THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

BASICS: WHY DOES BOB STILL WRITE FOR BUGS? | nationalsalvation.net

One thing people do not do enough of is asking, again and again, "WHY was this information produced?" The question applies to this blog.

Why should Bob, who has already published books and articles, do all this work at his own expense on a blog? On Stormfront many say I am egotistical to call myself a coach. In the Traditional Christianity, I was told that GOD is their coach. I got a huge laugh of that one.

Can you imagine what Christians of ay stripe would say that a college should not have a football coach, each player just gets out there and depends on God's Inspiration? But the absurdity of the proposition is lost in the personal insult to me, which seems very important to a lot of people.

In fact, my ego is more important to others than it is to me.

But my reason for doing this blog SOUNDS like ego, and you can cover up what I have to say with shallow concerns like that. The reason I do this is because I think it is UNIQUE, and anyone in our society who thinks he is unique is considered an egomaniac. By the time he gets through dealing with that charge, his unique point is long since lost.

So I don't deal with it.

One of my top people said that a cut-and-paste site was in the same league with this one. I WRITE all this. Myself. If a cut-and-paster can do the same job, it will make life a lot easier for me.

Then another commenter wrote in that "Well, I don't do that Mantra stuff any more. If I'm already in a conversation, I'll use it some. But the novelty has worn clean off."

Which brings us back to WHY I do this.

First of all, I'd rather not. The ONLY reason I feel OBLIGATED to do it is that 1) what I have to say is unique and 2) you will begin the chain of filter-down we now have on the Internet.

But, as my circuit-riding grandfather used to say when he had to ride around and give four sermons in a day, "The mind can only absorb what the seat can endure". And, "If you can't say it in half an hour, you don't KNOW it."

But the question is WHY did he say that?

He said that because it was true, but also because he was TIRED. Back then a congregation wanted the preacher to preach MORE.

A new preacher would always want to build a new church to show he was a success. My grandfather said, "If you fill up your church until you need a NEW one, your congregation will build it without your asking."

The bishop kicked him out of the South Carolina Conference TWICE.

If I've done my job, BUGS can go on without me without a hitch. But BUGS is not the reason I DO this. I do this because I want some UNIQUE ideas out. If they are not unique, or if my new ones are on a cut-and-paste level, then I will follow the one good piece of advice Thurgood Marshall ever gave out.

When Marshal announced his retirement, a reporter asked him what he was going to do. Marshall replied, "I'm going to sit on my ass."

There is PROGRESS here toward that high ideal, i.e., Bob on his posterior. I didn't write anything for several days and the discussion went on without me.

But BUGS tends to die out when there is nothing UP HERE, OUTSIDE the comments section. Unfortunately, this is not purely the result of my irreplaceable brilliance. IT is the division ITSELF. This page sets the tone for the discussion.

More and more often I put comments up here without comment or simply making a reader comment of my own here. This is how we are developing, and I need more pieces from YOU that are written to SET THE TONE.

Take this idea of asking WHY people write things. So far, it is generally viewed as common sense and restricted to certain areas. So an ad is obviously not objective truth. But if you go as ruthlessly into WHY, as Adam Smith did into making a world rule of supply and demand, or as Newton did of gravity, you will find this rule can cause a revolution on is own.

Why are things SAID? WHY are things NOT said? YOU can build on that.

And ***I*** can just cut and paste.

TIRESOME | 2006-09-03

So here I am at the American Free Press meeting, described so cruelly and accurately by Al Parker (see comments). I don't know what this younger generation is coming to. You won't find me or Joe being cruelly accurate.

Anyway meand Kelso drove up here all the way in the middle of Ernesto, which the weather bureau called a storm or a hurricane, but Ernesto is just one more pain-in-the-ass illegal alien to me.

So I attended NONE of the speeches, for reasons I am not allowed to talk about until someone stops dribbling around.

DC is my second home town, so I went out the first night and had a thrilling incident which involved the police -- my own record is still as clean as a whistle -- so I can't talk about THAT.

I spent an adrenelin-soaked week in the middle of intrigues I can't talk about.

If you are young, I hope this gives a tone of mystery and intrigue. But by the time you reach my age with a whole LIFE you have to talk about while walking on eggshells,, being told ONE MORE TIME that it's all hush-hush until Somebody Calls Somebody makes you nauseous.

I hereby fearlessly predict that those calls will NEVER take place.

Half my LIFE has been waiting on calls that never took place and documents that were never declassified and all the rest of it.

PAIN'S WHOLE PROPOSAL | 2008-01-15

ANTESCRIPT: I'll front the ninety bucks whatever happens.

Pain says:

I have a cunning plan. (Does anyone here know who Black Adder is?)

BoardAd scraped out Bob's junk, meaning we have preserved it for posterity. This needs to be converted into a flexible format that will make it easy for publishing online and future hard-copy printing.

All the posts written since his initial team went back into the Army need to be proofread. They also have to be organized by hand according to the categories written in their headers. Then because there are so many posts and so few categories, new sub-categories must be devised. I started this to see what the organization would entail, and a good editor can get this all done spending five minutes each article.

But there are thousands upon thousands of posts. So this will take a big team to work out. The way I see it, is either we get this moving now with volunteers, or somebody comes up with some money now to hire a team, or we wait till I am Bob's age and have the resources to get it done myself.

The format should be Adobe, since that allows control of the integrity of the content. The posts should be put together as small volumes, and indexed by category and sub-category for easy navigation. With easy navigation, a reader could browse around from topic to topic (ie, categories and sub-categories) and get a cross view of the whole corpus quickly.

To do this would require Adobe Acrobat ($90). If only a few people helped out, this would be a full time job for several months, which is why it would be good if anyone could pay for the labor.

IT'S CALLED SUPPLY AND DEMAND | 2003-08-23

One reason conservatives are so bubble-headed is because they preach "supply and demand" but they never pay any attention to demand.

Conservatives talk about how a good economy requires grim self-discipline or hard work on the part of producers, but no conservative ever mentions what kind of buyer that makes a good economy. They say German goods are good because of the German work ethic, but is that really why German goods have to be good?

German products have to be clean because Germans won't accept anything dirty. If you produce something crappy and sell it to a South American or a Frenchman, he will give one of those famous Latin shrugs and not worry about it. If a German's watch quits, he goes ape.

Everybody likes to say how sophisticated those wonderful Latins are when they just shrug when something is dirty or breaks down. But the fact is we would rather buy something a German would buy. But if you listen to a conservative talking about economics, you would never think about that.

German goods are worth having because Germans won't accept less. Germans produce good stuff because of German demand. But if you listen to a conservative talk about supply and demand, you would never know that.