Mantra Thinking has a lot of things IN it, but what is most unique about it is what it leaves OUT:
Ego, justifications, conversational twaddle, personalities, fixing blame,
all the things that make up over ninety percent of the wasted go of standard and packaged “thought” today.
Like the Greeks and Romans who made the transition from war by howling charging mobs to units and discipline to beat superior numbers, we are learning to fight the new warfare in an age when there is so much information that the less said the better has become absolutely essential.
Our enemies have control of The Media. They are used to throwing away two solid hours of movie time in drooling over some Social Message. They are used to having so much time on TV that they can totally fog any attempt on the part of the audience to get back to reality.
They are in fact a great deal like the Oriental armies the Greeks and Romans faced, rich, numerous, and used to scaring off all opposition with their seemingly unassailable power.
Later the Spanish fleet won a history-changing victory over the Middle Eastern fleet at Lepanto, but the Armada could not handle the smaller, faster fleet of Elizabethan ships that concentrated on guns, on firepower that hit them at the water line and, when the shots had been fired, simply pulled away and reloaded for shots that COUNTED.
Mantra is not Bob Whitaker thinking. It is a way of thinking whose time has come. I read your comments. More important, I THINK about out your stuff. I LEARN from it. I am doing a good of what I urge YOU to do.
But I am not Mantra Thinking. I keep urging BoardAd to take over more. I keep urging you to get in there and duke it out, not to spread MY message, but to take over this new intellectual strategy, to develop it.
This is the strategy of our AGE, not of me. The Armada of Political Correctness cannot deal with out little boats slipping among them and hitting and then getting the hell out. They have, literally, trillions to spend and a complete domination of what seems to be reality, just as the Orientals had their endless screaming hoards and wealth beyond the imagination of rocky Greece.
Our little boats seem like a joke beside their giant Armada, but we jump in and make holes at the waterline and then go on to others to make more holes at the waterline. When the Armada crushes someone, you see it. But the inches wide holes that destroys them is almost a matter of faith. You fire, you pull back, and the Armada looks exactly as invincible as it did before you fired.
Persia, trained to victory and strategy in the Middle East, smiled to itself when a band of three hundred Spartans was all that the disorganized Greeks could put in their way. The Spartans did not look at the Reality any sane person would have seen. They did not use the excuse that the rest of Greece had left them in the field alone. They did not weigh the possibility that Greece would NEVER get into the field.
Like the Alamo, the Spartans knew one thing: they were the only ones in the field. If there was to be any hope at all, they had to throw all they had into it while those who should have been at their sides were squabbling and trying to placate their enemies.
The three hundred Spartans and the Alamo are only two examples of a continuing theme in the West: the few who fight for no reward, who see what the fight is all about, while their brethren act like the free, disorganized people they are, with all the warts on. It is easy to fight in a World War II, when everybody is with you. It is hard to fight in Viet Nam, where all the most fashionable voices in your own country are denouncing you and in fact carrying the enemy’s flags in the streets. But the Alamo and the three hundred were far, far harder than Nam.
But another untranslated French quote in National Review, another shriek about Jews in SF, are of no importance at all. What is important is what went on in the pass in Greece, what the sleep-starved men at the Alamo were doing.
The Alamo and the three hundred constitute a total of less than half a thousand men. But reality neither knows nor cares what all the respectable conservatives and Big Names of their time were doing. We don’t even KNOW the Big Names of the time.
But hundreds and thousands of years later, we live in the world the Spartans and the Alamo made possible.
#1 by Dave on 01/14/2010 - 6:17 pm
Learning a new way of seeing is the key to everything.
It is precisely what those we are fighting are unable to do.
#2 by warweaver on 01/14/2010 - 7:55 pm
I heard newscasters tonight wondering aloud why Haiti is such a mess. At the bottom of the screen, the ‘ticker tape’ was scrolling general information about the country: “Haiti is 90% Roman Catholic; Haiti is 95% black; Haiti is poorest country in western hemisphere.”
