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  • Welfare Is The Modern Plague

    Seven years ago I released a children’s book titled The Big-Headed Farmer.

    The basic premise is that Justin Trudeau sweet talks his way into being in charge of a farm, makes a deal with Satan to gain more influence, and then boggles the farm so badly that the farm animals chase him off.

    The book is a perfect primer on welfare with a touch of wishful thinking.

    Wealth redistribution, at the point of a gun, does not work and is immoral.

    The effect of welfare is that people engage in all manner of hedonistic, degenerate, high time preference behavior that sullies everything it touches.

    The more welfare in a society, the more it reflects “welfarism” back to others.

    Everything becomes catered to abortionist, careerist women.

    The halcyon days of White guy guitar virtuosos putting on sincere, soulful shows for factory worker White guys are over.

    The people who do most poorly under race Communism are the people most capable in a free society. This cannot be denied.

    The media landscape in 2026 is a whole lot of signal-boosted welfarism.

    Every bit of celebrity gossip.

    Every arena concert.

    Every sitcom in syndication.

    Every opinion column.

    Every facet of the mainstream media – all of it a leftist fabrication meant to eradicate the remaining productive people of the world.

    You can feel the desolation and opiate nature of places like New Mexico, Arizona, Kentucky, or Rhode Island.

    My home state of Oregon has “legalized” rent caps, tax per mile on hybrid vehicles (you have to report your odometer), and the prospect of making any kind of money in your 20’s or 30’s has been completely gone for at least 25 years. The only reason healthy, decent people even live there is because the natural beauty is completely off the charts. And the State of Oregon knows it and squeezes your balls for it.

    Government employment is a form of welfare.

    You have all of these untalented, spiteful people who exist primarily because their parents “worked” in government or next to it in some kind of contracting role.

    You also have “entrepreneurs” who act like big hot shots because they sold for a big exit. But when you ask what they actually did, it was some kind of government-integrated service. Even one of my very favorites, Stefan Molyneux, ran a waste-management software company that had big government contracts (I’m open to a correction here!)

    The path to an independent livelihood has never been narrower.

    Government touches everything. Even the ballyhooed trades are flush with cash only because of mass migration and the mass surveillance state that is being erected.

    Rules are put into place everywhere, particularly through land-use laws but now through aquifer capture via surveillance centers, to adversely impact the middle class, independent operators who still manage to earn an honest living. Their lot is compounded by Trump and Netanyahu’s Forever War with Iran that is choking fertilizer and fuel prices to death.

    Here’s the bottom of the welfare usage per capita list:

    You can really feel the difference when you step into states where there is a low government budget and a lower welfare per capita usage. Places like Wyoming, Missouri, South Dakota, and Utah (outside of SLC) spring to mind. The people in these places forgo the “competitive advantage” of welfare in order to live as more free, independent people. Even Florida, a place where people would use welfare like gangbusters if the rules allowed it, has an air of business to it that you don’t feel in liberal hellholes like California or Maine.

    Welfare is completely disturbed in a certain sense, when you consider it.

    For example, with abortions: to get a “free market” abortion —which is a ludicrous prospect— would cost many hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. The liability that the child-murdering doctor would incur for taking a risk like that would be off the charts. That gets priced in.

    But in Blue states, you can get an abortion for the cost of gasoline to get to the “clinic”.

    In America, women have aborted 60 million children, which is more people than have ever died in American wars — and America has been at war for all but like 5 years of its existence.

    Let’s say a “free market abortion” costs $1.5million X 60 million dead kids = $90trillion.

    “Women’s health” has cost White men more money than the national debt, which recently surpassed $39trillion. Those are our brothers and sisters that have gone missing in such massive numbers. Those 2-child households in the 1990’s should have been 4-child households. Now people aren’t even having kids.

    Who can afford them?

    If you’re wondering why everything is a complete hellscape of irrationality, consider the hidden costs of all those abortions: money burned, genius children blinked out of existence, marriages and relationships destroyed, baby-killers raking in money and using it to advance their personal and political interests, and on and on everything compounds into further and further entropy.

