Moneyball

(W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2003)

Excellent book by Michael Lewis, whom you may recall as the author of
Liar's Poker. The book is about baseball, but the real subject is how to see with new eyes that which millions have seen and considered before but missed. The incentive to make money produces much progress, as does the need to work within a tight budget. In baseball, Lewis shows how these produced superior methods of evaluating players. Billy Beane came to realize that old-school scouts were biased toward good-looking ballplayers over effective ones. His Harvard number-cruncher Podesta discovered that on base percentage and slugging percentage were the most important stats in evaluating a hitter. These lead most directly to run production, which leads to wins. Podesta, surveying past results, also discovered that whereas most teams loved to draft highschool flamethrowers, in fact these rarely succeeded in making it to the majors. College graduates performed much better. With this information, Beane and Podesta drafted only college grads, and pursued first hitters with the highest on-base percentages. And it worked. The past few years Oakland has enjoyed the best of both worlds: a top-peforming team at the second-lowest salary in its division.

I take the message of this book as a direct shot at ur-conservative Burke's opinion that we must rely on prejudice rather than our own private stock of wisdom. If Beane and Podesta had relied on the stock of scouting wisdom, they would have drafted Greek Gods and whiz kids, and enjoyed the same results as the other 30 teams. Rather, by careful thought and study they proved a superior way to draft, and already their findings are being copied by others, including Theo Epstein at Boston. Thus, today's progress is tomorrow's prejudice. Only a minority ever produces new wisdom, and no man should ever be afraid to think for himself. He should only be afraid of not testing his thought against reality. Conservatism preserves progress -- and everything else. It is necessary but not sufficient. It represents an aspect of our nature, not the whole.

What exists can usually be done better, and if you are smart, you might be able to figure out how. As long as you test your ideas against reality, there's little harm in trying. If the first man never built a house that collapsed, or a plane that crashed ten seconds later, we'd still be living in grass houses and footing from here to there. The White West is the story of the Quest. Risk and ratiocination go hand in hand. The common stock of wisdom is nothing but the distilled discovery of gutsman and genius, and we can't allow Edmund Burke or any man to throw the gin out with the rotten potatoes.

What are we White scouts missing?

When which ever English King banished the jews - he did so (or so I've read) not because he wanted to, but because he was afraid that if he didn't the English people would lynch him and his along with the kikes.

We are missing the most economical and effective ways of waking people up. And inspiring them. Hard times usually helps in both.

A friend from a few years ago sent me a book recently - Fast Food Nation - and in it was the statement that the wages of American workers actually peaked in the early 1970s and have been declining ever since (unless you are at the top). I didn't know this and it was kind of a shock to read it. First I doubted it, but of course it makes sense - the reason most wives work is not for 'liberation' but just to survive and pay the bills that used to be paid by the husband's job alone. Facts like that make a big impression if presented right - I was impressed anyway. The book is the standard liberal whine, but in it are good things like that. Getting facts and presenting them in ways that can cut through the mind washing...that is what we need to do. And inspire white people to respect and love their culture, to turn our backs on the jew tripe that has replaced it.

Anyway, my fervent hope is that you and others like you are providing the education and that the bankrupt, corrupt, criminal, treasonous government is providing the hard times.

Thanks for bring the forum back - It gives me a sense of community and that helps a lot. I'm all for a white people's party - where can I join and volunteer to help?:)

A friend from a few years ago sent me a book recently - Fast Food Nation - and in it was the statement that the wages of American workers actually peaked in the early 1970s and have been declining ever since (unless you are at the top). I didn't know this and it was kind of a shock to read it. First I doubted it, but of course it makes sense - the reason most wives work is not for 'liberation' but just to survive and pay the bills that used to be paid by the husband's job alone. Facts like that make a big impression if presented right - I was impressed anyway. The book is the standard liberal whine, but in it are good things like that. Getting facts and presenting them in ways that can cut through the mind washing...that is what we need to do. And inspire white people to respect and love their culture, to turn our backs on the jew tripe that has replaced it.

They usually say that American workers' wages hit their high point in '73. The dollar, if I recall correctly, has lost about 80% of its value since then. Yes, under the cover of political liberation, the American woman lost her family and free time. Under cover of sexual liberation, her virginity and fecundity. Feminism and sexual libertinism are the economic liberation of the jew and the enslavement of the White woman.



Anyway, my fervent hope is that you and others like you are providing the education and that the bankrupt, corrupt, criminal, treasonous government is providing the hard times.

Thanks for bring the forum back - It gives me a sense of community and that helps a lot. I'm all for a white people's party - where can I join and volunteer to help?:)

There is no party yet. But slowly but surely we are making our way there.