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  • Nostalgia As Self-Erasure

    The truth about family stories…

    Parents will tell these pleasant stories about your childhood when so-and-so did this and it was just so funny.

    That’s the common view of what is happening here.

    Let’s break it down:
    –Pleasant stories – where is the empathy for whether the story was pleasant for you or not? Do your parents actually gauge your response to the story or just blab it out like NPC’s? Be honest.
    -Your childhood – the story is from a parental point of view and since parents aren’t philosophical and on principle, engaging with curiosity first, the story is often told to manage a difficult internal feeling on their part.
    -It’s just so funny – the funny haha stories are usually the ones where there was some sibling to sibling predation that resulted in someone’s embarrassment – yours.

    Haha Jimmy, you little butthole!

    Consider the basic attitude of parents to their children: I own my child, children are less intelligent therefore inferior, and my house, my rules.

    Let’s break it down again:
    -I own my child – parents err here. Yes, in a strict, legal sense, you own your child. We have to have it this way or the State will claim ownership, which leads to all manner of insanity. But the truth is that parents are stewards of their children. Says as much in the Bible. Susses out from a libertarian perspective, as well. Your work as a parent is to relinquish unto an 18 year-old a fully functioning body and brain, absent of damage due to your parenting style. Check out my book Peaceful Parenting for more on this.

    -Children are less intelligent and therefore inferior – this is where parents’ programming comes through. People come from a domination-submission background (aka the entirety of human history): where performative disadvantage on the part of another kicks online programming in us meant to seek an advantage. The tenderness of peaceful parenting can be seen when you take that disparity as all the more reason to equalize with the child. How else can they best learn?

    -My house, my rules – this is just impatient tyranny on the part of a parent, usually the father but more and more so the woman these days. This is communicating to the child that power is the adjudicating factor in human conflict, not reason, evidence, or truth. If you’re too lazy to try and universalize the rules in your home, to make them make sense for everyone – just admit it!

    What is really going on with these nostalgic stories?

    The older parent, now with adult children, is typically trying to put their adult children back into state dependence – to harken back to a time when the adult-child was dependent on them. This induces in the adult-child a sense that their parent still has the wisdom and authority now that they had then.

    Consider it – are you, as the adult-child, asking for stories from the childhood so you can get an honest perspective, some relevant feedback that you can use today? Or are these stories just kind of randomly offered up by nervous people with guilty consciences?

    There is a dominance that creeps into these stories, particularly when they’re at the expense of the adult-child present for the retelling. They’re little humiliation rituals meant to prop up the waning authority of the aged parents. Sometimes they’re told in exquisite detail but suddenly the aged parents practice selective memory if the adult-child asks for a painful memory – such as the time he was spanked or yelled at or degraded with some punishment in response to a transgression.

    One of the most common stories is the, “Remember your first day of school?”

    This story is told quite unconsciously by aged parents, oblivious in their certainty that the adult-child will simply buy into the bit and nod and smile.

    Remember your first day at school? You were so nervous! You cried but then, after a bit, you found it wasn’t so bad.

    There are people out there who will also quite unconsciously proclaim, “I was excited to be at school! See, I’m a winner. I ate school up and you can find no fault in what I’m saying. School was a great experience for me and you’re weird for taking issue with my enjoyment of what turned out to be something really great for me.

    This is a way of propping up their parents’ systematic breaking down of them before school happened so that they would be inured to its effects by the time its presence in their life became fact. People like this speak as puppets of their parents’ denial. The reason for this is because school is philosophically evil and retarded, done with stolen money and modeled after sociopathic “pedagogy” from the late 19th century.

    School is emasculating, people-breaking.

    But good luck arguing with people’s programming.

    The next time you hear a hardy-har-har Boomer story about the time you fell on your face or your sibling shit their pants on a beach trip or you were awkward with a girl or, “Remember the nickname we used to tease you with?” – consider the power dynamics at play.

    Consider empathizing with your younger self.

