Trim tabs

in human form

Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary—the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab.

It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.
~ Buckminster Fuller, Playboy Magazine 1972

In recent weeks I have written extensively about some of my ideas for the future, for the preservation of knowledge and technology, about myself as a reject seeking to share messages I am told should be heard, and about the history of certain ideas. I wrote what I regard as an epic with respect to the nature of the Twisted Twenty Twenties, and a historical reflection on the year everyone could see that America had been taken over in a violent coup by terribly evil authoritarians. I’ve also written what I hope you will find is a positive and encouraging message that America has been dealing with tyrants for 250 years, we are still here, and we are not afraid. So today I would like to write about you.

You are a rare breed, my friend. You are reading this essay. In many instances, you are reading it about the time I finished editing it and pushed the buttons to have Substack publish it. Some of you will come across it later and wonder about how it was that I could discern anything about you at all.

I’ve been a published author since 1977. So I know that not everyone reads what I write. I have at times been a pioneer in writing about ideas like individual sovereignty and space settlement. Not the first by any means, but often with a radical outlook. Everywhere I go people tell me that I go too far. So I always diligently seek to go even further. Which makes you a strange person indeed, since you are reading what I write.

Individual

It might be that every American is an individual, and it follows from a certain kind of reflection that every human must be an individual. But I believe you are aware that some have more individuality than others.

In the Twitterverse and presumably elsewhere on the interwebz, there is a concept called the “non-player character” or NPC. I first became familiar with this concept when I was rolling some multi-sided dice with my friends Dan Ashlock, his brother Joe, Cassandra Erickson, her sister Cat, and Wendy Cole. It was 1977, the game was Dungeons & Dragons, and my first character was a paladin. Dan was the “dungeon master” who would roll dice screened by some folded cardboard printed with complex rules. Various of the enemies we encountered were non-player characters controlled by Dan, the rules he would choose to govern their behaviour, and his collection of dice. It was a game that involved narrative, choice taking, and imagination. Naturally those of us who were willing to play it were rejected by the jocks, cheerleaders, student council, and popular kids. But I didn’t mind, having found a niche beyond the other rejects, getting leading rôles in the theatre club, which led to debate, which led to championship trophies and other joyousness.

It has become a source of frustration to the evil demon worshippers that we have memes. In some of those memes we use words like collapsitarian and non-player character not to mention fren.

You are yourself. You are unique. You are smart, you are kind, you are important, as the very nice lady says in the film “The Help.” Or you wouldn’t be here. (No, not you deep state filth looking for evidence of wrong think. Not even sorry.)

Sovereign

Some years ago I came up with the idea for a domain name derived from something that Randall Wallace put in the film “Braveheart.” It is a really clever bit of dialogue amongst William Wallace, the Princess of Wales, and her assistant, an arrogant fellow named Hamilton. Here is a look at it:

Dramatis Personae:
Isabele, Princess of Wales, played by Sophie Marceau
Sir William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson
Hamilton (King's Advisor), played by Barry McGovern

Princess: I am the Princess of Wales. I come as the king's servant and with his authority.

Wallace: To do what?

Princess (P): To discuss the king's proposals. Will you speak with a woman?

{They enter the council tent}

P: I understand you have recently been given the rank of knight.

Wallace (W): I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

P: Did God make you the sacker of peaceful cities? The executioner of the King's nephew, my husband's own cousin?

W: York was the staging point for every invasion of my country. And that royal cousin hanged innocent Scots, even women and children, from the city walls. Ah, Longshanks did far worse the last time he took a Scottish city.

Hamilton: Sanguinarious homo indomitus est et se me dite cum mendagio.
[He is a murderous savage and he is telling lies.]

W: Ego nunco pronunciari mendagio sed ego sum homo indomitus. [I have never spoken a lie, yet I am undominated man - and proud of it, by his tone of voice]. Ou en français si vous preferez? [or in French if you prefer?]

W: You ask your king, to his face, ask him. You see if his eyes can convince you of the truth.

P: Hamilton, leave us.

Hamilton: Milady?

P: Leave us. Now.

{Exit Hamilton}

P: Let us talk plainly. You invade England. But you cannot complete the conquest so far from your shelter and supply. The King desires peace.

W: Longshanks desires peace?

P: He declares it to me, I swear it. He proposes that you withdraw your attack. In return, he grants you title, estates, and this chest of gold which I am to pay to you personally.

W: A lordship and titles. Gold. That I should become Judas?

P: Peace is made in such ways.

W: Slaves are made in such ways. The last time Longshanks spoke of peace I was a boy, and many Scottish nobles who would not be slaves were lured by him, under a flag of truce, to a barn where he had them hanged. I was verra young but I remember Longshanks's notion of "peace."

P: I understand you have sufferred. I know about your woman.

W: She was my wife. We married in secret because I would na' share her with an English laird. They killed her to get to me. I've never spoken of it. I don't know why I tell you now, except I see her strength in you. One day you'll be a queen and you must open your eyes.

W: You tell your king that William Wallace will not be ruled. And nor will any Scot while I live.

