BEING WRONG CAN BE GREAT | 2006-05-01
I put this in the antis thread on Stormfront:
I wrote that I had read hundreds od anti comments and had never seen one of them admit that they learned anything here.
I got a raft of replies from antis who said that they had not only learned things here, they had SAID so.
More iprtant I got a correction from a comrade who said he knew of one anti who had converted to our side here.
I told the truth, which you can trust me for, when I said I had not READ any anti who said he had learned something here.
But the conclusion I drew from that was, happily, WRONG.
So I apologize to those who HAVE learned something here, especially the ones with the guts to admit it.
One reason I am able to make such bold statements is because I have tested them out many, many times.
The ones I repeat are the ones I have have never been WRONG about.
Which means I have been wrong a LOT.
And seldom have I regretted it.
In fact, I have developed being wrong into a technique you might find useful
In my life on Capitol Hill, in the media, as a presidential appointee and author and all that other good stuff, one big opportunity I have had repeatedly was to meet the very top authorities in many fields.
But I soon found that one seldom got anything out of meeting them that you couldn't get out of reading what they had already written. Authorities in a field are very careful people.
So all most people got out of talking to a top expert was being able to say, "I met Doctor so-and-so HIMSELF."
Here is a person who knows everything going on in his field including stuff you need to know, but you can't get it out of him by polite discussion.
So what I would do would be to make the very statement that infuriated him most. I would take aside he couldn't STAND.
Suddenly each expert would hit me with everything he had. He would tell me about the most recent research that made my statement stupid. He wold tell me inside stories about people like me and the incrdibly dumb conclusions they had come to.
I am a professional interrogator. I would sit there and listen to every word he said and get just what I wanted out of it. The expert was giving this moron hell.
Said moron was hearing the inside story from an insider.
If you want to be right, you have to be very, very used to being wrong.