STORMFRONT REPLY | 2006-01-26
This is an exchange I had with a Stormfront member:
I am beginning to realize that someone is about to make a really great comment by the fact that it includes a lot of apologies.
So here was the inevitable apology after the excellent insight:
"I think there is a moral in there somewhere. Feel free to use it if you can figure out what it is."
What this person told me is exactly what I keep preaching: the great problem we face in dealing with the Big Lie is actually realizing, I mean realizing at the gut level, just how stupid what all these highly paid pretentious "authorities" REALLY ARE.
As if all their titles and money were not enough, they have a backup group of respectable conservatives to act like an opposition and to take them seriously.
That is the essence of the Big Lie. You cannot deal with it without ridiculing it.
But we have been taught at enormous expense that there is something TO what we see as simply ridiculous.
An adult has real difficulty saying, "But, all crap aside, the Emperor is stark naked!"
It sounds childish to let the truth out like that.
But of such, as someone better than me said, is the Kingdom of Heaven.
[QUOTE=x]What a pleasant surprise to get a private message from Bob Whitaker.
I got it as I was reading a thread about the educational level and IQ's of people on stormfront. This thread reminded me of the time I learned how high my own IQ was. Looking back I thought it could have been a Bob Whitaker story.
I was going through a divorce and custody fight and part of that was physiological testing including an IQ test. When the psychologist told me that my IQ was rather high he asked what I thought of that.
I replied "It scares the hell out of me."
He looked at me rather perplexed and asked "Why"
I said "All these years I have thought that I was just average and the people in charge were all smarter. Now you tell me that most of them are not as smart as me. We are all screwed. "
I think there is a moral in there somewhere. Feel free to use it if you can figure out what it is.