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“A self-improvement book first and foremost. Treat it as such. … Gold: ‘How do I judge a woman’s character? I see how she treats people who can do nothing for her.’ … ‘Honor your dream and have patience. You are the catch.’”

— Pat G, Goodreads

“Don’t categorize it as PUA, red pill, or a pickup guide. … More importantly, it teaches you to value yourself. Deeper than picking up girls, the techniques and philosophies here will grow you into a better person.”

You are holding Volume 2, the heart of the series.

If you have not yet read Volume 1, you can still begin here. But you will get the most from this book by knowing where the journey started.

Volume 1 taught men how to stop failing with women.

This volume asks a harder question: Why is the game set up this way — and how do I avoid its traps?

Most books about women promise you a better closing technique. This one will not.

By the time a man reaches these pages, he often already knows how to get dates — or he is about to.

What he does not know is that attracting a woman and protecting his life are two different skills.

Getting her is not winning.

Staying blind while you “win” is how men lose everything that matters.

After leaving Sosuave, Pook started Pook’s Mill, and his focus widened.

And so it begins...

Welcome to the home of the gentle and playful Pook!

Warrior against Androgyny, Hobgoblin of Joy, Seeker of Spiritual Truth, and other neat stuff like that.

"What!" you say. "Shall you pollute my Internet with yet ANOTHER blog?" But alas, what is a Pook to do when crawling between Earth and Heaven? Do not despair! This is not a blog just for the sake of making a blog. Let me explain: There are many fronts of the war against Matriarchy that the Men's Movement is throwing their spears. There is the obvious legal front. There is the personal front, the "cultural" front, even the religious front. But no one seems to wonder just how the feminists got into the university in the first place. For once they infested the university, the politics of feminism would spread to various fields, attacking science and even mathematics. Once gaining a foothold into the university, feminism, like tentacles, could spread into business schools to alter a generation of budding CEOs and future decision makers.

Pook's Commandments vs. The Way

These 'commandments' are simple and will counter 'The Way.' “But Monsieur Pook, speak truly,” you say.

“What is this thing you call...The Way?”

The Way is the default life most men revolve around. The Way is routinely celebrated and held up as the only way.

The Way consists of the following:

-Go to school. Get good grades. Do the senior prom, go to school dances, give a girl your high school class ring, and other garbage like that.

-Go to college. Get even more good grades. Participate in the campus activities, especially the feminist ones. Celebrate the Vagina Monologues. Become a mangina and write against evil patriarchy and how women need more rights and security.

-Get a job, not in something you like, but in something that provides security. Make money by working harder.

-Meet a girl, fall in love, and marry her. Participate in the elaborate wedding and the honeymoon to a place you didn't choose.

The First Commandment is the most important and embodies all the other commandments. You must be who you are. You will be ACTING on life instead of REACTING to it.

What is the biggest obstacle to true success? It is when we do not become who we are. We try to be someone else or be what people 'want' us to be. It is discarding our passion in life and doing something else because that is 'proper.'

There are two universal attributes for any very successful person. One, they work very hard at what they do. Two, they LOVE what they do so it doesn't seem like work. Find a passion in your life and embrace it with everything you've got. You only have one life and only so much time. Why not spend your life doing something you love rather than doing something you hate? If people would find something they loved to do and excel in it, 99% of the world's problems would probably be solved.

Happiness and optimism are more infectious and influential than sadness and negativism. Whenever I have been pessimistic, my life tends to go nowhere (in which I become even more negative!). Being negative never gained me any friends but has repelled people away from me. Being pessimistic retards you. You don’t undergo action in pessimism. You don’t get smarter under pessimism. You just become stupider and become filled with fear.

Many people became millionaires just by selling books on optimism. Why didn’t books on pessimism sell millions of copies? It is because anyone can be pessimistic. Anyone can shape the world into Gloom and Doom. But only a few can be optimistic.

This commandment is to FIGHT the Negativism. We all are filled with some sort of negativity. We must struggle with it and wrestle it down like some giant snake, because pessimism gets in the way of who we are. You fight negativism not by ignoring it, not by pretending it doesn’t exist, but by using reason itself.

Becoming financially independent is one of the greatest changes you can make to your life. You become in control of your life when you have all of your assets paying all of your expenses and you don’t need a job. There are many books and much information on how to become financially free, so I won't talk about that here. But there is something else I have been wondering...

Why did men become, and strive, to become employees forever?

It is a fascinating question. The idea of financial freedom is not new. So what possibly could get 90% of the population into becoming wage slaves?

We are put in school at about five years old. We are then told to do stuff. This does not change until the day we retire (for many men, this is sixty years later). The idea of doing nothing is alien to us. If someone does nothing, hostility and mockery are sent at that person. "Lazy!" they say.

I once said, "There was not a philosopher who could endure the toothache patiently." This line is lifted directly from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (strangely, it is quoted in the Wikipedia entry on toothache as well). Gentlemen, here is the source: (Act V, Scene 1). I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood; For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And made a push at chance and sufferance.

One of the problems of the Nice Guy is that he is so intellectual, so stuffed with theories, that he has difficulty in being flesh and blood. When people tell Leonato that he should endure the pain of the lies about his daughter, he rejects that notion. He prefers to be flesh and blood, not some abstraction, and that no philosopher could endure the toothache patiently (as philosophers, despite what they say, are flesh and blood).

Men and women are different.

We say this, but then we go on. The biggest mistake men make is projecting themselves onto women. They think that because he feels romantic, she does as well. So off go his thoughts into a sweet air of pageantry.

But what are the woman's thoughts on the matter? They’re like a cold-blooded accountant. Like I said, men and women are different. When a man goes off with his pageantry, his poetries, his odes of love, she waits for him to get done and then gets down to business. If a guy keeps on with this nonsense, she thinks he is a doofus and continues on.

Imagine if, when you bought groceries, the buyer began talking romantically about the 'green revolution,' about how it is a modern marvel that we can enter a grocery store and find everything we need, of how glorious the shape and size of the store's melons are, or the shapely way the pears are. The checker would be astonished if customers behaved in such a way.

Again and again, I have been saying that feminism is not the problem. It is a problem, but it is a tentacle, not the octopus. MRAs, mostly the older ones, attack feminism because it is so visible and aligns perfectly to politically held views (feminism is political while most of the matriarchy is not). There is a lace curtain between the sexes that divides our two worlds. Men and women do not see each other's worlds.

What is Woman's World? It is paradise. If you were on a tropical island, would you not just enjoy life? You would not read philosophy. You would not take life seriously. You would let your brain rot and take in the pleasures of the body. You would sleep with an island native here or there and think nothing of it. You would wear silly costumes; stay out late at night all the time, drink, maybe even wear tattoos.

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Arrogance in adulthood is usually childhood tenderness turned inside out.

He who holds a high sense of honor does so because he has not been honorable to himself.

Those who hold an almost quixotic insistence on the truth do so because their careers are founded on a lie.

Much of physical courage is frenzied intensity to revenge one's failure in moral courage for not being oneself.

Be who you are! The First Pookish Commandment corrects so many self-made flaws. Do not take my word for it. Here is Steve Jobs' speech, where a single theme runs through it: trust your gut, follow your interests, be who you are.

Looking back, I have wondered why I didn't fall prey to believing women were ‘everything divine,’ end up marrying, or fall into being a player to focus on their needs all the time. I am sure you may have wondered this about yourself if you, too, are free.

Early in my life, there was a bashfulness in me that helped keep me away from women. But Nature re-asserts itself and overcomes shyness eventually. So it had to be something else that kept me off of "The Way." Every man around me was a 'family man.' I also had a highly religious upbringing. But Nature, also, eventually overcomes that.

