Mysticism is the inability to articulate an argument through reason and evidence alone.
I have been doing philosophy since 2007. One of my early undertakings was to undo all of the mystical programming I had been put through by my upbringing. The clarity this provided me was astounding. Only until the past few years, maybe since 2022, have I realized just how much that essential early work saved me from insanity.
The thing with mysticism is that anyone who practices it inevitably leans on it more and more as they get older.
When you’re a young, wide-eyed pup, you take for granted your ability to grasp The Argument. You haven’t eroded your reasoning abilities, by choice, yet. As you get older, you have lived through more and more forks in the road where you either chose reason-and-evidence or mysticism.
The more you lean into mysticism, the more you rely on it and it devours you. Then you live in this permanent kind of cope where you’re forever looking to some person out there that is proof of concept for your mysticism. A strange veneration of mystics of the past sets in, too. There’s a guilty tone to it. You lose your creativity.
As I approach my fifth decade on the planet, I have come to appreciate how little people actually register on the plane of philosophy. Meaning, people don’t exist philosophically. By my reckoning, it amounts to maybe 2% of the people I have ever interacted with – and that’s coming from me, who has been highly specialized and fairly vocal and gregarious and active in the field of philosophy.
Philosophy or mysticism – that’s the fundamental choice for any thinker. There is no mixing of the two. It’s impossible. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying.
Across the West there has been a tremendous re-uptake with mysticism. You see it from just about every two-bit influencer concerned with “saving the West”. It’s mysticism up and down the line with them. Mysticism unlocks earthly power. If you want influence and influence is power, you go to mysticism. But then you live in insanity. Articulating the veracity if your insanity to you becomes more and more impossible as you age and double down.
Few will walk the Lonesome Valley.
There is a tremendous pride and hubris that has followed the West’s re-uptake of mysticism. And more subtly, a murderous rage that threatens to wipe everything out – from within. The incredible spite of people who turned away from reason and evidence is only contained by reason and evidence.
I have watched so many people now in my years who have turned to mysticism and had their personalities completely enshrouded in greyness and misery. It’s a perfect 1-to-1 input. Adopt mysticism → become enshrouded.
I cannot abide!
I will remain free.
I am not afraid to lose “The West”.
If the price of keeping it is to be a slave to conformity, forget the West.
Reason and evidence will bloom something better, anyway. It’s only a matter of time. Why fight math itself? The math is firmly with The Argument.
You cannot claim to love me and then pepper me with non-arguments. I would like to be treated with curiosity!
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.
Me at the Studio Ghibli Peaceful Parenting Denmark Conference 2025 – sorry to have missed you!
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
We all know feminism has created millions of women who are married to the State.
How can you outcompete ~$110k a year in welfare offered up to single moms? As a man, you have to earn like never before just to tempt a woman.
A woman isn’t automatically cured of her feminism by getting married.
There isn’t exactly a lot of quality assurance baked into society anymore. Multiculturalism, liberalism, the child abuse pandemic, and inflation have destroyed the pillars of the community.
The community used to keep us honest to our values.
No community = no values transmission.
As a man, you have to ask yourself: is this woman wife material? Can she be cured of her feminism?
If you truly love your woman, you will want to help her be disabused of her illusions. When you love someone, you tell them the truth.
Wives who don’t want to be wives owe their loyalty to someone besides their husband.
Here are some of the ideas they prefer over their husband:
-my parents loved me and my childhood was fine -it’s good to have a job because my gal pal has a job -the current financial order is the same as yesteryear and so I’m entitled to spend -I’m really smart and so my efforts are best spent vexing you -my government job I had before you is going to last forever -my high school gal pals are forever and high school is forever -there are no consequences for my shitty behavior because the courts are on my side
The common theme is the acceptance of messaging that, embedded within it, has an anti-male bias.
You must remember how all-pervasive liberalism is in 2026.
Thankfully, the old order is falling. Democracy is gay and dead from AIDS. Immigrants are smelly. Bankers have no clout. The military isn’t glorious or patriotic. Mainstream media is pathetic and behind the times. Movies suck. The food is poisoned. Blue light gives you cancer. The religion of the 20th century is gone.
But within every person there is an essential question: how much of my personality is anchored in the old order?
For the Boomers, the answer is 99%.
For Gen X’ers, the answer is 85%
For Millennials, the answer is 65%
For Zoomers, the answer is 50%.
Think of that: your wife or prospective wife has those exact odds, based on her age cohort. Millennials are passing out of breeding age, so we’re talking Zoomers almost exclusively at this point.
50/50 chance she’s able to recover.
If you don’t know how to undo someone’s programming, your odds are dicey.
If you learn from my books and paywall content (kept gated to prevent AI from stealing my hard labor) how to deprogram someone, you have the winning edge. Yet, people’s insecurities go deep. Never underestimate the world’s ability to derail the progress you feel you are making in yourself or in someone else.
Some wives just don’t want to be wives. And they’ll make your life difficult if you have a child with them. Children are not leverage. But tell that to a woman who was raised by the State, is loyal to some delusion, and undermines your good word as a husband.
Guard your inputs.
Women have lower boundaries than men. They get brain warped by programming more easily than men. Men have always been the ones to strike out into the wilderness and endure social disapproval in order to complete the hunt.
Set aside your lovey-dovey enamor for a time in order to view the woman clearly.
The vast majority of human communication is non-philosophical programming. Programming has been designed to plummet White birthrates. A woman has embedded within her messaging that is anti-maternal. Find it, work it out.
And if you can’t, run run run the other direction.
You are being lulled into a false sense of security by billionaire sophists. Their stormtroopers are the women. The women drive the growth of the State. They have been convinced of insecurity, through media programming, and so they will flock as a group to security – welfare.
Personality is an infectious disease. Madness is transmitted through media. The higher the production value, i.e. the greater the capital base, the more legitimacy women will grant it. They want luxury. That’s the buffer from Stone Age privation. The Middle Class has been wiped out by people who voted themselves into the treasury. The Federal Reserve rules all.