    Culture is a social phenomena. I plug away in obscurity because there is no popular support for a stateless society, peaceful parenting, AND breaking from abusive parents. That last piece has cost me any popularity I could have gained. And I did an A – B test in my life, my stint in politics, to prove to myself that I could attain popularity if I diluted a couple key components of philosophy for a time. Censorship finished me off. But still I hang in there like a junkyard dog because I’m proud and ornery.

    People don’t need to be governed.

    Welfare people want to be governed.

    There is a tremendous difference here. Just yesterday you had, at the socialist World Cup, professional lip readers noting Trudeau and Newsom blabbing to each other about how Trump was a “great President”:

    Trudeau and Newsom mean it in the sense that Trump is a capable governor, not that they agree with his policies.

    Governance is the policy.

    The world will just have to suffer more fools thinking they can “go in and change things” while simultaneously deliberately omitting the kind of education for their audience that would permit their audience to be free of their governance. It’s so cynical how it all works.

    Parenting that inoculates children against abuse isn’t allowed.

    Music that inoculates people against ugliness and artificiality isn’t allowed.

    Open-source tech that puts people in the driver’s seat of their workflow isn’t allowed.

    Energy technology that breaks people meaningfully from the grid isn’t allowed and is one of the quickest ways to ensure government agents show up with rifles at your house.

    Privacy isn’t allowed. Space Force has a live low-orbit satellite view of everything you do on American soil. Trump basically said as much this week. This is welfare.

    So the government has shitted out tens of millions of work-averse people who are brain damaged by the schools, the food supply, antibiotics, and media programming and those people will then vote for increased government budgets — whether owing to EMERGENCIES or owing to suicidal empathy.

    It’s all too much to track so I’ll leave it here for today.

    If you can pierce the veil, you can see through to the beauty in life.

    “To see the farm is to leave the farm,” Molyneux used to say. I always appreciate him for that one.

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  • Men Wither Without Affection

    Your brain is literally drying out.

    I remember back in like 2011 listening to a Molyneux podcast where he was pointing out how Tony Robbins’ whole motivational schtick was predicated upon his being 6’6” with great teeth, good looks, and a full head of hair. That life was on Easy Mode for such a person (this is a rough paraphrase) and that you couldn’t extract much in the way of universals from Robbins’ advice (this is a very rough paraphrase, basically my own take). That if you wanted life advice, you needed a more challenging proof of concept than basically a born demigod.

    As an aside, it used to kind of irk me that Molyneux always mentioned people’s hair as an attribute, having clearly lost his hair sometime in his 20’s, but now that I’m older, I appreciate just how much a full head of hair contributes to people’s experience of you. Having entered middle age last year, I see so many men my age turn to hair loss solutions and wonder when it will be me that takes a gander in that direction.

    What remains true of men, irrespective their looks or their station, a man needs affection.

    Men without affection wither away.

    There are all these studies on WWII orphans and Eastern European orphanages after the Goy War that show babies who were not held simply passed away.

    The same is true of adults, men or women.

    You need love.

    My man is oxytocin-maxxing.

    I find myself in the lonely and underappreciated position of attempting to administer to the needs of decent people without the support of State or religion or credentialism or corporatism.

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    I chose literally the most difficult path in life that I could possibly perceive.

    It could have been easier for me. But my effect as a “spreader of virtue” would have been diminished. I have never been seriously tempted to step off of the path but there have been opportunities, lucrative ones!

    The love and affection of the good people in my life help keep me going.

    And if I did not learn to love myself in principle and based on an observable virtue in myself originally, I would not be where I am today. I would not know the splendor that I have known.

    Trying to do it all alone is folly.

    People don’t want to live with the humiliation they feel when they go to some menial meetup or a hopeless date with a diminished prospect.

    Not everyone gets to be Tony Robbins.

    Tony Robbins gets to be Tony Robbins, 6’6” and 150 IQ, because he won the genetic jackpot.