I laughed out loud, as any BUG would. All I needed to know was that it was 95% black and I would easily be able to extrapolate the following on my own: it is the poorest, least literate, most crime ridden, has the lowest life expectancy, highest infant mortality, and by every other measure the last functional polity in the western hemisphere and in all respects resembles nothing like anything seen outside of sub-saharan africa.
I dont know if that is BUGS thinking, but I know that’s what I was thinking.
Bob, I would LOVE to read your views about Haiti. Please, brother. It’s sure to be an instant BUGS classic.
#3 by shari on 01/14/2010 - 8:33 pm
I think Haiti is another example of those we are fighting, not being able to see. I expect it’s going to explode in their faces even faster than Katrina did. Just keep on pointing out white GENOCIDE. Which, by the way Haiti was found on, the literal total genocide of every white man, woman and child in 1804. Somehow, I think we can expect every headline to demonstrate that anti-racist is really anti-white and it’s not in code anymore.
#4 by backbaygrouch4 on 01/15/2010 - 5:08 am
The epic tale about 300 Greeks is a great propaganda victory, but not much more. The Persina army was trying to move through a narrow gorge. Geography forced it. The Greek army, about 8,500 strong, fought in shifts as the terrain limited them to deploying about 300 men maximum at a time which was bout the same number that the Persians could field against them. The economic drain, plus the constraints by the calendar, caused the Persians to withdraw. But it is a good press dispatch.
Much the same thing will happen to the US in Afghanistan and Iraq, The enemy will bleed the US white. Against every home grown insurgent America will throw hundreds of very expensive troops and more expensive equipment. Reminds me of the the use of heat seeking missiles in Vietnam to defend positions. The foe would send out a $5 goat and it would be killed by a $30,000 missile. In the end they had more cheap farm animals than we had money to willingly spend.
What a great government we have. It is bankrupting White Christians so that Jews can steal land from Arabs, most of which was owned by Christians. The lesson of our revolution is the same as the lesson of the battle at Marathon, a small, well placed force can defeat a vast multitude because smart beat dumb. Our greatest ally is the limited options that are available to opponents hemmed in by their stolid ideology. Their big ideas will be broken by our small reality.
#5 by shari on 01/15/2010 - 10:29 am
There is a story in the Bible about another 300. Gideon chose only those who lapped water with their hand while keeping their eyes peeled. Those who bowed down to drink were rejected for his army. Judges7:5-7
#6 by AFKANNow on 01/15/2010 - 9:47 pm
Dave hit on a most important point.
Back in the day, Hayakawa, who taught general semantics, did a column for newspapers, which was ghostwritten by Frank Herbert – the author of “Dune.”
Herbert was wicked smart, and saw that our preference for seeing tomorrow as being identical to yesterday was a major flaw in our thinking.
Herbert – this ties it into Dave’s point – wrote “Dune’ with a theme, that each organization develops Words, that structure the thoughts of the members of the organization, how how they saw the world, and how they defined themselves in relation to the world.
“Dune” was about Structures of Consciousness, and the author was the man Hayakawa thought was smart enough to write the pieces Hayakawa took credit for.
As I have focused more, much more, on a Positive Theory of Race, I realize the extent to which Wordism places blinders on our thinking, and I believe this is not by accident.
I have been fighting damn near constantly to, in Orwell’s phrase, SEE what is clearly before me.
I have been floored by the frequency with which the meme, “White people a minority by 2050,” has saturated the media, always delivered with smiles and grins of approval.
I have been floored by how White men in commercials, and on television, have been blended out by darker men – usually, more powerful, more virile, darker men.
I realize this is all an attempt at the genocide of the White Race – starting with the Warrior Caste, and the Patriarchy – and the absolutely relentless attacks on all elements of Western Civilization, all mean they must be terrified of what we could do if we ever Woke Up, and became part of a Racially Conscious Community.
White GENOCIDE is the meme that hits hardest.
No apologies at all for that.
I think such relentless attacks are designed to stop us from SEEING correctly, and organizing, even at the lowest level – the Family.
We can Do Something About That.