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  • At First, Philosophy Tears You Down

    Why some people “fall apart”.

    The conscience gnawing can wear a person out.

    The later someone arrives to philosophy in life, the more difficult it is for them to integrate the concepts and the harder they tend to “fall apart”.

    This is a difficult process.

    This is why I say that young people who find my work are at a great advantage. This is also why I say that no matter your age, if you work hard, it tends to go easier.

    Work hardest at the beginning – this way you accumulate fewer cruddy habits.

    If philosophy is highly likely to tear you down, then if you are lackadaisical, the “falling apart” is going to hit much harder. The less you scooch boot, the more likely you are to be hit by a hammer.

    MAGA disillusionment dumping fatties into philosophy where tripping and falling is guaranteed.

    Philosophy is extremely difficult.

    The later into life a person is, the more entrenched their bad habits. Regular society teaches us that your irrationality is permissible within certain bounds. Just don’t build a killdozer and go whacko on police authorities. Don’t type certain terms into the search bar and you’ll be OK. Try to not rape, kill, or steal unless you have a net worth of above $30million. Above that mark and someone will bail you out for a handsome cut and enduring tribute. Try to not walk around in society butt naked unless you’re in Portland or Seattle.

    You’re allowed to do a lot:
    -as many drugs as you’d like
    -have as many children as you can IF you’re nonwhite (donde esta mi SNAP)
    -you can do most crimes to White people
    -you can doom scroll until your eyeballs rot
    -you can rehearse whatever kind of mystical sayings that comfort you
    -you can spend your Visa Rothschild chits in the casino economy, no problem
    -you can get into whatever political anything so long as you don’t organize
    –if you organize, be anything that isn’t Far Right or black SUVs show up to your house
    -you can do butt stuff
    -you can take on copious amounts of college debt
    -you can play woketard video games where the White man is bad
    -you can avoid the opposite sex like they’re the plague, especially if you’re White
    -you can avoid people, especially if you’re White
    -enjoy all the slop food your body can tolerate before you get fungi and parasites

    Point is, you have lots of leeway to do whatever you’d like. If you didn’t receive peaceful parenting as a child, which is a 100% certainty for anyone born before 2008, you definitely got into something as a teenager or young adult that wasn’t good for you. Or your parents did something to screw you up.

    Obviously there’s a continuum of “screwed up” but never underestimate what a few errant passes will do to a sensitive soul. Western Europeans tend to be like thoroughbred racehorses.

    Your tiger pal in childhood becomes a mean monkey as you get older.

    Are you 1-3 years into philosophy and feeling like utter shit?

    Could be that the foundations of your life as you’ve lived it are being overturned. That’s hard on a person. Batters the ego.

    I have the seen people with the absolute most diamond-hard constitutions turn away from philosophy because they couldn’t give up the violence in their personalities. They didn’t want to take the hard edges out because they had to define themselves by their hard edges to domineering, predatorial parents long before.

    I have seen people laze their way into the minefield of their unacknowledged feelings and then step on landmines and fritz out, never to return to the barren land. Off they go into an entire adult lifetimes of distraction (entertainment, hedonism, academia) and abstraction (politics, conspiracy theories, careerism, religion).

    I’ve… seen things. Things you wouldn’t believe.

    But what I’ve never seen is someone double down on philosophy when the going gets tough and come out from it worse for wear. The person who doubles down on philosophy begins to know a strength they only glimpsed as a flicker on the horizon as a child.

    Have you tried my patented chicken sandwich I invented last year?

    That’s what philosophy tastes like, if you push through the “Desolation Within”.

    What does “into philosophy” look like?

    It doesn’t mean, “I listened to Stefan Molyneux for years man and yeah, great stuff bro. I love libertarian economics and when women get corrected and shit!”

    That’s better than nothing.

    But I am talking about the self-knowledge component. You gotta do the self-knowledge part. You’ve got to ask yourself where you’ve been in error. You’ve got to examine the mistakes of your parents. You have to look at your programming.

    Been in a conflict? Programming likely had something to do with it.

