In sports, when a team prepares for a game, they think about all of the ways they can defeat the other team within the rules of the game. The good teams will be as expansive as possible when it comes to the rules of the game. If something is not explicitly forbidden, then they will assume it is permitted, even if convention and the unwritten rules of the game discourage it. The reason for this is the goal is to win, not uphold the traditions and customs of the game.
This is often the difference between winners and losers. The winners are always “pushing the envelope” when it comes to the rules. These are the guys for whom new rules are created because they discovered a loophole in the rules that gives them an advantage but might undermine the game. The people charged with protecting the game then make a new rule to close that loophole. The losers, in contrast, rarely think about finding loopholes and new interpretations of the rules.
Further, when the winner loses, he immediately begins to think about how to get around the limitations he sees to his success. Maybe it means changing how he or his team prepares for games. Maybe it is a fresh look at the rules that prevented him from doing what he needed to win. The loser, on the other hand, simply accepts that he lost and will often justify it within the rules of the game. The winner was simply better and that proves the rules, traditions or customs of the game are sound.
Put another way, the winners in all forms of competition look at the rules, traditions, and customs as a means to an end. The end is always victory. If the rules serve his ends, then he is a lover of the rules, but as soon as the rules prove inconvenient to his success, then he is an enemy of the rules. The loser is always a lover of rules, as they provide him comfort when he inevitably loses. The rules allow him to think that his role as loser is integral to the functioning of those rules.
This is why slavering works. The modern loser likes to think that slavery died out in America because it was bad economics, but this is nonsense. Slavery was fantastically successful as an economic practice. Slavery ended in America because the winners saw slavery as an obstacle to their success. The slave states wielded power derived from the practice of slavery that the northern states wished to overcome, so they decided to change the rules to rid the country of slavery.
The American Civil War is a complicated topic, but the index card version is familiar to anyone familiar with sports. The North kept losing to the South within the rules of the game of politics as set forth in the Constitution. Therefore, they did what winners always seek to do and that is change the rules. They won the Civil War by not allowing the rules, traditions, or customs of the young country to get in their way. Ever since, they have used control of the rules to secure victory.
Slavery itself is a great example of how winners and losers look at the rules, traditions, or customs as justification for their status. There is no greater lover of slavery than the slave, as the rules of slavery protect him from the whims of his master. The slave knows that as long as he upholds the rules, his master will show him mercy and kindness, so he is the great enforcer of the rules on his fellow slaves. One reason slaves seldom revolt is they prefer subjugation over uncertainty.
For his part, the master understands that the rules of human conduct among the slave owning class are a great tool to maintain the slave mentality of his slaves. His mercy and kindness is doled out like treats to a dog. He is not compelled by the rules to show his slaves mercy or kindness, so he does it as it suits him. This leaves the slave always seeking those things from his master, just as the dog is always ready for the pat on the head or the pleasant sounds from his owner.
In this age, we see this master and slave relationship between the people we call the left and the people we call the right. The former looks at the rules as a means to an end and that end is always getting what they want. Even the rules of physical reality are subject to interpretation if they prove difficult. In the hands of the people we call the left, the rules that supposedly regulate every aspect of life are merely the whip in the hands of the masters, who apply it to ensure obedience.
The people we call the right see the rules as every slave sees the rules, which is as a source of shelter from the uncertainty of their masters wrath. They invest their time in polishing their principles in the same way the house slave makes sure to always be seen busy tidying up the master’s house. This is a sign of subservience. David French is at the New York Times for the same reason the field slave rises to become the master’s manservant. He is the most resolute loser.
This is one reason the regime despises Trump. Unlike conservatives, the slaves of the system, he does not look at the rules as a security blanket. He wants to win so he is willing to reinterpret the rules to suit his needs. The people in charge see this as a challenge because they understand what it takes to win. A charismatic loser is easy to control, but a winner, even a boorish and thumbless one, is dangerous, because winners never stop trying to win.
It is also why the “right-wing influencers” have their panties in a twist over the Trump general election campaign. Despite their pretense to the contrary, the “right-wing influencer” is just another manifestation of the conservative loser. They suffer from the same slave mentality as all conservatives. Doing anything to win offends them because winning terrifies them. People born to be, at best, beautiful losers fear nothing more than winning as it reveals the ugliness of their reality.
Trump is far from a revolutionary character, but within the Trump phenomenon lies the seeds of a future revolt against the regime. That seed is the understanding that what matters is winning. That which serves the cause of winning is used and that which hinders success is discarded. Whatever rises up to topple this regime will not be constrained by the love for rules or the desire to follow the rules. They will be motivated only by winning, by any means necessary.
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“prefer subjugation over uncertainty”. This is concisely as one can put it on why a majority of Harris supporters want her, and Biden before her. Basically a more succinct way of me explaining to my wife the other day when she just can’t fathom why any one would vote for her. In a way the minor panic over Tucker’s interview with an alt-history guy is a tangential example of people ,even on our supposed side, getting twisted when historical narratives and myths are challenged. It leads to uncertainty, and the timid don’t like that. Look forward to a piece from… Read more »
That interview was tame, and it was still too much for many Con Inc losers. They really have no conception of what is coming.
