I did a seminar recently at the U of MN Duluth. It was my "Why Gen Y is Completely, Totally and Hopelessly Screwed" seminar. And while admittedly the seminar is not the politest or most adroit speech, when it came to the "What were you told you SHOULD like in the opposite sex" portion of the lecture, an interesting thing happened. I asked the young men in the audience what they found attractive in a woman. Not what they were told to like, but what they in fact did like.
Not one of them answered.
OH, they KNEW the answers, their sheepish faces and smirks gave that away, but they couldn't answer for they feared what the repercussions would be.
Observing this phenomeon right in front of me, I took the opportunity to point out something so sad, but so very true. I said
"My god, look at how brainwashed they have you guys. You can't even speak the truth."
I then bellowed out the truth,
"Ladies, we like big boobs, long legs, and tight asses!"
If I read the room right it was almost as if they were saying, "Wow! He said it!"
Now, instigation aside, the reason I bring this up is because it highlights a very important aspect of this whole battle against feminism. And that is just how successful the left and feminists have been at outlawing independent thought and replacing it with their own politically approved thought. So intimidated are men and women they cannot speak bluntly and truthfully about the opposite sex.
Of course I view the truth as an absolute. Something that cannot be ignored. Something that is arguably the epitome of morality to adhere to. But if I were to say,
"The law of gravity states that mass will attract other mass"
there is no repercussions for speaking this truth.
But if I point out a truth that runs contrary to the approved speech code or the goals of leftism and feminism, no matter how true:
"Men like big boobs, long legs, long hair and tight asses!"
then all manner of social, political and romantic hell will be unleashed.
Of course it should never have gotten to this point. The point you cannot candidly and bluntly speak truths. But it did and the way we got here was via Overton's Window, the political theory where you slowly move the political debate further and further in one direction, but so slowly nobody notices it. 40 years ago you could scoff at the idea of lowering standards for women in protective services, now that's sexist. 40 years ago you could point out women are poorer at math (duly noted that the bell distribution curve is flatter) and logic. You are once again a sexist. And 40 years ago you could make jokes about women drivers. Now, even though they get in more accidents per miles driven, you are once again, a sexist.
However, while the original 70's feminists may have known full well what they were doing, and today may feign umbrage dare you speak a truth about the sexes, the successive generations of feminists and young women have not had that vantage point. Quite the opposite, actually. They've been brought up in a completely female-centric and myopic environment, and have grown accustomed to having society bend over backwards to avoid speaking the uncomfortable truths about the sexes. So much so that when a truth like
"Men like big boobs, long legs, long hair, and tight asses"
is uttered they are not just insulted, but enraged.
"HOW DARE somebody say that!?"
"Yeah, but it's true!"
"STILL!!!! HOW DARE HE SAY THAT!"
It's this violent (or at least strong) reaction in combination with social, political, romantic AND CAREER costs/threats that is what keeps most men (and women) from speaking truthfully about feminism. But there is a problem with this strategy. Overton's Window can only be moved so far in one direction before it is so divergent from reality and truth that society starts to crack and there are real and severe social, economic and financial costs. And we are at that threshold now. And not only are we bearing the costs (unemployment, government debt, dysfunctional children, etc.) those costs outweigh the costs for pointing out the emperor has no clothes, especially for young men.
Understand if you take the average young man today and look at his prospects in terms of
Social
Political
Romantic
and Career (otherwise "Economic")
in this society, what precisely does he have?
Socially speaking he already has friends and this one, though important, aspect of his life is inoculated against the forces of leftism and feminism.
Politically, nothing. All political emphasis is on women and women's problems. Government spending disproportiontely goes to women and women are still considered a victim class.
Romantically, the average western male has a lousy selection in women as women were brought up to be men, not women. And any woman who dares to say, "Yes, I'd like to have children and a family some day, and I like men and I want to be beautiful" is immediately shamed by feminists and the left.
Economically, your average young man has no hope and no chance at a successful financial life. THe economy is stagnant, unemployment is disproportionately high for young males and the economy, forever more being progressively dictated by the public sector, is becoming hostile to traditional male-employing industries.
In short, your average young man has nothing, meaning society is no longer able to provide for and support one half of the society. And with nothing left to lose, there are no costs, for speaking the truth. With no hope, no future, and no money, all the shaming, threats, and NARCing of feminism rings hallow as they no longer have any teeth. There is nothing you can take from these men.
It is here that the movement back to reality will not be as slow and meditated as the feminists' original nudging of Overton's Window. It will be lightning speed compared to the past 4 decades. Men (and women) will shed the annoying, if not, impossible-to-adhere-to political correctness about the sexes and will realize life is too short to keep up the charade. Men will realize their sanity and love lives are more important than keep eggshell-fragile feminists' feelings in tact. Men, who never had anything to begin with, will wonder why their fathers and grandfathers adhere to "obsolete feminist morals" and instead will see no cost or consequence in being men, and will instead lay down the law in their relationships and be the man. Women too will be sick of being shamed about "wanting to have a husband and children" and will find nothing wrong with wanting a family, let alone wearing dresses and wanting to be beautiful.
The problem for feminism will be the abruptness of it all. Already you can see this in feminist responses to Manosphere posts, not to mention the shock and awe that their Patron Saint Adria Richards was actually fired. They cannot believe (since they are inured in the brainwashing that they are the victim and the "patriarchy" is oppressing them) men, let alone ANY man would say such things or do such things. Didn't they get the memo? Didn't they get the brainwashing in school? We were told that was very very BAD and MEAN to say those things in the 3rd grade no matter how truthful it may be. The shock on their internet-metaphorical faces is priceless.
The problem for them is that reality is reality. Truth is truth. And when there's no cost or consequence for speaking the truth, they're going to find out just how flawed and erroneous their much-coveted religion of feminism really is. And no amount of angry, screeching or accusations of misogyny is going to stop it.
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Sunday, April 07, 2013
The Origins of the SWPL People
"They used to say establishment, but as the ascendant taste maker group,
they are the establishment so they say 'privilege'. By not being an
organic setting, they are in effect buying into a subculture that is
already packaged and marketed to them. They may think they are creative
and unique, but they are just following the built in norms for their distinct group."
I would also remind people about how I said SWPL's have economic applications, specifically, they and their behaviors are VERY useful in predicting bubbles, like sayyyyyy....the 401k????
Oh, and you might be asking,
"Hey Captain! Using SWPL's to predict economic bubbles is pretty witty and clever. What other witty and clever observations have you had and where can I read about such great and insightful epiphanies!?"
Well happy reader, you just have to buy your copy of "Top Shelf!"
Available in BOTH paperback and kindle.
I would also remind people about how I said SWPL's have economic applications, specifically, they and their behaviors are VERY useful in predicting bubbles, like sayyyyyy....the 401k????
Oh, and you might be asking,
"Hey Captain! Using SWPL's to predict economic bubbles is pretty witty and clever. What other witty and clever observations have you had and where can I read about such great and insightful epiphanies!?"
Well happy reader, you just have to buy your copy of "Top Shelf!"
Available in BOTH paperback and kindle.
Three Reasons Theater Majors Are Important!
Please, oh Merciful Patron Saint's Name of Frick,
Invoke the power of my Cappy Cap disciples
So that they may log into their Facebook accounts
And rip this idiot and very much well-deserved new one
So that young innocent 17 year old children
Do not falleth for the greatest lie told to their generation
That if they "follow their heart the money will follow."
And that someday
All taxpayers and hard working adults
Who work real jobs and not government or non-profit subsidized fake ones
May wake up one day,
Audit their tax bill
And vote in politicians who forever cut off taxpayer funding
For something that is nothing more than a hobby for children who never want to grow up or contribute to society
Amen
Invoke the power of my Cappy Cap disciples
So that they may log into their Facebook accounts
And rip this idiot and very much well-deserved new one
So that young innocent 17 year old children
Do not falleth for the greatest lie told to their generation
That if they "follow their heart the money will follow."
And that someday
All taxpayers and hard working adults
Who work real jobs and not government or non-profit subsidized fake ones
May wake up one day,
Audit their tax bill
And vote in politicians who forever cut off taxpayer funding
For something that is nothing more than a hobby for children who never want to grow up or contribute to society
Amen
Saturday, April 06, 2013
When We Ran Out of Good Men/Bad Boys
Tell me this isn't the chart of the year:
If your mind is already interpreting it and neurons are firing with stimulation, then just read the article.
And yes I use my real name. And yes, I am a ballroom dancing, tornado chasing, fossil hunting, motorcycle riding, mountain hiking, Rumpleminze drinking economist.
If your mind is already interpreting it and neurons are firing with stimulation, then just read the article.
And yes I use my real name. And yes, I am a ballroom dancing, tornado chasing, fossil hunting, motorcycle riding, mountain hiking, Rumpleminze drinking economist.
Friday, April 05, 2013
Why You Never Tell Others Your Problems
Stick with me on this one because it isn't going to seem "right" at first, but if you focus on the angle I'm approaching this topic at, you'll see the point I'm trying to make.
Everybody has problems. And everybody has friends. And part of having friends or loved ones is to share your problems. You need a sounding board, you need to vent, and doing such things are healthy and expected. However, when you unload and vent, it is usually problems that are not dire, nor insurmountable. You got a cold, you boss is being a jerk, the weather sucks, whatever, they all have an end and a solution, and are thus surmountable.
But then there are problems that are terminal. There is no solution. There is only one outcome. There is no end. And if there is one, the cost is not only great, but nothing can be done to stop it. Things like terminal sickness, bankruptcy, divorce, etc. And it is here you need to be very selfless and think this one through.
Say the economy has gone south and you are imminently approaching bankruptcy. There is nothing you can do about it. It is going to happen. It is outside of your control.
Do you tell your friends about it? Do you complain to your loved ones about it?
The answer is no, and let me explain why.
Just as you are powerless to stop this horrible thing from happening, so to are your friends and loved ones. And in complaining to them or telling them about your unsolvable problem, you put them at unease because they are powerless and helpless to do anything about it. It is human nature to want to help, but if help is just not possible you unconsciously make your friends feel uncomfortable and powerless.
For example, have you ever had a friend whose loved one got cancer, or your friend got cancer him/herself? And upon hearing the news you don't know what to say because, well, what can you say? "I'm sorry?"
That's about all you can do. You are completely helpless and thus have nothing to say.
Worse still, you can exacerbate this situation, with your "terminal" problem. Because of the severity of these terminal problems, you don't just mention it once to your friends and then it goes away. It's a terminal problem, it will be with you until it terminates. And because of it's severity, it is going to be the single largest topic weighing heavily on your mind. You will want to tell somebody about it, in perhaps a subconscious attempt to find a non-existent solution, but all you will do is drive them further away because you make it so uncomfortable.
Now, am I saying, you NEVER tell anybody you got cancer or that you filed for bankruptcy or your spouse left you? No, but I am saying once you make the declaration, there is nothing to gain by revisiting your unsolvable problem with friends and loved ones.
However, if this doesn't make sense, consider something on the flip side or opposite of this. Say you achieved something REALLY great. Something phenomenal. Something nobody else has done. Naturally this great achievement means a lot to you and even defines you. And if it truly is great, you will want to share it with people, not out of bragging, but out of wanting to share something of genuine interest. But here too you face a somewhat similar problem. If your achievement is so great, most people won't even believe you did it, or at least be able to comprehend. For example by the time I was a senior in college I had:
1. Paid for everything working full time going to school full time
2. Was on track to graduate 6 months early.
3. 3.96 GPA
4. 3 Internships under my belt
5. Held various performance records at my job
I thought I was a shoe-in for a job after graduating, but in hindsight, I believe what I achieved was so great, nobody believed it and my resume went in the dump. Even my friends didn't seem impressed in my early 20's and so when meeting new people I would never mention this great achievement. I would just say, "I went to college."
In short the lesson is to consider the position your friends and loved ones are in. They are already your friends, they are already your loved ones, but unless it is within their power to do anything, constantly bringing up major problems you have (no matter how much they are affecting your life) only pushes people further away. Love and appreciate your friends and loved ones, be selfless enough not to hound them with your unsolvable problems.
Everybody has problems. And everybody has friends. And part of having friends or loved ones is to share your problems. You need a sounding board, you need to vent, and doing such things are healthy and expected. However, when you unload and vent, it is usually problems that are not dire, nor insurmountable. You got a cold, you boss is being a jerk, the weather sucks, whatever, they all have an end and a solution, and are thus surmountable.
But then there are problems that are terminal. There is no solution. There is only one outcome. There is no end. And if there is one, the cost is not only great, but nothing can be done to stop it. Things like terminal sickness, bankruptcy, divorce, etc. And it is here you need to be very selfless and think this one through.
Say the economy has gone south and you are imminently approaching bankruptcy. There is nothing you can do about it. It is going to happen. It is outside of your control.
Do you tell your friends about it? Do you complain to your loved ones about it?
The answer is no, and let me explain why.
Just as you are powerless to stop this horrible thing from happening, so to are your friends and loved ones. And in complaining to them or telling them about your unsolvable problem, you put them at unease because they are powerless and helpless to do anything about it. It is human nature to want to help, but if help is just not possible you unconsciously make your friends feel uncomfortable and powerless.
For example, have you ever had a friend whose loved one got cancer, or your friend got cancer him/herself? And upon hearing the news you don't know what to say because, well, what can you say? "I'm sorry?"