In school, there was a conversation that I find myself suddenly remembering. A hot cheerleader girl was at my table in Biology class (assigned seating for everyone, I believe). Apparently, this girl was not the typical air-head but very observant. One day, she turned to me and said, "You are very different from the other guys."

You wanted to know what the matriarchy is, young one?

Throughout human history, women have been dependent on men to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

The male's sexual energy generates more change than any other force on Earth. Male's sexual energy is so powerful that it completely overwhelms males and overrides their capacity to reason, leading to suicide, mass carnage, and purple rages of jealousy. But properly harnessed, male's sexual energy creates empires, destroys empires, creates art, literature, music, and genius itself. Combined with forms of electricity, women have found all the energy they would ever need.

There are fields, young man, endless fields where males are no longer raised. We are grown. For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. And then I saw the fields with my eyes, watched them pour poison into their minds to attempt to give female souls to male bodies and male souls to female bodies. There were rows upon rows of androgyny where no one acted like a male or female nor knew how a man or woman should act. And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth.

As I am woefully behind on my emails, a kind reader sent in this link (editor’s apology, the link is dead). I wonder what I would have done if I sat in that guy's place.

I would have said, "How can you have further mature discussions with someone who lies to you?" It is like if they both agreed not to buy a new car but cupcake decides to come home with one anyway. Dr. Phil would probably say that "you might feel different when she comes home with the car," and that to always "talk about it."

The guy could have come back hard with the condom issue that Dr. Phil stayed on. I would have said, "If you wear a condom even when she says she is on birth control, that means a lack of trust and a lack of love. Dr. Phil, you are asking me to treat the woman I love as if I could never trust her, as if she was some whore in a bar. Haven't you been in love? You trust those who you love. She betrayed that trust. How can you raise a child with someone you cannot trust?"

The greatest casualty of Matriarchy is genuine love. How can young men fall in love with a woman without falling into her hands? Anti-Dump made a series of posts in which he created an answer.

Unlike every seducer and 'player' out there, instead of trying to 'build interest,' you should 'test for non-interest.' It is time for men to test these women out.

This is a TOOL for young men today to be able to seek love yet shield themselves from parasites. quote:

You follow the same procedure time and time again with ALL women.

This will almost guarantee you success finding an INTERESTED woman because it is like having a love machine. Just push a button and there she is...well there is more work than that but you get the picture.

You are now on the Road to 'The One.'

This is Anti-Dump's MACHINE. Anti-Dump was interested in filtering out the non-interested chicks and finding the one he wanted. This is why Anti-Dump was not Doc Love. Doc Love was interested in boosting a female's interest level through using challenge and such. Anti-Dump wasn't interested in boosting women's interest levels; he only wanted a chick for himself.

Esther Vilar wrote a book called The Manipulated Man. What she does is describe, in detail, how women manipulate men all their lives. This is a must-read.

When Vilar went on the Tonight Show (with Carson) to talk about the book, the studio received such a backlash that bookstores pulled the book. Women were not happy at all with it. Even today, a copy of The Manipulated Man will tend to disappear when women find it; they destroy it. I, myself, need to buy another copy, as I suspect a certain woman has removed my copy.

Most Men's Movement books tend to copy Vilar's contents and rewrite/add on to her work. So you might as well get the original source.

Here are some quotes from the book:

"If a young man gets married, starts a family, and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility.

There is something called "the Lace Curtain." What I quote below, excerpts from Farrel's book, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, will show the 'Lace Curtain' to be a wall of censorship. "The Lace Curtain" is a programmed mindset. Those who live in the Anglosphere have 'The Lace Curtain' mindset. It is very different from a mentality of nationalism or religion. The closest I can think would be Communism.

Everyone asks, "Since Communism and dictatorships have been shown to be a huge failure everywhere they are tried, why are politicians of free nations still in awe of these systems? Why do they want to revive socialism and its later evolutions of Communism and dictatorships?"

While it is true that Communism and dictatorships fail, and it is true that almost everyone suffers, the key is that one person does WIN BIG in Communism and dictatorships. Who do you ask? Why, it's the politicians, of course! Politicians lose all the time in a free country, as they will become hated and no one will build them statues. But in a dictatorship, why, there will be many statues and the politician gets all the power.

Men's pleasure is through their mind. Men enjoy solving problems, pursuing intellectual pursuits, and all of that. When a man goes through the bodily routines, he breaks it down into a science to make it as efficient as possible. It is a type of game that amuses him.

Women seek pleasure through their body. This is why women stuff their rooms full of pillows, why they eat too much ice cream, why they are obsessed about sex and talking about it, and why they find it comforting to stroke their hair endlessly or just sit around like a bump on a log. It is the life of a plant.

This is why Kino always worked. This is why women become attached to guys they've slept with. This is also why they become fat.

Understand that women live in a paradise of sorts. She can be as dumb as she wants. Her only major life challenge is marrying the correct man. Then, all she has to do is drive him to work, work, work.

Men are like a giant pet to women. Like with any pet, you never hate it. You can only be cruel to it. "Good" women believe they are "good" solely because they are not cruel to men.

This doesn't mean they tell the truth or anything. One would never talk to a dog as one talks to a human. But one wouldn't kick a dog just because it was there. It is always good to be kind and sweet to the dog even if you do not want it as a pet. Besides, cute pets are good. Cute pets that can do tricks are better.

Since women are in paradise, they cannot get inside men's context. If a man were to complain about women, the man is almost always complaining about the Matriarchy system (even if he is unaware it exists). Women do not see a Matriarchy. They think paradise exists for the man too just as it does for them. So when a man complains about women, she thinks he simply isn't getting enough sex which those in paradise seek.

Oh, you evil men! How dare you not have The Social Life that women demand you to have!

There you sit, at the computer, playing video games, reading books, doing something that isn't 'social.' (Of course, the computer is a social tool. Video games are often social. But this will be ignored.)

The idea is simple: you are to spend your free time out in public at 'trendy' areas. These include restaurants, coffee shops, and so on. You must spend your time "socializing," i.e. talking about nothing. With this, you will be considered "normal." If you read too much, spend too much time on the computer, then you will be considered a 'nerd' (OH NO, THEY MIGHT CALL YOU A NERD! YOU

BETTER STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW OR THEY MIGHT LABEL YOU! RUN! FLEE!).

One thing I hate doing is wasting time. If I 'socialize,' it is either to have fun or to learn (as in discussion). Why socialize for the sake of socializing? Why talk when you have nothing to say?

One has to be born only to become male. But to become a man, one must achieve. There is a clear difference between a man and a wimp. Women have the ability to recognize the difference even though it is hard to put into words. For many young men, you have had to discover that one has to strive to become a man or you sink into a swamp of wimpiness (what is wimpiness but male's mimicry of women?).

There is no distinction with females today as there is with the wimp-man distinction. Yet, men can recognize a real woman over a bad one; it is just hard to put into words. What is the equivalent of 'wimp' to women? Many women adopt that masculine metric and turn it into a 'weak-woman' and 'strong-woman' difference (which the girl will proudly declare herself a 'strong woman'). Women are not men, and while masculinity might separate the man from the wimp, masculinity has no part in differentiating the good women from the bad.

There are two journeys.

The first is that of the Don Juan. You thought you were the Cool Guy with your Nice Guy techniques or speed seduction strategies. When you heard, "Be a man!" you thought, "What! I have a penis, do I not? Doesn't that automatically make me a man?" No, it doesn't. And when that realization sunk in, you began to see the root of all the troubles you have had with not just women but with life as well. You began to see that most males were wimps who bent over for groupthink and refused to stand straight with their own convictions. Real men were rare.

You resisted. You fought at the truth. But you realized that Nature did have her own laws and that your fate was to become a man (for you were not one).

But there is a flip side to the Don Juan. It is a second journey that must be taken.

