Archive for February, 2010
Answering BBG’s BASIC Question
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Comment Responses on 02/13/2010
Backbaygrouch asks:
“The question then arises, why was the Greatest Generation such a bunch of self important jerks? Who trained them? As opposed to who trained both sides of the blood letters of the Civil War [War Of Northern Aggression]? May I suggest it was the FDR’s Jewish appointees with a Jewish agenda? Does anyone have any evidence on the issue? I have nothing more than a gut reaction. Agreed, the Greatest Generation was brainwashed, but who did it, and why? Basics.”
The reason the WWII Generation got to be such self important jerks — BBG is always a master of subtlety — actually came from the fact that in 1945 America regretted its wretched treatment of World War I vets — the Bonus March crowd of 1932. The Bonus Army was very recent headlines by 1945.
But, our usual BASIC question: Why was this information, which could be forgotten as yesterday’s news, produced? Because it was food for the biggest lobby America had ever seen: those who found a gold mine in exploiting those who had been in uniform during the War.
Many of the soldiers in WWI were left in Europe for over a year after that War ended. American soldiers wanted to go HOME. So a movement began in America and Britain:
“No boats, no votes.” That was the first cry of the lobby that would dominate America for over a generation. Soon every discharged soldier got a year’s pension after he was discharged. Vet’s benefits became a giant lobby.
The Jews did not plan this, the leftists did not plan this. But once that force was there, they, unlike our side, made USE of it. So naturally the theory arose that they PLANNED it. Successful politics doesn’t MAKE the opportunities, it EXPLOITS them.
But BBG is right about the invention of the self-righteous part.
It is almost impossible to credit, but when I was coming up and the Korean veterans came home, the WWII crowd was known as, of all things, the Quiet Generation. It was noticed that, while Korean War vets talked endlessly about their war adventures, WWII vets didn’t want to talk about it.
When I reached my teens, the WWII vets were doing what earlier generations had done, getting back to real life.
As you know, in 1948 the Red Cross reported on Nazi killings and they were not Six Million. Nazi killings in wartime were vastly inferior to Stalin’s in peacetime. If they had been as vast as it is now illegal to dispute, the Red Cross would have talked about it and Churchill would have mentioned it.
So why was this information that Hitler killed as many Jews as the left wanted him to have, PRODUCED?
You know the answer to THAT. Everything encouraged the production of this information and there was no lobby against it. As the years passed, the left wanted to end the Cold War. Anything that showed that World War II was against Evil, while the Reds were entirely different, was eagerly published.
Yes, Virginia, there was Jewish Lobby. But its basis was disappointingly prosaic. I have no idea how many hundreds of billions Jews got of our reparations from Germany, but it was titanic. Two overwhelming lobbies, WWII vets and the Jewish Lobby, became indistinguishable. It would-be astonishing if the left did not USE this.
It wasn’t until the 1960’s that the Good War against Hitler was invented. In the 1960’s people were shot down daily trying to escape Communist countries, so that was not reported on. This was no plot, it was as natural as gravity. All the news became Eichmann and the Good War. By the time opposition to Vietnam became media policy, this natural development turned into a tidal wave.
In this tidal wave the Quiet Generation turned into self-righteous jerks. All of the media made Vietnam Vets ashamed of fighting the People’s Republics. Suddenly the millions of WWII “vets,” of whom about a third had ever heard a hostile shot fired, became John Waynes. Again if you have the slightest understanding of the human animal, this was as natural as gravity.
Veterans of the Good War were lionized. Veterans against Communism were portrayed as psychotic nut jobs.
For millions of WWII vets the Good War was the last noteworthy thing they had ever done. They began to talk about nothing else. They became self-righteous permanent adolescents, self-righteous jerks. Once they had this tool in their hands the left used it ruthlessly.
The left was simply not as stupid as the right was. As the leftist media found a need for some kind of opposition, they naturally gave those slots to the people who threatened them least and agreed with them on vital matters like the Holocaust.
