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whole of the data (but lacked the Scientology tech), one would simply use
reactive patterns to blow the old society apart and then pick up the pieces
neatly in a new pattern. If one had no inkling of how reactive one can get
(and Bolivar of course had no knowledge whatever in that field), there yet
remained a workable formula used "instinctively" by most successful
practical political leaders.
If you free a society from those things you see wrong with it and use
force to demand it do what is right, and if you carry forward with decision
and thoroughness, and without continual temporizing you can, in the
applications of your charm and gifts, bring about a great political reform
or improve a failing country.
So Bolivar's first error, most consistent it was, too, was contained in
the vital words "you see" in the above paragraph. He didn't look and he
didn't even listen to sound intelligence reports. He was so sure he could
glow things right or fight things right or charm things right that he never
looked for anything wrong to correct until it was too late. This is the ne-
plus-ultra of personal confidence, amounting to supreme vanity. "When he
appeared it would all come right" was not only his belief but his basic
philosophy. So the first time it didn't work, he collapsed. All his skills
and charm were channeled into this one test. Only that could he observe.
Not to compare with Bolivar but to show my understanding of this:
I once had a similar one. "I would keep going as long as I could and
when I was stopped I would then die." This was a solution mild enough to
state and really hard to understand until you had an inkling of what I
meant by keeping going. Meteors keep going-very, very fast. And so did 1.
Then one day ages back I finally was stopped after countless little
stoppings by social contacts and family to prepare me culminating in a navy
more devoted to braid than dead enemies and literally I quit. For a while I
couldn't get a clue of what was wrong with me. Life went completely
unlivable until I found a new solution. So I know the frailty of these
single solutions. Not to compare myself but just to show it happens to us
all, not just Bolivars.
Bolivar had no personal insight at all. He could only "outsight" and
even then he did not look or listen. He glowed things right. Pitifully it
was his undoing that he could. Until he no longer could. When he couldn't
glow he roared and when he couldn't roar he fought a battle. Then civic
enemies were not military enemies so he had no solution left at all.
It never occurred to him to do more than personally magnetize things
into being right and victorious.
His downfall was that he made far too heavy use of a skill simply
because it was easy. He was too good at this one thing. So he never looked
to any other skill and he never even dreamed there was any other way.
He had no view of any situation and no idea of the organizational or
preparatory steps necessary to political and personal victory. He only knew
military organization which is where his organizational insight ceased.
He was taught on the high wine of French revolt, notorious in its
organizational inability to form cultures, and that fatally by a childhood
teacher who was intensely impractical in his own private life (Simon
Rodriguez, an unfrocked priest turned tutor).
Bolivar had no personal financial skill. He started wealthy and wound up
a pauper, a statistic descending from one of the if not the richest man in
South America down to a borrowed nightshirt to be buried in as an exile.
And this while the property of Royalists was wide open, the greatest land
and mine valuables of South America wide open to his hand and that's not
believable! But true. He never collected his own debt of loans to
governments even when the head of those governments.
So it is no wonder we find two more very real errors leading to his
downfall. He did not get his troops or officers rewarded and he did not aim
for any solvency of the states he controlled. It was all right if there
were long years of battle ahead for them to be unpaid as no real riches
were yet won, but not to reward them when the whole place was at his
disposal! Well!