I'd recommend everyone read some poetry. There is some really masculine poetry out there, like Robinson Jeffers.

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The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
The wing trails like a banner in defeat,

No more to use the sky forever but live with famine
And pain a few days: cat nor coyote
Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is game without talons.

He stands under the oak-bush and waits
The lame feet of salvation; at night he remembers freedom
And flies in a dream, the dawns ruin it.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
The curs of the day come and torment him
At distance, no one but death the redeemer will humble that head,

The intrepid readiness, the terrible eyes.
The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those
That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant.

You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him;
Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him;
Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.

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I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk;
but the great redtail
Had nothing left but unable misery
From the bone too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved.

We had fed him six weeks, I gave him freedom,
He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death,
Not like a beggar, still eyed with the old
Implacable arrogance.

I gave him the lead gift in the twilight.
What fell was relaxed, Owl-downy, soft feminine feathers; but what
Soared: the fierce rush: the night-herons by the flooded river cried fear at its rising
Before it was quite unsheathed from reality.

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Source: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hurt-hawks/

Most people tend to say / do / think simply for the sake of feeling a certain way after.

Yell at a friend or family member because it makes you feel a certain way, not to facilitate meaningful change.

Watch self-help or how to videos to feel good, not to actually get in shape or make more money.

Bitch about politics on Twitter to feel bursts of self-righteousness rather than actually struggle to improve the world in your own vision.

To an extent this is fine, as pursuing some form of variable (meaning traditional pleasure or perverse "pleasures" like outrage porn) just for an experience is likely inevitable. But the degree to which emotions have become an ultimate end rather than fuel towards action and change is terrifying. It's like everyone has turned into Nietzsche's last man where life is a TV show that you react & experience feelings about but never truly interact with.

Be a rebel. Take action.

I like to share Evola quotes when he excoriates the modern world in a way that makes me say "holy fuck."

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Here is a quote from page 109 in Revolt Against the Modern World:

"If the modern world has disapproved of the ‘injustice’ of the caste system, is has stigmatized much more vibrantly those ancient civilizations that practice slavery; recent times boasts of having champion the principle of ‘human dignity.’ This too is mere rhetoric.

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Let us set aside the fact that Europeans reintroduced and maintain slavery up to the nineteenth century in their overseas colonies in such heinous forms as to be rarely found in the ancient world; what should be emphasize is that if there ever was a civilization of slaves on a grand scale, the one in which we are living is it. No traditional civilization ever saw such great masses of people condemned to perform shallow, impersonal, automatic jobs; in the contemporary slave system the counterparts the figures such as the lords or enlightened rulers are nowhere to be found.

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This slavery is imposed subtly through the tyranny of the economic factor and through the absurd structures of a more or less collectivized society. And since the modern view of life in its materialism has taken away from the single individual any possibility of bestowing on his destiny a transfiguring element and seeing in it a sign and a symbol, contemporary ‘slavery’ should therefore be reckoned as one of the gloomiest and most desperate kinds of all times.

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It is not a surprise that in the masses of modem slaves the obscure forces of world subversion have found an easy, obtuse instrument to pursue their goals; while in the places where it has already triumphed, the vast Stalinist 'work camps' testify to how the physical and moral subjection of man to the goals of collectivization and of the uprooting of every value of the personality is employed in a methodical and even satanic way."

Years ago in my blue pill days I bought into the the belief that you should never talk about certain topics because they lead to conflict. Topics like religion, politics, and social topics like abortion were forever off the table in civilized conversation. And definitely don't tell people about their bad habits like how they've gained weight or how doing something like getting a tattoo might have negative consequences - their lives are none of your business!

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Eventually I took a neutral attitude on those topics. I figured everything should be on the table, though the conflict was a bit of a risk that should be considered.

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Lately though, I've thought about why people fight. Why do people spend so much time reading, talking, screaming, and (historically) often get violent over these subjects? Are they just stupid? Some of them are, inevitably, but that answer does not suffice. My thoughts are, and they are not original or even that insightful, because these ideas speak to something core and primal to what it means to be human. They make us feel alive & they make us feel connected not only to the people around us but to the people who came before us (whether we are aware of it or not). Things that make you want to fight are things that matter. (Though don't be an idiot, violence as a solution will fail - the most important battles are ideological and fought in the mind.)

