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I’m not sure what you’re asking for, Bob. If you need help with any specific task having to do with writing, proofreading, factchecking, technical stuff, etc., I’m sure a request for help here on the blog will elicit responses that accord with the particular schedules and abilities required.
If you’re seeking to build a staff in general, however, I’m not sure what our race needs is yet another far-right groupuscule organized according to the Führerprinzip. I was halfway serious in my last comment — what we need is not yet another party or pressure group, but a true deliberative body. A “White National Congress”, if you will. Right now, Bob’s Blog is the closest thing we have to that. By comparison, every other “white forum” on the Internet right now is only a glorified bathroom wall.
Comment by LibAnon
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LibAnon, you must get your mind out of institutions!
Everything I have said about acting like senior staff has been that a senior sstaffer is NOT an organization man. He goes ahead and DOES things. He does not fit into the leftist, European, academic idea of an institution or a bureaucracy. You need to get your head out of that kind of thinking.
Robert Townshend, who turned Avis from an iunknown little company to Hertz’s major competitor in the 1960s, wrote a short best-seller about how business worked. He talked about people who write job descriptions for executives making a hundred thousand dollars a year, a fortune at the time.
He said that if you had had to WRITE a job description for him, the guy shouldn’t be at that level. He goes in and finds out what he should be doing. He asks for and gets the authority he needs.
BUT:
The JOB comes first. The bureaucratic definition of a job is what European companies thought of first and foremost. They couldn’t compete with Americans who just went ahead and DID things or got tossed out.
Nothing I have said even hints at an organization of any kind. I am saying that each person should go ahead and DO it. Does that sound organizational to you? Does that sound bureaucratic to you?
Simmons suggested that Dave might help me out. I said great, so who will make the next move? Obviously this should not be handled the old European way, while everybody sits there while His Majesty maketh up his mind. In European thought, Dave would now ask me what Simmons has in mind. In old Europe I then call in Simmons and he explains to me what he has in mind. Then I tell Dave what Simmons has in mind.
In bureaucratic terms see have now justified the time and pay of three executives, me, Dave and Simmons. And we haven’t accomplished a damned thing. As I heard one person say at the top, “Meetings beat the hell out of WORK.”
That is the way European institution work. Everybody stands frozen until the idea gets cleared at the top. While they’re sitting there frozen, serious professional go ahead and work out the suggestion. Dave asks Simmons what he has in mind.
Wow! That’s mind-numbingly complicated, isn’t it?
Yes, it IS. Most people simply can’t think that way. They had to learn it because it was learn or fail.
Until white people got to China, they didn’t have the wheel. Until Americans got back to Europe to use what they had learned conquering a continent, Europeans actually lived below our pauper level until we drove their businesses out of business.
Yes, below pauper level. I SAW it.
European business got run over and now they operate the American way. That is why the European standard of living is, for the first time in history, comparable to ours. You would not believe how poor the average European was when I first went there inthe 1950s, and they were richer than than pre-War.
So let me return to the steps I mentioned above:
1) Simmons suggested that Dave might help me out. I said great, so who will make the next move? Obviously this should not be handled the old European way, while everybody sits there while His Majesty maketh up his mind. In European thought, Dave would now ask me what Simmons has in mind. In old Europe I then call in Simmons and he explains to me what he has in mind. Then I tell Dave what Simmons has in mind.
2) In bureaucratic terms see have now justified the time and pay of three executives, me, Dave and Simmons.
3) Der Fuhrer Whitaker, Dave and Simmons get kicked out on our asses by somebody like Townshend and he finds somebody competent.
Believe me, what I am suggesting is as far from ” I’m not sure what our race needs is yet another far-right groupuscule organized according to the Führerprinzip” as you can get. I am trying to persuade YOU to get out of this Fuhrer or bureaucratic mode of thinking.
If Shari wants my speech reprinted without the repetitions she should copy and paste it, do the cuts, and hand the result to me. If I approve the basic idea baout Dave that Simmons suggests, Dave should go to Simmons and talk it over.