This is not as exciting as a Jewish Conspiracy. But it IS the way history really works.
Prohibition Came a Generation Too Early
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 02/12/2010
When I talk about the Obedient Generation that calls itself The Greatest Generation, people always ask me about later ones. As I have patiently and repeatedly explain, the later generations were the natural byproduct of the first one, the Obedients.
When you have a fifth of an entire generation taken in youth and beaten into mindless submission in Basic Training, and an entire generation forced to believe that anything the Government does is Glorious and Right … and all the rest of it, the crowd these people raises is going to be warped.
It is too bad for the anti-alcohol forces that Prohibition came a generation too early. The Obedient Generation would have accepted it. The Greatest Generation would certainly have obeyed Prohibition, as it obeyed everything else imposed on it.
We will never get rid of that Generation’s War on Drugs. Failure just means jam it harder. Anything that generation called a War was lost, like the War on Poverty and the War on Terror. No modern American is able to question walking around an airport with his pants at his knees and barefooted — if he’s lucky and not stripped — but I can’t see the Americans who threw out Prohibition putting up with it.
The Stockholm Syndrome is not new. It was what WWII Basic Training was all about: The Sarge reduces you to kissing his ass, probably sometimes literally, by screaming in your face and you drool over any little mercy he shows.
No, that does not “make men.” It makes slaves. It is a process aimed at producing slobbering moral cowards. Today’s military, I hate to admit, could take out the Greatest Generation, a battalion to a regiment, in short order.
I have known people on about every side in WWII. I have never heard ANYBODY praise American soldiers except Americans. If it were not for the Italians, who didn’t even know which side they were on much of the time, Americans would have been the bad jokes of the War.
As a practical Matter, I noticed early that the person who uses the word “liar” all the time is invariably a person who is very loose about the truth. Let me repeat and emphasize that this is not theory, it is PRACTICAL matter if you are in professional-level politics. I can see in my mind people who would come in to see congressional staff and start saying liars, liars, liars.
I can remember how we ALL reacted to them, while acting like we took them seriously. A lie is an INTENTIONAL untruth. Most of the people on the other side are screwed, but not lying. And calling a liar a liar is not going to phase a real liar.
As I have pointed out, a person who keeps denouncing Hate is always pretty good hater himself. He cannot see the other as different from him, and for him, hatred of what he calls Hater is a perfectly good motivation that needs no explanation.
A person who keeps talking about Mercy, Mercy, Mercy is kind to the Inquisitors.
Some time ago I talked about what interrogation is all about. The largest part of it is LISTENING. What a person says about those he hates tells you all about him. People who do not know this wonder why interrogators would like to get to terrorists early unless they are going to torture him.
Actually, if you know how to handle it, you can get answers from someone who is against you almost as well as you can someone on your side at a debriefing. If you know things like the Liar rule and so forth, a person who is not ready for such questioning will dance around information in a very predictable way. He won’t think he has given you any, but if you know what you’re doing he might as well have a neon sign on his forehead.
Which brings us to the only group in history that could call itself the Greatest Generation with a straight face.
The Founding Fathers would never have even considered such a label. Neither side in the Civil War, even the most self-righteous, would have been able to keep a straight face calling itself the Greatest Generation Ever.
A piece of wisdom which predates me says it:
“Methinks he doth protest too much.”
When the Greatest Generation was born, the white race straddled the world like a giant. They left apologizing for their very existence. No wonder they have to shout so loud.
Hungary’s Confederate Flag and the Tea Party
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 02/11/2010
When Hungary threw off Soviet rule, the State paper in my home town had to use a photo different from the one used in every other paper in America. The State was fighting to get the Confederate flag off of the flagstaff over he State House, and every other news paper had, under the Hungary headline, a photo with a huge Confederate flag right in front of the speakers’ platform.
