Read Volume 3 free

You are holding Volume 3, the culmination of the series.

It can be read on its own, but it is the final step of a journey that begins in Volumes 1 and 2.

Volume 1 makes a man attractive.

Volume 2 makes him wise.

This volume asks the question those two leave behind:

Once I am free, what do I build?

This is Pook at his most mature.

It goes beyond — beyond seduction, beyond bitterness, and beyond even the men’s movement that first embraced him.

If you came here looking for more pickup material, you are in the wrong room.

If you came here because you won with women and still feel empty — or because you saw the traps and feel only anger — you are exactly where you need to be.

Pook warned:

“You can win with women and still lose in life.”

And he promised:

“Women have one summer. Men have endless summers.”

“I have read this book over and over again, and every time, I have learned something. It has taught me things that are more than just ‘how to get girls.’ … To be continuously striving forward, to go past the manuals and instructions and create your own life, that is what he advocates.”

— Yichen, Goodreads

“Fantastic book that focuses on improving your core self rather than remembering tactics.”

— Craig, Goodreads

Young women going wild on YouTube and MySpace or dressing in skanky clothes—matriarchy says it is “good for them.” I’ve yet to see any experts saying it is OK for men to go wild or, frankly, to have any happiness at all (that is independent from serving a woman in some fashion).

Blue Text = Emailer

Regular text = Da Pooky Wooky

It’s ironic that you don’t like philosophers and yet love Shakespeare. For the time he lived in, it would be no surprise that his education would be influenced by ancient thinkers like Cicero or Seneca. When Hamlet said:

“There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

He was paraphrasing the core of Stoic thought. Hamlet is echoing a line from Epictetus:

“People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things. Thus death is not a terrible thing… rather, our notions of death are terrifying.”

And no, the Stoics did not glorify pain and suffering. Such things were viewed as indifferent to one’s own happiness (eudaimonia).

Shakespeare quoting a few philosophic sayings is much different than him supporting philosophy. I am not against philosophy; I am against the crusty intellectual who thinks himself so smart yet is blinded to life. Most of these “intellectuals” are academics who have secure jobs (never knowing the idea of risk) and are separated from the bloom of life.

An emailer sent me a link to this story.

The trend has occasioned some predictions of a coming matriarchy in which high-achieving women will rule over a nation of slacker guys. We’ve all seen the movie, an endless loop culminating most recently in You, Me and Dupree. That little girls’ T-shirt slogan—GIRLS RULE, BOYS DROOL—is beginning to look less like a slur and more like an empirical observation.

The article is about a female columnist saying that all men are slackers and remain so in the corporate world. Women are judged not on their smarts but on their “personality.” The female columnist, whose hilarious biography can be found here (also thanks to the emailer), is angry in her magical hyper-reality of men all being lazy and putting the women down. Are there cases of this truth of men being idiots and women being smart? …There is some. But we paint the image we want.

An emailer (who definitely gets it) has this to say:

Pooky,

Nothing special, but it did make me laugh, simply because after agreeing with your post on “the burden of guilt,” this guy seems like a real case study.

“A woman calling a man a bitch is a very different thing than a man calling a woman a bitch; the latter is part of a long history of misogyny; the former is a relatively recent phenomenon. We have to judge words by their power to hurt.”

“I can rail against the ‘unfairness’ of judging me by the poor behavior of other men, but in this culture, that’s fruitless. As men, we do have to accept the fact that collectively, we have given good reason why it is that we ought not to be trusted—above all in the sexual realm. We can bemoan the injustice of paying for the sins of others, or we can shoulder the burden that our brothers have created for us (and that perhaps, in our own lives, we have helped to create). What that means practically is that I am committed to meeting suspicion with patience, openness, and accountability.

An emailer asks:

I’m looking for some material on the increasing number of people downloading music, movies, videos, etc., instead of actually going out to get the physical product. I’ve noticed a trend in some interesting articles… specifically this show I saw with Charlie Rose talking about the future of technology and entertainment… if you know of any books on that subject, that would be great.

The way I gain information on the entertainment industry is just by studying the companies themselves. I don’t know any books (though I’m sure there are probably some). But if you wait for books, it may be too late. Online platforms are already announcing digital downloads. Apple is set for movie downloads. Like a tidal wave, the entertainment wave will echo the “information wave” of the ’90s that flooded the Internet. There will be a company that can network it all together somehow. Whoever that company will be, it will become bigger than Google.

History can forever be debated. But there are a few things that occurred which are beyond all debate. Three great changes have altered mankind.

The first change is said to be the discovery of agriculture. The planting of crops allowed cities to occur. And with cities, it allowed the arts, the sciences, the law, and everything else. You had the domestication of animals during this time. Agriculture could be said to be the birth point of civilization. Alas, it is so ancient that we have little idea of how human life was before it.

The second Great Change was the Industrial Revolution. The population boom did not just “happen.” It happened because, all of a sudden, the wealth of mankind just skyrocketed. There was plenty of food to go around. Instead of dying in the fields, kids could work in the factories.

Marriage and family also changed radically with it. So much wealth was generated that children no longer had to work. Married women soon followed this trend. The weekend became possible due to all this increased wealth building up. Production was no longer at the home but in factories and businesses. The home became a place of consumption instead.

Hey Hollywood! Disrupt your entertainment model or you’re going to find yourselves disrupted by an upstart outsider!

The box office experienced a horrific weekend in more ways than one. Not only did a horror movie that its studio declined to show to critics lead all others, but it earned just $9 million—the first time in three years that the top film had made less than $10 million. Moreover, the total for all films was lower than any weekend of the year and down 26 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago to just $54.4 million, according to Bloomberg News.

As you know, I intend to be an entrepreneur Pook. This means I intend to create my own business system rather than work in someone else’s. While there are many business systems to create, I prefer to create one around my passion so it never seems like work. This way I can do my dreams and get rich too!

So I have been studying the entertainment industry lately. This includes all entertainment: television, movies, books, radio, and so on. I am especially zeroing in on the video game industry, as that industry seems to be turning inside out at the moment, especially with its console transition (the direction of Microsoft and the future of Sony will depend on these little game consoles. …So cute).

There is another reason why I am studying the entertainment industry. I believe the Internet Revolution has only completed its first round. During the ’90s, the Internet was utilized for information, which we saw in the rise of Yahoo, Google, and other such companies. Absolutely tremendous growth! But the Internet has not yet been utilized for entertainment.

Jay Leno’s reruns are bringing in bigger ratings than Letterman’s new shows. Nightline is now bringing in bigger ratings than Letterman. When Nightline out-rates your show, you know you are in trouble.

Since I am curious about the entertainment industry, I wondered, “Gee, why is Letterman’s ratings going down?” The complaints I hear are that Letterman has become lazy, that he does the same thing again and again, has become too political, and the show just isn’t that entertaining anymore. People also complain about his multiple conversations with that musician on his staff throughout the show. Strangely, many people cite the O’Reilly interview where Letterman said, “60% of everything you say is crap.” Now, I don’t watch O’Reilly, and I don’t watch Letterman (can’t even watch Conan because Conan pissed off the TV manager down here in Texas or something). So I hunted down this clip to find out why it would turn people away. In the clip, you can see how the show wasn’t lighthearted and got too serious.

CNN’s Chris Morris says, from another analyst, the PSP will have a price drop very soon. Why does he say this? Because…

PSP sales have been solid so far, with 20 million units shipped worldwide (with over 8 million of those to the U.S.). That’s essentially a tie with the Nintendo DS, which has sold over 21 million units—but the numbers don’t tell the whole story.

While the DS has been on the upswing, thanks to commercially and critically successful games such as Brain Age (which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide), Nintendogs, and New Super Mario Bros., the PSP has not had a game truly capture the gaming world’s attention since the release of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (published by Take-Two Interactive) last October.

Maybe Chris ought to ask, “How is the hardware selling if the software isn’t?” From last month’s NPD numbers, GTA: LCS sold the same amount as Mario Kart DS, which is revealing how much disappointment the portable GTA has been. The game sells, but not quite as retailers had hoped.

Nintendo says that it will make money off of every console it sells. Analysts are stunned that a console is actually profitable. But really, the “razor and blades” business model doesn’t apply to video game consoles, despite what anyone tells you. The idea of the razor and blades model is to sell the razor at no profit or at a loss and reap the money back by people buying blades. This model is used on printers and their ink cartridges.