That's about all you can do. You are completely helpless and thus have nothing to say.
Worse still, you can exacerbate this situation, with your "terminal" problem. Because of the severity of these terminal problems, you don't just mention it once to your friends and then it goes away. It's a terminal problem, it will be with you until it terminates. And because of it's severity, it is going to be the single largest topic weighing heavily on your mind. You will want to tell somebody about it, in perhaps a subconscious attempt to find a non-existent solution, but all you will do is drive them further away because you make it so uncomfortable.
Now, am I saying, you NEVER tell anybody you got cancer or that you filed for bankruptcy or your spouse left you? No, but I am saying once you make the declaration, there is nothing to gain by revisiting your unsolvable problem with friends and loved ones.
However, if this doesn't make sense, consider something on the flip side or opposite of this. Say you achieved something REALLY great. Something phenomenal. Something nobody else has done. Naturally this great achievement means a lot to you and even defines you. And if it truly is great, you will want to share it with people, not out of bragging, but out of wanting to share something of genuine interest. But here too you face a somewhat similar problem. If your achievement is so great, most people won't even believe you did it, or at least be able to comprehend. For example by the time I was a senior in college I had:
1. Paid for everything working full time going to school full time
2. Was on track to graduate 6 months early.
3. 3.96 GPA
4. 3 Internships under my belt
5. Held various performance records at my job
I thought I was a shoe-in for a job after graduating, but in hindsight, I believe what I achieved was so great, nobody believed it and my resume went in the dump. Even my friends didn't seem impressed in my early 20's and so when meeting new people I would never mention this great achievement. I would just say, "I went to college."
In short the lesson is to consider the position your friends and loved ones are in. They are already your friends, they are already your loved ones, but unless it is within their power to do anything, constantly bringing up major problems you have (no matter how much they are affecting your life) only pushes people further away. Love and appreciate your friends and loved ones, be selfless enough not to hound them with your unsolvable problems.
The Captain on The Kerry Lutz Show!
Here's the interview if you're looking for something to download and listen to while running or doing your weekend driving.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
The Great Barter Mistake of Bloggers
I kick myself for not catching it before, but let me cite three bloggers:
Silvio Canto
Roosh
Kerry Lutz
I've had dealings with all three and our dealings have revolved around our blogs. And for those of you who are bloggers yourselves you know that blogging is an accidental career. You don't set out and declare to the world,
"I'm going to be the best damn blogger the world has ever seen!!!!"
You don't "Major in Blogging" (though no doubt the worthless world of Academia will come up with a "Bachelors of Arts in Blogging" sometime soon).
You also know once you start blogging any hope of having a "normal" or "real" career is shot. You made yourself public. You've stated your positions. You DARED to exercise your 1st Amendment rights to free speech and thus Corporate/Employer America will have nothing to do with you.
And therefore we congregate on teh interwebz, capitalizing on our freedom to do as we please, write books, plug our wares and do whatever we have to do to avoid "crawling back" to corporate America to grant us another 6 months of employment merely to recapitalize our personal balance sheet, only to tell them to f$ck off as we have too much self respect and dignity to tolerate their BS.
But while we congregate we also scheme. And in scheming we make some observations. Observations that help people stay afloat in the blogging world and independent of any employer or master.
And boy, did I come up with a doozy of an observation.
My observation today was one of needlessly paying taxes. Usually you are approached or would like to approach a blogger with significant internet presence to help advertise your wares. They usually say "$200 for a sidebar image" or "$100 for a post dedicated to your product" or "$25 and i'll mention you in the podcast." Payment is usually done by Paypal, check or some other electronically, and thus, taxable means.
But then Silvio made an interesting observation.
"Why don't you just plug my stuff and I plug yours?"
The simplicity is brilliance.
Not only does Silvio NOT have to pay taxes on the advertising I paid him, I don't have to pay taxes on advertising he's done for me.
In other words, the idea of charging a fellow blogger for advertising is stupid. We merely make a transaction recordable and thereby TAXABLE and let Uncle Sam and Step-Mom State in on our business. Instead, bloggers should use their cache as currency and merely agree to help support, prop, advertise and promote other bloggers. i.e.-traffic is currency, and a non-taxable one at that.
So before you think about approaching another blogger and saying, "Hey, how much to advertise on your site?"
Why not approach and say, "Hey, I'll plug yours if you plug mine."
Not only would it save us taxes, it would piss off Barry.
Silvio Canto
Roosh
Kerry Lutz
I've had dealings with all three and our dealings have revolved around our blogs. And for those of you who are bloggers yourselves you know that blogging is an accidental career. You don't set out and declare to the world,
"I'm going to be the best damn blogger the world has ever seen!!!!"
You don't "Major in Blogging" (though no doubt the worthless world of Academia will come up with a "Bachelors of Arts in Blogging" sometime soon).
You also know once you start blogging any hope of having a "normal" or "real" career is shot. You made yourself public. You've stated your positions. You DARED to exercise your 1st Amendment rights to free speech and thus Corporate/Employer America will have nothing to do with you.
And therefore we congregate on teh interwebz, capitalizing on our freedom to do as we please, write books, plug our wares and do whatever we have to do to avoid "crawling back" to corporate America to grant us another 6 months of employment merely to recapitalize our personal balance sheet, only to tell them to f$ck off as we have too much self respect and dignity to tolerate their BS.
But while we congregate we also scheme. And in scheming we make some observations. Observations that help people stay afloat in the blogging world and independent of any employer or master.
And boy, did I come up with a doozy of an observation.
My observation today was one of needlessly paying taxes. Usually you are approached or would like to approach a blogger with significant internet presence to help advertise your wares. They usually say "$200 for a sidebar image" or "$100 for a post dedicated to your product" or "$25 and i'll mention you in the podcast." Payment is usually done by Paypal, check or some other electronically, and thus, taxable means.
But then Silvio made an interesting observation.
"Why don't you just plug my stuff and I plug yours?"
The simplicity is brilliance.
Not only does Silvio NOT have to pay taxes on the advertising I paid him, I don't have to pay taxes on advertising he's done for me.
In other words, the idea of charging a fellow blogger for advertising is stupid. We merely make a transaction recordable and thereby TAXABLE and let Uncle Sam and Step-Mom State in on our business. Instead, bloggers should use their cache as currency and merely agree to help support, prop, advertise and promote other bloggers. i.e.-traffic is currency, and a non-taxable one at that.
So before you think about approaching another blogger and saying, "Hey, how much to advertise on your site?"
Why not approach and say, "Hey, I'll plug yours if you plug mine."
Not only would it save us taxes, it would piss off Barry.
Banker Scum
Heh heh heh. This is why you own PHYSICAL gold or silver.
But remember, Schiff, me, Beck and all those other non-real economists are fringe and "radical." We're just paranoid.
Enjoy that freaking decline!
But remember, Schiff, me, Beck and all those other non-real economists are fringe and "radical." We're just paranoid.
Enjoy that freaking decline!
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
With Feminists Like These, Who Needs Misogynists?
Mercy! And the irony is this is the FEMINIST GROUP of a COMMUNIST PARTY!
Fractional Reserve Speed Dating
If you don't know what "fractional reserve banking" is, don't worry.
It just means you're successful with the opposite sex.
That being said (and not to ruin your chances with the opposite sex), "fractional reserve banking" is the idea that a bank will take a depositor's money, lend most of it out, while still allowing for the depositor to fully withdraw that money at any time. Ergo the bank only holds a "fraction" in reserve of its depositors' monies. The reason this works is because it is very unlikely EVERY depositor will come into the bank at one time and withdraw ALL of their money. Therefore banks only need to hold a fraction of total deposits to allow for daily withdrawals here and there, while lending out the rest and making money on it.
There are many criticisms of a fractional reserve banking system. Most notably that the banks are "creating money" by lending out money that already has a claim on it and technically isn't theirs to lend out in the first place. But the larger point is that the true amount of money in the economy is only a fraction of what all the bank's electronic records say there is.
Naturally, you would think money is the only commodity that can lend itself (pun FULLY intended) well to a fractional reserve system, but in my trials and tribulations in life as a SAEG (tm) I have come upon another commodity where fractional reserving is done, and it isn't in banking.
It's in speed dating.
Many years ago I gave speed dating one shot. I walked into the joint, dropped my $35 down along with 7 other men and for that $35 we got to meet 8 other women for 5 minutes a piece. The one date that I did manage to score out of this escapade brought her gay male friend to chaperone, which prompted me to dance with pretty much every other girl on the floor but her. Gay-chaperoned dates aside, the point was there was an equal number of men to women. 8 to 8. For if there was a shortage on either end you would have too many of one gender chasing too few of the other.
But something interesting occurred after the speed dating event was over. As some people headed to the bar, I decided to approach one of the girls I was interested in and chat her up a bit. Using a simple approach I said,
"You ever done this before?"
She said,
"Yes, but technically not tonight."
Curious, I said,
"Why technically not tonight?"
And her response was one for the Economics of Dating history books.
"Well, the guy who runs this speed dating thing always has too many men and not enough women. So he calls us when he has extra guys and we just fill in and act like we're interested. If women don't show up, he can't sell as many tickets so he buys us drinks as compensation."
Kind of curious about the math, not to mention I just wanted to see how screwed over me and the other 7 men were, I asked,
"So how many women were plants?"
She said,
"4."
I was more or less speechless, but the cynical side of me let out a cynical "Heh, what will they think of next?" Seeing she herself was a plant, I just walked away, went to my car and left.
Naturally I was somewhat upset at this little bit of trickery. What was sold as a way for 8 men to meet 8 women was in reality 8 men to meet 4 women. In short a fraction of the women that were truly available. But by cheating the system of sorts, the host of the speed dating was able to "create" women just like banks "create" money and profit from this newly created asset. He just had to pay them interest in the form of free cocktails (and no doubt the ego tinglies of leading poor saps on).
Now, could it have been this ONE speed dating racket doing the fractional reserve dating? Of course, but unlikely. No doubt this is the case all over where there is higher demand on one side (the men) than there is supply on the other (the women) and it doesn't take a genius to faux-fill the market to equilibrium, profiting off of such said market manipulation. The problem this presents men, however, is one of trust and reliability. Given it is a fact women are less interested in dating than men there will always be that threat and likelihood a significant fraction of the women in speed dating are merely plants there to extract your money. And given this risk it makes speed dating a losing proposition to the average guy whose $35 would be better spent on groceries, rent, gas, utilities or plastic pigeons. So once again learn from the experiences and mistakes of the ole Captain. Don't bother with speed dating.
Besides, even if you're one of the lucky few to land a date, the best thing you'll manage is one of them highly-coveted and much-sought after "Gay-man-chaperoned dates."
You can follow the Captain on "the twitter" here.
It just means you're successful with the opposite sex.
That being said (and not to ruin your chances with the opposite sex), "fractional reserve banking" is the idea that a bank will take a depositor's money, lend most of it out, while still allowing for the depositor to fully withdraw that money at any time. Ergo the bank only holds a "fraction" in reserve of its depositors' monies. The reason this works is because it is very unlikely EVERY depositor will come into the bank at one time and withdraw ALL of their money. Therefore banks only need to hold a fraction of total deposits to allow for daily withdrawals here and there, while lending out the rest and making money on it.
There are many criticisms of a fractional reserve banking system. Most notably that the banks are "creating money" by lending out money that already has a claim on it and technically isn't theirs to lend out in the first place. But the larger point is that the true amount of money in the economy is only a fraction of what all the bank's electronic records say there is.
Naturally, you would think money is the only commodity that can lend itself (pun FULLY intended) well to a fractional reserve system, but in my trials and tribulations in life as a SAEG (tm) I have come upon another commodity where fractional reserving is done, and it isn't in banking.
It's in speed dating.
Many years ago I gave speed dating one shot. I walked into the joint, dropped my $35 down along with 7 other men and for that $35 we got to meet 8 other women for 5 minutes a piece. The one date that I did manage to score out of this escapade brought her gay male friend to chaperone, which prompted me to dance with pretty much every other girl on the floor but her. Gay-chaperoned dates aside, the point was there was an equal number of men to women. 8 to 8. For if there was a shortage on either end you would have too many of one gender chasing too few of the other.
But something interesting occurred after the speed dating event was over. As some people headed to the bar, I decided to approach one of the girls I was interested in and chat her up a bit. Using a simple approach I said,
"You ever done this before?"
She said,
"Yes, but technically not tonight."
Curious, I said,
"Why technically not tonight?"
And her response was one for the Economics of Dating history books.
"Well, the guy who runs this speed dating thing always has too many men and not enough women. So he calls us when he has extra guys and we just fill in and act like we're interested. If women don't show up, he can't sell as many tickets so he buys us drinks as compensation."
Kind of curious about the math, not to mention I just wanted to see how screwed over me and the other 7 men were, I asked,
"So how many women were plants?"
She said,
"4."
I was more or less speechless, but the cynical side of me let out a cynical "Heh, what will they think of next?" Seeing she herself was a plant, I just walked away, went to my car and left.
Naturally I was somewhat upset at this little bit of trickery. What was sold as a way for 8 men to meet 8 women was in reality 8 men to meet 4 women. In short a fraction of the women that were truly available. But by cheating the system of sorts, the host of the speed dating was able to "create" women just like banks "create" money and profit from this newly created asset. He just had to pay them interest in the form of free cocktails (and no doubt the ego tinglies of leading poor saps on).
