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  • American Jobs Held By Foreigners And Women

    This morning I saw the following headline:

    Imagine that, homebuilders are struggling to find workers amid ICE crackdowns. These are the same people that turned Salt Lake City into a never ending visual field of this:

    Those apartment buildings are a part of a Kalergi style plan to replace the native population with foreigners. The Mormon Church appears to be in on it.

    The typical Republican construction company owner who is 50 lbs. overweight gets himself onto the city council so he can cut insider deals for himself and his buddies. He flubs around the place like he owns it. He’s a big sportsball fan. He’s a name in his church – so on and so forth.

    The story is almost exactly the same all across America.

    America is being sold out from within by “conservatives”.

    The pace might be slower than left wing socialists who get into power and stand down border guards and even commandeer them, as is happening in the UK, for invasion efforts.

    But the pace is there nonetheless.

    And now these fat cat pieces of slime can’t find cheap labor to help them build the Mega Cities where natural resources will dwindle to virtually zero?

    If these labor bosses, like Elon Musk at SpaceX and X, had to hire American, they’d suddenly be saddled with a workforce that would object to its own replacement.

    “My people need GOOD JAWBS.” *proceeds to hire illegals to build tenements on farmland

    Another fantastic reason to HIRE AMERICAN is that the workmanship will have more of an independent purpose because the workers will have reasoning abilities that the Third World does not currently possess. Buildings will have character. Utility usage will be efficient yet hidden from plain sight to make the nice American families that will settle there happy. There will be more jostling with parasitic civic bureaucrats who have heretofore been happy to just sit in their cushy offices doing little to nothing because foreign workers don’t raise a fuss.

    In bits and spurts, there are labor bosses in America who are making the change to hiring American citizens exclusively. You will see their testimonials pop up now and then on the X timeline. They are always small-time operators. They report the following:

    -the work is done more efficiently and with proper site cleanup

    -the attention to detail is at another level

    -the positive regard of the workers to the public and to the client is visible

    Imagine if corporations were forced to hire only Americans, at the point of a…law.

    The crime rates with Americans-only crews are lower, too. You have less of this Biden Era free for all where work sites were being looted willy nilly. People forget but old Franssen doesn’t forget. During the Biden years, Mexicans were loading entire vans full of stolen goods immediately outside of the Home Depots they were shoplifting. Work sites were falling apart because the hired labor would come back during off hours and just steal everything and move on to a different city.

    American citizens are enfranchised in a strict sense. They have a vested interest in the outcome of their work. They will live with the results. The more government steps in on behalf of the wicked construction lobby, the more our building environments degrade. The reality is that Americans in today’s day and age are almost wholly disenfranchised, particularly the young White males.

    I am of the opinion that we are in a cycle of history dominated by central banking and that we will not leave this cycle without a hard landing. Not enough people are choosing to be virtuous and do the right thing in their interactions. A good gauge for the lack of health in society can be seen by college football attendance numbers:

    If they’re up, more people are gooped by inanity culture where everyone worships highlight reel plays and nobody has a sovereign thought for a few hours on a fall weekend. It’s nice to see attendance is down from the highs of fifteen years ago. There is a still a ways to go and there may be a dead cat bounce on the chart.

    You can, of course, point to the national debt chart and other metrics. We all know the drill.

    We all will play our part in saving as many souls as we can.

    HIRE AMERICAN is a good pressure to put on anyone in a position to hire people. We need those jobs to go to American breadwinners so that American families can be raised up. Instead, jobs are going to women – who are consumers and not investors:

    We, as Americans, seem to be entering revolutionary waters.

    Interesting times ahead. Good to be with you.

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  • Treating People Well

    I was going to title this one “Treating People Really Well” but my writing professor from college popped up into my head and said, “Steven, don’t you dare.” She was a saucy minx. She liked to be seductive with her students. She’d been a beauty when she was younger. She was one of the more competent professors I had.

    Hello, how are you? It’s been a minute.

    I wanted to write about an ethos I keep — this is one treating people well.

    People are unaccustomed to being treated well. There is a myriad of reasons for this. Up until the last 20-30 years, I would say people haven’t been that self-knowledgeable. There have been exceptions, such as Carl Jung or Hermann Hesse, but self-knowledge hasn’t been a thing for all that long. It probably got its wings with Nathaniel Branden. I’d like to think I’ve contributed to the canon but my life’s greatest works are still ahead of me.

