People without money will tell you that everybody’s motivated by money. If you want financial advice, go to a bar, sit down by the guy who is nursing the only drink he can afford, buy him more, and listen.
He will tell you how to make money. He will tell you the characteristics of people who make money. He will explain to you that making money is behind everything on earth. Money, he will explain, is the Objective Purpose of everything.
Someone WITH money, as they slide into their cups, will explain to you all about Power. They HAVE money, so it holds no ambition for them. In fact the main way someone like me got enough money to live on was being paid by rich folks who wanted power.
A person without money tends to believe that everybody is after what he is after, money. People who have money, he feels, are the bad ones.
A rich person in America does not have the power he feels he should have. People who have power, he insists, are the bad ones.
Uglies tend to believe the Beautiful People are just AWFUL.
If you do not have a white skin, it is easy to convince you that whites are terrible.
Depressive Puritan types hate joyful people, hoping they are damned.
The list is endless.
This goes along with the rule that those who hate are constantly condemning Hate, those who are merciless love abstract Mercy. The real explanation of this is quite simple. A person thinks about what he thinks about most. A billionaire does not think about money all that much. In fact, real luxury means that you don’t have to think about money at all: “If you have to ask the price you can’t afford it.”
BUGS is dedicated to straight, simple explanations like this. People who get PAID to be pundits do not think in my terms for a very simple reason. It is one reason respectable conservatives are the only professional commentators. If you hit a Politically Correct person with my kind of argument, the discussion is over.
They are getting laughed at.
Then it’s Dead Air. And Dead Air is death to talk programs.
So only a respectable conservative can keep the media commenters going.
Those who think about hate a lot capitalize it. They think that Hate explains human action. Those who think about money a lot think of money as the basis of all human motivation. Likewise Power. Likewise Mercy.
Paid pundits hate this kind of thinking for an equally simple reason. They get to paid to drag it out, to fill time and fill space on the printed page.
Hence the following verse, which once would have been called doggerel but now is referred to as the Art of Rap:
A NICKLE A WORD
In most magazines there’s always a place
For people with talent for filling up space.
That’s why they pay me a nickel a syllable
For filling up space that still remain fillable.
The things I say may not make sense
And seem to you absurd
For it’s not logic that I need
But words and words and words and words
And words and words and words.
#1 by BGLass on 01/22/2010 - 10:26 am
Great lesson. It’s very true that each person has his/her own transcendental signifer, and in a way, trading in those signifiers is what we seem to call “growth” nowadays. Like, ‘I used to worry about money, now I worry about power.’ I hated the WASPs b/c everybody said they had the “privilege” and “old money,” and that was the thing to get for me at that time, but then I discovered Jews had power, and hated them, but then they seemed to be losing some of it, and anyway, God seemed more annoying, b/c He trumped everybody in regards to power—and so I became an atheist-philanthropist. This kind of logic should tell people something about their climby-ass selves—but it never does. Most people show their entire hand in two sentences.
#2 by Dave on 01/22/2010 - 11:21 am
We are hardwired to ignore the central role that jealously plays in life.
My favorite is black professionals. I have never met one who didn’t think that he or she was living and walking proof that blacks are equal to whites.
There is always the required Mercedes status symbol. This is without exception and there is never the slightest consciousness of the contradiction involved in the provenance of the vehicle.
The next thing is the Englishman’s serf’s uniform, that god awful thing known as the pin stripped suit, horrible on white people, much worse against black skin.
Then there is the address in the white neighborhood, absolutely required.
Great emphasis is placed upon the acquisition of credentials. When a black professional speaks of himself or herself as “doctor”, it is always elevated in voice. “DOCTOR” is huge. In contrast, his or her actual name is a little thing in 8-point font.
Again, there is never the slightest consciousness of the contradiction in the provenance of the word “doctor”.
I am personally involved with black professionals enough to know that they have a revulsion for anything authentically African. I also know that in the heart of their consciousness they see no contradiction in themselves and genuinely and actually believe they are EQUAL.
This is jealously in all of its power. It blinds at the individual level and at the societal level. The power jealously is immense.
To myself, personally, this tugs at me. It is far too pathetic. We whites react wrongly. Reality is just raw and all too often horrible. The behavior of black professionals is horrible. They are caricatures of real people. Again, it is one of those stereotypes that are true.