Now, could it have been this ONE speed dating racket doing the fractional reserve dating? Of course, but unlikely. No doubt this is the case all over where there is higher demand on one side (the men) than there is supply on the other (the women) and it doesn't take a genius to faux-fill the market to equilibrium, profiting off of such said market manipulation. The problem this presents men, however, is one of trust and reliability. Given it is a fact women are less interested in dating than men there will always be that threat and likelihood a significant fraction of the women in speed dating are merely plants there to extract your money. And given this risk it makes speed dating a losing proposition to the average guy whose $35 would be better spent on groceries, rent, gas, utilities or plastic pigeons. So once again learn from the experiences and mistakes of the ole Captain. Don't bother with speed dating.
Besides, even if you're one of the lucky few to land a date, the best thing you'll manage is one of them highly-coveted and much-sought after "Gay-man-chaperoned dates."
You can follow the Captain on "the twitter" here.
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
The Manosphere is Going Mainstream
And there's nothing anybody can do to stop it. Congrats to 3rd Mill.
How Liberal Art Majors Destroyed Stockton
I pointed this out a while ago, but it needs repeating.
You cannot expect a group of adults whose only experiences are in the non-profit/government/education industries to lead with any measure of competence in that they are politicians first and foremost and have not the ability nor care to adhere to mathematical and financial reality. They are mentally spoiled little children who just happened to be in adult bodies that purposely and consciously chose weak degrees requiring no rigor, effort or thought, and consequently chose easy "careers." It should be no shock that Stockton, or any city or organization, led by such weak and talentless people went bankrupt.
And I'm being deadly serious when I say this, INVESTMENT ANALYSTS, MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS, HEDGE FUND MANAGERS and any other investment professional in charge of investing in government bonds (be they municipal, state or national) are practically MANDATED to investigate whether or not the elected leaders of those governments majored in the liberal arts.
I guarantee you that the default rate of municipalities headed up by doctors, plumbers, accountants, etc., is much lower than that of municipalities headed up by liberal art majors.
You cannot expect a group of adults whose only experiences are in the non-profit/government/education industries to lead with any measure of competence in that they are politicians first and foremost and have not the ability nor care to adhere to mathematical and financial reality. They are mentally spoiled little children who just happened to be in adult bodies that purposely and consciously chose weak degrees requiring no rigor, effort or thought, and consequently chose easy "careers." It should be no shock that Stockton, or any city or organization, led by such weak and talentless people went bankrupt.
And I'm being deadly serious when I say this, INVESTMENT ANALYSTS, MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS, HEDGE FUND MANAGERS and any other investment professional in charge of investing in government bonds (be they municipal, state or national) are practically MANDATED to investigate whether or not the elected leaders of those governments majored in the liberal arts.
I guarantee you that the default rate of municipalities headed up by doctors, plumbers, accountants, etc., is much lower than that of municipalities headed up by liberal art majors.
Monday, April 01, 2013
Repair, Never Replace
When the next generation of video game consoles come out I will be switching from XBox to Playstation.
Why?
Because I am now on my 5th (yes, that's right) FIFTH X Box 360.
The reason is simple. I am heavily invested in games I like and thus, because I have so much invested in the software, I need the console that plays that format. So when I got the Red Ring of Death for the 4th time, I started to prepare to shell out more money for the video game industry's biggest design flaw.
However, I caught myself this time. And when I say, "I caught myself" I mean I STOPPED an automated thought process that has cost me plenty in terms of money and lost self-teaching. Namely, I decided to REPAIR my XBox 360 and NOT pay somebody to do it for me nor buy a replacement XBox altogether. And after catching myself I realized this is a VERY important lesson for all of us to learn.
Understand our brains are predisposed to be put on rote rehearsal or automatic pilot for efficiency's sake. This is NOT a disadvantage, but rather an advantage for the MAJORITY of instances. For example when the new dual joysticks came out it took every 20 something man about 10 hours of play to learn the "right stick controls vision, left stick controls movement" layout of all modern day FPS's. This is no different than when we first learned to walk when we had to develop the motor skills to do so. And you can ask any beginning ballroom dance student the frustration of forcing his/her feet to do what the brain wants it to do.
But after a while you develop a muscle memory which (more specifically) is your brain stem developing a repetitive memorization of certain muscle movements that no longer require the input of the frontal lobes allowing you to (in the case of dancing) keep your footwork going while soothsaying your dance partner into bed. But while we think of PHYSICAL movements as an example of this, repetitive MENTAL actions, AKA "habits" also fall under this category as well. And these unconscious habits are hard to break, thus, why I want to point out this one.
YOu, me, and everybody else have been mentally conditioned to look for the easiest route out. When this comes to the maintenance and repair of our physical goods, the answer is usually one of "dispose and replace." The problem with this approach is two fold. One, it costs more to replace an item that is repairable and two, we lose the opportunity to LEARN how to repair things that IF LEARNED AT A VERY EARLY AGE CAN SAVE YOU HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS over the course of a life time. And thus if we can recondition our brains out of the consumerist mentality of "toss and replace" we can not only save ourselves some money, but improve ourselves in terms of skills.
Now you may say, "But I like the convenience of outsourcing repair" or you may say, "But I'm not good at fixing things." But allow me a little bit of economics.
First, there is the obvious savings you will realize if you learn to repair things at an early age as opposed to constantly outsourcing it.
Second, with progressive taxation, regulation, and socialism, the "division of labor" is being undermined, meaning, as people specialize and trade their skills via money and labor, they are taxed more. Therefore, if you can learn to be a "do it yourselfer" you not only save the money it would cost you to outsource the repair of your various items, but you don't have to pay the "sales tax" on it. Heck, you may even be so bold to barter which would avoid taxation altogether.
Third, what? Like there's jobs out there for you anyway? Even if you did specialize in a particular field, get a degree, or get certified, in the end there are no jobs which makes learning to fix your own assets a very profitable investment of your time. In short you have nothing better to do with your time so you might as well learn to repair things.
In the end, I roughly estimate with my SAEG (TM) you will save yourself over the course of a lifetime EASILY $250,000 in repairs, maintenance and outsourced expenses learning to fix, build and repair your own stuff than paying somebody to do it for you (and that quarter million is at least worth a house).
So, how do you do this?
How do you become so skilled and experienced in so many aspects of maintenance and repair life?
Well, I hate to say this, the answer is obvious.
Youtube.
I had a buddy who was an ornery computer guy. I was interested in computers and how to network and repair them. But when I asked him simple, elementary questions, he got pissed off at me and would lecture me.
"You stupid idiot!!!??? What's wrong with you!!??? Don't you know anything about DRAM!!!???"
In short, he was human and was thusly, flawed, and therefore an asshole.
Youtube, thankfully, is not.
"We didn't have Youtube in our day" but you do. And there is practically every imaginable "do it yourself video" out there.
How to change oil.
How to network a computer.
How to cook souffle.
How to clean a carburetor.
How to roof a house.
You name it, youtube has it. It's practically replaced your dad. And if you want to save yourself the pain and agony of a friend berating you for "not knowing the difference between RAM and DRAM" you just go to the Youtube.
Now this may seem cute or quaint, but as the inevitabilities and realities of the US economy takes its toll, learning how to maintain, repair and fix your own stuff is going to prove to pay larger dividends than most college degrees. Matter of fact, I would contend, self-teaching yourself how to repair cars, computers and other devices liberal arts majors love to use, but fear to understand will prove to be a MUCH better investment than the $75,000 most liberal arts students spend on their worthless degrees. So while they charge you $7 for a "grande latte" with their Masters in English, you can charge them $750 to fix their Prius with your "self-taught Youtube video on how to repair a Prius." The only difference is you spent 30 hours of your life downloading youtube videos on "Prius repair" while they spent $75,000 and 6 years of their lives on "French, Gay, Lesbian, Latina, 15th Century Poetry."
In short, I believe people are VERY MUCH underestimating the value of Youtube and other "self help" and "DIY" sites. Even if your dad was inept at mechanics and was absentee, that doesn't mean you can't find a surrogate father in Youtube and benefit to the tune of hundreds of thousands.
However, truth be told, most people are intimidated by cracking open a computer case or knocking out a wall of sheet rock. So allow me to impart the self-taught wisdom I've gain to make (hopefully) millions of younger people's lives better.
1. CRACK OPEN THAT COMPUTER CASE and DESTROY THE COMPUTER. CHANGE YOUR OWN OIL (and in the process) DESTROY YOUR OWN CAR. KNOCK OUT THAT SHEET ROCK and just make a mess of everything. One of the biggest hurdles I ever had in self repair was that I would make things WORSE than when I started.
And yes you will. BUT, it's better to learn that NOW at the age of 20 than at the age of 70. YOu WILL get better and more proficient. But you WON"T ever achieve a level of proficiency unless you make your mistakes and get dirty.
2. Just accept you WILL destroy things as you go along and MOST IMPORTANTLY no matter how much you destroy TODAY, those costs will pay off more in the future. So drop the money and make the mistakes. They're worth it. Have no fear.
3. The TWO BEST THINGS YOU CAN BUY YOURSELF AT A YOUNG AGE ARE
a. a computer/electronics repair kit
b. a full tool set for cars and home repair
I wish I had somebody buy this for me as a 17th birthday gift, but most of my family was anti-repair and pro-replace. Ideally, somebody will buy you this at the age of 10, ensuring you will be ready to repair anything as you enter the real world at 18. But if anything dropping the money on those two items is a better investment than college itself, so buy those things yourself.
4. There will be points in your life you will be unemployed and pinching every penny will become vital. In times of economic recession where you DO NOT HAVE THE OPTION OF MAKING MORE MONEY having the ability to SAVE MONEY will become key to your survival, happiness, and standard of living. A man who can fix anything can enjoy a higher standard of living earning $30,000 per year than a man who can't fix nothing and makes $70,000 per year. I've seen it and it is true. Being skilled in repair, maintenance and construction/building is a great insurance against poverty no matter what is going on in the economy.
So if you're an unemployed or underemployed 20 something, a bachelor or bachelorette looking for a new hobby or endeavor, or you got a lot of time on your hands and are looking for an intellectually stimulating project, go on the Youtube, buy yourself some tools and teach yourself to repair and never replace.
Why?
Because I am now on my 5th (yes, that's right) FIFTH X Box 360.
The reason is simple. I am heavily invested in games I like and thus, because I have so much invested in the software, I need the console that plays that format. So when I got the Red Ring of Death for the 4th time, I started to prepare to shell out more money for the video game industry's biggest design flaw.
However, I caught myself this time. And when I say, "I caught myself" I mean I STOPPED an automated thought process that has cost me plenty in terms of money and lost self-teaching. Namely, I decided to REPAIR my XBox 360 and NOT pay somebody to do it for me nor buy a replacement XBox altogether. And after catching myself I realized this is a VERY important lesson for all of us to learn.
Understand our brains are predisposed to be put on rote rehearsal or automatic pilot for efficiency's sake. This is NOT a disadvantage, but rather an advantage for the MAJORITY of instances. For example when the new dual joysticks came out it took every 20 something man about 10 hours of play to learn the "right stick controls vision, left stick controls movement" layout of all modern day FPS's. This is no different than when we first learned to walk when we had to develop the motor skills to do so. And you can ask any beginning ballroom dance student the frustration of forcing his/her feet to do what the brain wants it to do.
But after a while you develop a muscle memory which (more specifically) is your brain stem developing a repetitive memorization of certain muscle movements that no longer require the input of the frontal lobes allowing you to (in the case of dancing) keep your footwork going while soothsaying your dance partner into bed. But while we think of PHYSICAL movements as an example of this, repetitive MENTAL actions, AKA "habits" also fall under this category as well. And these unconscious habits are hard to break, thus, why I want to point out this one.
YOu, me, and everybody else have been mentally conditioned to look for the easiest route out. When this comes to the maintenance and repair of our physical goods, the answer is usually one of "dispose and replace." The problem with this approach is two fold. One, it costs more to replace an item that is repairable and two, we lose the opportunity to LEARN how to repair things that IF LEARNED AT A VERY EARLY AGE CAN SAVE YOU HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS over the course of a life time. And thus if we can recondition our brains out of the consumerist mentality of "toss and replace" we can not only save ourselves some money, but improve ourselves in terms of skills.
Now you may say, "But I like the convenience of outsourcing repair" or you may say, "But I'm not good at fixing things." But allow me a little bit of economics.
First, there is the obvious savings you will realize if you learn to repair things at an early age as opposed to constantly outsourcing it.
Second, with progressive taxation, regulation, and socialism, the "division of labor" is being undermined, meaning, as people specialize and trade their skills via money and labor, they are taxed more. Therefore, if you can learn to be a "do it yourselfer" you not only save the money it would cost you to outsource the repair of your various items, but you don't have to pay the "sales tax" on it. Heck, you may even be so bold to barter which would avoid taxation altogether.
Third, what? Like there's jobs out there for you anyway? Even if you did specialize in a particular field, get a degree, or get certified, in the end there are no jobs which makes learning to fix your own assets a very profitable investment of your time. In short you have nothing better to do with your time so you might as well learn to repair things.
In the end, I roughly estimate with my SAEG (TM) you will save yourself over the course of a lifetime EASILY $250,000 in repairs, maintenance and outsourced expenses learning to fix, build and repair your own stuff than paying somebody to do it for you (and that quarter million is at least worth a house).
So, how do you do this?
