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    FLAWED THINKING - THE PRIMARY PILLARS UPON WHICH WHITE SUPREMACY RESTS

    Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

    FLAWED THINKING - THE PRIMARY PILLARS UPON WHICH WHITE SUPREMACY RESTS


    FLAWED THINKING:
    1). All dogs have fleas. My cat has fleas. Therefore, my cat is a dog
         1. All dogs don’t have fleas.
         2. Dogs are not the only animal that has fleas.

    FLAWED THINKING:
    2). Billy is brilliant. Billy went to Harvard. Therefore, Harvard produces brilliance.
         1. Billy may have been brilliant before he went to Harvard.
         2. Willie also went to Harvard and he’s an idiot.
         3. Harvard may seek-out brilliance to make themselves APPEAR to be responsible for Billy’s brilliance.
         4. Congress is filled with Harvard graduates, yet, it is the most dysfunctional institution in America.

    FLAWED THINKING:
    3). Dick went to Princeton. Dick is highly respected in academia. Therefore, Dick is a brilliant academic.
         1. As shown above, the fact that Dick went to Princeton is meaningless.
         2. The fact that Dick is highly respected must also be taken with a grain of salt, since the people who PROCLAIM Dick’s brilliance have yet to be individually evaluated.

    SOLID AND LOGICAL THINKING
     
    1). Larry is a critical thinker. Critical thinkers cannot accept hearsay as evidence. Therefore, Larry MUST make his own assessments regarding truth, knowledge, and wisdom.
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    Once you gather the facts, ALWAYS connect the dots for yourself.
     