I do not expect you to grab all this at once. I did it far too well.
I terrified other senior staffers on Capitol Hill to the point that when John Ashbrook died I had a hard time finding a new job. When I got there, John had had an Administrative Assistant and a Legislative Assistant. They always talked iwth him and brought things to him. Two years after I got there, they both had left. I did their jobs incidentally. I figured out what John wanted and I didn’t go to him and tell him what I had done and then ask for more directions. I didn’t see him once a week. His earlier staff saw him every day.
In short, his organization was not necessary, and the very idea of having me in THEIR offices scared the crap out of staff members whose life was justified by talking to their boss daily. When my boss went to China, he demanded that I be there every day. This was pre-cell phone, and he needed someone there who would simply DO it in his name.
Does that sound rigidly organizational to you?
Someone just did a fine job initiating and setting up our yahoo! fall-back page. I said, “Go with it!” Then he asked me if he could stay in charge. What in the three words “Go with it” does he not understand?
I love his suggestion about expandingonthe buddy system, and I said so. Now he wants ME to propose it specifically. I am NOT your Fuhrer. If you have a proposal, PROPOSE. If I say it’s a good idea, you have my opinion that you should go iwth it. But, Hell, even if I don’t like it I am NOT your friggin’ FUHRER!
I REFUSE to be your frigging Fuhrer. I ahev repeated this until I am turning blue: I have some ideas that you can use. I have an approach that *****YOU****** repeat ***YOU**** repeat **YOU***** can use.
Whew! Have I made this obscure hint a little less obscure?
I want to make myself no longer ESSENTIAL to you. I am always happy to be useful, but being the essential one is the fear of my life, a point on which Dave hit in his comment that was like reading my mind.
Tomorrow I will expand on Dave’s wonderful commentary to show how DESPERATE a necessity it is to me to become if not unnecessary to you, at least not ESSENTIAL to you any more.
Right now I am going to go to bed with my frustration and hope to God some of this sinks in overnight.
#1 by Alan B. on 12/10/2006 - 9:59 pm
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I would say that Bob has cleared up the issue of taking the initiative. I know what Bob is talking about because I do it at work all the time, when it comes to our cause here I could say that my contribution although helpfull isn’t going to result in any earth shattering events happening soon. The German Army operated under a policy where the objective were spelled out and then the units were free to decided on how to get the job done. This method of operation was called called it the, “Last Train To The Station”, once they units got this message no futher detail was required.
#2 by LibAnon on 12/10/2006 - 11:39 pm
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Bob, I am quite familiar with the concept of “taking the initiative.” I even approve of it.
That’s not the problem. Here’s the problem:
“Nothing I have said even hints at an organization of any kind.”
Exactly. That is profoundly true of your thinking in general. You think it’s a good thing. I think it’s your Achilles heel. One of us is wrong.
I’m perfectly willing to be convinced it’s me. I’ll be watching closely to see how well you, Dave, and Simmons work out this “taking up the slack” thing.
#3 by Kevin on 12/10/2006 - 11:58 pm
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Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, that was one hell of an introduction. Lets give it up for Bob and this impressive rant.
No Bob, I didn’t understand what “go with it” meant. I spent the formative years of my life under the thumb of a highly centralized society, naturally I’m going to have the mind of a bureaucrat! Every teacher I had never dispensed with instruction at one time it was always step by step. Every time I went ahead, I figuratively got a pounding. I thought it would make sense to get the proposal cleared, if I recall correctly this is the first time I have brought this up. I’m very trained, here THAT gets me the verbal pounding.
I respect you and everyone else here too much to go into my usual vulgar tirade. I don’t think much of myself, but I haven’t taken hell from anyone and sat there. YOU are not going to be the one who starts it, if thats what I wanted I’d get a wife. I took at shot with you, not because you are ESSENTIAL, but because I felt it would have a better chance of success if you introduced it. You’ve done just what I asked aggressively and negatively towards me however. I don’t give a damn about credit or anything else, I want to see it done. Suddenly I lost all desire to carry on, just remember I’m an institutional man and this is new to me.
