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Power: How Pros Make Fools of Amateurs
Posted by Bob in Blasts from the Past, Coaching Session on 06/02/2009
Posted by Bob on August 13, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Since I am no longer, except in legal terms, a public figure, I want to give you some basic lessons in common sense applied to government.
Reagan had a lot of top-level appointmentees at the P.A.S. (See below) level. He took on a lot of the old Republican gang who had “experience” at the high level, i.e., mostly those who would sabotage his programs, because of their “experience.”
But Reagan had a Shrewd saying about the other thousand appointees BELOW P.A.S. level:
“We are here to clean out the swamp, not to join the alligators.”
For those who have forgotten, I use the capitalized word Shrewd to described the peak level of Dumb. It is mindless tupidity whichisnot just mentioned, but thundered out as Words of Wisdom. The Greatest Generation destroyed our world by beating its chest and screaming out Shrews statements that amounted to pure cowardice:
“I learned in the Service that anybodywho tries to take on the System is just being ridiculous.”
And ad nauseum.
So Reagan said he was going to clear out the entire Washington buraucracy without hiring one single professional.
What this Wise-sounding saying, “We are here to clean out the swamp, not join the alligators” meant, in practice, was that he was not going to leave the cadre in the civil service that every single president has left behind him since the Civil Service was created. He wanted NOBODY among his appointees who would stay on in the civil service after he left office.
Bush was a fool, but he had real experience in real Washington politics. Bush, who was elected as Reagan’s successor, got rid of EVERY SINGLE one of Reagan’s thousand appointees. Bush appointees bragged about which one of them was quickest in getting rid of ALL Reagan appointees.
This was a dirty trick, but normally it would not be a major blow.
You see, EVERY administration normally left a cadre of CAREER employees behind them they had left behind in four, God knows in eight, years in office. That means that if Republicans lost an election, they would still have a cadre of thousands of people INSIDE the Permanent Government they could call to find out what was going on.
Reagan made it his busiess to leave NONE. So when Bush cleaned out his presidential appointees, conservatives did not have a SINGLE source of information INSIDE the government.
That’s what I mean by Shrewd. After 1989, Bus hmoderates and the Democrats had the whole government to themselves.
Now do you understand why, “We’re here to clean out the swamp, not join the alligators” was one of the prime examples of Shrewd?
I will say this for James Watt, one of Reagan’s few P.A.S. hard-core conservatives. He defied Reagan and announced openly that if any Reagan conservative waned a PERMANENT civil service job in his Interior Department, he would find one for them. So I overstated the case, there was a Reagan legacy there.
Reagan appointed my boss as head ofhte civil service. Bless his heart, what a hopeless amateur he was! When I first got there, he got his head yes-man to “show me the ropes.” When we sat down, he immediately pulled out the reorganization plan they had put in place.
I thought, “My Lord (thought the exact was not Lord), they fell for the old Reorganization crap!”
Let me explain. When a potentially radical administration like that of Reagan is elected, the bureaucracy wants to defang when it is in its first flush of revolution. When they first get there, the new administration appointees want to DO something. So when every new president comes in, professional bureaucrats do the same thing. They present the new guy with a Reorganization Plan. He gets to DO SOMETHING.
He gets to do something HARMLESS. He shuffles around the different departments. That is standard. That is something no professional would fall for. ALL the Reagan appointees did that instead of doing anything important.
So while this yes man gleefully described how they had rearranged he chairs onthe deck of hte Titanic, I sat there thinking that I could not possibly be talking to a grown man, much less the number 2 man in charge of the entire United States civil service under Reagan.
To give them their due, I am sure BUSH appointees laughed in their faces when they present this old Reorganization crap.
Progress Preserves
Posted by Bob in Blasts from the Past, History, How Things Work on 06/01/2009
Posted by Bob on November 17, 2006 at 9:56 am
Whales were saved from extinction because whale oil became obsolete. Whale oil lamps were essential in the old days.
It is not the first world but the third world that destroys its native life forms and dumps pollution into the air. It is Brazil that is destroying its jungles, aka, rain forests. Brazil, brown country with an exploding population, can’t afford not to.
In the jungles of Central America are the ruins of gigantic temples, built by civilizations that rose, destroyed their environment, and fell. Elizabeth and I have discussed how American Indians destroyed the land and would have made the Shenandoah Valley into a desert if the white man had not come along.
As always, the recurrent theme of Political Correctness is complete silliness. They say that nature is being destroyed “in the name of progress.” Back on Planet Earth it is the stagnant society that uses the same resources until they are no more. If Coal had not been developed into coke and other means found to use it, Europe would have been totally deforested.