    Consider the philosophy of the scenario being presented, as opposed to the nostalgia programming welling up inside of you.

    Consider the limits in empathy of the adults in the memory.

    Consider saying what actually needed to be said then but couldn’t be said because you were a powerless, dependent child.

    Consider if that sovereign voice inside of you was sought out by your parents.

    Then sit with the answers you hear and feel your wisdom increase.

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  • The Cult of Forgetting

    Does time heal all wounds?

    To be timeless…

    There’s a clever trick that society plays on us.

    It’s called, “Why can’t you move on? I have!”

    The truth is that people don’t move on from their wrongs. They simply plow them under and move forward. But whatever you plow under will eventually spring up.

    In this way, people’s personalities become ugly, hardened, and embittered.

    This is why they have no problem asking you, rhetorically, why you can’t move on.

    That’s why they can stomach playing such a shitty trick on a person they’ve wronged.

    There’s a massive uptick in “nostalgia posting” on the timeline.

    As everything goes to utter hell and back, the worst demons among us unleashed, there is a growing contingent of people who long for when times were better.

    This phenomena is captured by this meme:

    These guys, at the time, had it so bad. Life was rough!

    But in hindsight, there’s an innocence they had that has since been spoiled.

    This is not unlike bad parenting’s effects on a person.

    Once upon a time, you were an untroubled, un-cudgeled, un-browbeaten individual who had a plucky enthusiasm and a zest for life. You have some go-off energy.

    This was ground out of you by unhappy, mean parents.

    Little by little, the light went out. The twinkle was snuffed out.

    And you’re not allowed to remember.

    The world is set up to grind you down. The world will remove from you your ability to empathize with previous mood and hormonal states where you were much brighter, more innocent, and alive.

    And if you spend any amount of time trying to remember or recapture these previous states, you will be treated as a kook.

    Abusive parents will edge away from you like you’ve done something wrong.

    An ax-murderer, establishmentarian society will call you sentimental, “conservative”, feckless, weak, cowardly, feminine, etc.

    All manner of abuse must be heaped on you to keep you from questioning why things went so wrong – or how they could be improved.

    Instead you’re supposed live in a highly reactive state of yowling at the latest outrage.

    Forever on a hamster wheel of escalation.

    Society heaps its greatest accolades on those who best help us forget.

    Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

  • 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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  • Let There Be A Speedy End To The War

    Nobody voted for “regime change for Iran” or “free Iran” apart from a few snaky Washington DC insiders and people with Iranian family members.

    The war is costing a billion dollars a day. Given the source is the Pentagon, which has famously lost tens of trillions of dollars in the past, the figure is likely double.

    There’s this idea that “best known knowledge” is government statistics and figures but the best known knowledge is that government “is asshole” and when the ringmasters have a vested interest in cooking the books, the books matter less. Yet the majority of people charge ahead, perfectly satisfied with whatever meager disclosure has taken place on the part of the government. I guess to not do so would be enter “conspiratorial” territory, a view I don’t particularly share because I have another alternative: to think in principles.

    Follow the money is the oldest rule in politics, I was so brilliantly reminded by my friend and firebrand Michelle Malkin through her masterful book Open Borders Inc. (currently on sale for a mindblowing $6 – that’s Clinton Era pricing right there).

    Money moves incentives, whales move money, therefore whales move incentives. I go back and forth on the libertarian view that increases in government spending beget entropy when so obviously there is a will manifest in what the US Federal government is currently perpetrating on most of the civilized and uncivilized world. There’s a well-ordered symphony to all the chaos.

    Unlike a lot of people given over to “conspiratorial” thinking, I grant there are immediate, personal solutions you can engage to slowly reverse the tide: Bitcoin (& Monero), peaceful parenting, UPB, and self-knowledge.

    You have to pound the solutions into the dirt like a tent stake or people tend to drift off, become unmoored, and too loose in their thinking. Then they try to pull you into that. I won’t be drawn into that like I once was. Formerly I needed the adulation but these days, I’m full up like a big chonker.

