A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
I was listening LTG Ben Hodges (USA, ret.), former U.S. Army Europe commander, on a recent podcast. He said something very important about military leaders instilling the will to fight, but they also must instill the will to train.
You want to know how to quickly tell if someone has the will to fight?
Do they have the will to train?
Do they have the will to do hard things?
Do they have the will to study what they don’t know?
Do they have the will to admit they have no clue?
The more answers of “no” you see, the less likely they have the will to fight. But what is “fighting” in our ongoing Low Intensity Conflict?
There’s a video going around of a young pre-school teacher discussing how she indoctrinates young children.
This girl is racking up a greater strategic victory than you ever will. She’s a frontline fighter.
While millions of American men are tricking out AR-15s, effectively sitting on the sidelines, these people are indoctrinating an entire generation. You’re losing and you’ll continue to lose because you’re focusing on the wrong way to fight Low Intensity Conflict.
This is probably because many American men have deluded themselves into thinking they have the will to fight because they dislike what they see happening, fear for the future, and have learned a couple things about warfighting.
Have you ever heard “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”? It doesn’t mean that a little knowledge will make you dangerous. It means a little knowledge makes you a danger to yourself and others.
My AIT drill sergeant was a mixed martial arts fighter. An actual badass who taught my AIT company some great combative skills. We started to get pretty good going at full speed. One day, he told us, “I’ve taught you enough to go downtown and get your ass kicked.” A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
A little knowledge blinds us to other possibilities. It rarely sheds light on critical skill or knowledge gaps because we don’t know enough to know what we don’t yet know. Learning the basics of a topic or skill can be quite easy. Employing them on your own is a different animal, and we often delude ourselves into thinking we can run when we’re really still crawling.
I’m not trying to insult anyone or tell anyone they’re wrong. Just consider the alternative that instead of waiting for the collapse, we’ve already collapsed. Instead of “waiting for the fighting to start,” the fighting has already started. Consider that the tools and actions you’ve planned for are mostly useless in the current fight.
And even if this fight does progress, the “soft skills” you develop and employ now will be of great use later on. The war is being fought all around you. If you’re not competing right now, then you’re ceding mental and moral ground to the other side. That ground will become much more important in the future. You can’t afford not to compete in this space, right here and right now. – M.S.
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Great article. The level of disgust I feel after watching the nose ringed teacher is almost indescribable. We have to win.
As a former resident of the Bay Area these women where absolutely everywhere. Now, I’m in the Heartland, & not so much. I feel straight up rage just hearing her speak. I agree we have to win.
Creatures like that, and the rest of the LGBTQRSTWTF crowd are being hunted down and exterminated by the Taliban in their Nation.
Communism and its Perversions need to be eliminated here in the U.S. before we can Restore anything resembling “Normal”.
These are the ‘soft targets’ and not in any way Defended by po-Lice or ‘military’ (woke or not). Make Lists, have a Plan of action.
A Communist Dictatorship cannot function without bureaucrats.
These folks are useless in the fight if you do not send your kids to them.Start your own community home school system,more info. then ever on how to do it.I would be more then willing to volunteer to a local home school system teaching kids basics of car maintenance/home repair/carpentry ect.I already do this with me friends kids.Folks with kids need to take a more active role in their children’s upbringing,that is how one helps grow a new generation of solid folks.
Also, as a vocational teacher in public school, if you are going to have kids in public school, get to know their teachers, and support the good ones, because there are still good teachers, at least around here. I know and am friends with a LOT of the parents of my students, and I will tell you that it absolutely helps when good parents are behind you and the administration starts trying to go off the deep end. Parents still have an enormous amount of sway with school boars and school administrators, but if you don’t exert that influence it does no good.
only one way to deal with that tribal trash and her tiny-hat-handlers-enablers-bankrollers… are we there yet? I think so
A “little knowledge” can indeed be dangerous. I used to roll with a bunch of guys that thought they were bad-ass gunfighters because they had some chops on the old square range. With that, they felt they could take on just about anybody! T-Rex Arms was a go-to source of information for these YouTube warriors. One guy even was even know as the “Sniper”… even though his only experience was occasionally working the 100-yd line with his “sniper rifle”! The other guys had some skills in other areas, but nothing in depth. Just a “little knowledge” in any real sense. Yet, they thought they were “ready” if the shit hit the fan. They’d dismiss or laugh at my appeals to branch out into other skills.
