Freeper Interview Series: Nick Danger

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How about posting the interview here in full?

Nick Danger
October 23, 2003

Favorite book:

Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions." If you're at all into politics, I think this is a must-read book. It explains why there will always be liberals, and why we will never talk them out of liberalism. I fear the world is rigged to produce liberals and conservatives the way it produces men and women... it roughly equal numbers, with the interaction between them intended to produce never-ending wobble around a mean, so as to prevent things from ever settling down.

Favorite movie:

I don't really like movies, or most television. Nothing ever happens fast enough; I find myself wanting to get up and go do something else.

Favorite Singer:

Enya

Favorite Website:

Since I'm the webmaster at freeper.org, the Free Republic Network site, I have to say that one. It must be true, because I spend hours every week working on it. I probably spend more hours at FR, though. Somebody once [told] me I should write a book. I told them I already did. It's just sprayed over thousands of notes on Free Republic.

Favorite Vacation spot:

Any vacation spot would be good right now. I haven't had a vacation in almost two years. Places I would go back to if I could: Puerto Rico, Munich, Idaho. One of the places I always wanted to go back to was Washington, DC. So I moved here.

First person you ever voted for?

I'm not gonna tell anybody that. Let's just say I was young and stupid, and living in a college town.

Strong beliefs and issues you hold dear:

None of this matters very much. Go out at night, and look up. Everything we do here on this little Earth is a nit. The only possible purpose for any of it is to enjoy it.

Married or single?

I used to be married. I'm not anymore. My wife left me for the Chase Manhattan Bank.

Children?

No.

Education:

Yes.

Current Job:

I don't have a job. I have customers. It's like a job except I have a dozen bosses at a time, and they keep changing.

Pets?

I have an Aibo. He's great. If I have to leave town, I turn him off.

What are some examples of media bias that you have seen recently?

I thought the media crusade to save Gray Davis was pretty blatant. We had Arnold the racist, Arnold the womanizer... they even played the actual Nazi card, which if they were on Usenet would have disqualified them. Then the day of the election they tried to tell people it was "too close to call." After a while you can only laugh at them. I think the voters in California laughed in their faces.

Are there any stations that are in your opinion blatantly biased and how?

They're all biased. I'm OK with bias, I just want them to admit it. In Europe the newspapers tell you right on the front page "We're the Socialist paper" or whatever they are. It used to be like that in the U.S. Now they all hide, pretending to be "objective." If the New York Times would just come out and say, "Serving the Socialist Workers Party since 1888" I would have more respect for them.

Fox News alarms the liberals because liberals aren't used to actually seeing conservative viewpoints presented in public. This is an affront to them. They have had uniformly biased-to-the-left news outlets from sea to shining sea for so long that they feel entitled to decide what people can say. Here comes Sean Hannity saying things that offend liberal ears, and no one shuts him up. They don't even go to commercial. Liberals scream that this is "bias." Now they know how I've felt watching CNN all these years.

How could media bias be curbed?

I don't think it can be. There are some occupations that attract liberals like a magnet, and journalism is one of them. One of the core liberal beliefs is that society is perfectible by human means. So we have millions of liberals entering occupations where they can "influence" the poor, dumb masses so as to make the world a better place. We would call what they do "screwing things up," but one of Sowell's major points about liberals is they don't care about results so much as they care about having good intentions.

What are the dangers of feminism as it is exhibited today?

I'm not sure feminism as a "movement" can do any more harm. What's left to do? Men have been dehumanized, babies have been not just dehumanized but killed by the millions, the birth rate is so far below the replacement rate in much of the West that the culture can be fairly termed "going out of business." We see that young men are increasingly turning their backs on a society that doesn't really want them around... what's left to do now except watch the once-great civilization of the West slowly tip over and crash?