But, unlike other societies, Europe developed an increasing need as it grew, but it also developed new MEANS. Coal and brick replaced wood.
China is in desperate need for reforestation. The paddy culture, developed in India, dates back to Roman times. It is not nearly as “ancient” as legend tells it. But the paddy culture is a recycling culture. China ruined its forests, but it retains the beautiful, clean paddies, where human dung is a major ingredient of the recycling.
At the beginning of this century, books would say, “As in medieval Europe, in China you can smell a city five miles before you reach it.” And if it were not for Europe, they would be that way today. People who will live in a sty are not likely to be environmentalists.
No, progress does not destroy nature. Stagnation destroys it.
The Internet is Being There
Posted by Bob in Blasts from the Past on 05/30/2009
Posted by Bob on April 5, 2006 at 6:45 pm
“Stop HIDING behind the compter screen! Get out into the REAL WORLD!”
Since I am about the last person who can be accused of hiding anywhere, I am the perfect on to flush this nonsense down where it belongs.
I hate the telephone, relative to the internet, for a one reason: The person I am talking to is on a schedule. He calls me when I am thinking about something else, and he is on the way to something else, too.
A good deal of the time is spent trying to get get in what he needs to say to me when he can contact me personally.
On the internet, you are here when you feel like being here. I do not have to remember your telephone number or get ready to talk to you and intrduce you to the topic I am interested in at the moment, when your mind is somewhere else — otherwise you would be calling ME.
Phone call Stage One: Getting the number right and introducing the topic. Stage Two: Getting your input and my reaction to your input, all in the time allotted and at a time neither of us chose.
Personal visits are far, far worse t han the telephone. You have to GET there, which means that you have just been through a set of directions and little incidents.
Then comes all the “getting each comfortable.”
On the internet, you are here when you want to be here and I am here when I want to be here.
Onthe internet, the topic is already introduced when you sit and when I sit down.
I am mystified as to why this constitutes HIDING:
“I actually met so-and-so.”
My concern is not whether you physically sat down and saw the actual face of someone, but what did you SAY?
You can hide anything that was actually said in a talk about where he lives and how he looks.
Sight and smell are the province of a dog.
A dog can get nothing out of the Internet.
On the internet, if you tell someone you were talking to somebody on it, all you can discuss is WHAT YOU SAID.
I think the person who you of “hiding behind the computer screen” is the one who wants to hide. He wants to talk about where he was and how he was THERE, not about hwat was said, which is province of the human mind.
If anyone ever really reads and thinks about what I say, he will realize this is a repetition. The person who talks endlessly about “liars” is a liar. The person who talks endlessly about Hate is a hater. The person who talks endlessly about “hiding” is hiding.
That is the kind of thinking an interrogator does. It is the kind of thinking an interrogator gets so good at that he is paid for it.
Being there physically is a substitute for being there mentally.
Preaching to the Choir
Posted by Bob in Blasts from the Past, Coaching Session on 05/30/2009
Posted by Bob on December 27, 2005 at 9:00 pm
Don’t ever underestimate the importance of preaching to the choir.
Christianity, whatever you believe about it, was the most successful movement in history. Even an athiest who does not study the history of Christianity is a fool.
Those who spread Christianity did not say, “OK, you’re baptised, now I’ll go somewhere else and leave you to yourself.”
Christianity insisted that everybody, including the choir, show up at least once a week for a sermon. Every service began with a recitation of the Creed.
The entire congregation had to gather at least once a week and reassert its loyalty and be preached to.
Including the choir.
What Your Psychology Professor Can’t Tell You
Posted by Bob in Blasts from the Past on 05/16/2009
December 30, 2006
In one of the Dr. Lekter movies, Lekter says the agent is not as smart as he is. The agent replies something like, “No, but I have a great advantage over you.
“What is that?” asks Lekter.
“You’re insane.”
It is a general believe that psychopaths are smart. Actually, the ones who GET AWAY with being psychopathic are intelligent. The average white trash ort non-white psychopath in the penitentiary will be there all his life, expect for periods when judges can get him back out to maim people.
It is important to make these distinctions. For example, I am caught between people who denigrate IQ tests and people who worship IQ tests. My big-time psychologist friend said to me that he knew IQ tests showed heredity to be the overwhelming factor, but, as a psychologist, he knew there were terrible flaws in those tests.
He then pointed out that, after all, it was psychologists who developed those tests in the first place, so he should know.
My reply was, “Yes, but even a dumbass psychologist can find out whether somebody is retarded or normal.”