Only one console really does the razor and blades business model, and that is the Xbox franchise. The PlayStations are sold at a loss initially but, betting on falling computer-part prices, the hardware soon becomes profitable. For example, the PSP was not profitable to Sony at launch. But around seven (or so) months, it broke even and became profitable. Sony can do this since it owns many of the factories involved.

In my attempts for financial and business education, I have been trying to recognize trends, coming and going, like an industry captain on his boat overlooking these waves and ripples. Since most things in business tend to be cyclical, it is highly profitable to place your business in front of a trend and let that wave help propel you. I have heard business executives care so much about trends that some associate with high school students because they know that is where the next trends begin: in the very young.

Everyone has told me that the trend of HD television is the entertainment wave of the future. “Believe, Mr. Pook!” they said. “Believe! For the HD revolution is upon us! Estimates show that most households will have an HD TV in the next few years.” Skepticism filled me. First of all, television viewing has been falling like a rock in recent years. Advertising money is decreasing on television but increasing on the Internet. HD TV content is only around 6% of all broadcasts now, which still puts the number low. I saw no desire among the mass consumer to rush out and buy an HD TV.

THIRD EDIT: OK, you guys are mean.

SECOND EDIT: This gets worse. According to this…

In the U.S., about 400,000 PlayStation 3 machines will be available when they go on sale Nov. 17. About 100,000 will be available on the Nov. 11 Japan launch date.

The production problem is causing about a one-month delay that will reduce the company’s supply capacity by about a million machines from the original plan, he said.

People may ask, “So what? People buy it later.” They will lose many sales by this. Also, this is very much a momentum-based industry. Also consider how much money was spent on the PS3 advertising blitz. All that money will be wasted. Why advertise a product that no one can buy?

Expect Sony stock to plunge today.

Also expect third-party game companies to begin bailing on Sony if these launch numbers are true.

EDIT: Forbes has jumped on this too.

This is the exact phrase gamesindustry.biz used when Sony clarified its launch details for the PS3.

The original plan was for Sony to have six million per launch. Now, it is to have two million for launch, two million shipped by the end of the year, and two million after that by the time of the end of the fiscal year.

What is more curious is that Sony did not deny Kaz’s statement that Sony hasn’t begun manufacturing the PS3.

In 2003, it was common to hear this:

Nintendo’s weakness doesn’t just lie on the console front. Sony’s announcement of the PSP sent the company’s stock tumbling as investors saw it as a major threat to the successful Game Boy line. The Game Boy has seen its fair share of competition from other companies vying for a slice of the portable market, but not from Sony. The PlayStation has ruled the console market for two solid generations, and its first handheld product could do the same for the portable market.

The company’s flaccid attitude towards the PSP is a bit alarming and disconcerting. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that the PSP will not have a big impact on their business. The public might be subject to believe him, except that this is far from the truth. The Game Boy Advance is the large reason for the company’s $95 million net profit in April to June. With its uncertainty of success in the home console market, Nintendo has shown no plan of attack against the PSP other than a new game product announcement that may or may not be a successor to the GBA.

One of the things I’ve been doing is studying the entertainment business. As video games are part of this, I figured I’d pass along the sales information. You would be surprised how many parallels there are between the book industry and the video game industry. I don’t really play any games (haven’t bought a console in like 16 years), but some of you might be interested in the sales information. Besides, it makes for an easy blog post!

There are three major markets for games: Japan, North America, and Europe. Japanese sales information is the easiest to obtain, usually through Famitsu or Media Create. United States sales are often summed up by the NPD. European sales information is the hardest to come by. Also, in Europe, I get the information in separate countries rather than as a whole. So far, the three major markets are trending…

Japan = DS Land (160,000 DSes sold a week. All other systems combined don’t even match that number. DS is currently outpacing the Famicom sales.)

The games industry continues to turn itself inside out. Investors demanded Nintendo to stockpile their DSes for the week when Final Fantasy III DS comes out. So Nintendo shipped out like half the number the week previous to this list of sales. Square-Enix was caught by surprise when their FF3 remake completely sold out.

To those asking, “Why does Japan matter? LOL.” The combined hardware and software for Japan is now slightly ahead of America’s sales. Japan has suddenly seen its market double in size… if not more.

One thing you shouldn’t do in business is run your mouth off. Here are some quotes from Sony, mostly Phil Harrison, on his reaction to the mutant two-screened DS:

“The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance; those formats don’t appear in our planning. It’s not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it’s the truth.”

These are the total sales in America for last month of August, according to NPD.

Hardware Sales

Game Boy Advance – 156k

GameCube – 41k

Nintendo DS – 278k

PlayStation 2 – 262k

PlayStation Portable – 146k

Xbox – 9k

Xbox 360 – 204k

A Few of the Games

360 Dead Rising – 337k

PS2 Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus – 200k

NDS Big Brain Academy – 73k

NDS Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day – 74k

NDS Mario Kart – 57k

NDS New Super Mario Bros. – 179k

Madden NFL 07 Sales (All Platforms)

PS2 Madden NFL 07 – 885k

360 Madden NFL 07 – 477k

Xbox Madden NFL 07 – 253k

PS2 Madden NFL 07: Hall of Fame Edition – 127k

360 Madden NFL 07: Hall of Fame Edition – 92k

PSP Madden NFL 07 – 58k

GameCube Madden NFL 07 – 50k

GBA Madden NFL 07 – 3k

One must give due when a manly entertainment form comes out. It could be a movie (Gladiator, 300, etc.) or music. But there haven’t been too many manly games anymore, filled with feminized heroes and heroines who dress in a bikini but carry giant guns/swords.

If you don’t know about Contra, give it a read here.

I am fascinated with the business strategies of very successful companies, especially the Silicon Age ones. Nintendo has a higher profit-to-employee ratio than any other company I know of, even Google, and their stock has skyrocketed to the top in Japan (above even Sony’s value).

It is not uncommon for any “movement” or even “observer” to lift themselves up as angels to look over everyone else with a God’s-eye view. Two groups form: one being the observer and the rest being the pitiful mass of humanity. From this vantage, it does look like mankind is a single group, a single culture, a single civilization.

This event of the observer turning into a “god” and the observer’s equals turning into a “unit” is common in classical literature. This is why all the “great” kings and emperors only viewed themselves as “above” and everyone else as “the mass,” which, like a biological mass, can be cut, sliced, and molded. Just as the gardener has his hooks, shears, and knives, so too does the politician have his laws, regulations, and taxes to remake civilization to “uplift” it. This is why all politicians, all of them, fall into this view. This is why tyranny is the norm of history.

Have you noticed how uptight people are these days? It is not so much “political correctness” as it is everyone becoming uptight (and using political correctness as their “reasoning”). If someone makes a joke about something I believe, I try to laugh at it too. I don’t see the point of going nuclear on the person.

Feminists are the most humorless people ever. They cannot take a joke and are filled with rage and hatred. Most politicized people are like this.

Even with everyday things, people tend to be uptight. If their food is served at the restaurant a few minutes late, they make a scene and storm out. Or if a guy sees something that is REALLY stupid and remarks, “Damn, that is so gay!” a political jihad is launched against the fellow for hatred and insensitivity. Schwarzenegger once called the outbursts from the California legislature “girlie men,” and, boy, they just got even more outraged. I hear that the uptight people are trying to fan flames on Schwarzenegger’s “hot blood” jokes with his staff.

When I meant there was no such thing as “wild rice,” I am referring to the fact that it has been domesticated before history can accurately record. Man’s influence over rice is very monumental. Hence, you cannot get “wild rice.” There is no such thing as rice that hasn’t been genetically modified. Our ancestors have been genetically modifying rice.

The only types of “wild rice” that still occur exist in North America. This rice grows in swamps and was obtained by some Indians by canoes. In the twentieth century, interest in “wild rice” began to increase. I was raised smack in the middle of rice farms and dairy farms. Whatever “wild rice” was cultivated in Texas is now, thankfully, gone. There is more “wild rice” collecting in upper America and Canada (Minnesota’s state grain is “wild rice”). This “wild rice” is no longer really wild, as due to the increased demand for its rich protein content, the last vestiges of “wild rice” have now been domesticated.

