A whole science could be based on this question. For example, I am always amused that the people who caused a problem are always the ones who are assembled when their advice has caused a disaster. Take our present financial disaster.
One thing about the polls is that they that people blame both sides for crisis.
So far so good.
Then we have emergency discussions between expert spokesmen. Here is the question no one asks:
“How does one BECOME an expert spokesman?”
One is chosen to be an expert spokesman by experts. In other words you have to be satisfactory to those who caused the crisis in the first place.
People have asked me who, in today’s politics, is nearest to my stand. I try to make them understand that the requirement for being a voice in today’s politics disqualifies one from being rational.
No one understands this. The fact that a person is recognized expert on the economy means that he has bobbed and weaved his way through all this unmitigated crap for decades. It is like asking Mrs. O’Leary to tell us, as a major figure in a historical fire, how to deal with fire safety.
she is a famous figure in the history oif fires, how one should deal with them.
#1 by shari on 10/07/2008 - 9:15 pm
This is what makes me feel concerned for Sarah Palen. She already has weaknesses from her education and beliefs, but she hasn’t spent years being bought and paid for, I don’t think. She would face a hideous pressure which could easily destroy her as a human being.
#2 by Dave on 10/07/2008 - 11:21 pm
The very essence of freedom lay with a refusal to subordinate personal judgment to others.
I was mountain climbing in one of Washington State’s vast wildernesses with a companion and we became lost. We began to argue about how to find our way back to camp and the argument became serious. We couldn’t come to agreement on the best tact on finding our camp. So I did what you are never supposed to do when you are lost in the wilderness, I left my companion and went my separate way. I told him, “It is MY LIFE and will be damned if I am going to subordinate my judgment to you.”
As it turned out, it took me about four hours to find camp. I waited anxious hours for an entire additional day until my companion finally showed up.
But this is life and it is what the multitudes cannot come to terms with. “Experts” exist as a norm in social life because people generally speaking are eager to surrender their personal selfhood. They want to be fooled and misled and deliberately create problems. It is a game of surrendering personal autonomy to service a need for consolation. If you truly understand this, times like this in the markets are great opportunities for making fortunes.
However, nonwhites in general are more eager than whites to surrender their personal selfhood. This is why it is ridiculous to think Orientals are “inscrutable”. It is we whites who are inscrutable because so many of us insist on personal autonomy in a way no nonwhite can imagine.
You cannot compare an Anglo-Saxon to say for example a Wolof (a black Senegalese). We exist in qualitatively different spheres of being. The Wolof thinks the only reason he has a sense of selfhood is to surrender it in some socially sanctioned way. It never occurs to the Wolof, and can’t occur to him, that he has option to refuse to surrender it. In contrast, many Anglo-Saxons feel humiliation at the idea of surrendering and subordinating their selfhood to others, regardless of how socially sanctioned that surrender may be, and instead feel honor bound not to surrender it.
There is something of the essence of being white in this. It is a foundation of freedom, a foundation of personal autonomy and power. And it is a major reason nonwhites do not understand us.
You cannot learn to exercise power by reading books. Learning personal autonomy and power is like learning standup comedy. You have to do it and get used to dealing with all the consequences that come with it.
The public schools work hard at preventing kids from learning personal autonomy. They don’t want them exercising real power. That is why so many of the brighter kids simply leave the game. They have to in order to learn.
A feral dog has insecurity for his feed, while a tame dog trades his freedom for slavery and a collar.
Try getting one of the few remaining members of “the Greatest Generation” to understand that.
#3 by Simmons on 10/08/2008 - 11:05 am
Till the right question(s) is asked.
#4 by backbaygrouch4 on 10/10/2008 - 7:48 am
An expert is someone, with or without knowledge, who sticks to the script. Unknowledgeable others are cranks; knowledgeable others, Whitikerites.
#5 by AFKANNow on 10/13/2008 - 2:07 am
in reply to Dave:
Only the West has true Individualization of the persona; only the White Race is capable of true personal individuation.
ALL other Races are essentially hive systems, with the Group always being superior at all levels to the individual.
Consistent with this, only the West allows individuals the opportunity to be Creative in the pursuit of power. China, to this day, is essentially an extension of the permanently stable state of Confucius, and all people are subservient to a system of filial loyalty that goes from the Family, to the Emperor.
Thus, the Asiatic Hive Consciousness that manifests as Judaism defines all relationship,s and all actions, in the Light of the One Commandment: “Is It Good For Jews?”
Note the collective focus of the One Commandment.
This has been driven home to me on several levels, but, particular, because I see how the public “education” system has become a public indoctrination system to such an extent that the individual has been crushed into a place, a State of Mind, that is not real, and does not work in the Real World.
The gelding of our young men has proceeded apace, while we were looking elsewhere; I have seen this in my Nephews, and how different they are after taking judo lessons (on my dime, and probably the best investment I ever made).
The Nephews are doing very well in the local churches, and so I took them to the movie of their choice.
They chose “The dark Knight,” and we sat through it.
Twice.
There’s a LOT more going on in that movie than many realize, but I would like to look at one scene from the movie in light of this thread’s topic, “Why Do People Say Things?”
The scene is from where The Joker was incarcerated, and he gave, essentially, a soliloquy that was quite fascinating, in that it discussed both the Hero – The Batman – and the Enemy – The Joker – as, essentially two sides of the same coin.
It was damn near hypnotic to hear The Joker slowly, calmly explain that so much of the System (and its Rules) are simply Means to Ends that are not clearly defined, or explained.
When The Joker explained himself, he used a phrase that stopped my Nephews in their tracks, and they stared, and pointed, at me.
The Joker explained, “I’m not a Monster; I’m just ahead of the curve.”
Later, over ice cream sodas, they said, “We’re ahead of the curve, aren’t we, Uncle?”
Yes.
Yes, we are.
And yet, because we consider it our duty to look into the Abyss, we see the Monsters that are trying to come forward, and can do something about them, for when they do come forth.
I am working on developing their personal autonomy at a rate that calls forward all of my patience, and all of my skills.
The challenge of personal autonomy – true Individuation – grows greater by the day in a school system that deliberately thwarts it, and a mass media system that mocks it.
No wonder their peer group seeks the soft oblivion of indiscriminate sex, and soft drugs.
No wonder their Family is on the phone to me begging for me to accept more members to move in with us.
NOW, they can literally see, in Real Time, the collapse of their economic ecosystem.
Time to talk about important things.
Their peers – and their parents – traded freedom for a collar, and have an inchoate, but growing, fear, that things are going to get worse – perhaps, much worse – before they get better.
It will be my challenge to tell them that things will not get better in their lifetimes, unless they accept the responsibility to think clearly, and act openly, to build the foundation of a new Racial Nation.
We’ve all been invited Home for Thanksgiving.
Should be educational.
“All these Rules, and you think they’ll save you.”
No.