    The Iranian brass seem to want to come to terms. The American-Israeli coalition carries the bigger stick.

    Once the money’s been stolen (from future generations), all fire breathing about the war devolves to what serves who’s personal interests. On Telegram I like to play with this equation by repeatedly calling for variations of Tehran to be regime changed if I can get India nuked as part of the deal.

    A lot of people’s programming tells them I’m behaving nihilistically but not really, just finding my legs after being not up to snuff for a few years. There is a lot of thought that goes into these quips. I play the quips close to people’s programming but there’s always a thought going on in the background. I’m not sure anyone notices or appreciates it much but it’s fun to me and that’s the way to keep me engaged: keep it fun.

    AI gives strange gifts.

    Iranian shitbag mullahs, lay down your arms. Our Mexican-American fighter pilots armed with top Israeli spec are too much for you.

    I have no love for the mullahs. I have no love for the banking system Iran will be put on. Please don’t make me choose. I have no stake in this. I want gas back under $3 a gallon where it was before Operation AIPAC Fury began. I don’t know anyone from Iran because I grew up in Oregon cattle country (PETA is taking over the state, by the way).

    There is the specter this will be the first war since WWII where there is significant punishment for those who speak out. The harder the speak out, the worse the banking sanctions. The longer the war goes, the less face that can be saved for our GOP overlords.

    By speaking out for Trump and America’s interests in the first place, not only was my social media career completely kneecapped, resulting in well north of $1million in lost business potential, now if I can’t speak out I don’t get to eat zee bugs? No, thanks. I’ll just sit this one out. Remember, I do other stuff now, too. I can help mend relationships, salvage bad parenting, vet potential mates, increase job performance (good at this one), or help overcome bad personal habits. Did a lot of studying and have had a lot of practicum in order pull that off.

    Hit me up at stevefranssen@protonmail.com if you’re interested.

    The People are not in charge. I wonder to myself if I am beginning to regret going for Trump in 2016 and 2020 given how I absolutely do not regret holding out in 2024. It was an odd stance because it was less about how Trump would be weaponized, which was obvious to see, and more about the lack of Americanness of the politics – which to my discredit I did not well convey. I wasn’t in a forthcoming mood. That’s changing.

    There’s a lot more to be said here but other duties call. Thank you for making it this far. It’s you deep readers who I admire the most. And for the donos, I’ve been mulling over some subscriber only content here on Substack, so stay tuned!

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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.

    Reach out to me for personal guidance.

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  • War With Iran Appears Inevitable

    More American wealth is set to vanish.

    I’m going to set up my commentary a little bit, so bear with me as I dump a few negative headlines on you – ice bucket challenge style.

    The Bush Administration said the invasion of Iraq would cost $50-60 billion.

    The actual cost?

    The Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute (a widely cited nonpartisan source) estimated around $2 trillion for the Iraq War alone in earlier reports, with more recent analyses (covering 2003–2023 operations in Iraq and Syria, including anti-ISIS efforts) putting the figure at about $1.8–1.9 trillion to date, rising to roughly $2.9 trillion when including projected future veterans’ care through 2050.

    American wealth is going going gone…

    Long-term costs, given healthcare obligations to veterans, approach $6trillion by some estimates.

    Now tack on another 40% to account for fraud.

    The Kushner/Netanyahu war against Iran will be much the same. It is truly a sight to behold to watch an unelected cabal of foreign businessmen traipse around American military sites as if they owned the place:

    You think they’re discussing how they’re going to deliver for the American people?

    After all, they do own the military sites. Rather, they are direct representatives of the people who do. If you interrogated them after a police arrest, they would probably admit as much without blinking an eye.

    Check out the current US national debt. This is the money that is owed to the R*thschilds, Chinese banking cartels, Japan, and various other elite conglomerates:

    The Federal government spends a million dollars roughly every 17 seconds.

    Having been raised by an award-winning accountant and a trained, professional scientist, I know the importance of the financial figures. They cannot be handwaved away.

