Author: White Whale

The word “racist” has come to have the same death appeal as “counterrevolutionary” did in revolutionary France, or its ideological child, the Soviet Union.

When you say “racist”, you have cast–or attempted to cast–that person from civilized society, without trial. To be accused in a conformitarian society of non-conformity is to be guilty. The accusation alone is sufficient.

When everyone orients on everyone, like a mutable pack of fish, everyone must turn at the same time, or their order–based upon perfect obeisance to the “General Will”, which is to say to whatever everyone else is doing–will evaporate, and it will become clear that no actual principle guides the thing at all.

I used to be a big fan of the French literary critic and theorist Rene Girard. He talks often about the mimetic–imitative–nature of much human behavior. If you look at old, traditional societies, everyone has their role, and if they don’t play their role, they are ostracized.

Where Western Civilization differs, and the reason it is dominant across the planet, is that we developed the social capacity to build behavior on PRINCIPLE, which can and should be deployed differently in different circumstances. We redeployed the nexus of perception and control from the habits of our ancestors, as passed on to us by our parents and grandparents, to our own interpretation of the principles they passed on to us, which could and did lead to many innovations in behavior and technology.

When the sharp knives come out at the mere mention of someone DIFFERENT–or, to the point, ACCUSED of being different–then this is atavistic. This is a return to the ethos of the literal lynch mob where, as an example, a black man had only to be ACCUSED of something to get the presumption of guilt.

So many supposedly educated people play these games. Rather than seek first to determine the facts of a matter, they go with their gut instinct–the herd instinct, the imitative reciprocity with people likewise doing no actual thinking–which is absolutely contrary to the best elements in our heritage.

Bigotry and prejudice are easy enough. They are shown daily be the Left. What is hard is transcending them in a principled way. This can only be done through the honest application of reason.

Since the broader context should be obvious enough, let me speculate with what is likely something close to the truth how Perry approached this hunting ground.

It is likely true that he had the rock painted over immediately. He presumably had early on political ambitions, and that is just bad politics. Since this thing is in the middle of nowhere, they just put one coat on and forgot about it.

As he drove new people in, they would pass the rock, and someone would say: “It looks like there’s something printed on that rock.” Perry would reply: “Yes, some dumbass named this area “Niggerhead”. I don’t know what the hell was going through his head. We painted it over, because it will sure as hell piss somebody off some day. I hope we get some rabbits today. . .”

Perry is, as I understand, in his third term as Texas Governor. No charges of racism have EVER been levied at him, to the extent of my knowledge. The case for the anti-Semitism and anti-white racism of Barack Obama is much, much stronger than any case for Perry. Obama sat weekly in a church for years and years where white people were specifically and viciously assaulted constantly. Wright is friends with Louis Farrakhan, who is also one of the nastiest racists out there.

Americans: do you deserve freedom? Do you? If you believe so, then learn to think.

There can be no serious argument that there has historically been a lot of real racism down in the South. Just look back to the tremendous energy and zeal southern Democrats exerted to prevent the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s. Look to the people who served long periods of time from southern States, like Robert Byrd, who had even been members of the actual KKK.

Thus, that there would be expressions of racism down there is unsurprising. That someone would be expected to answer for the statements of others, though, is. Should I be held to account for what my uncle has to say about something, if I do not immediately disown him? Can I not find something distasteful, work to end it, and not be treated as if I endorsed it?

Self evidently, race baiting will be a big part of Obama’s reelection strategy, since it was a big part of his ELECTION strategy. I myself was called a racist for simply not liking him as a candidate or person. I would have felt the same way about Hillary, although many of my concerns would have been much reduced since we at least know who she is, and what she actually believes.

There will no doubt be a lot of “he said/she said” in the coming weeks, but one can hope that in the end the continued viability of America as a sovereign nation will be found by most to be more important than, worst case, having been insufficiently indignant at the actions of some other person in some godforsaken back corner of the largest State in the Continental US.

You will rarely see me use this work, but that’s what this blog is: a waterway for moving my excess energy downriver. Love is not “virtue”, it is an OUTCOME. You cannot command “thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself”. This is not on a par with the Ten Commandments. You can command “thou shalt not steal”, or “thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain”. But you cannot say “thou shalt feel happy to be alive next Tuesday, Skippy, because I said so”.