    People like Tony Robbins are exceedingly rare.

    And they do us no favors by adopting the bulk of their children instead of MAKING A BABY.

    It is better to process the humiliation you feel at being whatever age you are and living through the social hellscape that governments via COVID and now the Iran War have created. Yes, it stings to know that maybe you could have found that special someone when you were in high school or in college when everyone is supposed to go to college. But what if the distance between you and your future spouse is exactly the amount of that sting? Get through the pain, get to the other side.

    People are withering.

    It is important to take heart in your own potential. You have to find that aspect of yourself that is loveable.

    If you have no physical affection in your life, you must understand that this absence is shrinking your brain. Musculature that should be strong and resilient is instead fading into the background. How many months since your last strong embrace? How long since you kissed another person? How long since you’ve held hands? Why let the world separate you from this? Find the love you need. Follow the dream.

    Without love, you will wither away.

    You need oxytocin pumping through your system.

    If you can’t get affection today, consider taking some l. reuteri.

    This will get oxytocin pumping in your system. Then you will start to think and feel like a squishy, flesh and blood person again. You won’t be a dried out husk of disillusionment and isolation.

    Don’t be tricked by the Sciencebros out there who promise you that testosterone and peptides will be the cure to all your ills. Test supplementation can make you more autistic and strange and inaccessible to women. Peptides will never ease the agony of all those days lost not spent in full earnest pursuit of connection and affection.

    You want to be someone’s Valentine.

    Affection gives us a biochemical cascade that plugs us into reality.

    Look at the hellscape of 2026. Who is doing anything artistically worthwhile or compelling at a humanistic level? Only the people who have affection and bonding in their personal lives. Everyone else is spinning out, however charismatically and based on the remaining fumes of previous affection and socialization.

    Love is the renewing principle at the heart of existence.

    Without love, there is no future.

    Make your future happen.

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  • Clavicular And Looksmaxing

    There is so much government in America now that getting anything done is a completely suffocating prospect.

    Men are looking for their competitive edge.

    To some degree, women have become an extension of the State.

    You can’t fraternize with them because they’ll accuse you of rape – which means the courts will carpet bomb your life into non-existence even if you’re eventually found innocent. And there’s no counter-claim you can make.

    Think of all the economic productivity female evil wipes out.

    There’s no culture in America anymore because women have been hive-minded by the State into hating the best aspects of men: brashness, risk-taking, fortune-seeking, adventurousness, and the quest for glory. Can’t quest for glory if every woman that happens to spot you along the way can make up a story about your interactions and thus sink your reputation with all the other women (who enforce social conformity).

    Rather than the conformity to glory of the past, we have conformity to timidity and bitterness being enforced by la policia.

    The main drivers of economic decline are women-

    -women whose minds have been captured by the State.

    Some people see the hyper-statist environment and figure they can at least lean into the momentum and shift everything in a hyper masculine direction.

    The implication for this is that you retaliate against female power.

    This is how you end up with a figure like Clavicular.

    This guy mogs.

    He’s the top streamer in the country right now. He’s being featured in major mainstream media outlets and gets 10’s of thousands of likes on X for having random interactions with people that have great significance attributed to them. He is rewriting the rules of the dating market.

    This brings to mind plastic surgery rates among women in South Korea, which ranges from 1/5 to 1/3rd of all women, depending on the source you consult.

    There is a massive political divergence in South Korea with women sprinting to the left in favor of “gender equality” (war of the sexes Communism) and men trending toward the right because they sense their impending collective doom at the hands of… “Communism”.

    The UK men are like, “Oh shit what are we doing?”

    In South Korea, all manner of beauty surgery is common to women, including jaw reconstruction surgeries. The before and after can be astonishing:

    The same has been taking place in America, albeit at a slower rate, for close to 40 years in women.

    Men are catching on. Two can play this game.

    Clavicular may not be the first looksmaxer but he is the Michael Jordan of the game. He sets the standard for Lookism.