Two generations of women have "had it all." For that we will lose the genetic and cultural inheritance that used to be called Western Civilization. I hope when it's gone people think that was a good trade. I suspect the world will suffer greatly for the arrogance of "feminism" as it unfolded in the 20th century. We haven't even begun to feel the harm it has caused. It is only beginning.

The dehumanization of men is something that saddens me greatly. This runs so deeply in the culture now that even women who say they oppose "feminism as a movement" have internalized its bilge, and are now these incredible bigots who view men in a really weird, ultimately dehumanizing way. And they don't even know it.

What are some ways you feel that feminism hurts women rather then helps them?

It will cause the society that produces the standard of living to which they have become accustomed to cease functioning. Women tend to take all the wonders around us for granted. But they don't just happen. Men make them happen. How does food get into New York City, or any large city? How does the garbage get out? Where does it go? What makes the lights stay on? How come water comes out of the pipes? This is stuff that men do, that women never think about. They'll think about it a lot when it stops.

Men do "civilization" in order to make the future better for their children. That's the only reason, because it's not a lot of fun. Feminism has created a society in which men have no more rights to their young than do cats or cattle. On the face of it, a regime that routinely takes children away from their parents can be fairly called "inhumane." Yet we don't call ours that. Why? Because men don't count as humans in our society... not really, not anymore. They're just these disposable things that are in the way if a woman changes her mind. Well, that's not how civilization will keep running. That's just a way for two or three generations of women to "have it all." But at the expense of bringing down the society that made it all possible.

Do you listen to talk radio and if so whom and why?

No, for the same reason I don't watch much TV. I like my media to be interactive.

Have any fears or phobias?

Volcanos. As I child I was greatly disturbed by the idea of molten rock. There was a big eruption in Hawaii when I was about about 5, and there were pictures of it in Life magazine. On [a] fundamental level I understood that this was stuff not even grownups could handle. Before that I didn't know there were such things. I found it very disturbing. Nothing I have learned since has made me think any better of the damned things. Anything that can blow the top off of a mountain and send it into space has to be feared.

Do you have any pet peeves?

People who drive with their turn signals on. Diversity posters with every kind of human except mine.

What have you read lately, and what are you reading now?

Large numbers of small things. The Internet has done this to me, by making it so easy to "graze" the accumulation of human knowledge. There has always been more stuff out there to read than there was time to read it. But now it's all two clicks away. There's no excuse for not knowing everything. If I ever get time I may write a science fiction book about the Google. The Google will be this magnificent creature that knows everything. People can ask it questions, and it always knows. Except maybe it isn't science fiction anymore.

What hobbies do you enjoy?

Backyard astronomy. Some photography... mostly stupid stuff with animals. When I lived in San Diego I used to go down to the zoo early in the morning and catch the animals awake. Don't tell PETA I took pictures of them.

What goals do you have for your life?

That's a good question. I used to have a bunch of goals. The trouble is, I achieved a lot of them and I found out it's a trick. So I became disillusioned with goals. I've switched to dreams; they're harder to achieve.

Do you have a pet peeve you want to share with everyone?
People who ask me twice about pet peeves.

How would you describe yourself?

At unfinished attempt at a Renaissance Man. "He's a marketer! No, he's a programmer. He's an economist! No, he's a physicist. He's an idiot! No, he's really smart." All that stuff.

If you had a theme song what would it be?

I got friends in low places.

If you could be any comic book hero or villain who would it be?

I'm wary of that question, because I think since the last time I read a comic book, they have turned all the superheroes into gender diversity totems. I used to think The Flash was cool, but for all I know he's an AIDS worker in a hospice now.

In recent politics what would you say was the most surreal moment?

I thought the "Bush knew" nonsense in the media, about 9/11, was surreal. In saner times, some editor would have stood up and said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is nuts. We are accusing the President of the United States of standing aside while crazy foreigners killed 5,000 Americans." It used to be that people who believed that sort of thing were considered kooks. Now all the liberals are like that, and they are so numerous that they can't believe they're all nuts. But they are.

