Bob says :
After DECADES, the point that if one innocent person in a slaughter had a gun there would have been no slaughter is, after over a quarter of a century, FINALLY becoming widespread.
Prometheus says:
Which gets me thinking, will people who haven’t heard these arguments befor think they are NEW arguments?
Surely not.
Will this not beg the question then, WHY was this not brought up before?
ME:
Because, for most causists, this is a HOBBY. A young person, finding out what a mess things are, will instantly come up with a quicky solution, which will an Only True Organization or some action he may go to prison for trying. Others find a nice living in the cause, and sell their books and become some kind of political bureaucrat.
What I just gave you is Whitaker thinking: WHY should somene produce and use the killer approaches? Whitaker thinking says, Why does someone produce ANY information?
My approach is not QUICK. It is not EASY. Most people can’t understand it at all.
People who go to this much trouble SELLS inside his niche for money and or power and or the simple fact that, without what he has invested in the cause, he is nobody.
That is WHY I keep repeating, “YOU can have the fame, you can have the money. All I want to do is rule the world.” The usual reactin to this is sometimes laughter, sometimes a canned reply, or both. What I want is a chuckle and then I want you to THINK about it.
You asked why people using the killer arguments are so rare. I ask, why does nobody THINK about what I said? You have to THINK to use Whitaker thinking.
People WANT money, ppower,a title, or even sme fame inside a movement. Nobody WANTS to rule the world.
Does THAT answer your question?
#1 by shari on 07/02/2007 - 1:03 pm
My husband used to say,”You just want to be right.” He doesn’t anymore because he knows that I really DO want to be right. He also knows that I’m not wanting to be boss or think that I,myself,AM right. He sure knows better than that. But, if your children will be able to say that you were right, then that will be better than any amount of syrup and manure that passes as affection. It would mean that you actually did them GOOD, not just gave them all kinds of grief.
I think that your wanting to “rule the world” is an admirable thing, not a vain conceit.
#2 by lyulf on 07/02/2007 - 2:41 pm
Here’s a quick little (true) story:
Interrogator: Where were you on the night of blah blah
blah??
Prisoner: Hey, you got a gun,…I don’t.
Interrogator: Mmmmm.
The end
Easier to rule the world if you got the gun & they don’t
right??? 🙂
Lyulf
#3 by Al Parker on 07/02/2007 - 3:31 pm
lyuff:
http://whitakeronline.org/blog/2005/07/22/72305-insider-letter/
I guess Mao wasn’t too bright if he figured wrongly where his power came from.
#4 by lyulf on 07/02/2007 - 4:57 pm
Don’t ask me. 🙂
Cheers,
Lyulf
#5 by lyulf on 07/02/2007 - 5:25 pm
Al,
Mao was “bright” enuff to keep his guns.
lyulf
#6 by Prometheus on 07/02/2007 - 10:11 pm
I rewrote this comment about 7 times before I realised I kept coming to the same conclusion.
No one seems to THINK, therefore no one demands that any solution WORKS.
Lucky for those whos fame and bread rely on the gun control argument, that no one will think about the fact that one armed innocent can prevent a massacre. The fact that this argument has been stifled, seems to concern no one.
No one, it seems can CREATE their own arguments, therefore there is always a market available to those who wish to sell them.
#7 by mderpelding on 07/03/2007 - 8:05 pm
Most people don’t want to think. They wish to live their lives within a world that has easily understood boundaries. They work, eat, drink, live, die, f**k and excrete in a world that is knowable.
They don’t want to use the rules of logic to outline every argument that they hear. They just want to live their lives with minimal effort.
That is the chief problem with libertarians. They assume that all people really want the kind of multiple choice chaos that is the laisse-faire ideal.
Few of us can focus a the “house of mirrors” worldview.
The few who can harness chaos and present a coherent vision to the masses gain power.
Of course, the one weakness of those who see the wizard behind the curtain is individualism.
We may not all be leaders.
But we aren’t followers either.
In the end, our great accomplishments as a people were the result of a few extraordinary individuals.
Supported by many ordinary people.
Our future as a race depends on the support of the ordinary people.
So that a few of us can become extraordinary.
Affirmative action is denying an increasingly large number of intelligent white kids the benefits of a college education.
Thank God!!
#8 by Hardric on 07/03/2007 - 9:33 pm
An interesting observation. I asked my son recently what he wanted to do. A Butcher? A Baker? A Candlestick Maker?
He said he wanted to rule the world. 🙂
#9 by Prometheus on 07/04/2007 - 8:23 pm
mderpelding says:
Most people don’t want to think. They wish to live their lives within a world that has easily understood boundaries. They work, eat, drink, live, die, f**k and excrete in a world that is knowable.
Prometheus says:
Most people don’t need to think. We were created as social animals, and as social animals, most are created to be part of ‘society’. What may seem incredible to us, that many people don’t care, don’t know and don’t bother, is perfectly logical to them. I’m conviced that their is an inherit quality that can make some people concerned about the herd, and that the rest of the herd, isn’t capable of seeing this.
If everyone was concerned with everything, the world would be paralysed.
If no one was concerned with anything, the world would go to the fiery realm below in a chicken basket.