Thread by @ThyConsigliori

13 April 2021 #MAGAanalysis #SunTzuForMAGA

Master Sun's Five Fundamentals: 4) Command

I didn't intend to introduce Alfred Huang's great masterpiece, his translation of the I Ching today. In my studies this morning, I found I have no choice. Huang is my I Ching Master.

2) For the life of me this morning, I could not find a specific term I was looking for. I have books that offer the translation of specific terms, and the one I was looking for is the one Huang translates as "superior person." Hey, wait...

3) Aha! I found the resource book I needed. This book translates each and every Chinese term in the Tao Te Ching literally. Oh how much do I love this book. This is meticulous analysis!

4) Take a look at Lao Tzu's 2nd verse, as translated by Star, and then at the definitions I've highlighted on page 103. The term Huang translates as "superior person," Star translates as "the Sage." I love both translations. A superior person must be a Sage, wise and wonderful.

5) I won't try to find the text in which the following wisdom statement, from Japanese swordsmanship comes. I'll just share the most important lesson any sword master may ever teach any beginning student.

6) Under heaven and upon the earth, I and I alone, am the greatest living swordsman.

And also:

Since all combat turns upon fundamentals and basics, even the newest student may defeat the greatest master.

7) Now look again at Master Sun's Five Fundamentals:

1) The Way
2) Heaven
3) Earth
4) Command
5) Discipline

Who is Command? A truly great human who merely lives up to his humanity standing on the Earth, under Heaven, seeking The Way forward for those he leads with Discipline.

8) If you have your own Minford's Sun Tzu, you can turn to page 2 and you'll find verse 6 defines Command like so:

1) Wisdom
2) Integrity
3) Compassion
4) Courage
5) Severity

Isn't that an amazing list of qualities by which to define Command?

9) In future, we'll ponder that list slowly and profoundly. For now, just know that wisdom is defined by integrity, integrity by compassion, compassion by courage and courage by severity. I might have translated that one as "Stern Enforcement," or maybe "Rigor."

10) Let's apply this to you and your local sheriff right now. Can you imagine a way to determine, to discover how wise or foolish your local sheriff may be? We're all just humans. We're all both wise and foolish. The question is the ratio. How wise, how foolish? What proportion?

11) The 2nd parameter must be measured the same way. How much integrity does your sheriff enjoy, as opposed to the corruption that so many in power evince? Wisdom may only be demonstrated by Integrity. To learn this you must follow your sheriff's track record of action.

12) Qualities 3 & 5 are the opposite of each other. Integrity shows in Compassion. Corruption is never compassionate, only severe. Yet, compassion must be measured against courage. In leadership, courage is shown by severe rigor. Yet not so severe as to deny compassion.

13) These are the qualities that give us the most practical definition of Command possible. Bounce with me now to #10 on our list, Alinsky.

14) Alinsky never states the following: There must be leadership. Every community across the land must have local leaders who take charge and organize all the efforts of the Have-Nots in their mission to take power from the Haves.

He doesn't say this, but it is his basic point.

15) This is my own most basic point. In each of our 3,083 counties we need an organizing leader. We have an ancient office that should perform that function, but most sheriffs do not realize this and have not been trained in community leadership, itself. Follow the logic.

* Be back in about 20 minutes or so... *

* By 20 minutes, I mean several hours... *

16) Let's pick up at the very idea of Command itself, and use our now familiar method, turning to the following Fundamental to help us define the current one. You may judge the Commander by the degree of Discipline he engenders in his followers.

17) In essence, that is precisely what each of Master Sun's five qualities of Command are ABOUT. Wisdom and Integrity inform the Commander's relationship to his command, and that shows up as Compassion for his followers. Courage and Severity are the requirements necessitated.

18) At least within the MAGA Movement we have all that from the very top. What have, at least as appears to me, almost none of that within is the local level of activism. We are not organized, but it's worse. We don't want to be organized, we don't believe in it.

19) There's a myth we've been sold. The myth is that America's mandate of the vote is for the President, with every lesser office being worth less and less to vote for, the farther away from 1600 Pennsylvania it is. We've been sold that voting for the POTUS IS voting. All done.

20) Nothing could be further from the truth, more opposite to the reality. It is vastly more important that I know who's running for my County Supervisor slots than who I vote for between Dems and Repubs for President.

21) There are roughly about 250 million registered voters in America, of whom about 150 million vote. In Albemarle county we have a bit north of 80,000 registered, of whom about 50,000 vote. That means my vote has a 3,000 X greater influence locally than nationally.

22) It makes me wonder, of the 30,000+ registered voters, here who do NOT vote, what organizational method would tip the election from Blue to Red? Can it be done? Does anyone ask that question here, and if so, whom? Who is our Commander? Where is our Discipline?

23) In coming days and weeks, I am going to make a concerted effort to find the Republican Party here in my county. As of this moment, I know absolutely no one there. I'm confident that just a small amount of focused effort will take me to our leader, if we have one.

24) The key to keep in mind is that both Command and Discipline take place in context of organization. My ultimate tactical attack against us is that our local organization, to the degree we have it as a movement, has been weak.

25) But go the other way. However strong we have been, we have not been as strong as the other side. They have at least 100 years on us, and if you go back to the 19th Century rise of Socialism, a good deal more. That's where we'll pick up tomorrow.

Thread ends at #25.

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