If you could create only one law that would become law with no problems what would it be?

An Act, to create the last law. From this day forward it shall be unlawful for any person, committee, or legislative body to pass, or to claim to have passed, any new law about any subject whatsoever, except that nothing in this Act shall be construed to mean that the laws we already have should stay, except for this one.

What would you change about the USA if anything?

There should be more Texans, and fewer people from Massachusetts. I would move Florida a little to the right, and put some hills in Kansas.

What is your personal motto?

All things in moderation, including moderation.

What lessons have you learned from life?

If you hang around long enough, you find out it's a loop that repeats.

What person has your support at this time for President and why?

Al Sharpton, because I want to see the Democrats deal with having their own noises thrown back at them.

Who was your favorite president and why?

Reagan. There was spirit in Reagan, and it lifted the whole country. There hasn't been one like him since.

Where were you when 9/11 happened?

Asleep. It was 6 o'clock in the morning in California. I was up in time to see the towers collapse.

What was your initial reaction to 9/11?

I had three. The first was, when I realized that the first tower had just disappeared, "Oh my God, there were 20,000 people in that thing." (There weren't, but we didn't know that then). The second was, "Hell of an architect; the damn thing pancaked without taking anything else with it. Nobel prize for that." And then came, "What big number of them will we have to kill? It'll have to be a big number. Six or seven figures. We can't let them think this was OK."

What is one event in your life that you would say help define you?

When I was around 18 or so, I became very interested in the writings of Alan Watts, who attempted to explain Eastern religion, principally Zen, to Westerners. I got so far with that when I decided it was probably not possible to explain Zen in English, so I ended up studying Japanese. There was something to that, and the whole business became a big part of how I think. If I could explain what I just said there, I would be Alan Watts.

What is your most embarrassing moment to date?

When I turned 40, some guys from work took me out to lunch. Unbeknownst to me, they had hired a stripper to arrive at the restaurant and put me through this relatively humiliating exercise in front of a bunch of strangers. No wait, it gets worse. That weekend, there's a surprise party at the company president's house... there must've been a hundred people there. I'm fixing a sandwich and who is standing next to me but this stripper from the restaurant. Turns out his wife thought it would be a funny thing to have a stripper... and she happened to call the same outfit and they sent the same stripper. So I have to go through this whole thing again, only this time practically everyone I know in the world is there, including my wife.

How many hours a week do you spend reading and posting on FR?

It varies. Some weeks, 20 or 30. Some weeks 5 or less.

Would you change anything about Free Republic and if so what?

I would like a spam filter on the My Comments box. It used to be My Comments, and comments to me. Now I got everything in there except the Viagra ads and the Nigerian scam.

What two or three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction? Why?

When I got out of school I wanted to be a "strategic marketer." That meant thinking up some competitive offering that would louse up all my competitors' plans, and piloting the thing until my thing won. Nobody gives you that job right out of school, but I did get a chance to do that twice, and I won both times. One of them turned into a billion-dollar business. The other one was for a much smaller company, but I had more stock in that one so for me it was a bigger deal. Those are fun; marketing is harder than football. On a more personal basis, I came back from something that could have killed me, and has killed other people. The people who say, "That which does not kill you makes you stronger" are right.

What things in life give you the greatest satisfaction?

Things that take a long time, and are hard.

What is your philosophy on life?

God, whatever that is -- and I believe there is one -- has to be fundamentally benevolent or things would not be what they are. A lot follows from that. That's really all you need to get to a kind of basic morality.

Who is the one person, either living or dead, that you respect and see as a role model and why?

Leonardo da Vinci. People who can get very good at more than one or two areas of human endeavor frequently do breakthrough things, by seeing patterns and connections across disciplines.

What event in history holds your interest the most?

Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon. That comes up a lot in life. It can end in two ways: you can be hung as a traitor, or you can be Caesar. I've been Caesar, and I've been hung.

What do you want people to remember you for?