    We Must Never Confuse Education With Intelligence
     
    When we consider all of the problems that we have in the Black community, if anyone asked me what we are in most dire need of to resolve those problems, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second - I’d say education. Education is the key to resolving high unemployment, because it would enable us to create our own jobs; it is the key to reducing crime in the community, because if we educate ourselves properly we’ll become enlightened enough to recognize that simply gathering the most material "things" is not what makes life worthwhile; and finally, with the proper kind of education we’d stop worrying about what other people think of us and start focusing on what we think of ourselves.
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    But with that said, it is also important to never confuse education - which I define as the science of efficient and independent thought - with indoctrination, the mere ability to regurgitate the thoughts of others - and it’s our tendency to do just that, that is the source of many of our problems, in not just the Black community, but in society as a whole.
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    Our universities and various institutions of higher learning are great when it comes to teaching the science of technology - math, engineering, medicine, and other technical pursuits - but they fall far short of the mark when it comes to educating students in the pure, efficient, and independent ability to think. That’s why we have so many Ph.Ds running around saying things that essentially amount to, "Obama is un-American - he’s engaged in a socialist plot to protect my family." These people are unable to differentiate between the theoretical - their emotional, and thereby, erroneous, association of the word "socialist" with evil - from the practical - society's need to put policies in place that will promote the overall needs of the people, and the nation as a whole.  A given policy may be the perfect solution for one of the nation's biggest problems, for example, but because someone labeled it socialist, many will fight it to the bitter end, because they've been told that the solution constitutes socialism, and socialism is evil - even though, with all of their education, they can't explain what makes it evil.
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    Thus, many of the people who we accept as "experts" in what I call the "speculative arts" - psychology, philosophy, sociology, political science, economics, etc. - routinely engage in reckless and unwarranted speculation as though it’s fact. That’s why we can’t assess, predict, or control human behavior with the precision that we can land a spacecraft on the moon. If a physicist, biologist, or medical doctor engaged in the kind of reckless speculation that these people routinely do, they’d be run out of the profession.
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    One of the primary reasons that many of these people are so reckless in their thinking is, while it is true that these "highly educated" individuals have spent years in various classrooms, they haven’t been educated in the area of efficient and independent thought. Instead, they’ve spent their entire educational careers being indoctrinated into embracing the beliefs of long-dead White men. Now, that isn’t to say that the thoughts of the thinkers of the past shouldn’t be reviewed, but their thoughts shouldn’t be idolized and considered superior to our own, which is generally the case. As a result, many of our so-called intellectuals come out the other end of our most prestigious universities not as powerful independent thinkers, but as celebrated, but shallow-minded, regurgitators of other people’s thoughts.
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    A perfect example of how our educational system is failing society in its responsibility to prepare the leaders in our society to think can be seen in the case of Rep. Michelle Bachmann. In 1988 Ms. Bachmann received an LL.M in tax law from the William and Mary School of Law, and she worked as a tax attorney prior to entering congress. Now, I don’t know what kind of tax lawyer she was, but I’m confident that most of the people reading this document will agree that a deep and independent thinker this lady is not. The very same is true of not just many, but the majority of people that we accept as "educated" based on their resume and credentials alone. If that were not the case, with all of the Ph.Ds being conferred across this country every year, one would think we'd live in a much more enlightened society.  George W. Bush is a product of Yale. Granted, he's not a Ph.D, but still . . .
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    My point is this - the primary way that the establishment manages to control and bamboozle the people is by trotting out selected people that they want us to listen to, and then offering up their resume and credentials as justification for why we should hang on to their every word. And since most of us have been conditioned to be in awe of the reputations of the various prestigious institutions of higher learning - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. - the establishment can simply attach the name of one of these institutions to the person they're promoting, and more often than not, we’ll simply suspend all reason and critical thought and blindly accept whatever the person says as gospel. And in many cases, even when our common sense says, "Hey, what he just said doesn’t make sense," we’ll often simply chalk it up to our not being "educated enough" to grasp the nuances of his or her reasoning. That’s exactly how we get played, and we often pay these people ridiculous speaking fees for the privilege of being played.
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    You can go into many courtrooms across this country and routinely witness two so-called experts taking completely opposite points of view on almost any subject, because they're saying what they're being paid to say. That's a flaw of human nature. So if you want to be enlightened, never blindly accept other people's points of view. Take the time to do the research and connect the dots for yourself.
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    We should never give anyone else’s ability to think priority over our own. Simply because a person has more degrees than you do, that doesn’t mean that he or she is more intelligent than you are. If we take a brain surgeon with an IQ of 120, and a high school dropout with an IQ of 140, while the brain surgeon may have more knowledge at his immediate disposal than the high school dropout, he’ll never be as smart. Thus, in a situation where all things are equal, the high school dropout will be able to connect the dots much more efficiently than the brain surgeon every time. Dr. Ben Carson is an excellent example of that. The guy is a celebrated brain surgeon, but I know many high school dropouts who could pick his political ideas apart on one brain cell. He's obviously been taught WHAT to think, not HOW to think.
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    So while we should always attempt to enhance our education, if circumstances prevent us from attending an institution of higher learning, we should always remember this - knowledge is free, and there’s just as much knowledge on Google, or at the corner library, as there is at Harvard University. So we should dedicate our lives to obtaining that knowledge, because once we have it, it doesn’t matter where it came from. In fact, while Harvard can expose you to knowledge, it cannot educate you. Education is a solitary pursuit, so the only one who can truly educate you, is yourself.
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    Thus, whenever you begin to feel self-conscious over your lack of formal education, you should remember that Socrates - the father of modern thought - was a hood rat.  Look it up, and begin to educate yourself.
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    THE EULIPIANS
    Some of the greatest minds I've ever known
    held court while sitting on empty milk crates
    in the parking lots of ghetto liquor stores.
    At their feet I embraced the love of knowledge,
    and through their tutelage learned to
    defined self-worth in my own terms.
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    These are the "Eulipians"—writers, poets, musicians, painters,
    and uncommon drunks—
    those shade-tree philosophers who
    contemplate the fungus between the
    toes of society;
    Who dance with reckless abandon,
    unfettered by formal inhibition,
    or the presumptuous
    speculation of the ages;
    Who live in county jails, cardboard boxes,
    alley ways, and luxury Apartments;
    Whose very existence exposes the scam
    of Great Bruteland.
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    While these obscure intellectuals
    stood well outside the mainstream
    of academy, I’ve watched
    with astonished delight as
    they sang, scat, and scribed their
    philosophy into the mainstream
    of human knowledge;
    As they rammed forth the proposition
    that knowledge is free 
    thus, transcends the collusion
    of caste and privilege.
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    Bird, Malcolm, Langston, and Trane –
    They all sang but one song,
    a song dedicated to the proposition
    that man’s innate thirst for knowledge
    will someday overwhelm his passionate
    lust for stupidity.     
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    BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE CRITICAL THINKERS, AND MAKE THEIR OWN ASSESSMENTS ON TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, AND WISDOM.
    TAKING THE WORD OF OTHERS ON WHAT CONSTITUTES GOOD, GREATNESS, WISDOM, OR TRUTH, ARE THE PRIMARY PILLARS UPON WHICH WHITE SUPREMACY RESTS.
    KNOWLEDGE IS FREE, AND OUR WATER IS JUST AS WET AS THEIR’S.
    BRILLIANCE IS EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG ALL HUMANITY.
     
    .Eric L. Wattree

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    Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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    Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

    Comments

    Anyone who can read can easily find study after study that shows that when intelligence tests (of all sorts) are given to Blacks and Whites, as long as they come from the same socioeconomic backgrounds (decent parents, same or very similar incomes, same schools - they test out at the same level. Exactly the same on average. The Internet is a wealth of information. You must simply be sure of the real sources of the information you read.

