#1 Dave | 2011-01-12 09:19
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Sometimes I have to just pinch myself regarding it. All my life I have been a passionate seeker of premium know how. Most people are too dimly aware of the vertex of experience and how, if you actively move up that vertex, your life is profoundly transformed. The payoffs are just huge. My attitude has always been: "Why waste your life panning for gold when you can do this?"
Mommy Professor never cues anybody in because Mommy Professor, as Robert Whitaker so astutely points out, has never been anywhere. Mommy Professor just plain doesn't get it and likewise for most her students.
I once took an advanced statistics course where an unbelievable thing happened: On the first day of class the instructor announced that his grading policy would be a blanket 'F' for all members of the class regardless of performance. On the second day of class I was the only student who showed up for class. He told me: "I will be goddamned if I am going to tolerate students who have so little commitment to research and so little commitment to the giant task of mastering advanced statistics if what they are really here for is academic credit." He was just one of those kinds of instructors that you find at certain universities that everybody in the department was afraid of so he got away with these kinds of shenanigans. I then spent the next two years immersed day and night in statistics.
He, like me, knew of the giant payoff in taking the acquisition of knowhow seriously. I was a 24 by 7 kind of student. I was one of those rats always in the stacks searching, searching, searching for anything that was real. Years of it. And then the Internet came and I was liberated. My happiness soared.
It was on the Internet that I discovered The New Right Papers and A Plague on Both of Your Houses, ordered them from Amazon and read them and realized that I had hit pay dirt. You have no idea of how hard I work to find stuff like this and if you understand essay and writing, you know how rare well-written thin books are. The quality of the content to my discerning mind was just off the charts. I kill myself looking for stuff of that quality. I have been doing this for long hard years so I know of what I speak. And it was through those books that I found Robert Whitaker online. After that I read Why Johnny Can't Think.
An ongoing part of my job is evaluating the quality of legal talent. I deal with lawyers a lot. Truly talented lawyers are very hard to come by. Law is a game of prestige and status and that is why the talent is so hard to evaluate. I can't tell you how impressed I am with Robert Whitaker from the legal knowledge standpoint. He is more knowledgeable than most top tier lawyers are. The best lawyers instruct judges in the law and they tend to focus in areas of the law that are hard to find. Strategically that makes sense. Most lawyers are so stupid they don't know this. If the law is easy to find you can't win with judges. That judge will kick your ass around any way he or she wants because there is no way you can tell the judge anything he or she doesn't already know.
Robert Whitaker in his own way is an instructor of judges in the law. I don't think many of our BUGSTERs get this. This is so far from what outfits like AmRen do there is no comparison. Robert Whitaker functions at a whole different level, light years ahead in a more effective approach.
Not getting recognition is pretty much the norm for the most important people among us. This is the way it has been throughout history.
I feel sorry for all the people who can't make their way to Robert Whitaker's content. They are impoverished and don't know it. Robert Whitaker is no way a repeater of memes. He is a creator of memes, something very rare. He is also deeply legal recognizing the importance of law in human affairs. That is where he really comes from but our BUGSTERs don't see it.
So I hope Mr. Whitaker continues the hard work of pumping out content. I also hope our BUGSTERS realize what really hard work that is. You don't know what you have until you lose it. And when Robert Whitaker is no longer around, the world is going to be impacted, I guarantee it.