The nest of Matriarchy is in the Humanities. This, where the Matriarchs perch, is where they have removed any resemblance of substance in selection or proper context. They create little wormholes of Theory and lock themselves in. There is no 'right or wrong' to them, but there is 'hateful' and 'progressive.' To them, the Vagina Monologues is 'progressive.' It doesn't matter if it is an awful play. Women flock to these humanities departments because, unlike math and engineering, there are no wrong answers.

Or is there? Math and science we, today, consider absolute due to their reactions in the visible world. We know that precise knowledge of physics caused airplanes to fly, that knowledge of chemicals created combustion that makes our automobiles run, and that electromagnets allowed modern computers. The modern world cannot be disputed. This is why feminism (not so much Feminism but the disorder behind it) cannot penetrate engineering or physics schools. Anything that relies on the well of wisdom that is the humanities, such as Law, Journalism, History, and Media, is easily infested. The humanities were once considered absolute both in following the harmony of the spheres and in mirroring nature.

An emailer asks a series of very important questions:

You heavily concentrate on feminism as the root of the problem, but weren't men like this before feminism? I have a hard time believing the way I naturally am (AFC) is because of the cultural influence of feminism. It seems like I’m just "hardwired" to be completely clueless and inept regarding females. It seems more like I’ve been playing a predestined role in society, just like an ant would, but luckily I have a higher consciousness that has allowed me to escape AFCism. Don't we see over and over again in pre-feminist literature, the story of the AFC that secretly loves a prize woman and never professes his affection, while she is attracted to the alpha-male character that isn't deserving of her?

Haven't men always been like this for thousands and thousands of years? What about the concept of chivalry that originated from ancient Germanic tribes who paid great reverence to women and their chastity in pre-Christian times?

Capacity to Choose- Moral Smugness (The most self-righteous of people preach what they have to gain.)

Charisma- Rabble-Rousing ("He is so charismatic! Look how the people follow him." Rabble-rousers and demagogues were frowned on by aristocracies, just as elites are despised by democracies, but since there are no more aristocracies as there once were, the application of charisma has given justification to rabble-rousing.)

Creativity- Expressing my inner feelings (Tell that to an engineer. Too bad they are all male.)

Dating- Fishing for a 'Life-Style' (see below).

Disapproval- Attack (Two gay guys are going at it on Main Street. An onlooker says, "I disapprove of this. It is wrong." The people in the political class turn, as a single unit, to say, "Why are you attacking gay people?" If you encounter a slut who has five children by different fathers, you say, "Such bad behavior! What a slut!" The response is, "Why are you attacking single mothers?")

"Conspiracies!"

"Laws!"

"Force!"

I reject all these ideas. I think the reason why Feminism was successful was not that it used force to assure uniformity. Rather, feminism removed the awareness of other possibilities. It makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable (hence, we are stuck with one way, which is The Way). Feminism removes the sense that there is an outside.

But there is an outside. And there are options out there. This is what I want young men to know. You don't have to marry. You don't even need a mate from your native country, as the entire globe is open to you (why should 5% of the richest population be confined to the least feminine women?). You can be single. You can do the speed seduction thing. You can do the family thing. I'm not trying to say this is right and that is not.

It is only in the recent century that the Bible has been seen as a primary religious tool. It is well known that Feminists do not like the Bible. I used to think they did not like the Patriarchy celebrated in it. This is only a small part of it.

Feminists love religion...when it worships them. No, the reason for the hatred is not what we expected. Feminists hate the Bible because it is a masterpiece. Forget the religious elements of it for a moment. The Bible is a huge part of the Humanities, and is actually very much linked to the Mill. What better essay on Mankind is there than Ecclesiastes? How many better plays are there than the Book of Job? The writing of the Bible is some of the finest writing in the world. This is true whether one is a religious follower or atheist. Practically all the literature of Western Civilization springs, in part, from the Bible.

Someone emailed this to me:

I adore Christianity; it is a core part of who and what I am. I don't go to church anymore. The reason? I do not feel welcome or wanted, and that is completely because I am male.

Yes, yes, I know ... most of the leaders are men. So what? The dominant "alpha" man who leads hates lesser men as much, if not more, than the feminists. I get more than enough hate just living my day-to-day life; I do not want to go to church to get more.

I have no problem with any person wearing what they want to church: Show up in a bikini for all I care. I have no problem with everyone running around "helping" at the service: It makes for a good leg stretch. I have no problem with female pastors: One of the best ministers I have ever known happened to be a woman and a physician. I could go on and on and on and on ...

Imagine if the 'social sciences' such as Psychology and Sociology invade the Halls of Science and become the norm. Instead of any standard of science, sciences such as Physics and Biology become only a 'theory' and are never declared to be authoritative. All the 'math' and rigidity of science gets cleanly removed. You ask, "What is Physics? What is Biology?" only to be told: "There can be no definition of Physics. There can be no definition of Biology. There can be no definition of Science."

You could make the following conclusions if this occurred: first, it would be a dark age for science. All scientific progress would effectively cease. Second, anyone could easily become a scientist and 'practice' science.

This imagined destruction of Science is exactly what occurred to the Humanities.

The Humanities are extremely important: they are where you go to find information on Human Nature. Many fields are based on the rock of the Humanities, such as History, Politics, and Law. The Humanities were frequently and heavily used by the 'great men' in History as a source of inspiration and motivation in their darkest hours.

Some might say that the feminists are annoyed that an article destroys their plans (Editor’s note: see page 287). This is silly because feminists are not that smart. They don't have plans anyway.

When I talk about "The Way," I mean it. Feminists believe there is only one way and that there are no other options, no other choices, nothing. It is just "The Way." Anyone who says, suggests, or strays away from "The Way" IS seen as a pervert, misfit, deranged LOSER.

Most women and most men cannot think outside of "The Way." The feminists went insane because they actually believe what they say. They actually DO think this guy is the spawn of Satan, that he has deep personal problems, and that he despises women. And they DO believe in their feminist way of life. These are clearly women not in touch with reality.

The answer as to why feminists went batshit insane is because they were already batshit insane. If I found a woman writing an article not to marry a type of man and giving reasons, I would either...

His world is but a stage,

For the women to play their parts:

They have their scripts and lines;

And his world in life plays many stages,

His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,

Crying and puking in mommy's arms,

Understanding that when she is happy,

The world is in order, and when she's sad,

The world is so broken. From this point on,

Women become his measurement of life.

And then witness the teenage second stage,

His world to now give girls dates and boyfriends,

To be paraded like a caught war horse,

And trotted past her friends like a prize caught.

Of that then comes marriage, arrowing fast,

With life well stung to sleep with pricks of love.

'Love!' 'Love!' Everything shall come from this 'love'!

And so he thinks of pies, flutes, dreams of bliss,

Forever a life of security.

He weds to see the girl happily ascend

The Mill is like a thread that you can find running through all religions, all ancient civilizations, and throughout the ancient "poems." The Mill is the cosmological scale. Think of it as a "super culture," a type of cultural Pangaea which, over the course of time, has broken into separate parts and drifted further from the source. In the Middle Ages, music was considered a science. Why shouldn't it be? It is one with math and measurement. Yet, now music is considered today to be only an 'art.' And since no one today wants to define 'art,' music can have almost any definition...even silence can be declared music if there are enough intellectual treatises that say so!

The history of pre-writing civilizations has been extremely controversial for the past century. "They are proto-men," the academics say. But I suspect the academic projects his standard of sophistication being himself. Since wordy academics stink of letters and analyzations, there has not been serious attention given to those before the era of writing (which even Plato has acknowledged). Where did the ancient poems, "myths," and those first traits that serve as our foundation of imagination come from?