What happens when you do that? People FAKE it, if they are not already sufficiently advanced to generate those emotional states. This is counterproductive. How on earth have wars been fought by adherents of a religion supposedly based on love? Either abandon the religion or the war, but you can’t have both. As I have said, “Christianity” likely would have been more useful preserved as an esoteric sect, or having served its purpose then been abandoned before decay, like a Tibetan butter sculpture.

Wars are plainly needed at time, but not those of the sort fought for most of human history. Most of those have been one set of sons of bitches taking over the land and women of some other set of sons of bitches. Often, it’s hard to feel too much sorrow for either side.

Rightly or wrongly, I congentically seem to feel more pity in such conflicts for women. Women in most cultures are undefined on their own. Even in our own, it is common enough for women to keep their married name even when they get divorced. This is a strange practice, but women seem much more adaptable and emotionally strong than most men. They deal in ambiguity and emotional flux much better than most men. They seem to suffer more, but be better able to do it. That they seem to develop stronger spiritualities in turn, seems an almost inevitable outcome of this seemingly innate propensity.

I dream a fair amount. Some nights see no dreams, but normally if I have them they are emotionally resonant. I have fought, and defeated, Voldemort on several occasions in the last month alone. That he would pop into dreams as a symbol of evil shows the brilliance both of Rowlings idea, and its cinematic rendering by Ralph Fiennes, his costumers, his directors, and script writers.

Last night, I befriended a 15 year old runaway girl, who had a beautiful spirit, even though she plainly had seen some terrors. She had run away to be with her boyfriend, who had then abandoned her. In the end, her experiment on her own was unsuccessful, and she asked me to return her to her father, who was a cruel Muslim, and who, out of my vision, savagely beat her to death for having had a boyfriend. This was deeply painful to me. At the same time, there was so much love in her I felt gifted to have met her. That sentiment is the source of this post.

One could, I suppose, psychoanalyze this, but as I process these things, I feel I am being granted visions of other people and cultures. Any culture which systematically abuses women as much as Islam can only be called cursed. Any man who engages in this sort of thing will not go to heaven: most of them will go to some lower level of hell.

Why was it wrong for Muhammad to marry a 7 year old, and deflower/rape her when she was 9? Because it betrays a fundamental lack of emotional development. Why is it so important that a woman be a virgin–to MEN–that they consider it acceptable to emotionally abuse small children, who are not ready for such things? This cannot be seen as other than a power relationship, and the seeking of power over others as an end in itself is, as I have often argued, a principle symptom of evil.

Oh, so many of the Earths’ problems can be solved. Islam would self reform if allowed to, which is why the fanatics fight so hard for a construction of the religion that never existed. Most people born on this earth are not hard and cruel. They are taught this, and any system of thought or social habit that teaches this is wrong.

I have been feeling for some months now that some corner has been turned, some existential threat has been mitigated; and not just in the United States, but worldwide. What was once going to be, is now not going to be.

Speaking in concrete specifics, it appears the reaction against Obama–and this is not a “reaction” in the sense of landed class interests reacting, but rather the very middle class Obama appeals to rhetorically–has been become self sustaining. For all those people who fought long and hard to introduce some common sense into the American political landscape–David Horowitz is the one with the longest history, but obviously this would include Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Michael Medved, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter and many others–the effort is finally bearing widespread fruit. Conservative ideas–Liberal ideas, in my construction–are not just resonating with angry old white men. They are resonating across the political landscape because they are TRUE, and this now MATTERS. The time is over for pie-eyed experimentation.

FDR had Hoover to blame, in order to get all his silly ideas implemented, generating a much longer downturn than was necessary. Plainly, Hoover was President when the Great Depression began, even though it was clearly the actions of the Fed that caused it. For his part, Hoover began the New Deal, but got no credit for it. This allowed FDR, in combination with corruption of a sort that would make even the Obama Administration look saintly, to get his four elections.

For my part, I cannot say how much effect I have had, but I can speak to the amount of work I have done, and it is prodigious. Thousands and thousands of pages, easily.