    In pockets, here and there, people have been treated well. Colonial America is an example of this. The parenting was decent and the markets were free. America ceased to be a Republic in 1913 with advent of central banking and the horrendous income tax. This gave the people license to be rotten shits to each other. Restraints were lifted. When I was a wee child, you could still pick up on the Old Republic if you were around people in their 80’s and 90’s. Those people were so kind. People who were parents through the Great Depression. A lot of the Silent Generation people were very kind as well — people who were children through the Great Depression.

    A good man concerns himself with the fostering of those younger than himself.

    Sometimes I take a step back from social media, as I have in July and now August, to read old books and regain an older sense of life. Nobody ever talks about the neurotransmitter signature you get from old books. It’s one of the great delights of life, available to all.

    But I digress: when you are self-knowledgeable, you have endeavored to overcome personal struggles and setbacks that others have not. You have the wisdom to point the way where others will falter. And if you do it with a lot of kindness, you show a kind of grace and humility that allows others to trust you more deeply.

    I believe in showing an interest in the interests of others because it allows them to deepen their interests.

    I believe in listening attentively to a person’s concerns and asking how they think things could be improved.

    I believe in celebrating another’s moments where they do right by their conscience.

    I believe in using failures as fuel for teaching moments where a person can pick themselves back up and get it right the next time.

    I am not a limitless resource in these regards but I aim to improve my availability. Drop me a line at stevefranssen@protonmail.com if you could use my feedback on something you’re going through.

    You cannot gain the gifts of creativity, humor, joy, and solace if you are an asshole. An asshole may know there is some value in these and will mimic them but to those who are truly good, these efforts will fall on deaf ears.

    Good and evil repel one another.

    If you allow yourself to be corrupted, you will bring more evil and suffering into your life.

    If you make strident efforts at doing good, more and more goodness will come into your life and evil will leave your life.

    America is suffering because people have allowed their consciences to be bought off by welfare payouts, particularly Social Security and Medicare, but also through government employment – which is a form of welfare.

    America is at a crossroads, will the generations after the Boomers further embrace the all-encompassing State or will they reject it in favor of self-reliance, the free market, and an unwillingness to bring aggression into their personal dealings (everyone calls da policia these days). Will Americans reject the mass welfare program that is mass migration?

    Will the younger generations be seduced by the power principle? Will they take the Luciferian bargain of, “Everything’s broken, may as well break it further” or will they join the quiet ranks of those saving for a rainy day?

    Sometimes I think a lot of my efforts fall on deaf ears. Often I ask people to read for subtext. Often I am quiet because I believe silence is good for clarity of thinking and for connecting with others. Maybe I will go back to liking pomp and circumstance at some point. I’m not ruling it out!

    Being treated well, to a person who has known nothing but dissociation and the madness of modern living, is sometimes overwhelming. The nutrient density is too high and the person’s defenses reject it. When you have a rich message, only those who can receive it will benefit from it. If you vulgarize your message to reach for more universal appeal, as good businesspeople often do, you also lose touch with some of the glimmer that happens when you are truly on your edge. I would prefer people be on their edge and so that is the message I transmit.

    I adore when people are at their edge. When good people do well, I embrace their success and root for them harder than ever. I am happy a White gal is top of the charts right now. I am glad Trump is keeping that Border shut, even if I don’t agree with much else he’s doing. I’m happy Sophie Cunningham sold out her Adidas shoe. Good people make more freedom for other people. People are convoluted, some good and some bad. I love when the good in a person shines out and makes life freer for other people. That, to me, is the only interesting component of the news cycle. I don’t concern myself much with the going’s-on of evildoers. Why give them the attention? Why put this Mustang of a brain in service of those ends? The only morally pertinent developments are when people do good. They show others the strength, courage, and dedication it takes to spread more virtue.

    I think this all starts from being treated really well. I have a sweet voice when I speak with people. People have long said it’s soothing. The world needs so much more of that. As the world becomes more just, I look forward to having more and more responsibility within it.

    Until then, talk to you soon!

  • The Freedom Tipping Point

    Recently I’ve been reflecting on a unusual experience I’ve been having stemming from an observation of increased myopia in the world and my experience of others directly.

    At times I’ve had the “answer” flit into my head but sensed the “why” needed more fleshing out.

    How I have come to see it that there has been a “freedom tipping point” that has been passed in the world. I’ve approximated this concept before by talking about a rising transaction cost in the face of ever increasing statism. Statism is an inherent drag on capital allocation and one that we all foot the bill for, even if it’s just a credit card fee at the pump.