My dream is that you will develop a talent for BASIC thinking that, after you read the simple sentence above, would make you think of everything I say about that.
Finding actual mental retardation is all IQ tests were developed to do. Idiot, moron, and imbecile are LEGAL, not medical, terms. IQ tests were developed to distinguish between those who required legal protection as retarded and normal people. An idiot has an IQ of 0 to 30, an imbecile from 30 to 50, a moron from 50 to 70.
But because IQ tests confirm their point, some people WORSHIP them.
But analogy tests are better at telling who is SMART, so Mensa uses IQ and gives one an Oriental result: problem-solving is intelligence. Mensa is, after all, a Yiddish word for a German Mensch.
IQ gets you off of race. If someone speaks French, uses deodorant, and has an adequate IQ, it is easy to ignore the color of his skin. But REALITY doesn’t. As one person put it beautifully, “Whites innovate, Orientals stagnate, blacks degenerate.”
That will never be allowed in a peer review session, but that is the truth.
The fact is that, if they use a stick of deodorant every single week, brown skinned people lack something basic. Like intelligent psychopaths, one naturally assumes that a smart, one who has learned to fit into our world, is just one more of US. Remember, even most PSYCHOPATHS don’t know they’re psychopaths.
Reality is not simple. Reality is not complicated. Reality doesn’t use big words and reality doesn’t use small words. Reality comes FIRST. A reality is a reality.
A single experiment is worth a hundred expert opinions.
Next Step
Posted by Bob in Blasts from the Past on 05/07/2009
April 6, 2007
I call this “Next Step” because we are developing a group that can continue without me. I pride myself above all on being a teacher. That is why I keep ranting about the fact that there is no Whitakerism.
Whitaker who has a Whitakerism is a Mommy Professor, not a teacher. The whole idea of teaching, AT THE SEMINAR LEVEL, is to produce NEW graduates, not talking doll repeaters. You are supposed to learning to do what I do.
You are supposed to make sure that my METHOD OF THINKING doesn’t end with me. I am trying to create something that BEGINS with Whitaker, not something that ENDS with me.
Which reminds me. The Masturbation Generation will tell you that only someone who has been in combat knows what war is about. This is crap. All I ever learned from being shot at was the interesting fact that, if the incoming was heavy enough, I could dig a hole in solid rock with my nose.
As a strategic principle, this observation had little value.
By contrast, the man who developed the “line ahead” formation that cemented British naval supremacy for a century never set foot on a ship. Those whose experience consisted of staying alive and looking brave in the storm of iron cannon balls, flying lethal shards of wood, and snipers demeaned him.
But while they were being Heroic, he looked UP. He saw the total picture.
In our life-and-death debate, the most important debate the world has ever seen, I look UP.
When an anti answered the Mantra by reciting the Sins of the White Race, I replied, “You are justifying genocide. There is no justification for genocide.”
If I had not said that, no one would have. But someone else on SF had the wits keep reminding him of what I had caught him at. After that combination he gave up.
I cannot overemphasize the importance of the person who would not let him off the hook.
I handed him the critical ammunition. But no one else had the dedication, the concentration, to USE it. Please try, TRY to see how critical that was.
How can I make this clear? The point is not to prove you are brave. The point is not to prove that you are no ignorant redneck. The point, the ONLY point, is to SAVE OUR RACE.
When some anti says he’s white, implying he is OBJECTIVE, I point out that it is amazing that someone would BRAG that he is a traitor.
NO ONE ELSE DOES THAT. I make the point that ALL traitors claim that they are merely being objective. NO ONE ELSE DOES THAT. I say that this Christian self-denial stuff does not make you some kind of saint for damning your own people.
NO ONE DOES THAT BUT ME. And I am SICK of repeating it alone.
And no one EVER backs me up when I say that. They want to look smart, not like they are repeating what somebody else said.
If you want to see how that kind of thinking works in real warfare, imagine everybody using a muzzle-loader instead of a machine gun.
Think about how long the Thin Red Line would have survived against the Zulus if everybody had decided he did not want to be just like the rest.
LIFT YOUR HEAD UP. Go back to the BASICS, what this fight is ABOUT.
And if someone else does it first, for God’s sake, don’t let the enemy off the hook! Anything else you say is A STRIKE AGAINST our racial survival!
God DAMN* it, gang, I want SOMEBODY ELSE to lift their head up out of the current argument and DO that!
REMEMBER what war this is ABOUT, not what the anti said last.
* Literally. Dante’s Tenth Circle of Hell is for TRAITORS.