    Had trouble securing work or finding love?

    Had a period of loneliness followed by illness?

    Been caught up by the law?

    Haven’t read any books in the past year or two or three?

    Maintain self-defeating, short-term oriented habits that wreck your long-term prospects?

    These can only be somewhat mitigated by listening to Stefan Molyneux’s wonderful show.

    Working with yourself and getting honest is where most of the juice resides.

    Thy cup overfloweth.

    If you’re looking for more in this vein, try my older book Make Self-Knowledge Great Again. Some of it is fantastic and some of it, a bit dated or I’m at odds with.

    If you’re falling to pieces, let it be because you used philosophy to tug at some seams that are now spilling open.

    Life has to get messy before it can be tidy again.

    Unpack the rot. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Let your wounds breathe.

    Try to not take it hard. This is part of the process. Learn to unwind strategically, not hedonically.

    Drop me a line if you’re looking for professional guidance.

    You cannot expect perfection. And philosophy shines a light on your imperfections. Great big abreactions happen because of something. They aren’t mystical codexes.

    “Depressions” must be put into proper context. Empathy and patience allow for that process to play out.

    Don’t give up on the process!

    There are sunny shores. There are elysian fields. All is well… in a well-ordered and clean conscience. You can’t just will your way there. We are all challenged by a push and pull of the conscience. Sometimes it tells you to start from scratch. Sometimes it does not trust you. You’ve lived in error. All those endless choices I listed above have something to do with it.

    A song I listened to while writing this article.

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  • Man Gets Woman And Fattens Like A Porker

    Where does the glory go?

    In my now not insignificant years of being in the world, I have noticed an alarming trend.

    Same guy just happier now. Wildly clearer thinking.

    This first began in my early adulthood when my good college buddy got a girlfriend by the middle of freshman year. He and I were on the same floor in the dorms. The girlfriend started sleeping over. She’d bring her friends over. The other guys would go stark raving mad and congregate in large numbers in this small room. I quietly resented the change in our floor’s dynamics and tried to stay out of it. The women would bring the most inane chatter with them. There was always some girl on the periphery that was being a slut – big source of gossip. The men would nod along in a daze or play Xbox or chitchat. I’d pop in but I couldn’t handle it. There was one young woman, Morgan, who in particular I felt just sunk everything to such a putrid level. I resented the change. In the early months it felt like the guys and I were building something. We were building what were supposed to be long-lasting bonds. We’d go on joy rides. We’d do all sorts of wild stuff. One of the main guys gets a woman and suddenly he’s the main guy and everyone is congregating around him and his girlfriend.

    At my university, there were co-ed dorms and lots of birth control freely available. I thought it was kind of psychotic and strangely scientific without fully understanding why. I started to read the works of Neil Postman and came across the term “social engineering” and then better understood all that was repugnant to me but couldn’t divorce myself from.

    The women invade the men’s space, terraform things to their liking, and the men go soft and doughy.

    Let’s cuddle on the bed and watch TikToks, Daddy Poopee.

    Women have a domesticating effect on men. That’s no secret.

    It’s the way that men respond to it that unnerves me.

    I write you from a firmly ensconced position of domestic bliss:
    -I am a father who practices peaceful parenting
    -my wife and I have been together for 16 years
    -my day-to-day concerns revolve around the needs of my family
    -I had to retire from politics due to health concerns and family considerations

    I go back and forth on the domesticating effect women have on men.

    This is from a recent livestream Stefan Molyneux did with his daughter where she did his makeup. Is this a good or bad thing? If I was in a will-to-power, I would automatically and reflexively say YES with contempt. But that’s just programming. I thought the livestream was funny. I guess his daughter wears makeup. If everyone is doing it, you leave yourself at a disadvantage by not doing it. I will say, Stefan is manipulating his SMV upwards here by wearing makeup and that’s a form of dishonesty 😉

    Would I ever do something like this? Hard to say. I don’t know – ask me in 20 years. Stefan is 20 years older than me. I’m so far removed from Makeup World. My wife stopped wearing makeup like six months into knowing her. She never felt right about it. She is lovely to me without it.