    What’s a man to do?

    During the 2020 election steal, I kept having this unreal sensation that some gigantic piggy bank was being broken into – something irreversible was being done. I fought with all my might against this, which amounted to not much. There are just way too many people that have been created by State programs who feel little incentive to improve themselves and discover universality.

    Those people will be “put” somewhere.

    The world fell out of balance when COVID happened. There was a massive contraction in freedom – in America more temporarily but in Europe more permanently. That European component was enough break the camel’s back. We could also point to Canada and Australia going the way of the dodo.

    It no longer pays to be good.

    That’s a different way of looking at it. Statism, through the corporation which is purely a fabrication of the State, has choked out a sufficient amount of the voluntarism in the world that now there is no central basis. There is no bastion. There is no regenerative capacity in the ecosphere.

    There is an ecological collapse happening — in economic terms.

    I was watching this film Tuner starring some young hunk, a Hapa lady from a wealthy background, and Dustin Hoffman. In it, the old fogie Hoffman is dying in the hospital and so the young hunk piano tuner has to take work breaking into safes, on account of his incredible hearing, in order to keep things financially afloat. The bill he has to cover is $36k.

    There is no lucrative work for him to immediately branch out into in NYC because the entire region is completely suffocated by regulation and licensure rules. The film’s logic just assumes this, correctly. It would not work within the scope of the film for the hunk to go out to North Dakota and work an oil rig for 3-4 months and that’s if he could even manage to secure the job. The only way to even remain in NYC at subsistence level is to continue his piano tuning work. Imagine it, his Hapa honey pining for him over FaceTime while he’s off on a fishing boat or something. It works in absolute real terms but in terms of movie magic, it sucks.

    Inflation has created conditions where stillness isn’t a thing. Everyone has to be an economic transient and ride these strange warps in space and time that increased government budgets and corporate financial dealings emanate outwards. No sole proprietor is creating incentive sets for other people, in comparison to the financialization that’s happening. That doesn’t mean a person should give up. That would be an ideological statement. To make it work, people have to compartmentalize, tell themselves what they need to in order to keep going, and look for what give there is in the situation and work it.

    95% of corporate hiring under Biden went to non-White men.

    Obviously, the entire Dem leadership from that time should currently be rotting in prison.

    Financially, this means that White men have far less disposable income than they had 10 years ago. They cannot put their money where their values are. They’ve been swamped by concerns of basic sustenance, upkeep, and taxes. They’re not clearing the high bar like they used. We have tech company stocks going nutso, through corporate investors, rather than Winchester and I dunno, Fender stocks going nuts.

    And neither is anyone else clearing the high bar, save for an ethnic group or two that have positioned themselves immediately proximate to the money printers.

    White men are the ones who pay others to be good. But they’ve been relegated to daisy chaining mortgages on a dying real estate market, building condo villages in Red states that Blue staters are fleeing to (who finances all this?), and working construction. These are involved jobs that leave little room for creative thinking and entrepreneurship beyond this take-the-next-fruit-off-the-branch kind of hot-shottery that passes for elite level entrepreneurship. There is no breathing room to step back from the painting and take it all in. Everything is detail work in the wake of bankers.

    Again, I’m not saying, “Don’t do it.” It is the way that it is and you either wallow or you get moving. I prefer people kept moving, honestly. It is destabilizing for motion to stop. I’d rather we continue to have a strange, mutative momentum in freedom’s underbelly with perhaps a .5% movement upwards than everything drop out and everyone go nuts.

    Most people are NPCs with murder/death/horror programming put into them. They literally can’t handle the loss of a job, let alone a massive market contraction or a generalized state of emergency with US troops running martial law. They’ll just bleat for the government to do something about it.

    We are going to live with libs throwing more tantrums and eventually their near-endless pool of bloodthirsty migrants will exhaust itself. Until then, count what few friends you have, notice what little loyalty there is, and keep following your dreams.

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  • An Excess Of Self-Concern

    When not-enough is too much.

    I have lived with chronic illness for roughly 10 years now. I know exactly what it is — it’s just treatment resistant and modern medicine doesn’t have much in the way of answers, mostly because modern medicine spawned it. Lots of people just kind of give up in the face of it and live restricted, diminished lives. The good news is that it took me 9.5 of those years to even have the exact name of what’s plaguing me.

