You see the last three words in the title above? They seem to cause a huge portion of the population acute pain. The desperatopm varies, but I do not think that, among any million people, there is any limit to the extremes a considerable number of people will go rather than utter those three fatal words: “I was WRONG!”
So when I say it, please do not put my name in for the Martyr’s Prize.
I have no trouble with it at all.
When I gave LibAnon my standard Reaganite answer that the government must not interfere except where it pays for education, I forgot another standard Reaganite answer. They oppose affirmative action, saying it constitutes government interference. When it comes to the universities I support drastic affirmative action against the professor-priesthood.
So LibAnon is saying that I damned well know that is government interference and I agree with him. This quiet little conspiracy throughout the educational establishment must not just be ended, it must be REVERSED and PUNISHED. Everything a professor has is due us in reparations. Everything every foundation that has supported this destruction has is subject to due penalties, and what is “due” is HUGE.
Government action?
You betcha!
#1 by LibAnon on 06/25/2006 - 3:24 pm
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This IS an honest-to-God graduate seminar, isn’t it? We’re waking the dead here.
I’ve also noticed that Bob’s seminar is the only one in which the professor pays the tuition, not the students. Perhaps that’s the only economic model that can support actual education, as opposed to indoctrination. Perhaps that’s where the government’s cleanup of today’s “education” racket should start.
#2 by joe rorke on 06/25/2006 - 3:38 pm
Wow! I’m totally in favor of that action. You’re the guy who wrote the book. You’re the guy who supposedly knows all about this priesthood. Who better to take charge of this assault than you?
#3 by mderpelding on 06/26/2006 - 6:27 pm
Mr. Whitaker,
The professor priesthood didn’t arise spontaneously.
Beliefs evolve.
Those professors were children.
Once.
So were their parents.
And all before them.
They built upon the foundations of their ancestors.
You know this.
I note that Anne Coulter wrote a book stating that liberalism is a religion.
The mainstream media said “so what”.
We ARE Religous.
The left doesn’t care.
VERY smart.
WHY?
#4 by PeterGene Budarick on 06/27/2006 - 10:41 am
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Bob, you realize that you can be wrong.
No surprise!
I always sensed that you are an honest man, but i am impressed by eloquence in stating it, and raisng issues from it, worthy of our consideration.
Let me tell it from my perspective.
I am sort of here telling you what your Blogs evoke in my mind and WHY i am attracted to them.
First of all I am a German and a NAZI [not Neo-Nazi] who wants to exterminate 60 million Jews [ 6 million is far too few] and i am proud of my crudeness. I have survived nearly 60 years without hurting a hair on a child’s head and i sleep like baby each night! And i have created my own flag too which is NOT even the Nazi Flag but far more prevocative.
As a 8-yo boy i thought i was the reincarnation of Hitler and i told everyone about it. How honest and foolish children are! “Ich bin Hitler” I have no idea how that came into my head even [you are the first one i have told it to Bob – it never seemed important before].
In Germany 1955 that was a NO NO for a boy child to do. But i did it, and i did not know why until about 50 years later! Therefore i copped a lot of abuse as a child. I was “that NAZI kid” even though my biological father was a USA GI [Scandinavian descent] stationed in Germany who abandoned me and my mother at age 1-yo!
OK, lets get on the ball.
I got no way of knowing if Bob is wrong.
Only Bob can know that.
And ONLY Bob can fix that.
AND only Bob can understand what that fixing means from his perspective.
So i am not worried about Bob being wrong or being able to fix it – if indeed it needs fixing.
Because sometimes being wrong DOES NOT NEED fixing!!!
I am an anti-Semite. That is WRONG! No doubt about it! But it needs NO fixing!!! But if i were to tell you all “but i love Jews” then i would have a major problem.
Now i figure Bob is a racist.
I don’t believe that needs fixing!
And you note it does not even need putting “racist” in quotes.
Why?
Because Bob is concerned about the white race.
Not like DDD’s concern with being labelled KKK.
KKK was a valid movement and mostly they did nothing wrong!
So DDD should wear it as a badge of honour as i wear Hitler as a badge of honour.
I figure Bob can handle that stuff/ideas and far more.
For me that means trust in Bob.
Now i reveal,
I am WRONG most of the time.
Does that feel bad for me?
Yes it does! BIG TIME!
If it no loger feels bad, then the application of a certain small sword the Japanese Samurai carried in their daishu may be in order!
Does it feel bad for YOU that i am mostly wrong?
Well i will NEVER be your hero!
Should therefore the mostly wrong Peter-Gene be banned from this Blog as he has been banned from StromFront?
Of course not it is silly!
OK.
To the main point now!
Being wrong sure beats living a life of delusion!
Right?
Follows naturally since we all suffer pain in life and must die!
I am wrong not because people tell me, though often they DO help me see it – even when they have other motives [being themselves always right is one of them].
But i do need other people to help me!
I need Bob to help me!
I am proud of the fact that i get it wrong MOST of the time!
Yes MOST of the time!
I pity people who are always right.
They don’t learn or evolve.
I admire Bob because he understands these things and can express them in a completely different language to what i use.
I conceptualize it like this: Suppose we are doing science.
That means making a model [which is a creative act] and most likely will end up a wrong model. It involves fantasy, imagination, intuition, rationalism [math], life experience and having a go at a problem without fear or respect for conservatism or morality. And there is emotional investment in that model and thus it is not easy to give it up.
Then you do experiments and try to show that your model in Reality [your mind] is isomorphic with the “object” or “process” in Actually [WHAT IS] it is supposed to represent.
Most times this scientific work shows you that you are wrong.
So true scientists are always a tiny minority.
Why?
Because NORMAL people like to be right all the time.
Well for them i recommend religion. Something which can’t be proven wrong! Which is quite valid BTW because it has been part of our evolution toward white Godhood a lot longer than science.
But back to being a scientist.
It is like prospective parents [before they have children] have theories about how children respond and behave etc. But when they actually have their own children and actually have to raise them in the real world, they soon realize that all their theories are wrong.
If that sort of thing gets one down then one is not cut out to be a scientist or a parent [or mentor of childen as in my case].
Truth is WHAT IS. And like in a good soccer match it always hits us from a side where and when we least expect it.
Well that is what Bob said too in his Blogs! Right?
Watch the ball not the feet!
But we shall never find truth [from moment to moment] unless we have the motivation to engage with life and become exposed to the fact that we are going to be mostly wrong.
It is in this spirit that i engage with Bob.
PGB
#5 by Bob on 06/27/2006 - 7:29 pm
mderpelding , you need to read my last book.