In response to “What End?” Joe writes,

“You said in a recent talk you gave that some historical figure said, ‘Madam, opinion rules the world.’ You went on to say that this is true, i.e., opinion does rule the world. This appears to be the same thing as saying that Wordism rules the world. The idea that the truth can be found in a book or in an opinion. Wordism, as I understand it, is the opposite of kinship. I am prepared to accept that definition as legitimate. Your talk made it very clear what the situation was and is. The world is a big place. Opinion rules the world. Wordism rules the world. How does kinship fit into the scheme of things in this relatively unhappy state of affairs? ”

Joe has brought us back to what Bob’s Bog is supposed to be about. Joe has also read what I said, leistened to what I said, and THOUGHT about it. That makes my work worthwhile.

Having done all this, Joe has expressed an OPINION.

But note that his opinion starts with what JOE thinks is right. Nobody has an opinion in a vacuum. An opinion is the way you want to do something that you feel needs doing.

Wordism is the opposite of opinion. A wordist has done a frontal lobotomy on his brain and stuck a book in there.

To say that a Wordist has an OPINION is like saying that a when a frog throws out his tongue and nabs a fly, the frog is expressing an opinion.

To a Wordist, anyone who expresses an actual opinion is a bigot. To a Wordist, the only legitimate “opinion” or “preference” is written down in his Book. He cannot say homosexuality is, IN HIS OPINION, a bad thing. He must have a quote from Leviticus say it for him.

Our preference for our kin is an natural preference. The survival of our race is an opinion that runs counter to all the universalist forms of Wordism, from Modern Christianity to Islam to Communism to extreme (IN MY OPINION) libertarianism.

The problem with having a naked OPINION is that YOU are responsible for it. In the teeth of all the Wise Sayings and the Experts and the theologians, you are standing there saying, “You are all wrong, and if I am wrong, then I am responsible for it.”

Every relgiion says it is Eternal Truth,and, as secular opinion changes, every one of them suddenly discovers that their version of Eternal Truth was incorrect because they have just read something else into the ancient texts that conforms with Modern Opinion.

But the responsibility is never their own. They were always right, just mistaken in their interpretation. So they go on saying thy’re always right.

Being a free man leaves you naked unto the world. If you are wrong, you are just plain WRONG.

So when the Reformed Church and the esablished leadership in South Africa suddenly decided they had been wrong and that whites should turn the country over to black rule, the people could not unite behind their own feeling of race. Their feeling of race was all invested in the Church and the National Party.

I have never had any trouble with the question, “What would happen if you discovered you had a lot of black or Indiaqn blood in you?”

My OPINION is that the white race has a right to survive, and the world desperately needs it. I would oppose genocide against the black race with or without any black blood.

The OPINION I get the most complaints about is that if you throw together a mix of two races it LOOKS awful in almost all cases. I do not mix Coca-Cola with beer, not because the beer isn’t good or the Coke isn’t good, but because they were developed to have distinctive tastes and if you throw them together they taste awful.

When someone decides that they are In Love and therefore they have the right to make generations of children look ugly and unnatural, no Wordist says that the children have any rights in the matter at all. They will just have to look at it.

The reason people resent my saying that mixed-blood children look awful is because is precisely because it is TRUE. It is precisely what THEY think of when they see a mixed couple or a mixed-blood child.

You aren’t supposed to say it because it is everybody’s opinion and therefore it shouldn’t be stated for the sake of the same children you werenot the slightest bit concerned with when you swooned over a black man and a blond woman who were In Love.

And you can’t say that preceisely because it is not only your OPINION, it is the opinion all future generations will have to live with.