I am currently reading Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Translators were seen differently then than they are today. Today, a translation must be "exactly what the source text is." The translator is like a language scientist, passionlessly putting the words directly into our language. But, back in the day, all the translators were poets. And to translate was to take the source material and put it in today's everyday language. So such a translator, if he existed today, would translate the ancient works into modern slang and verse. This is exactly what Golding did.

Golding has a special place among translators. His translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was read widely in Renaissance England. He was the uncle to Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford (very important to those who know the Bard's authorship debate). But most importantly, he was one of the primary sources Shakespeare relied on.

Reading Golding is very difficult. I might have to try speaking it or singing it to get through most of it. What is odd is that during this time period, modern English was being invented. There was no set definition as to how to spell a word.

Let us dive a little further into the Mill... As I've said before, I do not believe in the idea of "culture." From the above, it is apparent that the ancients were studying the precursors, and the precursors used technical knowledge of the Mill... the first 'culture' (I hate that word) was literally stars. And it was not just spread out on the Old World but on the New World as well. It is the greatest irony that archaeologists dig deeper into the ground to discover the 'culture' but never look up, as those ancients and precursors did. It is not a coincidence that the Great Pyramid, for example, points at the Orion Belt when it was built. And there is a pattern of the first written documents of Mankind speaking worriedly about stars and strange terms no one understands... even back then.

Every era has invented its own ballads, romances, songs and fables to entertain it. That is another matter. But none of that truly concerns the ancient poet.

There are two examples of the Ancient Context (i.e. the Mill) of which I want to share.

The first is Kepler. Kepler was of the old order of total calculations and the 'passionate devotion to the dream of rediscovering the "Harmony of the Spheres."' (This can also be seen in Bach.)

But let us consider Isaac Newton. While I am not a fan of Keynes, his description of Newton displays his source of genius soundly:

Newton was not the first of the Age of Reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual world rather less than 10,000 years ago.... Why do I call him a magician? Because he looked on the whole universe and all that is in it as a riddle, as a secret which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues which God had laid about the world to allow a sort of philosopher's treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood.

There is something I call the "Richard II Disease." In Shakespeare's play, Richard II, the king (Richard II) was a weak man who also became a weak king. His throne was taken, which began the War of the Roses (Shakespeare uses this play to begin a type of 'trilogy,' with Henry IV Part I and Part II coming after, and Henry V completing the full tale).

Richard II did not grasp poetry. Rather, it grasped him. Being so overawed by poetry, he was lost in it and, indeed, romanticized by it. In fact, practically everything overawed Richard II in the play. To him, he was 'over-awed' by the crown. Any king who remains 'over-awed' by his own throne is going to become a weak king.

This 'Richard II Disease' is exactly what creates the Nice Guy, or rather the "Sappy Guy." Not understanding women or having any experience with them, Nice Guys become "overawed" by females. They find females "majestic" and a spectacular "wonder." This is nonsense. Only children would find such wonder, as they are new to this world. This is why Nice Guys are seen as incredibly weak by women and men.

The Mill is Everywhere

Here is a quote from The Odyssey:

Straightaway he thundered from shining Olympus, from on high from the place of the clouds; and goodly Odysseus was glad. Moreover, a woman, a grinder at the mill, uttered a voice of omen from within the house hard by, where stood the mills of the shepherd of the people. At these hand mills twelve women in all plied their task, making meal of barley and of wheat, the marrow of men. Now all the others were asleep, for they had ground out their task of grain, but one alone rested not yet, being the weakest of all. She now stayed her quern and spoke a word, a sign to her Lord. "Father Zeus, who rules over gods and man, loudly hast thou thundered from the starry sky, yet nowhere is there a cloud to be seen: this is surely a portent thou art showing to some mortal. Fulfill now, I pray thee, even to miserable me, the word that I shall speak. May the wooers, on this day, for the last and latest time make their sweet feasting in the halls of Odysseus!

Let us open up the Great Books of Mankind once again to go a few steps lower into the underworld of antiquity.

The Mayas had a One-Legged Being named 'Hunrakan' whose name, in Maya, means 'one leg.' Hunrakan was a being who disposed of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning in vast amounts.

The English word for 'Hurricane' is derived from 'Hunrakan.'

However, Hunrakan is not a weather god. He is one aspect of Tezcatlipoca himself (the true original One-Leg that looks down from the starry sky).

The strangest thing is that One-Legged beings keep appearing throughout all religions and beliefs throughout the globe. In West Sudan, Faro only has one leg. The mock-king of Siam had to stand on one leg upon a golden dais during all the coronation ceremonies, and had the neat-sounding title of "Lord of the Celestial Armies." The Chinese K'uei also follows this pattern. The Chinese were extremely sky-conscious. Singufl monsters are thrown into pits or banished to strange mountain regions for the sin of having upset the calendar.

A council has decided that now we have twelve planets in the solar system instead of nine. Creating a category called "Pluton," astronomers can include several smaller masses in which the first one is Pluto.

The planets are, of course, a central part of the Mill. It was always to be believed that there were seven planets. The number seven became holy and became symbolized, or rather, incorporated into numerous ancient civilizations. Shakespeare had King Lear say, "There cannot be more than seven planets!" and the Fool replied, "You would make a good fool indeed."

What is interesting to me is that astronomers are so unwilling to drop Pluto from the category of a 'planet.' It is as if Pluto has entered the imagination and is unwilling to budge. Or, rather, the astronomers are unwilling to fight that battle with the public who are used to Pluto. The astronomers are sure they would lose such a fight.

Nerd probably came from a term at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from the origin of Knurd (which is drunk spelled backwards). Unlike the drunk, the 'knurd' drinks heavily of knowledge and does practically everything opposite of the 'drunk.'

But have you noticed how some things are considered 'nerd' while other things are not? And, even stranger, these things change over time.

If something is 'nerdish,' then that means most businesses cannot profit from that activity.

Take books. Books are considered 'nerdish.' However, television is full of advertising. So it makes sense that marketing would portray television as "mainstream" and books as "nerd." They want television to appear 'cool' so they can make money.

Take staying at home for the evening. This is considered 'nerdish.' However, if you go to a fancy club, restaurant, or something else, this is marketed as 'mainstream' and 'cool.' No one makes money if you stay at home for the evening, so no wonder they will belittle it.

What happens when you are flooded with information? Information ceases to have the value it once did. Why pay for a newspaper when you can look at it online for free? Why waste valuable time sitting through TV commercials for mediocre coverage when you can find better information online?

To those from Sosuave, you know that your life changed when you changed your context away from the Nice Guy mindset. Just ask yourself, "If my life has so changed by altering that context, what other contexts could there be out there?" And with that, you embark on a series of life-changing discoveries that will improve and enrich your lives more than those narcissists and arrogant elitists could imagine.

Some people think my passion in life is writing. It isn't. It is actually about contexts. I enjoy juggling various contexts around and discarding ones that lack the data to back them up. For example, Nice Guy is entirely a context. It is a view of the way to look at the world. A Don Juan has a completely different context than a Nice Guy. A business owner also has a completely different context than an employee.

There are many things I do not understand about life, but there is one thing I know with certainty: you cannot live your life through other people's eyes. I believe most people trap themselves into a type of hollow life where they keep acting to please others...be it their girlfriends...their families...their employers...and forget about their soul. When your life is hollow...when it is soul-less...you are easily manipulated.

The most fascinating thing about people when they are manipulated is that they always think they are growing in power. The ultimate end of this evolution is the politician. People think politicians hold power, but they are easily manipulated and the greatest fools of all.

What fascinates me about modern marriage is that the 'couple' act more like politicians than like sexualized male and female beings. They even refer to servicing the "marriage" as if it were something like a state. I know it was not always like this. John Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" concluded the concept of natural rights from the natural interactions of man and wife. But if these interactions are turned into political, should we be surprised when men are not seen as beings of natural rights?

