The door with the 'Keep Out' sign.

There are a number of subjects that most men are simply not supposed to know about. There is no law about it. It is simply not done. This has less to do with feminism than practicality and economics. The subjects are the preserve of people with plenty of time and money. They appear to be economicaly useless at first glance but is this really the case? Could it be that the ruling group simply see value in certan subjects where their subjects cannot? Could it be that our rulers are simply better at working out where value lies? Generally speaking only women can study for pleasure because women do not need to support a family. Occasionally we find a man who has made a great deal of money and who has decided to spend his retirement in university but this is rare.

Whenever I see a door with a 'Keep Out' sign written on it I want to open it and see what is behind. So what are these things that men may never know?  Is it worth kicking the door open and making this knowledge free for all?

Art and Art Chicks. (The secret economic life of culture.)
A man can prove that he is rich by taking an interest in art- and a woman can meet rich men by doing the same. In game terms both men and women signal their desirability through art. Men advertise their wealth while women advertise their beauty. Only a beautiful woman can devote herself to art because only beautiful women do not have to worry about making a living. This means that an interest in art signals that a woman is sufficiently sexually attractive to live off others. This only works as long as art is both complicated and expensive. Once art becomes accessible it no longer proves anything and so loses its sexual allure. This is why women generally approach the subject in an indirect way- by obtaining an art degree rather than interacting worth art directly. It is rather like owning a Rolex watch. They carry prestige because not everyone can have one. There are many people who are interested in making money from such idiots but why be one of them?

Like everything else there is a simple and a complex way of doing things. A man is judged by what he achieves in life and he is always busy. He must find a quick and efficient way to appreciate art just as he must be efficient in all other things. Why not start by looking at some paintings? A good place to start if you are in London would be the National Gallery. Entry is free and often includes a very good talk. They also produce a podcast to download (again free).

This not only saves a great deal of money but also means you talk to the real experts and experience everything first hand. It is also easy to fit this in with a busy working life and.. you meet art chicks.

Art Chicks come from wealthy families and are often strikingly beautiful. By studying art they advertise their availability to wealthy men. They will NEVER marry you but they are fun until they find their millionaire.

There is a huge industry in London that aims to turn City traders into gentlemen by means of art. These organizations (auction houses, private galleries and so on) always use elegant and cultured women as their representatives. These women nearly always end up marrying their wealthy customers because they are so good at making the barbarian seem civilised.

Ultimately all such businesses are fraudulent because they are selling the City boy something he already has- an aesthetic sense. Alternatively- if he has no interest in beauty then he has no use for for the art industry either. The result is the same because he does not need them. I am talking about something quite different. I am talking about developing a genuine interest in art which is nothing to do with showing off.


This system breaks down when men take an interest in art for its own sake. Men are increasingly demanding the right to become fully rounded human beings. Until now this has been something that only women could do but this was because men have financially supported women. The Man Going His Own Way will generally not do this and so he is free to develop himself in ways that other men cannot.

The great thing about living in the UK is that artistic pursuits of all kinds are cheap or free. In fact you are far more likely to get something from your art if you approach it without insecurities. Men Going Their Own Way are gentlemen. We know the difference between price and value which is the one thing the private art industry cannot teach the City boy.

Some doors are left unlocked and half open for men. These are doors that lead to apparent but illusory power. The most common of these doors are marked 'hero' and invite men to do all sorts of dramatic things such as run for president but which involve him playing a role in order to do so. In other words the hero is simply an actor speaking lines written by others for purposes he does not understand. On occasion this can be fun (I enjoy saving Damsels as much as the next man) but we must never forget that it is the playwright and not the actor who determines the meaning of the play.

What to do with old books.

I bought a large tin of Thorntons toffee a week ago (Brazil nut, treacle, raisin and plain) and will use it to dispose of books.

Many of us have far more books than we will ever look at again. These tie us to a place. Our homes fill with books but we become less free as a result. In fact there is no shortage of information on the Internet and there is no need to hoard paper in this way.

I am reading all my novels and then giving them away to people on the train. It is surprising how this brightens their day. The toffee box really comes into its own with 'difficult' books because I can keep the book with a notepad and a highlighter pen. Both of these things aid understanding and I can throw the book out when I am finished.

I am reading a book a week and intend to do so for life.

Let them eat cake.

I have just ordered a hamper from Clearwater Hampers. I am still not sure it was a good idea (due to my extreme poverty) but I am sure I will enjoy it when it arrives.

Fortunately I am a member of Quidco and so I receive 12.5% back as a cash bonus. Nevertheless at £214 it is an expensive luxury. The only way I can justify it is by making the hamper into a bug in box once I have eaten the contents. I also think the hamper will keep me out of the supermarket for a month or so. A proper review will follow once I have eaten the lot.

The English Survivalist.

The biggest problem Survivalism faces in England is that it is.. well.... not polite.

It is really rather rude to threaten the neighbours with a sawn off shotgun simply because food is running low. We would far rather invite them in for a nice cup of tea and a chat- even if the world is ending next Tuesday.

Fortunately England has now come up with its own, very civilised brand of Survivalism based around the the splendidly eccentric Idler Academy. This organisation is dedicated to the art of idleness, libertarianism and anarchism with a traditional aristocratic edge. Who is better to teach us the lost art of chilling out, ignoring central government and refusing to spend a penny more than we need to than an aristocrat? These guys have been doing this for hundreds of years.