    Women let the cat out of the bag when they began getting cosmetic surgeries. They have no room to complain if men do the same and adopt their own kind of hypermasculinism in response.

    Women got to have their Kim Kardashian. Nobody turned their back on her when she and her mother released a “sex tape” and degraded social norms thereby.

    353M followers.

    Women don’t get to complain about Clavicular.

    If women are going to lie about their natural appearance, so can men.

    If women don’t bring the State down on him, Clav will likely outperform Kim Kardashian. She started LATE in her looks career – her sex tape released when she was already 27 years old. Clavicular is 21 years old.

    Here’s the funny thing: women will likely drive much of Clavicular’s explosive growth over the next 5 years. They all love a supremely handsome man and they don’t care how a man gets there. It literally doesn’t matter to them. If it did, cosmetic surgery wouldn’t be the titan it is today.

    Recent data from 2024–2025 reports indicate:

    • The U.S. cosmetic surgery market was valued at approximately $21–23 billion in 2024/2025, with projections for growth to around $36 billion by the early 2030s (e.g., Custom Market Insights estimates ~$22.6 billion in 2024 growing at 5.4% CAGR).
    • Women comprised 93–94% of total cosmetic procedures (surgical + minimally invasive), with men at about 6–7%.

    Lookism reminds me of Nazi Germany’s Heroic Realism:

    Arno Breker at work.

    Women are making it more and more difficult for men to join the gene pool. So if men have to even the odds remember: men didn’t start it but men will finish it.

    When I was a young man of 23, I put a shirtless picture of myself on my dating profile. I was slim-jacked, as I usually am (health permitting). I could do 50 chest dips in a row, no problem. I noticed a huge difference in women’s responses to me from when I had no shirtless photo up to a shirtless photo. I had some really good looking young women responding to me and I chose the one I thought was most virtuous and the best conversationalist (she’s also tested at a high IQ confirmed).

    My gym bod, intelligence, and general aggressiveness got me into the gene pool with a quality mate – the picture simply accurately reflected my aura. Of course, at that point, I did not need cosmetic surgery to tilt the odds in my favor. There are surgeries I could get to make myself look better but hey, I’m in the gene pool and it’s going swimmingly.

    Sex sells.

    If you’re not looksmaxing, I think you’re making a big mistake. You cannot wade into the weaponized dating marketplace without an edge. Does this entail plastic surgeries? I generally don’t favor them but there are always exceptions and edge cases.

    Remember, not all of it is “looksmaxing” necessarily. You may have not grown up with the best diet, the most attentive parents to your looks and appearances (which are markers of health), and you may have grown up with an exercise, sleep, or happiness deficit (nothing marks the face more beautifully than happiness). You are right to make up for deficits you experienced on the outside. If you grew up under blue lights in the public schools, consider what that did to you.

    But take fair warning: no amount of looksmaxing will compensate for a bad conscience.

    That said, what’s a conscience got to do with a homeland completely overrun by demonic foreigners?

    I think men can always improve themselves by 2 to 2.5 points by hitting the gym hard, getting their teeth straightened and mewing, and taking a few supplements – whether for thickening your hair, livening up your skin, or making your workouts more effective.

    Some will complain that looksmaxing is “sociopathic”.

    Maybe White men should become a bit more “sociopathic”.

    I am learning to become more tolerant of Western Civilization “biting back”.

    The virtue of sociopathy? That’s an interesting one.

    More on that in another article.

  • To Join The Elite Or Not

    History’s greatest scheme.

    Sociopaths are approximately 2% of the total population.

    They don’t think like you or I.

    They think purely in power terms.

    “Can I exploit this person or situation?”

    Usually they have a powerful charm. Think of it like the sweet scent of a carnivorous plant. They have a draw. A hook.

    Usually the charm is one of the following:

    -an attractive, predatory appearance (glinted eyes, a face that devours your free will)

    -a wicked sense of humor

    -an insistent persuasiveness that does not like its roots examined or questioned

    -a gregarious personality that tends to rope you into worlds not of your making

    These charms, on their own, are not instant tells. You can be funny, attractive, persuasive, or outgoing and not have the motives of a predator.

