The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading [Sticky] Open Thread #409: Clown World/Politics/Economics
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading [Sticky] Open Thread #408: Misc.
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading [Sticky] Open Thread #407: Women/Dating
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading [Sticky] Open Thread #406: Female Achievement (Men of Culture, Enter Here!)
It’s the end of the year and as many of you deliberately do not have an expensive girlfriend or wife, maybe you want to send some love to the author of this blog instead. So, think of all the fun and education you got from this blog all this time. As you know, there are… Continue reading [Sticky] End-of-Year 2024 Fundraiser
I never thought I would use the words “attractive” and “59-year-old” in a sentence, yet here were are: Yesterday, the YouTube algorithm suggested I watch a video about the senate hearing of Trump’s new Attorney General who happens to be the very attractive 59-year-old Pam Bondi. Her full name is apparently Pamela Jo Bondi and… Continue reading Pam Bondi is Incredibly Attractive
I was recently asked about the effect methylphenidate (MPH) has on meditation. I did not need to to an experiment as I have done that already. I am fairly experienced with meditation and, as many of you may be aware of, even wrote a book on this topic. My baseline experience, without MPH, is that… Continue reading Meditation and Methylphenidate
While the world has been largely homogenized, making travel even more frivolous than it otherwise already was, there is still a lot you can learn about your own culture if you spend some time abroad. Yes, there may be a McDonald’s or a Starbucks on every corner, but there are still limits to this kind… Continue reading Taiwanese Train-Station Toilets and Western Society
I wrote about the phenomenon of 30k millionaires before, i.e. guys who do not have a lot of money, yet spend it all in order to pretend that they have a lot more money than they actually do. If you have ever been to an expensive night club and saw a group of guys who… Continue reading 30k Millionaires and the Superficiality of Women
A friend of mine sent me a link to a mainstream article, unfortunately behind a paywall, in which young women talk about why they moved away from Berlin. Instead, they now live in the countryside. I do not need to read the article to discuss the general phenomenon. Berlin is a city I semi-frequently visit.… Continue reading When Women Flee Big Cities
One of the most important insights about women is that their basic behavior will not change if her environment changes. To put it simply, a woman who is supportive when you are poor and striving will not become less supportive if you achieve some success in your career. This also works in the negative: a… Continue reading Fighting Over Money in Relationships is Futile
There is a phenomenon in the business world I find quite fascinating. It is probably more common in tech and also in some healthcare startups than in bootstrapped businesses. In short, you have a bunch of guys with an idea, and investors with some money. Using investor money, the company founders try to set up… Continue reading The Escape Velocity of Societal Collapse
Quite a while ago I mentioned a curious interaction with one of my former managers in the office. I am about one foot taller than he is, but he was obviously my manager. This led to the bizarre situation, which occurred repeatedly, that if we crossed path in an office hallway, he made way for… Continue reading Conflicting Status Hierarchies
We recently discussed the incredible acting talent of women like Denise Richards in Wild Things. I do not know what it is, but there is a strange inverse correlation with the age of women and their acting talent. The younger and more attractive they are, the better their performance on screen is. It is a… Continue reading The Disappearance of Peak Beauty in Hollywood
I want to circle back to my article, 250 Months Remaining, which has its starting point in the awareness of your life having a definite end point. In a recent comment, Maou referred to a partly related older article, and one I consider to be among the best pieces I have ever written, Getting out… Continue reading Survival is Too Easy in Western Societies
A few weeks ago I mused about my remaining active, not total, lifespan. As I was pondering the second half of my life, I also thought about health and fitness, which I briefly mentioned in that article as well. This was part of a bigger personal project during which I took stock of my health,… Continue reading My Road to a Prescription for Methylphenidate
One of the key aspects of female empowerment, next to earning money in bullshit jobs, is to have sex with as many men as they want. As it turns out, letting women loose on society is perhaps great for a minority of men who get more sexual variety than before but in the end, women… Continue reading Empowered Women Disempower Themselves