Brutal but true…The Northern moralizers who condemned slavery (a distinct minority) didn’t seem to have any problem with 8 year olds being worked to death in the Northern plutocrats’ mills, which could not (and did not) happen to slaves….The South thought that after Bull Run the North would simply concede, because those were the rules…after Sheridan and Sherman’s rampage against civilians and a million dead, they found out that there were no rules…
My response to blacks whining about “racism” and poverty and blaming it on Whitey was simple. My Irish ancestors dug most of the drainage canals and other public works projects in New Orleans because unlike slaves, they cost nothing to replace and scores of them were coming in by the boat load. When I would tell the black criticizing whitey that, their heads would explode when I’d tell them how the slaves were worth more than the Irish, who were disposable.
That’s why I call them O’Guatemalans
There were plenty of indentured servants from all over the British Isles who would corroborate your story…most of them Protestant. Their own families often sold them into involuntary servitude as teenagers.
I think the term of indenture was perhaps seven years (?). Orignally blacks were indentured as well but later they became lifelong slaves.
Italians as well. There were at least 3 racial classifications in New Orleans: white, black and Dago.
I don’t recall the exact circumstances, but a bunch of Italians were lynched down there.
“but a bunch of Italians were lynched down there.”
One of the biggest lynchings in US history I think. Italians weren’t accepted as whites in those days.
Pretty sure damn near everyone had to work to eat and live, from Paul down to Miles Standish and on. Non useful beings that are fat is more of a recent feature. Fire is the quickest teacher but hunger… hunger is the most patient.
In places like New York, the Irish and later the Italians were competing for the same jobs as blacks. In many cases wage labor was preferable to an employer because there was no responsibility for the upkeep of the laborer. Slave labir probably fell by the wayside because of economics rather than some moral argument.
It is something that is extremely american. The enemy is always the devil and the american cause perfectly godly. X foreign leader is worst than Hitler but the horrors of the american thecnotheocracy the very definition of good. It is like you guys don’t understand limit warfare, everything must be a crusade.
Kind of like Russia and Ukraine. They thought Russia didn’t have the stomach for a drawn out conflagration, because they don’t have the stomach for one.
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I’ll believe the “win at all costs” mentality taking hold of the conservative right when I see it – but, but we can’t break the rules of muh constitution. Yeah, keep telling that to the leftards, asswipes…
The loser is the White guy who strives to be colorblind (“good boy–here’s a treat and a pat on the head”) and accepts the Third World immigrants (as long as they come legally), which keeps him from being called a racist (bad!!).
“beautiful losers fear nothing more than winning as it reveals the ugliness of their reality” See: 85%-plus of Republicans in Washington as the prime example. I confess I didn’t have them figured out until Obama’s emergence, and the nomination of McCain. Obama would have been a tough opponent for anyone, so the Republicans didn’t even bother trying. They nominated a guy who wanted nothing more than to run an honorable losing campaign, because he’d been denied that chance years ago. And that’s exactly what he did. And then, when Obamacare starts getting pushed through, voters in Massachusetts of all places… Read more »
Then as now, morality had a huge part in abolishing slavery. I don’t think it was simply the North being spiteful. There were a ton of powerful Yanks that thought slavery was reprehensible and also the south was backward and needed civilizing and industrializing.
If the North were simply trying to get one up on the South, why did Republicans go whole hog on reconstruction and putting blecks in national and state legislatures? Remember that leftist crusades started with abolition. Shortly afterward we had the suffrage and temperance movements.
The reconstruction made sure the the south would never rise again plus the future american empire needed warriors. Something like that was done to Europe after WW2.
Trump Claims He Was Sent by God to Save the World (With Abortion, Gay Sex, Weed, Endless War)
No Trump does not troll.
No, genius, Trump will not save anything. He’s a real estate guy from NYC.
but an Agathocles of Syracuse? Yes, that model would do nicely.
Could not help but remember William F Buckley. Before reading this he was a beautiful loser. Now he he is the slave house negro.
This transformation will be generational I think. The young white men with nothing to lose will likely be in the vanguard. The old grillers have too much to lose. The recent election in Germany showed this – the AfD did best among young men. It’s also possible we will see a “Fight Club”-like “Project Mayhem” among blue collar white men that brings the country to its knees.
Another way you can look at a game is if it is a finite game or infinite game. The spiritually aware play the infinite game, while the trapped in the body play the finite game. The progressive plays a finite game in that they think heaven can be brought to earth by overlooking the rules of nature. Our side wants to play the infinite game because we want to keep the game going even after we are gone and stay in harmony with nature. (((Certain groups))) look at life as a finite game of attaining power, money, and subjugation of… Read more »