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"content": "Why I come out against MGTOW.<br /><br />MGTOW is older than a lot of people think. In fact, in the old days, I was one of those unfashionable people looking into what has become a growing movement among men, consciously and otherwise.<br /><br />Back then a couple of grubby message boards was all there was and none of the acronyms were known. The pickup thing was still relatively new (these things are related) and the redpill was little heard of. I lurked... and held my silence.<br /><br />So why did MGTOW catch my attention. Firstly, they were saying things that were true which no one else seemed to be talking about barring the pickup guys. The first things I look for in anything are logic, honesty, and internal consistency. Women, generally speaking, are absolutely guilty of everything the MGTOW guys level at them and society IS undeniably gynocentric. Also the criticisms of MGTOW were as tiresomely predictable as they were wrong - that they were neckbeard incels who were oh so thirsty for a sniff. All nonsense, many were older guys who had seen more than they wanted to in the gender war - one in which we are still restraining ourselves.<br /><br />It was the nagging sensation that MGTOW was a new (and particularly devious) incarnation of the matrix. We are supposed to be living fulfilled lives as builders and creators within a healthy community. Easy to write, hard to do. Anything that tries to stop us, especially if it appears on the enemy's platform (the internet - yes all of it), is of the enemy. By their works shall ye know them seems to be true.<br /><br />MGTOW would rob a young man of part of his birthright. To raise happy and healthy children with a loving woman. I can hear the MGTOW lads even now, that it's impossible in our modern culture or that no such woman exists. They are correct that the globalist state will do everything in its not inconsiderable power to stop a man from living as he ought. They are correct that women are universally mercenary, and so are a liability in this effort to keep civilization going. They'd shake their fists at me and ask how I could advise a young man to take on such a stupid task or maybe they'd retire to a hobby room somewhere and shrug at my efforts.<br /><br />All I can say is that my children make it worth it. The hours at work, managing my wife, not getting to play around or lark about. Blood is the greatest of all treasures and no matter what the enemy might send against me, they will find me unwilling to give it up. Blade in hand and a song in my heart, I'm out there every day holding the line. One day the empire is going to fall over and my descendants are going to be there, they'll be free in a world beyond my limited imagination. I'm happy for them, from my grave I'll wish them the best.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=MGTOW\" title=\"#MGTOW\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#MGTOW</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=redpill\" title=\"#redpill\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#redpill</a>",
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"content": "Why I come out against MGTOW.\n\nMGTOW is older than a lot of people think. In fact, in the old days, I was one of those unfashionable people looking into what has become a growing movement among men, consciously and otherwise.\n\nBack then a couple of grubby message boards was all there was and none of the acronyms were known. The pickup thing was still relatively new (these things are related) and the redpill was little heard of. I lurked... and held my silence.\n\nSo why did MGTOW catch my attention. Firstly, they were saying things that were true which no one else seemed to be talking about barring the pickup guys. The first things I look for in anything are logic, honesty, and internal consistency. Women, generally speaking, are absolutely guilty of everything the MGTOW guys level at them and society IS undeniably gynocentric. Also the criticisms of MGTOW were as tiresomely predictable as they were wrong - that they were neckbeard incels who were oh so thirsty for a sniff. All nonsense, many were older guys who had seen more than they wanted to in the gender war - one in which we are still restraining ourselves.\n\nIt was the nagging sensation that MGTOW was a new (and particularly devious) incarnation of the matrix. We are supposed to be living fulfilled lives as builders and creators within a healthy community. Easy to write, hard to do. Anything that tries to stop us, especially if it appears on the enemy's platform (the internet - yes all of it), is of the enemy. By their works shall ye know them seems to be true.\n\nMGTOW would rob a young man of part of his birthright. To raise happy and healthy children with a loving woman. I can hear the MGTOW lads even now, that it's impossible in our modern culture or that no such woman exists. They are correct that the globalist state will do everything in its not inconsiderable power to stop a man from living as he ought. They are correct that women are universally mercenary, and so are a liability in this effort to keep civilization going. They'd shake their fists at me and ask how I could advise a young man to take on such a stupid task or maybe they'd retire to a hobby room somewhere and shrug at my efforts.\n\nAll I can say is that my children make it worth it. The hours at work, managing my wife, not getting to play around or lark about. Blood is the greatest of all treasures and no matter what the enemy might send against me, they will find me unwilling to give it up. Blade in hand and a song in my heart, I'm out there every day holding the line. One day the empire is going to fall over and my descendants are going to be there, they'll be free in a world beyond my limited imagination. I'm happy for them, from my grave I'll wish them the best.\n\n#MGTOW #redpill",
