Mindset · Prostitution · Relationships

Pay Sex vs. Standard Marriage – a Ten-Year Empirical Evaluation (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)

Society

Incompetency and Indifference Will Bring Down Society

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

Clown World · Subversion

The Dangerous Indoctrination of Women and Children

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

Clown World · Entertainment

What Do Zendaya, Gal Gadot, and Gigi Hadid have in Common?

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?

Elites · Subversion

Manipulation Before the Internet: A Lesson From Bloodsport

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

Gender Dynamics · Relationships · Society

Tales from the Cuck Shed: Tech Bro Can’t Stand the Guy Who Bangs his Wife

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

Relationships

Mooching off Women is an Unsustainable Strategy for Men

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

Society

Elite Socialization in Private Schools and Universities

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

Clown World · Entertainment · Subversion

Would Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Casino have been Possible in the 2000s?

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?

Mindset

Higher-Order Sour Grapes: When Everything that is Inferior is Actually Better

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

Society

The Status Trap: The Middle-Class Pretending to be Upper Class

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

Mindset · Society

What Plucking Frozen Raspberries Taught me About the Will to Survive

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

Entertainment · Subversion

What Happened to Rugged Male Lead Actors?

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?

Mindset · Society

Middle-Class Income Differentials Are Almost Inconsequential

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

Meeting Women · Relationships

Young Men are Easy Targets for Destructive Women

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

Mindset · Relationships

The Many Facets of Love (Guest Article By Lucretius Carus)

Lucretius Carus left a great comment on my article, How to Use Money to Get Girls, in which he details the understanding of the Ancient Greeks on “love”. In contrast, modern languages do not have the same level of differentiation, leading to a lot of misunderstanding if not downright confusion. I warmly recommend reading his… Continue reading The Many Facets of Love (Guest Article By Lucretius Carus)

Men vs Women · Relationships

There Are No Fuckbois: Power Asymmetries in Fuck-Buddy Relationships

Feminism tells women that they are just like men, but better. Even when it comes to sexual relationships, they should behave like caricatures of the men they idolize, i.e. shun commitment but instead have have lots and lots of casual sex. According to feminist doctrine, it is empowering for women to get railed by a… Continue reading There Are No Fuckbois: Power Asymmetries in Fuck-Buddy Relationships

Clown World

Clown-World Careers are Ultimately a Dead End

I have written a few articles about the economy, in particular the tech industry. Among others, I presented arguments that tech is a clown-world career. The bigger question, though, is whether it is worth pursuing clown-world careers. There are ebbs and tides in the culture wars, and clown world has persisted for a long time.… Continue reading Clown-World Careers are Ultimately a Dead End

Clown World · Entertainment · Subversion

Man of Steel (2013) is Pro-Immigration Propaganda

This year I have spent a bit of time on watching movies, but not just as a means to passing my time. Instead, I consider them lenses through which to view the Western zeitgeist. Indeed, if you think a bit about the action on screen it is often quite fascinating how crude the metaphors are.… Continue reading Man of Steel (2013) is Pro-Immigration Propaganda

Clown World · Economics

Was the Recent Housing Boom a Scam to Benefit Boomers?

While the United States there is a bubble of everything, i.e. housing, healthcare, and education are more expensive than ever before, Europe has been faring a little bit better. Only housing is completely out of reach for the vast majority of non-boomers whereas healthcare and education have not gotten that much more expensive. The sudden… Continue reading Was the Recent Housing Boom a Scam to Benefit Boomers?

Health

Methylphenidate and Cognitive Performance Improvement

It is unfortunately very difficult to get unbiased information on seemingly anything in today’s society. Everybody has an agenda. Of course, sometimes there is also a lot of incompetence at play. A good example is the discussion surrounding methylphenidate (MPH), not just in society but also in science. A fair amount of college students use… Continue reading Methylphenidate and Cognitive Performance Improvement