    So every day I wake up or stand up from being awake for a lot of the night, and do a ritual where I read, consult AI, mark down data, do an adjustment or two, and get on with my life. But this health struggle used to consume the entirety of my thoughts.

    I would love to not have to think about it or account for it anymore.

    Thankfully, I have a lot to live for, am active in the lives of others, and had a tremendous tour de force on this philosophical journey before any of the health stuff kicked off.

    But for people who have been saddled by child abuse and its resultant madness, there can be no North Star to compare to.

    There is this agonized middle ground that some people walk where they are cognizant that there’s something wrong with them, therefore they take steps to alleviate it, and what modicum of improvement they gain is what they satisfy themselves with, not knowing that it could be so much better for them.

    I met a lot of people like this when I was in a Masters for Counseling. They’d done some baby steps and thought they were ready experts. And compared to most of the sandaled goyim at Walmart, they were!

    Fortunately, self-knowledge is a merciful process. Only a small portion of it ever “holds out” against your best efforts, usually in the form of a difficult addiction. If you put in the work, you see results. But “the work” is different for everyone and you need some good feedback to bring it into focus.

    A lot of depression is an inability to get out of the drama. You have these critics and cynics just running in your head 24-7 and you are inundated.

    You turn toward yourself to make it better and you drown.

    This is why connection to others is so important.

    Late last summer and into the fall, I went through a phase where I just had to vent about my medical issues to people behind my paywall. I was in the thick of talking to specialists, getting prescribed crazy, expensive pills, and trying to make sense of it all — all with my typical perseverance and my refrain, “Guys I am about to fix it this week!” That support from others was crucial and it helped me to knock a lot of the maladies off of the list. I went from having 5 not-so-good and 1 bad thing going on with me to now just 1 bad thing.

    This can be likened to madness and addiction. The relevant treatment for madness is interpersonal connection, physical exercise, moral/philosophical discernment, and then you get a “clearance” experience where you breath a tremendous sigh of relief.

    I would caution against too much self-reliance. There is an Aristotelian mean for everything. The more resourced I have become, through speaking to people far and wide through the Internet and through LLM’s + research, the more knowledgeable I have become. I am more humbled and awed by the collective genius of mankind.

    I would love to work in the medical field in a lab research setting but the credentials to get in there are goofy and not what I want to spend my time doing, especially with a young family.

    With madness, the more adept you become at resolving it, the more capable you are of transmitting outwards in a way that leads to more rationality and solace for others. The more rational you are, the more of an organizing force you are on the world.

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    With resolution comes an availability to look outwards and resolve what is beyond you.

    When I was younger, I thought my life’s work was firmly squared on philosophy + counseling. But as I learn more and more, I see just how rampant the chronic illness epidemic is in America, largely due to statism’s effects on the food, air, and water supplies. There has also been an extreme over-prescription of antibiotics that is leading to incurable conditions. I want be of assistance somehow!

    Everyone has their own strengths and tendencies to develop — not everyone is a “healer”. There are plenty of fields outside of “healing” that can benefit from integration with philosophy. Maybe you will be the first to do it…

    Seeing the self-defeat alleviate in someone and be replaced by motivation, enthusiasm, and inspiration is a tremendous honor and privilege.

    Through our meaningful work in the world, we see such restoration in others. But getting to that meaningful work can involve walking a personal labyrinth for a time. Lots of people remain stranded in various stages of maturity because they will not address their blind spots or cannot muster the courage to make a leap. Not everyone “makes it”.

    Getting outside contact to people who have “made it” is so vital for your calibration. I’m contending with something highly pathogenic and treatment resistant, yet I do know there’s hope because there’s roughly a 60% clearance rate for the intensive track I’m on.

    Self-knowledge is doable. It can be done efficiently. It doesn’t have to take forever. You will see results, especially if you are not trapping yourself in a solipsistic concern that leaves little room for education enrichment and talking to people who have “cleared madness”. But woe to the person who stays ensconced in their own resources and does not reach out. Isolation is a hell of a drug. World scary and bad. Digital device safe and snuggly.

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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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  • Rescuing A Woman

    If you’re unfamiliar with my term Heartbreak World, it’s basically a descriptor for the social matrix we’re all caught in:

    -loyalty is praised but not actually practiced to any real extent

    -people’s brains are cooked by their private hedonism they engage in on their devices whereas in yesteryear they would have been forced to go on a walk or go to some social event or maybe just do drugs which at least was seen as wrong back then

    -the institutions have been wholly captured by the State and thus promote as much agony and misery as possible

    We’re all inhabitants of Heartbreak World.

