#1 Dave | 2007-02-18 15:30
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We are not armchair generals. Nor are we Buckleylite sounding do-nothings.
It is essential to understand BW's contribution to triumph of the truth, so bear with me and I will try to convey why I think BW's perspective is important.
The advent of photography 160 years ago was profound for the prospects of truth. Its implications remain misunderstood to this day. A camera allows you to perceive longitudinally in forward linear time through time-lapse photography. For example, before photography, we were not able to perceive the actual development of a blooming rose.
Also, the camera is a profound lie detector. For example, look at the actual photos of Lincoln. See him dressed impeccably in the latest of European elegance of the time. See his extraordinary attention to narcissistic issues of his personal appearance, his over tailoring right down to the extraordinary polish of his boots.
See the great haughtiness and arrogance of his actual demeanor.
That should tell you more of actual Abraham Lincoln than the billion of words that have been written about him by the intellectual bullshit artists.
The camera was there to record the actual Lincoln. This puts the Orwellians who want to change to past to fit their bullshit to a disadvantage. We have an actual picture of the bastard.
Similarly, I see BW as a discoverer of an analytical camera as profound as photography itself.
BW has taken the facts of history and assembled them into analytical framework based upon racial politics, something only a genuine heretic would do, and something that has never successfully been done before.
Not only that, he has constructed racial facts of American history according to the racially influenced dynamic chain of causality in forward linear time. Accordingly, we see the development of racial fortunes in the United States in the same way a time-lapse photographer sees the blooming of a rose.
There is something wrong with you if you are unable to perceive that this is a monumental intellectual achievement, rescuing real history from the Orwellians.
For those complaining of the impotence of the blog, I have this to say:
There is nothing more ordinary that a group of people with "big plans". There is nothing more ordinary than people complaining of organizational impotence.
I see it everywhere. It is standard.
But it is extraordinary to find people with an understanding of how to actually get from A to B.
Everybody always knows the "what" he or she wants to achieve, but they are forever flummoxed by the "how". This is Mark. He is flummoxed by the "how".
Let me tell you this, if you want to understand the "how" you need to know that strategy and operations are the same thing. That makes planning and campaigns irrelevant.
Planning and campaigns ARE irrelevant and I could say it a million times, but if you do not understand, you do not understand.
Strategy is the simplest and most basic thing in the world. That is because only visibility on the truth matters, SEEING WHAT OTHERS DO NOT, HEARING WHAT OTHERS DO NOT, AND KNOWING WHAT OTHERS DO NOT.
Accordingly, our cause will be won one convert at a time.
It is not possible for it to happen any other way.
Mark reminds me of the story of the drowning man telling an oarsman to go on explaining, "God will save me."
Then the man drowns. In heaven, the man exclaims to God, "Why didn't you save me?" God replies, "I sent you a boat you damn fool!"
We have been sent a boat in the form of Robert Whitaker.
You are damn fool not to know it.