of the word “racist.” Instead of forcing liberals to define it, or using it to make the point about white genocide, they use it to attack liberals back.
It doesn’t work because it is silly. They are just trying to win an argument instead of using the charge to fight the real fight.
Political Correctness is the idea that professors should rule the world.
Political Correctness is nothing else.
The reason people use the Political Correctness in a hobby-horse way is because they have some specific new form of political correctness they want to replace it with: six-day creation, Nazism, Natural Law, or whatever.
I attack PC as it is. We can unite to destroy it, but we cannot unite behind everybody’s substitute for it.
So I do not tell people they must follow the Golden Rule.
I see Political Correctness as a disease. If I cure a disease, I do not have to tell the patient what to do when he is healthy. On curing disease, all good people can agree. But if you have to tell the former patient how to live afterwards while you attack the disease, there can be no cure.
Let me repeat:
In a white society, now knowing everything is the key to science.
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