What Political Warfare Looks Like
Posted by Bob in Blasts from the Past on 05/07/2009
I was thinking of Alan B all alone out there handing out the Mantra and being told by the university officials “This is OUR University. Have you gotten permission (from us) to do this? Have you paid us tuition to be a student so you can do this?”
When I wrote Why Johnny Can’t Think I wanted people to go into universities and put our stuff on the bulletin boards and face down the officials who told them they had to pay for the place but they had no right to express THEIR opinions there.
It didn’t happen. It takes a lot of years to build up the kind of confidence I have on a campus. The bottom line was FEAR. For all his or her chest beating about the universities, nobody was ABOUT to go in there and fight it out. I offered to go in there with them.
No takers.
Alan B is proposing more than he realizes, and he will probably come back the first time with his tail between his legs. I got slapped down more times than I can relate in the last fifty years.
But it is the tries, the defeats that are especially worth reporting back.
When I brought my Austrian wife, whom I met in South Africa, back to the States with me we were watching the first reports on an American election, at the very beginning of the primaries. It showed a lone man out at about 7 am in a deserted shopping mall with his campaign literature in hand.
“Now THAT,” I told her, “Is what REAL politics looks like. Look at that guy. I have been where he is many, many times.”
We keep reading stuff from Stormfront about people who dream of being in the march of tens of thousands of Storm Troopers who have just taken over the government. When we see campaigns talked about on television, we see the candidate marching in with thousands of ecstatic supporters cheering for him.
That is what politics looks like to almost everybody who hasn’t been in a campaign from the get-go.
Actually, when a campaign reaches the point where the candidate has gotten the nomination and it is a serious fight, the planning for that news event where the camera shows the candidate marching in greeted by the enthusiastic crowd, the planning for that news event began weeks before. The campaign calls the local drudge, like me, and says, “We’ll be there on September 8.”
Said drudge then begins calling, arranging. It’s scary because you are never SURE people will show up. And all that matters in a news event is that they SHOW UP.
“But I’ve got a LIFE. I have to do to a movie that night.”
But I’ve got a LIFE.
But I’ve got a LIFE.
The assumption is that Ole Bob has no life at all except to knock himself out, free of charge, to do this work.
So flash back to the candidate I was watching at the beginning of the primary with my new wife. That man was out there alone in what no chest-beater would call “real” politics, the mass marches and the mass demonstrations. REAL politics is mass demonstrations. REAL politics is fighting off the worshipping mob of supporters with a grin on your face.
Until that happens, people will tell you, “But I’ve got a LIFE.”
Compared to what people call REAL politics, this is nothing to interrupt your LIFE with.
A final note: My wife called me at work one evening in November, when I was tired and busy.
She said, “You remember the guy we saw on television when you said: “That’s what REAL politics looks like?”
I thought and then remembered the incident through my fog of election-day exhaustion and said, “Yes.”
My wife said, “He just got elected.”
Alan B, Pain, and DISCIPLINED Initiative:
Pain has developed what he calls “Mantra parties.” He reported back here to headquarters in a comment that he had handed out the Mantra, but taken off the title BOB’S off the Mantra. Pain knows very well that that is no problem, but he reported it back because we are using a style of warfare that made the West so devastating from ancient times.
The reason our approach is so devastating is precisely the same reason the Roman legions conquered the old world. And for centuries no one could explain it to Easterners. To a Middle Easterner, the difference between what Roman and what they had was simple too subtle to explain.
Roman legions wheeled in formation. They were a solid block. We use the same one-two punch, Mantra and HERESY, over and over. To an ancient Middle Easterner or a modern Political Correctness freak, that is just blind obedience.
But blind, slavish obedience was the specialty of the East that faced the Romans and it is the foundation of the Politically Correct establishment today. So why were a hundred thousand of their troops cut to ribbons by a thousand Romans then and a single Blog practitioner today?
Well, I added the word “initiative” to it. But the hordes of Eastern potentates then and PC freaks today show plenty of what THEY call initiative. In fact, the reason Romans ripped them apart was because each of the members of their howling horde was fighting his OWN fight. They came roaring down in hordes, or being wildly offended in the case of today’s PC freaks, and the Romans wheeled in formation.
Our enemies had initiative and they the discipline of slavery, i.e., blind obedience.
We form a block, but that is not BLIND obedience. It WORKS.
Alan B reports back to HQ that he GOING to distribute a hundred copies of the Mantra at his old university. That is a GREAT idea. I am anxious to see how it comes out, so the word GOING is in caps as a challenge.