A major factor in putting that flag there was Hungary’s huge Gypsy population. The Communist Government had suppressed all Politically Incorrect statistics, and one it had just published was that the one quarter of Hungary that was Gypsy committed well over one third of the total crimes.
“Heritage not Hate,” HELL! The Confederacy had no Tradition in Hungary. That flag represented what the anti-white Confederate flag supporters called Hate. It was a screaming denunciation of the anti-white, anti-Hate mongers around the world!
That flag was a denunciation of the lies and suppression of the leftist regime that had just fallen. It was answered by the State newspaper’s suppression.
If it is not pro-white, the Confederate flag is nothing. Respectable conservatism is facing a grassroots revolt in the Tea Party Movement, but it will be abortive because it, too, does not dare face what is actually happening to America.
By concentrating on the Tea Party, the media will once again avoid the reality the American grassroots is struggling with. The Tea Party will be obsessed with all the things respectable conservatives shout about.
The only important thing about the Tea Party is that it reflects an understanding that our anti-white political right has a symbiotic relationship with our political left. That realization has taken my entire lifetime, and it is a major step forward.
But until it includes a pure, unadulterated HERESY it will not mean anything positive.
The New Deal and the Dillinger Phenomenon
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, History on 02/10/2010
History has nothing to do with what actually happened in the past. Historian are people who get their reputation by being published and quoted TODAY.
When today was 1938 John Maynard Keynes wrote his General Theory and became the number one economist on earth and progressive historians hailed his work as detailing the true historical causes of business cycles.
Keynes’s explanation was enormously complicated and it was based on a flat-out lie. A fellow doctoral candidate of mine did his dissertation on what Keynes called “classical economists” he said completely misdiagnosed the whole thing. Keynes said, over and over and over, that these “classical economists” advised a balanced budget while the country needed a stimulus.
It turns out that not one of these “classical economists” actually existed in the real world of the 1930s. Every professional economist, every single on, demanded deficit spending AT THAT TIME. In fact, Adolf Hitler had ALREADY used the stimulus by building the Autobahn and other huge public projects and the German Depression, worse than ours, was OVER by 1938.
But no one in 1938 wanted to hear these two facts. They wanted a complicated explanation for what was to them the overwhelming disaster of the age.
When the 1950s was NOW the debate was for or against Big Government. Conservatives took KEYNES’ explanation of what he called “classical” economics as their own doctrine! So conservatives were “anti-Keynesian and liberals were pro-Keynesian. But conservatives were talking about balancing the budget as an eternal principle, the way Keynes said they should.
New Deal history had nothing to do with what actually happened. Readers wanted to read about Big Government versus Small Government.
When NOW was 1970, President Nixon said “We are all Keynesians now,” by which he meant that nobody advocated balancing the budget in the face of depression. He had no idea that everybody intelligent was a Keynesian — in his sense — in the 1930s .
Except the Democrats who nominated Roosevelt. Their 1932 platform denounced the huge national debt Hoover was piling up in an attempt at recovery.
When NOW was 1985 the debate was over REAGAN’S deficits. He cut taxes to stimulate the economy and the Democrats were once again raising hell about his huge deficits.
When NOW was 2000 pretty well all liberals agreed that Reagan’s tax cuts had worked, and their only argument against them was that they were too MUCH. But by 2000 everybody agreed that tax cuts were a true method of reducing recession. Democrats simply preferred keeping taxes as they were and using SPENDING to do the stimulating.
In other words, by the time NOW was 2000, everybody had gone back to REAL economists’ thinking in the 1930s. But before that it was not accepted politically that raising taxes was a way of keeping a depression going.
When NOW is 2010, all the obvious facts about the New Deal are easy to state.