As I said before, one hell of an introduction. On to the proposal!
A few months ago Bob laid the groundwork for the buddy system. I felt that the time was right to start going ahead and implementing it. It was not a coincidence that I would choose a fall back site in yahoo groups where it requires a uniform user name. The choice was a three fold, 1. I knew it would be easier to have Bob’s endorsement if it was on yahoo. 2. It would tell us how many dedicated bloggers there are. 3. It was the next step in implementing the means for the buddy system.
E-mail has been an outdated form of communication for years. It takes as much as a half hour for communication to go though, why are we still using it? I say we should move up to yahoo messenger. instant communication. You can see who is available to help if you need it. You’ve already put in for the yahoo user name, now download the messenger.
If its any incentive, we can make fun of Bob even faster.
JOIN THE FALL BACK SITE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BobsUnderGoundSeminar/
#4 by Shari on 12/11/2006 - 8:18 pm
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I think that Bob is essential, because he is the catalyst that provokes the thinking. I don’t see how that can be helped, so far even if he finds it frustrating.
#5 by Nobody on 12/12/2006 - 7:22 pm
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The problem is simple; Bob saw it all coming, and has been treated as prophets are always treated. The problem is, every “Movement,’ and most “Causes,” are easily neutralized by (1) coopting the Leader, and (2) changing The Message.
Thanks to the nationalsalvation website, I can easily get a gist for what Bob says, and where he is coming from, and where we MIGHT be going.
I am disheartened from seeing how easily our past “Leaders” snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and agree that the new distributed system is the way to go; I suspect Bob has hit the point in his life where, suddenly, it all seems so clear a fool can get it. The price of that “aha!” moment is more than half a century of seeing the Dreams your though you and your associates shared turn to dust before your eyes, even as you are proven right – again, and again, and again.
I have pretty much made a great circle in my life, from supporting Goldwater (AuH20-64!), to YAF, Buckely, Reagan, Buchanan, Perot, Buchanan, and Bush – and, with the exceptions of Buchanan and Perot, have been amazed at how quickly the hard core supporters were discarded, as well as the Ideals we all fought for.
I have now turned the circle into a spiral, and, from a higher vantage point, at this late date, seen that the ONLY correct model that ties all of this in with Western Civilization is RACE – and everything else is a damn footnote.
Only one RACE can make “democracy” even begin to work, only one RACE can make Civilization even begin to work, and when that RACE is gone, or even when its Ideals have been corrupted by its declared RACIAL enemies, then the Work of thousands of years are neutralized, and Darkness rules the world.
Simple as that.
Only one RACE went to the Moon, and came BACK.
We have fallen prey to Wordism writ large, and Thoughtspeech is now here; it will require an Awakening and a Renewal of the spiritual forces that only WE can tap, and use to transform OUR World, minute by minute, a day at a time, a person at a time, and a family at a time.
That’s the problem.
Bob is functioning at that level, and we have to at LEAST make the effort to get there.
And, if we have done it right, the people will say, “We have done it ourselves.”
#6 by Alan B. on 12/13/2006 - 1:29 am
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While we are tearing each others throats out our enemies are continuing to destroy our race, lets focus our energy on them and not on each other. This situation we have here is common, we run out of steam so we bicker amoungst each other, its what tears all groups apart and they just give up. Bob’s is showing the way, now we need to take the torch and go with it. When we continue to ask Bob for permission to try something it is like a child asking mommy if they can play with Billy, he doesn’t care what we do, he wants us to take the lead and go at it along if we want to. lets just do it to it.
#7 by Kevin on 12/16/2006 - 10:13 am
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Oh well, guess it was a bad idea. Thank you for bringing some attention to it.