I just got off the elevator with a mother and her little three-year-old boy.

He was, of course, looking at the only brightly lit things in the elevator, the ones indicating the floor we were each going to.

He had heard us indicate the buttons to push. We were on the lift together for only about a minute. So the conversation I made was to say to him, “You’re going to fifteen and I’m going to eleven.”

The boy doesn’t need to understand what it means, I just included him in the conversation his mother and I had had.

A young child does two things: 1) he gets very used to not understanding what is going on, but 2) He still manages to get a picture of the world from the tens of thousands of things he hears and does not understand.

I do exactly the same thing here.

I just burst into laughter remembering that ten years ago readers of Whitaker online gently corrected me when I took Texas Hold ‘Em for an actual commenter.

I talked learnedly about the Book of Genesis and got “the firmament” wrong.

The little boy will come, in time, to realize that the floors on the elevator mean he is going up to the fifteenth floor, from which every day he looks out on the world from an entirely different perspective from that when he was on the first floor.

It is true that we forget the really awful childhood pains, but we also forget this particular joy. We forget the joy of a developing human brain.

The kid will someday realize the connection between that elevator and the sight he sees on his porch a hundred and forty feet up. He will forget that realization in half a minute. But while he is having it, it is The Latest News, the World Coming Together.

It happens to each child thousands of times. It is a repeated joy everybody forgets, but for that moment it is like the candy bar he has waited all day for. Dessert is delicious and instantly forgotten. It is still a wonderful thing when you have the taste buds of a child.

I will never know when I enter my second childhood because I am still in my first.

Nothing I write has big words, because after my threescore and ten, I am STILL delighting in figuring out how basics connect together.

Mantra Thinking is childish. That is why it is so joyful.

There is no Wordism called Whitakerism. In fact, what we SHOULD have is the precise opposite.

From a very hard and dedicated lifetime, I have developed some basic truths that bear my marks.

The Mantra is an essence of a Whitakerism:

1) There is not a big word in it.

Except maybe anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

2) It is no absolutely no longer than it has to be.

3) What it expresses is so obvious that nobody sees it.

There may be other characteristics, but  within disability-level ADD, I am not good at listing things.

There are other Wordisms that have Whitakerisms. Wordism is concept that took our a lot of work and came out so simply that an intelligent, rebellious mind cannot believe he didn’t have it all the time.

EXAMPLES OF “WHITAKERISMS”

WORDISM is the fatal error everyone falls into when they talk about Universal Love or Loyalty to Humankind in General. It is more divisive and evil than any fanatical nationalism or racism, because its idea of “Humanity” is forcing all humans into one mold and destroying any mind that isn’t loyal to that particular mold, that set of Words.

WAR CRIME: Losing.

MILITANT OBEDIENCE: This is what motivates the toadies of the grammar school bully.   He becomes part of the mobs on campus who stage a riot if anybody tries to make a speech disagreeing with Mommy Professor.  He then calls himself a Radical and an Independent Thinker.

ONE-RACE DIVERSITY:   Using the surplus population in the third world to commit genocide against the white race.   Immigration and assimilation are demanded for ALL white countries and ONLY for white countries.     One American general declared that American soldiers will fight and die so that “There is no room for any ethnically pure country in Europe.”

ANTI-RACIST: From the definition of “One-Race Diversity” is obvious that anti-racist is a code word for anti-white, as is “Diversity.”

HATE: A Hate Word

WHY WAS THIS  INFORMATION PRODUCED?     For example, education spending is directly influenced by the importance of heredity as against environment, since education if part of the latter.  So professors always declare that IQ tests are discredited.

Only Whitaker would point out that not one of those IQ-discrediting professors would allow, much less want, a single low-IQ person in his classes.

GREED: A word used most by those who are greedy for power.

COMMUNISM: A system that has to kill anybody who tries to escape

HOLOCAUST DENIAL: No one denies the Holocaust.  You are automatically sent to prison for disagreeing with the official NUMBER of Jews the Nazis killed.

THE SILENCE: As Genseric says below, ““The way our enemies signal defeat is by simply not bringing something up again.”   The fall of the Soviet Empire, not for ideological reasons, but because the whole thing was just so goddamn ridiculous, discredits the Leftist Intellectuals and is therefore militantly forgotten.

FREEDOM: Doing what you want to do, despite the right saying it is bad for the children and the left saying it is bad for blacks.

Whitakerisms constitute the exact opposite of a Wordist Whitakerism.

Whitakerisms cut the ground out from under the Buckleys and the Mommy Professors who believe that they have an explanation of human behavior that only exists up there in the ethereal realm of their big words and somehow Special Discussion.

Whitakerisms should encourage you, and me, to grow out of our John Birch or totally Southern backgrounds and study what truth the side we took really represents. Every Southerner should recognize the Siding With the Bully Syndrome in terms like “The Lessons of the Civil War.”

It is human nature that both sides in any conflict are partly right and partly wrong. All Mommy Professor ever does is get “lessons” out of the winning side.

For which the winning side pays him.

I would appreciate BUGSERS to toss in other Whitakerisms developed over our many years.