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I have developed for myself an heraldic achievement, part of which you see at the top of this section. It includes a motto, “Sum homo indomitus” which I translate as “I am savage,” or “I am undominated.” You might say, “I am sovereign,” just as well, and judging by the savagery of contemporary sovereigns you might hit the mark quite well. It is also a way of saying “I’m not a slave,” and “I’m outside your empire of domination.”

The shield is square, which represents my cultural context as a “nerd” or “square.” Its colour is yellow but I have chosen to shift the colour toward gold, or in heraldic lingo “or.” A large black bullet appears centred in the square. So it looks quite a bit like the naval letter code flag for “india” or the letter I. “I” is a name that I call myself. On the black cannonball is an italic letter S indicating sovereignty in free markets. In its larger design it includes supporters. On one side is a paladin in armour on horseback charging with a lance. On the other is an owl sitting on a tree branch. Above is a space helmet in the visor of which are reflected our star, planet, and moon.

You are a sovereign individual. You might consider developing an heraldic achievement of your very own. Feel free to link to any such images in the comments.

Decent

“Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.” ~ Robert Heinlein

I have long been a fan of decency. As Bob Heinlein notes above, we live in a culture which brings together different people. Some of us travel and find that the way we are in America is not the way people are in Somalia. (Yes, I did move to Somalia, as every enthusiastic free market anarchist should for at least a few days. It has far too many governments to be liveable.)

My dad really liked a book by Emily Post. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home was published in 1922. That was two years before he was born. It used to be that people had a sense of how to behave. The communists have been against freedom, humanity, decency, and God since the beginning of their horrific and evil movement to eradicate hundreds of millions of people. So they have tried to eradicate decency and manners from society.

One of the projects I am working on is creating a vertically integrated company with many local outlets. We’re thinking of making etiquette part of our brand culture. It ought to help expose the virulent communists who try to come to work for us.

Spiritual

You are a believer. It may be that you don’t know exactly what it is in which you believe, and that’s fine. Many people are engaged in a spiritual journey, myself included. As God chooses to reveal things to you, pay heed.

Unboxed

There is a phrase in English “think outside the box.” It has a bevy of funny memes and variations. One of the things I’ve been saying for forty years is, there is no box around Earth. We live in an open universe. The star in our star system provides far more energy than we consume every day. Much of the energy that has come to our planet has been stored in various forms for hundreds of millions of years.

When I was a child it was made clear in some reading I did that there is over 600 years of coal in America. That was quite a relief. Previous to doing that research, in the library at my elementary school, I had been given a “Scholastic Reader” which said that there were going to be food riots, energy riots, and a vast wasteland due to pollution and resource depletion, all over the world. The globalists have been lying for a long time. We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a crisis of authoritarianism.

Which isn’t your fault, but it is your situation. It’s not your fault because you are an innovator. You think “outside the box” and might not even know if thoughts still come in boxes.

Looking Ahead

Another aspect of your character is your willingness to look ahead. How do I know? You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t. You might read other ‘stacks, of course, to get your fill of futuristic ideas. But you come here because there is a forward looking outlook.

We are not living in the future we were promised. In my opinion that is because the future we were promised was taken away with the coup d’etat in 1963. People who hate humanity and profit from war and vaxxajabs and death seized power. The world has not been the same since.

It has been sixty years. In the first ten of those years (1964-74) the wicked war profiteers increased the “commitment” of lives and treasure to fighting for the opium supplies of Southeast Asia. Tens of thousands of Americans were killed. As a direct result, during that time, Americans insisted that anyone 18 years old should be able to vote, and the constitution was amended.

Also during those first ten years after the coup there was a great deal of draft dodging. Subsequently, it became clear that military conscription was unacceptable to the American people. I think that’s important, because the first draft, in 1862 more or less, led to rioting in both Union and Confederate cities among people who found the particulars of conscription to be rudely implemented. There was a draft for the Second World War and pretty much thereafter, until the 1970s. We had enough.

A great many other things were done in the following fifty years. Americans were denied flying cars, denied trips into space, denied hotels on the Moon, and prevented from reaping the “peace dividend” from the end of the Cold War. Instead the evil globalists continued to insert their figureheads like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and the Georges Bush to betoken their efforts to ramp up spending on war, find more enemies to fight, and find more distant places in which Americans would be sent to die. It’s time we cleaned house.

It is especially time that we destroyed the cia, fbi, faa, and fired all the bureau rats in all the agencies. We need to tell the gooferment that its days are numbered.

Willing to Act

You are willing to do things. Not hastily, not without consideration, but in the fullness of time, you know that action is necessary. Which makes you very different from the people who are watching the circuses and accepting the programming from the hoax stream media. You know as well as I do that if we don’t act to defend ourselves, things will go very hard on our families.

Together we will see many opportunities to act. May God bless you and keep you and your family safe from harm and heap abundance upon you. Amen.

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"Braveheart" is a Paramount Pictures release of an Icon Productions/Ladd Company production of a Mel Gibson film starring Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan (of "Secret Agent Man" and "The Prisoner" fame), and Catherine McCormack. Written by Randall Wallace, produced by Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd, Jr., and Bruce Davey, Directed by Mel Gibson. Copyright 1995, BH Finance CV, All Rights Reserved. Text and images shown here to encourage sales and rentals of the film, and for educational fair use.

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That’s all I’ve got for today. Come back next time when I’ll have something new. Or old.