Who is Geoffrey Botkin?

Parenting & Education

On Public Schooling:

“Unfortunately, in this world of [public] schooling, education does not happen, and some children know it does not happen.

“This is partly why young American school children are hateful toward grown-ups. They know the culture of schooling is an artificial and dishonest culture of exploitation, indoctrination, political folly, and institutionalized deception. They don’t want to go along with this but are made captives to these empty traditions of men. They are given no alternatives in our disintegrating culture but mindless compliance or surly rebellion. This is why many young people are ashamed, angry and dangerous, and why American homes are unhappy, fragmented places of confused conflict. Families don’t function well in the artificial, dishonest world of total government control.”

– Geoffrey Botkin

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On Bad Influences:

“Parents must be vigilant with every influence their children encounter or are likely to encounter. Parents can provide opportunities to get away from bad company and to be exposed to great men and visionary leaders. Bad company may not simply be wastrels and delinquents, but fools who are devoted to counterfeit or delusionary academic pursuits. Proverbs 13:20 says, ‘He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.’…

“Students who spend time with intellectuals who hold arrogant or anti-Christian ideas will become like those teachers morally. There are consequences to foolish living and learning which can include straying and even destruction. The destruction might be so severe as to last several generations. Parents can structure their home and community life to be in fellowship with like-minded people who are serious about finding wisdom.”

– Geoffrey Botkin

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On Siding with Christ:

“Our anti-Christian government curriculum is hostile to the law of God and the Ten Commandments for this reason: believers who obey these commands carefully would never permit or tolerate unconstitutional, compulsory, public education. Free people are not schooled by their leaders.

“We have been badly deceived. The federalized curriculum has deceived us to think that the state is a higher sovereign authority than God. The schooling culture has taught us to abandon our duties before Christ and to let our children believe that education is a morally neutral pursuit, and that secularism is not religious. Our children need to know that Christ disagrees, and that it is time to side with Christ. It is time to introduce our children to the blessings that come with siding with Christ and the joys of true education.”

– Geoffrey Botkin

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Courtship & Gender Roles

On Daughters Growing Up:

“Deception 5: ‘You can’t hold onto ‘em forever!’

“By this deception fathers relinquish responsibility for their daughters at younger and younger ages. Fathers are supposed to hold onto their daughters until the daughter is given in marriage to a responsible husband. Deceived dads use Deception 5 to unnecessarily expose their daughters to the dangers of ruthless day care environments, false religious instruction in government classrooms, the company of wayward peers, unsafe employment experiences, oppressive personal debt, and one of the worst environments of all: the college campus.”

– Geoffrey Botkin

“So Much More”, Appendix A – Page 299

On Obedient Daughters:

“The greatest protection we can possibly give our girls is to train them and equip them to do their complete duty (Col. 1:28-29). The more obedient they are, the safer they are, covered by the blessing and protection of God himself.”

– Geoffrey Botkin

“It’s (Not) That Complicated”, Appendix A – Page 250

On Daughters Going to College:

“Why does a young girl need college? To be initiated into modern degeneracy? To become acceptable to the state? To be sorted by the state for service to the state? For the defiling experience of enduring the politics of a modern bureaucracy? In order to develop disciplines she never was encouraged to get at home? Because she has no other options for spending her time more productively? Because she needs to become a wage slave at a place that only hires people with questionably-obtained bachelors degrees? So she can get a job later in life when her deadbeat husband refuses to work, or leaves her for a younger woman?

“Yes, these are some of the faulty reasons many deceived dads have in mind as part of a young lady’s educational upbringing. And these things are all good reasons if the girl is to be abandoned by her father to a life working in a corrupt bureaucracy, and if she is incorrigibly undisciplined and unresponsive to her father, and if she is incapable of working with her father, and if her father will not protect her from dangerous suitors. ”

– Geoffrey Botkin

“So Much More”, Appendix A – Page 300-301

On Tomi Lahren:

“…She seems to be so completely married to her own high-value career that any discussion of a relationship must follow these hard rules of conformity with the professional demands on Tomi’s life. She’s under contract to another man. Did you guys know that? Her life is wrapped up in serving a family man to make money for a family man whose name happens to be Rupert Murdoch. She’s under contract to him so in Tomi’s life how can there be any room for her to build a family of her own and work with a devoted husband to build up their own private estate? It appears there is no room and cannot be any room as long as her value is wrapped up, her identity is wrapped up, in what she calls her ‘amazing job.’”

