Civil War Between the Doers and the Thinkers?

Doers and Thinkers

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Glenn H. Ray

On the way back from lunch…worried about the survival of democracy in my America, I reflected on history’s greatest division between peoples of a society throughout these thousands of years of records;  the classic battle between the doer and the thinker. 

One group, the producer,  creates  value  versus the second group, the thinker, incapable of creating value, uses his guile to take what he can from those who have value.  For every force, there is a counterforce.    Yet, if one invents something  useable, one becomes a producer.  If the invention is not useable, it usually is  subsidized by government in order to produce a producer.   If one discovers a way to move production, one also becomes a producer even though in these events, thinking is essential to the process.   

Thinkers,  incapable of production, usually  have no inventions to offer outside of thought.  Laborers produce,  but classically do so without thought.  As societies become more complex, so do our yin and yang.   Free producers hire thinkers to increase production.   These thinkers, once  incapable of production, now produce.  Jealousies develop.  Not all productions are equal.  Thinkers extremely incapable of doing anything else except lying around thinking include most politicians, most contemporary college professors and public  high school teachers of the social sciences, and most of the priest class  throughout history. 

No one lives very long without the primary producers.   Merchants are more important than the harpies of the  modern Women’ Studies programs at our universities.  And like these harpies, along with the Aztec priests who enjoyed ripping out hearts of young men conning their public to believe the rite maintained  the sun’s good health, or the AlGorites of our day who insist we sacrifice home and fortune to burn at the altar of left wing gods to avoid alleged whitemanmade catastrophes which may or may not occur, thinkers cloistered from the realities of  life, can cause alot of trouble.  Police and university gurus   required to protect and propagate the purity of  such thinking, are not of the thinking class however.  They are the doers required to keep all State Socialist Dictatorships healthy.

Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin; Albert Einstein, Leonardo DaVinci, Aristotle,   Isaac Newton,  James Watt,  I submit, used their brains thinking and producing very well, as have many others,  but then I am a conservative.  Modern day American lefties might prefer Karl Marx, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, Fidel,  or the “Greatest” , Muhammed Ali.  There would be matters of opinion here.

While producers keep on producing, Modern lefties keep producing thought to rob from the producers to bribe the poor:  “poor”  meaning the number of voters required to keep lefties in power to continue their thinking. 

 At one time most American politicians were producers of goods.  Conning folks to become lefties used to be a part time work. Some,  especially conservatives would have to leave Washington to go home to run the store or the farm. Most everyone was conservative in those days.  That was then.  In the now are,  Senators like Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Chris Dodd, Carl Levin, Robert Byrd, all potentates who talk all of the time, get reelected all of the time, and never bother to think at all.  They simply sit on their thrones for decades preening themselves for reelections.  Where should they be classified?   Producers for producing hot air?  Their hot air has produced a lot more hot air in Washington these days.  Yes, where do  we classify them?

Some scientists claim  a meteor or comet hitting our earth is  a realistic threat, likely to cause earth a little more trouble  than carbon emissions from our breathing and driving.   In fact much more trouble.

How would such a disaster affect modern producers and thinkers if 70 per cent of the earth’s population would die at first blow and 20% more in the decade to follow?  I wonder if this scenario is ever discussed among anyone  associated with the harpies of American university’s  Women Studies Programs!   We would have to remind them they probably would not be teaching or writing books any more.  Wouldn’t they be angry!  No television, folks…No internet.  No furnaces, autos, life preservers, apples at the corner market.  No Obama rallies in Berlin.  No seeds for next year’s potted tomatoes. 

Who would most likely survive and survive with the mostest?  It would not be Barrack!  Nor an old crust who clings to writings on blogs for winter enjoyment.   Nor landscapers, but I might!  I still know  how to plant carrots!  On the other hand, one would  have to think very quickly and talk very cleverly about vegetables, as the marauders approach looking for satisfaction.   These gangs would roast me before I could even open my mouth to discuss my value.

 Sorry gals.  Your population will serve the survivors as they see  fit.   Use your imagination where that will be.   Making a comfy home might look like a pretty good deal if you’re lucky.  Don’t try winking.

Males, between the ages 17 and 30 will gather in groups and begin their drive to survive.  Many are  already survival-

training on the streets of Los Angeles and in our worst prisons.   Civilized behavior in some areas may last a week, but in most places  probably for only a day or two, depending where the males come from.  Guns will become noisy and will determine  a certain order until ammunition runs out.  Brains will be vital, but braun will decide many conflicts.  Nearly everyone will be hungry and mentally and physically unprepared.  Being pretty won’t matter at all.    Neither producers nor talkers have much product to offer early in the disaster.  Products will be simply seized.  Producers such as farmers will need protection.  Great hordes of survivors will wander and plunder before they wilt and die.

Since the beginning of the more civilized man, the merchants and the politicians have battled.  Great losses, victims to the thinking only class have occured, most horridly in the 20th century with the advent of the greatest thugs of the Left, Hitler, Stalin, Mao,  Pol Pot, and I don’t have time to list all of the other State Socialist marauders.   The thinking only class now commands America’s governing, teaching, and judging institutions.

  In our America, as of  January 20, 2009,  the scrum from the left has become a winner.  Must we wait for history to write its story to answer the question, “Quo vadis?”

Comment:  I wrote this article at our Prager Discussion Group Website nearly two years ago.  The thinkers of the incapable-doers class have had their turn to rumble.  And rumble these college gurus  have…..and I am certain their noise and ‘thought” will continue.  