The New Deal consisted of two parts. One part was stimulus, which was deficit spending and major stimulus programs. The other part was a backbreaking regulatory and tax burden on the private sector, including income taxes up to the 91% bracket and putative action against business in general, out of the Marxist textbook, which was aimed at leftist ideology and punishing the villains of the day, businessmen. Which I like to all the Dillinger Phenomenon. John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde and the rest were heroes because they robbed banks, the villains of the day.
But it was the Dillinger Phenomenon used by the far left which kept the Depression going. But one can only say this simple fact today. When NOW is 2010 and everybody now recognized that raising taxes depresses the economy.
And it is now accepted that shrinking the money supply, which was done in the 1930s to the extent of cutting it by a third, is a sure way to cause a depression. That was done by the banking industry and the Federal Reserve.
That was not a Conspiracy. It was same blind, drooling stupidity by Experts that caused the collapse of 2008. He who does not learn from history repeats it.
Those who think history is the real past will pay for it.
The Titanic
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 02/09/2010
History has nothing to do with the past. History is information that is produce and sold like any other information. If you want to know what is true, you have to analyze “history” like any other information that is produced.
People HATE that idea, because distorted history can have so many more exciting causes. You can produce and sell a World Conspiracy tome using just a few of the endless truly egregious distortions in any history text. Why waste all that on a simple explanation?
People HATE simple explanations. My discussions of the obvious reasons that history has nothing to do with the past does not involve Big Names and Secret Deals. It has none of the pizazz and popularity of an issue of People Magazine.
Which is why People Magazine is PRODUCED.
In the case of the Titanic, for example, all discussion for a century focused on the design and the designer. He deserted the ship and was a Big Man. Big and interesting people designed and built the thing, and it is THEM that people want to read about.
It turns out that the biggest reason Titanic went down was that some of the pieces put in at the shipyard were shoddy, iron instead of steel, and Best grade instead of Best-Best. Try to make a really thrilling exposure of THAT!
The Titanic was an accident waiting to happen. It went down THEN because the officer in charge swung the ship, so that its hull plates were unzipped when it hit an iceberg. If they had hit the iceberg head on, the Titanic was built for that and would have survived.
These are INTERESTING causes. You can groan about the lack of a simple pair of binoculars; the lookouts had none. You can thrill at that moment what the man at the helm made a split-second decisions. During World War II the Germans even made a movie showing it was all the fault of the Britons because they didn’t listen to the one German officer aboard.
But a RIVET? Hull plates attached by the wrong sort of material, bad iron instead of good steel?
Put in by a bunch of common laborers or subcontractors no one in Hollywood could possibly relate to?
Try to make THAT thrilling, and lots of luck!
FOX’s Anti-White Initiative
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 02/08/2010
Like all respectable conservatives FOX is trying to get every Haitian under the age of forty adopted into American families. And they are GLORYING in it.
“We the People of the United States and OUR Posterity.” That is the ONLY state authority and the ONLY stated PURPOSE Americans have ever adopted. This is the rock on which any possible alliance with the respectable right breaks up.
This is what the respectable right GLORIES in. Nothing makes a respectable conservative so sickeningly righteous as when they out-liberal the liberals. They are so smug, they are so PROUD.
This is the poison in the so-called Pro-Life Movement. They are never so ecstatic as when they can crow about how they value the beating heart of the fifteenth baby in a family in Ethiopia as t hey do for the any American white American child. Mindlessness is always costly.
As Larry Niven says, “Stupidity has always been a capital offense.”
Nothing is more fatal to scientific advance than MILITANT ignorance. Nothing is more deadly to human beings than mindless “Idealism.”
Genocide is fine with conservatives as long as it is done by “assimilation.” In fact, they are droolingly proud of that. When I developed the Mantra it was my last break with conservatism. Conservatives’ main argument against Hispanics and Moslems is that refuse to date and marry the conservatives’ offspring.
The Mantra makes it clear that there is no compromise with this “assimilation” method of genocide. And nothing else on the political horizon makes this clear.