    America’s liabilities exceed $180trillion.

    Trump has been directed to open a US Board of Peace which is basically a real estate group that looks to make upwards of $50billion on the seaside land that the United States just helped Israel level and empty of human life.

    Let’s check in on public sentiment regarding the Board Of Peace.

    Three weeks ago, the Vatican was invited to the Board Of Peace but declined:

    The new Pope isn’t exactly based:

    It’s worth noting that Trump did not campaign on the Board of Peace and that the $10billion “set aside” for the board and Gaza’s real estate development was literally conjured out of thin air.

    Alright, done with the headlines – on to the commentary.

    The recent Venezuelan venture done under the goofy auspices of the Monroe Doctrine, Operation Southern Spear, cost US taxpayers approximately $7billion plus ongoing security commitments in the region.

    Have you seen the price go down at the pump?

    No, you haven’t because all that Maduro oil is languishing in hoc for whatever reason.

    The hope with Operation Unalive The Mullahs is that it will be a decapitation strike. The Democrats are pouncing on the political opportunity by attempting to shutdown Trump/Kushner’s military buildup in the Middle East:

    Strip Tromp of all his powers heheh

    I don’t like the Mullahs. The Ayatollah is a Black Lives Matter guy:

    And he’s probably not an ally, he just said these things cynically to oppose “the Great Satan that is America”.

    A part of me would be relieved for total outcome conclusion in the Middle East but we all know it will never end until the entire planet is completely subjugated.

    Nest cameras are here. Drones flying by your house will be deployed after a “national emergency”.

    Thankfully there is hope: Bitcoin is hanging in there after taking a walloping the past 4.5 months.

    People who want to project their power don’t want to hear about Bitcoin. Why? Because all State power is advanced by taking other people’s money for one’s own ends.

    That’s the accountant in me.

    The accountant don’t lie.

    The accountant is grateful you’ve made it this far and so here’s a cool pic as a reward.

    The Accountant 1 with Ben Affleck? Good stuff. Accountant 2 with the swarthy little brother? Not so much.

    If I was a betting man, I’d say that Bitcoin is set to go down another $20k but I’m not a betting man anymore and your guess is as good as mine. No one can predict the short to mid-term future of Bitcoin apart from figuring that war will drag it down another ~$9k or so, as it has done in each of the last 3-4 military engagements of the past ~6 years (including Biden’s war with Russia).

    A nifty way of looking at the baseline price of Bitcoin is that is near or just above energy cost. Beyond that, think of the people who are HODLing right now despite the mountains of Bitcoin FOMO being spread on the timeline. These people are doing what they can to hold the uncivilized world to account. That’s the idealism in Bitcoin. Everyone has their reasons for being vested in it. Some people see that the health of Bitcoin as the death of the creeping Leviathan.

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    I’m sick and tired of having to live with the decisions of other people, especially when they’re so inefficient at allocating capital that they force or defraud it out of others. Love the oil and gas guys. Love the organic food producers. Love Toyota for the wonderful, 32 year-old pickup they put into the world for me. Not exactly a fan of these bureaucrats in business suits brainwashing my fellow Europeans into going and dying in yet another Middle Eastern military engagement.

    I guess I’ll hope for a limited decapitation strike. Once the money’s stolen, there’s no morality in it and so then you’re just stumping for your personal interests. I guess my personal interest is that as few White men, zero if possible, die in any conflict with Iran. Of course, I don’t want anyone to die. That’s because I’m kind-hearted. That’s a turnoff for a lot of people these days because everyone’s minds have been gooped by short-form video content and a constant barrage of negativity via headlines (sorry I did that earlier to you).

    If you’re HODLing some measure of Bitcoin, you have my gratitude. You’re one of the good guys. Let’s stay connected. Hit that subscribe button for me will you?

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    If society doesn’t want to listen to its moral philosophers, it is damned. Let’s enjoy philosophy together and continue to build what we can in the face of wild odds.

    Talk soon!