Tomb Raider was arguably the biggest Western video game franchise in the late 1990s, and its main protagonist Lara Croft was undoubtedly the biggest Western gaming icon at that time. In 1999, Tomb Raider III made more money than FIFA soccer and was the best-selling game in Europe. Yet, in the 2000s, Tomb Raider sales… Continue reading The Devolution of Lara Croft
In clown world, we have seen a number of rather bizarre phenomena, such as women bragging about earning six figures in big-tech companies while not doing any real work. They seemed to believe that it was their God-given right to earn a fat paycheck for attending yoga lessons at work, “vibing” with their female co-workers… Continue reading The Societal Justification for Lazy-Girl Jobs
I have been using methylphenidate (MPH) for a while now. Looking back at my experience thus far with this drug, it struck me that there is a very good illustration of its effect: In essence, MPH facilitates a state similar to the well-known flow state, except that the threshold for stimulation is lower. I will… Continue reading Methylphenidate, the Flow State, and Time Expansion
I recently wrote a few blog posts on the middle and upper class distinction recently (cf. income differentials, status trap, elite socialization). In this article, I want to tie together some of my observations. Thinking more about middle/upper-class issues, I came to the conclusion that the defining characteristic of the middle class is adherence to… Continue reading Rule-Following vs. Rule-Defining as the Quintessential Middle/Upper Class Distinction
Women are deeply competitive in the sexual marketplace. However, this competition is not fought openly, like with guys who try to be seen as bigger, stronger, more masculine, and financially more successful than their male peers. Women are a lot more secretive about their machinations. Being natural-born schemers, they encourage their friends to enjoy unhealthy… Continue reading Women Deliberately Sabotage the Reproductive Success of Other Women
I think that most men are aware by now that single women in their 30s can get quite desperate. They urgently need a guy and even consider lowering their standards. The reason is simple. On one hand, they have “baby rabies” because nature asserts itself one last time, trying to get a selfish woman who… Continue reading Hot Women are More Aware of Their Fading Looks than Less Attractive Women
I recently heard about a divorce involving a colleague. The guy is in his 50s. His wife is quite certainly of a similar age, and they have a child who recently moved out due to attending university. He spoke about his wife being in the process of getting a new place, and himself wanting to… Continue reading The Divorce-Industrial Complex
It may seem that in my recent guest post about comparing the 10 year costs of pay sex with the long-time costs of a standard German middle-class marriage and divorce, I had wanted to express the idea that dealing with real-life women in a sexual or relationship-oriented context was more or less unfeasible, and that… Continue reading Hope in the Existence of Good Women, and the Beauty of It (Guest post by Lucretius Carus)
In addition to my sexual exploits with women in real life I also have a parallel track of sexual pay-to-play, i.e. “pay sex”, i.e. prostitution, going on. This parallel psychosexual arrangement (with some overlaps of occasional “A/B testing” between real life and the pay sex world) has been going on for some twenty years now.… Continue reading Pay Sex vs. Standard Marriage – a Ten-Year Empirical Evaluation (Guest Post by Lucretius Carus)
There is growing awareness, at least in conservative circles, that standards in the West have been dropping. A perfect example is Boeing whose airplanes are falling out of the sky. They also managed to send two astronauts into space on a mission that was supposed to take eight days but which is still ongoing, three… Continue reading Incompetency and Indifference Will Bring Down Society
I recently stumbled across a peculiar children’s book in the library, “Why Do They Say Wolves are Bad?” by Quentin Greban. This book is really as bad as you think as it pushes the message that “prejudices” are generally dangerous. In this book, the animals end up living peacefully with the wolf. It is not… Continue reading The Dangerous Indoctrination of Women and Children
In my article on why wokeism limits creativity, leading to crappy movies, I quipped that the same people who want to tell you that Gal Gadot is attractive also tell you that Gigi Hadid is a supermodel. In a comment, the name Zendaya was brought up as well. All these women are promoted as sex… Continue reading What Do Zendaya, Gal Gadot, and Gigi Hadid have in Common?
