My last article revealed the fact  I have worked with over half a century:

The people on the magazine covers have nothing to do with the future of the real world.

Today we would say that the YTs with hundreds of millions of  views have nothing to do with the real future.

I started the process of learning to think this way over fifty years ago, when the Important People had their pictures on the covers of Time Magazine, so it is real fun to watch you run into it for the first time.

The whole point of the article was that Important People do NOT determine our future. Your responses were all about how awful Important People are, how they are traitors, and how this may force the Important People to lead us in a different direction.

The center of your universe is Important People. You have no idea yet of what the world looks like when you get over the idea that the people at the center of your world all your life are not central to what happens in your world.

It reminds me of the college freshmen who came from their Bible Belt homes, listened to Mommy Professor, and became Instant Atheists. For someone like me whose background was as Bible Belt as they come, their idea of atheism was hilarious.

We used to say, “Freshmen tend to be socialists and atheists.”

We had our agnosticism, but the freshman-Mommy Professor version was childish.

When these Mommy Professor “atheists” talked, you could hear their religion in every word they said. They still took a loving and sadistically punishing God for granted. They spoke in Truths that, for a real atheist, would have to come from nowhere.

In Western Europe after World War II every historically Catholic country outside Ireland had a  huge Communist  percentage. To us the reason was as obvious as the freshmen’s undigested atheism: Catholics who went radical replaced the Church with the Party, the Book of God with the Book of Marx.

So the concept that Important People do NOT rule what we seek to rule is impossible to adjust to instantly. I have lived with that concept for over half a century. It affects absolutely everything about how you view the world.

The seminar is over.

It’s World View time.

The article below was about exposing frauds that have no funds, no logic, nothing but the passive support of the People of Reputation who say it must be OK since other People of Reputation also say it must be OK.

Not one of the Persons of Reputation who let Enron happen, who thought Ponzi must be OK, who were consulted about Grant and Ward, ever lost an iota of their Reputation for the mistake.

No Sovietologists ever lost any reputation because not one of them even hinted the USSR was a goner. No Futurologist is ever checked later about his predictions. The only thing that ever happens to a Recognized Expert when a disaster occurs in his area of expertise is that he gets promoted and paid to advise on the Crisis he failed to warn against.

Who is going to do the exposing?

Here is where we run head on into the problem of fighting Nothing.

No publisher is going to risk the court costs of pointing out thousands of Persons of Reputation, which means people who can sue for damage to those reputations.

And there is no payoff. The people ruined by Enron and the endless list of other Nothings will not be grateful for being warned off.

Let’s bring this down to the level you deal with every day.

One unmentioned rule of fundraising is not just that your cause must be exciting,  but that your ENEMY must be exciting. The Enemy must be Communists or Evil Capitalists or the ever-popular Military-Industrial Complex or an evil, cackling group of long-nosed JEWS who meet in the Oval Office at midnight to become the Secret Government.

You expose brainless, spineless moral cowards who have no trace of real intelligence.

Today’s Intellectualism is a Ponzi Scheme.

But do not expect gratitude or recognition for exposing an Enron or a Ponzi.

Fighting Nothing takes true heroism.