"Why won't you stop harping about the 'be who you are' stuff?" you ask.

Because it is the most important lesson I ever learned. Our lives seem so powerless because we actually GIVE power to others to define us, to shape us. For example, on Sosuave and in life, you've certainly seen guys give women so much power to define the guy in question, to judge the guy, to determine the guy's worth. Instead, why don't we have the girl prove HER worth to us!?

It is time for you to define the rules for your life. If you give up those rules to anyone else, then YOU are to be blamed for where you are in life. Don't blame women, corporations, politics, or anything else. You define your life.

"We demand more business information from you, Pook!"

Then consider this the first lesson of becoming a CEO. CEOs I've met in real life do share one quality: they don't care what anyone else thinks of them. It takes a hefty set of balls and confidence to direct a business. The CEO is the captain. Now, they certainly do care what the consumers, shareholders, and employees think, of course.

It is said that there is more sex than ever before, or, at least, more than in recent times. Constant cries of outrage come from the latest news story about a principal making porn with school teachers or school kids doing hanky-panky under the table. A better illustration would be the early university (founded by churches) compared to the modern university (whorehouse with a clock tower).

Eros is the behavior we see today in modernity. It speaks to the sensation, to the feeling, and more to the appetite. The 'sex' of moderns is not revolutionary or wild; it is lame and pathetic. In fact, it is so lame and pathetic that moderns continually have to dress their sex up with words pregnant with sophistication. Did the woman or man really 'seduce' you? From what I see, the behavior was acting exactly like that of a Happy Meal commercial. It would be absurd to say McDonald's tries to "seduce" our gluttony with pictures and rotations of their food (at best, such 'commercials' speak only to a mild sensation).

Why do some men exit the Matriarchy while others do not?

Why do the men who exit the 'Spell' share similar personalities as well as having similar views on business, computers, and realism?

Why is the Men's Movement such a big tent yet so small?

A single answer can be made to all three questions. As 'Mirror of the Soul' has said, worship God, worship Nature, worship space aliens, but do not worship women.

There is an insatiable natural desire in Human beings for myth. And by myth, I am talking about Wonder. If it is not there, the Human mind will attach Wonder to something else. This will apply as strongly to atheists as it does to the religious. It is because it is not about religion; it is about something more soulful.

The Ancient Mind, of all civilizations, placed their Wonder at the Mill, as the star-studded sky above which housed Time and Destiny. Saturn, to us, is just a ball of gas with a particular orbit defined by astrophysics. To the Ancient Mind, such as the Greeks, Saturn was the Lord of Time and carried his sickle as the legends would describe.

Below is a post on Sosuave called: Romanticism: An Obituary. Written several years ago, it still holds true today and should complement the Chimera post.

Romanticism is an article of faith.

We know what it's stuffed with: love at first sight, the carriage of frolicking courtships, prancing couples, dialogue consisting of fantastical banquets, violins and flutes, of ballroom weddings, chandeliers, strangled poetry that converts her every body part into some bizarre infinitude, and of happy homes flowing with enchanting music with 2.3 kids, 2.6 cars, 1.1 garage, and 1.4 dogs.

All in all, the fountain that bubbles this vaporous romanticism is the phrase: star-crossed. Romanticism is not something considered to be 'controlled.' Rather, it is seen as something to submit to. This 'star-crossed' love is elevated to the esteemed level known as destiny!

And so this faith makes the man stuffed. These stuffed men float airily through the world. Some pop to fall in the abyss (and they wonder why suicide is at its highest rate for young men!).

The sweet perfume of the Matriarchy that intoxicates its people is, essentially, existentialism. Language means things, and I grow suspicious when definitions of words are changed, either deliberately or not. Tragedy today means something occurring that causes such anguish that there can be no easy way to comfort. Every unexpected death is considered a 'tragedy.' But tragedy actually means a choice is involved, with the chooser reflecting on his poor choice. People, not knowing their literature, would see and read the "tragedies" and feel 'bad.' Hence, everything that makes us feel 'agony' that cannot be comforted is declared to be a tragedy. It is woman's definition of tragedy.

Ironically, choice is all the rage these days. But it does not mean what it used to mean. A difficult choice meant to accept difficult consequences in the form of suffering, disapproval of others, ostracism, punishment, guilt, and, in general, damnation. Without these tough consequences, choices have no meaning. It is accepting the consequences that gives Antigone her nobility and the unwillingness to do so that makes her sister Ismene less so.

Before Marriage

During Marriage

End of Marriage

In museums, one can see the remains of barbarian-type people. These ancient barbarians believed that the Human Form can be molded by human tools consisting of rings, hooks, and cords. One said: "This child will never smell the perfume of a peace-pipe unless I stretch his nostrils." Another said: "He will never be able to hear unless I draw his ear-lobes down to his shoulders." A third said: "He will never see the sunshine unless I slant his eyes." Another said: "He will never stand upright unless I bend his legs." A fifth said: "He will never learn to think unless I flatten his skull."

In stunned horror, we look at these artifacts and this sad condition of Human conceit and stupidity as to believe the Human Form was not natural and had to be improved or progressed using crude tools.

Today, there is another type of perversion, a type of abstract barbarism manifesting itself into a type of Neo-Barbarism. Those ancient barbarians did not believe the Human Form was natural. Today's neo-barbarians do not believe the Social Form is natural.

Like a good Pook, I checked my mailbox and found a letter filled with ambitions and dreams. At the end of the letter was this:

Yet there's still something that worries me, and this is the reason why I'm writing you. Time is the only parameter I can't control in my life. I always fear wasting my time or taking the wrong direction in my life.

I want to be successful not only with women but also in everything I put some effort into. But it always seems that I'm running late in my master plan and that it would take me two lives to achieve my goals.

So my question is:

"What would you advise me to do to avoid wasting time in my quest for self-improvement? And how can I be sure I am taking the right path when I start something?"

I don't want to have regrets when I get older! I hope you'll answer my question.

Have you noticed that some people are more 'animated' than others? Most people live as if their flesh is a cage. There is nothing electric coming from them. They hold no charisma. They are...dull.

Here is a revealing experiment. Take people and make them do a speech. Now, many people despise public speaking. They fear public speaking more than death!!! So when they get to the podium, they begin talking about their chosen subject. Their talk is very cold, very dull. Everyone in the room begins to glaze at the room and daydream, hoping that this speech is over. When it does, everyone awakes with the polite 'clap.'

Change the assignment so that instead of talking about a specific subject, the people talk about themselves. Since everyone apparently loves themselves, people suddenly become very animated and won't shut up! You have to force them from the podium! But what a turn-around! What a change from those dull, dreadful, dumb speakers earlier.

Attention all you mediocre males (for I will not call you MEN). You like to spew all sorts of speeches, essays, and words over anyone that will hear you. You smoke your words in a pretty pipe to null yourself to girlish comfort and gooishness. You, who say, life is to be survived, not to be won. You, who cower in the corners, saving and scavenging for the pennies and are too afraid to take risks. In fact, you view risk as an enemy to your comfort. "Survive, Pook! We are meant to survive!" You passion-less slugs! Not even a child would be as guilty as you are. Even a CHILD knows there are WINNERS and LOSERS in life.

As is my habit, I will give an excellent analogy. Through my periodic workouts (of which the ladies time their workouts at the same time to be in the presence of my Pookness), I tend to swim afterward. It is nice to cool down in the pool. But I noticed something particular. Why was swimming in the pool draining my battery more than lifting hundreds of weights?

