A SECRET OF REAL POWER IS NOT GETTING "CREDIT" | 2006-06-19
1) At the Council of Conservative Citizens, one speaker did a truly brilliant piece on how today's system is run by sociopaths.
A sociopath is a person who is incapable of true feelings of guilt. He has no loyalties.
Later this speaker told me he had read about that somewhere and it had gotten him to thinking on this point.
I remember that he was reading whitakeronline almost from the day I started it in 1998.
If you will look at Whitakeronline, I talked about this at enormous length starting about 1999, and every year I spoke about it at length in different contexts.
But the speech he made, the thinking he had done about this, taught me an enormous amount. He gave an example about an employer he knew whose business was going through a hard time. But that employee is NOT a sociopath. He says that he simply cannot fire his friends, workers who have made the business what it is on=ver the eyars.
This employer, like so many before him, will eventually be destroyed by his conscience. A sociopath will outcompete him by simply throwing out all his old employees and ovging his company to Mexico or bringing the Mexicans here.
He made a number of excellent observations and deductions about sociopathy which I will be telling you about later.
2) But let me proceed to the points that will be of use to you in this sequence.
Another person there is having his first experience in being a staffer. That is, the ideas be had been talking about to his chief went straightinto his chief's speeches. When you are new to that, you have an experience which is so normal, and happened to me so long ago, that it was quite an experience to hear it about to fresh from a person who has just had it.
By nature, staffing is an invisible business and unromantic. You will hear endless talk from The Greatest Generation about their first combat experience or from people about their first love affair, but everybody I talk to who is staff has been a professional staffer for a long time, so I believe this is the first time I ever heard anyone who made me nostalgic about staff work.
He said that when his boss hit on HIS points, he was very happy,but he wanted to jump up and say, "That's MY point!"
Now back to point 1), this truly brilliant speech on the fact that racial treason is part and partial of the whole disease of a sociopathic society. Was I upset that the speaker got started with my ideas, which I had repeated and analyzed so many times so long ago?
The fact is that if I worried about people "stealing" my ideas I would have been sitting and drooling in a rubber room before many of you were born.
3) one of our Blog commenters was talking about my discuussion of the drawback our present system of selecting political "commentators."
The search for professional political commenters makes sure none of them are interesting. We have a professional political discussion comunity which is made up of liberals talking to each other and only allowing in conservatives who are "respectable."
In other words, one cannot get PUBLIC exposure unless his every word can be predicted beforehand. They have no ideas, none at all. That is how you beomc a liberal or a respectable cosnervative.
But they have to find SOMETHING to say. So they have to "exploit" ideas from those of us outside the circle.
Which, with people like me around, can be made to destroy the whole PURPOSE for which this tight little circle was created in the first place.
I realized point 3) before 1960. But whereas the usual reaction to this is to bemoan it, I was not analyzing reality in order to complain about it.
In my teens I already had plenty of foreknowledge of how bad things would be.
I needed no new moaning material.
So I looked at this reality and decided to USE it. So I became an expert at reducing ideas down to the level where even conservatives could use them. My ideas had to be "stolen" to be used and made mainstream.
In other words I was a political staffer before I ever saw a professional staffer.
What I found was not the road to fame. This is the road to POWER.
Almost by definition, a political commentator has no power at all. If he isn't saying the predictable there is a line waiting around the block to say it. He is famous because he has no power.
By the same token, the president has lots of fame but almost no power. If that particular man does not get his political position right to win office, someone else will. But the position has long since been mapped out.
By people like me.
People are always using political positioning as Moaning Material.
But where does this "positioning" come from? Ther is one "position" and another "position," both too extreme for him to take. So he navigates in the exact right place between these "positions" before somebody else does.
That is the key to election. But there is no POWER in it at all.
Obviously no famous politician or political writer ever MAKES the political positions he is navigtating between.
The Professional Moaners act as if this "positioning" was done between "positions" that came from nowhere. Like everything else, these positions were created.
By people like me.
If I become tracable I become famous.
AND powerless.