Blame This Guy for My Lite Blogging: Mencius Moldbug of Unqualified Reservations – Darn You To Heck, Moldbug, Darn You to Heck!

I can’t really blog much when I have some 200 pages from his archive printed-out and stacked on my couch.
Worse, I found that the few days while I drive around and listen to public radio talk shows, I would laugh and yell out to voices of the guests…”Ha your a cryptocalvinist…so are you ! Hahahahahah!”.
What [...]

“Positioning” by Al Ries and Jack Trout: Anything for 4GW or 5GW?

I recently read Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout.
This is really mostly a marketing/business book, but I am looking for ideas I can swipe from elsewhere fro 4gw/5gw.
I love the subtitle: The Battle for Your Mind. I am going to crib and re-use that soon.
The authors define positioning as what you do to the [...]

4GW as Information Warfare Example

Quoted From LGF:
The Islamic Republic News Agency is pleased to report that the neutering of the Western Satans from within is proceeding apace: Muslim network launched to boost anti-war movement in UK.
Go ahead and read it.
Here is the biggest failure of the US and Western Leaders: Not educating the public (and maybe not educating themselves) [...]

LGF Link: “Al-Qaeda As Brand Name”

Here is the link.
Branding is coupled to marketing. The whole thing seems very meme-ish.
I haven’t had time or desire to blog much recently, but it might be interesting to do a post inter-relating branding, marketing, memetic engineering, information warfare, and then with 4GW and/or 5GW.

I Just Saw Tonights’ Simpsons Epidsode

They should have have just called this Episode “Fuck the US Army – Happy Veterans Days from the Simpsons!”
What crap this once great, funny show has become.
Update: Hot Air covers this too with a video clip.

Essays I am Too Lazy to Write: Media Warfare, 4GW, Meme Wars

Thoughts:

The west is loosing
Must integrate media warfare into all operations (strategic, Operational, and Tactical)
Three targets: ones supports, the fence sitters (leaning either way), ones enemies
We Need Grunts with Blogs and Digital Cameras
1get better at positive media warfare…getting sound and eye bytes out there for dissemination and re-packaging at all levels
counter-media warfare must be set up…the [...]

Meme: Wussification of America

Read about it at TV Squad.

Islamofascists/Jihadist are Adopting the Language of The Left

NPR’s Morning Edition (9/13 wed) had a story about Muslim converts in UK. One of them said something like (I was driving and scribbling into my notebook at red lights only):
The greatest Jihad is speaking truth to a great tyrant.
The great tyrant the listener was left to assume is Bush and perhaps his poodle Blair.
It [...]

LGF has an exclusive trip report from Khatami’s CAIR Dinner

LGF has a trip report from former Iranian President Khatami’s CAIR Dinner that you can read.
One interesting observation from the writer:
But one thing above all stood out when Khatami was speaking (I don’t know if it was Arabic or Persian). Apparently his language has no equivalent for the English word because he always said the [...]

Bush Uses the “F” Word: Well, if it Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck…

Via LGF:
Right on cue, the Council on American Islamic Relations pegs the Seethe-O-Meter over President Bush’s use of the words “Islamic fascism:” US Muslims bristle at Bush term ‘Islamic fascists’.
Personally, I think it is about time that the enemy gets named correctly.
Update: There is a related discussion at ZenPundit (which I submitted to DIGG and [...]

Know Your Enemy Video: Islam in Its Own Words

Via Reddit:

Ideas with Swords

The Belmont club uses the phrase “ideas with a Sword” in article re a Phillip Bobbit article:
To those who think groups like al-Qaeda are myth, Bobbitt replies that on the contrary, they are the new challenge of the 21st century: ideas with a sword.
This sounds Meme-ish doesn’t it?
I think this –> Ideas-with-Swords = Armed [...]

Freedom Spreading (aka Gap Shrinking) via the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Via the PSD Blog, Carl Schramm writes in USA Today, starting with:
Smith’s great revelation was that political freedom would most likely emerge and persist under conditions of economic freedom, what we now call capitalism. Our democratic system as defined in our Constitution incorporated respect for this economic system. Like Smith’s invisible hand in the market, [...]

4GW, Nation-Building as Soft-Colonization,Time Ranges in War/Conflict, and Meme Wars

Blogs Tdaxp and ZenPundit have linked to an interesting post on Amendment X regarding PNM Theory, 4GW, and war/conflict in general. There are some real gems in the comments (pay no attention to any nastiness or sniping to get to the good stuff).
I especially found the following comments interesting by "J Smith" interesting.
"J Smith" [...]

Annex Mexico? The Meme Spreads!

Instapundit links to himself and spreads the TDAXP meme of USA+Mexico=USA (which I call USAv3):
So maybe we've been thinking about this the wrong way. Instead of worrying about Mexicans invading America, maybe what we need is for the United States to annex Mexico.
He is not suggesting that it happens right away, but that at [...]

Intro to Memes

Via REDDIT is a nice introduction to the Meme / Memetics concept entitled: The Lifecycle of Memes.
The article defines Meme as "A meme is a (cognitive) information-structure able to replicate using human hosts and to influence their behaviour to promote replication", and notes that this is a stricter definition then is usually used. [...]