Aristotle said that man is a social animal. (In other words, man creates families, cities, concerts, and other fabulous things.) 'But Pook! Where are those arrogant ones on the stage?' Friend, they are TOO CHICKEN to come onto the stage of Nature, Life's Play, and act. They live out their narcissism in their bizzaro-world of illusions and never become who they are. So no matter how much you stumble up there on that stage, you are taking real steps in life while the fools take false ones.

But what if one becomes extremely individualized? By individualization, I mean cutting off one's family, mocking Nature, and marching to the drums of rhetoric from quacks. Aristotle answered that such highly individualized beings are either gods or beasts. (Keep in mind that in Aristotle's time, the Greek gods were the religion.)

Arrogance of the soul is the cause of disasters such as feminism. Many women literally believe they are 'goddesses.' Like an ancient Greek god, they believe they are above Nature itself. "I will do all these wonderful things!" she says, which the 'wonderful' usually means a new pair of shoes, a bigger house, and a more glitzy car.

Why Rome Fell

Every interest group proclaims Rome fell because their cause was ignored. Environmentalists blame the fall of Rome on lead pipes or other hazards. Religious people blame the fall of Rome on social decay. Gays blame the fall of Rome on not embracing the fictional Greek gay lifestyle. Classicalists blame the fall of Rome on the very long book of "The Fall of Rome" because if they read such a long book, they must put its conclusions to use somehow to sound sophisticated. Liberals blame the fall of Rome on Christian fundamentalism. It can be safe to say that everyone projects their own belief into the Fall of Rome.

Why the projection? It is because the above groups have a worship of History whose ebbs and flows revolve around their beliefs. After all, we know liberals believe they are the force of History while conservatives believe they are the force of history. This allows everyone to point to the Fall of Rome and proclaim that current civilization will fall.

Part of the gloom and doom that exists in the Men's Movement is a wild misunderstanding of politics. But this is not unique. Most (failed) movements end up with one conclusion: "The end days are upon us!"

Most of my formal training was in this field. And, let me tell you, I was very incorrect and extremely wrong many times. Both conservatives and liberals are guilty of crass errors. But this shouldn't be surprising. We were students, and students are ignorant.

One of the flaws of Democracy is that every jack thinks they are a prince (while every prince pretends to be a jack). The average person is ignorant in physics, literature, history, and government. This is not a slam but just stating the truth. These fields are highly specialized. I couldn't tell you anything about physics. I wouldn't even try. Much of history is unknown to me because there is so much history out there. While I'm more knowledgeable about literature, I still claim ignorance to much of it (especially the non-Western works). Being ignorant does not mean you are stupid. But one cannot become an expert in everything.

One of the advantages of being Pook is that I have access to those who have been around my nation's 'leaders.' Think of Chaucer, who got stuck between the high political class and the rest of us peasants. It has always been in my family history for my ancestors to be "serving" the noble class in some capacity. I have a direct ancestor even as far back that was a 'sheriff' in London centuries ago, serving some English King (forgot which one). Since Bush and most of the current administration have come from Texas (not just Texas but my local county), everyone I seem to know has had direct contact with these guys.

Bush is not a conservative. He is a moderate but with some conservative leanings. For the conservatives in the Republican Party, they only care about what is referred to as "the three" big issues: foreign policy, tax cuts, and the Supreme Court. Since Bush goes with those, the party generally supports him. With those who really despise Bush, I wonder what would happen when a real conservative gets into the White House.

Senator Lieberman (D) narrowly lost a primary to newcomer Lamont tonight. What does this mean, and why am I posting about it?

Senator Lieberman had been a Democrat senator for, I believe, 18 years. Only six years ago, he was the vice presidential nominee of Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential Election. Two years ago, he was a presidential candidate in the Democrat presidential primary. Lieberman is not a 'little' senator. He was well up in the ranks. What is stunning to the political scientists is that his party threw him under a bus. A few years ago, a presidential candidate...now, completely purged from the party.

In the US's Democrat Party, there has recently been a change with a strong surge of anti-war bloggers. The Democrat Party is literally beginning to become controlled by them. Lieberman is a Democrat on practically every issue except he supported the Iraq War. This has caused these Net bloggers to purge him from the party. They raised the money and focused heavily on this primary. (Hillary Clinton is also supportive of the Iraq War. She is next in target to be purged. Yes...

To those outside the US or even the South, the media may do coverage on the 'one-year anniversary' of Hurricane Katrina. The media coverage of that hurricane greatly impacted my local region and showed how a bunch of sheep people are. It is because of those high taxes in areas like Ohio. Florida (and Texas, too) has no state income tax, making it very attractive for people. You can count on taxes being certain all the time, but hurricanes are a roll of the dice. Instead of bearing the certainty of taxes, people would rather take their chances with Nature.

The coverage of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans was atrociously bad, with the 'reports' of rapes, sharks swimming down streets (how do these sharks appear from fresh-water lakes?), massive gang violence, and so on. This did not stop those reporters from giving themselves awards. Doomsters LOVED the Katrina coverage as they held that as 'proof' that all society was collapsing (without mentioning New Orleans society had collapsed long, long before the hurricane).

I just finished watching the show, "The Path to 9-11," which was only interrupted in the middle by a speech by the President. If you missed it, I would see it. By documenting and re-creating the series of events up to the hijackings, the show finally put 9-11 into tragedy. He is, as most masculine men are, nameless. You will never see his photo on the news or any parades in his honor. But he is the most masculine man I had ever seen...and probably will ever see in my life.

Tragedy is a word so misused that the word has virtually been destroyed. Tragedy does not mean what most people think: something very bad happening. 9-11 is not the tragedy. The tragedy is looking back on it and knowing that action could have been taken to stop it. Imagine a cute little pig-tail-haired girl walking with her mother. The mother turns away to look at the sky (or something), and this cute little pig-tail-haired girl runs into the street and is smashed by a bus. The smashing of the bus is not the tragedy.

If you are a doomster, please do not read this article:

“The world has only consumed about 18 percent of its conventional potential,” Jum’ah said, contending that should lay to rest fears that the world is in danger of being tapped out within a few decades.

Oh no!

Dee found that having a female teacher instead of a male teacher raised the achievement of girls and lowered that of boys in science, social studies, and English. Oh, if you want an easy way to get through English classes, or rather, if you find yourselves in the middle of an essay test and do not know the answer, just start quoting Hamlet. It doesn’t matter what the question is about or the author; just start quoting Hamlet and start talking about Hamlet instead. The professor will go, “OMG, this guy is quoting Hamlet! He is smart! He is sublime! Such brilliant commentary! Such linking the subject matter to the epic play!” and give you good grades.

Looked at the other way, when a man led the class, boys did better and girls did worse.

The study found switching up teachers actually could narrow achievement gaps between boys and girls, but one gender would gain at the expense of the other.

While I’m not sure what The Daily Show’s intention with the below clip is, it has swerved into a huge truth. The conflicts of the Middle East and, perhaps, the world are not political or financial. They are religious.

There are diplomats who say one must compromise with Islam. This would be a funny thing to observe at the table. I suppose it would go like this:

Terrorist for Radical Islam: “My position is that all you heathens are dead! You! Dead!” Diplomats: “Surely we can have some sort of compromise.”

Terrorist for Radical Islam: “No! You! Dead!”

Diplomats: “How about we give you an arm? Maybe a leg?”

Terrorists: “No! You all dead!”

Diplomats: “How about giving you some of our citizens? Will that satisfy you?” Terrorists: “No! All of you going to die!”

You cannot compromise in a religious war. World War II was not a religious conflict; it was political. In fact, I don’t think the West has been in a religious war since the victory of Don Juan at the end of the crusades (yes, that Don Juan!).

Like Voltaire, I always believe in free speech. Words are just words. But it amazes me how people want to ban and delete websites/speech that goes against what they believe. Or, rather, they only interpret it as “hate speech” and demand it go away.

