B. U. G. S.

I discussed the piece on The Family Guy where the girl used the old hippie, “Only Man has wars,” and Death made an idiot of her, “What are you talking about? Animals kill each other all the time!”

Today the entire audience of Family Guy, including the YUPPIE college grads, know that border wars are routine and merciless among all social animals. It is a ruling theme in the wildly popular meerkat saga.

But in the 1960s, no one had any idea of this. Even the chimpanzee lady in Africa would then have SWORN that chimps did NOT patrol their borders and kill alien chimps who violated them. Now even the most brain-dead college grad knows it.

The problem is that people get only one lesson at a time. This is why a continuing theme here is “obsessing on examples.” Yes, the fact that all the experts were unbelievably wrong about war being only a man-made institution underlay all 1960s thought. Yes, that particular discovery made those particular hippies–Marxists–ideas laughable.

But there is a repeat of an old lesson here, one that no one EVER takes into account. It is more general than an obsession with taking The Latest Thing into account. It is that you must not build your world on ANY Latest Thing.

Which is why I keep hitting “News and Jews.” The lesson here is that there will be another Latest Thing that will make your present Latest Thing yesterday’s news. This is so obvious that no one SEES it.” Another theme I beat to death here.

PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS PREDICTING THE FUTURE BASED ON THE LATEST THING, BUT THEY NEVER TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT THERE WILL BE MORE LATEST THINGS.

Back when I was still semi-respectable, I made this obvious point and was listened to. It was a generation ago when the discovery of early man’s predecessors was going full tilt. in reaction to Ardrey’s African Genesis. Each time a new, older predecessor was found, articles would say, “The earliest human ancestor has just been found at X,” and there would be cluster of Expert Opinions based on the Latest Thing fact that all mankind came from Spot X.

Everybody wanted to be The New Ardrey. His concept that man’s advance began with his dining a shinbone as a weapon began the hit movie 2001. It was all the rage. So each time a new discovery was made, it was supposed to rewrite the whole of human evolutionary history.

This happened over and over. It got comical.

Finally I pointed out in Science News that this was silly. After ten articles reporting “the earliest man,” any reasonably intelligent person would cut the crap and write about “the earliest ancestor SO FAR FOUND.”

I was astonished at the result. Those article not only changed in Science News, they changed in Time and US News and World Report! The whole phenomenon STOPPED. That is a lot of power for one person. The reason I exercised that power was that nobody but me even noticed it.

I have utilized this kind of power my whole life. We have this kind of power precisely because it is not a power anyone else WANTS. Outside of BUGS, people do not want power, they want to RECOGNIZED as the person who exercises power.

I have made fundamental changes at the top of the chain of ideas all my life. I have exercised more raw power than ANY expert in ANY field.

I had the field clear to exercise this power precisely because no one NOTICED it. No one but us BUGS types wants REAL power, which is the ability to change to change the ideas that make the world of the future. They do not want this power because it does not lead to fame or a full professorship or even a footnote in anybody’s book.

Which is why I keep repeating, “They can have the titles, they can have the money, they can have the fame. I just want to rule the world.”

I keep emphasizing the general point that all the frontline Movements are based on the Latest Thing, but nobody builds his world view around the fact that there will be NEW insights, NEW developments. No Movement, no professor, has even TRIED to build his world view on this most obvious of realities. If you don’t believe me, go back and look at the cries of articles in the1970s about “the earliest man has been found at …” and the whole New World views that were based on each one until my Science News bit appeared.

To understand this, you have to THINK about another point I keep making, “Why do people SAY things?”

I have been interviewed by a LOT of writers and I know what they want. The one time my picture was on the front page of the New York Times I got it there by practically writing the guys’ article for him. I knew EXACTLY the quotes a working newspaper writer needed and I had them ready. When he left my office, he was practically dancing on air.

With that experience, I can picture a writer doing an article on The Latest Scientific Discovery when I say, “the real lesson here is that MORE new discoveries will be made.” He would be on his way out the door.

This leads directly to another lesson I keep hammering at ’til you are sick of it: “Why do people SAY things?” A writer, whether he is writing for a scientific publication or the National Inquirer, needs quotes that emphasize the IMPORTANCE of the story he is trying to publish about The Latest Thing. Above all, he does NOT want someone putting his rave news into “perspective.”

Unless you understand “Why do people SAY things?” the idea that ten articles in a row said that, “It has just been discovered that man’s earliest ancestor was in…” seems incredible, not just coming from a science writer, but from any adult who is not actually retarded.

No one would have written what I wrote in Science News if he didn’t understand, “Why do people SAY things?” I wrote it because I understand that when people write silly things there is a reason for it, usually a reason that has nothing to do with Jews or some other obsession.

The lesson of “News and Jews” has nothing to do with news, and nothing to do with Jews.

That is the POINT.