The Great Dissection - Part 16

We start tonight from where great leaders arise: “The men and women needed by a society in crisis are created by a greater societal group thought, they arise from their environment,from their folk, seeming springing forth from the people as if they were waiting for the moment. They are not so much born as made to be what is needed of them by the greater group thought occurring around them.” And we need somebody that will actually do something, for “Inaction will lead to sure defeat. Sitting at home comfortable, relaxed, posting on the internet, watching football and waiting for victory to arrive at your feet, will win you nothing. Without overwhelming effort and extreme risk, expect nothing.” This I actually agree with. There is a quiz show on TV called The Chase, which puts a team of four contestants against a professional quizzer (the chaser), and each contestant has to stay ahead of the chaser and not get caught. They have a choice of starting position - they can stay three steps ahead, move a step forward for a lower prize, or move a step closer to the chaser for a shot at a higher prize - and there are people on the British and the Australian versions that could have gone for the high offer but didn’t. On an episode of the Australian version that aired in New Zealand in April, both of the female contestants took low offers of $500 each and one of them didn’t get a single question wrong. The high offer in her round was $30,000 and she could have easily gone for it. The episode of the British version that aired the same afternoon started better; the first and last players took high offers of £18,000 and £51,000 respectively but neither one quite got off the mark. Still, If I went on a New Zealand version, I would definitely use my 🍆, just like James Holzhauer did on his recent stint on Jeopardy, where he amassed nearly as much as Ken Jennings in less than half the time (32 episodes compared to Ken’s 74, both ended up with about US$2.5 million apiece). No guts, no glory.

And speaking of bringing the shizzle, we need to be swift and sure with our delivery: “True change and the change we need to enact only arises in the great crucible of crisis. A gradual change is never going to achieve victory. Stability and comfort are the enemies of revolutionary change. Therefore we must destabilize and discomfort society where ever possible. A political candidate that keeps the status quo or only seeks to introduce minimal change, even when the minimal change is in support of our cause, is ultimately useless or even damaging. Revolutionary change is needed and above all necessary.” There are in fact plenty of areas where change is needed like right now, for instance getting rid of Trump. Brenton would surely have voted for him if eligible. According to him, a vote for a radical candidate that opposes your values and incites agitation or anxiety in your own people works far more in your favour than a vote for a milquetoast political candidate that has no ability or wish to enact radical change.

Last page for tonight is about his idea for a new European market: “If an ethnocentric European future is to be achieved global free markets and the trade of goods is to be discouraged at all costs. An environmentally conscious and moral society will never be able to economically compete with a society based on ever increasing industrialization, urbanization, industrial output and population increase. The cheaper labour and ignorance of environmental health will always result in cheaper goods produced with less effort and inevitably result in control of the market.” How many of your electrical devices are made in China? Do you honestly think any of them are safe? Told you so.