THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

I was obviously tired when I wrote the piece about closing up shop for a week and deciding whether this phase of MY life is over. They were two different things, and I said them wrong.

I will not close down BUGS, even though that is what I now see that I clearly said in that article. This is not a matter of interpretation. When I screw up, it is blatant.

As you can see from my quoting the wrong person, I didn't realize this was all Mark's stuff. Mark is off on a roll about white trash. But it looked to me, after I had written a thousand word essay I thought was important, that EVERYBODY was off on this rant, pro or con.

So closing things down a week seemed like an alternative.

As to "closing down" BUGS, my point SHOULD have been that my life has come in phases. When my book team dropped the book that had cost me thousands of hours of work and thousands of dollars, I went on to something else.

By the time I had spent all those years and all that danger making the coalition that brought down the Soviet Empire, I dropped out of the game in 1980 because there was now credit for finishing the job under Reagan. This is routine for me.

That is not normal behavior. As I said, the grassroots movements I championed were ruined by little people who, for the ONLY time in their lives, got big-time attention and began to sound like every other official "leader" in our society. They did not realize that this field is overcrowded already with PROFESSIONAL respectable conservatives, so they were promptly forgotten.

I am the opposite. I start things until what I try to get across to people gets across and they FINALLYY see the point. I have been working on Whitakeronline since 1998.

I am now no longer BUGS.

I thought I might spend a week closing things down until Mark's tirade passed and attention refocused. There will come a time when I leave BUGS and turn it over to YOU.

When I do, Mark and others need to realize that the subject of this blog is RACE. I wet to school with white trash, and I love them not. But they are a distraction here.

And, yes, when this stops being BOB'S blog, founded and paid for by ME, others will have less room for wandering onto other more personal things than I did.

I will start my OWN blog, dedicated to MY meanderings, which are really weird, and just come back here from time to time. I have to hold myself back here because we have evolved a purpose beyond my idiosyncratic thoughts. If you read the first intro to the Blog you'll see that was its original purpose, but a causist is a causist till he dies, and we developed our direction right here.

All this is speculation. I will not abolish BUGS is someone is here to take it over.

Dealing with the Masturbation Generation makes he idea of "Being a Real Man" repulsive to me. Just so, the memory of all those conservative and grassroots "leaders" makes the idea of a permanent place with MY name on it, as the ONLY spokesman, cause my skin to crawl.

An originator should originate. Once he gets it to the point where good people see the point, or as with Reagan where the credit-takers will take over from there, he moves on.

An originator can move mountains if 1) He figures out where to START and 2) He knows when to QUIT.

I keep saying it, but, as ALWAYS, nobody GETS it:

"You can have the credit, you can have the money, you can have the fame, and you can have the titles."

"All I want to do is rule the world."

In our titanically large society, EACH of the above, taking credit, getting money, becoming famous and getting titles, is a full-time life's work. You cannot do ANY of them and have POWER, too. That, too is a full-time life's work.