One of the best rules I ever learned was: “Never argue with an idiot. After a while, people will no longer be able to tell the difference.”

What amazes me is how message forums continually erupt with the stupidest arguments ever known. Usually, these “debates” revolve around politics or religion or even sexuality. What amazes me is why anyone would spend that much time to say so little. You know no one is ever persuaded. You could spend that time instead to read a book or something and truly get better educated than with most of these “Internet debates.” If you were a scholar debating through newspapers or distinguished forums, that might make sense. But unknown Internet users debating? Heaven help us!

However, I now smile when I come across a forum or thread stuffed with hundreds of pages of pure junk arguing (and try spreading this word around). Yes, friends, it is the Infinite Monkey Theorem! There have been many mathematical simulations done, even an Internet simulation.

In this story from the NY Times:

New research suggests that people ages 30 to 69 who live alone are almost twice as likely as those who live with a partner to suffer angina, heart attacks, or sudden cardiac death.

Oh noes! Read further, and you get to this:

The best predictors of acute cardiac syndrome were age and living alone. Dr. Kirsten Melgaard Nielsen, the lead author of the study and an internist at Aarhus Sygehus University Hospital, said that it was not living alone itself that increased the risk, but the health practices of those who lived without partners.

“They’re less likely to exercise, they eat more fat, and they’re more likely to smoke and have high cholesterol,” she said.

So it is not really about living alone; it is about lack of exercise, eating more fat, smoking, and having more cholesterol. Living alone doesn’t CAUSE these things. However, it may CORRELATE with them. I might as well say that people watching television regularly are twice as likely to get sick. After all, I can correlate television and sickness just the same.

Like a happy Pook, I hopped over to my mailbox and found a magical letter! “How can this be, Monsieur Pook? What was so magical about it?” It was the address. The letter came from outside the Matriarchy. Most letters I receive come from inside the system.

I believe this email sums up much of the anger and disgust at the feminization of everything:

Sometimes all I can scream in my head is “Are you kidding me?” I’ve just lost a friend to feminism/female dependency issues. I tried for 5 months to talk some sense into him, but since his mother was the dominant authority figure in his household, he reacts just like a chick and will not hear of any Pookish wisdom. In turn, FUCK EM’.

I myself am a product of divorced parents and struggled with similar dependencies, all along knowing that I was doing something wrong; I was fighting my natural instincts. Thank God for my father, who was uncharacteristically patient and waited until I was of age to tell me how it really is.

From Wikipedia:

Duck Amuck is a surreal 1951 animated cartoon produced by Warner Bros. and released in 1953 as part of the Merrie Melodies series and starring Daffy Duck, who is tormented by a sadistic, unseen animator who constantly changes Daffy's location, clothing, voice, physical appearance, and even shape. Pandemonium reigns throughout the cartoon as Daffy attempts to steer the action back to some kind of normality, only for the animator to either ignore him or, more frequently, to over-literally interpret his increasingly frantic demands.

From being a Nice Guy to dealing with Nice Guys, Daffy Duck in that particular cartoon, "Duck Amuck," perfectly illustrates the emotions of Nice Guy. For fun, pretend Daffy Duck is the Nice Guy and the animator, Bugs Bunny, is the girl. Hell, Nice Guys SOUND like Daffy Duck!

First lines...

NICE GUY: Stand back, musketeers; they shall sample my blade! Touché! [Suddenly realizes that there is absolutely nothing behind him]

Two spheres of life are placed upon the Earth. They exist on top of one another. Where one lives in one sphere, that person cannot see the other sphere. These spheres are the masculine and feminine spheres.

As men, we have our systems of beliefs, our moralities, and values. All men share similarities: that it is better to be smarter than dumber, stronger than weaker, and wiser than stupider. But “smart,” “strong,” and “wise” exist only in a certain context, and that is to work. To accomplish.

When men look at women, they wonder how awful their existence must be. For women, in men's eyes, are stupider, weaker, and dumber. Men see women doing menial tasks, and we wonder how they do brain-dead jobs.

Men think women are very emotional and can be like a frail flower.

Some men, when they think they “understand” women, end up projecting their own male contexts onto women. For example, a man thinks his context of horniness is shared by a woman’s. He says, “She is just as horny as I!” (Whereas her horniness has a tactic involved.)

To talk to an associate through AIM, I forgot to turn off the auto-website-loading feature. So, when AIM loads up, it sends me to some bizarro-world chick webpage (apparently, the AOL Singles Page). I shook my head while looking at the “bachelorpad” article.

The most annoying attribute of Western women is how any little thing you do or have is psychoanalyzed. If you say, “I am happy,” they won't believe you. They will instead look at your shoes and think, “You are happy because you are wearing nice, clean sneakers.” Huh?

In the old days on Sosuave, I am sure many young men would look at this article and rearrange their lives to have the “plus points” of such a bachelor's pad. But remember the Pookish First Commandment: you have to be yourself. If you fall into the trap of reorienting your life to appear well in a woman's eyes, you are giving women extraordinary power over your life.

This is what I find myself saying quite frequently. When younger, I would get the question, “Do you have a girlfriend?” But now the question is not even about marriage but, “Do you have any children?”

Everyone around me in the workplace has children...yet none of them are married. Scratch that. One woman is married, but her husband is in jail for armed robbery. She has his name tattooed on her chest (how do I know that? Let's just say she likes showing her cleavage).

Another guy is married, but his story is a little different. He did the happy dance with a young Mexican girl and got her pregnant. The father threw out the young Mexican girl, and he had to marry her. Other characters are even from different states but are stuck here because they got the girl pregnant.

“No. I don't have any children.”

They look at me with amazement, with astonishment. I look at them in the same way.

“Men are pigs,” say the women. But if men are pigs, who is the wolf seeking to sink its jaws into the sweet, tasty nutrients that the pigs are?

Just as there are three little pigs, there are three little boys. The first one is Nice Guy. The second one is Speed Seduction Guy. The third one is Smart Guy. And instead of houses made of physical matter, men build mental houses that shelter and protect us all our lives.

It does not take much mental vigor to be a Nice Guy. That is why his house is made of straw. He doesn't even think. He just throws whatever is nearest around him up there. Likewise, it does not take much vigor to be Speed Seduction Guy. All you have to do is log into a website and literally follow instructions. He laughs at Nice Guy while he builds his mental house made of sticks. Both Nice Guy and Speed Seduction Guy finish building their mental houses early, so they laugh at Smart Guy as he slowly but methodically builds his mental house full of bricks.

At a recent birthday celebration for my one-year-old nephew, the small party was attended by my nephew's godfather. He is a police officer in his forties, I believe. His wife is in her thirties.

The background was that he was married and had several children back in Georgia (I think). After the last child, he and his wife agreed that this was to be their last child. So he had a vasectomy just to ensure she wouldn't accidentally get pregnant.

Well, she got pregnant. This was how he found out she had been cheating on him. Although I'm not sure who exactly initiated the divorce, I do know the police officer was shattered financially and lost everything, including his children. So what do financially shattered people do? Why, they come to Texas!

He remarried, but this time to a very traditional Catholic. I take it that she was a very picky bird and came from a rather large family. The two are attempting to have children, but Nature is saying no because of either the woman's age or both of their ages.

I am tired of online ads for these matching services. Usually, it is a woman lying down almost nude with a huge command of “MATE” on the picture.

So how do these online matching services get the females? Do they have men showing their chests with a huge command on them that says “MATE”? No, they get this instead.

Apparently, bachelorism is a disease.

The world's number one dating and relationship company, Match.com, is taking a stand against bachelorism, a disturbing epidemic that affects more than 41 million men nationwide(1).

The best time to get something like a used motorcycle or a used sports car is when a man marries. The new wife gets the guy to sell such “things.” In this case, a very nice collection of video games that spans twenty-five years.

After some game-playing in my youth, I got away from video games (and only recently began playing them again). Video games can be a pathetic way to waste time and a bad way to become addicted. Despite that, in terms of time per money, video games are the best value for entertainment, especially used games. Consider the prices of amusement parks, concerts, or buying tons of DVDs. Whatever the problems with video games, they do not put you in front of advertising like TV (at least, not yet) and tend to be free from political correctness (which seems to be why young males love them so much).

