Whitaker's Current Articles December 6,  2003

 

December 6, 2003 -- Pain is Cheap, So is Philosophy

December 6, 2003 -- Great Philosophers Excuse the Rulers Who Do Nothing for Us

December 6, 2003 -- Only Western Civilization Has Been Based on Real Benefits

December 6, 2003 -- The First Step to Wisdom is to Stop Being a Damned Fool

 


Fun Quote:

Let me save you some pain.

You're worrying about what they they are thinking about you, right?

They're not.

 

                                      Pain is Cheap, So is Philosophy                                                

 

The Spanish have a saying, “Of course life is mostly pain.  If it weren’t we wouldn’t need so many philosophers.”

The more miserable a place is, the more philosophers it has.   Even sub-Saharan Africa produced, “It takes a village to raise a child.”

China has had wall-to-wall philosophers throughout its history of agony and tyranny.  India is the homeland of Buddhism and of an endless string of gurus.

Is it agony that produces philosophers or philosophers that produce agony?

Great Civilizations, the ones that produce all that pain and all those great Thinkers, are based on two things, 1) threats and 2) promises they never have to fulfill.

The Pharaohs used the whip and a promise of everlasting life in The Book of the Dead.  India used the whip and the promise of Nirvana after a lot of lifetimes.  Before Nirvana, if you were obedient, you too would be in the upper classes in your next life.

I make fun of all this because I am in the modern West.  This is the first civilization in history that justifies its existence mostly on promises kept.

When Western Civilization gets to a country, all its Great Philosophers are dumped.  The Great Civilization melts like thin ice.

Conservatives tell us that is because we are superficial.  Liberals tell us that is because we are Evil.

I think it’s because the great Cultures were frauds, and so are leftists.  Conservatives are retards.

 

            Great Philosophers Excuse the Rulers Who Do Nothing For Us                         

 

Pain is cheap.  Pain is easy.

Any retard knows how to hurt people.   A brilliant person can work all day and not come up with anything to amuse the people around him. 

You can hurt anybody.  You can’t give pleasure to everybody.   So society is based on punishment.   Pre-humans could break an arm ten thousand years ago.  We only very recently found out how to set a broken arm.

Pain is cheap, and that is what society is built on.

Promises are free.   I can promise you eternal joy at no cost to me, and I can get you to pay for it here and now, big time.  Jesus offered salvation “free and without price.”  Paul was a tentmaker and Peter earned his living and was a married man.    The idea of a working preacher or a married Pope is heresy now.

The Pharaoh said that if he didn’t do his daily prayers, the sun wouldn’t come up tomorrow.   He did his prayers and the sun did come up, every single day.   Pharaoh promised those who built his pyramids they would live forever after their earthly death.

Maybe the Pharaoh was right.  We have heard no complaints from dead people and the sun is still coming up.

So every Great Civilization has produced great Philosophers and Great Moralities, and the West produces Coca-Cola and computers.

The one thing Americans don’t seem to produce is Great Philosophers.



                       Only Western Civilization Has Been Based on Real Benefits                 

  

A Great Philosopher explains to you why you need all that pain.  A Great Philosopher explains to you why you should forget this world and talk about the Next.

A Great Philosopher will tell you to forget what you Want.  The Great Philosopher tells you what you Need.   This is very convenient, since no Great Civilization ever produced what people wanted.

Great Civilizations melt like thin ice when the West shows up.   India can talk itself blue about what great Philosophers it used to have , but there is no way they are going to go back to their loin cloths.

Not a single eskimo lives on the old ice fields any more.  They sit around on welfare and bitch about people who forget to call them Inuits.

In all the old so-called Great Civilizations anybody who could write worked for the ruler.   They sat around and tried to find ways to justify why everybody should obey the Pharaoh or the Emperor and why everybody should be grateful that were so miserable.

We have lawyers and liberals to do that.

Oops.   I almost forgot to give respectable conservatives their share of the credit!

But the rest of our literate population spends its time trying to figure out a way to give people what they want.   They make money by giving people what they want.  They get elected by giving people what they want. That’s where Coca-Cola comes from.  That’s where computers come from.

Those who love Great Philosophers also love huge tomes like Karl Marx’s “Capital” or the Old Testament.

People like me want to take the Golden Rule and get on with the business of making things better for people.

You don’t need me to justify misery.  There’s plenty of misery to go around already.

 

                    The First Step to Wisdom is to Stop Being a Damned Fool                                         

Get up off your stomach!  Stop trying to find somebody to be wildly grateful to.

Demand more!   Don’t try to Understand why the poor government can’t help.   Don’t tell yourself that everybody deserves big money for sitting in a big office.   What have they done for us LATELY?

They sure as hell got PAID lately.  So what did they DO lately?   Gathering cobwebs and seniority and what they call Experience won’t do us any good.

So let’s stop paying for it.

Every time you want to know why you aren’t safe on the street, the government tells you about its programs in Southeast Gooboobyland and what you owe to All Mankind.

Please, please stop being a fool. 

Fools get robbed.  Fools get lied to. Fools get cheated.  Fools get everything we keep complaining that we are getting.

 

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