One of the main themes of this blog is that powerful people are wimps and morons, not a highly organized group of Evil Geniuses. One example I gave was the reason that CBS lost a billion bucks or so in the 1960s, and those were 1960s dollars.
CBS had The Beverley Hillbillies, Green Acres and such, and they were number one and that set of programs showed no sign whatever of losing any popularity. They were raking in hundreds of millions of 1060’s dollars and their number one position as a network was never stronger.
Then Hollywood friends began to make fun of CBS execs for running “The Country Network.” The whole list of top ten shows was dropped, and ENTIRELT for that reason. Respectable conservatives sell out every conceivable principle on a liberal joke. This is the way the WORLD works.
So when I said the announcement about aspirin saving half the lives lost in heart attacks if taken immediately sounded like a dirge on every news source, I explained it by what they said: now nobody would take their health advice. Everybody would get fat and not exercise and the media would no longer be the source of wisdom and authority they had been. They pretty well SAID that.
Now Pain pops up with the “They are too Wise and Powerful for Such Trivia” Crap.
There was a “typed memo,” says Pain, presumably from Conspiracy HQ, telling them to say that.
Good God, Pain, where did you get THAT one? But it was a good way to get make my point worthless.
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“Johnson who wrote the first English dictionary said the proper term was to “GET money.” That was a solid European concept. One could not produce or MAKE money. Money was distributed according to one’s class.”
But even the few self-employed people left today make most of their money for someone else and most all of us are employees.
If we do nothing about our money system when we get our chance, we will be worse off after our regime change than the Russians are today.
Pain
Now that you have made the comment you would have made if I had never been born, relating to some money system bit, you might try reading the article.
There is not a word about small businessmen who own their own businesses in it. In fact, most of the laborer I am talking about work for the biggest corporations there are. They MAKE money. Some of it goes to them, some of it goes to the businesses.
Not that it matters to you, but the point of the article was to explain one thing that has made the left concentrate so much on open borders. That was the point relative to our overwhelming concern here, which is race. As a professional economist, I don’t take economics all that seriously.
But I did make one point about LIFE in general: “When you make a deal, worry about what YOU get out of it, not what the OTHER GUY gets out of it.”
So you wrote a “comment,” it isn’t really a comment unless you read the article. I mean READ it, not scan it with your own preconceptions in mind. Your comment concerned what the other guy gets out of it.
Pain
#1 by Dave on 01/26/2007 - 3:44 pm
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Why is it that whenever we encounter arrogance on the part of mainstream, that arrogance displayed by some brand of unfounded resentment?
Personally, I have always liked arrogant people, people whose arrogance is well founded, arrogance having nothing to do with resentment.
But let’s ask ourselves a question: There is such a thing as well-founded resentment, but who is it available to?
If I had confidence that I really knew the answer, I know I would be much more centered and powerful person.
But I am certainly not going to pretend that I know the answer when I in fact don’t, because therein lies the road to ruin.
I have a hunch that very moral arithmetic is the real reason why politicians and academics are so in love with playing the resentment card, as it is so useful in promoting plausible and profitable lies. I also have a hunch that despite the apparent (and sometimes astonishing)toughness of the predators who make a career in playing the resentment card, underlyingly (characterwise)they are weaklings. It is just part of the moral arithmetic of the whole thing.
A major reason I admire BW so much is that his entire perspective is long on competence and mastery, and very short on unfounded resentment. That is essential to establishing a movement that is really going to succeed.
It all about knowing what others don’t, hearing what others can’t, and seeing what others are blind to.
#2 by Pain on 01/26/2007 - 4:54 pm
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Well I’m sorry I hurt you. I figured something was wrong when you didn’t write for a day, but I didn’t know what.
You should have just called me an idiot. But don’t forget that sometimes it’s hard for us to post questions online without facial expressions and tones of voice to make it clearer what we are thinking and that we indeed read what you said.
No your point about the media finding their pronouncements discredited was anything but worthless.
You made another great point about our excellent standard of living and very many other excellent arguments around that. It’s good to be reminded of that from time to time. No one now is so poor as a bayou Cajun of 1923. Compared to that, we all are doing extremely well. My question about the money system doesn’t in my mind have much to do with “rich people;” I would like to be rich.
Maybe I should have phrased the comment as the question it was. You seem to be the only alive who could attempt to answer it. I just had a conversation with someone at the Southern Partisan who noted that although the wall came down in the Eastern bloc, the Russians are still fighting a big mess twenty years later. They are fighting many of the same people and their heirs today. (I think it has something to do with government industries being handed over to individuals twenty years ago.)
So I thought that since Bob is the only one who has the forethought to provoke change through the Mantra, then he might be the only one with practical knowledge to think ahead to what to do once the Mantra has an obvious political effect. In the past Bob has talked about a “revolution” we should have, compared the use of the Mantra to the fall of the Berlin wall, talked about Populism in positive ways, so I thought to comment in those terms.
You had said that you were no longer a conservative and did not know what forms of government would be good.
Right after that you wrote about Mommy media and money makers. I figured that these were not random articles, but that you were thinking on a common theme.
The common theme seemed to be that the nature of power (Mommy media) and that our system of government is economic (money makers). Maybe my conclusion that our system of government is economic (not democratic, republican, or monarchical) may be novel, but it was produced by what you wrote, so I felt sure you would know what I meant without explaining.
The idea was to extend your articles to the next apparent step in a way that might answer what we might could do once the Mantra has done its job.
I could have tried to explain this when I commented, but I am not even sure if this makes sense to anyone but me. I tend to make a thousand crisscrossing connections all at once, but explaining them would be like tracing how the binary machine code of a computer works while it is running. Would anyone even want to know? I console myself by reminding me, well I got almost perfect GRE scores, so my conclusions ought to be reliable. I communicate famously with junior high kids, so I must be able to simplify.
So I stated a simple comment without explaining it, knowing that you really are a genius.
Yes, I did read the whole articles word-for-word, and my commenting somehow ineptly related to them.
Now if the focus is on me and this rambling comment, then you should look that much better by comparison.
Sorry I upset you.
Your articles on Mommy media and making money are important, valuable, and merit repeating from time to time!