Robert Morein wrote:
I found your reference online:
http://www.revilo-oliver.com/rpo/His...d_Biology.html
It is a very interesting article, but Oliver undermines his influence with
me, at least, with the following statement:

"Both were, in their judgement of social and political problems, virtually
morons. Merely a deficiency of practical common sense, you say? Yes, no
doubt, but both acted on the basis of that deficiency and used their
intellectual powers to exert a highly pernicious influence. One need not
underestimate either the beauty of Shelley's poems or the importance of the
two theories of relativity to conclude that the world would be better off,
had neither man existed."

I am not familiar with the politics of Shelly, but as far as Einstein is
concerned, I fail to see what he did in the social sphere that deserves
condemnation. He was a womanizer, and hardly a faultless person, but I am
unaware of a "pernicious influence" such as he mentions. He also downplays
Einstein's place in modern physics. As someone familiar with Einstein's
work, I take issue with this. Einstein saw what Lorentz did not; he saw what
nobody before him could see, and began the Thirty Golden Years of physics.

Why did Oliver omit the obvious example of Ezra Pound, a great poet and
writer, antisemite, nazi, and hater, who ended his life in a cage in a
mental institution?

Oliver was himself something of a nutter over "the chosen people",
even-especially-by his own definitions and standards. Indeed, I hardly
promote Oliver as an all-around Good Guy.

LaVey and others have pointed out-correctly- that names have
significance, those with specific meanings often become synonyms or
antonyms of their bearer. "Revilo" is a made-up name, "Oliver"
backwards. Nothing unheard-of the consider Serutan, Citabria, etc.
But it is a palindrome and obviously designed as such. It is no
coincidence Oliver was indeed "reviled"-he adopted a position on a
significant issue which was obviously destined to make him an outcast.
Indeed, if not for tenure, he would have probably starved or worked at
menial labor or some such.

The point is that Jute would like to be both loved and reviled, on his
own terms: unfortunately he isn't competent at his "profession",
something Hubbard and Oliver completely were. Oliver is widely
considered a classical scholar of the very first rank in universities
as far away as (in every sense) Israel! And Hubbard's demented cult has
amassed more money than just about any "religious" organization in
America excepting only the Catholics, Mormons and Southern Baptists,
despite there being less than fifteen thousand practicing
Scientologists at any one given time, and three-fifths of those being
impoverished org workers. Jute is too much the low grade charlatan to
work the really long con very successfully.