Archive for April 4th, 2008

Did Ancient Greeks Come Out of a Cookie-Cutter?

According to the movies, every ancient Spartan looked exactly alike. Each had very black hair, brown eyes, and so forth. According to the new business of restoring the paint on ancient sculpture and ancient pictorals, the warrior level in Ancient Greece looked a lot like the average white American circa 1800.

Hollywood would like to present ancient Greeks as black, with a racially balanced mix. But we have heard too much abotu Indo-Europpeans for that, so they are as dark as Hollywood can make them. Just as Hollywood’s (and PBS’) “realistic” portrayal of Classical times includes gray stone statues no Roman would have tolerated and gray stone buildings likewise, the ancient Greeks are now uniformly dark and ancient Palestine and Egypt have a racially balanced upper crust.

In Cleopatra, Richard Burtion, playing Mark Antony, was screaming, “Why do statues have no eyes?!” Even then historians knew that they DID have eyes. Bright blue ones. In the New York Metropolitan Museum I saw an art piece from about 500 BC in an art museum. It consisted of two wires holding up two orbs painted as eyes. It was apparently an abstract from 500 BC, and they titled it “eyes.”

The eyes were blue.

Nothing else is quite as fake as Politically Correct “realism.”

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Beyond IQ

Often when one thinks about it enough, one begins to realize how obvious something is. One finally realizes he should stop being indirect and deal with the question. In other words, state the question plainly and then deal with THAT.

We had to deal with differing racial IQs for a long time because the establishment line was that there was NO racial difference. They dealt with all indications to the contrary by screaming “HITLER!” and the Greatest Generation got on their bellies.

But they always overreach. They could have minimized differences, but their homicidal insistence on IQs being EXACTLY the same, which was essential to “all races are the same,” left them in a position even the moral cowardice of the Greatest Generation could not protect them from forever.

Some of us just wouldn’t quit.

According to historians no one ever wins against the establishment. You won’t read it, but the fact is that even most of the loony left now concedes that racial IQs are different. It was amazing how little storm was raised by The Bell Curve, and one of the leading mainline psychology journals had a lead article by Rushton and Jensen.

But now that the pros have chimed in on us amateurs who fought this fight when it was tiny, they want to go ahead with IQ. But IQ is not really the point. The POINT of hitting on IQ a generation ago was because that was VULNERABLE.

One factor was the increasing familiarity with blacks that would be a part of the future. Today there are very few whites, even in Europe, who are totally out of touch with real blacks as the constituents of Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, whose single-handed fanaticism on civil rights in the Senate in the 1940s led to the 1948 Democratic platform.

Humphrey wasn’t appealing to a black constituency. He was appealing to fanatical civil righters who had never seen a black outside of Jackie Robinson.

The simple fact is that, except for Obedience Trained Greatest Generation and Mommy Professor’s special darlings, it is impossible for someone who knows the mass of blacks to believe in equal innate intelligence. So we hammered on that.

And won.

But our quest was not to make a god out of IQ. People who make a god out of IQ find that the grants come in if they then worship the high-tested IQs of Jews and Orientals.

But if one does not take this first necessary victory as the Key to Final Truth, what is one left with?

Now, precisely in the face of this IQ bit, it is essential for us to return to the first question. How are races different? Let us ask the plain question: why is it that whites developed a Western Civilization that makes all other Great Civilizations look like abysses of slavery and animal-level technology? What we are asking now becomes obvious: Why is our HISTORY different?

In other words, the question is not something indirectly defined by IQ tests or given a mystical meaning by “Christianity.” The question is the question: Now, precisely in the face of this IQ bit, it is essential for us to return to the first question. How are races different?

The question is not IQ. The question is history. So the answer is where we started: in history.

History today says that civilization is entirely a matter of books. When Political Correctness was getting started the Greatest Generation was just beginning to roll over and play dead. That was in the 1950s. So history said that there was Egypt which led to Greece which led to Rome.

Then all was darkness as the Human Mind, which was contained in writings that went from the Egyptians to the Greeks and then to the Romans, were LOST. All was darkness. If you do not believe anyone could take this seriously, read Foundation and A Canticle for Leibowitz, science fiction books which reflected this time and this view.

Yes, people took it seriously. But if you state it in plain English everybody says that nobody takes this seriously. Then, the minute they relax, they go back to Greece and Rome and the “Dark Ages.” One of the major problems with analyzing what crap this is is getting anybody to recognize it when it is put into plain English.

So Politically Correct History says that with the right books all men are equal. All men, it says, have an equal right to those books and therefore to everything what the white man has done. ALL OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS DEPENDS ON THIS VERSION OF HISTORY.

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Wordism is the DISEASE of Institutions

I am not opposed to art. I am not opposed to music. I am not opposed to words. I am not opposed to institutions.

But if you decide that all races are equal because you like African art, I am opposed to that. If you decide your daughter should marry a black because some blacks are good singers, I am opposed to that.

None of this is hard to understand. But when I say that institutions are bad when they are substituted for racial loyalty, I am opposed to it, people get very confused. One commenter said that “the People of the United States ordained and established a constitution,” so I should not object to institutions.

What I LIKE about this statement is that it is blog statement, no frills, no fancy stuff, no attempt to cite endless histories to make it look like the writer is thinking Deep Thoughts. It is right or it is wrong.
And that precious word:

Period.

This is a PLAIN statement of a confusion that a lot of people have about Wordism. Just because you have an institution does not mean you have Wordism. Wordism is the fatal disease that every institution gets, and will get until we are fully aware that it IS a disease and what its symptoms are.

I am not opposed to art. I am not opposed to music. I am opposed to words. I am not opposed to institutions. But in the case of the Preamble to the United States Constitution I am reaffirming that the PURPOSE of the institution: to provide the blessings of liberty for OURSELVES and OUR descendants. I certainly do not object to an institution that does THAT.

But what is the Constitution today? The Constitution is the document used by judges when they OVERRIDE the peoples? interests. When it was decided by California voters that they did not want to provide welfare for people who were NOT “We the people of the United States” the Supreme Court overruled them in the name of the Constitution.

Due to Wordism, the Constitution is doing exactly what it was set up toe avoid doing. Courts have picked out the words they want and made our Constitution into an institution which is an enemy of we the people and our posterity. This happens to all institutions eventually.

Whales gather barnacles. That does not make me anti-whale. People get diseases. That does not make me anti-people. Institutions get Wordism. That does not make me anti-institution.

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