I just finished reading Schwarzeneggers’s autobiography Total Recall. Overall, this book appears quite dishonest. Basically, you read about him winning for four to five decades straight. He talks about a second place at some international bodybuilding competition being a setback at a time when he was undergoing his rapid rise to the top. In the… Continue reading Schizo Thinking and the Schwarzenegger-Kennedy Connection
During a recent business trip I made a most curious observation. I stayed at a typical business hotel, meaning that you get functional, clean rooms, and a perfectly serviceable breakfast buffet. As is common, before entering the breakfast area, the service staff asks for your room number to check whether your stay includes breakfast. If… Continue reading The Parable of the Boomer Scammers at the Hotel Breakfast Buffet
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 #301
Until not too long ago, you could find channels on YouTube that showed videos of the day-to-day life in various Western cities in the middle of the 20th century. For some reason, the ones I knew are now gone, probably because of the extremism on display. Yet, whenever you come across such footage, you cannot… Continue reading The Sweatpants-ification of Society
The phenomenon that fewer men than ever before are in employment is not new. However, I was under the impression that this only affects men with comparatively limited prospects on the labor market. In many Western countries, there are perverse incentives so that you are, in a strictly material sense, much better off if you… Continue reading Men Checking Out of Work
Imagine you binge watch Schwarzenegger’s 1980s movies, and walk away thinking that those movies were even better than you remember them — only to come to the completely opposite conclusion when watching his 1990s movies. Originally, I had planned to watch all movies in which this guy was the lead actor, but this is not… Continue reading Wokeism in Early-1990s Schwarzenegger Movies
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 #300
In one of Schopenhauer’s books, he muses about old age, and the years in which you do not yet belong to the afterworld but more and more lose your foothold in the real world. The people around you die off one by one, and for everyone who dies there will not be anybody replacing them.… Continue reading Losing Friends
When you look at action-movie stars, there is probably nobody who had a better decade than Schwarzenegger had in the 1980s. I recently watched all of his 1980s movies, but not just for the sake of entertainment. Instead, I was also curious if there were obvious signs of Hollywood being up to its usual shenanigans… Continue reading Wokeism in 1980s Schwarzenegger Movies
Alek Novy left an excellent comment on the evolutionary reason behind women telling men to man up, and why it made sense in the past but not today. The text in block quotes is from me. The rest is his comment. 1) I think there was a lot of competition in the past as well,… Continue reading The Evolutionary Aspect of Women Telling Men to “Man Up” (by Alek Novy)
We have seen the subversion of all of culture. The visual arts are gone. Modern architecture looks absolutely horrible. Classical music was brought down. Even popular music has turned to shit. Nobody cares about novels anymore, and the last time movies made a serious splash was over 20 years ago. Similarly, the value of education… Continue reading The Price of Subversion is Irrelevancy
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 #299
I recently received the following article request: I was wondering if you can write about insecurities (…). What are the top common insecurities among men aside from being short and how can men overcome these insecurities. I get the impression that some men will never be able to overcome their personal insecurities, thus will find… Continue reading Male Insecurities
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 #298
Quite recently, the formerly great country of France was set ablaze by its millions of foreign-born doctors and astrophysicists. This wave of destruction had probably not even been seen in the second world war, considering how quickly France submitted to Germany back then. Of course, millions of non-French French getting a bit rowdy and, among… Continue reading Coudenhove-Kalergi and the Misunderstanding of the Role of Ethnicity in Society
A while ago I had an interesting conversation with a guy in his late 40s. He essentially lives a bachelor’s lifestyle but he has been seeing a woman ten years younger than him for years and on some kind of permanent casual basis. He made it clear to her that he has no interest in… Continue reading The Bachelor With Too Much Money
As I am currently on a Schwarzenegger binge, I watched Conan The Destroyer (1984) today. This movie did not get a particularly favorable critical reception, perhaps because it did not contain high-brow Nietzsche quotes, unlike the first one. Yet, if you have liked Conan the Barbarian (1982), you will most likely also enjoy its sequel,… Continue reading Do Not Find This Woman Attractive!
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 #297
I had a very interesting consultation session a few weeks ago. It centered on leaving the pickup scene behind at or perhaps slightly after your peak, and the risk of missing this window. As I have real-world friends who are in the corresponding age range, i.e. roughly their mid-30s to early 40s, this was a… Continue reading The Off-Ramp in Pickup
When Skyrim came out, it did not take long until a sizable number of people seemingly spent more time with mods and just walking around than actually playing the game. A friend of mine mocked this by saying that he could just take a walk in a forest instead. Yet, if you do not live… Continue reading Green Grass, Environmental Primitivism, and Vidya Sales Figures
A quick Google image search for terms like “white couple” shows a surprising number of mixed-race couples, including pictures of white couples with a black baby. Of course, if you search for “black couple”, nothing like that will happen. I am sure this is a total coincidence, just like all those white woman/black man pairings… Continue reading The Effects of Propaganda: “This girl likes the black boy!”
For some reason YouTube shows me much more relevant videos nowadays. Perhaps this is due to the increased competition with alternative video hosting sites. Anyway, a topic that gets quite frequently commented on is that men seem less and less willing to not only marry women but to be in any kind of relationship. Conversely,… Continue reading Women: Trailer, Full Movie, and Raw Footage
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 #296