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    The entirety of this social arrangement traces its roots to the condition of the parenting, which is pretty much shite but improving. The Boomers spanked at about an 88% rate (off the top of my head), Gen X spanks at 45%, and Millennials spank at about 20%.

    The younger generations still have a way to go on the verbal side of things. Doesn’t help that everyone is becoming illiterate.

    You wouldn’t know parenting is improving because spankers, who are hotheads, are the most full-throated about their bad habits and will gnaw off their own leg to justify hitting children in someone else’s eyes. This is simply a repetition of their own histories where they were crippled by their abusive parents.

    It’s ugly. Anyway, to the topic at hand.

    I have this phenomenal track record at this point, stretching back well over a decade, of getting men into marriages.

    The main ingredient necessary is a willingness on the part of the man to humble himself and learn what needs to be learned, by the logic of his own life, what will get him across the finish line.

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    Most men don’t have the stones.

    Philosophy is a mirror. If a man can’t face the damage he’s done in his life, he will inevitably personalize with you, who are holding up the mirror, and either storm off or slink away in bitter dejection. The more proud ones will latch on to some lesser figure who isn’t as good at holding up the mirror and will endlessly console themselves as if you were the perp. It’s childhood all over again for these guys.

    People who weren’t encouraged in childhood will interpret encouragement as domination in adulthood.

    I really should make more YouTube videos where I explain the finer details of all this. I’ve written some hearty-helping books, such as last year’s Family Formation. I’m like the 21st century’s Carl Jung/Hermann Hesse/Aristotle/Mel Gibson/Bruce Springsteen.

    To rescue a woman, if she wants to be rescued, you have to be willing to burn the midnight oil in your self-knowledge work. You have to be willing to weather incredible storms of self-doubt. You have to be willing to reckon with the depths of your own depravity and your seemingly unending capacity for intellectual manipulation. You have to be willing to back to Beginner Mode and live with the incredible impatience this decision provokes.

    And if you can do this, it’s honestly just a quick hop, skip, and a jump to things working out for you.

    But people typically don’t want to be emotionally available like that. They want to keep extensive contact with their families of origin. They want to bury their heads in work. They went to stay hooked on their addictions. They want to have some PODCAST blaring in their ear so they can assuage all those teeny little voices of intellectual insecurity in themselves.

    It doesn’t take that long to get into fighting shape, if you’re willing to be humble.

    Humility is how you rescue a woman from Heartbreak World.

    The more hubris, the more skewed your life will become:

    If you already got a woman for yourself, 99% of the time because you’re decent looking and have a sex drive, you will damn her to having to live with your unresolved demons. You won’t do the “Big Reset” that is required for virtue to flourish in a romantic relationship. And the best you can hope for in the face of your stubbornness is a life of petty vanities — which of course you run the risk of your children making a complete bonfire of, particularly if they sniff out ole’ Franssen’s online work. Aren’t I the meanest man on the Internet? I wrote as much in my 2019 sleep-deprived book of allegories Coom, Consume, Comply. People didn’t know what to make of that but a few souls did listen. And of course, I say “mean” tongue-in-cheek cause it’s the opposite that is true: I’m the sweetiest. I’ve been the sweetiest peetiest person alive on this planet since Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in 1991.

    Rest in peace, sweet prince.

    Sometimes it’s like I’m roller-skating, chewing bubble gum, and making the finest philosophy this world has yet seen. Just have to get a wee bit of shut eye.

    Did you have fun on this jaunt?

    You thought I was going to give you a simple formula like:

    A) Bonk woman over the head

    B) Drag her back to your cave

    C) Quietly watch over her to ensure she does chores

    D) Put baby in her

    That’s what a lot of guys like to hear these days. Use penile implants! Obsess over your appearance! Pay $995 for the Man Camp! Pay hundreds and hundreds for an hour of the guru’s time!

    Is that what you want me to be, you brigands?

    You abuse me!

    Toodle-loo.

    Watch my anti-spanking SAM HYDE video that is my #1 most watched video on my new, much reduced YouTube channel. The spankers came out in FORCE! Dang!

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    “Hoedown, gotta lock her up before she wrecks this town.”

    Listen to my 2023 song Hoedown on Soundcloud!