Vox on some mail he received from a reader:
A reader writes up a very informative summary of Gary North’s detailed account of how the Presbyterian Church was successfully converged over a period of 60 years…
This books echoes many of the same themes of SJWs Always Lie. It’s uncanny how little things have changed, including the failures of conservatives. I’m attaching three docs: a one page summary, a writeup of lessons learned from the book, and a collection of substantial quotations from the book that pulls key points out of this monster. I thought you might be interested in other researchers who validate your SJW analysis, and am providing multiple length options depending on your interest level…
1. The single most important cause of the liberal capture of the Presbyterian Church was the conservatives’ failure to kick out liberal heretics and impose negative sanctions while they had the chance.
2. Liberal strategies and characteristics that led to their victory:
– Willingness to lie (they had their “fingers crossed” when swearing that they held to the Westminster Confession): “SJWs always lie”
– Intense public calls for freedom of inquiry, tolerance, pluralism, unity while weak or assimilating power
– Deliberate focus on institutional capture, which included the property, money, and brand prestige.
– Long game perspective (the takeover took 60 years: 1875-1936)
– Far superior skills at bureaucratic maneuvering, including an analog of a “code of conduct”…3. Conservative strategies and characteristics that led to their failure: …
– Strategy was purely defensive – nothing on offense (“surrender on the installment plan”)
– Focused on ideas, theology and church mission, not institutions and bureaucracy, and had a very weak understanding of bureaucratic warfare.4. Other lessons and implications
– The modernists were fighting to win the war; the conservatives didn’t even understand they were in one
– High standards people tend to lose out vs. low standards people. Key: conflict between orthodoxy and church growth mindset, stay pure but small or grow large but compromise on beliefs.
– The more bureaucratic and complex an organization, the more vulnerable to liberal takeover (Confessional documents and hierarchical structures were perceived as strengths but were – and are – really weaknesses)
– Confessional documents are irrelevant when faced with liars (cf: today’s US Constitutional law)…
– You can’t fight the tape – the tides of history were with the liberals
– Despite best efforts of smart but flawed conservatives, the liberals won: God preserved only a remnant and the Presbyterian church was lost
Notice something. “The tide was with the liberals.” The leftist takeover seems entirely unstoppable – so long as there is no culling of the unfit, weaker specimens. Picture that mechanism, with leftist rabbits just increasing in number, and assailing the institution endlessly, without any threat of violence or aggression. The tide is against you.
Now picture limited resources and people periodically dying – due to starvation, due to violence, due to any number of reasons that will accompany shortage of the type you see in K-selection. Picture a world where the weak needed the strong and fit to protect them, and the strong and fit could punish the leftists merely by withdrawing that protection. Suddenly, those leftists will appear as if a mist, evaporating on its own in the morning sunlight.
They will limit their own behavior, so as to not piss off the people whose protection they need. They can behave civilly, they just need to be in fear of death to do it. Absent that fear, they become unconstrained, and next thing you know they are trying to destroy everything.
I do not think you can fight the leftist tide, without looking at how the underlying terrain affects the ideological predisposition of the participants. You have to look at present conditions in planning when to advance any attack, when to buckle down and dig in, and when to go covert. When conditions begin to turn your way, adding amygdala stimulation of the type President Trump supplies will go much farther than trying to apply those stimuli when things are aggressively r-selected.
I do not think any view of politics is complete without looking at the r and K-selected perspective, and integrating it into your strategy.
Tell others about r/K Theory, because convergers need to die for the problem to abate