I am tired. I look at all this new found enthusiasm–for history, for grasping what Communism was and is, for understanding how economics actually works–very gratifying. I am not sure I was ever needed, but I feel much less desire to spend as much time putting ideas out there on a daily basis as I once did.

I am far too wordy to stop blogging, but I think I am going to try and redirect that voice in a more focused direction, that of my book on finance. I am currently reading a book on the IMF. Typically, if I read a book or two, spend some time smoking and thinking, I have what I need, or think I need.

After this, I have many other projects.

Net, I may start posting a bit less, but I’m still busy. I can’t help it.

It’s funny, too: I look at the silence that follows virtually all of my posts, and it feels like the silence that comes with new snow in the frozen north. I like it, and can’t say why.

When a couple of weeks drop on me at once, and I get tired, irritable, and stressed, I always emerge in the end smiling and singing country songs. Circumstances can push down on me, but they can’t break me.

Life is good. May you be well.

And I’ll probably add a postscript five minutes from now!!!!

I am guardedly optimistic about our future. I don’t expect anything like my financial plan to get implemented, but the mere fact that options exist prevents the imposition of an either/or scenario in the event of severe financial trouble. This reduces the options of the power elite who no doubt do largely influence events, if to a smaller degree than they would like, and to a lesser degree than the more conspiratorially minded assume.

I like to cook, and have made some good Hollandaise sauces, and some bad ones. If you heat things too quickly, the eggs curdle and the sauce breaks. Once it has broken, it is practically impossible to get it back to the status quo ante.

Whoever these power brokers actually are, they tried to do too much with Barack Obama. The man is a walking farce, a third rate intellect, with the moral compass of a Chicago gangster. He is no Mussollini or Lenin, or Hitler, all of whom–whatever else you say about them–were talented, cunning men. It is not enough and never has been enough to be whispering words in his ear. We are being “led” by a cardboard cutout with a speaker behind it.

People see this. It can’t be hidden. You can’t justify $125 billion in monthly borrowing. You can’t pass landscape altering bills, which will effect the lives of nearly every American, without reading the damn thing.

Obama is through. More than that, what he represents is through. The little lies, the “Communism by the drink” of the Democrats is just not playing in Peoria any more. Most Americans are wide awake and hopping mad, and this sentiment is only being inflamed by Obama’s continued efforts to insult our intelligence. He doesn’t get this, but he has never gotten much of anything.

More generally, the strategists, so used to lying with skill, have been slow coming to the realization that things really are different this time. This is not the Reagan Revolution. The fight this time is existential, and the prize this time the continued viability of the American experiment. We are going to the right, hard, and this motion will have the power of tsunami. 2010 was just the start. Everywhere I go I see post after post after post of informed outrage, of people making cases that were few and far between just 3 years ago. I often felt lonely then, but now I go many places and find I have nothing to add. This is a wonderful thing.

We do not need to revert to the Middle Ages to survive. This was, is and will always be nothing but a thinly veiled exercise in sadism, of psychological distortion, and moral depravity.

It occurs to me that faith and hope are different in subtle but definable ways. Hope, to me, connotes waiting. It connotes a gap between where you are, and where you eventually want to be, a gap that is bridgeable, even if you don’t yet know how.

Faith exists in the present. It is a means of interacting with the present in such a way that you create hope through action. You expect better because you do better now. It is much more robust and fruitful than hope.

Many of his admirers seem to be on the anti-war left. I’m not a big fan of this group, but would like to see at a minimum Paul do well enough to inject some of his ideas into the broader discussion.

Here’s my idea: register as Republicans and vote for him in the primary. Whoever the Libertarian candidate is is irrelevant, and Obama will get the nod for the Democrats in any event. You certainly won’t get anyone to his left.

The only one who really “gets” the extent of the institutionalized corruption that is the Federal Reserve is Ron Paul. I have not read his books, but this point seems clear enough. If you really step back and look at the big picture, it the fragility of our financial system, and systemic theft enabled by the fractional reserve banking system–that in turn is enabled by the Fed–that makes us vulnerable.

When we got hit on 9/11, it caused finanacial instability and an economic downturn the world over. This is a slick machine that is not robust. It appears to go fast, but it falls apart just as quickly. There are too many gears and wheels that are interdependent, and too many single points of failure.