How do you become so skilled and experienced in so many aspects of maintenance and repair life?
Well, I hate to say this, the answer is obvious.
Youtube.
I had a buddy who was an ornery computer guy. I was interested in computers and how to network and repair them. But when I asked him simple, elementary questions, he got pissed off at me and would lecture me.
"You stupid idiot!!!??? What's wrong with you!!??? Don't you know anything about DRAM!!!???"
In short, he was human and was thusly, flawed, and therefore an asshole.
Youtube, thankfully, is not.
"We didn't have Youtube in our day" but you do. And there is practically every imaginable "do it yourself video" out there.
How to change oil.
How to network a computer.
How to cook souffle.
How to clean a carburetor.
How to roof a house.
You name it, youtube has it. It's practically replaced your dad. And if you want to save yourself the pain and agony of a friend berating you for "not knowing the difference between RAM and DRAM" you just go to the Youtube.
Now this may seem cute or quaint, but as the inevitabilities and realities of the US economy takes its toll, learning how to maintain, repair and fix your own stuff is going to prove to pay larger dividends than most college degrees. Matter of fact, I would contend, self-teaching yourself how to repair cars, computers and other devices liberal arts majors love to use, but fear to understand will prove to be a MUCH better investment than the $75,000 most liberal arts students spend on their worthless degrees. So while they charge you $7 for a "grande latte" with their Masters in English, you can charge them $750 to fix their Prius with your "self-taught Youtube video on how to repair a Prius." The only difference is you spent 30 hours of your life downloading youtube videos on "Prius repair" while they spent $75,000 and 6 years of their lives on "French, Gay, Lesbian, Latina, 15th Century Poetry."
In short, I believe people are VERY MUCH underestimating the value of Youtube and other "self help" and "DIY" sites. Even if your dad was inept at mechanics and was absentee, that doesn't mean you can't find a surrogate father in Youtube and benefit to the tune of hundreds of thousands.
However, truth be told, most people are intimidated by cracking open a computer case or knocking out a wall of sheet rock. So allow me to impart the self-taught wisdom I've gain to make (hopefully) millions of younger people's lives better.
1. CRACK OPEN THAT COMPUTER CASE and DESTROY THE COMPUTER. CHANGE YOUR OWN OIL (and in the process) DESTROY YOUR OWN CAR. KNOCK OUT THAT SHEET ROCK and just make a mess of everything. One of the biggest hurdles I ever had in self repair was that I would make things WORSE than when I started.
And yes you will. BUT, it's better to learn that NOW at the age of 20 than at the age of 70. YOu WILL get better and more proficient. But you WON"T ever achieve a level of proficiency unless you make your mistakes and get dirty.
2. Just accept you WILL destroy things as you go along and MOST IMPORTANTLY no matter how much you destroy TODAY, those costs will pay off more in the future. So drop the money and make the mistakes. They're worth it. Have no fear.
3. The TWO BEST THINGS YOU CAN BUY YOURSELF AT A YOUNG AGE ARE
a. a computer/electronics repair kit
b. a full tool set for cars and home repair
I wish I had somebody buy this for me as a 17th birthday gift, but most of my family was anti-repair and pro-replace. Ideally, somebody will buy you this at the age of 10, ensuring you will be ready to repair anything as you enter the real world at 18. But if anything dropping the money on those two items is a better investment than college itself, so buy those things yourself.
4. There will be points in your life you will be unemployed and pinching every penny will become vital. In times of economic recession where you DO NOT HAVE THE OPTION OF MAKING MORE MONEY having the ability to SAVE MONEY will become key to your survival, happiness, and standard of living. A man who can fix anything can enjoy a higher standard of living earning $30,000 per year than a man who can't fix nothing and makes $70,000 per year. I've seen it and it is true. Being skilled in repair, maintenance and construction/building is a great insurance against poverty no matter what is going on in the economy.
So if you're an unemployed or underemployed 20 something, a bachelor or bachelorette looking for a new hobby or endeavor, or you got a lot of time on your hands and are looking for an intellectually stimulating project, go on the Youtube, buy yourself some tools and teach yourself to repair and never replace.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
The DeGroote School of Business
Sorry DeGroote. You deserve your own post. We're getting sick of the sexist crap leftists, spineless, compliant wanna-bes-but-can't-do teachers and academians are pawning off as education.
Business degrees, unless in Accounting or MIS are worthless. They are just plain worthless. NOBODY should major in business. But what is worse is when you have to suffer a purposeful and designed political campaign of socialist, leftists clap trap from losers who couldn't hack it in the real world and end up being professors.
You want to go to DeGroote? Go right ahead and see if you can ever pay back your student loans.
Business degrees, unless in Accounting or MIS are worthless. They are just plain worthless. NOBODY should major in business. But what is worse is when you have to suffer a purposeful and designed political campaign of socialist, leftists clap trap from losers who couldn't hack it in the real world and end up being professors.
You want to go to DeGroote? Go right ahead and see if you can ever pay back your student loans.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Road Trip Linkage
I predict the term "Affirmative Action" will achieve the pejorative tone in due time similar to "short bus."
The Canadians also have liberal arts majors.
Dal explains why men aren't responding the market price signals.
After 44 years of marriage we divorced. I consider it a successful marriage..Oh, BTW, Castro is great!
Ehhh...I don't want to mess with Kate.
Danny interviews Aurini about how economics delves into post nuclear war!
The Canadians also have liberal arts majors.
Dal explains why men aren't responding the market price signals.
After 44 years of marriage we divorced. I consider it a successful marriage..Oh, BTW, Castro is great!
Ehhh...I don't want to mess with Kate.
Danny interviews Aurini about how economics delves into post nuclear war!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
The Return of Shame
Law, at its best, prevents people from doing bad things. And that's at its best.
A lot of times people just don't obey laws (criminals) and even when they do obey laws, they may not be moral. In other words laws prohibit bad behavior, but can not compel good or moral behavior. So while I may not murder somebody, law doesn't prevent me from racking up more credit card debt than I can afford or standing somebody up for a date.
However, society did have a tool that picked up where laws left off - shame.
Though not codified or written down, society had their own set of unspoken rules or laws called "standards" and if you violated these social standards you would be shamed and scorned. This shame would compel you to behave appropriately and was a vital and necessary component of society in order for it to survive and succeed.
However, shame is very interesting in that it's very much like "paying taxes" or "having to work for a living." It's a fact of life nobody likes. You step out of line you may not go to jail, but you will be shamed by society. Therefore, you don't get to do whatever you want to do all willy nilly. However, also like paying taxes and having to work for a living, shame can be used as a political tool. Specifically, when it comes to a democracy, an amoral political party can ignore the importance shame plays in society, capitalize on childish-mentalities of the lesser members of the electorate, and promise a world with no shame.
You don't want to work? Fine! We'll tax other undeserving people to finance your life.
You don't want to pay taxes? Fine! We'll make a villainized group pay them for you!
You don't want shame? Fine! We'll launch an all out assault on traditional historical standards, the country's historical culture, and institute moral relativism.
In short, promising the electorate the elimination of shame is nothing more than bribing them. However unlike welfare, medicare or EBT cards, it's a psychological benefit, not a financial one. And thus, just as sure as leftist parties across the world promise their voters other people's money, they also do their best to eliminate shame.
We see this everyday. The idiot who couldn't do basic math and bought a house he couldn't afford is a "victim." The unemployed Music Therapy major, living at home is "just down on his luck." And there is no better example of the elimination of shame as we replace military veterans with "single moms" as our nation's greatest hero. So successful is the left that the political and social environment is now so hostile that it's now "shameful to shame." If you dare criticize somebody for failing to meet a standard you are the one that is shamed. You are accused of being rude. Your target of shaming is even arrogant and entitled, yelling "HOW DARE YOU JUDGE ME!!!" And if your target of shame happens to be in a "victim class" you are immediately called an "ist" (even though you are criticizing their actions and not their race, ethnicity, sex, etc. etc.).
Additionally, since shaming by its nature is a public or publicized action (i.e. - you can't secretly shame someone) you are immediately alienated and ostracized from society. Dare you demand EBT cards be the size of a poster for all to see on a blog or a forum, employers will no longer hire you. Dare you criticize illegal immigration and are consequently accused of racism, you cannot run for public office. And dare you criticize single parenthood, you can forget finding a date. In short we have fully eliminated shaming from society and all the benefits (personal responsibility being the key one) that came with it.
Naturally, a shameless society will fail. You can make all the laws you want, but without the social norms and mores that force people to be self-reliant, responsible, and respectful units of society, those individual units will revert to their basic human instinct and decay into shameless and parasitical ones. However, there is a consequence to society failing. Specifically, those people who are vested in society and are moral, are going to lose the only thing that matters to them - society. And while a high percentage of them may still be too intimidated or brainwashed to speak out, bluntly and truthfully, a certain percentage of people will realize the cost is too great and start shaming again. Specifically, those people who have nothing left to lose.
Understand that the reason most people don't speak out against and shame the social atrocities occurring in the US is because they have too much at risk. They have a house, they have a family, they have a career. Their entire lives have been built within this system and are thus dependent on it. And dare they get out of line, and dare they publicly shame the wrong group, the political and social cost for them daring to point out the emperor has no clothes is that they will lose it all. An HR nazi will be auditing your facebook posts. Your hiring manager will get a complaint. An Adria Richards will narc on you. Careers in America are so fragile and employers so spineless, you dare don't rock the societal boat with shaming. You watch that recent immigrant use her EBT card at your expense and you shut up and like it.
But what if you're part of a group with nothing left to lose? What if you're young, endebted by previous generations to the tune of $225,000, facing a lousy job market, and no future? What if you're part of a group that is just assumed to have benefits and privileges when that is not the case, and you're constantly accused of bigotry and being part of a "patriarchy?" Oh, and by the way, what if a mental illness has infected the half of society you SHOULD have gotten the greatest joy out of in life and instead corrupted and spoiled them leaving you little-to-no shot in life at marriage of family? What if your future was just plain taken away?
Why you'd be the typical young man in America today.
And it is here where shame is not only going to have a triumphant return, but it is already back in full force.
I hate to inform all the various political groups, victim groups, protected classes, sacrosanct faux heroes and other shameless classes the left has formed, but your strategy to "shame the shamers" won't work on this group of people. And the reason why is that your strategy hinges on one thing - that there would be an economic cost inflicted on anybody who dares to shame. But if they have no money, no job, no career, no hope, and no future, there's nothing you can take from them. Worst still, as they slowly start to wake up and realize just how much your anti-shaming campaign has screwed up society, they will blame you (rightly so) for stealing and destroying their futures. And with nothing left to do and at no cost to them, shaming you and your ideological adherents is going to become their favorite hobby.
A lot of times people just don't obey laws (criminals) and even when they do obey laws, they may not be moral. In other words laws prohibit bad behavior, but can not compel good or moral behavior. So while I may not murder somebody, law doesn't prevent me from racking up more credit card debt than I can afford or standing somebody up for a date.
However, society did have a tool that picked up where laws left off - shame.
Though not codified or written down, society had their own set of unspoken rules or laws called "standards" and if you violated these social standards you would be shamed and scorned. This shame would compel you to behave appropriately and was a vital and necessary component of society in order for it to survive and succeed.
However, shame is very interesting in that it's very much like "paying taxes" or "having to work for a living." It's a fact of life nobody likes. You step out of line you may not go to jail, but you will be shamed by society. Therefore, you don't get to do whatever you want to do all willy nilly. However, also like paying taxes and having to work for a living, shame can be used as a political tool. Specifically, when it comes to a democracy, an amoral political party can ignore the importance shame plays in society, capitalize on childish-mentalities of the lesser members of the electorate, and promise a world with no shame.
You don't want to work? Fine! We'll tax other undeserving people to finance your life.
You don't want to pay taxes? Fine! We'll make a villainized group pay them for you!
You don't want shame? Fine! We'll launch an all out assault on traditional historical standards, the country's historical culture, and institute moral relativism.
In short, promising the electorate the elimination of shame is nothing more than bribing them. However unlike welfare, medicare or EBT cards, it's a psychological benefit, not a financial one. And thus, just as sure as leftist parties across the world promise their voters other people's money, they also do their best to eliminate shame.
We see this everyday. The idiot who couldn't do basic math and bought a house he couldn't afford is a "victim." The unemployed Music Therapy major, living at home is "just down on his luck." And there is no better example of the elimination of shame as we replace military veterans with "single moms" as our nation's greatest hero. So successful is the left that the political and social environment is now so hostile that it's now "shameful to shame." If you dare criticize somebody for failing to meet a standard you are the one that is shamed. You are accused of being rude. Your target of shaming is even arrogant and entitled, yelling "HOW DARE YOU JUDGE ME!!!" And if your target of shame happens to be in a "victim class" you are immediately called an "ist" (even though you are criticizing their actions and not their race, ethnicity, sex, etc. etc.).
Additionally, since shaming by its nature is a public or publicized action (i.e. - you can't secretly shame someone) you are immediately alienated and ostracized from society. Dare you demand EBT cards be the size of a poster for all to see on a blog or a forum, employers will no longer hire you. Dare you criticize illegal immigration and are consequently accused of racism, you cannot run for public office. And dare you criticize single parenthood, you can forget finding a date. In short we have fully eliminated shaming from society and all the benefits (personal responsibility being the key one) that came with it.