I rewatched Bloodsport recently, which is one of my favorite movies. Amazingly, this movie was marketed with the claim that it told the true story of Frank Dux who allegedly fought in countless illegal martial arts competitions. This does not really pass the smell test, in particular when you look at the claims made in… Continue reading Manipulation Before the Internet: A Lesson From Bloodsport
The programmer stereotype changed a lot over the years. Before tech was a mainstream career, programmers were perceived as recluses, possibly with a hygiene problem and a complete disregard for fashion. This image persisted even throughout the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. However, with the next boom in the late 2000s, due to the… Continue reading Tales from the Cuck Shed: Tech Bro Can’t Stand the Guy Who Bangs his Wife
I have written quite a bit about the vaxx, here and on my other blog. While I have been a very early critic of the vaxx, based on a fundamental and well-justified skepticism towards anything our hostile elites push on us, today there are seemingly very few public supporters of the vaxx left. Even the… Continue reading Vaxx Scepticism is Going Mainstream
That wokeism does not boost creativity should not be of any surprise. However, it is nonetheless interesting to look at a few concrete examples of its effect on movies. One of my current projects is to watch mainstream movies of the last two decades, not so much to numb myself but to analyze how the… Continue reading How Wokeism Limits Creativity
In a recent discussion on nutrition and cooking, P Ray offered to write a guest post on how to get started with cooking. This is his second guest post, after his piece on the advantages of lady boys two years ago. His take on cooking is not quite as controversial. I think he provides a… Continue reading Guest Post: Quick Cheat Sheet to Cooking (by P Ray)
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #405: Clown World/Politics/Economics
There is an interesting discussion going on in Open Thread #404, which is a most fitting number for the title of this post. The starting point was a trailer of a movie by the highly subversive production company A24. In an upcoming movie, they push the idea of geriatric women being sexual objects for young,… Continue reading Mooching off Women is an Unsustainable Strategy for Men
In my article The Status Trap: The Middle-Class Pretending to be Upper Class I explore the problem of the middle class wanting to prepare their children for ascension into the upper class, and mostly only ending up wasting their money. Even though the money for expensive private schools and universities may not be worth it,… Continue reading Elite Socialization in Private Schools and Universities
The PUA community spent a lot of time exploring how to become “popular”. I recall bizarre posts and videos on how to build a social circle or become the guy others seek out and want to hang out with. However, largely this is all based on looks. People want to hang out with you because… Continue reading Popularity is a Beauty Privilege
It is about time for me to replace one of my laptops, and I have been sitting on this decisions for a few weeks. In this process, I thought to myself that if I was a stereotypical woman, I would just order a laptop and be done with it, and probably have gone through two… Continue reading Blanket Justifications of the Female Mind
When I rewatched some of the classic Scorsese movies a while ago, I noticed that there is a very obvious division of labor among the sexes: The men do the important work, and the women spend the money. Men make big, consequential decisions and women are either just there or they make dumb, small decisions… Continue reading Would Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Casino have been Possible in the 2000s?
Obviously, you all know about “sour grapes”, i.e. someone claiming that something they failed to achieve or cannot afford it not all that great anyway. This goes back to a fable by Aesop. Recently, though, I came across a pattern that goes beyond that. The context is that there is someone in my extended family… Continue reading Higher-Order Sour Grapes: When Everything that is Inferior is Actually Better
I wrote a long piece on class differences recently, Middle-Class Income Differentials Are Almost Inconsequential. As a follow up, I want to go into detail on an issue that you could describe as the “middle-class status trap”. In the aspirational part of the middle class, families spend a lot of money on giving their children… Continue reading The Status Trap: The Middle-Class Pretending to be Upper Class
I grow a bit of food in the garden. This year, our raspberries did very well. During summer and autumn we harvested a lot of these berries. Of course, as the weather got colder, the yield declined. However, I was not aware that these plants just keep producing berries until nature puts a stop to… Continue reading What Plucking Frozen Raspberries Taught me About the Will to Survive
I recently watched the Scorsese movie The Color of Money (1986), which is about a billiard hustler. My verdict is that this is an excellent movie, very well worth watching. Paul Newman’s acting, as the older hustler mentoring a young billiard player into becoming a better hustler, is great. There are a few scenes where… Continue reading What Happened to Rugged Male Lead Actors?
I have occasionally encountered people who seem to view life, in particular their working life, as a period to just suffer through. Older colleagues may tell you that they have “only eight years left”, with the implication that their life starts once they enter retirement. This view I have even encountered among much younger people.… Continue reading 250 Months Remaining
The other day a friend of mine sent me a video that discusses the significance of radiant and muted Christmas lighting in the movie Eyes Wide Shut, a movie I wrote about three years ago. The hypothesis presented in that video seems plausible, but that is not the point. Instead, my mind got stuck on… Continue reading Middle-Class Income Differentials Are Almost Inconsequential
In a comment on my recent article Destructive Relationships, Chris asked the following question, which I want to explore in detail: “Some women are so adept at pushing the guy’s buttons that he will hit them at some point.” So, how do you handle a situation like this? First, let us talk about the observed… Continue reading Dealing With Women Who Provoke You Relentlessly
One of the more interesting thoughts I came across when reading about Europe in the 20th century was that there are some countries that seem to be better off if they are poorer. The example given was Germany, with its tremendous post-war economic performance, rising like phoenix from the ashes. Yet, after life had gotten… Continue reading Looks-Maxing is a Sign of Societal Decline
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #404: Misc.
As an addendum to my article Destructive Relationship I am going to discuss the problem of young men and their susceptibility for outside influence, with a particular focus on women. In the aforementioned article I describe how women can ruin a guy’s life. Now, let us look at why this happens. The problems of young… Continue reading Young Men are Easy Targets for Destructive Women
Occasionally, I come across people who seem quite dissatisfied with their life, yet are not willing to change it. Nonetheless, they cling onto some romantic notion about drastically turning their life around even though chances of doing so are small to non-existent. I have met people who had taken a wrong turn at some point… Continue reading How Often Can You Start Over?