Porch wisdom
Posted by Bob in Bob, Coaching Session on 02/07/2010
Pierce’s comment that he had no one living to take his place has haunted me. After his death, his great words and movement lost the coherence he had given it. One reason for this may have been that Pierce was TOO brilliant. He would have been dissatisfied with anyone because no one had the breadth of knowledge he had.
I am an old man with experience to relate, knowledge to share, a Porch Talker. All of us raised with the Porch Talkers were given what young people SHOULD be given, a non-nonsense world view, a Way of Thinking. Grandpa never told us he was a hero like the Greatest Generation or what we had to believe to be Real Men. Grandpa never claimed to be as brilliant as Dr. Pierce REALLY WAS.
Old Grandpa used to say…” never end with a point of absolute Doctrine. And he did not give us that overworked capitalized term, Wisdom. He gave us the real thing, the small-lettered wisdom.
Porch wisdom was not aimed at What You Youngsters Should Be. It was not What You Youngsters Should Believe. It was little bits of practical mental experience that can be used by a priest or an atheist, a doctor or lawyer or Indian Chief. In fact it was the kind of real wisdom that put the Indian chiefs out of business while they spouted Ancient Wisdom.
For that we were supposed to go to the Preacher on Sunday. The Preacher was boring and he got us there by force. We listened to porch talk with pleasure. I remember when I had an exam coming and I had to study my books while I could hear the talk going on when an old guy was visiting. It was torture! I wanted to be out there so BAD!
As a commenter notes, porch wisdom consist of “This is how I did it right and this is how I did it wrong.” No self-righteous Mommy Professor demanding you adhere to The Line.
In fact, I can tell WHICH old man’s porch talk my family is quoting without their giving the name. He had a consistency there, as clear as the Preacher or Mommy Professor, but it was not how to Avoid Damnation or Mommy Professor’s constant theme of How Great the World Would Be IF Me and My Fellow Idealists and Intellectuals ruled the World.
You certainly can’t identify a particular preacher or Mommy Professor by quoting him. Mommy Professors all say the same thing and the Preacher always says something that clearly came from a Pulpit, and not just on religious matters.
But Porch Talk IS consistent. The old man has a worldview, or, less grandiosely, he has a tested idea of WHAT WORKS. His stories range around a whole lifetime, but if you listen, the VIEW is consistent, which is why we can tell WHICH old man said it.
And each of them left a LEGACY, not a set of carbon copies.
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“The ORIGINAL Mantra Group”
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Comment Responses on 02/14/2010
I have begun to read General Comments.
Gator61 is actually going for it, using the Mantra. He and at least one other of us is USING THE MANTRA on Yahoo Talks at question about the Mantra.
One of the only two rational replies ended with “You must be from BUGS.”
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you spread your message. It takes a LONG time to be identified when you produce a samizdat, so other people — I assume that last person was one of us — will see this title and wonder about it.
Now or later people will try to Google BUGS. I tried it and naturally BUGS refers to the little creatures. I only found our BUGS when I put in “BUGS Whitaker.” It was at the end of page one of references. Somewhere in the general BUGS title it may be far back, I didn’t look.
I may try BUGS Mantra.
This is big progress. This is what accumulates.
The knee-jerk replies mean nothing, of course. But what is important is that, unlike anybody on our side, Yahoo Talks did not erase the Mantra and put it in the Memory Hole by the time I got to it. No one now has any excuse not to put the Mantra SOMEWHERE.
Don’t stick to sympathetic fora. I believe Virginia Dare would be first to erase it. If I am wrong, tell me and we have another place to hit.
We are not in a unique position here. All through history the greatest breakthroughs have been made by people who spent time developing their points down to the nub and then somehow getting it past an establishment, and the establishments established “opposition,” which is determined to wipe it out.
In fact, that, more than any Great Battles, is what MAKES real history.
I am beginning to believe that someday you will be able to say, “I was with the ORIGINAL BUGS, the Original Mantra Group.”
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