Naturally, a shameless society will fail. You can make all the laws you want, but without the social norms and mores that force people to be self-reliant, responsible, and respectful units of society, those individual units will revert to their basic human instinct and decay into shameless and parasitical ones. However, there is a consequence to society failing. Specifically, those people who are vested in society and are moral, are going to lose the only thing that matters to them - society. And while a high percentage of them may still be too intimidated or brainwashed to speak out, bluntly and truthfully, a certain percentage of people will realize the cost is too great and start shaming again. Specifically, those people who have nothing left to lose.
Understand that the reason most people don't speak out against and shame the social atrocities occurring in the US is because they have too much at risk. They have a house, they have a family, they have a career. Their entire lives have been built within this system and are thus dependent on it. And dare they get out of line, and dare they publicly shame the wrong group, the political and social cost for them daring to point out the emperor has no clothes is that they will lose it all. An HR nazi will be auditing your facebook posts. Your hiring manager will get a complaint. An Adria Richards will narc on you. Careers in America are so fragile and employers so spineless, you dare don't rock the societal boat with shaming. You watch that recent immigrant use her EBT card at your expense and you shut up and like it.
But what if you're part of a group with nothing left to lose? What if you're young, endebted by previous generations to the tune of $225,000, facing a lousy job market, and no future? What if you're part of a group that is just assumed to have benefits and privileges when that is not the case, and you're constantly accused of bigotry and being part of a "patriarchy?" Oh, and by the way, what if a mental illness has infected the half of society you SHOULD have gotten the greatest joy out of in life and instead corrupted and spoiled them leaving you little-to-no shot in life at marriage of family? What if your future was just plain taken away?
Why you'd be the typical young man in America today.
And it is here where shame is not only going to have a triumphant return, but it is already back in full force.
I hate to inform all the various political groups, victim groups, protected classes, sacrosanct faux heroes and other shameless classes the left has formed, but your strategy to "shame the shamers" won't work on this group of people. And the reason why is that your strategy hinges on one thing - that there would be an economic cost inflicted on anybody who dares to shame. But if they have no money, no job, no career, no hope, and no future, there's nothing you can take from them. Worst still, as they slowly start to wake up and realize just how much your anti-shaming campaign has screwed up society, they will blame you (rightly so) for stealing and destroying their futures. And with nothing left to do and at no cost to them, shaming you and your ideological adherents is going to become their favorite hobby.
The Captain Goes to Milwaukee!
Going to Milwaukee this weekend. E-mail the ole Captain if you're around and up for cigars or dancing.
Roosh Walks Into a Libertarian Bar
Roosh interviewed me over at Return of Kings. The response from his readership about libertarians and libertarianism was a little surprising. Between him and the Washington Times, we're on track for an interview a day!
Who Employs Warren Kinsella?
Because I'd like to know who would employ such a person who seems to make a career out of defamation?
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
"The Invisible Bitch-Slap"
It's like "the invisible hand," but instead it's when you piss off the forces of economics and reality decides to punish you for your stupidity.
Washington Times Article Part 2
Part 2! "The Origins of Cappy Cap!"
Is it dark!?
Is it secret!?
How did the Captain become...um...well..uhh...the "captain?"
Was it a broken heart!?
Tortuous childhood?
Did parochial school drive him to become what he is!?
Tune in and find out!!!!
Is it dark!?
Is it secret!?
How did the Captain become...um...well..uhh...the "captain?"
Was it a broken heart!?
Tortuous childhood?
Did parochial school drive him to become what he is!?
Tune in and find out!!!!
"We're All Out of White Guilt"
and we adults are done with you elites and Hollywood types forcing it down our throats.
(so you know it links to a video of me tirading and is not safe for work).
(so you know it links to a video of me tirading and is not safe for work).
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Potemkin Women
When I first moved to my current home and started establishing a rapport with the bartenders at the local pub that would become "my bar," I remember meeting two uppity 30 something women. They were sharply dressed, boisterous, laughing and certainly the center of attention. One was very attractive while the other was average. Because they frequented "my bar" it was inevitable I would establish a relationship with them also. This relationship was business in nature, but also short lived.
They were in the "house staging/fashion" business and wanted me to help them with their finances. I agreed, but found it difficult to consult them for they would constantly bail at the last minute, change meeting times, just plain forget or just plain not take my advice. They were too busy and having too much "fun" with their business and details like "accounting" were deemed non-critical.
Admittedly I was 1/4th attempting to get some kind of angle on the hot one, but after being stood up for yet another meeting I decided to end the business relationship and replace it with a "Minnesota Nice" relationship (one where you hate the other person, but fake being friendly so as not to disrupt the over all social environment). It wouldn't have mattered anyway, because the hotter of the two made it very clear she was looking for a sugar daddy to take care of her.
For the next couple of months they would come into my bar and some of the other local ones, always talking about their business loud enough for people to hear, and always ordering the priciest of drinks to further prove they were successful. It was almost as if they were 20 year olds trapped in 37 year old bodies, who somehow made it seem "house staging and fashion design" was all about drinking, partying, networking and wearing fancy clothes.
Then nothing.
They disappeared. They were gone. And nobody took note, for it was the absence of annoyance that made things "normal" again, meaning you don't remember the moment you recover from a sickness, because that's the way you're supposed to feel normally.
It wasn't until 6 months later that for whatever reason or another a neuron fired in my skull reminding me about the loud duo and so I asked the bartender,
"Hey, whatever happened to Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb?"
The bartender laughed as he was cleaning out a wine glass.
"I don't know what happened to Tweedle Dee, but Tweedle Dumb (the hotter one). That's a funny story. She would come in at another bar I work at across White Bear Lake and just get hammered. She'd then start crying about how miserable she was, how should couldn't find a guy to marry her, and how her business was losing money. I think they went out of business, but I haven't seen them in months."
And thus was my first conscious observation of a Potemkin Woman.
If you don't know what "Potemkin" is, it is a reference to a "Potemkin Village," a trick the Soviets used to make things look better than they actually were in Soviet Russia. With poverty, lack of production, no bread, lines, and all the other wonderful benefits socialism brought them, the Soviet leadership hid this fact by making fake "villages" to make it look like everything was just hunky dory in the USSR. So when journalists and tourists visited, they were shown the Potemkin villages, not the gulags or everyday Soviet misery. It was nothing more than a ruse to make things look better than they actually were, and is the precisely same tactic many American and western women use today.
You might ask why somebody would engage in such trickery, acting more important than they actually are. But there are good reasons women use such a tactic, specifically it allows them to attain something that they personally cannot achieve or are too lazy to achieve. Usually it is a higher status/richer man, but it could also be undue and undeserved business, undue and undeserved reputation, undue and undeserved attention, and undue and undeserved status. And thus, very much like their midlife-crisis banker male counterparts, they put on the flashy clothes, talk a big game, act all independent, and scoff at people who are actually better than them. Unfortunately, it is just a bluff. A bluff that time and real life inevitable calls. But unless you are aware of it, you can very likely fall for it and (like I did) waste precious time and resources dealing with such women.
First, understand that Potemkin Women have been with us since they were little girls. Middle school girls actually. If there is an example of a Potemkin Village in America, it is middle school. Nothing is real, it is all fake, and the most popular girls rule the roost by essentially faking it into college. They have the fanciest clothes, they have a clique no one else can join, they have the latest gadgets. However, if you've ever had the misfortune of dating one of these girls, you'd know they are typically psychological messes underneath. Of course, this is rarely known or figured out because their ruse is so effective it intimidates boys (and girls) from ever approaching them, let alone dare questioning their legitimacy.
Second, understand Potemkin Girls never mature into women who shed the fakeness and the ruse. They merely become "Potemkin Women." It worked so well as a child, why not continue the strategy? They go to college, earn some worthless degree, go out and "partay," they dress sexy at night clubs and do the faux lesbian thing, only to reject the naive boys and men who dare to advance. The ruse is so effective and society is only more than accommodating, a lot of young women actually start to believe their "Potemkin Life" is a real one. They actually think they're that smart (when a 3.8 GPA as a Communications Major is laughable), they actually think they're in demand (while most 20 something men just want to have sex, not marry them), and they actually think they're going to succeed in life (as media, parents, colleges, government and every other facet of society lies to their face). When in reality, they are merely setting themselves up for a spectacular failure and accruing debt at a pace of 4 $10 Cosmo Martini's a night on a 23% APR credit card.
Finally, after getting married, divorced, and having no real skills to fall back on, not to mention, they're getting older, the 30 something Potemkin Woman puts on her best act. She wears the clothes she can't afford, starts the business that has no hope, parades a reputation that has no truth, all in the hopes of being given one more chance at attention, money, love, and/or status. However, here reality has reintroduced itself to the Potemkin Woman and I have seen it up front, close and personal. And the difference between the show the Potemkin Woman puts on and her insecure self is stark.
There was the salsa dancing 42 year old who WAS hot for her age and wore the most provocative outfits. Of course she would only dance with the most accomplished salsa dancers. But she broke down, crying one night at her house because her children hated her.
There was 29 year old lawyer who made junior partner in record time and wouldn't even consider dating men who made less than her (including yours truly), only to end up alone at a bar a decade later with a mean scowl on her face that would scare away any man.
There was the former model who at 48 still wanted to go to "night clubs." She broke down crying as it looked increasingly likely her house would go into foreclosure.
And of course there's Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb.
Now I could go on retrospectively identifying all the Potemkin Women I've ran into, but the point is, especially for men (though women will also have to interact on a non-romatic or business level with Potemkin Women) is to realize just how hallow and miserable their lives really are. The more posturing, parading and bragging you see, the more likely it is they go home and their lives are miserable. That the woman who laughed at you in front of her friends when you offered to buy her a drink, goes home that very same night in a drunk stupor and cries herself to sleep because "she can't find a man." I don't say this because I "want" it to be true or that I'm looking for some kind of "revenge" for women that spurned my advances. I'm telling you because it IS true. I've seen it. I've seen the Potemkin Woman at home all by herself at 3AM, out of the public view...
and she ain't pretty.
They were in the "house staging/fashion" business and wanted me to help them with their finances. I agreed, but found it difficult to consult them for they would constantly bail at the last minute, change meeting times, just plain forget or just plain not take my advice. They were too busy and having too much "fun" with their business and details like "accounting" were deemed non-critical.
Admittedly I was 1/4th attempting to get some kind of angle on the hot one, but after being stood up for yet another meeting I decided to end the business relationship and replace it with a "Minnesota Nice" relationship (one where you hate the other person, but fake being friendly so as not to disrupt the over all social environment). It wouldn't have mattered anyway, because the hotter of the two made it very clear she was looking for a sugar daddy to take care of her.
For the next couple of months they would come into my bar and some of the other local ones, always talking about their business loud enough for people to hear, and always ordering the priciest of drinks to further prove they were successful. It was almost as if they were 20 year olds trapped in 37 year old bodies, who somehow made it seem "house staging and fashion design" was all about drinking, partying, networking and wearing fancy clothes.
Then nothing.
They disappeared. They were gone. And nobody took note, for it was the absence of annoyance that made things "normal" again, meaning you don't remember the moment you recover from a sickness, because that's the way you're supposed to feel normally.
It wasn't until 6 months later that for whatever reason or another a neuron fired in my skull reminding me about the loud duo and so I asked the bartender,
"Hey, whatever happened to Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb?"
The bartender laughed as he was cleaning out a wine glass.
"I don't know what happened to Tweedle Dee, but Tweedle Dumb (the hotter one). That's a funny story. She would come in at another bar I work at across White Bear Lake and just get hammered. She'd then start crying about how miserable she was, how should couldn't find a guy to marry her, and how her business was losing money. I think they went out of business, but I haven't seen them in months."
And thus was my first conscious observation of a Potemkin Woman.
If you don't know what "Potemkin" is, it is a reference to a "Potemkin Village," a trick the Soviets used to make things look better than they actually were in Soviet Russia. With poverty, lack of production, no bread, lines, and all the other wonderful benefits socialism brought them, the Soviet leadership hid this fact by making fake "villages" to make it look like everything was just hunky dory in the USSR. So when journalists and tourists visited, they were shown the Potemkin villages, not the gulags or everyday Soviet misery. It was nothing more than a ruse to make things look better than they actually were, and is the precisely same tactic many American and western women use today.
You might ask why somebody would engage in such trickery, acting more important than they actually are. But there are good reasons women use such a tactic, specifically it allows them to attain something that they personally cannot achieve or are too lazy to achieve. Usually it is a higher status/richer man, but it could also be undue and undeserved business, undue and undeserved reputation, undue and undeserved attention, and undue and undeserved status. And thus, very much like their midlife-crisis banker male counterparts, they put on the flashy clothes, talk a big game, act all independent, and scoff at people who are actually better than them. Unfortunately, it is just a bluff. A bluff that time and real life inevitable calls. But unless you are aware of it, you can very likely fall for it and (like I did) waste precious time and resources dealing with such women.
First, understand that Potemkin Women have been with us since they were little girls. Middle school girls actually. If there is an example of a Potemkin Village in America, it is middle school. Nothing is real, it is all fake, and the most popular girls rule the roost by essentially faking it into college. They have the fanciest clothes, they have a clique no one else can join, they have the latest gadgets. However, if you've ever had the misfortune of dating one of these girls, you'd know they are typically psychological messes underneath. Of course, this is rarely known or figured out because their ruse is so effective it intimidates boys (and girls) from ever approaching them, let alone dare questioning their legitimacy.