It’s like the interview I saw the other day by Charlie Rose of the Haitian Ambassador. The Ambassador engaged in the requisite of blaming of Haiti’s problems on whites. Then he admitted that all of his family lived in the US. Then he did nothing but denounce his own people. It was obvious that he hated Haiti and Haitians, not only hated them, but also found them repugnant. It was also obvious that the idea of actually living with Haitians terrified him. Better to crowd around white people at all costs.
This is so pathetic, that as white people, it has to put on our laurels. Personally, I just don’t know about problems this profound.
Robert Whitaker says we have to save ourselves from their love for us. I think he is right.
#3 by BGLass on 01/22/2010 - 1:15 pm
You could see that a bit in Van Jones’s oft-played “Give them the dignity! Give them the dignity!” speech. Dignity is always a commodity just over there. You can just give it to people. It has nothing to do with internal quality one gets from knowing you did the right thing, even if nobody credits you for it. The dignity is deference (even if, and perhaps especially if, it is feigned—for if it’s obviously feigned that means the person “giving the dignity” is oppressed by power, and oppressing people is the real motherlode, the real show of wealth. You’re the man now. Like Mark Lloyd suggesting people have to be removed from power to ‘make spots for other more deserving people.’ Like there are ten jobs —and only ten— and you just move people in and out of just those ten. Scarcity-Think in action. Creation of new positions from which to play is not on the agenda.
#4 by Simmons on 01/22/2010 - 1:21 pm
Never remember Bob telling us of “their love”, but it would be interesting to read.
Its tough being white and the above is proof that being a white lib is a living hell. Jews have the same problem with IQ and the rest of the world’s IQ.
Anyway we face genocide because some whites are uncomfortable being white and actually suceeding in Evolution and so they fall prey to any huckster who can allow them a wordist escape.
But as with all the sociopaths Bob listed it takes about 5 minutes on a bad day to put them in their place. I would love 5 minutes with Olbermann where he could not escape or cut me off, the Mantra would literally send that sociopath into convulsions.
We give them too much credit, they make no more sense than Soviet agricultural plans.
#5 by BGLass on 01/22/2010 - 1:26 pm
And anyway, isn’t that just the crux of real reactionary consciousness, where one formulates identity around climbing toward what one PERCEIVES in someone else, (usually what can be SEEN externally, like a house or car or clothes). If you HAVE THE THING then you will BE THE THING, and THE THING gets respect and so on. I guess that’s why some evolve games like Tennis (keep your eye on the ball) and Swimming (stay in your lane) and Team (it’s not win or lose, but how you play the game). Now, some take steroids, lie about their gender, unleash their pit bulls on opponents, whatever—then, when it’s not forthcoming, when it obviously should be, just DEMAND “the dignity.”
#6 by shari on 01/22/2010 - 2:21 pm
I think it has been another mistake, to paint those who “love” multi-racism as the good, sophisticated, and wise. In contrast,depict “racists” as backward,toothless, ignorants. That’s not going to work, especially if they start another war.
#7 by warweaver on 01/22/2010 - 2:34 pm
what about non-white men chasing after white women?
If there isn’t a clearer proof that all non-whites are aware of their inferiority, even if they cannot put a finger on where or how they are inferior, then I dont know what it is.
I cant say that I blame them. Who doesn’t want to upgrade his genetic stock – really, who wont upgrade it if given the opportunity?
This is why niggers go after white women. It isn’t a ‘status’ thing. It isn’t that white women are more attractive than non-white women – even if they are to me. The overriding factor is an underlying awareness by non-whites that getting into the white gene pool, even if through the door marked ‘no admittance’, is necessary to the future status of their off-spring.
It’s sad, really. I mean, the world is full of non-whites that are essentially riff-raff. I realize that I ought not to be mean spirited about the very fact of their existence. Who am I to judge whether muds should or should not exist.
My dad said the damnedest thing: ‘It’s not that I wish people would DIE so much as I wish they had never existed.’
It isn’t that I wish non-whites would die so much as I wish they didn’t exist in my community. Because then I wouldn’t have to wish anything about them one way or the other.
I suppose there is something humane about the liberal mindset that seeks to protect weakness – I certainly DO NOT condone going around taking advantage of weak people anywhere one encounters them. It is one thing to want to improve the lots of the former slaves brought to the USA through no fault of their own – but to go further and advocate that we diversify converts me into a bloodthirsty sonofabitch who may well be anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews GODDAMIT.
I understand the temptation by muds to desire an upgrade. I do not understand anyone who actively promotes diluting the stock that created and advances civilization, such as it is.