I am smarter than the average politico. I need you to understand that because I need you to see how important my explanations on how to do things are.
There is a competitive explanation for my success: Bob is just plain a finer fellow than all the others. My ego likes that just fine, but I object to it for a reason. It comes from the way people think.
I want people to concentrate on how great the Mantra is. I want them to recognize it is the product of a unique mind and unique experience. The more you concentrate on what a goodie I am, the more you are moved to act in terms of Good Intentions rather than following what I really have to offer, which is my practical strategy and how to develop a similar practical strategy for yourself.
So when people say that the space lobbies would have lost the space telescope in 1977 because their interest was in fund raising, you are right. They, or more correctly, their contributors, were looking in the wrong place.
When I say movement people are doing wrong because they concentrate on their movement goals rather than the big picture, you are right.
A person who has a lot to learn about the human animal would draw one overwhelming conclusion from all this: Bob is a just plain better guy than all those with ulterior motives.
My ego certainly agrees with that, but it is something I don’t want to see.
Why?
Because deciding that BUGSers mission is to be NICER than everybody else is a total waste of time and effort and our limited resources.
It was very idealistic of Bob to represent real grassroots protests all over the country, but it had to end because I couldn’t raise any money for it, so I had to concentrate on PAID advising. We had to stop.
Raising money is essential to DC political activity.
Likewise, if Truck Roy is less dedicated to our cause than I am, I certainly have seen no sign of it. But he is building an audience, and the Mantra is presently too complicated and obscure for that audience, for which he has fierce competition.
When one is dedicated to a strategy hears “You are nicer, therefore righter,” he feels tired all over. It is hard enough to get a basic approach across without the person you are trying to talk to counting how many angels are standing on your particular needle point.
There is an old North Carolina expression, “You’re ugly, your feet stink, and you don’t love Jesus.” Only a person with Porch Talk will understand that expression.
What that funny statement really refers to is the human tendency to assume that a person you disagree with is evil, bad in every way, including personal hygiene. You then begin to concentrate on how BAD a person is rather than why he is WRONG.
And our SOLE interest is showing where they are WRONG.
#1 by backbaygrouch on 07/20/2010 - 6:44 am
Sleep soundly, Bob, I do not mistake you for the cat’s mieow. You are canny and have a taste for the jugular. That is. when faced with an opponent you don’t engage in sparring or try to punch the guy’s snout. You’re happy enough to sever his aorta. That’s sets well with me.
#2 by Dave on 07/20/2010 - 10:56 am
The real strength of the Mantra, and most on our side don’t get this, even our BUGSTERS, is that it cannot be answered legally.
Robert Whitaker has done the yeoman work of fashioning a position that can survive real interrogation from the standpoint of law and he furnished “the historical backgrounder” for that position in awesome detail.
That is why Robert Whitaker is a real professional. THAT HAD TO BE ACHIEVED. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL AND SOMEBODY HAD TO DO IT. With the Mantra, it got done and it got done splendidly.
In fact, it got done so splendidly it is hard for me, personally, not to think that God had something to do with it.
Now the rest of us have got to do the part of winning our freedom.
#3 by Simmons on 07/20/2010 - 12:09 pm
The Mantra is a post grad level course of study.
I said this a year or two ago saying we needed a bullet point summation or executive summary for its intro to the larger populace. Of course I was called a traitor and told to stick to the original full length and all.
And truth be told you don’t teach people you have to punish them to get them to leave the comfortable.
The NASA story was a prime example of very smart people going back to comfortable. Here is what you do, single out a group of mopes blame them for everything wrong with Nasa funding. Punish them sternly even if you need to make things up and while doing so say in an authoritive way how it is going to work from now on, and if anyone objects they too will be punished.
BTW punish the AmRenners for leading the pack around in crime studies circles, punish them hard, get ’em Mantra thinking.
#4 by Simmons on 07/20/2010 - 12:12 pm
Me and that ajax thing are not simpatico.
BTW punishment works. When I first read the Mantra I went all N&J on Bob telling him about peak oil doom an gloom.
Bob singled me out and thrashed me soundly, I was punished, punishment works I could care less what Big Momma Lib says, it works.
#5 by BGLass on 07/20/2010 - 1:11 pm
Genocide by Assimilation seems destined to fail, if mostly b/c it just can’t DELIVER. It delivers some stuff, but only for a very few people, and often obviously corrupt people, and with a real backlash-whip attached that may cause more harm than good. It just doesn’t seem very efficient for anyone at all, really, except about 5 people at the top. It’s kind of wasteful and limping. Genocide by Assimilation—an idea who time is past.
#6 by Dave on 07/20/2010 - 11:18 pm
BGLass
The idea of genocide by assimilation is the very idea we need to spread.
That is why I prefaced NationalSalvation.net with it.
It is not past. It is just beginning. Our task is to spread it.
The idea of genocide by assimilation is the very thing our enemies suppress. The whole of their effort is focused on suppressing this idea.
We need to surface it and convince people that it represents the future.
The idea is a newborn. That’s the Mantra. Fresh out of the womb.