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		<title>The Fame of a Dead Man&#8217;s Deeds Audio Book: Schooling</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Hendon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Bradford L. Huie for The American Mercury DR. WILLIAM PIERCE says our education system is failing, and that egalitarianism, multiculturalism, and feminism are to blame. The solutions he suggests as the only possible remedies &#8212; racial separation being the first but far from the only one &#8212; are ones that most modern educators would rather commit suicide than consider, much <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2018/02/the-fame-of-a-dead-mans-deeds-audio-book-schooling/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Bradford L. Huie<br />
for <em>The American Mercury</em></p>
<p>DR. WILLIAM PIERCE says our education system is failing, and that egalitarianism, multiculturalism, and feminism are to blame. The solutions he suggests as the only possible remedies &#8212; racial separation being the first but far from the only one &#8212; are ones that most modern educators would rather commit suicide than consider, much less implement. Yet a growing number of thinkers and ordinary Americans are indeed considering William Luther Pierce&#8217;s solutions, much to the dismay of the oligarchs who rule us.</p>
<p>If you aren&#8217;t deeply familiar with Dr. Pierce, you might be surprised to learn that, in a controversy over a Black charter school offering a &#8220;Black pride&#8221; curriculum, Dr. Pierce did not utter milquetoast conservative platitudes and say that the Blacks should &#8220;try to be good Americans&#8221; and &#8220;abandon racial identity politics&#8221; and &#8220;embrace color-blind meritocracy in the spirit of Martin Luther King.&#8221; No. Not at all. Instead, he said that racial pride is natural for Blacks, and for any race that wants to survive &#8212; and that White people also need schools in which pride in and knowledge of <em>their</em> own racial heritage is taught.</p>
<p><a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/tag/the-fame-of-a-dead-mans-deeds/">Click here for all the chapters of this book that we&#8217;ve published so far</a>.</p>
<p>What principles and considerations led Dr. Pierce to his radical conclusions? You&#8217;re about to find out.</p>
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<p>Today we rejoin Vanessa Neubauer in her reading of this week&#8217;s installment, chapter 24, of Professor Robert S. Griffin&#8217;s masterful biography of Dr. William Luther Pierce, <em>The Fame of a Dead Man&#8217;s Deeds</em>.</p>
<p>How did Dr. Pierce, an American scientist and academic, come to found the most influential racial-nationalist organization in America? What were his goals? To what extent did he succeed? Listen in to this fascinating intellectual journey by pressing the play button above (or at the end of this article).</p>
<p>This audio book will be published in weekly chapter installments on <em>The American Mercury</em> and will be available from the <em>Mercury</em> as a full-length audio book when the series is completed.</p>
<p>One of the most original &#8212; and controversial &#8212; thinkers of the 20th century was White nationalist, novelist, and founder of a new European religion, Cosmotheism, Dr. William L. Pierce.</p>
<p>The only real biography of Dr. Pierce is Professor Robert S. Griffin&#8217;s<i> <a href="https://cosmotheistchurch.org/product/the-fame-of-a-dead-mans-deeds-an-up-close-portrait-of-white-nationalist-william-pierce-by-robert-s-griffin/">The Fame of a Dead Man&#8217;s Deeds</a></i>, which was published in 2001. This week we continue with the 24th chapter &#8212; &#8220;Schooling&#8221; &#8212; of the book. Experience William Pierce, the writer, the philosopher, the radical &#8212; and the builder of an intentional White community in the mountains of West Virginia &#8212; just as Robert Griffin experienced him, by pressing the play button now.</p>
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		<title>Quarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Hendon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;DOES the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?&#8221; If you answered the latter, you&#8217;re among a quarter of Americans who also got it wrong, according to a new report by the National Science Foundation. A survey of 2,200 people that was released Friday revealed some alarming truths about the state of American ignorance <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2015/03/quarter-of-americans-convinced-sun-revolves-around-earth/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;DOES the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?&#8221;</p>
<p>If you answered the latter, you&#8217;re among a quarter of Americans who also got it wrong, according to a new report by the National Science Foundation.</p>
<p>A survey of 2,200 people that was released Friday revealed some alarming truths about the state of American ignorance about even the most simple scientific facts, with many failing to an answer even the most basic astronomy and science questions, according to a release about the survey.</p>
<p>Out of nine questions in the survey, participants scored an average 6.5.</p>
<p>Only 39 percent answered correctly with &#8220;true&#8221; when asked if &#8220;The universe began with a huge explosion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Only 48 percent knew that &#8220;Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals,&#8221; according to the statement. Without at least a simple understanding of biological evolution, understanding the realities of racial issues becomes impossible.</p>
<p>The survey was conducted in 2012, but the results were only presented on Friday at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.</p>
