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Mderpelding Forces Me to Look at the Idea Chain

It is a shame when mderpelding goes into a cynicism kick or some other dead end, because he is so valuable.

Let me hasten to add that I go into funks and dead ends myself. When I am talking about BUGS with others, I love tell them about the time I started bitching about how tired I was and how I might have to quit, hinting it was because you were failing me.

One of our BUGS told me exactly what I would have said to anybody else here: “Bob, for God’s sake, if you’re going to quit, QUIT. Stop WHINING about it.”

Not only can I take a kick in the ass when I need it, I am PROUD of it.

So whatever mderpelding gets off on, I read carefully what he says. In the midst of his diatribe, he said he was not interested in General Lee, he was interested in people who WON.

This got me to thinking about his point, and that led me to talk about someone who was a winner almost perfectly parallel to us: Franz Boas.

Franz Boas was a Prussian Jew who came to America full of hatred for all white gentiles. His are the ideas that the Greatest Generation imposed on all Americans. Franz Boas knew all about the chain of ideas.

In Boaz’s time the chain of ideas began at the universities. Since nobody is interested in the chain of ideas but us in BUGS, no one but me notes that this is where a giant change has taken place in my lifetime. There was a time when you could trace an idea back to its ACADEMIC origin: Kant, Marx, DeGobineau, Nietzsche, Keynes. All the ideas came with a name out of academia.

It should be headlines that this is no longer true. Every new idea comes out of the Internet now. Academia now is like the churches in the nineteenth century: they are out to suppress all heresy.

But in his time, Boas saw where the chain of ideas began and acted accordingly. If you look at the books of Boas, Kluckhohn, “Ashley Montague,” and Margaret Meade, it is amazing how often they simply quote each other. The declared purpose of what they decided to call “social anthropology” was to prove the races equal…

They formed one of those little cliques Dave refers to when he says that all great changes in thought come from a small group of that sort.

Yes, mderpelding, I was wrong to emphasize General Lee on several counts. He not only lost, but the Civil War itself was the result of a failure in the Real War, the one we are waging, the one Boas waged. When a country descends into civil war, the idea chain has long since FAILED.

The REAL war is right here, in the idea chain. War occurs when those who should have fought through the chain of ideas decades before the conflict starts, have failed.

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THANK YOU, Z! Damn Good Piece!

But now that we’re talking about it, I would like to add something about Bob’s open activism. It’s interesting that liberals never use Bob’s life long dedication to ending white genocide as a smear against Reagan? The media could “expose” the fact that Bob worked in the Reagan administration and also discuss his writings on race. They could “prove” that Reagan was a “racist.” I also noticed that the ADL doesn’t have much to say about Bob.

The reason for this is simple. It’s more dangerous for them smearing Bob, because then his ideas might get out. It’s better for our enemies that they show lots of pictures of Nazis but not talk about people like Bob.

I think this is important. In fact, if ever I did become more public with the issue of race, I’d want it to be like Bob. It says something when people consider your ideas so dangerous that they don’t even smear you because your name might get out.

– Z

You are SO right about why they don’t attack me. I think your point is immediately accepted by all those who have seen how astonishingly effective the Mantra is but you brought it out SPECIFICALLY.

People stop talking. They stop talking about me. But they NEVER take me on. I have made this point a number of times, but no one before has seen it as clearly as you express it here. And it may be the most important thing about me for BUGS.

As you see so clearly, they can’t discuss me without quoting things I want them to quote. They want me hushed up, because once anyone starts looking into what I am saying, even because it is scandal, my deadly points begin to spread out.

It is what another brilliant comment here referred to as “poise.” After all these years in battle, I have learned to take whatever is said and make the point I WANT to make. This is a HARD discipline to learn.

And the ONLY reason YOU would spend the effort of HARD work like this is if it is EFFECTIVE. You have seen how the Mantra is almost magical this way. Z’s insight shows again how effective this whole discipline, this poise, is. The other side can’t deal with me because everything I say has been boiled down to the point where it, like the Mantra, is dynamite.

As Z points out, it doesn’t matter whether they make me famous or notorious. Either way, they are LOST. This is the demonstration of the fact that the discipline I am trying to inculcate here is EFFECTIVE.

You aren’t here to worship at Bob’s altar or to learn “Correct” thought as in grammar and grad school or to find out how to “win” an argument or to find out how to look good. You are here to learn something EFFECTIVE to use in power politics.

This is not bragging. It is explaining why I DO this.

Good call, Z!

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