DAVE | 2008-12-06
I cannot afford to be a practitioner of philosophy simply because I have too many people I must deal with. That forces me into a very pragmatic state of mind and into a sober assessment of my own capabilities.
I am one those people who is often up in the middle of night resolving pressing issues that MUST be resolved quickly because I have no choice but to resolve them quickly. And resolving them successfully is not an elective, it is a requirement because the consequences of my failure are very onerous not only for myself but for many others also. And it is the counting of those many others that wears upon me.
In that there is arithmetic of real power. That is why I know that stating a goal is not a strategy. In fact, in my work, I have learned not to state goals, but rather to shape the cadences of how things really get done and accomplished, which in my own experience usually resolves itself into the skillful selection and use of tools in a social context (which another way of saying a context of salesmanship).
There is no distinction between a capability and a strategy. The two are the same thing. To the extent that religion and ideology support the acquisition of a capability, is the extent to which religion and ideology are justified. But these must not be permitted to slide into the role of furnishing consolation.
That is the lesson the Stormfronters don't understand.
The value of BUGs is that it is a means of learning a sound way of thinking. Sound ways of thinking lead directly to the acquisition of capabilities, a panoply of understandings in the form of words and phrases that furnish of foundation for the reuniting of white people and making that reuniting real.
Robert Whitaker is the "king of the hill" in this. No one else is really doing it, which is what makes his work so very important.