    Without his daughter and wife, Stefan wouldn’t be the person that he is. And I rather enjoy the person he is. He offers a genteel touch to the world that it so desperately needs. He’s British and has a theater background, which is a part of the charm – if you’ve read any Shakespeare you just kinda get where he’s coming from. Shakespeare lived in a fun world with far less government and zero multiculturalism.

    The way men respond to women’s domesticating effect is what unnerves me. There’s a privation men express in their over-enthusiasm to be tamed. Like they weren’t brought up enough and so they yearn for some kind of direction. Perhaps they didn’t get enough mothering and never sought to work that out in themselves before getting into a relationship. That’s probably it.

    Fockin’…

    I never ever wanted to take my cues from that direction. Despite rough health that has diminished me, I have always sought to reach out and up toward the stars. I’m not saying I haven’t changed relative to my wife’s maternal and nesting instincts. That’s an important part of being human. I’m saying that that’s not all there is to me. I am not subsumed by it.

    Rather than do the hard work of self-discovery, a lot of men leave large portions of their personality up to the effect that their marriage has on them. And if their woman is psychologically immature, they sort of live with that and let it be the way things are until things change on the woman’s time. They don’t permit themselves to feel impatient and dissatisfied with this arrangement.

    I never wanted that for myself.

    I have never wanted to live in reaction to someone else. That does not mean I don’t ask my kid with some frequency what they need, would like to do, or how I’m doing as a parent. The experience of the people around me is of vital importance to me. This is so much the case that when my health was at its worst, the family gave me the feedback that we should move south a ways to sunnier climes and I made sure we did just that.

    We are talking about a compass orientation. The typical situation with Western men is that the woman enters the room and all other considerations are dropped. I refuse to live this way. The main thing is the main thing.

    Men are broken by giving up the hunt.

    Women will goop men’s brains by cuddling them and encouraging them to watch TV shows. And let’s be honest, the word “encouragement” here isn’t actually what happens. They whine and blather about their “needs” as if they have self-knowledge when 98% of the time they fockin’ don’t.

    I don’t partake in this. Never have. Never will.

    Women are trained to be feminists and none of that programming is ever undone unless she runs into a philosophical, self-knowledgeable 🔥White Man🔥 who keeps the flame and burns away the programming, no matter the cost. There is a superstructure, a super-sophisticated curriculum women have been raised in and their every impulse is to be the water the seeps into the rock of the man and breaks him apart.

    The media landscape is so radically pathetic and meager. And that is where men take their cues from. And so they give up – quietly and to little fanfare.

    Happy wife, happy life eh, heheh? Happy daughter, happy totter, hoohooo.

    Men get a woman and they just give up.

    The quest is gone. No search for the Holy Grail. Just cummies and rubbies. Snackies and whackies.

    Who still yearns?

    I cannot hide my disgust response.

    It’s a bitter disappointment to see so many men step off the path. Over and over, my whole adult life has been seeing men do this.

    Men’s hormones are getting wrecked by modern pollution and guys just unconsciously accept it and lose frame. Their women help them. The wildness goes out of the man and he forgets.

    Men are so cowed that they forget the glory of the past (liberalism). Or men get into these clever arguments with themselves (aspects of libertarianism) that they forget what drives them and animates them in the first place: to build, to spread virtue, to expand, to perfect justice, to fly.

    I won’t do it. And yet I am happy, fulfilled, and my home is peaceful – full of love. It’s a good situation. You can have it all in this life.

    I know how it’s done.

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  • Walk Toward The Fire

    Philosophy’s encouragement.

    This week has been a brutal week for America:

    –the Supreme Court has struck down MAGA tariffs
    -Trump has directed the Secretary of War and other relevant departments to begin releasing government documents regarding alien and extraterrestrial life to distract from…
    -the DOJ has refused to release any more documents or footage related to Jeffrey Epstein despite speculation that it may have only released 5% of the total
    -the largest massing of American forces in the Middle East since 2003 has taken place, with limited aerial strikes on Iran expected in the coming weeks
    –Democrats have an 83% chance of winning the House in the midterms

    The job market is sour:

    MAGA has been sold out, abandoned, and left to the wolves.