<p>Heliocentrism, the theory that the earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary sun, became widely accepted in the 16th century, when Nicolaus Copernicus introduced his astronomical model of the universe, which led to the Copernican Revolution.</p>
<p>Darwinian evolution, the means by which all forms of life diverge and divide into races – which ultimately become new species – was first posited by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace in 1859.<a href="http://nationalvanguard.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sun-and-Earth.jpg"><br />
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<p>Source: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/quarter-americans-convinced-sun-revolves-earth-survey-finds/story?id=22542847">ABC News</a></p>
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		<title>We Evolved in Villages; Cities are Unhealthy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Hendon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 05:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Day Brown AT THE OPENING of The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, he notes how young artists practice with the eye, musicians the ear, athletes the body &#8212; and wonders if it is not possible to strengthen the mind before taking on the issues of philosophy. After all, weight lifters do not start out with the most massive objects. So, <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/05/we-evolved-in-villages-cities-are-unhealthy/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Day Brown</p>
<p>AT THE OPENING of <em>The Golden Sayings of Epictetus</em>, he notes how young artists practice with the eye, musicians the ear, athletes the body &#8212; and wonders if it is not possible to strengthen the mind before taking on the issues of philosophy. After all, weight lifters do not start out with the most massive objects.</p>
<p>So, he says, put these questions about the nature of the divine aside, and deal only with simpler issues to <em>acquire the skill to think clearly</em>. He also advises proper diet and exercise.</p>
<p>And now, after all this time, the sciences like neurology, brain chemistry, sociology, and psychology show he was correct: It <em>is</em> possible to increase the power of the mind and deal with these great issues more rationally.</p>
<p>A lot of this insight comes from recent studies on childhood development. But we also see how trauma and other environmental effects can preclude maximal mental development &#8212; which many of us now struggle with.</p>
<p>So then, after Epictetus&#8217; example above, is it possible to design a community, that, from the outset, is designed to maximize the mental powers of each of the children raised in it &#8212; and minimize the risk of trauma?</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t we use car seats for kids even though only a few have been harmed? I can&#8217;t, for instance, prove organic vegetables are <em>necessary</em>, but studies have shown the developmental damage some kids suffer that traces back to the contamination of the food supply by organophosphates. Because the FDA and other agencies have been corrupted, we can&#8217;t depend on government to solve this problem: Citizens in every community must oversee food production ourselves.</p>
<p>Medical science also reveals how exercise increases blood flow, that then washes toxins out of the brain for clearer thinking. If all you do is sit at a PC, brain function may be far from optimal &#8212; maybe even neurotic denial will kick in as you read these lines, and you&#8217;ll find some reason <em>not</em> to change your lifestyle. In any case, we have a clue as to why the kids that went to one room schoolhouses &#8212; and then walked home &#8212; scored better than those now who ride the bus.</p>
<p>Epidemiology shows how, in large schools, pathogens mutate going from one kid to the next, which keeps the &#8220;bugs&#8221; in constant circulation. And studies on autism show how viruses can trigger its onset. But in small rural schools, with only a few hundred kids, the pathogens run out of new victims as the student body acquires immunity. The result, seen in the small schools of my neck of the Ozark woods, is attendance over 95%.</p>
<p>The cities are designed for adults. The suburbs were set up to provide &#8220;each man his castle.&#8221; They all inherit law codes and customs from early civilizations that don&#8217;t much look like our world, which is driven by electronic media manipulated by those motivated by money and power for the &#8220;in crowd.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hominids evolved in villages, and so kids are born with sets of instinctive behavior patterns that still work in villages. Not cities. There are no strangers with candy in a village. Kids do not need to be brought up fearful, and that expands creativity and a sense of freedom. Villages are usually homogeneous too &#8212; no ethnic conflicts.</p>
<p>The posted national rate for autism is 1:155. Amish kids are still raised on home grown vegetables and go to small schools. <em>Their autism rate is 1:15,000</em>. This fact is never mentioned in the corporate media which profits so handsomely selling us the sugary cereals, junk food, and soda our kids are raised on. That&#8217;s another point few will consider.</p>
<p>We can&#8217;t reform the world, just that small part each of us lives in. This article is not meant to be a well defined plan, merely an outline of some of the dangers and opportunities we need to be thinking about. Hominid adults evolved in villages too; which all had kids. It was the <em>responsibility</em> for the kids that primarily motivated the adults to <em>be adult</em> and responsible.</p>
<p>We have strayed so far from healthy ways that our women are bringing fewer and fewer children into the world. If women do not have kids, then, as we can see, they will make children of their men &#8212; in a self-reinforcing cycle of decline and despair.</p>
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