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"content": "People like memes I've heard.<br /><br />Let this statement stand in all its axiomatic glory.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Freedom\" title=\"#Freedom\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Freedom</a>",
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"content": "People like memes I've heard.\n\nLet this statement stand in all its axiomatic glory.\n\n#Freedom",
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"content": "We have to live authentic lives.<br /><br />I think that, increasingly, people have a sense of being stifled, constrained, limited. The societal malaise that afflicts us can be sensed everywhere. It is in the mediocrity of everything, the fear of genuine expression, the degeneration of the culture.<br /><br />I'm just going to come out and say it. The authoritarian left has infected our countries to such a degree that life itself is becoming impossible. Without rights to freedom of expression, association or defence, we are doomed to a culture held to ransom by those whose only check or balance lay in their fear of exposure, exclusion, or justice.<br /><br />At work, on the street, in every interaction, we are dictated to by leftists who seek to define the terms of acceptable conduct. They are not afraid to use force to extract compliance. Every organ of the state is bent primarily to enforcing leftist thought control. This is at the expense of literally every other function of a healthy society.<br /><br />The dysfunction of every public institution is apparent to the masses. The political class complains of an ever diminishing trust in institutions. No one believes that the government can tie their own shoes, never-mind run the country. No one believes a thing they see in the media which responds by intensifying its targeting of the subconscious in order to continue it's assault on the people.<br /><br />What is required to fix this is a violent, aggressive, offensive, attack. <br /><br />If conservatives want to keep living, to say nothing of living in a society with anything worth preserving, we need a McCarthyism on steroids. We must run through every civic institution with fire and sword, ruthlessly purging the communists wherever they are nesting and peddling their filthy deceptions. We must seize the levers of state and refocus the full glare of our power on a treasonous corporate establishment that has thrown in their lot with the globalist communists - against the interests of the nation.<br /><br />I want to see lines of communists digging ditches that they know they will be buried in. I want their lives priced up in the rounds that will be peeled off and the lye that we will sprinkle over them.<br /><br />Then I want to live in the world without them. I want to seek truth, revel in beauty, aspire and rise. I want mankind to find it's purpose and reach for a future beyond imagining. God I want that.",
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"content": "We have to live authentic lives.\n\nI think that, increasingly, people have a sense of being stifled, constrained, limited. The societal malaise that afflicts us can be sensed everywhere. It is in the mediocrity of everything, the fear of genuine expression, the degeneration of the culture.\n\nI'm just going to come out and say it. The authoritarian left has infected our countries to such a degree that life itself is becoming impossible. Without rights to freedom of expression, association or defence, we are doomed to a culture held to ransom by those whose only check or balance lay in their fear of exposure, exclusion, or justice.\n\nAt work, on the street, in every interaction, we are dictated to by leftists who seek to define the terms of acceptable conduct. They are not afraid to use force to extract compliance. Every organ of the state is bent primarily to enforcing leftist thought control. This is at the expense of literally every other function of a healthy society.\n\nThe dysfunction of every public institution is apparent to the masses. The political class complains of an ever diminishing trust in institutions. No one believes that the government can tie their own shoes, never-mind run the country. No one believes a thing they see in the media which responds by intensifying its targeting of the subconscious in order to continue it's assault on the people.\n\nWhat is required to fix this is a violent, aggressive, offensive, attack. \n\nIf conservatives want to keep living, to say nothing of living in a society with anything worth preserving, we need a McCarthyism on steroids. We must run through every civic institution with fire and sword, ruthlessly purging the communists wherever they are nesting and peddling their filthy deceptions. We must seize the levers of state and refocus the full glare of our power on a treasonous corporate establishment that has thrown in their lot with the globalist communists - against the interests of the nation.\n\nI want to see lines of communists digging ditches that they know they will be buried in. I want their lives priced up in the rounds that will be peeled off and the lye that we will sprinkle over them.\n\nThen I want to live in the world without them. I want to seek truth, revel in beauty, aspire and rise. I want mankind to find it's purpose and reach for a future beyond imagining. God I want that.",