    I ran a poll to see what you guys think:

    Personally, I’m split but I like to stir the pot a little and so I voted Yes.

    What is the average guy to do?

    Walk toward the fire.

    All there is to do is serve the good.

    This is most immediately possible in your personal relationships. What is the quality of your personal relationships? Are you missing anyone that could be brought into your circle? Do you owe someone an apology? Do they owe you an apology? Do you have quality conversations on a regular basis?

    It is important to remember with some frequency these essential questions.

    I like this Andrew Breitbart quote and circle back to it infrequently…

    Be excellent even despite the ever increasing rates of taxation and theft via money printing. Town, county, and state governments have gone completely apeshit.

    Be excellent even if you are discounted, mocked, attacked, vilified, sexualized, stricken by illness, overburdened, underappreciated, so on and so forth.

    Have you checked in with your people? The people who share your values? Are you isolating out of fear? What’s your upper body strength like? Have you done some squats recently? Have you gone and grounded your feet on the bare ground recently?

    If you keep walking toward the fire, whatever that is for you in your life, you can be assured there will be strenuous challenge involved. But what else is there to do? If you don’t do what you were put here on this Earth to do, you will fall into despair. If you cannot spread virtue in this life, you are a net drain to everyone and your conscience will torment you – even if the power structure rewards you amply.

    There is little gratitude in this life for doing the right thing. Just little drops of it once in a while.

    Gratitude in droplets.

    The people running things see us as tax livestock. Their work, as they see it, is to demoralize us as completely and totally as they can. They make their bizarro displays of eerie dominance because their predatorial instincts tell them their symbols grant them power. For whatever reason, it is in our primordial programming to recoil from such symbols.

    These masks are meant to terrify the inner child into submission.

    The Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein was intimately involved with the Rothschild family. He had unlimited access within America’s borders and it seems to have stemmed from this association. He interfaced with all the top intelligence agencies with ease and at one point appeared poised to buy the literal Pentagon.

    If you harken back to my article The Sea Of Negativity:

    You know where you go if you need negativity.

    Negativity sells. Follow the money. The more power and influence in a degenerate system, the more negativity.

    Finding positivity is quite the feat. Positivity is elusive.

    What good can come from any of these people? What good can come from a President who has been bedfellow with some of these people?

    Rather than wait around for results, do what it is in your life that you are avoiding:

    -lose the weight

    -make time for your kid

    -ask the woman out

    -make the cold call

    –send in the donation (your conscience will thank you)

    -speak out on what’s going wrong

    Your conscience will tell you what the answer is, the moment you ask the question, “What is it that I’m avoiding?” Philosophy is about asking the right questions. You get to the right questions by knowing how arguments are formed, how feedback is collected, and how to determine what is truth from falsehood. Without a study of philosophy, you are completely lost to happiness because you haven’t the ability to form the essential questions.

    Make the time for philosophy in your personal life, your time off from work, and watch your effectiveness increase.

    But be prepared for the fire.

    Sometimes it do be like this.

    Spreading virtue can be a thankless job. Worse than that, it can get you crucified if you do too much of it. Moderation in all things.

    I used to think the proverbial Pain Box was limited to just political action. If you exercised a will-to-power, to dominate and subjugate others, you’d be enclosed by the pain box. But standards have dropped so low and so fast that honestly, even just showing up for work or paying bills on time has appeared to give people this experience. The disaffection is near-total. How could it not be?

    “They’re farming babies while the slaves are all working.”

    The revelations of the past two weeks have painted the grimmest picture possible. And a huge majority of people, because of their addiction to violence and their hatred of children, are in on it.

    All the more to raise yourself up. Why wallow with the rest of them?

    You were born into a situation not of your choosing. You were born into a slave field overseen by the most vicious and nasty verbal abusers yet to date, oh and they have AI now. The Internet has been invaluable for human freedom but it has also been used by the predatorial elite to entrench and upskill their sophistry and wealth extraction.

