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  • 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!

  • Where It All Falls Apart For 99.9% Of Influencers

    The unconsidered touchstone.

    Now and then I meander into commentariat territory. That is to say, I look at what people are saying – rather than what is simply happening in the news cycle.

    This is an important habit to keep because it helps me to “check notes” and find context and contrast to what I think.

    There is one area in particular where I have been roundly disappointed in the thirteen years since I decided to engage my ideas publicly: the lot of children in this world.

    Adults swirling around in a sky war of limitless fiat.

    Some people would cleverly argue that their near sole focus on the “concerns of adults” are in fact for posterity and the protection of children.

    At best, there’s a kind of martial attitude that children going to “face a tough world” and so they need combat training and tough love.

    Really all this is is an admission of not having thought much on the subject.

    Why take cues from anyone, anyone at all, on any topic if they haven’t thought through the most important part of our society – the wellbeing and innocence of children?

    So what is it then that you’re listening to? It amounts to canned, derivative, undigested talking points that have no real basis in philosophy and have remained relatively unchanged in the nearly-three generations since White man first woke up to demographics. There is no guiding first principle besides “do what’s best for our people” as if there’s an abundantly obvious cure. No consideration of the training or background or question-making of the doctors who set about to administer the cure.

    How will our parenting shape the future?

    This question is central to the moral improvement of the world.

    Look at how violence-addicted the commentariat has become. Rather than just consider parenting for a single second, people would rather go on and on about a transvaluation of values where the current order is upended. Why? For the sake of “vitality”.

    Liberal democracy has been tried and tired.

    But Nietzschean will to power hasn’t been tried and isn’t tired?

    This is vainglorious. This is a mental backflip in order to avoid discussing children and parenting.

    Rather than simply ask children how they’d like to learn, we end up with this kind of generalissimo non-philosophy:

    The Zoomer generation yearns for order but is unwilling to listen to those who tell them to self-order. This is a generation being primed for violence.

    You cannot have a discussion about self-ordered people collaborating as a team without someone who’s power-tripping insinuating themselves into an order-giving role. Noisy, illiterate environment.

    The highly literate generations that established America as the beacon on the hill had enough self-restraint to let the group dynamics breathe. All they had to do was keep their borders closed, hang the central bankers, and keep the children out of the schools. You can get to that kind of resolve pretty easily if you realize not every human has a “soul” that can be saved.

    Now when you step into the group dynamics, it’s all sycophantic favor trading and ego stroking. There is no room for subtlety because that’s not how social media works! Thoughts are bite-sized and emphatic. There is no cooperation, there is only punctuation. Who’s the mature immature reply-guy who can materialize himself into the room? Hoot like a monke.

    Edge and swagger are being sold as cure-alls. If you’re sufficiently self-assured, you can defeat the outgroups! In a certain culture, it’s called chutzpah. Self-certainty is a superpower! Fuck the Argument lel.

    Watch as the lot of children fades as a consideration the face of all this energy!

    Christian Nationalism was tried in the late 1800’s and it failed because Christians handed their children over to the State.

    Nietzschean stuff? Let’s just ignore what happens to the children. They can, uh, march in lines like the Chinese kids do. They will, uh, learn discipline and shit. Do you think I’m sexy??

    Because people are addicted to violence, they cannot pause to self-reflect. They cannot accurately prognosticate what their aggression is contributing to. Perhaps they perceive they will bring about a new Godhead to transvaluate the “old” values – but ask them how this will be funded and what their views are on Bitcoin and yup, it just falls apart again.

    The new Godhead will fall. The Argument will prevail.

    Idea: we deprogram the Zoomer generation from the violence it has been programmed with.

    It’s not too late!

  • To College Or Not

    An examination of prospects.

    I have a pair of college degrees. I didn’t use either of them to any significant extent as my interests took me elsewhere shortly after I graduated.

    The Boomerism of the economy I graduated into out of high school and then college was brutal.

    Hiring managers needed that piece of paper.

    I never could shake the feeling that my intelligence was the single most important qualifying factor for the many hundreds of jobs I applied to.

    And yet I was rebuffed.

    Then when I had one college degree, suddenly I was “overqualified” and I was supposed to feel ashamed for applying to menial work during the Great Recession.

    When I finished my Masters, I did have some cachet, I thought, but then so did a bunch of tubby, low intelligence people who managed to also stomach the various hoops one has to go through to get a post-grad degree.

    Eventually, I decided to go live by my wits. I started to leave out my college degrees from resumes, which resulted in success, but more than that, I decided to simply use my people skills to put myself into the positions I needed to be in.

    This was the gamechanger.

    There has been a wonderful changeover in the American economy spurred on by President Trump and Elon Musk.

