Pain asked two questions.
I’ll deal with the second one first:
(2) Only you seem to have the experience in a bureaucracy to know how to make it work, or how to do without it. If populists won control of the government, how could they make sure that the bureaucracy did not work against them?
ME:
Pain, I spend most of my time dealing with questions like your first one: Why hasn’t the revolution taken place yet? That does no GOOD at all, but that is what people challenge me about.
Meantime, there is REAL world out there, where the revolution HASN’T taken place yet, and a bunch of amateurs quoting amateurs. I ran into that during the Reagan Administration.
I am trying to explain how to THINK abut real power in the real world. For every minute readers spend thinking abut what I am trying to tell them, nine minutes go to the standard stuff.
I keep repeating, “You can have the money, you can have the fame, you can have the t\titles. All I want to do is rule the world.” I realize that readers are going to think that’s cute and then go back to preaching and capitalizing RACE and stuff the way AFKAN does.
I keep repeating that the important things I have worked out seem so obvious they are humorous. Most readers think that’s cute and go back to routine thinking.
Then you ask me how a group taking power will recognize and get expertise. That is why I work so hard here to debunk present “expertise!”
It’s right HERE, Pain!
#1 by Simmons on 08/27/2007 - 11:12 am
All revolutions must begin by the questioning of authority. To my side, have IQ stats, crime stats, sociological stats done much to crumble the authority of Blank Slate Liberalism? To the respectables has intergration worked? We cannot put the cart before the horse.
#2 by Pain on 08/27/2007 - 2:17 pm
What you are saying sounds to me like: “Just go for it. When you can use the experts, get on the internet and find them. If you need to address economics, find today’s Hjalmar Schacht. If you need to streamline the bureaucracy, find today’s Albert Speer. If you need to get ornery, find Robert Whitaker.”
You recently spoke about Hitler’s proposal for his Populist Car. If he knew nothing, he would have approached a random factory owner and said vaguely that he wanted a car. However, he had done some homework. They assembled the best car people together and had a proposal that included a high MPG, so easy to fix that anyone could do it with a book in his garage, great in snow, and cost 10% of the price of raising a child for one year. Then he decided that for the car to sell, it should look cool. So hew drew his picture of a pod that was so stylish, that it sells well among women in California 70 years later.
It often helps to know a little bit more than “hire an expert.”
Which is another way of saying “Despite my experience in bureaucracy, I am still an amateur. I know just enough to say that you need a real expert. Fortunately, such technical experts are not hard to find.”
Am I wrong?
#3 by Pain on 08/27/2007 - 7:11 pm
No, Mark, it does relate.
It means that somebody in Germany wasn’t just winging it. It means that somebody bothered to see what we were doing over here before they hired their best auto expert without knowing what they wanted him to do.
When you only have vague ideas before you take over something big, like a country, it’s generally good to have some idea of what you want and what might work. Unless you admire the French Reign of Terror, a time of flailing about, not knowing what to do, and executing their “enemies” whom they blamed for their failures. And don’t forget the Mexicans in the early 1900s who had excellent populist ideas for their country, but were easily overthrown in a few days because they hadn’t thought much through, but were trying hard not to repeat the nastiness of the French.
Would you hire a world-class architect with the words, “Just build me a house; I don’t care what it looks like or how big. Just something, whatever. Pass me some weed. Pffitt?”
#4 by Back Bay Grouch on 08/28/2007 - 9:05 am
Bob is revolutionary, as am I. Perceptions of society must be changed. Once office is attained, however, you are not a revolutionary, you are a working politician. you have put on a second hat.
We are all capable of wearing more than one hat. When Bob was a public official he was constrained by the legal and political limits of the office. He is now retired from “public” service and has returned to a higher level of public service — a revolutionary.
Emerson, a Yankee with all the prejudices of his class, still had the ability to distill observations of the human condition. “Consistency is the hobgoblins of small minds.”
Should any BUGS member attain/accept elective office you will/should act as a working politician. Push to the limit the interests of our race. No working politician can be, by definition, a revolutionary, but he can have a revolutionary’s heart. Follow your heart and the cause moves forward.
#5 by Mark on 08/28/2007 - 9:15 pm
“Pass me some weed. Pffitt?””
Peter — are your Libertarian leanings starting to show through?