    Don’t separate from the good in life because you are discouraged. Take heart in the good things you have going, whether they are natural gifts, good health, a decent sleep schedule, a meaningful friendship or two, a loving family, good exercise habits, a good diet, or a job that augments your value to others.

    Don’t count yourself out because you have not attained acclaim or security in the service of virtue. These are the most fleeting of possessions because they are at total odds with the prevailing order. Such a thing wasn’t possible by the late 1950’s. America saw a spate of traditional Christians retire from public life because they were so fed up with the subversion they were witness to. There is no “retirement” possible now – only to march steadily forward in service of future generations.

    Don’t let the financial elite get you down.

    The prison bars are already legion. Don’t add any.

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  • Is Christianity To Blame?

    Per the downfall of the West.

    There are a few lines about Christianity that have been floating around on the X timeline in recent years:

    -Christianity worships meekness and so no wonder more aggressive religions are dominating

    -Jesus Christ is actually a revival of some ancient pagan savior figure, look at the numerology

    -Christianity was the prevailing orthodoxy of the West as it was subverted, therefore it must be confronted with something antithetical to its values for it to get a grip

    I’ll give my response to each of these points.

    1) Meekness:

    Teehee oh fiddlesticks hopefully no one bullies us!

    I remember going to Kiwanis as a kid a number of times and thinking to myself at the time, “Everyone is so nice.” It was disorienting to me. I didn’t have the words at the time. There was a disconnect between the usual testiness and aggravation parents showed their kids in the home and the cookies and ice cream pie way they were at Kiwanis.

    I remember going to many LDS functions as a teenager and it was even more intense. I remember a girl I liked having a bad weekend because her father slapped her across the face on a Friday and on the Sunday everything was love-bombing pumpkin pie while she was still smarting from the trespass. You were just supposed to pile in the van with all your other LDS siblings and go off to happy camp all day. I was so confused by this.

    I remember going to Wednesday night Youth Ministry at the Catholic Church and group discussion time had a little bit of venting about your home life. Our youth minister Mike would listen to a bit of it and talk to people’s parents. That was the extent of it. I don’t know that this was systemic. Seemed more like it was a Mike thing, who is still the youth ministries director at my hometown church. What a kind man.

    Some Christian churches have gone totally off the deep end. I don’t understand why. I haven’t dug into the doctrinal differences that would lead to these extremely goofy logic fractals where you somehow can have Stormtroopers dancing Gangham Style under a lights show. Many millions of Americans across the Bible Belt rock out to Jesus in these mega churches. I don’t understand it. I’ve attended a number of services at churches like these and it just bewilders me. Feels like I’m experiencing the madness of whoever is in charge of the show.

    2) Ancient Pagan Numerology Stuff

    “Jesus was a rehashing of this guy, mon. 9/11 was an Inside Job!”

    When someone tries to rope me in on, “Jesus was an inside job!” my eyes glaze over in boredom. This seems to me the kind of stuff massively underemployed, intelligent but anti-social people get into. There’s all kinds of goofy Internet rabbit hole stuff people get into essentially because America has no manufacturing base and women are in the workplace. Used to be you could work a job, buy a muscle car with a summer’s wages, buy a house with four years’ wages, and Boomer it up. Now you have to finance trips to the restaurant and become an expert dietician so you don’t face unexpected medical bills. There has to be a middle ground.

    I tend to be able to spot spergy people from a mile away.

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    Back to spergy people.

    The unabomber wrote about leftists being “over-socialized” and this resonated with a lot of people. There’s nothing wrong with tremendous amounts of socialization. That was, in fact, the world before WWI. People born in the 1880’s were the last people to receive lots of natural socialization – meaning socialization within a free context. The “over-socialization” of leftists must be considered within the context of broad spread institutional capture by the Left, which happened throughout the entirety of the 20th Century. Leftist socialization should be differentiated from free association.

