Skills and phaetons
Reading Collectible Auto while eating as usual. Found an article about the 1961 Lincoln parade phaeton, made famous by JFK in 1963.

You'd think that LBJ would have scrapped and burned the "bad omen". Nope. He loved the car and continued using it.

SKILL-based thinking explains the mystery.

Basic rule:

When you make something, you know how it's made.

Applying the rule:

If X has successfully made Y, you can assume that X knows how to make Y, and X has made Y often enough to acquire a real skill.

This applies to common things like an omelet or a tied shoe or a folded sheet or a shoveled sidewalk or a mowed lawn. These skills are surprisingly difficult to explain verbally or softwarically. These skills haven't been robotized. BUT: After you've done them several times, you know how they're done.

This also applies to highly unusual things like a fake "emergency" or an assassination. Explaining these skills is doubly difficult because the methods are totally secret.

Applying to the current holocaust: The monsters know there's no risk. They don't muzzle or distance unless the camera is on. Why are they CONFIDENT that they won't get sick? They made the omelet, so they know what's in it. And especially what's NOT in it.

Applying to LBJ: He was CONFIDENT that he wouldn't be assassinated because he made the omelet. He knew who would be involved in the various subassemblies of an assassination because he chose those workers and assigned their jobs. He owned the human weapons.

So the Lincoln parade phaeton was simply a trophy. Like a big game hunter proudly displaying the heads of the rhinos and lions he killed, LBJ proudly displayed the head of the obstacle who stood in his way. This trophy INFORMED other would-be obstacles what would happen if they decided to stand in his way.

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Personal example: An auto forum online was discussing the old VW cult, and mentioned that everyone who ever worked on Bugs still had the 17-mm wrench for oil changes. I verified the observation by pulling out my old wrench from the toolbox and posting the pic:



On the Allen end (grease-change end) you can see some serious wear. This tool was USED. And my muscle memory also had some serious wear. As soon as my hand grabbed the tool, the hand remembered. Pull on the handle, feel the oil plug break loose from its gasket, turn once with the wrench, drop the wrench into the bucket, finish removing the plug with fingers while the warm oil flows over the fingers into the bucket. I haven't used the tool since 1983, almost 40 years, but the entire sequence is still there in the cerebellum. (Oil changes were always done under the car at night in bad weather, with red ants crawling up your legs and biting your crotch, so the process involved one hand and no eyes and SPEED. Skills are learned and remembered best under time pressure.)

Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, skill-estate

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