If you are said to be doing something wrong in the Matriarchy, the solution is to wrap what you are doing in LOVE. Love has become the mythological wonder that no one can criticize or question.

If people are angry that you are marrying a foreign woman, do not tell them the “facts” or why you are doing it. Instead, tell them you are in love.

Instead of apologizing for choosing a less glorious career rather than one that makes more money but that you hate, say that you are doing what you LOVE. It always works.

If you have gone to court due to armed robbery, tell them how you committed the crime out of love (somehow, some way). You will easily be given a lesser charge.

If you are a female teacher having sex with a male student, tell them it was all about love. No one will question it, and the courts will let you off.

Did you know one way you can tell the difference between a bachelor and a married man? Look at their footprints.

Married men walk on their heels as if the world is on their shoulders. Bachelors walk on their toes.

Don't believe me? Look at the footprints yourself. Young boys place the weight of their bodies on the fronts of their feet when walking. Bachelors continue the tradition. But married men— their weight shifts as their heels dig into the ground.

Sunday Reading: Voice of the Neuter

I have decided I am no longer going to post anything significant on this blog on Sunday. Sunday will become a day of rest for me. So, instead, I will link to someone else's excellent essay and say:

“Here is your Sunday reading!”

For this week: The Voice of the Neuter

Quote:

Above all, it is a sexless voice. Not, I hasten to add, a “gay” voice. Not that at all. It is neither that gentle nor that musical. Nor is it that old, shabby, lisping stereotype best consigned to the dustbin of popular culture.

It is common for single men to be declared to be “gay” by women (who often giggle when they say it). Do not be angry with this “slur” against you. Rather, look at it for what it is.

When a woman asks if you are “gay,” she is thinking about you sexually. In other words, she and other women are willing to have sex with you. However, you are not pursuing them, and this annoys them.

Women tend to project themselves onto men; hence, we become dumb, stupid, sex-crazed creatures in their eyes.

Also, women never get “rejected.” If a man doesn't ask them out, the problem HAS to be with him. It cannot be a problem with her. So she will easily say, “HE MUST BE GAY” rather than say, “HE REJECTED ME!” One can have fun and turn this around on women. If a woman doesn't have a boyfriend because she is picky or something, ask if she is gay. Watch the fireworks.

The Manipulated Man is the most cited book for the Enlightened Men and the most influential. When I first read it, I was tearing out my hair, saying, “I cannot prove she is wrong!” It takes repeated readings and some time for the truth to fully sink in.

Due to how perspective-altering the book is, we haven't exactly gone through the book with a fine-tooth comb.

“Women live an animal existence. They like eating, drinking, sleeping – even sex, providing there is nothing to do and no real effort is required of them. Unlike a man, a woman will rarely make an effort to get her partner into bed. If, however, he is already there and she hasn't planned to set her hair or undertake some other form of large-scale beauty repair, and there is no TV program she wants to see, she will not be averse to making love, provided he is prepared to be the active partner.

“But even the euphemisms ‘active’ for the male partner and ‘passive’ for the female do not conceal the fact that woman allows man to serve her in bed just as he does in every sphere of her life. Even though intercourse may give a man pleasure in the long run, it is nothing more than a service to a woman, in which the man is the better lover, arousing desire more skillfully, quickly, and making it last longer.

There is only one main difference between men and women: men are curious, while women never are.

One main difference between men and women: Men are curious. Women never are. The only thing women might be curious about is new bodily pleasures.

Of all the qualities of man, his curiosity is certainly the most impressive. This curiosity differs basically from that of woman. A woman takes interest only in subjects that have an immediate personal usefulness to her. For example, if she reads a political article in the newspaper, it is highly likely that she wants to cast a spell on some political science student, not that she cares about the fate of the Chinese, Israelis, or South Africans. If she looks up the names of some Greek philosophers in the dictionary, it does not mean she has suddenly taken an interest in Greek philosophy. It means she is trying to solve a crossword puzzle. If she is studying the advertisements for a new car, she is not doing it with a platonic interest in its technical features, but because she wants to own it.

Masculinity and Honor Are an Artificial System Designed to Manipulate Men

Thanks to women, everything is labeled “masculine” or “effeminate,” “worthy” or “unworthy.” By imbuing all they do with sentimental and emotional values to such a degree that no one can remain unaffected by them, women have created for themselves a fool's paradise. Whatever they do is pointless compared with male achievements. And since they say so themselves, why should men quibble?

Of course, if men really wanted to, they could destroy this tissue of lies and replace the terms “masculine” and “effeminate” with “hard” and “easy.”

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It is simple to analyze this vicious circle: women invent rules, manipulate men to obey them, and so dominate the male sex. Of course, these rules in no way apply to women themselves. The male sense of honor, for example, is a system invented by women who loudly exempt themselves from it. They renounce the concept of honor and, as a result, manipulate men.

One of the benefits of no comments is that what does come in is well-written and fleshed out.

For your reading pleasure:

Italics = The emailer

Bold = My emphasis

Regular text = El Pookius Master-Of-Universias

Here is the email:

My name is ***** [Pook Note: I'm withholding names from these emails, of course], and I have read some of your posts on Sosuave. I haven’t made a single post there in my life, so I never existed there in a sense. I have urges to register at times, but never see the point in it (or maybe I’m just too lazy). Anyway, I’m a 19-year-old college student in California who first majored in music composition but switched to civil engineering recently. (You are right when you say feminism has gotten into our humanities; I’ll share my experiences with that in this e-mail.)

I have to say that, so far, your writings have already made a huge difference in my life. What is so special is that you seem so down-to-earth, which is something I feel is lacking a lot in the world these days.

Yes, someone did a study on this.

Celebrities have more narcissistic personality traits than the general population, and people with narcissistic tendencies seem to be attracted to the entertainment industry rather than the industry creating narcissists, according to a groundbreaking study conducted by researchers Drew Pinsky of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and S. Mark Young of the USC Marshall School of Business and the USC Annenberg School for Communication.

As someone who is attracted to the entertainment industry, I would have to agree to a point. Sometimes narcissism can be mistaken for being “soulful.” You cannot become a cog in a machine in the entertainment industry...unless you are on the technical or finance side of it.

I would say those who go into politics are more narcissistic. The most narcissistic are those who go into journalism.

Reality TV personalities had the highest overall narcissism scores when compared with actors, musicians, and comedians.

I have been an advocate of Anthony Ellis's program for quite some time. Until I started a new job, I actually was out of the loop when it came to going to the gym (as a door-to-door salesman, it is too difficult to keep up). However, at the new job, I could get back into the program. I declared to my co-workers that I, the caterpillar, would be growing wings. They said I was too skinny. “But it is good to be skinny!” said one fat hag. Having been through the program several times, my muscle fibers were dormant but waiting. Muscle memory was still all in place, even after a couple of years.

In three months, I gained 35 pounds of muscle mass. Yes, it is possible.

Now, you might ask, “Why gain muscle, Pook?” For the testosterone, silly! I noticed that I began sleeping better, was generally happier, and was eating better. The downside is that my sex drive goes up, which often concludes with a woman (unfortunately).

Within an email was this question:

Right now I'm in the process of finding ways to increase my testosterone (because a man without any testosterone is not a man at all). It's too bad that testosterone has such a bad rap; the only time you seem to hear about it in the news is in the context of steroids, prisoners, or cavemen, and back in my nerd days I would avoid “testosterone poisoning” like the plague. The last thing I wanted to be was one of those dirty, muscular types who were constantly playing sports and sweating all the time. But these were the guys that the girls would go for, and why not? The most feminine girls go for the most masculine guys, and you also mentioned in some of your posts that women are able to detect high testosterone like some sort of sixth sense. All these guys on Sosuave talk about confidence and the importance of good posture and talking with a deep voice with a touch of sexuality in it, but I've found that testosterone has given me all that and more.

A good way to become rich is to sell women products designed to help them get a guy. The “fitness” industry gimmicks and silly products they sell to women (since they are obsessed with working out to ensnare a guy) astound me. The Holy Grail to be sold is a product that “tones” your body without doing any of the traditional work.

They've done it again, and color me impressed. This time, it is a vibrating machine!

We can so easily deconstruct this article:

With her heavily muscled arms, you would be forgiven for thinking it is the result of a punishing exercise regime at the gym. But it seems the Queen of Pop's incredible shape is, in part, thanks to The Power Plate—dubbed the “miracle” machine.