    People who’ve had too much input from the Internet have a kind of wimpiness about them that I don’t like. It’s not only that but I think that heaps of verbal abuse tends to drive people toward the Internet, which gives them easy acceptance. I believe in balance in all things: have good people in your life, get information from good online sources (anything the Australian or Euro governments would shid and piss about), work out on the regular, work full-time if you’re a man, mother full-time if you’re a mom, cut dramatic people out of your life, practice self-reflection, starve the Leviathan. This will give you a good balance. The love and consideration of a virtuous person is worth much more, in input terms, than dopamine rush info rabbit holes on the Internet. Spergy people, who have been verbally abused or just big league neglected growing up, tend to not have this balance in their lives. And so they try to pull others into their impotent cul-de-sacs of irrelevance and emotional privation. I’d rather put on some Billy Joel.

    Me when I get good sleep.

    3) Spook the SHIT out of Christians so they change

    This one is a bit more niche but the spirit of it is out there.

    This supposition that Christianity is this abomination because it oversaw the downfall of the West is one of those non self-knowledge answers that sounds cool. Why did the West decline? Everyone has their answer. Some people say it’s because of the Reformation. Some people say it’s because of outside religions. Some people say it’s because of socialism. Nobody wants to talk about the lot of children in this world.

    You can’t borrow hundreds of trillions in unfunded liabilities from the future and say you care about children or future generations in the same breath.

    You also can’t institutionalize public schooling and claim to care about children. The more you cede your children to forces outside of the home, the more screwed up they will become and the whackier their politics will become.

    People have all these whacky politics these days. Nobody is bread and butter. Nobody is a well-fed hoss.

    Who needs trouble when you’re a big old chonker?

    Can’t be an overly neurotic power seeker if you’re a big hoss. Big legs, big butt, big heart.

    Somehow it’s Christians’ fault that they were confronted with a playbook they hadn’t really dealt with in 400-500 years that was suddenly sprung on them because of advancements in mass transit?

    That doesn’t make sense to me.

    I think when someone says you have to spook the shit out of Christians, they’re just telling you they’re used to verbally assailing their kids, if they have any, for long periods of time. Or they’d do this if they somehow were able to join the gene pool. Same for people who say the West “deserves a time out”.

    The one thing I’ll say is that Christianity posits that all humans are “ensouled”.

    I just don’t think this is biologically true. I remember the hubbub a few years ago when some aid worker went to some distant tropical hellhole and came back swearing that the people there just literally did not have prefrontal cortex function. They had no conception of the future and so didn’t plan for it.

    Christianity went through this period of time of colonial expansion where Christians thought they could bring people over to the Way, the Truth, and the Light. I think it failed utterly miserably and not only that, managed to stoke up a bunch of vengeance because of course uncivilized and backwards people would irrationally strike back at the hand that fed them for 200 years. Don’t feed the wildlife!

    I don’t think all humans are ensouled. I think IQ disparities matter. This is not codified into Christianity in any meaningful sense. If you had basic brain scans of the amount of damage people accumulated from their cruddy parents along with some measurement of frontal lobe function, you could exclude brain-damaged people from society with ease. This would lead to a Renaissance that would outstrip Florence and the Medicis a thousand-fold. I wrote about such a society in an unreleased novel from ~2019.

    Some of my adult life has now been spent in or near Salt Lake City watching it turn slowly into a Third World shithole because LDS believe every 3rd worlder with a pulse gets to have their own planet in the afterlife. Now you have Pacific-Islander gangs run amuck, whole city blocks of literal Muslims with baby strollers, and half the valley is Mexican. Hey, but a small minority of them sometimes attend their neighborhood ward. Worth it!

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  • The Oddness Of Bachelors

    Everywhere you look there are more bachelors than ever before. Such a sight was rare in previous generations.

    Bachelors are on their way out of the gene pool.

    There is an oddness to them that I’d like to describe today.

    Bachelors are used to having things their way. Whatever self-serving habits they may have persist in a feedback vacuum.

    Due to multiculturalism, civic participation is lower than it ever has been in the United States.