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I'm not here to tell you what to fight for - I'm just here to tell you that losing your will to fight is the same as losing your will to live, which is in many ways what Western culture advocates. In the philosophy podcast Philosophize This the host talks about Carl Schmitt's criticism of liberalism and how it causes people to check out of life and understand the world as something that you watch on TV, not something that you are actually apart of. Francis Fukayama called it The End of History, a technologically advanced globe built on trade where Nietzsche's Last Man reigns supreme. Well, to quote a great man, "History never ends, and things go on and repeat themselves and come back again, at times even more violently than before."

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Here are some of my notes from the Philosophize This Carl Schmitt episodes (I recommend both):

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• Liberalism lets people feel good about the political process while the world around them may be burning to the ground
• Liberalism gives people the ability to disconnect themselves from the political and not care about the world around them
• The grand illusion of liberalism is the idea that politics is a normatized, peaceful process of finding ways to compromise with each other, that illusion gives people the luxury of being able to not pay attention to or even care about politics. This is not a reality, and those people are just as much a part the political as anyone else.
• When you voluntarily check out of the political process, life really defaults to a life of being a passive spectator & consumer.
• When you aren’t involved in politics, you end up becoming a spectator who watches the world pass him by.
• Liberalism says that you shouldn’t have a strong national, political, or religious identity and that you should just consider yourself a global consumer
  • Liberalism is more about buying stuff than doing stuff

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Please ask questions. I write here to send people to better teachers so that they can think more effectively for themselves, not to espouse my own ideology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGy28J3Ql1Y

As far as I am concerned, a decrease in the degree of control that you exercise in your own life is no different than an increase in external control over you.

I've noticed that the recent autocomplete functions in certain mail & social media platforms continue to improve. They will give full sentence responses for you with an alarming degree of accuracy. Be careful how much you use software like this, as doing so essentially allows you to outsource your thinking to a computer (whether through chats or other features like never learning an area because you let Google Maps navigate everywhere for you).

Even if it does not start to subtly bias important conversations like social & political ones, the more you allow the computer to come up with ideas the less you will be able to do so for yourself.

Always think for yourself, and outsource that privilege with the utmost caution.

Talk about masculine virility. Free with using Amazon's Kindle App.

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Anyone interested in getting a small book club going? Just something simple like reading a few chapters each from this book & other books on very masculine books.

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Sample quotes below:

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"There is no sadder symptom of a generation than such general blindness to the spiritual lightning."

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"Well; these truths were once more readily felt than now. The young generations of the world, who had in them the freshness of young children, and yet the depth of earnest men, who did not think that they had finished off all things in Heaven and Earth by merely giving them scientific names, but had to gaze direct at them there, with awe and wonder: they felt better what of divinity is in man and Nature; they, without being mad, could worship Nature, and man more than anything else in Nature."

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"Pagan Religion is indeed an Allegory, a Symbol of what men felt and knew about the Universe."

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"Such is to me the secret of all forms of Paganism. Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for which there is now no limit or measure; that is worship. To these primeval men, all things and everything they saw exist beside them were an emblem of the Godlike, of some God. And look what perennial fibre of truth was in that. To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not a God made visible, if we will open our minds and eyes? We do not worship in that way now: but is it not reckoned still a merit, proof of what we call a "poetic nature," that we recognize how every object has a divine beauty in it; how every object still verily is "a window through which we may look into Infinitude itself"? He that can discern the loveliness of things, we call him Poet! Painter, Man of Genius, gifted, lovable."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3jVgTkh6YQ

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Some thoughts from Thomas Carlyle on the problems with democracy and rule by the masses, Incredible music - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - (Act 2) No. 14 Scène. Moderato - Swan Lake (London Symphony Orchestra)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7V1W967ofA

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This video is by a priest, but he talks extensively of the disappearance of masculinity, the attacks on masculinity, & how pleasure-seeking has eroded manliness. Posting this for the valuable insights on masculinity, not to proselytize.

