Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, Sun Tzu 1-10: "From these can be known victory and defeat."

This is an absolutely revolutionary concept. And we'll delve it in a moment. But first, although there's nothing there yet, I've started a new Twitter account @WarForAmerica21. Over the coming days, as soon as I can, I'll log all the links for these commentaries there.

Victory and defeat can be known in advance. Don't be kind to your mind right now. Confess. Admit. You don't really believe that. And to the degree you try to, you do NOT hold yourself accountable over it. Come on, give it up. You don't.

If you took Sun Tzu's counsel personally, and placed it at the bottom of your identity, there would be two results. The first is you would take 100% accountable responsibility for everything in your life, every desire of your heart, and every decision you ever execute upon.

The second is that you'd strangely end up doing the same thing for all kinds of things outside yourself, bigger than yourself. Consider the #WarForAmerica2020. Could it possibly that if you fail to do your part, the #MAGA Movement will fail? You have to imagine it.

You have to go there. It is Wednesday, 4 November 2020, and we've lost. Every single thing we accomplished during Trump's one and only term is now on the table to be obliterated. The future of America makes certain that America will no longer be the America you love.

We could easily multiply the terror that results. Gun confiscations. 90% income tax rates. Forget about free speech. Actually, someone has already done the work for us. Read George Orwell's 1984 and you will see the future, should we lose. In your mind, you have to go there.

Actually, it's even worse. I am currently reading Chairman Mao's book called The Art of War. It is a spectacular book. It is amazingly well written. In it, he describe the history, up until about 1937, of the Red Army's revolutionary war in China. It is chilling.

You have to put this in your mind, and even face it in your nightmares. There truly could be a Red Army of America. And even worse, they might not need one. That is what defeat looks like. And it can be known in advance. We must see it in advance.

Enough of that. I have chills running up and down my spine, don't you? Terrible. Okay, so also with victory! We can know it advance. We can claim it in our soul. We can make it our own, personally. What Sun Tzu offers us is nothing less than the ability to decide.

Victory can be known in advance. Holy cow. Could that be true? If so, then the following is possible. You might look at the #WarForAmerica2020 and discover that your own personal contribution might be the turning point factor. We might win or lose depending on you.

I know that sounds insane, and maybe it is. But, perhaps this little bit of logic will help. There are two kinds of causes, necessary and sufficient. Your part, at most, will be necessary but not sufficient and that takes a little bit of the pressure off.

I, too, will have to do my necessary part, and yet, no matter how great you or I do, even the two of us will certainly NOT be sufficient for victory. We will need others to step up and do their necessary part. And, until the night of November 3, 2020, none of us will know, yet...

None of us will know till then, whether or not our joint effort has mounted up to sufficiency.

Oh wait, that's NOT what Sun Tzu tells us. He tells us that we can know, and in advance. That may be the most brain braking thing he tries to teach us.

There's a final term that arises. Radical Responsibility. We'll meet this term in future discussions, to be sure. For now, simply consider that pushing your mind to know victory or defeat in advance empowers you with it. Hey, that's another hashtag!

#RadicalResponsibility