    Why are we letting the unions destroy so many children? I watched the movie Waiting for Superman, and it was very clear how much damage is being done in schools designed to support union members, and not the children they serve. I also read that both FDR and George Meany said that we should NEVER allow unions into our government (at any level). In their own words they stressed that point. Several times. It makes sense to me.  I think they were both correct. Why did JFK sign that first Executive Order allowing unions in our government institutions? Power? Votes? He was already in office. Payback for votes, I guess.  He knew what FDR said - did he not believe the damage FDR and Meany warned about would occur? I suspect he thought FDR was not correct in his assessment of the results. Sadly, FDR was correct. Who is paying for the results? The kids... sadly, the kids are.

    So how do we fix it? How do we get these kids good educations? Not everyone has a Mom like the good Dr. Carson. She was something. eh?

    I like your site -  you people make sense. I like it when I read writing that makes sense. Not just writing I agree with - but intelligent points, that are well written, and make me think. I do agree with most of what you have here, though. Someone is on their toes!

    I found your site by entering "Please Tell me the Government does not pay for these VERY STUPID PSAs I keep hearing on the radio.  Well.. sadly, I guess the government DOES pay for them. What a waste of money... it is so sad.

    And YES - NEVER confuse education with intelligence. I have met so many morons from schools that I though would not let mindless idiots attend. THEY ARE FILLED WITH THEM! What happened to these supposed Top Notch institutions?  I read an awesome book online called "Keynes at Harvard" - what an eye opener. Do you want to know what happened to Harvard? Read that book. OMG. You'll fall right out of your chair. Imagine being given the task to come up with the biggest economic lie ever told (aside from communism, that is).

    Well, I'm off and running - it's back to work with me. There is software to write, algorithms to explore, bug to swat. Error Beeps to listen to... beep beep beep beep... if I hear one more beep.. I'll freak out.

    Thanks again for the BRAIN food.

    Richard Burgess

     


    Richard,
     

    I want to thank you so much for your kind words.  I'm not getting rich doing what I'm doing, but comments like yours are my primary compensation, and I value them like gold.

    But with respect to your comments about unions, I don't completely agree with you there. Labor unions are the middle class' most important lobbyist.  While I do agree with you that unions can go overboard, we need to address that issue specifically, and not throw the baby out with the bath water. Every since Reagan all but destroyed labor unions during his administration, the American middle class has been in a downward spiral, until at this point, the top 5% of the population controls 82% of the wealth, and the bottom 80% of the population only controls 7% of the wealth. So at this point, we are virtual slaves. A recent Princeton study declares that America is no longer a democracy. We are now an oligarchy  http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746.

    Thus, the problem is not the unions, the problem is how we set our priorities. We need to elevate teachers to a much higher level in our socio-economic pecking order - to a level commensurate with their value to society - and then make the standard to become a teacher much more rigorous. In short, teachers should be paid like politicians, and politicians should be paid like teachers.


    By the way, I know how you feel about the Dr. Carson, but I have watched him change certain  political beliefs, as well as general ideas as he consumed more and more information. I think he IS a thinker, but it is my belief that he is simply WAY, WAY out of his element. He is the proverbial "fish outta water."  He has truly had his head buried in medical books for so many years, and now he has had to change his "reading diet" (which is not easy) and I have seen him literally "Call Himself Out" for a lack of knowledge while speaking. I think that is one of the signs of someone who can think, and think critically - but maybe not the fastest thinker when in new territory (out of his comfort zone), granted, but he does know how. And he also appears to be a quick study, too. I am also guessing he owes his speed reading abilities to him mom, as well  (I actually admire her more than the Doctor... is that sad, or what?). It sounds like she literally nailed their feet the floor and said READ!  ALL OF IT!

    Ok.. back to my code.. breaks over.

    Thanks again for the bright spot in my evening,

    Richard


    Poor Richard, it appears you have swallowed the Kool-Aid offered by the Liberal and Conservative Corporate Schooling advocates. Claiming that teachers are destroying our children is beyond asinine but it does represent upper-class groupthink. The word 'Union' has been effectively demonized by the Ruling Class especially where Working Class people are concerned but teachers are professionals and their Unions are professional organizations that address much more  than labor-management  issues, they also advocate for the children you and your ilk claim they are trying to destroy.

    We are already seeing the results of corporate for-profit schools with their low-wage non-union disposable workforce and they are not encouraging but that won't stop the corporate takeover of education you appear to support.

    It's telling that 'Reform' advocates always attack the teachers and never address the overpaid and bloated Administration/Management side of the equation, this is where it becomes evident that this is a Class Struggle issue with children's education a mere talking point.to drive the larger agenda.


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