Theme: Responsibility

Q&A: “CAN I BECOME A ‘MR WOLF?” JAMES BOND DOESN”T EXIST EITHER

—“in the movie Pulp Fiction there is a character played by Harvey Keitel who is referred to as the Wolf. Excepting the blatantly illegal stuff, how would a guy go about making himself this “fountain of utility” to men of sufficient power who require such an option?”—

These men exist in law, public relations, finance, business, and politics. In business there is an entire class of CEO’s who ‘turnaround’ (clean up and sell) failed businesses. There are PR people who help actors and public people recover their images. In ever sector there are ‘cleaners’. We had a guy in my company that recovered blown customers who were mad at us. Some project managers specialize in project recovery. Some technologists in technology recovery. Some engineers who rescue ships. Some doctors who specialize in trauma.

Where these people do not really exist, just like ‘hit men’ do not exist, is in the lower classes, where such things are to reality what myths are to reality: illustrations that we learn from.

The evidence is in that the government doesn’t use spies it uses special forces to kill people. That there are no ‘cleaners’ in crime other than borderline lawyers. That there are few if any ‘hit men’,. Those that do exist are very rare, lead very bad lives, and are not someone you can seek to become. And moreover that the men who do usually kill are merely throwaways, and usually the dumbest guy that they can find, who they have the least regret in offing in order to preserve silence.

The reason is that such people would be caught unless they were employed by an organization with sufficient work for them. And organizations of any scale have been under assault by the FBI since the 1930’s and particularly since the 1960’s.

And moreover the economics prohibit it. Underground activity suppresses the option of scale by reputation. Above ground activity facilitates scale by reputation. Anonymity requires rather small organizations free of ‘leaking’. This means that a ‘market’ for services like those of ‘the cleaner’ do not exist. In fact, if we look at the data, the series CSI has done more to educate criminals in how to operate cleanly than any individual ever has.

There is a longstanding tradition in hollywood to place middle class characters in lower class roles, and equally to place lower class characters in upper middle or upper class roles. This technique is always an interesting device for creating mythical characters.

So, the way to do this is to literally study any area of inquiry and to learn to specialize in recovering failures rather than creating innovations.

The Pinkerton organization does the closest to this kind of work on a professional and above board basis. They both act as corporate spies and they prevent corporate spying. (I have used them in the distant past both to conduct ‘research’ – espionage – and to prevent it. And it’s very common in R&D and legal organizations to do so.)

Now, as a confession, I have taken down organizations run by:

a) Elliot and Robert Koenig (racketerring), b) Stephen Golub (wire fraud), c) Wayne Seminoff (tax evasion), and now d) Rothbardianism(deception) (all jewish names you might note) for illegal or immoral activity. And there was a time that I considered making a career out of it because it suited my autistic hyper moralism and subconscious need for revenge. And that was why I joined the Justice department for a very short time.

But I decided that I would rather not spend my life around bad people because it tended to make me angry, and I don’t particularly like hanging around scumbags and getting angry about it.

So such things CAN be done. They are just not done at low levels of sophistication. they are done at high levels of sophistication.

Reading a few rudimentary books on the ACTUAL operation of the law is pretty useful. After that you study how to recover projects that have failed. then just a little accounting. And then how to win friends and influence people.

Then the trick is going and looking for the dirt. If you start looking for dirty people in this world it won’t take you that long to find them. 🙂

Curt Doolittle