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"content": "Life is a high energy system, only by organizing against the natural tendency toward entropy is it possible to live. The chaos of the relatively inert portions of the universe produces a somewhat predictable amount of useful matter and energy which may be put to the purposes of life, of meaningful organisation.<br /><br />I recently had cause to be watching this...<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bj6SqgT4SQ\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bj6SqgT4SQ</a><br /><br />There are some universal truths stemming from the basic nature of life. One cannot organize everything, it isn't efficient or necessary to do so. There must be a place of organisation, of life, and a place beyond that, of the outer world. Self and not self. The physical manifestation of this principle is the divide, the border, the point of delineation between self and not self.<br /><br />Living creatures make use of this border, this membrane, to regulate the flow of materials in and out of the cell, the basic building block of life. Failure to maintain this border and exert control over the traffic in either direction results, inevitably, in a swift death.<br /><br />Even within the cell there are areas divided from the others, sometimes membrane bound, sometimes hanging together by virtue of their chemistry. In any case a slurry wouldn't suffice if we intended to call it living, concentrations are necessary for efficient production or expulsion.<br /><br />This and many other principles never cease to be true, no matter the size or complexity of the organism.<br /><br />Consider this through the lens of your body and mind, your spirit, your family, your community, your nation, and your world. In and out, we have our needs and some of this has to go.<br /><br />I was a fan of Plato's idea that the purpose and goodness of a thing was tied to its form and use. Some things can and should be put to more than one use but in many cases the simple approach is best. Perhaps it's a good time for an evaluation of the goodness and usefulness of things. <br /><br />Are the forms of our modes of living, choosing, building, believing, socializing and so on... good? Do they serve our purposes? Are they conducive to life?",
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"content": "Life is a high energy system, only by organizing against the natural tendency toward entropy is it possible to live. The chaos of the relatively inert portions of the universe produces a somewhat predictable amount of useful matter and energy which may be put to the purposes of life, of meaningful organisation.\n\nI recently had cause to be watching this...\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bj6SqgT4SQ\n\nThere are some universal truths stemming from the basic nature of life. One cannot organize everything, it isn't efficient or necessary to do so. There must be a place of organisation, of life, and a place beyond that, of the outer world. Self and not self. The physical manifestation of this principle is the divide, the border, the point of delineation between self and not self.\n\nLiving creatures make use of this border, this membrane, to regulate the flow of materials in and out of the cell, the basic building block of life. Failure to maintain this border and exert control over the traffic in either direction results, inevitably, in a swift death.\n\nEven within the cell there are areas divided from the others, sometimes membrane bound, sometimes hanging together by virtue of their chemistry. In any case a slurry wouldn't suffice if we intended to call it living, concentrations are necessary for efficient production or expulsion.\n\nThis and many other principles never cease to be true, no matter the size or complexity of the organism.\n\nConsider this through the lens of your body and mind, your spirit, your family, your community, your nation, and your world. In and out, we have our needs and some of this has to go.\n\nI was a fan of Plato's idea that the purpose and goodness of a thing was tied to its form and use. Some things can and should be put to more than one use but in many cases the simple approach is best. Perhaps it's a good time for an evaluation of the goodness and usefulness of things. \n\nAre the forms of our modes of living, choosing, building, believing, socializing and so on... good? Do they serve our purposes? Are they conducive to life?",
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"content": "I noted that He Jian Kui has basically fallen out of the news altogether at this point. For those who don't know, he worked on a project - a pair of twins born in Hong Kong and who underwent gene editing by way of CRISPR. The children were edited with a sequence designed to confer immunity to HIV.<br /><br />A huge backlash was directed against He Jian Kui and the team of co authors listed in the snippets of an abstract covering this case. That backlash serves as an excellent example of what I'm talking about when I refer to the universal establishment consensus against any kind of revolutionary work on man.<br /><br />A number of reasonable criticisms of Kui's team have been floated, among them that, as a method of preventing vertical transmission of HIV, this work was redundant given sperm washing techniques. There is also no way of testing all of the cells of an embryo to determine what gene edits (desirable and accidental) have actually taken hold. Any child born in such a way will almost certainly exhibit mosaicism and as such any traits one was attempting to engineer for will have an indeterminate expression. There may also be unwanted mutations present that could harm the child.<br /><br />Yes it's a sorry business, as far as we know there hasn't even been a follow up study to determine if either of the twins is fully immune to the HIV. What bothers me most though is that at time of writing the full text of the manuscript Kui's team produced is unpublished and likely to remain so. He had initially intended to publish online given that all major scientific journals refused the work on ethical grounds, but was persuaded by the scientific community not to do so after enduring a great deal of wailing at conference. The work has now been criminalized and presumably that is the last we shall hear of it.