American Dissident Voices Broadcast of February 17, 2000.

by Dr. William Pierce

Hello!

When I began to think about today's program, I had the notion that I would talk with you about something positive and optimistic for a change, instead of telling you about still more instances of media cover-up of Black-on-White hate crimes or about the Clinton government's crooked shenanigans or about the Jews' efforts to corrupt our society even further and take away even more of our freedom. Unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything really positive to tell you about.

I mean, when you see everything around you coming to pieces, when you see your whole society going down the drain, when you're having your face rubbed every day in the prospect of imminent racial extinction, when you see Bill Clinton's grinning mug on every television news program, it's pretty difficult -- and unrealistic, I believe -- to be optimistic. But then I remembered a book I had read while flying back from an interview in New York last week. It's a book someone had sent me, and its title had grabbed my attention, and so

although I ordinarily never have time to read books these days I grabbed it and took it with me when I headed for the airport to go to New York last week, and on the way back I actually read it. The book is titled The Rise of Selfishness in America, and its author is a fellow named James Collier, who has written some 50 other books about our society. So here's the optimistic angle to today's program: Collier is a flaming liberal, but he nevertheless has come to many of the same conclusions I have. The man cherishes the ideas of democracy and equality, and he has a lot of other really foolish notions as well, but he has examined the world around him and understands that it is coming apart. He understands that America is in a state of terminal decline and is headed toward a disaster from which it probably will not recover. And he assigns most of the blame for this impending disaster to the transition during the last century from a community-oriented citizenry to a self-oriented citizenry. He certainly looks at the world differently than I do. He focuses on different things and describes things differently. He manages to avoid mentioning the Jews, for example, even when writing about the destructive role of television in our lives. But he nevertheless reaches many of the same conclusions I have