Today a seminar is just another course. You read the stuff, you say something about it to prove you did, and then Mommy Professor tells you what you SHOULD have said about it at the end of the session, while you take notes.

At the end of the course, Mommy Professor tells you he is proud of what Independent Thought came out under his leadership, and then you take a test on what he told you to say about the readings.

In other words, a “seminar” in grad school is really just another course where your job is to swallow and regurgitate the Party Line.

This makes it hard to explain what a REAL seminar used to be and what makes this about the only real seminar still extant?

Back when there were real seminars, original thought, even eccentricity, was the hallmark of an “absent-minded professor.” Today if you are absent minded you get the same treatment in academia that you do in any other bureaucracy. You dress according to code. The code sometimes specifies that you be “with it” by wearing a coat and tie with jeans or even a hippie outfit, but the lines are as clearly drawn as they are in the Marine Corps.

Go to a convention of professors and you will people who look exactly like those in any other bureaucracy. They produce a standardized product, like any other bureaucracy. Our seminar is a throwback.

A real seminar is entirely different from a course. Being “allowed to participate in,” not “take,” a seminar used to mark when you were on your way to being a thinker YOURSELF, not just someone taking notes and regurgitating what you heard. In other words a seminar was that transition period between when you were a student and you became a professor with orignial ideas. Few professors today could conduct a real seminar, and those who could keep it to themselves if they want tenure and promotion.

When I do this seminar, as I keep emphasizing, I am not just giving you knowledge. I do not have a Whitakerism where you just memorize my book like The Thoughts of Chairman Mao and chant them back.

A seminar doesn’t teach you how to REACH my level. It teaches you how to START AT MY LEVEL. The course is successful when someone BUILDS on my thinking, as Al Parker did with his “One True Way man!” comment below.

In a world where real seminars no longer exist, it is a major job just to explain what one IS.

First of all, we all know StevenP wouldn’t be at this if all he got out of thousands of people reading his stuff was the two more-or-less-useless recruits he mentioned. I have enough trouble getting people to understand my POINT to know that StevenP wants me to make his POINT clear before I go into MINE.

Net statistics are tricky, but StevenP has rubbed THOUSANDS of noses in the Mantra. Once someone GETS that, he is on the defensive. He has wreaked untold damage on the enemy. A lot of people won’t GET the Mantra, but that is more than balanced by the fact that, when anyone GETS, they spread it.

Even if they are AGAINST it. In fact, that is the best place for its spread.

What StevenP was explaining was not what a defeatist would grab onto: “See, I tried, but it’s all HOPELESS!” If that had any truth to it, StevenP would be one of the few who has EARNED THE RIGHT TO QUIT.

Which is why, maybe next to me, StevenP is the least likely to go sit in the Crying Corner.

This is one hell of a fight, and StevenP wants this challenge!

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Now, as they said on Monty Python, “Here is something completely different:”

StevenP, who is IN ACTION, explains in fresh numbers what I keep saying here. It’s TOUGH out there blowing on the smoke to get a fire going. That’s why I worked my butt off to get the Mantra and some other SHORT material that StevenP and Mark and Brain could use.

At this point, there are TWO people who have described how hard it is to assemble even the number of people we have here, much less the out-of-sight quality of them.

Look at all the WORK StevenP has done here. And he got two people who aren’t fit to tie your shoes. But AT LAST StevenP gives you a key to understanding I am not just being a promoter when I express pride in the group we have here, and, above all, why it took me YEARS of work and overcoming defeatism in my own mind to do it.

Why did I do this? Was it so people would say, “WOW! That Bob is Tough and a Fighter!” I hate to burst your bubble. I like praise as much as the next guy, But if you think I went through all this just to get your good opinion, you are grossly overestimating your power over me.

But here StevenP has given you, in hard, cold figures, what I am trying to TEACH here. Extrapolate from all his work the time and effort and KNOW-HOW, which is what this seminar is all about, it took for me to assemble this brilliant little band. Extrapolate the KNOW-HOW it took me to get the top-level experts in computers who produced this Blog.

StevenP is showing you what I have to TEACH. Two in twenty thousand, and those two don’t carry through! Is it surprising that my only response to those who lecture me abut how THEY “Have a life” and I don’t understand that problem is a tired smile?