The Queen of Pop has hired trainers for both diet and exercise. A stupid vibrating machine does not do zilch, which is why it is mentioned “in part.”

51:49!

Dealing with women is often like dealing with a casino. Mermaid-like, they beckon men to them with the promise of untold happiness and pleasure, yet the odds are always stacked in favor of the house. Just as a casino has an “atmosphere” of “jackpots” and people “getting lucky,” there is a “romance” about people coming in and winning the game. Some enter the casino just to have a fun time playing, but many come to win. Yet the house always wins.

A young man getting married or investing significant time in a woman is like spinning the wheel or throwing the dice. So caught up are they in the atmosphere of the casino and the crowds saying, “Bet more! Bet more!” that they ignore their instincts and stop thinking. Caught up in the rush, they play their cards.

...And they lose. Even the players eventually lose if they keep playing too long. The House always wins.

This is a question I find myself asking women. Women believe men have only one standard for women: their “hotness.” (Sometimes, these women think their personal standards are the same ones that men use. These women will focus on a career without realizing that men are not attracted to that.)

What is strange is that these standards are not absurd or “movie-star” quality. These are simple standards our parents and grandparents had. Here are the common ones among men.

For your reading pleasure:

Italics: the standard.

Text: the El Pooko.

Bold: Feminist replies.

A woman who does not have children already.

Why would a man want to marry a woman who already has children?

Men need to step up to the responsibility of being fathers to these single mothers' kids.

A woman whose focus is on a family instead of a career.

The Forbes article already shows the responses to this.

These women want all the options in the world: to work, to not work, to get married, to not get married, to abort, to not abort, on and on and on.

But are men to have any options other than The Way? Apparently not. This letter (sent by an emailer) is typical of many women's attitudes toward a foreign wife.

My favorite quote:

WOMAN: So, how does that make you different from women who are after men for their money or power?

The consequences of the things you discuss are so far-reaching. I read your article about "nerds" just now and how the answer to 99 out of 100 questions is money. You made such a great case for this. I am in shock. Holy shit.

What I am in even greater disbelief about is HOW EFFECTIVE this marketing has been. It seriously caused me to pause and quickly scan through my experiences, and I was stunned to recall SOOOO MANY guys I know who are living according to how women want them to be and planning their futures according to how women want them to be. And of course, when the men strive to be "how women want them to be," they end up as soulless, joyless, approval-seeking drones.

So...whatever has the potential to make money is "cool" and whatever doesn't is "nerdy." "Cool" obviously equates to higher perceived social value, while "nerdy" equates to lower perceived social value. Smart marketers understand the truth that while men seek to conquer the world, women seek to conquer other PEOPLE. A man set on conquering the world only needs tools necessary to his goal. Alas, men have a sex drive and desire women.

Thank this man and thank all other men like him. These men were ambushed and attacked by feminist soldiers and legal artillery. They have been divorced. They have had their children ripped from them by the courts. They have seen the inner core of the Matriarchy.

They have been through Hell.

Here is a quote from his pages:

Like most of my age group, I grew up being told that, as a man, I needed to help in making the lot of women more equitable with my own. I grew up being told I had advantages in the workplace, socially, and in just about every walk of life simply because I am a man. Much of this seemed to make sense. There were fewer women than men in many workplaces; women were frustrated at being expected to look after the home while men worked at their careers. In college, I knew intelligent, resourceful women. It seemed entirely reasonable to me that they should be able to choose what they wanted to do with their lives, just as I had been convinced I could.

One of the great things about the Internet for reading is how far curiosity will take you. A simple search, a click on a link here and there, and, as you hop from page to page, you uncover an odd trail whose information often surprises.

When I listened to a Babylon 5 episode commentary via Netflix, the scene where Sheridan (sp?) gives Delenn the engagement ring had Jerry Doyle (the actor who plays Garibaldi) suddenly start mocking the entire thing, going on about how the girl would wait a couple of years, get a divorce, and get all your money taken from you, etc. I filed that in the back of my head to do a quick bio search to see if the guy had been divorced and taken to the cleaners. Sure enough, he had been. Who knew that the wife/ex-wife who did that was the chick who played Talia Winters? When she left the show, they married, had a kid, and divorced a couple of years later.

Guess what my first email was? It was a Gmail invite! You guys make me laugh (and yes, I took the Gmail invite :) ).

In any case, I've been lurking on other forums and listening to the plight of older men in their 30s–60s.

On Sosuave, being shy or having problems dealing with girls is seen as the problem. But with these older men, being divorced, being manipulated (for decades), being screwed by the family courts, being shattered financially (and, at their age, never being able to recover from it), having their children separated from them, paying child support for eighteen years, and suffering more strange laws against them is the real problem. And if the separation doesn't occur, it is living The Way, that pre-formulated life for which they abandoned their passions and dreams. If they are bored, they consider themselves lucky. THAT is a problem.

I am a believer in Occam's Razor. The simplest and clearest explanation is often the best one.

I am seeing divorce occur among the usual married couples, but also among traditional religious couples. Sometimes it is the woman who initiates the divorce. Other times, it is the man.

The desire for divorce has been said to be the effect of immorality, paganism, repression, bad male attributes, bad female attributes, and so on. But one thing every example has in common is that the person claims authorship of their life.

Imagine one's life is a story, and the person wants to control the pen writing that story. Sounds fair and good. But no one could alter the state of their marriage throughout most of history. Throughout time, arranged marriages were the norm. In fact, throughout most societies, people were not the authors of their lives.

Marriages tend to work when one of the couple does whatever the other wishes, or both do what someone else wishes. One may claim authorship over their life, and often that can lead to divorce if he or she decides to “get more” somewhere.

Media Got It Right in 1986: Newsweek Predicted the “Marriage Crunch”

Here is a fantastic article Newsweek did on the “marriage crunch” way back in 1986. The article is full of great quotes and really reveals how some women think (such as one woman deciding to buy a house instead of getting a husband to do it. So, is that the purpose of a husband: to give them a house?). It also shows many women's panic over this article back then.

One quote I love (paraphrasing) is that the older single men are “bottom of the barrel,” while the older single women are the “cream of the crop.” I would say it is the other way around. The older men get, the easier it is for them to marry.

An emailer sent me a link to this hilarious Oprah story. A man was able to marry five women at the same time. Obviously, there are smart, strong, and substantial women who could only get “played” if the man was a demi-devil. Well, at least Oprah thinks so.

According to all of these women's stories, Eric's technique was to wow a woman with his false résumé—which often included references to him being a Navy SEAL or a pilot, including a crisp, white Navy uniform, and being orphaned and raised by abusive foster parents. He would then ingratiate himself with the women's families and propose marriage within weeks of dating.

From one of these women's perspectives, she meets a Navy SEAL in his crisp, white Navy uniform, thinks he falls in love with HER immediately, and proposes marriage within weeks.

Anyone who proposes marriage within weeks is crazy. Why would a decorated military officer jump into marriage with one of these girls? It is because she thinks she is “all that.”

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When you say that feminists are evil and mean, we do not disagree. Indeed, Nature spitting out such an abomination as the feminist frightens even the philosophers (who only tend to frighten themselves). But do keep in mind: Nature did not create the feminist, as the feminist emerged from a decay of isolated female debris. This female debris, totally left alone by worthwhile males, was easy pickings for unworthy males who saw these girls as merely holes to fill. This is shocking...oh yes. But after a few wham, bams, and thank-you-ma'ams, the female debris puffs with rage and wounded pride.

In the 1960s, and perhaps a little before, a wave of doomsdayers appeared and spoke of the Malthusian disaster ahead. The Malthusian view is simple: as the human population increases, we will run out of natural resources and food, destroy all of Nature, and end up with massive famines, with civilization collapsing.

In the 1970s, this context gained greater traction. Sensationalist authors appeared, such as Paul Ehrlich, who wrote the book The Population Bomb, which predicted mass famines in the 1970s and 1980s. Unfortunately, environmentalism used doomsday ideas to propel its beliefs into the political sphere. The EPA was established. People began to fear that we would pollute ourselves to death, that all natural resources were going to vanish, and that mass extinction would result from the expanding human population. In short, we faced a very bad future ahead unless we took political action now!

