A lot of people have objected to my pretending to be a hick. By age sixteen I had reached a level of sophistication where I DESPISED self-styled “intellectuals” with the same vehemence that they despised “hicks.”
In the case of nut cases like me and Senator Samuel Ervin of North Carolina, claiming to be “hicks” is pure egomania.
I am a “hick” in the sense that I can tell when something is simply SILLY. “Intellectuals” talk pure crap. Respectable conservatives answer this pure crap as if it were Serious Thought. By the time one gets through debating this crap as if it were real logic one has entered into their delusions. Entering into the delusions of a crazy person is one of the things one is taught to avoid in dealing with the mentally ill.
Senator Sam .acted like he was representing the hicks. “Intellectuals” thought he was laughing at the “hicks,” the way the Kennedys were laughing at the Boston Southies who supported them slavishly.
It never occurred to the “intellectuals” that Senator Sam was laughing at THEM.
One brag I have made here is that I was an Honorary Boston Southie, that West Virginia coal miners said that “Whitaker speaks for us.”
Hence my Proud Hickdom. That is what I read into Jesus’s words about the Scribes and the Pharisees. He said that Evil with a PhD is Doctor Evil.
Senator Sam was not Jesus. I am not Jesus. For us, this attitude is unapologetic egomania.
In Washington, it was easy. I put on my deepest Southern accent, like Senator Sam Ervin with his “I’m just a country lawyer from North Carolina.” People who knew that Senator Sam was a MAGNA Cum Laude graduate of the Harvard Law School found his claiming to be a hick DISGUSTING.
Senator Sam never deviated from that hick image because it WORKED. He (and I) found that Yankees in Washington, DC are absolutely INCURABLE. They are suffering from a form of hypnosis. No matter how many times they told themselves, “Senator Ervin is a brilliant man, he is a DANGEROUS man.” they still fell under the spell of their entire life training about Southern accents.
No one without a Southern “accent” (WE don’t HAVE an accent, YOU do) can get away with asking basic questions, over and over. But we Southerners are considered to be children. We can ask and ask and ask, demanding an answer the way a child does.
That made it hilarious for me to watch Senator Sam in action. You really have to be able to talk your ass off to make a career criminal seem like a victim of circumstances. Only Senator Sam could get away with repeating, “But isn’t this guy just an evil person?”
To a Kennedy, the idea that someone is just “a bad person” is unthinking, judgmental, uncompassionate, anti-intellectual and so forth.
But even a Kennedy has to deal with the children. You have to answer the children who simply won’t shut up.
I don’t know how may of you have had the ego-deflating experience of trying to answer the insistent questions of a small child. You have a choice. You can 1) decide that the kid really is too young to understand the High Sophistication of what you are saying or 2) You can rethink what you are saying to the extent that some of it just doesn’t make sense.
What protects Political Correctness is that no one has the guts to be seen as a child. Senator Sam enjoyed the game. I think I am so much smarter than self-styled “intellectuals’ that I would be embarrassed at being accused of competing with them.
#1 by Simmons on 04/24/2008 - 2:33 pm
“Unapologetic egomania”, you too? I’m at the point in life I will only debate someone on the left if they are a PHD, the rest are Oprah morons that I tell, “how can I debate your feelings?”
#2 by Dave on 04/24/2008 - 8:53 pm
What children see, that most adults forget, is the ridiculousness of adult narcissism.
I remember my 8-year-old school mate Dwayne, who was uncommonly ugly and had a tendency to slobber (even though we all liked him): He like to say this about his ugliness, “When you are born ugly, you are going to be ugly the rest of your life so you might as well get used to it.”
Adults have a REAL HARD TIME with that one. Accordingly, we know where liberalism comes from.
The last time we had a real leftie in the Governor’s chair in the State of Washington was Mike Lowry, a former US Congressman, who represented the district that included the University of Washington in Seattle.
Like Dwayne, Mike Lowry is uncommonly ugly. It is a marvel how somebody so ugly could actually get elected to Congress, but when you are running from a university district, go figure.
As Governor, his department heads were so ugly, all died-in-the-wool lefties, that I could only look at them by peeking through my fingers.
No wonder these lefties are so deeply into the “we are all equal” mantra. You have to hang your hat on something.
Later, the Governor disappointed his constituents by paying out $90K (out of his own pocket) to settle a sexual harassment claim (copping feels) by one of his female aids. That ended his political career, but it was all so very logical.
Dwayne never had any such problems. He was into self-acceptance and realism at a very early age. Today, he is a died-in-the-wool right-winger, with a stash of gold, a pickup truck, a mean dog, a Browning 1911, and an ugly wife and an ugly kid.
Like I said, we always liked Dwayne.
#3 by Hardric on 04/25/2008 - 6:28 am
I rather enjoy an encounter with an anti-white who is impressed by his own intellectual acumen.
“You’re an intelligent person and you fall for that crap? You’re not serious, are you? You’re just pulling my leg. A 12-year old of average intelligence can see through that.”
#4 by Z on 04/25/2008 - 9:17 pm
I happen to be a Yankee. I grew up in a culture which taught me that Southern Whites were ignorant, stupid, racist, backward, and overall very bad people who had sex with their sisters.
I spend 3 years in the South while serving in the military. My time in the South was my first real experience in a “diverse” environment.
I now spend my time reading the website of a 60 year old southern man whose life has been dedicated to the survival of the White race. In fact, HE EVEN HUNG OUT WITH DAVID DUKE!!!
So now when I’m at a social event and someone start bashing the south (keep in mind these events are always all white) the conversation usually sounds like this.
Yankee: Boy, Southerns are racist
Z: Have you ever lived in the South?
Yankee: no and I wouldn’t want to.
Z:Have you ever lived around a majority black population.
Yankee: No, but why does this matter?
Z: Until you do, I don’t think you should judge Southerners.
Yankee: Are you a racist?
Z: What’s a racist?
Yankee: Forget about it….
The problem with people up North is they never had to live in “diverse” areas. The people who did, are who Bob calls the “ethnics” that moved in the cities or the first ring suburbs. These “ethnics” are usually Polish, Baltic, Ukrainian, Italians, Irish, Greeks, etc and are generally looked at the same way as Southerners(very intolerant, very bad).
But no one ever puts 2+2 together to figure out what the “ethnics” and the Southerners have in common? This is a perfect example of pointing out the obvious that Bob talks about.
What the ethnics and the Southerners have in common can be explained by what I called “The Diversity Price Curve.” It goes like this:
As the number of non-whites goes up, the tolerance for them goes down, and when the number of non-whites goes down, the tolerance for them goes up.
Pointing out the obvious is the cornerstone of BUGS.