Does it surprise you that, after years and lord knows how much money spent finding the exact weapons to use, I ask AFKAN not to repeat the same thing over and over HERE?

I wish to Heaven I were NOT indispensable. However glorious Mr. Webb says your “heel-clicking” is to me, and would seem to be to HIM, nobody would go through one percent of what I have through for all the heel-clicking at a Nuremberg Rally, especially when they are in my condition.

Unless you have done what I did and StevenP is doing, you cannot imagine how wonderful it is for me when Al Parker says, in passing,

“As far as Harold Covington goes, he is a One True Way man who burned out years ago and spends almost all of his time complaining about the movement (or non-movement) and attacking its leadership and rank-and-file (I guess what you would call a “Webb”). He would surely attack you, AFKAN, for TALKING about his “analytical framework” instead of putting your stuff in a van and heading to the northwest.”

Comment by Al Parker

A “One True Way man!” That is Beautiful! That is the kind of thing I spend YEARS trying to come up with! Al Parker says that in passing, but that is the GENIUS of it, and if you haven’t got the KNOW-HOW I have, you cannot realize he has put a weapon in our hands that a hundred huge TOMES could not have produced.

THAT is what I am looking for here. Not the repetition of some One True Faith. The only thing I demand here is that you help preserve my race. Anything else I say is to entertain ME or you – I need breaks a lot and I assume humans do, too — or an idea I would like some help working out.

To repeat, I can’t get corrected if I don’t SAY it. I say things for you to respond to, not to judge me on.

But the whole point of this seminar is for MY KNOW-HOW TO BECOME YOUR KNOW-HOW.

I am blowing on this flame so that people will say, “Gosh, that Bob sure knows to make a fire from scratch!” The only reason I am making this fire is so that it will spread and drive the damned PC crowd over the cliff.

But you don’t START OUT debating theories of what you will do with all that meat once you drive it over the cliff.

AFKAN, after one month testing, 2000 visitors drawn in and some 20,000 people exposed to the mantra/riddle, I’ve only managed to get two (2) people interested in pro-white activism. Of these two neither has followed the guide and set up the activism platform.

What I’ve learnt after this one month test is that getting people to do something as simple as copy/pasting the mantra or setting up a blog/tracker account is a NIGHTMARE. I’m therefore re-writing the handbook to make it even simpler.

I won’t get into the merits or demerits of the Convington plan. I’ll just state point blank that if you’re trying to talk people into doing something that’s actually hard, like migrating to another state, you’re dead in the water. I’m sorry to break this to you but that’s the way it is.

SysOp, I’m toying with the idea of either setting up dozens of ready made activism platforms and handing them out to activists OR finding a way to cut out the activism platform altogether. To do that I was thinking about having activists use unique links. For example:

http://www.nationalsalvation.net?55
http://www.nationalsalvation.net?stevenp
http://www.nationalsalvation.net?lordnelson

As I understand it anything that follows the question mark in a URL is ignored. But is there a tracker that picks up this ID? Is there another way of providing activists with unique URLs to send traffic to short of making tons of metatag-relay pages

AFKAN, I was stunned to see that you answered Bob’s response to your comment with almost the exact same comment and did not address his suggestions. You seem to be looking for an intellectual position in the pro-white field rather than a hands-on working position. If that’s the case I don’t blame you because no professor would want to teach those who are hostile or don’t want to listen.

On another note, I think there is no way today to eliminate the need for making arguments at length. I think there are many who simply don’t trust arguments that are short and sweet (despite the fact that the shortest proofs are the most elegant). They want to know if the “smart people” believe this stuff too, and they want the bibliographies to see what other smart people believe in it. I don’t see a substitute for a thick book by an author with name recognition to supplement a given mantra.

As far as Harold Covington goes, he is a One True Way man who burned out years ago and spends almost all of his time complaining about the movement (or non-movement) and attacking its leadership and rank-and-file (I guess what you would call a “Webb”). He would surely attack you, AFKAN, for TALKING about his “analytical framework” instead of putting your stuff in a van and heading to the northwest.

Comment by Al Parker