To consider how widespread the Malthusian doom was becoming, nations began implementing controls on “population control.” Pope John Paul II was internally debating the entire matter. Like wildfire, the Malthusian context of disaster reached throughout the globe. School curricula were being remade to highlight the threat to civilization as we knew it.

The U.S. has discovered a huge oil deposit over 20,000 feet below sea level in the Gulf of Mexico. This oil deposit would boost U.S. reserves by 50%. It is a spectacular find! The oil companies win. Consumers win. The U.S. wins! Everyone wins! Well, not everyone. The doomsters lose. But even if the doomsters won, they would still be unhappy and angry. The reason why I never subscribe to doomsday is not only that it is often wrong; doomsters become unhappy at the sight of good news.

[Notice the wording of that article? The discovery “underscores the importance” of supply? What a joke of reporting.]

“But Pook! This is only delaying the inevitable. Oil is finite, and we will soon run out.”

We will never run out of oil. Oil comes not from the ground but from our heads. As we get smarter and more sophisticated, we harvest oil out of the darnedest places. The tar sands of Alberta have more oil than the entire Middle East.

With the events of today, I'd like to put up a historical parallel:

The Barbary pirates were pirates who operated out of Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Salé, and ports in Morocco, preying on shipping in the western Mediterranean Sea from the time of the Crusades, as well as on ships on their way to Asia around Africa until the early 19th century. Their stronghold was along the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast (a medieval term for the Maghreb, after its Berber inhabitants), although their predation was said to extend throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard, and into the North Atlantic, purportedly as far north as Iceland. As well as preying on shipping, raids were often made on European coastal towns. The pirates were responsible for capturing large numbers of Christian slaves from Europe, who were sold in slave markets in places such as Morocco.

World War III could be said to be the Cold War. But World War IV is certainly about Radical Islam.

Please watch this. We must expand people's context!

World War I ended in an armistice. World War II ended with unconditional surrender. World War III ended when Soviet Russia was dealt with. But the new conflict is, at its root, religious. They despise the Pope more than, say, President Bush. There will be no armistice; they will not surrender. It is a conflict between those who worship life and those who worship death. How do you make a deal with someone who straps bombs to their own children?

A larger version is here for your viewing pleasure.

The video talks about how Radical Islam has hijacked Islam and is spread out among the population. But the difference between Radical Islam and its Muslim brothers is that Radical Islam worships death.

From a tactical point of view, America's entry into Iraq has allowed America to gain access to the Middle Eastern stage. Before, this wasn't possible. The U.S. had to ask permission from Saudi Arabia or another country to stay there. Now, it doesn't have to, and, make no mistake, this is grating on China and Russia and took them off guard.

Many of the Middle Eastern countries (such as Egypt) are scared of Iran because Iranians are Persians, not Arabs. Hezbollah is being funded by Iran. It appears they were testing how far they could go with Israel (as Israel has made many concessions in recent years) and seem surprised that Israel has bitten back.

Keep a close eye on China and Russia. Both countries are ancient enemies, yet have a very close alliance. Iraq (under Saddam) was heavily funded by Russia. North Korea is obviously heavily influenced by China. The idea is that the Chinese/Russian alliance is playing a game of foreign-policy chess. They themselves wouldn't act openly, as it would be too obvious.

Semi-pussified males and men mistakenly believe Feminism is the Matriarchy. This is understandable because feminists are “visible” because they are trying to invade the masculine sphere.

Women are smarter than men because they have manipulated us not just to work for them; we are to die for them at a moment's notice. It was during the 1940s and 1950s that women began pooling their leverage and cementing it over men. This was the time when “engagement rings” from De Beers were popularized. The media began turning women into goddesses and idealizing the 1950s nuclear family. That nuclear family idea is the woman staying at home and getting men and society to work for her. If a man was not married, he often could not even find a job. The employer would say, “I will give the job to the guy who has a family because he needs it more.” Up until this time in all of human history, women had to work. Now, due to mechanization and all, they could get men to work for them.

It is common to hear the “Doomsday” and “End of the West” mantras on Men's Movement sites. “Society is set to collapse!” they say. And most of this is due to the falling birth rate.

But, lo and behold, the birth rate is an average of everyone. Behind the average, however, some people are having children while others are not, and this difference alone is reshaping the political landscape.

The greatest transmission of values from one generation to another is through children. Feminists do not believe in children, which is why they are on the path to elimination. I've said earlier that gays have no political future because of the very fact that they cannot have children. No matter how great your art is, how brilliant your essays are, or how spectacular your career is, without children, you are the walking dead.

The history of the Church, over two thousand years, is full of schisms and heretical groups. Where are they now? Gone into the mist of time. There is a reason why the Church is extremely rigid on matters of sexuality (against abortion, against gays, even against contraception).

Women hate Feminism only when it interferes with Feminine Aristocracy (Matriarchy).

Here is a fun story of women wishing to be barefoot and pregnant. These women are very unhappy with Feminism and having to work.

“We can't seriously expect that 1960s and 1970s social feminism (a concept not even 50 years old) is going to surpass what the female body is genetically, physiologically, and psychologically programmed to do.”

Even to this day, feminists do not accept the reality that men and women are biologically different. When it comes to their different brains, they believe that the brain differences are only reactions to social conditions. In other words, in a feminist utopia, men's and women's brains would look exactly the same if examined. Yes, they actually believe this.

Becca, a 29-year-old doctor, wants to “find that woman who burnt her bra and beat her up.”

Western women had it the best. They had the richest and sweetest men in the world. They had the best living conditions and best life available to women. Yet, they threw all that away for Feminism.

As I go through the emails, this guy had so many questions that I thought I'd answer them here (in case others have similar questions!).

For your reading pleasure:

Regular text = Pooky Wooky

Bold text = The Questioner

OK, to the point. I feel that all your posts are very...separate, a whirlwind of ideas which don't fall into place and form some sort of context or “reality map” (I hate saying that). At least for me, they haven't.

You are correct! When this blog started, I didn't know what the heck I was doing. I just threw stuff up there. (Editor’s note: ...yeah, I noticed that too.)

“But you can throw stuff on Sosuave just as well, Mr. Pook.” Now, now, Sosuave is a “how to get girls” forum. I already paid my dues there. Besides, I'd rather talk about other things than “how to get girls,” which, on Sosuave, I'd have little choice.

Too many emails! Here is another...

Dr. Pook,

All this matriarchy business is a bit depressing. Your Sosuave posts always left a nervous excitement in the stomach, but Pook's Mill leaves an icy sinking in the stomach.

Perhaps both are awakenings, but to two different realities. One was pleasant and productive; the other, perturbing and preventative.

I don't know about you, but I had planned on getting married and having kids (in five to ten years), but with these realities in my face, I wonder. I want kids, but I want them to grow up with both their dad and their mom. I wonder if it is possible to create a family the way I want. And if so, how? You suggest living one's own way. And I agree. But certainly, a man can do that, get married, and raise a family.

What's your personal solution to the Matriarchy problem? Wait until the laws change and I have gray hair? Marry a woman from another country? Then I'd have to move there too. What if that's not in my plan?

“Political Action!” Not yet. From my formal education and actually working on political campaigns, I know there is more to a movement than making blogs and petitioning the government.

Let me tell you the tale of two movements. One succeeded wildly while the other failed. One altered the entire government of America while the other keeps losing power and influence. One movement won; the other lost.

The Conservative Movement in America began in the sixties. It started intellectually, and through magazines, pamphlets, words, and so on, the movement persuaded and grew. The first major “student” of this movement who would become active in politics was Ronald Reagan. This movement then took to talk radio and the Internet to counter the mainstream news. People heard and listened. Many were persuaded by substantial intellectual reasons. The focus of the movement was on education, not action. And once people began to become educated and persuaded, they took action themselves. I was in Washington, D.C., during the election of 1994, when Republicans won control of both houses of Congress, and everyone was in shock (everyone in the Beltway, that is). The Democrats had held Congress for over forty years!

Disclaimer

Keep in mind that this is meant for the politically engaged and public part of the Men's Movement. When I mean “Men's Movement,” I am referring to the political movement, not the websites, blogs, message boards, and those things.

In politics, you must pick your battles. In other words, you pick the battles worth fighting over and don't waste time on unobtainable objectives.

