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Steven's avatar

It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation....( Hagakure)

Ivan Throne's avatar

Well said, and very true.

Mind and heart and hand must go forward, even into the dark.

We will all go there.

Do it bravely!

SoloD's avatar

Mr. Throne, in this pivotal communication I suggest that you follow up with something along these lines:

1. You have notified your readership that you are a venture capitalist, and those with a business to sell can contact you, and those who seek businesses to acquire can do the same.

2. Please define: Hard Right

3. is the definition of *hard right* - one who believes that Man was created by God and in the image of God for the purpose of having life, liberty and to pursue happiness to the limits of his God given intellect?

4. Perhaps you can also clarify how it is that martial fantasy is the apparent zero sum thinking default for many, in regards to correcting incongruent government policy vs

5. How to harness the infinite potential of the willing and sapient mass to do the same.

Ivan Throne's avatar

1. Venture capitalist is perhaps not precisely accurate; more apt to state that we are focused on reinvestment of revolution monetization.

2. Willing to fight with no parley and no quarter until absolute victory for hierarchy, order, and beauty is achieved "until there is no enemy, but peace".

3. See above.

4. Ego, desperation, despair, and awareness of neglect and unpreparedness leading to futility that hurts too much to acknowledge.

5. "Get up and walk" and get to bloody work with the Company.

SoloD's avatar

With all due respect Mr. Throne... it has taken you a while to walk out onto the mound and deliver your first pitch. There is no fault in that. It behooves one to see the great man and get on with the game. But cutting to the chase: you ask for much, perhaps more than is realistic. Profit on a transaction takes work. The situation is as you articulate and it is a dilemma, full to the brim with eccentricities. And no successful man truly believes that a young man can walk in to his shop, cold, and keep his head and thus the business. FYI: the Boomer you so gleefully disparage does not have any assets worth the candle. The assets you seek, the cherry of all plums, was won by a man you would be better served to think and regard as, perhaps, a Ninja to use your terms. Trust me when I tell you: he fought as hard as anyone in living memory. During his climb he was stabbed in the back by every perfidious miscreant he was so unfortunate to come across, in addition to over coming his own mistakes, brain fade and inclination towards vice. And, do not forget, ultimately, he had to master all of the elements required to get his product into the market. He should have had sons in his twenties, but he had other issues of a serious nature. Which end is up, for example. This is not to say he does not look for an opportunity to pass it along, but has simply not found a man he can believe is capable of carrying the ball. I repeated myself, twice. Young men come to me on occasion looking for a job. I ask them why do they not seek work? Eyes blink. Going further if the moment suits me, I tell them to apply for the position of Junior Vice President of Operations. Up on hearing this, most appear stupefied.

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Ivan Throne's avatar

My work with the Company speaks for itself, and so too are the methods by which we harness Men.

It is not a time where martyrdom is anything other than useless. Those who bask in past glories do not bring utility in this current noncooperative arena.

If you do not have assets then deliver effort and not cynicism.

It is not arrogance to call out foolishness, merely observation of reality.