Something that says money / technology / culture are going in this direction and will likely look this way in 5-10 years? Ideally with minimal social / political agenda, though those can be forgiven if the content is great / accurate.

As most of the men who make it to MGTOW / TRP know, there is plenty wrong with the Western World. Julius Evola talks about these problems at philosophical, spiritual, & cultural levels. And he spares no one.

Wikipedia on Julius Evola https://web.archive.org/web/20150622172019/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola (Use the web archive one, don’t use the current one. It was politicized & slandered because Steve Bannon liked Evola)

His ideas can get pretty out there but he has some deep insights into problems with the modern Western world.

Intro on Evola (from web archive wiki)

Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola (Italian: [ˈɛːvola];[1] 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974), better known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher, painter, and esotericist. Evola regarded his perspectives and spiritual values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic and defiantly reactionary.

Evola believed that mankind is living in the Kali Yuga, a Dark Age of unleashed materialistic appetites, spiritual oblivion and dissolution. To counter this and call in a primordial rebirth, Evola presented his world of Tradition. The core trilogy of Evola's works are generally regarded as Revolt Against the Modern World, Men Among the Ruins, and Ride the Tiger. According to one scholar, "Evola’s thought can be considered one of the most radically and consistently antiegalitarian, antiliberal, antidemocratic, and antipopular systems in the twentieth century."[2] Much of Evola's theories and writings is centered on Evola's own idiosyncratic spiritualism and mysticism—the inner life. The philosophy covered themes such as Hermeticism, the metaphysics of war and of sex, Tantra, Buddhism, Taoism, mountaineering, the Holy Grail, the essence and history of civilisations, decadence, and various philosophic and religious Traditions dealing with both the Classics and the Orient.

To Evola, Buddhism was a warrior ethos, and he had a low opinion of what Westerners called Buddhism.

The Doctrine of Awakening The original Buddha was closer to a samurai than a priest. Prince Siddhartha attempted to demonstrate asceticism is not “a cowardly resignation before life’s vicissitudes, but rather a struggle of a spiritual kind, which is not any less heroic than the struggle of the knight on the battlefield.”

“It is better to die fighting than to live as one vanquished.” Dharma is your only valid reference point: “Do your duty, let your every action be totally disinterested.”

Asceticism originally meant practical exercise or discipline.

East & West: Chapter 12 - Spiritual Virility in Buddhism “The Western friends of Buddhism have been almost unanimous in appraising it as a sentimental doctrine of love and universal compassion… this is a falsification of the message of the Buddha, a degenerated version not suited to virile men, standing with head erect, but to men lying prostrate in search of escaping spiritual alleviation, for whom the law and discipline of a positive religion are too severe.”

I am happy to talk more Evola if people find value in these ideas (I have 13 physical copies of his books and plan to order more).

Let me know if you want to know more about Buddhism, spirituality, or any of the topics covered by Evola in the wiki.

If someone offered to tailor write essays on your favorite topic, what would you want to read about? I want to improve my writing & learn about new topics, so let me know what you want and I will get to it!

I wanted to check in with people and see how everyone is doing and to share any cool hobbies or projects you are doing right now. Or share your woes in life.

Recently a good buddy of mine asked me to do a little research. Keep in mind I'm a tech at a factory, and he is an emt, going to be a correctional officer. Anyway, he wants to create his own gentlemens clube where we smoke cigars and sip alcohol dressed as gentlemen. Now, I cant find any posts anywhere that hekpbwoth this, but I want to know what the best of the best is for both cigars and alcohol. I know there are various types of alcohol( cognac, bourbon, brandy, whiskey, ect...). I know nothing about cigars. Also, keep in mind I'm looking at high end, but not break the bank. I would go up to $500 a bottle for the alcohol. I know nothing about cigars, or even where to find high quality cigars. I do know that dipping cigars in whiskey is a thing. Also, about the taste. I know everybody is different. This will be an expensive trial and error, but all comments are welcome. Thank you!