    When you introduce disparate elements into a society and pave their way using the propaganda of mass communications and state schooling, you form a split in the native population. Some will be for the newcomers. Some will be against the newcomers.

    Suddenly you have strangers with strange customs, smells, preferences, dress, accents, and appearances showing up at formerly homogenous events. This demoralizes and alienates the native population and then the natives disengage. Ever been to a Christmas parade in the middle of nowhere and some liberals in Patagonia puffer jackets bring a fighting age male Indian along with them who’s dressed like them and just smiles at everything, trying to placate anyone who will make eye contact with him?

    I have.

    We’ve all had some variation of this experience.

    The State forces tolerance. If you are intolerant, you are destroyed. The more aggressive you are in your intolerance, the more you are destroyed.

    Since there is massively reduced social participation and since native Americans are also being run out of employment, which is an act of genocide, there are starting to be all of these bachelors everywhere. And they’re pissed off, estranged, lonely, and vilified.

    I have lots of sympathy for such people and my limited purpose here today is to describe a kind of oddness to them – not take up at length their plight. But if you have a gander at my video content, you will see I have spoken up on their behalf plenty of times. I have an entire book dedicated to their cause:

    When you are isolated, you lack feedback. Feedback is what grounds you to reality. We all develop our theories about reality but it is important to test our theories against the experience and responses of others. Otherwise, we develop hobbies and they destroy us.

    We have a whole generation of single, young men, run out of the institutions, who are logging into the Internet and having their resentments stoked and mirrored back to them. This is creating in them a sense of rage and resentment. These, of course, can be commandeered by destructive leader figures.

    I won’t stand in the way.

    It’s just to say that when you have no one, you have no negotiations. You do not have to weigh your priorities against anyone else’s. Since the government education camps are completely useless at pair bonding males and females together, you basically step out of high school graduation into a void of inattention and doom scrolling. And the young women are even more pressed than the men. The propaganda efforts aimed at them are several orders of magnitude more sophisticated. Everything is being done to give them “ick” so they’ll while away their limited fertility.

    And so bachelors persist. The computer, the smartphone is safe. Free time block? Spend it on social media. More echo chamber engaged. No negotiation. At best, shouting insults into a void. Call someone a name in a reply under an anonymous account. Vacant impotency. Lust for e-girls. Die un petit mort when the e-babe looks seductively into the camera. Hungry time. Go to the grocery distribution center or get the groceries delivered. Or get some Uber Eats. Don’t talk to anyone. Just keep grinding for some computer XP. Have your every impulse catered to.

    Without children, there’s no one tugging at your sleeve now and then to knock you out of your digital stupor. Men just let themselves go. The old fraternal networks are gone. All the Commons is a faggy corporate space. Men don’t figure on what it does to a man to just log on and while away. The soul being eroded until a man is a husk by his 40’s but hey, peak earnings have been attained and so it’s time to have a FrickFest with a younger woman. That’s the new sell. And the clever coverup for that is to depict the opposition against it as feminists who are bitter and jealous. Set aside notions of soul erosion. Soul erosion doesn’t happen! Why? Because someone rageful and resentful online said so. I don’t mind if you find a younger woman. It’s your conscience I care about. And the dopamine bump wears off and you’re still left with most of your old habits.

    I’m not saying YOU’RED COOKED if you’ve managed to get to your 30’s without a wife. I’m saying that if you were honest with yourself and stopped all the digital excitation long enough for your conscience, which has been buried, to seep through in the quiet way that it does at first – you’d find that you had a lot more to do with this arrangement than your favorite online people have led you to believe.

    I’m in the business of minting anti-victims. We all need feedback to get to where we want to be. Drop me a line if you need a cornerman:

    stevefranssen@protonmail.com

    Talk soon!

  • Why Character Assassination Against Me Fails

    No more business as usual.

    Woke up to some business-as-usual news this morning:

    Every single move Trump has made in the finance and banking sector has been exclusively for the benefit of the international cabal running the destruction of Christendom.

    “What is thy bidding, my Rothschilds?”