<br /><br />Kui had anticipated some of the problems he would have and made a lot of weak excuses for the dodgy circumstances surrounding his ethical approval process. What he didn't attempt to defend was the one thing he was so obviously trying to do – which was to provide proof of concept for the beneficial genetic engineering of human beings.<br /><br />At present the ethical debate revolves around justifying procedures as medical interventions. It is taken as a given that anything other than corrective edits are inherently unethical and so an entire branch of science has been brought to a standstill. Possibly the most important branch there could ever be.<br /><br />Like so many things, that assumption on the part of the ethicists (what a profession) is horseshit. Future generations will judge them harshly for keeping us in the pre revolutionary dark age. I want to talk to a genius edited for intelligence. I want to see an athlete engineered to have the physique of a god. I want to see the news reels celebrating the death of most all infectious disease from a lack of suitable hosts. I'm not going to see any of these things until the ethicists are told to fuck off and that the human race has decided to move forward without them. <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=science\" title=\"#science\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#science</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=technology\" title=\"#technology\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#technology</a>",
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"content": "I noted that He Jian Kui has basically fallen out of the news altogether at this point. For those who don't know, he worked on a project - a pair of twins born in Hong Kong and who underwent gene editing by way of CRISPR. The children were edited with a sequence designed to confer immunity to HIV.\n\nA huge backlash was directed against He Jian Kui and the team of co authors listed in the snippets of an abstract covering this case. That backlash serves as an excellent example of what I'm talking about when I refer to the universal establishment consensus against any kind of revolutionary work on man.\n\nA number of reasonable criticisms of Kui's team have been floated, among them that, as a method of preventing vertical transmission of HIV, this work was redundant given sperm washing techniques. There is also no way of testing all of the cells of an embryo to determine what gene edits (desirable and accidental) have actually taken hold. Any child born in such a way will almost certainly exhibit mosaicism and as such any traits one was attempting to engineer for will have an indeterminate expression. There may also be unwanted mutations present that could harm the child.\n\nYes it's a sorry business, as far as we know there hasn't even been a follow up study to determine if either of the twins is fully immune to the HIV. What bothers me most though is that at time of writing the full text of the manuscript Kui's team produced is unpublished and likely to remain so. He had initially intended to publish online given that all major scientific journals refused the work on ethical grounds, but was persuaded by the scientific community not to do so after enduring a great deal of wailing at conference. The work has now been criminalized and presumably that is the last we shall hear of it.\n\nKui had anticipated some of the problems he would have and made a lot of weak excuses for the dodgy circumstances surrounding his ethical approval process. What he didn't attempt to defend was the one thing he was so obviously trying to do – which was to provide proof of concept for the beneficial genetic engineering of human beings.\n\nAt present the ethical debate revolves around justifying procedures as medical interventions. It is taken as a given that anything other than corrective edits are inherently unethical and so an entire branch of science has been brought to a standstill. Possibly the most important branch there could ever be.\n\nLike so many things, that assumption on the part of the ethicists (what a profession) is horseshit. Future generations will judge them harshly for keeping us in the pre revolutionary dark age. I want to talk to a genius edited for intelligence. I want to see an athlete engineered to have the physique of a god. I want to see the news reels celebrating the death of most all infectious disease from a lack of suitable hosts. I'm not going to see any of these things until the ethicists are told to fuck off and that the human race has decided to move forward without them. #science #technology",
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"content": "People have written extensively on the subject of the 1999 film, The Matrix.<br /><br />Why ought that to be the case? You don't see long screeds being written about The Terminator or Fast & Furious part 6. You just might see someone moved to write about a movie like Fight Club or Joker. The reason is that, as will occasionally happen in the arts, something real slips past those tasked with ensuring that we never genuinely think about or feel anything. Maybe they need to make a profit or the significance or power of what they see is lost on them.<br /><br />You'll often see a scrabble among critics to pan anything that moves against our society's current program. That's like a second layer of defense in the instance that there is an accidental release. It's why critics and audiences seem to disagree so wildly. I saw this most recently with the Joker. When it came out you'd struggle to find a publication that didn't complain that it was senseless, violent, and had no legitimate message for the viewer. I have to wonder when legitimacy became a concern for critics. I've never heard them analyse a hero movie through such a lens. The system can sense when the program is not functioning well and will move to seamlessly align once again with perception in an effort to retain some measure of credibility and so control. Given a couple of weeks, the coverage of the Joker shifted - all at once it was a more subtle, mixed response. The consensus was now being floated that this was an example of great acting but that the general public needed to be led to a 'correct' interpretation of what they had seen.