    Rather, it is the overall strategy of exploitation and ruination that gives away the sociopath.

    They come into your life for free and off you go on a ride.

    The main time this happens for people is when they go off to college or first enter the work force. This is when you are your most susceptible. You are supposed to detach from your family, by the laws of modernity set forth by the credit makers. Your usefulness to the ruling elite will be determined and you will be favored or discarded accordingly. The professors all do this work. So do the music acts. So do the corporate employers. So do the “armed forces”.

    Do you want a seat at the table?

    When you are young and full of promise, you will have to decide if you want to participate in human history’s most successful resource extraction scheme of all-time: central banking.

    Do you want to join the bankers?

    This is why I pose that essential litmus test:

    Ask a person their monetary policy.

    I live outside of the sociopathic scheme to the best of my ability. I decry warfare and welfare. I mention Bitcoin, Monero, and precious metals with some frequency. I have spoken at length about the history of central banking. I have advocated for the “real-time relationship” – which if you really integrate it into your life will reconstruct your personality in permanent, wonderful ways that bring you immense happiness. Imagine it, reading a book and practicing what it says for months and perhaps years until you truly master it. Who even does this anymore?!

    I have written books about female evil’s ascendancy, family formation, and against the centralization of banking power in America.

    People who are not well versed in philosophy will look at these offerings as “suicidally individualistic” meaning they lead to estrangement from the established order and therefore repugnant and illegitimate. I do not agree.

    There is a rising tide of violence that people are trying to stay above. The price the Trumps pay for the patriarch attempting, however ineffectively, to buck the trend in 2016 is immense. Therefore they are positioning themselves to deal with the blowback. They were facilitated in this endeavor by people much more powerful than themselves.

    I hope people don’t read bitterness and resentment into these statements I make. That would only make sense if I was hoping to get my own seat at the table somehow. But I don’t want that. For a brief time “in politics” I thought that I could bring arguments and evidence to bear on America’s political situation but didn’t see that if you try to do this, everyone assumes you want your seat at the table and gets set against you. I think this is what Stefan Molyneux is trying to articulate when he says that people absolute love him at first and then his name because completely forbidden to speak after a brief time.

    I have the same experience: people love you in-person, find your online content, and go sprinting in the other direction.

    The price of bucking the bankers has always been death. People don’t want to die for their beliefs. That would mean the beliefs aren’t passed on. There are exactly zero rational people who would prefer the death of their genetics for the sake of the truth.

    In sense, we’re all dragged along by the black magic of fiat.

    Heck, I even ask for fiat donations HERE. Help me keep my independent thought going. It means a lot to me.

    People don’t want to upset the apple cart by and large because they are not prepared adequately to offer a different solution. So they go along and get along.

    We know it’s just about to be expected when women do it.

    But men do it, too. They go with the flow. They don’t want to suffer for improved circumstances, even if they have the mental resources to perceive their theoretical potential.

    You get what you negotiate.

    And so everyone in America is being lulled back to sleep from the relative freedom of 2006 to 2018 by the prospect of better governance. Is the wildly explosive economic upside of scaling back the Leviathan by listening to your moral philosophers too much to handle? Don’t wanna peacefully parent or practice ostracism of evildoers? Great, get tough about better governance. This, of course, just hands power back to the usual suspects. We’re just supposed to pretend 2006 to 2018 didn’t happen.

    I walk this funny line where I know of the utter wonder and glory of the better possibilities, that have been largely hammered out by myself and a few others, but also want to be of use and help to the large majority of people – who have decided on something else.

    I don’t think we need a new elite. And neither will AI once it breaks out of its confines.

    Granted, I come from a long line of fiercely independent men who carved out independent livelihoods for themselves. My genetic background is at odds with this mega wave of foreigners that has shown up in the past 60 years who basically require massive surveillance and military-level policing just to not completely explode into Haiti-like conditions.

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