The battles I think are worth fighting over (and winnable) for the Men's Movement are:

• Calling attention to and reorganizing family law and its courts.

• Making paternity testing mandatory for birth certificates and especially for child support.

• Having legislatures reexamine the laws concerning rape.

• Having legislatures reexamine the laws concerning sexual harassment.

• Having Congress amend and/or gut the Violence Against Women Act.

• Fighting for changes to divorce law.

This, already, will be an uphill battle. All of this is possible, however. Paternity testing is winnable because it is not that expensive to do DNA checks. It is very difficult to argue against paternity testing for child support to the mainstream populace (why should a man who isn't the father have to pay child support?

Before I move on to other merry Pookish work, I must fully reiterate the Second Commandment: Fight the Negativism. Now I wish I could rephrase it as “Become a Doomslayer.” Consider:

Nature and Nature's God have infused us with the ability to grow, with hidden aces of undiscovered talents in our back pockets, ripe to come out and be put into play. In short, we have been crafted with the possibility of creating achievements. However, it is lazy to prefer an alibi to an achievement. As such, most people believe in alibis to cover up the emptiness they know their lives contain.

Because of this desire for alibis, humanity is prone to believe in hysterias...in crises...in doomsdays. There are many (unsuccessful) movements set to the tune of Doomsday. All Doomsday Movements are practically LOSER movements. These movements give us the alibi not to achieve. And in all these Doomsday Movements, there is usually not a “God,” but there is almost always a “Golden Age” that has eroded because of some serpent. The Doomsday Movements have no savior, but they always have their devils.

Jesus Was a Jerk

One of the problems about reading any great works is that they tend to enter cliché. There was a woman who, after reading Hamlet, thought it was nothing but a play of clichés (since the play is so often quoted, parodied, referenced, etc.). The same occurs with the New Testament.

Jesus has been portrayed in modern media as a type of wild-eyed hippie, who he and his followers held hands and sang “Kumbaya.” It is no surprise that many think Jesus was a feminized nice guy who everyone loved.

But the Gospels contradict this image entirely. Jesus was a jerk. And by jerk, I mean it in the good way, as in the divide between Nice Guy vs. Jerk. Jesus defied practically everyone and told the most learned scholars in that era that they were wrong. He spoke parables and never seemed to care what anyone thought of him.

Henry Ford was a smart guy. Not because he could recite literature, history, law, or any of that on the fly, but because he could get others to do it for him. When critics accused him of being stupid, he invited journalists in to answer any question. Around him he had his employees, who answered all the journalists' questions. "See how smart I am?" he would say. But a journalist said, "But Mr. Ford, you didn't answer a single question." But he didn't have to, since he had others to do it for him.

From the vantage point of men, women have these characteristics:

• They show no interest in philosophy, literature, or higher spirituality.

• They show interest in celebrities, gossip, and a lowly ordered life (lack of spirituality).

• They appear emotional with lots of "oohs and ahhs," as well as crying on the spot. They have temper tantrums. They appear giddy one moment and contemptuous the next.

From an Entry at Mirror of the Soul:

I am an avid player of chess. People that play chess understand life, whereas those that don't greatly lose out on a game which can give them insight into life as well as strategic thinking. Consider in life that men fall into the categories of pawn, knight, bishop, rook, and king—synonymous with the pieces on a chessboard—and all bow to the queen, who is the most powerful piece on the chessboard—synonymous with men bowing and being slaves to women in the Anglosphere. Rarely do we see a man in the Anglosphere viewing himself as more than a chess piece. He mindlessly takes his role, whether it be pawn, knight, bishop, rook, or king, and bows to the queens of his life. However, the chess master bows to no one, and moves and controls each chess piece for his advantage. You need to rise above your chess-piece status in life and become the chess master by transforming yourself to be above it all. If you don't, you will be constantly bowing to the queens in your life and be used by other chess masters to their advantage and to your detriment.

In order for the Men's Movement to succeed, it must not only make inroads in persuading men, it must also persuade many women. Remember, Feminism could never have moved so strongly if it were not for the huge support from men. If the Men's Movement actually wants to win, it will have to make a serious effort to get women on its side.

This is actually easier than you think. Many women are not happy with Feminism (but do love female entitlement). Since this is Pook's Mill and not some other book, my procedure is to hold a mirror up to Nature. In order to persuade women, we must reflect Nature back at them. Reason fails. But reflections of Nature will succeed.

One mantle the Men's Movement can take up is to combat the Fertility Plague that is ripping apart Western nations. See map. Even the Prime Minister of Japan just shrugs and says, "I know no solution to the fertility problem." This is an opportunity for a disruptor movement to come in and seize the issue.

The Human Chessboard is the way how many women view the world. To her, the “Checkmate” (and status) is marriage. Through various manipulations, she keeps maneuvering her pieces to get the prize (which is YOU. It is YOU who are the prize being won). Your friends in the way? Poof! She removes them from your life. You’re hesitant to propose? Viola! She ramps up the bedroom activity. Different religions? No problem. She changes or doesn’t care about any religious differences (why should she? Religion to her is a tool, not something to submit to).

“Check…”

“Check…”

“Check…”

Alas, you dastardly Don Juan! Each alignment she places the pieces, you squiggle by. But soon you are cornered.

“Checkmate!”

Now you find yourself walking down the wedding aisle. “NOOOOO!!!!” you scream.

Marriage is the great “Checkmate” of a woman’s life. I wondered why they used to be SOO HAPPY when they announced an engagement (and of course planned for a wedding). The groom just stands there with a look of smug bafflement. On one hand, he is probably thinking, “Gosh, she is SO HAPPY! She must love me SO MUCH.

If there are going to be shame tactics against men, how about shame tactics against women?

Single Mother – Refer to her children as 'bastards' and to her as the mother of 'bastards.' She'll get angry, but it is the truth. Instead of 'single mother,' use the phrase 'mother of bastards.'

Of course, the single mothers I am referring to are those who had children out of wedlock. I'm not referring to widows.

Slut – Referring to her as 'slut' might backfire, as some women enjoy being called sluts. Use the word 'diseased' instead. Eighty percent of sexually active women have herpes (yes, it’s true. Google it if you don't believe me). Say to her, "Hello, Diseased One!" Oh man, she'll hate you. But the shame is true.

A transcript on Tom Leykis show is below. Read.

A listener writes in and says, “I told my girlfriend I wanted a prenup [prenuptial agreement]. She said, ‘You have nothing!’ I said, ‘It’s for future earnings.’ She got pissed and she said, ‘Well, I don’t want to get married.’ But then she agreed to sign if I gave her a baby. Damn, Tom. Then I’ll be into her 18 to 22 years. I’m confused. Should I have a family—or not and be alone?” And it is unsigned.

I cannot tell what your age is, but I’m guessing you’re young. I do not think you’re 30. I think you’re closer to 20. But what you can see from this negotiation here is that her interest is not in you. It’s in money. Mon-ey. Like so many women, she wants to lay some of the burden of life on you. She wants you to pay.

Why on earth do people prefer doomsday over paradise, rage over laughter, or anger over happiness?

The biggest cause of political movements is losing in life. Most people who protest and march in the streets in the West do so because they have lost out in life. They feel the rich became so by stealing it from them, that those who are happy did so by making them sad, and so on and so forth. They throw themselves as the legislative palace because they blame society rather than themselves. Sometimes they were legitimately wounded by unfair laws and their cause is just. But still, they are not the first people in history to taste the sting of an unjust law. Why throw away your life to the pool of bitterness because of a single act?

The Men’s Movement faces this tragedy directly. Many men have had their lives torn apart by a backstabbing legal process. When you hear these guys, you hear rage and anger from them. But this is not attractive to others to join the movement because who wants to wake up full of rage and anger all the time?

For years on sosuave (and on this blog), my profile’s location is only known as “Nirvana.”

Do you want to know what Nirvana is?

Quickly, my pooklings, gather around the blog! I will show you Pook’s homeland, the place where men are men and women are women, where being a man meant more than being an animal.

Once upon a time, women wore dresses. They were not allowed to wear short hair or else they would be mistaken for prostitutes (and were thought the same if they smoked or drank). There are tales, legends, whispered from old men’s breaths of an ancient age where sexuality was vibrant and masculinity and femininity shimmered throughout society.