It was because of their “little knowledge”, along with their pathetically outsized egos and inflated opinions of their capabilities that I ditched them, because they just didn’t want to put the time and effort into learning any soft skills, like radio, food production, or really anything else that wasn’t “high-speed” in their minds. And even as “gunfighters”, they fell short. With that stupid, juvenile, and ignorant attitude, I concluded they’d be a liability to my survival in a WROL scenario, I had no choice but to break away from them. Truthfully, I’d even say that a “little knowledge” leading to ignorant, unjustified confidence is worse than no knowledge at all!
I had been a prepper for years. Then covid happened and I discovered I’d been playing all this time. Using prepping as an excuse to buy cool toys. My preferred way to cull wannabes from legit is by how much emphasis they place on food and water (storage, growing, preserving, acquiring) the more emphasis they have the more legit they are IMHO.
To be honest. I’m not even that interested in all the cool toys anymore.
Food is First – Always
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Your mindframe is the key. Intend to survive no matter what. Most of the soft weak squishy shit stains passing for citizens will fold up like a dollar store lawn chair if you just stand up for yourself.
Orcs and other diversity pets believe they are badazz muthas because they have been hiding behind the bully mommygov for decades and believe the press clippings.
The Weather Underground Government intends to liquidate all YT’s and you better be ready to go down fighting because you have to live with defeat.
Badass? No, survivor yes.
its skin her teeth and that disgusting mouth it looks demon possessed
its hands are all red amd weird it isjacked up on something
just gross
“” This girl is racking up a greater strategic victory than you ever will. She’s a frontline fighter.””
Ouch, but needed.
My response:
My wife and I went from the public school system direction for our kids to homeschooling since making the change last school year.
This year, my wife is the Director for our homeschooling group which had to split up due to family count nearly DOUBLING in a year.
We’re racking up victories against the Beast.
F the commies, do something about the future.
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Sam absolutely nails it in that article. This is something I also have been trying to get my clientele to grok for years now. Well done….
IMHO, we don’t need to run down the guys who aren’t badasses. At least they aren’t
actively working against us and pissing their khakis all the way down to their tassle loafers at the mention of guns.
Remember, in WWII, we had 17 million men under arms. Men who stepped into the breach when needed. We may need all hands on deck very soon so don’t drive people away, please.
Yeah, she is a frontline fighter, and effective because she has leadership on a national level, it emboldens her.
And Us?… We have nothing on a national level, so every fight we engage inlocally is seen as some petty malcontent who can be silenced.
Lack of leadership is why people stay home. Nice comfortable home, where their favorite shows can block out the reality of whats taking place… Find someone willing to say the obvious publicly, and not back down, and people will again rise up. Trump had it figured out, Just not all of it.. Someone else with the same grit, but a little more refined in public could pull it off
Effective leadership doesn’t start at the national level, it starts at the local level. Local leadership will have more true effectiveness in a person’s day to day life than anything at the national level; who do you have to live with and work with every day- the folks in your own community, or those on the national stage? There is a reason why TPTB are working towards the goal of turning neighbor against neighbor, restricting people’s ability to assemble.
The article was pretty one dimensional, but I realize the authors intent. They tell me I’m a senior citizen now so I don’t have to train to be a badass fully kitted out. I now concentrate on being a Grayman. In the scheme of things it’s not only the quantity of the enemy you can neutralize, it’s the value of the target. I suggest finding out the names and addresses of the cabal and their useful idiots, intel and attrition are “soft skills” that yield real results in the end.
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