<br /><br />Of course the public doesn't need to be told when something of value has been put in front of them. Even the most restrained souls have some sense of having witnessed something poignant. It's still worrying that most of what emerges from our culture demonstrating that it hasn't succumbed to total sterility, are themselves skilful critiques of what our culture has become.<br /><br />I've heard that there are plans to release a sequel to the matrix in the near future. It hadn't escaped my notice that the original had drawn criticism for being \"overly complex\" or that since the original someone had convinced the Wachowskis to \"transition\", rejecting so basic a reality as their own sex. I'm therefor highly suspicious that we're going to see a film, much more in tune with the agent Smiths of our own world this time around.<br /><br />The lenses through which the matrix films have been analysed are many, as metaphor for spiritual awakening, as a retelling of the Christian mythos, as Nietzschean critique of the men of our time, as a clever fusion of eastern and western philosophy, as criticism of capitalism or of media. I can't help but feel that these interpretations are a little like the story of the blind men and the elephant, each feeling a separate part of the whole. All I will say is that the Matrix is a very important work and that it bears continued consideration. It may even be that the artists weren't fully conscious of all that they've tapped into in creating it though I think much of what was achieved was deliberate.<br /><br />As people continue to awaken to the world as it is and all the implications of that, an awareness of what constitutes art and of the frequent attempts to debase it, will be useful tools. I don't believe the establishment is just going to relent and allow a shift in general consciousness. They will forever try to pervert and channel society toward dark ends. Wherever there is freedom, there is hope, and for now we remain free in our minds if we make the choice to live mindfully. ",
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"content": "People have written extensively on the subject of the 1999 film, The Matrix.\n\nWhy ought that to be the case? You don't see long screeds being written about The Terminator or Fast & Furious part 6. You just might see someone moved to write about a movie like Fight Club or Joker. The reason is that, as will occasionally happen in the arts, something real slips past those tasked with ensuring that we never genuinely think about or feel anything. Maybe they need to make a profit or the significance or power of what they see is lost on them.\n\nYou'll often see a scrabble among critics to pan anything that moves against our society's current program. That's like a second layer of defense in the instance that there is an accidental release. It's why critics and audiences seem to disagree so wildly. I saw this most recently with the Joker. When it came out you'd struggle to find a publication that didn't complain that it was senseless, violent, and had no legitimate message for the viewer. I have to wonder when legitimacy became a concern for critics. I've never heard them analyse a hero movie through such a lens. The system can sense when the program is not functioning well and will move to seamlessly align once again with perception in an effort to retain some measure of credibility and so control. Given a couple of weeks, the coverage of the Joker shifted - all at once it was a more subtle, mixed response. The consensus was now being floated that this was an example of great acting but that the general public needed to be led to a 'correct' interpretation of what they had seen.\n\nOf course the public doesn't need to be told when something of value has been put in front of them. Even the most restrained souls have some sense of having witnessed something poignant. It's still worrying that most of what emerges from our culture demonstrating that it hasn't succumbed to total sterility, are themselves skilful critiques of what our culture has become.\n\nI've heard that there are plans to release a sequel to the matrix in the near future. It hadn't escaped my notice that the original had drawn criticism for being \"overly complex\" or that since the original someone had convinced the Wachowskis to \"transition\", rejecting so basic a reality as their own sex. I'm therefor highly suspicious that we're going to see a film, much more in tune with the agent Smiths of our own world this time around.\n\nThe lenses through which the matrix films have been analysed are many, as metaphor for spiritual awakening, as a retelling of the Christian mythos, as Nietzschean critique of the men of our time, as a clever fusion of eastern and western philosophy, as criticism of capitalism or of media. I can't help but feel that these interpretations are a little like the story of the blind men and the elephant, each feeling a separate part of the whole. All I will say is that the Matrix is a very important work and that it bears continued consideration. It may even be that the artists weren't fully conscious of all that they've tapped into in creating it though I think much of what was achieved was deliberate.\n\nAs people continue to awaken to the world as it is and all the implications of that, an awareness of what constitutes art and of the frequent attempts to debase it, will be useful tools. I don't believe the establishment is just going to relent and allow a shift in general consciousness. They will forever try to pervert and channel society toward dark ends. Wherever there is freedom, there is hope, and for now we remain free in our minds if we make the choice to live mindfully. ",
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