– Geoffrey Botkin

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History, Culture, & Current Events

On Jazz & Ragtime:

“And if you like the attitude, you are developing a worshipful attitude toward that particular song. And so jazz was marked by this attitude. Deliberately disrespectful and irreverent. Deliberately disrespectful and irreverent. Forms of jazz and ragtime developed a sloppy expression of mockery, criticism and covert protest against the triumphalism of the European traditions.

“It was mocking it. And that’s what ragtime really was. We’re ragging good music. We’re ragging classical music. We’re ragging good solid order and coherence.

“Defiance of authority by misbehavior. Now the trend, I want to make this point very clear. There were racists afoot in Europe who were bad White men, disciples of Karl Marx and disciples of other socialists on the scene. And they were exploiting and using Black people to further revolutionary ideas through music. And so this trend in defiance of authority was not led by Black Americans, but revolutionaries in Europe and spoiled American White kids who wanted to experiment with downward mobility, sensual license, and a party lifestyle that was not far removed from the brothels and the honky-tonks….

“Here’s a quote by E. Michael Jones who has studied this extensively.

“He said, ‘The happy-go-lucky, jazzin’, guilt-free, sexually liberated darky is a cultural construct created by white moderns.’* They were exploiters. I hate men who exploit the weak. Women and children and people who don’t have the education or the background to stand up and have moral clarity and certainty. And I hate music that does this to our culture and to our children.”

– Geoffrey Botkin

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*Note: This quote is from “Dionysos Rising”, by E. Michael Jones – Source

On Colonization & Phillis Wheatley:

“Imagine with me for a moment what you might do if you live during the last years of the African slave trade in Boston after the War of Independence. Let’s just say you’re there, you have nothing to do with the slave trade, but one day a slave ship shows up in the Boston Harbor, and you go down to see what’s going on, and your heart goes out to a seven-year-old orphan girl that you see who’s about to be sold to somebody. And before anybody can buy her, you step forward, and you buy her, and you take her home, and you plan to emancipate her as soon as she can take care of herself in Boston society as a free Black woman.

“So you get her home, you get her back to health, you teach her to read and write, you introduce her to your most polite and well-educated friends, you introduce her to the wisdom of 500 years of literature that are on the shelves in your library, and she begins to flourish. And she starts reading the great, the great books that you’ve got: Alexander Pope, John Milton, Homer, Horace, Virgil, and the Bible. And so the question is, if you do this, are you a cruel colonist for helping a young orphan in this way?

“This happens to be the true story of Phillis Wheatley – and it is a true story. She was born in West Africa, she was rounded up by Black slave traders, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight. She was then transported to North America and then taken into the Wheatley family of Boston.  By age 12, she was reading Greek and Latin classics in their original languages, as well as some of the more difficult passages from the Bible, and at the age of 14 she wrote her first poem to the University of Cambridge, meaning Harvard. She later traveled to the Atlantic again, you know, going east this time as a refined woman in a comfortable cabin.

“She was able to examine some of the foundations of civilization when she went to the United Kingdom. She traveled to London, she was introduced to the Lord Mayor of London, she was able to find a publisher for her book of poetry, making her the very first African-American author of a published book of poetry.

“So is the civilizing influence of colonization positive or negative? In her life, what was it? If the culture is inferior, then the colonization of that culture can be powerfully positive and helpful.”

– Geoffrey Botkin

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Note: A real biography for Phillis Wheatley can be read here: Encyclopaedia Britannica.