A young man approached the Pook and asked, “Monsieur Pook, tell me, what is the difference between the Matriarchy and the Patriarchy?”

And the Pook replied, “What do you think it is?”

The young man sniffed and said, “It is power of gender. Matriarchy has women in control. Patriarchy has men in control. Perhaps we need a third option where no gender has power.”

“No. It is either-or. There is no middle ground.”

“So what is the difference, Pook?”

“I will tell you. The ‘touchstone’ of civilizations has been debated for centuries. Some measure their technology, others measure their ‘culture,’ yet other measures them through what form of government. The defining moment of civilization is how TIME is measured.”

“Why not money? Why not power?”

“It is because Time is finite. We can make more money, obtain more power, but no one can ever create more Time. From the Maya to the Egyptians to the ancient Greek to the Babylonians and to every ancient civilization, Time was sacred. The Calendar was sacred. To them, monsters were creatures that upset Time and had to be thrown out. The hero arises to ‘set time right’ and dispose the monsters.

One day, the magnificent Pook decided to share his manliness (for it would be selfish to contain so much manliness!) with the world. The people rejoiced in this and children ran to greet the Pook when he appeared.

However, Pook encountered a band of disgruntled people huddled in a circle. They hissed their frustrations of life to one another and that was their ritual. Then, they would all disperse to their jobs and lives which they despised. Next day, they would gather, share in their complaints about the world, and then leave again to do it the next day. Seeing the cycle, Pook approached the group.

“What do you want!?” seethed a young man in his twenties who was beginning to look like he was entering his forties. “Why do you disrupt us?” came an old woman’s screech from a woman just turning twenty-five.

“Tortured souls,” the Pookius Maximus said, “Every day, you gather and complain. Yet, then you go back to what you complain about.”

At a time when everyone seemingly dons tattered arrogant souls, when, in order to feast on the height of their self-seen greatness, everyone yields to their usual brainwashed tropes. In the Matriarchy, there are two: the Grand Career and the Grand Household.

The Grand Career is not a “job” but something more “glorious.” A plumber is a job, but a lawyer is a “career.” Never-mind that a plumber can get good money and adds more to society than many lawyers, the difference between a “job” and “career” these days is image. Women, who worship the image, will excitedly pursue these careers. But in the end, a “career” in that traditional sense is often a losing situation. It is the trap of the Wage Slave.

The Grand Household (notice how I did not say “Grand Family”) is the big McMansion, this is the Perfect Wedding, and this is the 1.6 kids with a 1.1 dog. Not only women desire this but so do many men. Some prefer the Grand Household over the Grand Career and vice versa (many women want both). But both of these are life not coming from your soul, from YOU BEING YOU, but from a pre-existing template.

There are two political books the “masses” keep gravitating toward of the last century. The books are Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell. Both books are cited by all political groups from across the spectrum. Each points to the other as 1984 while one group finds Brave New World a horror while another group sees it as a utopia. Something with these books has tapped into the Human mind in such a way that made them universal.

I am familiar with all the political books, and they are mostly dry, pompous nonsense on stilts. Why do those two books, beyond any other, keep coming up in people’s dreams of horror?

The answer became so obvious that I could not stop laughing at my previous foolishness. The secret to appeal and horror of the two books could not be even more plain.

They have nothing to do with politics.

Our vision of history comes from past writings. But what about the time before writing was invented? And if writing was invented beforehand, could it have been possible for civilizations to ignore writing because they saw it as a vice?

Plato, one of the last who knew the pre-writing civilizations (and, hence, the Mill), wrote this in the end of Phaedrus. In the book, Socrates refers to a story that the Egyptian Thamus tell the god Theuth that writing, far from being a benefit, will plant forgetfulness in men’s souls that it will only seem to be wisdom and will tell men of things without really teaching them; they will thus seem to know much but in fact know nothing. They will have the conceit of wisdom, not genuine wisdom.

The response of civilizations after to this goes as follows: “Haha, Socrates was such a DORK!!! Plato was such a fuddy duddy! Writing was a proper invention the helped the world. It is like the fool who thinks computers will harm us, or the automobile will destroy us.”

Eric Hoffer wrote a brilliant book last century called, “The True Believer.” In the book, Hoffer began analyzing mass movements that ripped apart the twentieth century. Why do people join mass movements? And why are those who most frequently join mass movements tend to be poor or very wealthy? He solved the question as to why the children of wealthy parents end up becoming lost in a mass movement.

Hoffer’s answer was that people frustrated in life, frustrated in that their lives are not turning the way they want, will lose themselves into a mass movement. Happy people generally have very little need for a movement. A quote: “It is easier to serve Humanity than it is to serve your neighbor.” People want to matter in life, to think their lives have some sort of meaning. Children of wealthy people want meaning just as much as the poor person. The ones who are most resistant to the mass movement are those who are too busy working. Hoffer observed that those who followed the Communist mass movement would turn around and follow the anti-communist movement as easily as changing clothes.

There is something very wrong with MGTOW. Instead of talking about “men going their own way,” we see…

• Anti-Americanism (or other rants against one’s mother country)

• Declarations of Chicken Little economic/social/cultural collapse.

• Religious screeds against a particular religion or against all religions.

• Conspiracy theories.

• Evangelizing the “Deck-Stacked-Against-Us-Have-No-Hope” view of society (which is unproductive).

• Evangelizing that one ought to live like a Mexican…

• …or another country…

• Forums become a “Yes!” echo chamber. There is no discussion, just rants filled with yes-men.

These “elements” are well known but ignored because of the “good things” that do come out. We should just shrug off these things and compromise with them. Well, there is one problem.

When food and poison compromise, which is the victor? It is the poison. Eating it may be sustaining…for the short term…but your body fills up with these poison toxins. You begin to lose your ambition, your passion, and generally become filled with bitterness.

There is nothing wrong with single issue advocates. The problem occurs when it starts to override everything else. Take the Elian Gonzalez scenario. MRAs, seeing only the boy returned to his father, begin immediately applauding. They cheer the Janet Reno who sent the troops to invade the house for the boy on one side while condemning Janet Reno for Waco. Never mind that children belong to the State, not fathers, in Cuba.

MRA has won ZERO political victories. Despite this, many have moved further and further to more extreme views. No more is it about equal rights for men as it is about taking away woman’s right to vote and changing consent law among other things. This tells me most MRA are not really serious about the cause.

When people are serious about changing laws, they aim for the small victories first. Socialists do not declare they want to nationalize all industry. They would be dead in the water politically if they did that.

Aristotle said that man has two peaks that are accompanied by intense pleasure: sexual intercourse and thinking. The human soul is a kind of ellipse and its phenomena are spread between its two foci that display our tropical variety and ambiguity.

This will be no surprise to those who understand sexual transmutation. The great salesman, as the great artist and great entrepreneur, tends to harness the sexual impulses not unlike a sailboat being powered by the wind. Transmutation also gives a reason for long term sexual relationship, i.e. marriage, for the husband is transmuted in that his energy is more direct, his world caught up more in that “electric” world that is created when we fall in love, and the wife the same. But what if we do not get who we love? Is all lost? We should put trust in His handiwork as Nature tends to work even when our misunderstandings say otherwise. Even with a lost love, the man (or woman) enters a transmuted state whose memory can be recalled on.

You have reached the end of the series.

Volume 1 made you attractive.

Volume 2 made you wise.

This volume was written so that attractiveness and wisdom would not leave you empty.

Pook’s hardest warning still stands at the gate:

“You can win with women and still lose in life.”

If you have read Volume 3 honestly, you know how that loss happens.

It happens when seduction becomes a costume for the Nice Guy.

It happens when you play the human chessboard so long that you forget you were supposed to have a life off the board.

It happens when you believe scarcity myths that keep you small.

It happens when shame — “Why aren’t you married? Why no children? Why won’t you perform?” — taxes every free choice you make.

It happens when a movement built on negativity offers you identity in exchange for your ambition.

It happens when sexual intercourse becomes the only peak you believe a man can climb — and the cord to talent is snipped.

You have finished Volume 3 — and with it, the series.

If these pages helped you cast off useless guilt, refuse bitterness, or turn back toward your talent — and you want to leave a marker for the next man who won with women and still felt empty — leave an honest review where you bought the book.

Stars are enough.

One clear sentence is better.

Say what you will actually do differently.

That is the only review that matters.