This was great!

This time, when I went silent for a while, there was no the radio silence we usually get. There was a set of THOUGHTS that set me to thinking. THAT is where we ae going!

You talked about BASICS.

When I come up with a thought, it often seems to me to be so obvious that I have trouble getting anybody but you to understand how long it took me to get it, and why no one would be likely to EVER come up with it.

One commenter talked about the basic w questions, who what where and why. You don’t get that in group which is trying to impress each other with how many details they know. And that means just about any discussion group I have ever seen.

We are engaged in a war in which all the detailed knowledge in the world won’t win. Pain and Simmons talked about knowledge versus wisdom. They concluded that our definition of Wisdom has nothing to do with the accepted version, which consists ENTIRELY of trying to impress people.

It occurs to me that one never grows up unless he goes through the Porch Talk phase.

A small child wants ANSWERS. He needs discipline and adults who ACT adult. But there comes a time when he begins to have to make his own decisions. As he gets into his teens he needs adults who will help HIM become adult. That means that the adult must stop dictating truth and begin to explain to the teen how he must begin to deal with a LACK of information.

In our society, that time never comes. I remember when I took some grad courses in 1992 I was amazed to see grad students sitting around CRAMMING for the exam. They were doing exactly what they had done during twelve years of grammar school and high school and four ears of college. The professor had done what the grammar school teacher does with pre-teens, putting together an exam to see if the kids could repeat what at they had heard.

I have said that a high-level executive should not HAVE a job description. He MAKES job descriptions. By the same token, no professor is ready to conduct a seminar if he must give an examination at the end of it. If fifty hours of open discussion can’t tell him how well a student is doing, he should go back to teaching grammar school.

What do you MEAN by wisdom? There is the type of wisdom which is just unsubstatiated assertations of truth, but there is also wisdom, as in the ability to use knowledge. Knowledge, like IQ doesn’t go far unless one has the ability to use it effectively.

Socrates said “I know that I don’t know”, which is something that describes a white way of thinking, an admission that there is more to learn, that we DON’T KNOW enough.

But everywhere else, the ‘wise man’ is the one who knows a lot of facts. He has a lot of knowledge, and that knowledge is passed on word for word, as if an heirloom. The ‘wise man’ doesn’t say he doesn’t know, he KNOWS and teaches what he knows. One does not need to think to do this.

But Aristotle, Socrates and Plato gave tools to obtain knowledge, to analyse information. A means of understanding, and it is this desire to understand which has driven the west.

re: DEDICATION

When I hear the dedicated few speak, I simply cannot understand why there aren’t more people who believe as deeply as they do and, listening to them, are not inspired enough to similarly dedicate their lives to the cause.

There are many people who strongly sympathize with the cause but there is an underlying feeling that these views are just a reactionary view to an ever-changing world, a world that will find a way to survive and thrive in new circumstances that we cannot even imagine (At least this is recognized here with genetic engineering). The result of this feeling is that despite knowledge of issues and immersion into this subculture, there is still a lingering doubt. (I believe this is why WOL focuses on HOW rather than WHAT to think).

I also believe that a sense of doubt is normal, because most of us are human, after all. We cannot take countless people screaming at us, arguing against us and naming us an evil warned of by the Bible while remaining so steadfastly committed.

I haven’t got a clue what makes someone so sure that they KNOW and are bold enough to desire to and change the world and are unshakable enough to pursue it fully. To call that ‘chutzpah’ is an understatement.

People in this camp are followers at best and I don’t think that followers can be converted into leaders. Bob noted recently that leadership training is an oxymoron. I would say it’s a waste of time an energy to try to persuade them. Alchemy may be a more fruitful pursuit.

Shari,

Aldous Huxley used to say, “If you want to solve your problems, learn a new way seeing”.

It is a heroic thing to attempt to throw off a governmentally established religion. Accordingly, BWs phrase, “Political Correctness is a Religion” is not a slogan.

There has never been a governmentally sponsored religion more widely and globally established than the religion of Political Correctness.

The fingers of PC’s scope are panoramic, yet also concentrate right down to the microscopic, a flow tide of awesomely subtle influences, deliberately propagated, multi-faceted and robust, legally, ideologically, and spiritually. Political Correctness is as thoroughgoing an established religion as there ever was in all of history.

Popes, Pastors, and Imams should eat their hearts out, there is not an “official religion” recognized today that even remotely compares to the influence and scope of the world’s premiere established religion of Political Correctness (established by almost every government in every country on earth).

Yet this religion is vulnerable, as enormous, pervasive, and well-supported as it is.

The knowledge of one man can take it down.

Words are first and foremost lies. Yet true words, properly arranged and chosen, coming from even one man, can change everything. This is the contradiction of Wordism.

The trick is to convey this unsettling knowledge, to convey its truth. That is the work of “poets” (”poets” in the broad sense of a persons skilled in the arts of influence).

The “poet’s” job is to make accessible what otherwise would not be accessible. And important knowledge does get conveyed. It finds ways to make itself accessible. Its very importance drives it. Persons skilled in the arts of influence find it. Steadily but surely it makes its way into the culture.

That is what BUGS is really about, enlightenment for “poets”, seeding the culture. That is why physical (racial) separation doesn’t matter. Separation is a tactic that is beside the point.

The point is taking down the established religion of Political Correctness, a heroic undertaking.

In that we save our race.