Second, understand Potemkin Girls never mature into women who shed the fakeness and the ruse. They merely become "Potemkin Women." It worked so well as a child, why not continue the strategy? They go to college, earn some worthless degree, go out and "partay," they dress sexy at night clubs and do the faux lesbian thing, only to reject the naive boys and men who dare to advance. The ruse is so effective and society is only more than accommodating, a lot of young women actually start to believe their "Potemkin Life" is a real one. They actually think they're that smart (when a 3.8 GPA as a Communications Major is laughable), they actually think they're in demand (while most 20 something men just want to have sex, not marry them), and they actually think they're going to succeed in life (as media, parents, colleges, government and every other facet of society lies to their face). When in reality, they are merely setting themselves up for a spectacular failure and accruing debt at a pace of 4 $10 Cosmo Martini's a night on a 23% APR credit card.
Finally, after getting married, divorced, and having no real skills to fall back on, not to mention, they're getting older, the 30 something Potemkin Woman puts on her best act. She wears the clothes she can't afford, starts the business that has no hope, parades a reputation that has no truth, all in the hopes of being given one more chance at attention, money, love, and/or status. However, here reality has reintroduced itself to the Potemkin Woman and I have seen it up front, close and personal. And the difference between the show the Potemkin Woman puts on and her insecure self is stark.
There was the salsa dancing 42 year old who WAS hot for her age and wore the most provocative outfits. Of course she would only dance with the most accomplished salsa dancers. But she broke down, crying one night at her house because her children hated her.
There was 29 year old lawyer who made junior partner in record time and wouldn't even consider dating men who made less than her (including yours truly), only to end up alone at a bar a decade later with a mean scowl on her face that would scare away any man.
There was the former model who at 48 still wanted to go to "night clubs." She broke down crying as it looked increasingly likely her house would go into foreclosure.
And of course there's Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb.
Now I could go on retrospectively identifying all the Potemkin Women I've ran into, but the point is, especially for men (though women will also have to interact on a non-romatic or business level with Potemkin Women) is to realize just how hallow and miserable their lives really are. The more posturing, parading and bragging you see, the more likely it is they go home and their lives are miserable. That the woman who laughed at you in front of her friends when you offered to buy her a drink, goes home that very same night in a drunk stupor and cries herself to sleep because "she can't find a man." I don't say this because I "want" it to be true or that I'm looking for some kind of "revenge" for women that spurned my advances. I'm telling you because it IS true. I've seen it. I've seen the Potemkin Woman at home all by herself at 3AM, out of the public view...
and she ain't pretty.
It's for the Chillllldreeeennnnn
"Gee, Jim. I don't know. Where have all the good men gone?"
If those samples were found in the post by officials
on their way to foreign laboratories, the French men who sent them
could theoretically face a year in prison and a 15,000 Euro fine. This
year the ban was challenged but the French Government decided to uphold
and maintain the anti-paternity testing law.
The reasons for which the Government said the ban
should remain were related to the preservation of peace within French families. According to some online articles, Germany, has also banned
(or plans to ban) paternity testing for similar reasons. French psychologists suggest that fatherhood is
determined by society not by biology...
The argument against allowing paternity testing in
France is directly opposed to the argument for allowing it almost
everywhere else. While French Authorities believe that paternity testing
can cause friction within families, some fathers find that getting rid
of any doubt relating to their relationship with their child can help
strengthen the bond they have with them, instead.
In cases where their paternity has been verified,
the child could actually get to know who their 'real' biological father
was and many people believe that is important. So, rather than causing
disputes, paternity testing in France could actually settle them. Now
that the ban has been upheld, French fathers are likely to continue
breaking the law in an effort to discover whether children in their care
are biologically theirs.
Why I Refuse to See "42"
On this latest episode of The Clarey Podcast, Aaron discovers what it's like to be a stay at home wife/mom and wonders why women gave up such an easy gig for the skullduggery of work? He also reviews the movie "Burt Wonderstone" and the most recent "Die Hard." He also opines why so many good "guy flicks" are ruined by a forced romance subplot, as well as he outright refuses to see "42" as he alikens affirmative action movies to church sermons - neither of which he is fond of. Finally, drawbacks to enjoying the decline, or just being a rugged individualist. Every adventure has its drawbacks and there's not a lot of people 3 standard deviations to the right of the mean.
Monday, March 25, 2013
$1,300 for a Class in Chicana Lesbian Studies
For the Patron Saints Name of Frick.
I mean, you just can't make this up. It REALLY IS A CLASS!.
My question is this - what IDIOT decides it's worth spending $1,300 for ONE CLASS on LESBIAN CHICANA STUDIES???
Honest to freaking Christ. What moron, even at the naive age of 18 decides to part with $1,300 of their own money to pay for this veritable shit?
And you people question my decision to give up and Enjoy the Decline.
I mean, you just can't make this up. It REALLY IS A CLASS!.
My question is this - what IDIOT decides it's worth spending $1,300 for ONE CLASS on LESBIAN CHICANA STUDIES???
Honest to freaking Christ. What moron, even at the naive age of 18 decides to part with $1,300 of their own money to pay for this veritable shit?
And you people question my decision to give up and Enjoy the Decline.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Character Trumps Diversity
If you ask two men (or women) to describe themselves, the lesser of the two will cite their religion or ideology rather than their profession. i.e.- the superior of the two will say,
"I'm a plumber"
or
"I'm a surgeon"
or
"I'm a stay at home wife."
while the inferior of the two will say,
"I'm Christian"
or
"I'm a liberal"
or
"I'm a vegan."
The reason why one is superior to the other is that in order to be a "plumber" or a "surgeon" or a "stay at home mother" means you must do something or achieve something. Being "Christian" or declaring yourself a "vegan" simply takes a declaration and nothing more (please do not flood me with e-mails about catechism). And though it may seem to be a very subtle difference, it is something I immediately pick up on when meeting people for the first time. For nearly 100% of the time when somebody defines themselves by their belief system or ideology and NOT their profession that person proves to be somebody I not only dislike, but do not trust.
The reason why is that when somebody substitutes a belief, religion or an ideology for achievement, it is an (admittedly) unconscious admission of laziness and proof of a weak, or total absence of, character. A person who defines themselves by merely joining a group or espousing beliefs lacks the rigor, determination, work effort and temerity to do something productive and meaningful in their lives. However, their ego is such that it cannot stand having no prestige or respect and thus they join a "club." Ergo why I truly believe the VAST majority of religious participants do not participate in religion for something as noble as god, as much as it is first and foremost for themselves.
However, religion aside, there is another variant of this intellectual hypocrisy and that is "diversity."
Let us be clear what diversity is - it is nothing more than a political tool of the left. It works by irrationally and undeservingly applying value to traits that a person was born with, and thus, had nothing to do with.
For example, say you were born the "Triple Crown" of affirmative action - black, female, and homosexual.
You are a veritable celebrity in leftist circles. You are fawned over, placated, kowtowed to and told how oppressed you are. You are also told how great you are just by the fact you have the traits of being:
1. Black
2. Female
3. Homosexual
and still manage to live, "courageously" in the face of evil white privilege, male, patriarchy blah blah blah.
But what did you achieve?
The answer is nothing. You just happened to be born with the traits of being black, female and homosexual.
THESE ARE TRAITS, NOT ACHIEVEMENTS. Traits you HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH AND NO CONTROL OVER.
Of course this isn't to say that a black woman who happens to be homosexual does not have character. If she is a surgeon and you say, "describe yourself" and she says, "I'm a surgeon and an avid cyclist," she is placing value on her achievements and hobbies, not her ethnicity, gender and sexual preference, none of which she did anything to attain. Unfortunately, though, the appeal of "diversity" and applying value where there is none proves too tempting to many. One only has to look at the sea of worthless degrees and worthless college departments in "Hyphenated-American Studies."
"Women's Studies"
"Gender Studies"
"African American Studies"
"Chicano American Studies"
and the list goes on and on and on.
Here the political tool of diversity is particularly deceitful, evil and outright bigoted. It lies to various groups of people telling them traits they were born with somehow give them value. It lies to those same groups of people telling them because of these traits, they are oppressed by those who do not share their traits. It ruins the lives of these innocent people saying the ONLY way they can overcome these injustices is through the government via Democrat/Socialist/Lefitst parties (of whichever country they're in). And worst of all, it deprives these individuals of any real individualistic achievement by brainwashing them into an crippling coma-like state of "Woe-Is-Me-ism." In short the irony of these programs is that they claim to help these individuals, but merely serve to ruin their lives by making them veritable slaves to a political party.
I often wonder how long it's going to be before the black community wakes up and realizes that despite 40 years of affirmative action and democrat bribery their communities are in tatters and they are still in last place sociologically speaking in the US. I often wondering how long it's going to be before the Latino and Hispanic communities wake up and realize they're voting to turn the US into a more northern and colder version of the crappy countries they or their ancestors fled. And I wonder how long it's going to be before women realize feminism has done nothing more than enslaved them to the rat race, replaced their would-be-husbands with a government check, and destroyed any hope for true love and happiness via a normally functioning family.
Again, I don't care. I've checked out. It's just a sad crying shame nobody is heeding the words of Martin Luther King, especially those he worked so hard to help.
"I'm a plumber"
or
"I'm a surgeon"
or
"I'm a stay at home wife."
while the inferior of the two will say,
"I'm Christian"
or
"I'm a liberal"
or
"I'm a vegan."
The reason why one is superior to the other is that in order to be a "plumber" or a "surgeon" or a "stay at home mother" means you must do something or achieve something. Being "Christian" or declaring yourself a "vegan" simply takes a declaration and nothing more (please do not flood me with e-mails about catechism). And though it may seem to be a very subtle difference, it is something I immediately pick up on when meeting people for the first time. For nearly 100% of the time when somebody defines themselves by their belief system or ideology and NOT their profession that person proves to be somebody I not only dislike, but do not trust.
The reason why is that when somebody substitutes a belief, religion or an ideology for achievement, it is an (admittedly) unconscious admission of laziness and proof of a weak, or total absence of, character. A person who defines themselves by merely joining a group or espousing beliefs lacks the rigor, determination, work effort and temerity to do something productive and meaningful in their lives. However, their ego is such that it cannot stand having no prestige or respect and thus they join a "club." Ergo why I truly believe the VAST majority of religious participants do not participate in religion for something as noble as god, as much as it is first and foremost for themselves.
However, religion aside, there is another variant of this intellectual hypocrisy and that is "diversity."
Let us be clear what diversity is - it is nothing more than a political tool of the left. It works by irrationally and undeservingly applying value to traits that a person was born with, and thus, had nothing to do with.
For example, say you were born the "Triple Crown" of affirmative action - black, female, and homosexual.
You are a veritable celebrity in leftist circles. You are fawned over, placated, kowtowed to and told how oppressed you are. You are also told how great you are just by the fact you have the traits of being:
1. Black
2. Female
3. Homosexual
and still manage to live, "courageously" in the face of evil white privilege, male, patriarchy blah blah blah.
But what did you achieve?
The answer is nothing. You just happened to be born with the traits of being black, female and homosexual.
THESE ARE TRAITS, NOT ACHIEVEMENTS. Traits you HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH AND NO CONTROL OVER.
Of course this isn't to say that a black woman who happens to be homosexual does not have character. If she is a surgeon and you say, "describe yourself" and she says, "I'm a surgeon and an avid cyclist," she is placing value on her achievements and hobbies, not her ethnicity, gender and sexual preference, none of which she did anything to attain. Unfortunately, though, the appeal of "diversity" and applying value where there is none proves too tempting to many. One only has to look at the sea of worthless degrees and worthless college departments in "Hyphenated-American Studies."
"Women's Studies"
"Gender Studies"
"African American Studies"
"Chicano American Studies"
and the list goes on and on and on.
Here the political tool of diversity is particularly deceitful, evil and outright bigoted. It lies to various groups of people telling them traits they were born with somehow give them value. It lies to those same groups of people telling them because of these traits, they are oppressed by those who do not share their traits. It ruins the lives of these innocent people saying the ONLY way they can overcome these injustices is through the government via Democrat/Socialist/Lefitst parties (of whichever country they're in). And worst of all, it deprives these individuals of any real individualistic achievement by brainwashing them into an crippling coma-like state of "Woe-Is-Me-ism." In short the irony of these programs is that they claim to help these individuals, but merely serve to ruin their lives by making them veritable slaves to a political party.
I often wonder how long it's going to be before the black community wakes up and realizes that despite 40 years of affirmative action and democrat bribery their communities are in tatters and they are still in last place sociologically speaking in the US. I often wondering how long it's going to be before the Latino and Hispanic communities wake up and realize they're voting to turn the US into a more northern and colder version of the crappy countries they or their ancestors fled. And I wonder how long it's going to be before women realize feminism has done nothing more than enslaved them to the rat race, replaced their would-be-husbands with a government check, and destroyed any hope for true love and happiness via a normally functioning family.
Again, I don't care. I've checked out. It's just a sad crying shame nobody is heeding the words of Martin Luther King, especially those he worked so hard to help.
Results of "Forced Discipline and Regimen Month"
The month is up and the results are "good." Not "spectacular" but well enough to show improvement.
Though physically there is some visual improvement, most of the improvement came via numbers. i.e. - my bench press increased by 15 pounds, military press by 10 pounds, the amount of reps I could do also increased, and my resting heart rate went below 60. Blood pressure is also low at 114/70. I lost no weight, but did lose an inch in the waist, leaving me to believe I translated some fat into muscle.
