Know this: Once we have crossed the difficult threshold of viability we will be organized and therefore capable of preserving and safeguarding our people indefinitely, without remorse. When we have crossed the threshold of aggressive action, we will have an organization capable of seizing a wide range of opportunities to pave the way for the eventual triumph of our people’s future. Then again, it is entirely up to you whether we succeed or fail.
By Max Musson:
I was in London and as the evening drew on I found myself in conversation with an activist who is a man of action in every sense of the word — the kind of man one would like to have by one’s side in a ‘sticky situation’ — a man who can foresee the dangerous times that lie ahead for our nation and is more than ready to step in harm’s way in order to play his part in bringing about the salvation of our people. In fact the term ‘more than ready’ doesn’t accurately reflect the relish with which this man anticipates the role he may one day be called upon to play and yet his words to me revealed a wisdom that belied his apparent impulsiveness – a wisdom gained on the field of battle when men realize their lives might be cut short in an instant – when men realize that their very survival depends as much upon the brains of their leaders as it does upon the courage of their comrades.
“The trouble with the nationalist movement”, he told me, “is that too many people think they are f#*king Napoleon or something, when they’re not”, and he went on to explain that while this country needs “men with balls”, these men have got to learn to recognize the value of those who have the brains to direct their efforts to the greatest effect. It is of course a ‘no brainer’, but it is an obvious truth that far too many fail to fully appreciate.
The problem is that while many nationalist groups are indeed led by people with brains and these people are very well versed in what they know, in the majority of cases, they are not smart enough to realize the full extent of what they don’t know and of what they are not able to perceive.
I was speaking to a newly qualified mathematics teacher recently and she had struggled to get to grips with the principles of calculus and in my conversation with her, I remarked that while we often think we’re very smart and yet struggle to grasp such things, we often fail to realise just how much cleverer the people were who actually invented calculus (Sir Isaac Newton & Gottfried Leibnitz). Who taught themselves calculus when there was no-one in the world who could teach them this branch of mathematics, which did not at that time exist – the mere conception of which eluded virtually everyone else alive and had eluded everyone else who had ever lived before them!
We know what we know, and most of us will know our limitations and appreciate some of what we don’t know, but very few of us readily realise the full extent of what we don’t know and the degree to which this holds us back.
I enjoy playing chess and I am well known amongst friends and family for regarding chess as the mental equivalent of arm wrestling. It is in my view a very pure test of relative intelligence in the same way that arm wrestling is a very pure test of the relative strength of one’s biceps, and there is a historic chess game played in 1912, the moves of which have been recorded, which demonstrates the depth with which the keenest minds on this planet think through the problems they have and the tactics they will use.
Most people play chess thinking just one or two moves ahead. For them the massive variety of potential moves makes it impossible for them to hold in their heads anything like the full range of potential strategies available to them and so in deciding each move, they tend to simply react to the last move made by their opponent, but this is not so with world class chess champions.
The game to which I refer above is one played between Edward Lasker and Sir George Thomas, a video showing the moves of which is below, and as we can see, the game proceeds apparently quite unremarkably for the first ten moves. In the eleventh move however, Lasker playing white makes an astounding queen sacrifice, which forces his opponent to take the white queen with his king and from that moment on Lasker is able to force Sir George Thomas to make a series of moves leading to checkmate on the 18th move.
What this game reveals is that Lasker was planning at least eight moves ahead! And what this game demonstrates very clearly is the level by which the world’s keenest minds outthink the average person. Very few people unfamiliar with this game would anticipate or foresee the consequence of Lasker’s eleventh move. For most people that eleventh move at the point it was played would have seemed crazy. They might have deduced that it would give Lasker the initiative momentarily in that game, at great cost to his game in the long run — the loss of his queen — but very few people would have foreseen the series of eight forced moves that would lead Sir George Thomas to unavoidable defeat.
If you are not yet impressed by this chess game, I would suggest that you set out a chess board and play the moves shown up until Lasker’s eleventh move and then try to avoid being forced to make the moves that Sir George Thomas made thereafter. It is impossible to avoid making those moves without succumbing to checkmate even earlier.
It is not what we know or what we know we don’t know that counts – the shortcomings of which we are aware, it is the possibilities that we cannot even conceive, the things we are unknowingly ignorant of, but which are perceived by our opponents that make us most vulnerable and this is why it is so important that those who ‘think they are Napoleon’ learn to recognise their limitations and embark upon a strategy that brings into play the best minds we can muster.
Such a strategy does not involve leading one’s own little nationalist faction and being a ‘big fish in a small pond’, it involves our leaders coming together and employing a collegiate form of leadership — having the courage to expose ourselves to the risk of being shown to be just one of the ‘larger fish’ in a ‘bigger pool’ — but having also the confidence of knowing that when that moment of truth arrives, not only will we have courageous men of action available, capable of great acts of heroism, but we will also have at our sides people with the best brains and the keenest vision, and with strategies that encompass possibilities that may have otherwise never occurred to us.