    People who provide value for a living.

    Particularly Elon Musk.

    As the richest man in the world on the books, he has continually emphasized merit, capability, and intelligence as the qualifying factors for employment.

    He has not only revolutionized car manufacturing, AI, and aerospace engineering, he has harkened us all to America’s capitalistic fundamentals of the 20th Century – the ones that made the post-War boom burn so brightly.

    Elon prizes excellence and long, arduous hours. This has been totally at odds with the woke, lazy, entitled culture coming from the higher education institutions. To a lesser extent, they have had to bend to his requirements. After all, he is one of the top employers in his industries.

    Before Elon, it was all Obama all the time. It was utterly dreadful. The majority of my 20’s were spent under the Obama debacle. It could be hard to not be demoralized at times, given the dramatic, rapid decline he oversaw. I found healthy ways out but it was a high pressure eight years.

    2014 in a nutshell.

    When we get into the question of whether to get a college degree or not, I side on the Not side of the debate.

    This is in part predicated upon the fact that the universities have completely destroyed their credibility by emphasizing grievance politics and socialism over employability and market dynamics.

    When Boomers were young, universities still prized meritocracy. To gain a professorship, you had to actually demonstrate excellence and achievement in the field. Now you just have to show you have the proper degrees and aren’t a White Male.

    People will caterwaul that there exceptions to the rule and so therefore put yourself in crippling debt in order to attain some unactionable, distant brownie points that you can pat yourself on the back with. There will always be some intellectual trick to put yourself into the university environment, especially if you’re young and are experiencing economic security.

    The fact of the matter is that most people who are young and have economic insecurity are there because they’re too immature and scared to actually talk to people. Talking to people is the genesis of PROVING VALUE.

    It’s much easier to go onto websites, as a social cripple, and have Sallie Mae foot a huge bill you dissociate from in order so that you can persist in a debt bubble for a few years until you emerge into reality: debt slavery.

    If you actually developed your EQ (to quote the late great Kevin Samuels), you’d realize the price for not developing social skills is too great. Millions of people out there would rather go into $10k or $15k or even up to $25k a year debt just because they can’t walk into places that could be hiring and talk to the most alpha person in the business.

    Think of it.

    A “labor shortage” because working age people are too smartphone addicted.

    A single conversation could save a person $10k and months of being blabbed to by professors when you could just pay $10 a month for a premium AI subscription.

    It’s so sad what people reduce themselves to because they refuse to work their options.

    I made the choice to simply pursue my interests and live by my will, come what may, at a time when AI was a whisper on the wind. I am indeed made of stern stuff!

    Western Civilization goes out with a whimper and a goo-goo ga-ga.

    People have become so mollycoddled, because of their digital pacifiers, that they won’t hit the pavement and talk to people. They have no idea what hiring managers in their prospective fields want. They just fork over money to the universities. They can’t possibly imagine having a FRIEND who hooks you up with a job. That may as well be dreaming of California blonde surfer girls roller-skating off into a Reaganesque sunset.

    This shows a tremendous lack of self-leadership. And self-leadership writ large means the death of civilizations. People have such video game brain that they’d rather treat life like a succession of getting permission from various colored LGBT womyn with boring conversation trees than a Doom FPS where you romp and stomp.

    Why work in a field where they’re so backwards and out of touch that they require college degrees over professional certifications? Why work in a field where Boomerisms have more cachet than your network? Why work for the government? The government is the only institution outside of the universities themselves that even bandstands for college degrees.

    Meanwhile tradesmen who go into business for themselves are making $200-500k in major US cities.

    Who besides Boomers even makes money from their college “career” anymore?

    Imagine needing social approval and being in a debt/welfare bubble so badly that you forgo that kind of money.

    I sure hope this isn’t the mindset of my readers.

    America used to be a place where you could MAKE YOURSELF.

    Now it’s a cultureless welfare toilet where everyone wants to be famous and have banker friends.

    The Final Boss of “go to college” (places where the 6ft. distancing rule from the CDC were rigidly enforced) is the whole “there’s a good old boys network”. College is great for networking, they say authoritatively.

    But have you even tried to build a network without the “help” of a college?

    The answer is a deadass NO. The most resounding NO you’ve ever heard. A no like the thunder from a giant church bell.

    So what’s really happening?

    People wanted to be parented by the university they choose.

    They want to avoid that which their conscience compels them to do: connect with others.

    This is no way to live!

    Guys just can’t tolerate being in the free market for any amount of time. So they shunt themselves away in globalist daycare clinics while they meagerly patch up their hurt egos from having mothers who didn’t love them enough.

    I know…cause I’ve been there.

    Burn it down.

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