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Keeping the Payoff
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 10/11/2006
I may not have learned much about serenity in alcohol and drug recovery but I did learn the quickest route to every emergency room in town. One woman I carried into the ER in my arms had taken a bottle of miscellaneous drugs.
The doctor told me that if I had gotten there half an hour later, she would have died. But what would have killed her was nt any of the illegal drugs. It was the Tylenol.
I knew a guy personally who killed himself with an aspirin overdose.
Back to basics:
If any dug that makes you feel good could kill you that easily, it would be strictly on prescription. But aspirin isn’t and Tylenol isn’t.
Why not?
Since I did grad work in Public Choice, it never occurred to me to ask anybody this. Drugs that make you fell good are a payoff. Medicine, as an institution, must control all payoffs.
Once again, this will be looked upon by most people as some sort of major scandal. If you understand public choice it is simply logic. Insitutions like the medical profession must evolve, like any other living being.
A Public Choice professor would not understand this because Public Choice has evolved. It now looks like any other filed of economics, with endless equation and its nose in “the literature.” I left it when it was an extension of common sense.
Every institution becomes wordist, that is, it becomes based more and more, not on reality, but on its own words. As an institution evolves and becomes stronger, its own survival takes the place of its original purpose. To bitch about that makes as much sense as groaning about the fact that evolution forces us to use the outhouse. It is an embarrassing fact, but it is also nature in action.
Medicine as an institution evolves to take over the payoff. The church evolved to make men accept all the pain so that the chruch got all the payoffs. The only thing tha stopped the church’s total control of all payoffs was competing institutions like kingship. In fact, for allt he talk about “the first republic” in Iceland or San Marino, kingship is everybit as alien an institution, a Middle Eastern institution, as is the church itself.
One of the first things an evolving instituion must get rid of is seious history.
I remember reading about a famous saint inthe Middle Ages who wiped outhis whole family by threatening them with Hell unles they gave up the world and became sterile in the church’s service. He particularly talked about the STINK of Hell. He was a saint because his family disappeared and everything they had went to the church.
I can say this with such brutal frankness because, to me, this is nothing extraordinary. ALL institutions begin to operate this way. ALL institutions end up operating entirely this way. It is only a few mortal men who return institutions temporarily to morality. The the institutions goes back to what its evolution makes it do.
This is, of course, the exact opposite of the story we hear. The institution is perfect, it is only mortal men who mess it up.
Pain
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Comment Responses on 10/11/2006
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Are you sure Trager was criticizing you? It sounded only like a commentary to me.
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ME:
PLEASE don’t do that to me! You know I don’t care whether someone criticizes me or notm and I am very disappointed that you would bring it up.
Trager made some silly comments, the kind of not-listening pretend wisdom I am am deeply sick of. Now you add more ofhte same, “I don’t he was criticizing.”
Who gives a damn? He was bieng SILLY, and that bothers me more than any personal insult, and you should know that by now!
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Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Comment Responses on 10/11/2006
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This post is dead on. There are so many distractions out there. You have to decide first and foremost what you are, because you can easily get mired in something that is in the big picture irrelevant to your greater cause.
For example, I noticed a Stormfronter who has gotten so obsessed with the Jew thing that he forgot about the white thing. He says that the whtie and non-white thing is just a false dichotomy that the evil Zionists are using to seperate the goyim and keep them weak by causing them to fight among themselves while the Jews take over the world.
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ME:
Exvellent example! That is EXACTLY what I am talking about!
The Southern Nationalists have gone over entirely to Presbyterian theocracy. They started out by advocating an exact duplicate of the melting pot, but inside a Southern country, God knows why. The founder of WOL went back into the military and became a routine “the only color color that matters in the army is uniform green” type. He got into American Patriotism and the loyalty of troops to each other and did what your anti-semite buddy did, decided we were All One Race under The Flag.
Read National Review and you will see them pitifully trying to find SOMETHING to substitute for hte reality everybody is becoming more nad more familiar with, the elephant in the living room. They fight medical reesearch in the name of the Good Old Days when priests were raping little boys and every single bishop helped them do it.
They are fanatically behind Bush’s Vietnam War, just like they were behind the last one taht the liberals started. There is very little difference in the outlook of the Kennedy’s Best and the Brightest and today’s neoconservatives.
In fact, today National Review denounces its own founders and backs everything Kennedy’s Best and Brightest stood for.
But Wordism can NEVER be consistent. It has no BASICS. It flows along in a river of words and experts and tens of millions of words of commentary. As in today’s “Christianity” everything changes but that is all words, so they simply make up new words to make hte changes look unchageable. Orwell’s 1984 simply exposes nakedly what our wordists do all the time.
I used to get a lugh out of reading Buckely. He always says he stands on Eternal Religious Principles. I used to call his comments, “Eternal Truth This Week.” What wordfs give words can take away. So what would be called “new” earlier is now called “a discoveryof eternal truth.”
When the business community and the money turned against the Confedreate flag in South Carolina, the Citadel and Bob Jones IV did an abrupt about-face on the issue. Bob Jones quoted a verse from scripture to justify himself. It wasn’t a change of position, it was just Eternal Principles.
But you see that flag went up over the capitol in 1963. The Bible was already ine very hotel room by then. Bob Jones only discovered that Eternal Principle when it became a matter of losing his rich buddies.
You can call it coincidence. You can call it a miracle. Or you can say a nasty little wordist man was donig a nasty little wordist thing.
That Confederate flag flap was full of miracles or coincidences. Governor Beasley’s advisors and conventional wisdom told him he had to keep the Confedrate flag vote until November of 1998 in order to win reelection. He then had to get rid of that pro-Confederate flag position, everybody said, as soon as possible AFTER November of 1998 in order to be nominated for vice president.
So, lo and behold! In December of 1998 Beasley said he spent the night on his knees before the Baptist Convenstion and the Lord Jehovah told him to change his positioon on the flag!
God told the Mormons to change their position on not letting blacks become bishops intheir church during the civil rights movement of hte 1960s. God told Bob Jones to banadon the Confederate flag at just the right moment.
By the way, I STILL haven’t heard anyone but me mention these interesting coincidences in any of these cases. They areafraid of offending the “Christians.” That is wordism in action.
A woirdist can only react to reality with violence and suppression, I don’t care WHAT his form of wordism is.
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