While I did want to pretty much cut out all carbs and go paleo, unfortunately I pretty much had already done that as much as is "bachelorly" possible. Meaning to cut out carbs would require I make my own food and go WAY out of my way to do so. I got sick of spending an hour in the grocery store looking up "carbs" on the back of boxes. Carbs are freaking everywhere. Nearly impossible to cut it out of your diet beyond just not eating bread, pasta and other obvious things. It's easier instead to just work out more or run some physical chores or errands and eat the occasional Mexican dish than piss away an hour a day "looking up carbs."
The work out routine I followed was alternative lifting weights and running each day, it was also closely paralleled to Victor Pride's "30 Days of Discipline." So one day I would lift weights and the next day I would run. I forced myself to run 6 miles a day no matter how cold or how tired I was. I would take Sunday's off. Thankfully, however, this routine has become engrained and I will continue it.
Though physically there is some visual improvement, most of the improvement came via numbers. i.e. - my bench press increased by 15 pounds, military press by 10 pounds, the amount of reps I could do also increased, and my resting heart rate went below 60. Blood pressure is also low at 114/70. I lost no weight, but did lose an inch in the waist, leaving me to believe I translated some fat into muscle.
While I did want to pretty much cut out all carbs and go paleo, unfortunately I pretty much had already done that as much as is "bachelorly" possible. Meaning to cut out carbs would require I make my own food and go WAY out of my way to do so. I got sick of spending an hour in the grocery store looking up "carbs" on the back of boxes. Carbs are freaking everywhere. Nearly impossible to cut it out of your diet beyond just not eating bread, pasta and other obvious things. It's easier instead to just work out more or run some physical chores or errands and eat the occasional Mexican dish than piss away an hour a day "looking up carbs."
The work out routine I followed was alternative lifting weights and running each day, it was also closely paralleled to Victor Pride's "30 Days of Discipline." So one day I would lift weights and the next day I would run. I forced myself to run 6 miles a day no matter how cold or how tired I was. I would take Sunday's off. Thankfully, however, this routine has become engrained and I will continue it.
Latest Episode of "The Clarey Podcast" Available
Podcast 3-22-13
How cars are being progressively made more and more for chicks and how this will ruin cars. Aaron also talks about who his favorite talk radio show hosts are, as well as explains "the early dark days before the Manosphere" and how men figured this stuff out on their own. Show was heavily edited for quality purposes, however, you will DEFINITELY want to tune in at the 45:00 minute mark.
How cars are being progressively made more and more for chicks and how this will ruin cars. Aaron also talks about who his favorite talk radio show hosts are, as well as explains "the early dark days before the Manosphere" and how men figured this stuff out on their own. Show was heavily edited for quality purposes, however, you will DEFINITELY want to tune in at the 45:00 minute mark.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Whores Can't Be Choosers
Boys, you paying attention to this?
The ingredients before baking were already there to warn you before this happened.
Worthless degree, "writing profession," lack of science, math or STEM.
And how much do you want to bet she will self-proclaim herself to be an "independent feminist" who doesn't need a man while she parasites off of you guys for a meal?
I don't know what angers me more. That she no doubt will claim to be "independent" and thinks this is so "cute" or that there are enough men/suckers to let a veritable whore get away with this.
The ingredients before baking were already there to warn you before this happened.
Worthless degree, "writing profession," lack of science, math or STEM.
And how much do you want to bet she will self-proclaim herself to be an "independent feminist" who doesn't need a man while she parasites off of you guys for a meal?
I don't know what angers me more. That she no doubt will claim to be "independent" and thinks this is so "cute" or that there are enough men/suckers to let a veritable whore get away with this.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Using "The Law of Supply" to Pick Up Chicks
I'm not joking when I say this, but I believe economics is the key to understanding women.
But by all means. Keep using economics to figure out really important stuff like "how to lower interest rates" or "how to increase labor productivity."
I'll be using it to unhinge bras.
But by all means. Keep using economics to figure out really important stuff like "how to lower interest rates" or "how to increase labor productivity."
I'll be using it to unhinge bras.
Guns That Shoot Bugs & Misc.
My concern isn't so much the "gun safety nuts" who race to point out others' failings in gun safety, but "how big are the bugs you need a salt gun to kill them???"
Age acceleration. It is a fact of life. The first 5 years of my "conscious" life seem about 4 times as long as the next 30. I believe, if this acceleration continues, the last decade of my life will be about a day long in the eyes of my 3 year old self.
Remember being forced to pay $200 for the "15th edition" of your professor's book becausehe wanted to rape you for another $200, err...the 14th edition, just was so outdated? Yeah so do I.
We deport people who don't agree with socialism. Everybody else, COME ON IN!
More on bitcoin. Something I still am too lazy to start studying and understand.
Finally, I have not given Delusion Damage its due. If you have not visited him, you should as it is the single largest source of traffic and the single greatest aggregator of various right/mano/econ sites. Make it part of your daily regimen.
Age acceleration. It is a fact of life. The first 5 years of my "conscious" life seem about 4 times as long as the next 30. I believe, if this acceleration continues, the last decade of my life will be about a day long in the eyes of my 3 year old self.
Remember being forced to pay $200 for the "15th edition" of your professor's book because
We deport people who don't agree with socialism. Everybody else, COME ON IN!
More on bitcoin. Something I still am too lazy to start studying and understand.
Finally, I have not given Delusion Damage its due. If you have not visited him, you should as it is the single largest source of traffic and the single greatest aggregator of various right/mano/econ sites. Make it part of your daily regimen.
Why Minorities Account for a Majority of My New Readership
Uh oh! Looks like all those minority/victim groups are getting sick and tired of being lied to by the left! Even so much to the point they'll trust a evil right wing, bigoted, racist, sexist homophobe like me!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Andy Yang is Your Problem, Not Adria Richards
If a whiner, tattle-tale or NARC goes to the authorities and the authorities can easily identify her as a tattle tale, real leaders will dismiss the tattle tale as childish, stupid, and irrelevant. If you're spineless and lack any kind of leadership or wisdom, you give the tattle tale power and kowtow to her demands.
The truth is, if the people at PyCon and Andy Yang had ignored Adria Richards for what she was (a NARCy little whiner) none of this would have happened and the true loser (Adria Richards) would be left to wallow in her self-absorbed pity and self-forced-perceived "injustice."
Instead, kowtowing to political correctness, affirmative action, and spineless corporate "leadership," Andy Yang fired somebody who shouldn't have been fired and tarnished the reputation of his firm Playhaven.
Now, it will be very doubtful if any male (who account for not only the numerical majority of IT talent he needs, but highly skilled talent) will work under Andy Yang. whether at Playhaven or not. They will search his name and say,
"Oh yeah. That guy. The one without a spine and who will throw me under a bus for something as childish as a NARC. No, I think I'll take my Masters in Computer Engineering elsewhere."
The good news is that this story has a happy ending. The villain (Adria) got fired. Her accomplice (Andy Yang) is exposed for the spineless Igor he is. PolyCon's reputation with males is shattered and will want to seriously reconsider how much they want to open the floodgates to feminism. And I'm pretty sure the young man who got fired will be picked up by a less-politically correct, and more profit-oriented firm.
The lesson to pull from this is for all you executives and bosses out there to not give teeth to such worthless vermin as the Adria Richards of the world by being spineless wimps and bending over backwards for faux harassment complaints. The cost is the people who really matter - us adults who are sick and tired of walking on eggshells worrying about when the next power-tripping, egomanic, entitlement-minded brat is going to eavesdrop and file a complaint.
You want to talk about a hostile work environment? Well then you just keep kissing the asses of the Adria Richard's of the world.
The truth is, if the people at PyCon and Andy Yang had ignored Adria Richards for what she was (a NARCy little whiner) none of this would have happened and the true loser (Adria Richards) would be left to wallow in her self-absorbed pity and self-forced-perceived "injustice."
Instead, kowtowing to political correctness, affirmative action, and spineless corporate "leadership," Andy Yang fired somebody who shouldn't have been fired and tarnished the reputation of his firm Playhaven.
Now, it will be very doubtful if any male (who account for not only the numerical majority of IT talent he needs, but highly skilled talent) will work under Andy Yang. whether at Playhaven or not. They will search his name and say,
"Oh yeah. That guy. The one without a spine and who will throw me under a bus for something as childish as a NARC. No, I think I'll take my Masters in Computer Engineering elsewhere."
The good news is that this story has a happy ending. The villain (Adria) got fired. Her accomplice (Andy Yang) is exposed for the spineless Igor he is. PolyCon's reputation with males is shattered and will want to seriously reconsider how much they want to open the floodgates to feminism. And I'm pretty sure the young man who got fired will be picked up by a less-politically correct, and more profit-oriented firm.
The lesson to pull from this is for all you executives and bosses out there to not give teeth to such worthless vermin as the Adria Richards of the world by being spineless wimps and bending over backwards for faux harassment complaints. The cost is the people who really matter - us adults who are sick and tired of walking on eggshells worrying about when the next power-tripping, egomanic, entitlement-minded brat is going to eavesdrop and file a complaint.
You want to talk about a hostile work environment? Well then you just keep kissing the asses of the Adria Richard's of the world.
Adria Richards Fired
Halle-freaking-luja
Here's the official statement.
You can "like" the announcement on facebook.
To all the ladies who think it's your right to not be offended in this world, please take note and stay out of other people's business.
Here's the official statement.
You can "like" the announcement on facebook.
To all the ladies who think it's your right to not be offended in this world, please take note and stay out of other people's business.
Part IV of a "Worthless Degreed Person"
Part 4 is our friend Jorge explaining the political environment at his arts college. You would think they would be open minded, especially be a liberal school, but the hostility Jorge experiences is something most leftists would file a harassment complaint over if it were coming from the other side.
Cubanos in Wisconsin Quote
"For those of us who no longer have to fight to pursue freedom, it is easy to forget how precious it is."
"Who's the Private Economist Who's a Salsa Machine to All the Ladies?"
CAP!
It's "Shaft Themed Linkage" today!
Hey, works sucks, but don't let us stop you ladies from climbing that career.
Ace of Spades enjoys the decline! (though it's nestled in there)
You get what you deserve and we're laughing our asses off at you.
Adria Richards continues to help improve the reputation ofnazis...errr..bitches..errr..both...errr..."feminists."
The fact American's who hate their country and themselves so much that this is even a debate is why I enjoy the decline. And if Americans, specifically American women (yes, I am singling you out because of voting patterns) can't understand why the rest of us here can't afford to pay for EVERYBODY'S HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD, then the 19th amendment deserves serious reconsideration.
It's a scam and a racket people. Education was NEVER intended to help the students, just the professors.
What's missing from this article?
Tam hits 6 million!
This is why you just pass all students with B's and give the students who try A's. Trust me, that's how you keep your job in academia, and besides, most kids don't learn anything and don't want to learn anything. Make it work for you.
Or, ORRR, just don't have kids in the first place.
Bars prove to be a better place to meet your future spouse than church. BAR TRUMPS CHURCH!
Widowed Alpha Females (a good read, especially the observation about how television shows have changed for women in the past decade)
How do you fight such stupidity?
"If 50% of companies were ran by women and 50% of men stayed at home, then we'd have true equality." And equal misery and a fraction of our productive capacity and a country ripe for being taken over by our enemies. But hey, at least the feminists will be happy!
But we own the blacks! And we own the poor! They're our bitches and their lifestyles be damned! We need to pay back the teachers unions whose money keeps us in power!
This is why I want a bartender as a mom and not a sociologist professor. I would come 2nd, 3rd or 4th in terms of importance to the sociologist professor and 1st in the life of my bartender mom.
I will explain "The Rule of Chores" again. Whoever has the lowest standards of cleanliness THAT STILL IS ACCEPTABLE AND CONSIDERED HYGIENIC, is the one who does the least amount of chores. If somebody else wants standards of cleanliness HIGHER than that standard, then that person will do all the extra work necessary to clean to that level. So (as typically is the case) if the husband cleans to his bachelor pad level (the environment of which he survived just fine in with no medical complications) and the wife wants a cleaner standard, then the wife can clean till her heart's content.
Free Northerner also does an excellent job dissecting government and GDP figures.
Finally, our sponsor, GLORIOUS KARL! Who visited me recently and we had cigars. But in Soviet America CIGARS SMOKE YOU!
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It's "Shaft Themed Linkage" today!
Hey, works sucks, but don't let us stop you ladies from climbing that career.
Ace of Spades enjoys the decline! (though it's nestled in there)
You get what you deserve and we're laughing our asses off at you.
Adria Richards continues to help improve the reputation of
The fact American's who hate their country and themselves so much that this is even a debate is why I enjoy the decline. And if Americans, specifically American women (yes, I am singling you out because of voting patterns) can't understand why the rest of us here can't afford to pay for EVERYBODY'S HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD, then the 19th amendment deserves serious reconsideration.
It's a scam and a racket people. Education was NEVER intended to help the students, just the professors.
What's missing from this article?
Tam hits 6 million!
This is why you just pass all students with B's and give the students who try A's. Trust me, that's how you keep your job in academia, and besides, most kids don't learn anything and don't want to learn anything. Make it work for you.
Or, ORRR, just don't have kids in the first place.
Bars prove to be a better place to meet your future spouse than church. BAR TRUMPS CHURCH!