Who's kidding who? There are two kinds of people who get remembered: guys who kill a whole bunch of people, like Caesar and Attila the Hun, and the founders of great religions. With everybody else, it's "dust to dust."

When you get to heaven what do you want God to say to you when you're before Him?

Good human! Here's a treat.

Thanks for your (third) ping, but it don't work! This time the "Nick Danger Interview" link produces a blank screen!

I posted the whole thing on post 51 :-)

Sorry! Its been a loooooooooong weekend. :-(

Nick

Was this interview done face-to-face, or via email? If email, were there any followup quesitons or was it a one-shot deal? Thanks.

Thanks! Excellent post!

I fear the world is rigged to produce liberals and conservatives the way it produces men and women... it roughly equal numbers, with the interaction between them intended to produce never-ending wobble around a mean, so as to prevent things from ever settling down.

There was a quote in a H.S. history book back in the day, from whom I have no idea save that he was British, critiqueing the U.S. Constitution. He called it,
"All sheet and no anchor."
That jibes pretty well with your call for

An Act, to create the last law.

IMHO our fundamental problem of "too much sheet" is precisely the fact that "the press" claims objectivity--thereby converting the perspective which inheres in human intelligence and is therefore unobjectionable in a journalist--into a "bias." "Bias," that is, compared to the phoney-baloney plastic bananna "Code of Journalistic Ethics" pseudo-objectivity.
The pseudo-objectivity of journalism is actually the defining of the perspective of journalistism as the official perspective of the nation--it is a claim of being above having a perspective, looking down from Mount Olympus on the frail mortals who are limited by one.
But there is no denying that journalism differs from other forms of nonfiction, and that no logical basis exists for the assumption that the differences which define journalism come from a higher truth than other, less constrained, nonfiction derives from. Why, after all, is a short deadline conducive to truth? Why, after all, is a whole new product which must be marketed anew every day likely to be superior to a book researched over a period of years in any way other than its defining characteristic of novelty? The proposition is absurd, yet "the press" claims to be--is even treated by some academic historians as--"the first draft of history."
It is however impossible to edit what journalism does not say--eg, CNN's Baghdad Bureau ignoring Saddam's atrocities--into a historical truth. Broadcasting exists as a creature of the government, of the FCC, by virtue of the censorship of those who would otherwise compete with the broadcasters. Nothing the FCC does would pass the smell test if applied to print. That's
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

"I always believed Mr Danger is my kind of guy, this interview confirms it."

I agree and it is nice to see that we still have some common sense and sane people in this world filled with innuendo and lies.

Great interview, Nick!

You're a very thoughtful guy and I always read carefully your posts, especially those relating to the male/female roles and issues because I do think you're on to something there:

It will cause the society that produces the standard of living to which they have become accustomed to cease functioning. Women tend to take all the wonders around us for granted. But they don't just happen. Men make them happen. How does food get into New York City, or any large city? How does the garbage get out? Where does it go? What makes the lights stay on? How come water comes out of the pipes? This is stuff that men do, that women never think about. They'll think about it a lot when it stops.

Men do "civilization" in order to make the future better for their children. That's the only reason, because it's not a lot of fun. Feminism has created a society in which men have no more rights to their young than do cats or cattle. On the face of it, a regime that routinely takes children away from their parents can be fairly called "inhumane." Yet we don't call ours that. Why? Because men don't count as humans in our society... not really, not anymore. They're just these disposable things that are in the way if a woman changes her mind. Well, that's not how civilization will keep running. That's just a way for two or three generations of women to "have it all." But at the expense of bringing down the society that made it all possible.

Some of that isn't immediately obvious to me right now and I'm not even sure yet if I understand completely what you're saying, but I do understand some of it and my views continue to be influenced by the portions or your writings that I do understand.

So, you keep writing and I'll keep reading and maybe someday I'll see this world a bit more clearly. ;-)

Thanks for the ping, sonsofliberty2000!