THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

EXTENSION ON BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND RACE | 2007-07-06

At the end of 1800s the wireless telegraphy moved slowly from picking up resonance across a lawn without a wire to a mile away to line-of-sight to ship-to-ship to transatlantic. Despite the telephone, there were learned articles about how VOICE on the new medium was a laughable idea.

In the 1950s one of the top comic strips was Dick Tracy. Tracy had only one high-tech gadget, a "wrist telephone." There were many discussions of whether such a two-way radio could ever be made small enough to go on one's wrist. For one thing, all radio transmitters required a vacuum tube and an electrical supply for it.

A couple of years ago I saw a pair of wrist radios on sale to a generation that never heard of Dick Tracy for three dollars, about a quarter back then.

"You can't do that anymore than you can FLY" But all of us have flown. Technology has a way of catching up with Timeless Wisdom when that Timeless Wisdom depends entirely on what cannot be done technologically. Which is anther way of saying that a society based on the acquisition of knowledge, of simple truth, has a way of rendering the Practical Man's flat statements absurd.

Which becomes OUR problem.

It is relatively easy to talk about some version of the economic collapes of the 1930s, about which we have abundant quotes and which everybody can see in their minds. Meanwhile the actual revolution is literally right in front of us. Every day your cell phones and computers change the parameters of our society. But we keep talking about economic collapse because, as Charles Issawi pointed out, like generals who are always planning the last war, social scientists are always looking forward to the last crisis.

If you want a PICTURE of what I am talking about, try to imagine a roundtable of Practical Men sitting down in 1907 to discuss the Future of the Mass Media in 2007. I do not live in the present, so tome it is always HILARIOUS to hear someone quoting the latest Coming Crisis in terms of a popular book written by an Expert.

TO BE an Expert on the mass media in1907, you would have to know all about the LIMITATIONS of technology in that age. Everything we are ACTUALLY talking about now would be as hilarious to them as everything THEY would actually have discussed to us.

But this is OUR problem, not THEIRS. The Experts and Futurolgists will get paid no matter how silly they repeatedly prove to be. They get paid and promoted in the NOW, not THEN. But if you are trying to save our race, the future is all that matters.

This is critical, not to the Experts, but to US:

BEING RIGHT ABOUT THE FUTURE IS SURVIVAL.

And you're not going to figure out the future just by quoting what is being said now.

DAVE | 2008-07-07

There have been more blacks come into the US from Africa since 1965 than were ever imported in slavery.

Keep that in mind when you are looking at the black population in America. What is the relevance of "the slavery story" to these recent immigrants? Just what is the black population in America today?

Look at Obama's bio.

The demographic arithmetic is just plain out of kilter with backward looking PC. But it is the anti-white whites who get this the least.

-- Dave

THE OBEDIENT GENERATION | 2003-11-08

No one talks all the time about what a hero he was in the War if he has had a life since.

People my age know a lot of people who talk all the time about how rough they had it in World War II.

Those guys are pathetic, but they are not the problem.

Most of the World War II veterans I know do not flout it. The World War II veterans I am kin to do not flout it. They talk about the lives they have had since.

Let me tell you the real problem I have with those who call themselves The Greatest Generation.

On television there was a public discussion of immigration. One old World War II veteran had on his paper hat, and he said, "I fought a war so there wouldn't be borders."

There had to be other World War II veterans in the audience, but not one of them contradicted him.

They never do.

They never have.

They never will.

Do you know what it feels like to be fighting to close our borders to open immigration and to have some old man who says he's a war hero saying he fought and all his buddies died to open the borders?

Can you imagine how it feels when not one single old man in the audience has the courage to contradict him?

Well, I know EXACTLY how it feels. I have been in that position a number of times. That is why I do NOT worship the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation.

Twenty years ago I remember Pat Buchanan saying that American soldiers fought and died in World War II so that Europe would be opened up to third world immigration.

Yes, Pat Buchanan. Yes, that is what he said.

No, Pat Buchanan is not a member of the Greatest Generation. But at least a hundred thousand members of the Greatest Generation heard him say their buddies died for third world immigration.

Not one single member of the Greatest and Bravest generation had the guts to tell Pat, "My buddies fought for freedom. They did NOT fight for third world immigration!"

What bothers me about the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation is not the braggarts who had no life since the War. Most of them are not braggarts.

What is wrong with the self-declared Greatest Generation is not the clowns in the paper hats who say they fought the War to open up white countries to the third world.

What bothers me is that I have never heard one single member of the Greatest Generation who ever had the courage to say these words IN PUBLIC: "No, that is NOT what my buddies died for."

Not one.

Ever.

EVER!!

MORE HISTORICAL CONTEXT | 2005-11-10

What if you were talking to a Learned Theologian and you mentioned Islam, and his reaction was to give you a dead-fish expression and say, "What is Islam?"

I don't know about you, but I would be deeply suspicious of what that Learned Theologian actually knew.

It won't happen, because everybody who has the intelligence to button his shirt, and many who don't, know what Islam is.

Half of the civilized world in the period when Christianity developed consisted of the Persian Empire. The official religion of Persia was, and had been for over a thousand years, Zoroastrianism.

Let me tell how this gets practical.

Christians always talk about Manichaeism. Manichaeism was developed by Mani, a resident of today's Iraq. He sought to harmonize the teachings of the two great religions of his time.

The two great religions of Mani's time were, let me repeat, Christianity and Zoroastrianism.

Saint Peter was a Manichaean in his early life. It is from that background that he derived his fanatically hatred of sex.

How can a person be an expert on religion, someone who knows all about the influence of Manichaeism, but be completely ignorant of half of the basis of Manichaeism, which is Zoroastrianism?

Easily. He just has to be a historical and theological moron.

The great religious teacher Origen actually castrated himself for Christ.

Now let me ask you something. How can you possibly get the idea that castrating yourself is a good deed by reading the Old Testament?

Where does all this monasticism and genetic suicide come from? Did Saint Paul just invent it out of his own head?

Saint Peter was a married man. Jesus said a lot about adultery, but, and this is not exactly a technical point, he never said anything against sex or procreation. Jesus had a brother. His mother had actually had sex and procreated with Joseph.

Neither Jesus nor James the Just, his brother, ever seemed to be horrified by the fact that their mother had had normal sex with a man and produced children.

But Paul tells us that it is better for a woman not to have sex at all, but "It is better to marry than to burn."

Will anybody ever notice the fact that this makes Mary, Christ's mother, a second-class citizen?

Of course not.

Where in heaven's name did this Manichaeism come from?

If you get paid to talk about nothing but the Old Testament, you just avoid the question entirely. You sure can't find the answer there.