I laughed, I had an email from a long time on off contact / friend, they now work fairly high up in a well known international company, and they just had a board meeting about this very subject.
The irony is “We have lost our direction” doesn’t help you one iota, nor does it eliminate much of note, am I talking about Apple, or Google, or HP, or IBM, or a political party, or a big chain high street retailer, or a game studio, or a nation?
Choices are always difficult things, there are the choices we can make easily with what we have, the choices that are harder because they involve risk, and the choices that simply aren’t available, and much of human effort seems to be devoted shifting risky choices into the mind set that they are either easy or unavailable.
The Charlotte “nazi” is a case in point, everyone had cameras out, there are drones and everything, so there should be a wide choice of video clips that run for a few minutes prior to the event leading right up to the event, there should be, but all we see are the final moments.
Meanwhile any forum you care to look at is inhabited by posters denouncing the white trash nazi scum, and an aching silence from the ever increasing numbers of people like me, who do not post, who do not know what happened because we weren’t there, but who have learned to distrust the media narrative to such an extent that we believe most of it is false, even if actual facts are reported, they are taken out of context and slanted with false narratives.
However there are a few who do post a contrary opinion, and whether it is the recent google emigre or Breivik, for every one who read the original letter / post / manifesto, there are 100,000 who do not need to, to know exactly what was said and abuse anyone who disagrees with their own extremist dialogue on the matter.
The google emigre actually made a lot of very good points in his letter, and they form a very good basis for a rational intellectual discussion, the problem is, nobody wants a rational intellectual discussion any more, they just want to belong to some sort of self appointed “moral majority” of “right thinking people” so that by definition if you ain’t with them, you are agin, them, and by definition an immoral minority that needs to be eradicated.
Many of us are rightly appalled if I start talking about average UK children of 11 and 12 and 13 years old who do not know *any* of their times tables, not even their two times table.
Yet that’s easy to do because none of us are 11 or 12 or 13, so we are talking about “others”
Attitudes change when I talk in the same way about adults who are unaware that compound interest is an exponential function, because most of us are adults and most adults have no idea what an exponential function, but they are pretty sure I’m trying to make them look stupid.
I shrug, ignorance can be cured, stupidity cannot, choose your hat and wear it well.
I can’t help you with your choices, I only make the easy ones with what I have before me, and by definition what I have before me is not what you have before you.
The risky choices I always tried to avoid, because the danger that they posed to altering the content of “what I have before me” for the future.
The non available choices never troubled me greatly.
Without exception, whenever I meet someone who tells me I am “lucky” it is someone who habitually made choices that involved risk, the risk of detection, the risk of plans not coming to fruition, the risk of not being able to meet a commitment or undertaking, and almost invariably it is never their fault, it is the fault of whoever advised them.
So while the msm and world & dog get on the bandwagon to denounce nazis based on the alleged actions of one white supremacist, I observe that no real white supremacist would have been anywhere near that shit, in other words, it’s all smoke and fury, signifying nothing, because these are not the droids you are looking for… the real white supremacists have not spoken yet.
They’re still invisible in the background noise, and will remain so until they are forced to, given no easy choices any more.