    Yet he still has enough cachet in this country that you can’t say much about it without either:

    A) Being shadowbanned by Elon

    B) People squirming and then shunning you

    C) People telling you “it’s over” like the blithering sheep they are

    America is being financialized at a blistering pace. This is the 2nd Trump admin’s entire M.O.

    Justice isn’t coming.

    Allow me to move off from politics.

    I was thinking this morning about a common Stefan Molyneux refrain. He essentially says, “It did not pay for me to be first. Look at the reality: I was destroyed for being first.” This is his response to people who praise him for being early and that his “reputation” is sterling as a result. “No, no,” he says, “my reputation has been thoroughly and roundly assassinated.”

    Then he sometimes goes on to talk about how we can think of a solution for rewarding those who early. That a stateless society would be able to handle this somehow.

    I have often thought about this quandary for close to two decades now.

    This is because I have been early or damn near first to everything that has been relevant to a freer world.

    I, too, have undergone some pretty insane character assassination campaigns. You see the world differently once enough people have revealed themselves to you via admission-through-projection. Steve’s this or he’s that, these doddering, vicious people with no self-knowledge hiss and howl. I continue to be the source of gossip for a great number of people. Why? Because I was early and continue to be.

    I’m still out in front.

    I’m still the best.

    Even in a diminished condition (that’s improving).

    A lot of people seem to think they’ve “caught up” but they only have this impression because the political dialectic has gone as far as it will go and has remained in a stalled state since the 2020 election was stolen. That’s when I disengaged – because I’m wise.

    News flash: it won’t un-stall until all the Pizzag*te/Epst*in/bank bailout perps are tried and handled.

    The real “catch-up” is to do philosophy and self-knowledge – to become a more rational therefore virtuous therefore happy person.

    I don’t see people becoming much happier.

    Therefore, I’m still quite early. I am quite likely the happiest person on the planet.

    Since evil people are too stubborn and prideful to change, they have to try and turn what is a great strength (happiness) into some kind of “softness”, “weakness”, “hidden treachery” (all is not as it seems!), or “cowardice”.

    So few have this. So many are lost.

    I know the character assassination against me will continue. As I have said, a moat of abuse and ostracism has been built around me. People I helped tremendously during my stint in politics either pretend I don’t exist, slime me to their friend groups, etc. And then there are those who are upset with me for having gone into politics in the first place and can’t let it go. “A betrayal on the most high!” they complain as their lives devolve into self-paralyzing nothingness.

    The freer I become, the more the iron bars seek to shunt my path.

    My YouTube is at 1/65th what it was at its peak, after being heavily supressed for the better part of three years before it was unceremoniously deleted by some woke, vicious Millennial staffer at Google.

    The world has not shown me loyalty. I have been treated as WRONG and in error but then no one has actually articulated WHY. I’m just supposedta know. It’s silly. And until recently, I haven’t had the vigor to undo a lot of the voodoo that’s been put on me.

    Nevertheless, I am going to grow everything again.

    Everyone who shunned me in the past five years is dead to me. If this statement “feels” bitter to you, maybe consider what you’ve actually done to further the cause. I can promise you it won’t amount to as much as you’d like. So allow me some room to do my work and instruct.

    And everyone who stuck with me, especially behind the paywall at Locals.com is who I will serve and enliven. If you’ve been with me over there, you have my fondest gratitude.

    The Argument is only going to be convinced to those who are prepared to receive the Argument. I won’t spend a breath on trying to convince people who are not positioned to hear the Argument. If I am guilty of a sin in the past ten years, it’s that I tried to bridge the gap and thus wasn’t true to my self. I have no illusions in this department anymore. Better to go out doing what you love, the way you love it, as opposed to administering a cure to those who cannot even see they are ill.

    Oh yeah, my website keeps getting hacked and taken down. My domain host is like, “Eh, this is icky” and doesn’t do much to help. I will try to bring it back again. Until then, if you want to drop me a line, write me at:

    stevefranssen@protonmail.com

    Questions and comments here or there are always appreciated.

    Talk soon!