But, one could ask, what is the difference between Alan B handing out stuff and the billions of pieces or paper PC freaks have handed out? Nobody is better at going into a mental coma and repeating the same things over and over than they are.
You and I know the difference, but this Blog is all basics, so let’s spell it out.
No Eastern potentate ever said, “OK, you men go out there and find a way to use our disciplined formations. The Roman model was developed when the Roman army was made up of citizen-farmers. Their WEAPON was their formation, their discipline. But in each battle they had to wheel and move together in the bewildering confusion of real battle.
All the Tough Guys will tell you that the whole plan of a battle falls apart in the first minute of real shooting. If that had happened to the Romans they would have been dead half an hour later. The magic of the while thing was that the Romans stayed in formation and, at the same time, adapted that weapon of discipline into the wild confusion of an actual battle.
Now let me give you an example of how OUR formation can so easily break down. A year or so ago, when I was trying desperately to get some people like you, one person decided my discussion was a parlor game and not a means of warfare.
He didn’t want to sound like he was just being a follower, so he said, “You say Political Correctness is a religion, and I agree it is a lot like one. But (what us true intellectuals know is that) it is not a religion. It is rigid system of beliefs.”
This is the break in discipline that gets you slaughtered. It made me tired all over. No, I explained for the hundredth time, PC is not a “rigid system of beliefs.” The Bill of Rights does not say the United States Government cannot establish a rigid system of beliefs. The whole public school system cannot be defunded for teaching a “rigid system of beliefs.” A professor cannot be fired for teaching “a rigid system of beliefs.”
The whole point is that this is a religious, something, ILLEGAL for one to use public funds to promote. The point is, this guy thought he was showing intellectual discipline when what he was doing was fatally breaking up our ranks, our line of battle.
Like the Roman legion, the Mantra and HERESY were the products of YEARS of costly trial and error.
Both the legion and the Mantra look like common sense. But any professional writer, especially in politics, will tell you that when something looks like it is obvious and just fell out of the typewriter, there’s BLOOD on the typewriter keys. You SLAVE to write 1) something that just flows; 2) contains ALL the point AND 3) quits, dead stops, when it has done and makes it SHORTER.
Once I have hammered my points down, once I have figured out exactly what the truth of what I am trying to say is, each rewrite is SHORTER, not longer.
I have given you some weapons that are the best fifty years of using a powerful mind can produce. I demand that you not PLAY with our rigid formation. But at the same time the LAST thing I want is a bunch of Oriental hordes or PC Zombies who keep repeating The Master’s Words.
So Pain is having a little fun. He is finding ways to hit people with the message and then reporting back to us about the wasps’ nest he stirs up. But he NEVER breaks formation. He is NEVER lured into running out and chasing down one particular slave of the enemy he has got cornered.
Pain STAYS ON MESSAGE.
That is why one of us can destroy the solid front a whole university has spent millions of dollars building.
Sic ‘em, Alan B.
And report back




The Basics Don’t Change
Posted by Bob in Blasts from the Past, Comment Responses, Musings about Life on 05/26/2009
In the previous article I said that Bob has been repeating the same thing for roughly 30 years, I want to clarify that statement since it can be intrepreted as a slight. I didnt mean it as a slight. Bob has been hammering on the basics and the basics just don’t change!
The Basics Don’t Change
Posted by Bob on September 22, 2004 at 10:49 am
An old professor friend of mine was very enthusiastic about “Why Johnny Can’y Think: America’s Professor-Priesthood.” He was also amazed about how consistent my ideas have been since we met forty years ago.
With due apologies I pointed out to him that his ideas about arithmetic were also consistent. Since I met him he got his PhD and had a long academic career, but he still repeats “2+2=4″ today exactly the same way he did when he was eight years old.
I am still looking at the most basic facts of politics and economics. They are exactly like 2+2=4. They don’t change.
Rememer that there was a whole theory and university science of medicine before they accepted the existence of bacteria. There was a whole university study of economics, called political economy, long before anybody ever heard of supply and demand. Before they heard of bacteria or supply and demand, both medicine and economics were destructive.
I am still trying to introduce the idea of wordism and the professional biases of social scientists into the field of social science. Until that is done, they are still exactly where medicine was when doctors regularly bled people to death and economics was when it pushed the old Mercantile System. They are stupid and they are wrong.
I have spent a frustrating lifetime trying to talk real social science to the social science professors who sell bleeding and Mercantilism in the social sciences today. I will keep doing it.
I will also keep saying 2+2=4.
I am indeed very consistent.
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