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looked him in
the eye, and said, "One thing about you is that you are
relentless once you get committed."
Kevin
replied, "I do have a global theory about that too. Want to hear
it?”
"Sure,
let me hear it. Maybe, I can understand you better if I listen more
and talk less," said Pat.
15.
The Terrier
Kevin
started out, “I am not insanely proud about being Irish. It’s
another accident of birth, and everyone has to be something. My
ancestors were Celtic slaves brought to County Cork in southern
Ireland from God knows where. The Romans brought them there, gave
them some sheep and put them to work. They came back on a regular
basis for wool, and hides. They beat the shit out of them and
generally intimidated them enough to keep them in fear for their
lives. The herders quickly learned that being obsessive about your
sheep paid big dividends.
"The
rewards come in terms of your sheep success. In the sheep herding
business, attention to detail results in healthy sheep, low
mortality, high birth rates, and happier slave masters. The masters
are not prone to praise. Slave masters never reward you for your
efforts; they just don't beat you as much. It's that old negative
motivation that most of history is steeped in. These Celtic
transplants even bred dogs that were obsessive. Think about it:
Border Collies and all herding breeds are bred to the point of being
borderline mentally ill."
"The
Irish were so goofy that they bred and cherished excessive dogs that
also had an attitude. They called them terriers. When you get to the
point where you are breeding obsessive dogs with an attitude, then
you are Irish. The obsessive gene definitely became dominant with
these people. Being that way is great for things like herding; it's a
disaster for growing potatoes in a potato famine. You end up with
that classic definition of insanity. You keep doing the same thing
repeatedly and expect a different result."
"The
upshot of all this was that my ancestors were forced to come to
America. They retained the gene, which still works great for some
things, but not for others. The Industrial Revolution started in
England but was powered to a large extent by people with obsessive
dominant genes. Put those people on a production line and they go
crazy. When they came to America, it was the same thing. Now, there
are more Irish people in America than there are in Ireland."
"The
world had never seen the production rates we achieved in World War
II. I'm not saying the Irish did it; I am saying the obsessive did
it. During World War II, we built a Merchant Fleet so huge that
nothing in the history of the world could even come close to matching
it. I still sail on those ships. Places like the California shipyard
in Los Angeles were turning out a liberty ship a day. It's something
the rest of the world could never match; and something to marvel at."
Kevin
concluded, "We literally produced everything faster than it
could be sunk, shot down, or blown up. That was the logistics that
won the war. The Merchant Marine had higher per person losses than
any other branch of the service. These guys would get a ship
torpedoed out from under them. If they lived, they would go sign onto
another one. They delivered no matter what. I always liked the war
propaganda film Action
in the North Atlantic ,
featuring Humphrey Bogart, and Alan Hale, Gilligan's dad. Talk about
a strong resemblence even down to the voice prints."
"The
rest of me is French, that's the lover part," Kevin said with a
smirk.
"You’re
not going to start waving the flag now are you?" she asked
smiling.
"No
flag waving for me. Remember that obsessive people are mostly
iterative thinkers. They go back to the same problem time and time
again and keep tweaking it. They may get creative occasionally and
borrow an idea from somewhere else and adapt it to another genre, so
to speak. Most of the history of invention is about that sort of
thing because most people operate at that level," Kevin
the eye, and said, "One thing about you is that you are
relentless once you get committed."
Kevin
replied, "I do have a global theory about that too. Want to hear
it?”
"Sure,
let me hear it. Maybe, I can understand you better if I listen more
and talk less," said Pat.
15.
The Terrier
Kevin
started out, “I am not insanely proud about being Irish. It’s
another accident of birth, and everyone has to be something. My
ancestors were Celtic slaves brought to County Cork in southern
Ireland from God knows where. The Romans brought them there, gave
them some sheep and put them to work. They came back on a regular
basis for wool, and hides. They beat the shit out of them and
generally intimidated them enough to keep them in fear for their
lives. The herders quickly learned that being obsessive about your
sheep paid big dividends.
"The
rewards come in terms of your sheep success. In the sheep herding
business, attention to detail results in healthy sheep, low
mortality, high birth rates, and happier slave masters. The masters
are not prone to praise. Slave masters never reward you for your
efforts; they just don't beat you as much. It's that old negative
motivation that most of history is steeped in. These Celtic
transplants even bred dogs that were obsessive. Think about it:
Border Collies and all herding breeds are bred to the point of being
borderline mentally ill."
"The
Irish were so goofy that they bred and cherished excessive dogs that
also had an attitude. They called them terriers. When you get to the
point where you are breeding obsessive dogs with an attitude, then
you are Irish. The obsessive gene definitely became dominant with
these people. Being that way is great for things like herding; it's a
disaster for growing potatoes in a potato famine. You end up with
that classic definition of insanity. You keep doing the same thing
repeatedly and expect a different result."
"The
upshot of all this was that my ancestors were forced to come to
America. They retained the gene, which still works great for some
things, but not for others. The Industrial Revolution started in
England but was powered to a large extent by people with obsessive
dominant genes. Put those people on a production line and they go
crazy. When they came to America, it was the same thing. Now, there
are more Irish people in America than there are in Ireland."
"The
world had never seen the production rates we achieved in World War
II. I'm not saying the Irish did it; I am saying the obsessive did
it. During World War II, we built a Merchant Fleet so huge that
nothing in the history of the world could even come close to matching
it. I still sail on those ships. Places like the California shipyard
in Los Angeles were turning out a liberty ship a day. It's something
the rest of the world could never match; and something to marvel at."
Kevin
concluded, "We literally produced everything faster than it
could be sunk, shot down, or blown up. That was the logistics that
won the war. The Merchant Marine had higher per person losses than
any other branch of the service. These guys would get a ship
torpedoed out from under them. If they lived, they would go sign onto
another one. They delivered no matter what. I always liked the war
propaganda film Action
in the North Atlantic ,
featuring Humphrey Bogart, and Alan Hale, Gilligan's dad. Talk about
a strong resemblence even down to the voice prints."
"The
rest of me is French, that's the lover part," Kevin said with a
smirk.
"You’re
not going to start waving the flag now are you?" she asked
smiling.
"No
flag waving for me. Remember that obsessive people are mostly
iterative thinkers. They go back to the same problem time and time
again and keep tweaking it. They may get creative occasionally and
borrow an idea from somewhere else and adapt it to another genre, so
to speak. Most of the history of invention is about that sort of
thing because most people operate at that level," Kevin
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