The article below was self-pity, for which I apologize. But I don’t go back and erase my mistakes.
I know a LOT, first-hand, about the reaction to letters or such is among the opinion professionals. So I had a strategy in mind. With their usual bashfulness BUGsers let me know that they have more important things to do, which is what you might call Cotton Mather-level bashfulness.
I crawled down into my foxhole and thought it over as your artillery whizzed over.
The time is likely to come when YOU have people who can do this kind of stuff, so it is worth your knowing what I have observed in terms of what I call professional opinionists.
Our idea is to get ideas into circulation. Our estimate of the personal worth of such opinionists is beside the point.
I have worked with the Mantra for many, many years. It is one of those things I have developed which is like a good computer virus. Once you get it to someone’s attention, it shows up in his thought. This does NOT mean he will be come like us. We are free to think, he is not.
But someone who does thousands of opinion pieces needs material. He needs a “take” on things. In fact, that is the ONLY thing he makes his rather good living doing. I have found things in the oddest places that could only have come from me, though you would have real trouble recognizing them in the form they show up.
So you might think I am trying to convert Pat. No, the idea is simply to be sure he has read the Mantra itself, of which I am now sure.
Here is the key point I am making: The world looks different when you have to pump out hundreds of thousands of words a year on deadlines. A lot of us enjoy a game of baseball from time to time, but the world of professional baseball is totally different. A lot of us like giving our opinions, but doing it on schedule and for pay is different. You put an idea in there and YOU will be ignored, but the idea is planted.
A little.
You can make a little into a lot. You can do it later with YOUR followers. Right now you have bigger fish to fry.
#1 by Tim on 02/22/2009 - 8:35 pm
Bob,
That was not a bitch. But a class act guilt trip.
I was going to write: “You keep guilt tripping me like that and Wotan will send you back to earth as an Irish Granny. Next time just say it like a coach: Tim (or someone)git off ur tail and send it to him!”
It was a good guilt trip tho.
#2 by Dave on 02/22/2009 - 8:51 pm
Because of the Internet, academia can no longer rig the competition for mental horsepower.
Consequently, the competition is so much more muscular now. It moves quickly, and heavy duty intellectuals from all walks of life and regardless of credentials get out in front and shine through like a cop’s 500 lumen flashlight.
These “heavy duty” thought leaders continually wrestle the standard from each other and new ones rapidly emerge while the weaker ones and the ones who don’t keep up get buried.
Something like this never happened prior to the Internet in such an unbridled and wholesome way. It is real time and it is completely democratic.
Meanwhile, academia and the Establishment institutions sit on their asses, determined double thinkers, in wholesale denial. Pat Buchanan is included in this crowd that is in denial. I doubt he gets the Internet (although he probably thinks he does).
Mantra thinking is spreading and it is spreading very rapidly. You have to be blind not to see it if you are actually paying attention.
More good news: Mantra thinking is spreading among the most credible, among the top of the line competitors.
Simmons or Tim or another of our BUGsters said this about the ideas BUGs promotes, “choose or lose”.
What a great way to put it. It captures the Internet based competitive process perfectly. Either you get on board or you get left behind.
If you are not on board with the real standard bearers in the contemporary struggle, you lose. You simply failed to keep up.
And of course Robert Whitaker is one of our very important Internet based intellectual standard bearers. His influence is unmistakable.
#3 by Lord Nelson on 02/23/2009 - 11:24 am
Coach, I understand you may get frustrated from time to time. But things are moving, and we are all living in the most interesting times.
Just the other day I was attacked by a SFer in OVs for basically NOT saying derogatory things about non-Whites on the forum. But I was heartened that many other SFers quickly came to my defense.
I speak the mantra everyday in real life. It works!
I once got a chain e-mail about not forgetting the holocaust, so I attached the mantra to it and sent it on its merry way. 🙂
How about we all e-mail Buchanan the Mantra!
#4 by Pain on 02/23/2009 - 12:07 pm
My friendly local reference librarian gave me the following mailing address (it is publicized on Buchanan’s website for receiving donations):
Linda Miller c/o Buchanan.org
707 W. Main Street
Smethport, PA 16749
#5 by Tim on 02/23/2009 - 1:02 pm
Well this is a first. We all knew Obamanomics was going to be RACE based. But I did not think they would give us the gift of obviousness so soon. I underestimated these stupid animals. Mccain would have never ever made a wealth redistribution so obviously race based. No Mccain and the damn Neocons would have disguised it better. A BUGS life gets easier with the Obamas in office!
Obamanomics are straight out of Zimbabwe. On CNBC, Rick Santelli blew a fuse. It was not race based fuse—- but it WAS. Because all things are race based and it is crunch time. Even the financial people around me are becoming aware of realty and race. You should hear the damn comments. Stormfronters jaws would drop! There is no money left. So when people who cannot pay for a home—get a home paid for. Guess who pays? And can ya guess what the racial stats are? LOL. Of course, this has been happening for my lifetime. Just not so —stomp on ur head in your face —damn obvious!