Widowed Alpha Females (a good read, especially the observation about how television shows have changed for women in the past decade)
How do you fight such stupidity?
"If 50% of companies were ran by women and 50% of men stayed at home, then we'd have true equality." And equal misery and a fraction of our productive capacity and a country ripe for being taken over by our enemies. But hey, at least the feminists will be happy!
But we own the blacks! And we own the poor! They're our bitches and their lifestyles be damned! We need to pay back the teachers unions whose money keeps us in power!
This is why I want a bartender as a mom and not a sociologist professor. I would come 2nd, 3rd or 4th in terms of importance to the sociologist professor and 1st in the life of my bartender mom.
I will explain "The Rule of Chores" again. Whoever has the lowest standards of cleanliness THAT STILL IS ACCEPTABLE AND CONSIDERED HYGIENIC, is the one who does the least amount of chores. If somebody else wants standards of cleanliness HIGHER than that standard, then that person will do all the extra work necessary to clean to that level. So (as typically is the case) if the husband cleans to his bachelor pad level (the environment of which he survived just fine in with no medical complications) and the wife wants a cleaner standard, then the wife can clean till her heart's content.
Free Northerner also does an excellent job dissecting government and GDP figures.
Finally, our sponsor, GLORIOUS KARL! Who visited me recently and we had cigars. But in Soviet America CIGARS SMOKE YOU!
Buy GLORIOUS HAT HERE!
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Check Engine Light That Cried Wolf
If you grew up in "my day" you knew that when the engine light went on in your car it was something serious. Ruptured cylinder, exploding piston, melting transmission, fire in the glove box, the Russians launched their ICBM's.
Then something happened around the mid 90's.
The horrible and much-feared engine light would go on, and after a gallon of adrenaline shot through your body, praying the car wouldn't blow up with you in it on the interstate during rush hour, it magically made it safely to the nearest and most-rip-offish service station. The next day you picked it up and found out "eh, oxygen sensor. 100 bucks to reset the code."
Next car, engine light, panic, station, 100 bucks "fuel sensor."
Next car, engine light, "what the F&CK? Again???" mild panic, drive it around a little more, station, "fuel sensor" 100 bucks.
Next car, engine light, "f#ck it, don't care." Drive around for another 6 months, pull into an auto part store and the clerk tells you "yeah, if you give us your ID, we can lend you this plug in device to your dashboard and it will reset it for you. You walk out, WOW! Who knew! O2 sensor! Reset button, NO 100 bucks.
So in 15 years the much-feared engine light, which was essentially X-Box's "the ring of death" for cars, no longer says a damn thing about your actual engine, but whether or not your exhaust indicates the TIPPY TOP MOST SUPER EFFICIENT mix of air and gas.
Is it vital?
No.
Is it even important?
No.
But unless you run the damn diagnostic on the car, you never know if THIS ONE TIME it ISN'T the bleeping oxygen sensor and the car is about to blow up and render you a charred corpse on a traffic jam during rush hour.
Now, it isn't as bad as in the mid 90's when the local station would charge you $100 to plug something in and hit a button, but you still have the fear of an imminent exploding car and the annoying chore of driving to your local O'Reilly's Auto store to use your license as collateral to boring a plug in device. And so when your beloved ole Captain was driving early this morning, and received the deceiving "engine light" on his car, only to find out it was once again the stupid "fuel sensor" he went online and bought this.
Not only will I save enough in gas to pay for the damn thing, I will also increase my life expectancy by 40 years not fretting about the stupid check engine light.
Then something happened around the mid 90's.
The horrible and much-feared engine light would go on, and after a gallon of adrenaline shot through your body, praying the car wouldn't blow up with you in it on the interstate during rush hour, it magically made it safely to the nearest and most-rip-offish service station. The next day you picked it up and found out "eh, oxygen sensor. 100 bucks to reset the code."
Next car, engine light, panic, station, 100 bucks "fuel sensor."
Next car, engine light, "what the F&CK? Again???" mild panic, drive it around a little more, station, "fuel sensor" 100 bucks.
Next car, engine light, "f#ck it, don't care." Drive around for another 6 months, pull into an auto part store and the clerk tells you "yeah, if you give us your ID, we can lend you this plug in device to your dashboard and it will reset it for you. You walk out, WOW! Who knew! O2 sensor! Reset button, NO 100 bucks.
So in 15 years the much-feared engine light, which was essentially X-Box's "the ring of death" for cars, no longer says a damn thing about your actual engine, but whether or not your exhaust indicates the TIPPY TOP MOST SUPER EFFICIENT mix of air and gas.
Is it vital?
No.
Is it even important?
No.
But unless you run the damn diagnostic on the car, you never know if THIS ONE TIME it ISN'T the bleeping oxygen sensor and the car is about to blow up and render you a charred corpse on a traffic jam during rush hour.
Now, it isn't as bad as in the mid 90's when the local station would charge you $100 to plug something in and hit a button, but you still have the fear of an imminent exploding car and the annoying chore of driving to your local O'Reilly's Auto store to use your license as collateral to boring a plug in device. And so when your beloved ole Captain was driving early this morning, and received the deceiving "engine light" on his car, only to find out it was once again the stupid "fuel sensor" he went online and bought this.
Not only will I save enough in gas to pay for the damn thing, I will also increase my life expectancy by 40 years not fretting about the stupid check engine light.
Why It Will Remain a Boys Club
It's people like Adria Richards and her petty sense of an "umbrage-free" life that will cause more harm to women as her antics scare away any potential employers from hiring women in fear they will do PRECISELY what she did - go on a crusade first and foremost for her own ego at the expense of pretty much everyone else. I mean, good god. Taking pictures at a conference for a conversation you were not part of and REPORTING IT???? What nazi goose-stepping BS is that??? Are women the new East German Stasi??? I can only imagine the effects of a nanny-nazi-narcfest on employee morale and productivity.
Look ladies, if you can't handle boys being boys, and your skin is so fragile you're going to NARC on them, then you don't belong in IT. You belong in HR.
For the Patron Saint's Name of Frick.
ht.
Look ladies, if you can't handle boys being boys, and your skin is so fragile you're going to NARC on them, then you don't belong in IT. You belong in HR.
For the Patron Saint's Name of Frick.
ht.
All Economic Production Comes from the Fed
I checked CNBC. Don't ask me why, I was just checking in to see how crazy the crazies were on the financial markets. And well, they're still crazy. Here's the headline title:
If I do my math right, we are now entering the 5th year where the financial markets focus all of their attention solely on the Fed for economic salvation and a source of economic production. Of course, this is nothing more than desperation. Much like middle aged divorcee women focus their attention on "Eat Pray Love" type movies to provide them the rationale a single George Clooney with millions of dollars will choose them and their baggage over a 25 year old, childless hottie, so too do the millions of finance professionals and 401k Clergy depend on an ever increasing stock market for their livelihood. And ANY excuse, even something as pathetic as thinking the central bank is the source of economic production, will do.
Therefore, since it seems the market insists on being irrational longer than that saner heads have patience, I thought it high time to make a couple economic charts explaining this new economy.
First, GDP by sector:
If you don't believe this chart, then you obviously didn't attend an Ivy League school and are stupid. You're probably racist too.
Second, a new refined chart on the basics of government finance:
You're an idiot, or at least not a Wall Street professional or D.C. financier genius like Paul Krugman, if you don't understand this. But it's alright, not everybody can be as smart as these guys. Debt is GOOD. Don't worry that there aren't any metrics on the Y-axis, it doesn't matter. That's how awesome and smart these eocnomists are and how stupid you are. You're also a racist if you don't agree with or understand this chart.
Finally, unicorns.
The implication of this chart should be obvious even a non-Ivy League graduate should understand it. Economics+Unicorns = Awesomeness. But that's OK if you don't, because that's why we have finance professionals to explain these "complex" financial and economic issues to dumbass commoners like you. This is cutting edge stuff by the way. The introduction of the "Unicorn Complex" has pushed economics as a field into new and unchartered territory. Barack Obama came up with it himself. That's how smart he is. And if you don't know why unicorns have anything to do with economics, then you are a racist AND a sexist.
This post brought to you by Amazon. You have to buy something, might as well get it on Amazon so I get a commish and don't have to ever work a real job again.
If I do my math right, we are now entering the 5th year where the financial markets focus all of their attention solely on the Fed for economic salvation and a source of economic production. Of course, this is nothing more than desperation. Much like middle aged divorcee women focus their attention on "Eat Pray Love" type movies to provide them the rationale a single George Clooney with millions of dollars will choose them and their baggage over a 25 year old, childless hottie, so too do the millions of finance professionals and 401k Clergy depend on an ever increasing stock market for their livelihood. And ANY excuse, even something as pathetic as thinking the central bank is the source of economic production, will do.
Therefore, since it seems the market insists on being irrational longer than that saner heads have patience, I thought it high time to make a couple economic charts explaining this new economy.
First, GDP by sector:
If you don't believe this chart, then you obviously didn't attend an Ivy League school and are stupid. You're probably racist too.
Second, a new refined chart on the basics of government finance:
You're an idiot, or at least not a Wall Street professional or D.C. financier genius like Paul Krugman, if you don't understand this. But it's alright, not everybody can be as smart as these guys. Debt is GOOD. Don't worry that there aren't any metrics on the Y-axis, it doesn't matter. That's how awesome and smart these eocnomists are and how stupid you are. You're also a racist if you don't agree with or understand this chart.
Finally, unicorns.
The implication of this chart should be obvious even a non-Ivy League graduate should understand it. Economics+Unicorns = Awesomeness. But that's OK if you don't, because that's why we have finance professionals to explain these "complex" financial and economic issues to dumbass commoners like you. This is cutting edge stuff by the way. The introduction of the "Unicorn Complex" has pushed economics as a field into new and unchartered territory. Barack Obama came up with it himself. That's how smart he is. And if you don't know why unicorns have anything to do with economics, then you are a racist AND a sexist.
This post brought to you by Amazon. You have to buy something, might as well get it on Amazon so I get a commish and don't have to ever work a real job again.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The Captain Goes "Full Monty"
From Instapundit:
Short of going the full Clarey, it is prudent to think of places to put your money where it will be harder for the looters to get at: Paying off debt, educating your kids, hard goods that you’ll enjoy, etc.
I like that. New economic phrase, "The Full Clarey." Defined as "when you really go off the deep end, give up on everything, and pound down the Rumpie while driving your Ninja at excessive speeds."
Short of going the full Clarey, it is prudent to think of places to put your money where it will be harder for the looters to get at: Paying off debt, educating your kids, hard goods that you’ll enjoy, etc.
I like that. New economic phrase, "The Full Clarey." Defined as "when you really go off the deep end, give up on everything, and pound down the Rumpie while driving your Ninja at excessive speeds."
When CSR Infects a Corporation
From an agent in the field:
The company (Origin Energy) continues to pay their employees their full wages, but rather than doing accounting, admin or maintenance for the company, they're released to plant saplings, ladle out soup, and counsel troubled 'yoof' for the charity organisation of the employee's choosing. This "charity leave" is provided in addition to the employees annual leave. The only possible way it could make for good business is if consumers were so impressed with Origin's squeaky clean social conscience, that they'd choose to forgo a cheaper energy provider to make the world a kinder, friendlier place....bahahaha....God, are we proles really that stupid? I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that. In any case, I'm pretty sure Origin isn't pushing that angle with their customers, they're pretty quiet about it actually, rather it seems to be a recruiting lure, it's hinted at here:
http://www.originenergy.com.au/2233/Our-culture-values
I can't see why they wouldn't just offer their favoured charities discounted electricity and be done with it - seems far less economically destructive to my uneducated mind.
CSR is a disease.
Let there be no doubt about it.
It just happens to infect corporations and not people.
The company (Origin Energy) continues to pay their employees their full wages, but rather than doing accounting, admin or maintenance for the company, they're released to plant saplings, ladle out soup, and counsel troubled 'yoof' for the charity organisation of the employee's choosing. This "charity leave" is provided in addition to the employees annual leave. The only possible way it could make for good business is if consumers were so impressed with Origin's squeaky clean social conscience, that they'd choose to forgo a cheaper energy provider to make the world a kinder, friendlier place....bahahaha....God, are we proles really that stupid? I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that. In any case, I'm pretty sure Origin isn't pushing that angle with their customers, they're pretty quiet about it actually, rather it seems to be a recruiting lure, it's hinted at here:
http://www.originenergy.com.au/2233/Our-culture-values
I can't see why they wouldn't just offer their favoured charities discounted electricity and be done with it - seems far less economically destructive to my uneducated mind.
CSR is a disease.
Let there be no doubt about it.
It just happens to infect corporations and not people.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Your Bank Account Is Safe
Do not buy a motorcycle.
Do not buy silver.
Do not buy that shapely AR 15.
You will obey.
You will conform.
You will keep your finite life's seconds of life in the form of dollars in the US banking system.
You will Obey.
You will conform.
All is safe.
You are a racist if you dare to have a thought otherwise.
Do not buy silver.
Do not buy that shapely AR 15.
You will obey.
You will conform.
You will keep your finite life's seconds of life in the form of dollars in the US banking system.
You will Obey.
You will conform.
All is safe.
You are a racist if you dare to have a thought otherwise.
The Lesson of Cyprus
I ran out of patience and went off the hinge. But at the same time explained the Cyprus event and why so many sheeple are scrambling to get their savings.
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