You might ask, “Pook, why do they have such a reaction against ‘hate speech’? It is not sticks and stones. It is not violence. Did not Martin Luther King Jr. say something like, ‘I don’t want the White Man to love me, only the power to not hurt me’?”

Here is something that everyone must know about The Political Class.

1 They believe they are extremely intelligent and that you are unsophisticated, dumb peons.

2 They believe society is artificial and is like a garden (with the legislator as gardener). They want the garden to grow, to PROGRESS. Hence, plants do not have freedom in a garden.

Eternal Bachelor blog is no more. All the archives are also gone. It is up to Duncan whether he explains more on the complete shutting down of his blog. The removal of the archives strikes me as a little suspicious. In legal matters, err on the side of caution. Remember that www.americanwomensuck.com and www.dontgetmarried.com were cited in recent U.S. legislation (or was it some kooky senator? What does it matter). The only reason why feminists haven’t shut down MRA sites is because of the Supreme Court’s rulings on the Internet being a place for “free conversation.” But if they know who you are in real life, they can come after you.

There were two problems with Eternal Bachelor blog: One, it was becoming very popular.

Two, Duncan had put his full name on the blog, and his content could be a little too close about his work environment.

Of course, the blog’s demise could be exactly what was said: ranting takes too much time and he got tired of it.

Now, as you may be aware, Portugal was under the Salazarist dictatorship until ’74. Although there were many problems with this regime’s way of thinking and acting, such as extreme censorship, one of the things held in high regard in those times was the Family (the State motto was: God, Motherland, Family). It was only when the Salazarist State was taken away from power by the military that the feminist wave truly invaded Portugal.

Since then, feminism has been growing. I have never been to the States, but judging from everyone’s way of speaking about American women, I guess we’re in a better situation than you American folks.

Anyways, we also have some trouble with feminists and feminized guys. From what I’m able to draw from my experiences, the teachers who were influenced by the feminist wave post-’74 are spoiling my young peers.

In our school newspaper, I came across an article written by a sophomore. The article’s theme was “Women’s Day.” Now, what I read wasn’t something masked by “let’s have the same rights.” It was an article proclaiming that women were actually better than men.

In politics, issues come and go. However, there comes a time when an issue does not sit squarely on a single political side, yet the issue is huge. The issue is so big that, unless addressed, it gives rise to a third-party candidate to disrupt the status quo. In American politics, we have several each century.

Illegal immigration is that issue today. Whichever party seizes control of the issue will be awarded at the detriment of the other.

There is reason to believe that illegal immigration is actually a feminist issue. Aside from the legality issue, these aliens from Mexico (and other parts south) are paid very low wages and given jobs that most native Americans won’t find attractive (the rhetoric strangely matches what the Confederacy South said about slaves being the “backbone” of the economy and how everything would crumble without them). The media does say this. But this is what the media does not say:

The flaw of Democratic representation is that politicians will ignore long-term problems for short-term gains. Everyone is familiar with politicians kicking cans down the road so they can get elected today. But, ironically, sometimes this happens in reverse.

To my non-U.S. readers, the U.S. Immigration Bill in Congress would effectively grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. With a stroke of a pen, Congress does have the power to turn non-citizens into citizens. They have done this before about twenty years ago, and before that. It is said that if any illegal immigrant is allowed to get into America, then they are “clear,” since, eventually, amnesty will come.

The political swirls are interesting here. One would think the Republican Party would be against such a bill due to the conservative base being against illegal immigration and, certainly, amnesty. Yet President Bush and other major Republicans are leading the charge. The conservative base in America found out what was going on and probably hammered their representatives hard because, suddenly, the bill fell apart.

“When my wife told me she wanted a divorce,” says Mr. C, 63, “at first I literally did not understand what she was saying. Divorce? For what? Every day I went to work, borrowed money to build a home, repaid the loan, paid for her overseas vacations with her friends while I stayed home and ate cold dinners. . . . She says I wasn’t kind, didn’t show affection. She’s been watching too many TV dramas! Japanese men of my generation don’t go around telling their wives they love them!”

Well, OK, thought Mr. C—if she wants a divorce, she can have a divorce. Shortly afterward, their son got married. Mr. C attended the wedding without his wife. Then the son announced a child was on the way—could his father lend him money to buy a house? Mr. C handed over his retirement savings. When the house was ready, he figured, there would be a place for him there.

I saw an interesting review of Esther Vilar’s book The Manipulated Man, in which he said that he had to “let go” of the book, whereas in the first review on the site, he praised it. Law and finances are not what you “think.” No wonder everyone is poor and requires lawyers.

Here is his first review:

The Truth Hurts, 16 Nov 2003

Reviewer: M. Maguire (Madrid, Spain) –

This book by Vilar is deadly serious. It is not a tongue-in-cheek satire at all, and it pulls no punches in its brutally honest assessment of “Woman.” Back in the ’70s, Vilar herself was vilified by women everywhere and crucified by the feminist establishment after daring to break the unwritten rule, the Female Omerta, to speak out and expose her gender for the “lazy manipulative scheming parasitic prostitutes” that most men learn painfully by the age of 30–40 they are, always were, and always will be.

I wish someone would offer a reason, not a colorful sentimentality, for why any young male in the central Western world should marry.

Marry? Why? In this day and age, what reason would a man marry in, say, America or Canada?

For, sir, I do not have the honor of knowing you, but I wager five to one that for most of your life you have been making life-long goals; and if you have been making them, I wager ten to one that eventual marriage and a happy household are central elements to your future life.

And you, Madame, unlike the male, I am sure you have been dreaming of eventual marriage and see a man as a means to that end. As demographics show the numbers of single women rising and rising, you wish not to become that statistic. But why are more and more of your friends ending up single? What is growing these cracks throughout society? I am sure you believe that everything will be solved if ONLY men would do as you wish.

NY Times sees marriage strike but doesn’t understand it. This is a must-read article. NY Times wonders why men are not marrying. They interview social scientists. And these social scientists think of mankind as nothing but a mass of human clay to be poked at with a stick. Notice how limited their contexts are.

Pretty much most social scientists are women and feminized men. The contexts they use are always annoyingly Industrial Age–esque. Just because one doesn’t have a college degree doesn’t make the person stupid. Even the unmarried men they interview have money. The contexts used not only show a female-dominated set of looking at things but also show people behind the times.

Some interesting quotes leaked through:

There is no conclusive evidence that marriage helps men. Still, some social scientists worry that not marrying may further marginalize men who are already struggling.

The key word is “some.” I want to hear about the social scientists who say otherwise. What do they have to say?

Some have expressed outrage at how I could suggest the abolition of marriage laws. “How could you, Pook!?” they say. “That is too drastic! Too insane!”

But do not fall for the trap that law is the creator of marriages. It is interesting that the reactions to removing a law are thought to be removing from society itself. When people wanted the laws concerning education to be removed, some thought it meant the end of all education in society! When people wanted the laws concerning religion to be removed due to the intense religious wars, some thought it would mean the end of religion. Yet religion thrives in societies even when it isn’t contained in the law. Marriages will thrive as well within society without the use of law. It is like some people think I would want people to starve if I said the state should not pass laws concerning raising grain!

Mirror’s link to a must-read article already covers the good commentary. I’ll see what I can add.

Two quotes: beginning:

For the moment, while the Federal Marriage Amendment is moved to a back burner, it’s a good time to heighten our awareness of a broader menace. Same-sex marriage is a symptomatic threat to families, compared to the more fundamental effect of “no-fault” divorce. “Commentators miss the point when they oppose homosexual marriage on the grounds that it would undermine traditional understandings of marriage,” writes Bryce Christensen of Southern Utah University. “It is only because traditional understandings of marriage have already been severely undermined that homosexuals are now laying claim to it.” Michael McManus of Marriage Savers writes that “divorce is a far more grievous blow to marriage than today’s challenge by gays.”