Beyond obvious. Beyond beautiful.
I know some so-called conservatives cry —boo hoo. It is not fair, they are not playing nice. Boo hoo, this is racial politics. Boo -hoo
It was bound to happen, you did not listen to Bob for all these years. And when you don’t listen —YOU FEEL. Better sooner than later.
RACE, RACE, and MORE RACE
The liberals inevitable future……LOL
And REAL Conservatives would look at the bright side of equation.
If we threw out the so-called majorities who CHOOSE to live with us as minorities —we would quickly become an all Aryan state. With all the Socialism happening. We would instantly go from LOOKING like a Commie state to being an Actual Real National Socialist State.
See fear profits a man nothing. Fear paralyzes and distorts ones view. Realty makes things clear. Chrystal Nazi Clear.
Even a Stormfronter would read my posts and blush with optimism. The futures so bright all us Aryans gotta wear sunblock.
#6 by Lord Nelson on 02/23/2009 - 1:11 pm
‘Pain’ Why not just e-mail?
#7 by Pain on 02/23/2009 - 1:37 pm
Because Bob asked for the mailing address.
But if you want email, it is:
LindaMuller at Buchanan.org
#8 by Tim on 02/23/2009 - 3:46 pm
Lord Nelson,
Bob said to mail it multiple times to get his attention. I am sure Bob has his reason. At this day in time, I get more emails than mail. I rarely read emails anymore unless they are in my main email mailbox. Bob’s idea is sound. I will send a copy a few weeks in row to ole PatB.
Why not? Just a few stamps.
#9 by Tim on 02/23/2009 - 7:55 pm
Catholic Citizens online just published Patrick B’s column of sorts. This is pretty much what he said on MSNBC. I told you guys about that.
Here is the link.
http://catholiccitizens.org/press/pressview.asp?c=49585
I was educated by Jesuits. Most people have no real ideal that there are zillions of actual conservative catholics. They just have not had anyone speaking for them. I have never read anything like this in my lifetime published in a Catholic Publication. I guess better late than never.
Interesting to also note that uber Conservative Catholics are being promoted into powerful positions…like Dolan in NY. This is happening all across Europe as well.
#10 by shari on 02/24/2009 - 8:06 pm
I have no idea that I can “convert” anybody,but I mailed a copy to Buchanan. I’ve e-mailed at least 13, and got 5 replies, to different writers for v-dare. That includes Mr.Brimelow,more than once. So, I know it’s out there.
#11 by Dave on 02/25/2009 - 12:02 pm
Tim,
I read Pat Buchanan’s rant in the link you provided, but it only proved to me, yet again, of how far superior Robert Whitaker’s intellect is to somebody like Pat Buchanan.
The problem with Pat Buchanan is he is unaware that he is making an argument not worth having. That has been his problem his entire career.
In contrast, compare Robert Whitaker: “The right thing said at the right time makes all the difference.”
Obama had an historic opportunity, being the first black President, on the day of his inauguration. He could have used that opportunity to express gratitude to white people for the vast benefits we have bestowed upon blacks in raising them up. He could have thanked “white conscience” in addition to our genius. Instead, Obama used it as an opportunity to promote the idea that his Presidency was a milestone in the “advance of black people against historic injustice”.
You are blind not to see the hand of God in this.
Had Obama used that historic opportunity to express gratitude to the white race, he would have proved (1) Robert Whitaker wrong, and (2) that blacks were indeed capable of playing a role in life that could become commensurate with that of whites.
Alas, Obama proved neither.
Pat Buchanan’s is unable to perceive how in certain moments what is said can be profoundly meaningful. These are defects of character and why he resorts to whining.
Our race does not need to argue its case. We can rely, without risk, on nonwhites arguing our case for us. Obama’s inaugural speech magnificently proved this for us (once again).
Robert Whitaker has supplied the reason: “It is impossible to get rid of the fact of race”. It is impossible to get rid of that fact politically, and it is impossible to get rid of that fact genetically. It is impossible. Period.
We certainly don’t need “rescuers” the ilk of Pat Buchanan. He is a long way from being up to the task.
#12 by shari on 02/25/2009 - 5:55 pm
Yes Dave, I finally understand that Buchanan could have understood decades ago and said so. He didn’t or wouldn’t. But remember, all the problems that Bob Whitaker said he had. ” It is impossible to get rid of the fact of race” might be translated “the calling and election of God is without repentance.” This is how I am sorting out. I’m not trying to argue.
#13 by bruce on 02/26/2009 - 2:36 pm
Bob,
Here’s another case of your ideas and terminology being used by others.
http://vdare.com/sailer/090222_gramm.htm
Notice that Sailer took your term “respectable conservative” and made it into “respectable right.”