I will not say that the wars we have fought in Afghanistan and Iraq were not worth it, but I will say that far more Americans have died in those wars than died on 9/11. Had we not fought those wars, it is far from clear that we would have lost 6,000 or more Americans–whatever the combined deaths from both those wars and the ones off the books–in terrorist attacks. Nor is it clear that such attacks would have cost the amount of money we have spent on these wars.

In my view, our financial system should be constructed such that a nuclear detonation in New York would be horribly tragic, but not crippling. Economies needs to be more local and more robust. Ending the Fed and the Fractional Reserve Banking System will do that.

We lost a lot of good people when Pearl Harbor was hit, but the situation was different. We faced an aggressive foreign power intent on conquering large sections of the planet, and possessing the military power to do it. At some point, there was plausibly reason to believe we would not just lose Hawaii but face foreign attacks on our own soil.

We face no such threat from the Islamists. They can kill people, and this is bad, but in my personal view they lack the capacity to inflict mass casualties on us, absent the help of a major foreign power, like Russia. Yes, several attacks have been averted over the last decade, and others not, like Maj. Hassan’s treasonous and shameful jihad on his own comrades, but in sum if they had all taken place, would we have lost more people and more money than we have in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? It is impossible to say, but those who would argue no do so from a very defensible position.

Me, I don’t know. Are we preventing terror attacks originating in Afghanistan being there? If you argue, as I have, that the 9/11 hijackers had to have had the help of a major intelligence service, then it becomes clear that we have grossly overestimated the actual capabilities of these terrorists.

Are we containing Iran? Maybe, to some extent. We were doing better when Bush was President. We have a platform to attack them, if need be. But are we willing to do that? Should we do that? Candidly, if they start posturing like they are going to use their nuclear weapons–which they will have, sooner or later–our best military play is a first strike. We have the weapons, and this risks no American lives.

I used to care more about the lives of Iraqis than I find myself able to now. We have lost a lot of people, and spent a lot of money to get them to this point. And we are in any event drawing down, so this one is more or less already in the history books.

If we bring most of our troops home soon, I think that would be a good thing.

Few musings.

It is easy enough to complain about the drain on America that paying out benefits to people who do not pay in causes. At the same time, what is the solution? Is anyone proposing that we deport 30 million mostly Mexican nationals? I haven’t seen that. I see a lot of complaining about our porous borders, and what amount to welfare cheats. No matter how many times you multiply a complaint, you never get a sum that amounts to a solution.

As I see it, we have three basic options:

1) We continue with the status quo. Among other things, this means new starter babies every year with new uninvited citizens, paying out money for incarcerating non-Americans, paying for the education of people not paying taxes, and providing medical treatment for people who never pay anything back.

2) We can identify, detain and deport everyone not here legally. Logistically this will be an enormous task, and would logically need to be combined with VASTLY increased border security, or else they will come right back. This will unquestionably lead to enormous protests on both sides of the border, and probably riots. We can handle that, but that will be the cost.

3) We can provide amnesty to those here. Ultimately, this is probably the most practical solution. If we do this, though, we need to set out conditions. We could, for example, charge illegals higher tax rates for their first 10 years. We could use that money to build a better fence with Mexico.

We NEED a Congressional resolution clarifying the process of becoming a citizen, and remove this idiotic practice of allowing women to come across the border to give birth to American citizens. This should have been stopped decades ago. We need to set down that any relatives of those naturalized must go through a standard immigration procedure, with no advantages being conferred by having a relative who successfull snuck in.

Moving forward, we need to require that you need to be a citizen for ALL publicly provided services, including hospital visits and education. We need to create as many disincentives as possible for future trespassers. Yes, this will cause some hardships, but they already have a country, and if it’s shitty it’s because they made it that way. If we cave in, they will keep coming.

Few thoughts.

I like brownies with anchovies and peanut butter.

As I look at it, my blog follows that basic pattern. God bless you if you are hanging with me through this random (is it APPARENTLY random? I don’t know) mess.

I’ve always said that when I die I don’t want to come to realize I’ve lived someone elses life. I don’t think this will be my fate. Whatever I am, it’s different and probably unique.

You can do that too. Please do. The world is thirsty for people blazing their own paths. Those people laughing at you: they are secretly jealous.