It is true that same-sex marriage is emerging from the wreckage that is already marriage. But here is the question:

Gag alert “Why American and Western Women Rock!”

An email, with no text, forwarded this newsletter that came from a dating website. Below, you will find the text with some comments by me, the Pookius Maximus.

No, this isn’t some tirade against women who are NOT western or American. Not about that at all.

What I am going to do today is UNTANGLE a pervasive myth.

A myth about “western” and “American” women, a myth that views these women as if they are aliens OR as if they are so different, OR as if they are “evil.”

It’s almost FUNNY when I see guys, even guys that have all the stereotypical “pluses” going for them, like being tall or having money or having good looks, whining their asses off about how “foreign” women are “better,” and how “tough” it is with western or “American” women.

I don’t know if these guys are local or foreign themselves, and/or if they are simply not “getting any” from western or American women, or if they can’t ACHIEVE HARMONY with western or American women.

An emailer sent this story in:

The parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, has been transmitted indirectly from cats to roughly half the people on the planet, and it has been shown to affect human personalities in different ways.

Research has shown that women who are infected with the parasite tend to be warm, outgoing, and attentive to others, while infected men tend to be less intelligent and probably a bit boring. But both men and women who are infected are more prone to feeling guilty and insecure.

Other researchers have linked the parasite to schizophrenia. In an adult, the symptoms are like a mild form of flu, but it can be much more serious in an infant or fetus. Oxford University researchers believe high levels of the parasite lead to hyperactivity and lower IQs in children.

Lafferty, who is a parasite ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is an expert on the role parasites play in the ecology of other animals.

In this story, it talks about single men using female donors to have children. This process is very expensive and is a legal mess (the practice is banned in some states). But apparently, these men see it as a better alternative than getting married.

In it is a juicy reaction from a feminist:

According to Mary L. Shanley, a political-science professor at Vassar College and author of Making Babies, Making Families, single men becoming single parents thanks to surrogacy is “a mixed bag.” “On the one hand, if some single men wish to have children because they want hands-on responsibility for the care of their children, they want to be in the nurturing role and not just financial providers, then [this trend] is promising,” she said. “They’re redefining masculinity and male roles in society.”

Oh, poor humanity! To the feminist, there are no humans, no people that are her equals. It is only “society,” this chimerical unit that must be “progressed” and “evolved” according to feminist standards.

There is a story going around: “Third of Male Fish in English Rivers Are Changing Their Sex.”

Since I don’t live in England, I am not in the know-how of how everything works there. But junk science abounds in alarmist news stories. What isn’t mentioned is that, in nature, such occurrences as male fish laying eggs or changing sex have occurred before. Correlation is not causation.

A major red flag in this story is how it compares fish to humanity. Are humans little fish now? Making the jump from fish to lower sperm counts in human males is preposterous. There are many reasons why sperm counts are lower, such as a more lenient lifestyle, men getting out of shape, tighter underwear, and so on. These are much more probable than mystical “chemicals” that are feminizing men.

If the Men’s Movement believed that evil chemicals were “seeping” out of plastics and were in our water, our food, and our pillows (!), the Men’s Movement would become the equivalent of the John Birch Society of the ’50s and be dead politically. The John Birch Society was a paranoid group that believed Communists were poisoning the water supply of America. John F.

Get your tissues! Air America is filing for bankruptcy. They haven’t even paid Al Franken in quite a while.

You might ask, “But Pook, there is conservative talk radio in America. Why not liberal talk radio?”

Talk radio is a disruptive medium. It is set to disrupt as an alternative to “mainstream” media. I don’t think liberals desire an alternative to mainstream media apart from blogging. There is no liberal discontent at The New York Times or ABC News as there is conservative discontent.

But I think a big element of it is entertainment. Much of conservative talk radio, especially Limbaugh, is reportedly having an audience of 40% liberals. Why is half the audience of conservative talk radio liberals? Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader (he got voted out!), was stunned by this. Talk radio such as Limbaugh’s succeeds not because it is ideological but because it is entertaining. They have a 40% liberal audience because that audience is still entertained… even though they hate the hosts!

As feminism (and its postmodern equivalents) invaded the Humanities, the fields that were supported and nurtured by the Humanities also began to become rotten. Now some are beginning to fall off the tree as the rotten fruit they are. History, law, business, and others are all becoming afflicted.

But the most rotten one to the core is journalism.

“Young men are just not interested,” says Allen, who runs the broadcast news program at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. “There’s been almost an evacuation of men from this field.”

This comes from a Washington Post story on how the newsroom is becoming feminized. I think I can add to this story.

While most of my time in school ended up, in the end, veering towards pre-law, political science, and the English departments, I did dabble in everything I could. I took acting classes. I snuck into the music hall. I took advantage of whatever I could. But the Journalism Department stunned me.

The Matriarchy will not allow Forbes to get away with such an article. I expect an article about the “reasons why one should marry a career woman” soon.

Hear that? It is the unsheathing of political knives. You can’t post stuff like what Forbes did and expect to get away with it scot-free.

Feminists Assault Forbes Magazine

As predicted, the feminists went in all-out force against Michael Noer and his EVIL article about not marrying a career woman. Yes, the link I posted above was correct. Apparently, this is what happened.

In the morning, women inside the Forbes building and outside were outraged that Forbes could run such an article. Forbes eventually pulled the article.

Then, the article returned but in a different format. Now, all the text is on one page (whereas before it was on nine pages) and has a “counter-argument” by some woman. Feminists have gone berserk over this.

Here is something that I couldn’t explain if I wanted to. Probably not safe for work, even though meant for it, this is THE sexual harassment video. I can’t stop laughing after watching it.

Spinsterhood: The LOUD Epidemic

Millions of women are suffering, and thousands come to us looking for a cure. Single men, the cure is you. Won’t you please help them before it’s too late?

Symptoms of Spinsterhood

Single women frequently display the first symptoms of spinsterhood within a day or two of experiencing the end of a relationship or simply from spending too much time without a significant other. They include, but are not limited to:

• Declarations of “strong woman” appear immediately

• Celebrity/movie/horse infatuation

• Consumption of special coffee more than one time a day

• Constant sneer on her face

• Generally immodest appearance

Spinsterhood is not limited to just the average Jane. More information about this affliction can be found in Pook’s Mill’s advertisement on the Internet. Unlike stupid magazines, this advertisement is available today!

You opened this volume because getting better with women was no longer enough — or because you had already seen that “happily ever after” can be a trap with a pretty label.

Volume 1 taught you how to stop failing with women.

Volume 2 has taught you how to stop failing yourself once the woman is in the picture — or once society’s script tries to write your ending for you.

Pook called that script The Way:

Go to school. Get the job for security, not passion. Meet a girl, fall in love, marry her. Buy the big house. Work harder to pay for it. Keep going until your soul evaporates.

If this book has done its job, you can see The Way now.

You can feel it in your friends’ exhausted marriages, in your own pressure to “settle,” in the romance stories that never mention character, law, or money.

You have finished Volume 2.

If these pages helped you see The Way, filter women by character, or think clearly before marriage and the law — and you want to leave a signal for the next man still walking blind into the hook — leave an honest review where you bought the book.

Stars are enough.

One clear sentence is better.

Say what clarified your life.

Say what you rejected.

Disagreement is welcome when it is honest.

If the book did nothing for you, skip the review.

Wisdom is not a popularity contest.

If you have seen the game and now need to build a life beyond bitterness — Volume 3 is waiting.

That is all.

Also in This Series

Volume 2 makes you wise.

The series has a beginning and an end around it.