Filter Down III 

The previous two pieces were to explain something that no one today can really EMPATHIZE with.

I am very happy with things today for precisely the same reason I was an alarmist in 1955. The Masturbation Generation is dead or dying. Every idea they spread is now looked upon as quaint.

I won’t go through the whole list. Let’s just say that male birds only tweet to attract females is typical of that damned—literally – Generation’s ideas. As C.S. Lewis said through the mouth of Screwtape, the best route to Hell is routine, without twistings or turnings, just going along with what, in your heart, you know is Evil. From Mommy Professor, that was the route the Masturbation Generation took, bitching but never in the open, always with the Inevitable, always following orders.

Now let us go to the basic problem with Inevitability.

It doesn’t WORK.

Especially, it doesn’t work TODAY.

Nobody understands what filter down MEANS. It means that today’s world is bad and getting worse because all of our present institutions, all of our present practical methods of getting ahead, all fashionable opinion, is based on the ideas I saw filtering down fifty years ago.

I cannot see a single BAD idea filtering down today. Every documentary tells us that “the so-called savages” were actually very moral and forward-looking. This is Doctrine. OF COURSE that is what anybody who wants to keep his job says. But up where the filter-down begins, it is seen as quaint. “Why,” article after article asks, “do all of THEM keep insisting that there is something noble about being a backward savage?”

You are doing the Mantra because in the very near future, race will be a matter of CHOICE.

In the 1950s, the very idea of heart transplantation was laughed at by all the Practical Experts. They pointed out that you couldn’t even do a tiny skin transplant without the body rejecting it, much less a HEART, for God’s sake. They were perfectly correct and totally wrong.

Every concept our society is based on is dead, dead, DEAD. Ex Oriente Lux, “A small step for man, a giant step for Mankind” is now laughable and part of every documentary. This is NOT a contradiction. This is simply filter down.

Long since, even documentaries show the class system among animals, the universal territorial imperative among animals. I discussed THAT in my 1976 book, long before it happened.

In 1900 Indians were called The Vanishing Americans. With the abolition of slavery in 1865, the death rate among blacks INSTANTLY doubled. In 1900 blacks were, inevitably, a smaller PART of the American population.

In 2000, this Inevitability was reversed.

Nobody noticed.

But me.

The only perfectly consistent thing I can see is faith in Inevitability.

I have just spent two thousand words or so explaining why this Inevitability Faith is the silliest one possible. But the Practical Man believes in it, thumps his chest over it, generation after generation. And in every age, the Inevitability reverses itself completely.

But fifty years have given me a sense of humor about this I did not have as a suffering, understanding boy of fourteen.

Thank God.

Filter Down II

In our last exciting episode, Bob was trying, AGAIN, to explain what everybody took for granted in 1955.

Now, as usual, I am going to do a piece of basic arithmetic for you. The population was then divided into two sets of two groups.

First, there were those who understood how bad things were going to get. This was back when the idea of students ever going through a metal detector in high school was considered nutcase hysteria. This was when even hard-core segregationists thought that “integration” meant a few blacks in a few schools.

Practically everybody agreed that integration was NOT, repeat NOT, about intermarriage.

Then there was a very tiny group of “alarmists” like me who predicted how bad things were going to be. In 1956 I was called “Federal Troops” Bob because I said federal troops would be used to enforce integration.

It is as hard for me to explain to you what the thinking was like then as it was for me at that time to explain why Federal troops would HAVE to be used. It happened the next year in Little Rock and everybody promptly forgot the “Federal Troops Bob” label.

Except me. After fifty years I am very used to living in a world where nobody remembers what was filtering down yesterday.

But, and this is another important point others never could empathize with, there was an even greater division among the few of us who KNEW how bad things were going to get.

In this tiny percentage, I was part of an even SMALLER minority.

Those who were not “alarmists” lived in the real world. They lived in a world where people do things for reasons, rather simple reasons.

Here comes the Catch-22. In order to be an alarmist, you had to visualize a nightmare future as a reality. But in order to see a nightmare as a reality, you cannot believe that the world follows any normal rules.

A very tiny percentage of people were in my alarmist category. But only a vanishingly small minority of THAT group could realize that the coming nightmare was a result of some obvious, basic results of human behavior. All the other alarmists saw a Communist Conspiracy. They saw what every magician depends on, that Things are Not as They Appear.

If Things Are Not as They Appear, neither God nor evolution would have given us EYES.

So I was part a tiny percentage of a vanishingly tiny minority. I fought the ideas that were filtering down in the real world while all the other alarmists battled for Things Are Not As They Appear.

If you simply cannot empathize with my living in the world as it was THEN, it sounds absurd for me to say that I was a major factor in destroying the Soviet Empire. When I met with George Wallace in 1968 and 1972, no one in the Kremlin knew that I was what turned out to be almost a one-man conspiracy that would destroy them.

In 1974, when Bill Rusher, publisher of National Review, converted completely to the realization that only a combination of Wallace conservatives and Republican conservatives could eventually elect Reagan, everybody was fully aware that there was only one person in America who had been a trusted spokesman for working people’s conservative protests for years.

Every time he got me a job or an interview, the guy would explain that Rusher had talked about me for half an hour to explain exactly who I was, WHAT I was.

But if you read my first book in my name and Rusher’s introduction to it published in1976, you will be puzzled as to what was so revolutionary about it. It is all perfectly obvious NOW.

That book was given a rave review in National Review and was the object of cover-article attack in National Review. By 1981 everybody took credit for knowing it all along.

Bill Rusher realized that there was nobody else who could do what I did. He had for twenty years been part of the “business usual let’s not be alarmists all is lost but we are the last-ditch heroes” crowd. He was man enough to take a LONG time to explain why he had been wrong.

Without me I think the Soviet Empire would STILL be limping along with Western support. But Rusher had to explain what THAT had to do with MY getting independent truckers to block traffic in DC at rush hour or doing the press conference for tens of thousands of working people paying their own way and marching in Washington DC against the education establishment for DIFFERENT causes.