Yet, they have been exposed as incompetents, but I am not sure in which scrum the people  sense their incompetence or whether we Americans, at last,  have begun to see the dangers of Marxist society. 

Obama in Seoul….Miffed at Questions

“SEOUL — In the homestretch of his nine-day, post-election foreign trip, a prickly President Barack Obama faced a barrage of questions about his domestic agenda and how he’ll govern with an emboldened Republican leadership in Congress.

Obama, speaking during a press conference at the end of the two-day G-20 summit, knocked down reports that he’s settled on a compromise with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts. He gave a bland endorsement of outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bid for leadership in the new Congress. And he said he intends to push Republicans to support a range of his proposals to speed up job growth, including infrastructure investments and tax incentives for businesses.

“My expectation would be that there’s no reason for them not to support them just because I’m supporting them,” Obama said.

At the same time, Obama said permanently extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy would be “a mistake” and called Republican support for the move “fiscally irresponsible.” He repeated several times that his top priority is making the tax cuts for the middle class permanent, something he believes the government can afford despite a mounting deficit.

Obama said he has not decided on a compromise position to temporarily extend the tax cuts, despite a report in the Huffington Post that his senior advisor David Axelrod said otherwise in an interview.

“That is the wrong interpretation [of the article] because I haven’t had a conversation with Republican and Democratic leaders,” Obama said. “It would be fiscally irresponsible for us to permanently extend the high-end tax cuts. I think that would be a mistake, particularly when we’ve got our Republican friends saying their number one priority is making sure we deal with our debt and deficit. So there may be a whole host of ways to compromise around those issues. I’m not going to negotiate in Seoul on those issues, but I’ve made very clear what my priorities are.”

The tax cuts debate will mark Obama’s first showdown with the new Republican leadership in Congress. But as he tries to work with Republican leadership Congress, Obama will also have to balance the demand of his own party, which will no longer control the House and have fewer seats in the Senate.

Republicans seized on Obama’s comments almost immediately.

“While the president and some of his allies in Congress have a strange desire to raise taxes on hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the country, we would welcome the president’s help to extend all the current tax rates so that no one sees a tax hike,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement. “There is no reason we can’t work together to prevent equally a tax hike on families and small businesses. And while I’ve introduced the Tax Hike Prevention Act (S.3773), I’m willing to listen to what the president has in mind for protecting Americans from tax increases.”

Asked whether the Democratic Party would benefit from new leadership in Congress, Obama said, “I think that what we will naturally see is a whole bunch of talented people rise to the top as they promote good ideas that attract the American people when it comes to jobs and how to grow the economy and how to deal with our challenges.” Pelosi “has been an outstanding partner for me,” he said, adding, “I’m looking forward to working with the entire leadership team.”

Obama’s comments came less than a week before he’s scheduled to meet at the White House with new Republican and Democratic leaders. They also marked the end of a two-day summit at which he had battled criticism from leaders of the world’s economic powers, particularly China and Germany, who were angry about the Federal Reserve’s move to pump $600 billion into the U.S. economy — a move they said was intended to purposefully drive down the value of the dollar. (Obama defended the move, saying “from everything I can see, this decision was not one designed to have an impact on the currency, on the dollar. It was designed to grow the economy.”)

The president complained several times during his news conference about the U.S. media’s coverage of the G-20 summit. He pushed back at the suggestion that he’s weaker on the world stage because of the midterm elections and argued that his fellow leaders are no tougher on him than they were a year ago when he was new to the scene and his poll numbers were high.

“I remember our first G-20, you guys writing the exact same stories you’re writing now. Don’t you remember that, Sheryl?” Obama said to The New York Times’s Sheryl Stolberg.

Asked by CBS’s Chip Reid about complaints heard from other leaders during the summit, Obama shot back: “What about compliments?”

He appeared thin-skinned about the characterizations of his time at the summit, saying that nobody wrote about leaders setting the stage for financial regulatory reform at the last G-20 summit because it “wasn’t real sexy” and criticizing reporters’ “search for drama.”

“Sometimes, I think, naturally there’s an instinct to focus on the disagreements, because otherwise, these summits might not be very exciting — it’s just a bunch of world leaders sitting around intervening,” he said

The takeaways from the G-20 were incremental. The nations agreed on a “framework of cooperation” for economic growth, including to strive for market-determined exchange rates and to develop early warning indicators that signal trade imbalances. But the agreement lacked specific target numbers and deadlines — the countries’ finance ministers are tasked with following up on it next year — and Obama faced questions about whether he’d lost cachet on the world stage.

“When I first came into office, people might have been interested in more photo ops because there had been a lot of hoopla surrounding my election,” Obama said, adding that he now has relationships with key leaders, including Chancellor Merkel of Germany, President Lee of South Korea and China’s Hu Jintao — all of whom kept Obama from getting precisely what he sought out of the summit.

“That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be differences,” said Obama, who will fete Hu at the White House in January for his third state dinner. “It wasn’t any easier to talk about currency when I had just been elected and my poll numbers were at 65 percent than it is now.”

But Obama’s role in Washington’s new political dynamic after midterm elections had an impact on his agenda at the G-20. He fell short in his efforts to nail down a trade agreement with South Korea by the G-20 deadline he’d set earlier this year. A deal was delayed because of, he blamed on Congress.

“I think we can get a win-win, but it was important to take the extra time so that I am assured that it is a win for American workers and American companies as well as for Korean workers and Korean companies,” Obama said, “because I’m the one who’s going to have to go to Congress and sell it.”

The above article was written by Carol E. Lee, at Politico 44.