The people who run the Idler Academy are not actually aristocrats but they share many of the same interests. They read Latin and study ancient philosophy to while away their idle lives. While not doing these things they publish a magazine (one a year- it is best not to work too hard) and run courses on profiting from gold, living off the land and generally screwing the system. Survivalism in other words.

All of these events take place in a very nice part of London and the wine is always served at the correct temperature. These things are important.

Frugality and Survivalism.

We generally find that Survivalists turn their back of consumerism and the whole 'sell your soul to the company store' ethic. Consumerism and Survivalism seem incompatible although it takes a little while to understand why.

The penny drops as soon as we begin to economise. Life not only becomes cheaper- it also becomes greener, less stressful and more suited to long term survival.

My own kitchen came to resemble a survivalists lair very quickly. My need for economy was so great that I cut meat from my diet entirely and lived on pulses and grains. These were bought in bulk (again for economy) and suddenly I found myself with three months food supplies.

Survivalists and economisers are both suspicious of easy promises. Survivalists rarely believe the government while economisers rarely believe an advertisement. Both are brothers under the skin.

Simple foods (rice, oats, beans ext) are healthier and cheaper that the alternatives. They may be dry stored for years as insurance against the zombie apocalypse and provide a hedge against inflation in the mean while. They are all round good news and well suited to campfire cooking.

Frugality also requires a low energy lifestyle. This saves money in the present while also providing insurance against economic collapse.  If the peak oil guys are right then we will all be living a low energy life twenty years from now. The only difference is that the frugal survivalist has planned this all in advance.

The best thing you can do to protect yourself and your family is live cheaply. The one skill we can be sure we will need after the Fall is the ability to live on a low income.

Ditch the insurance.

Many of us pay into insurance schemes because this is what sensible people do. Sensible sucks. Sensible is Beta. Sensible is death to the soul.

Self insuring is the act of having sufficient funds to deal with life. You have access to this money and so there is no longer any need to pay someone else a premium for access to theirs.

The great thing about self insuring is that it is stress relieving. Normal insurance simply exchanges one set of problems for another. First you buy insurance so that you do not need to worry about something going wrong. Then (when something does go wrong) you worry about the small print of the insurance contract. This is too much like work for me. I would rather just pay for things as they come up.

The only downside to self insurance is that quite a lot of cash is needed to set it up. An insurance company does not have assets to realise every possible claim that may arise- far from it. This means that it is possible to be covered for many thousands of pounds of risk for just a penny or two a day. Only a tiny proportion of their policies will result in claims on any particular year and so companies write many more policies than they can ever pay. This was all very well until the credit crunch came along and shrunk the value of their investments. This caused some companies to become insolvent.

By means of self insurance and a low debt lifestyle it is possible to insulate oneself from the rickety financial structure that threatens to sink us all.

In order to do without insurance one must know what it is.

Insurance is basically rented liquidity. An individual finds that he cannot be without an item (such as a home or a car) and yet he cannot hold sufficient funds to replace it. He therefore rents access to another persons money by paying an insurance premium to an insurance company.

Insurance can be a profitable alternative to holding cash. Prior to the crunch many corporations used it as a means to create debt fueled financial empires. Many of these empires no longer exist because insurance is never (quite) the same thing as cash.

So why are companies and wealthy individuals so adverse to cash anyway? The most liquid investments have the lowest returns and they may can boost their returns by holding less of it- until they go broke. It all worked quite well for 'sophisticated' investors for quite a long time.

Most household insurance is bought out of habit. This is a hugely dangerous thing to do with money.

You may find the following cost/benefit analysis useful even though the examples are from my own life.

Ditch the Trade Union.
Trade unions are basically an insurance policy against unfair dismissal. Unfortunately there is no one to insure us against unfair treatment by the union itself. If we are unfairly dismissed it will probably be because we are too white or too male for some government quota or other. This sort of discrimination is completely ignored by the unions and objecting to 'positive' discrimination is likely to get one labeled as a reactionary.

A better solution is to be six months in advance with the mortgage. This will not stop the union from stitching you up but it will mean that you are not all that worried about it. This is because the government will help with your mortgage once you have been unemployed for six months. It is the first six months that kill you.

Ditch the contents insurance.
Household contents insurance always sounds a good idea. The trouble is that you must insure everything or nothing. Who has ever heard of carpets being stolen?

In reality you need only a few hundred pounds insurance because burglars steal only portable high value items such as laptops. This may be done by paying additional sums into your mortgage account. These mat be painlessly withdrawn either by missing a payment (tell them first) or asking for a refund.

Ditch the credit insurance.
You may have credit insurance without knowing it. If this is so you can cancel it and apply for a refund under UK law.

Credit insurance only really covers the lender and not the borrower- but you pay the premiums not them. It is far better not to take out the loan or to have investments to cover the repayments.

A real time experiment.

USA
Inflation 3.56% (current trend down)
Unemployment 9.20% (current trend up)

UK
Inflation 4.2% (current trend down)
Unemployment 7.7% (current trend down).

We see that the UK is recovering from the crunch better than the USA. The two economies are very similar except that the USA is printing money at a greater rate. This amounts to an economic experiment on the virtues of deficit financing. So far the more conservative approach is working.

We might also add that unemployment benefits are far more generous in the UK and this caused unemployment to be about 4% higher than it should be.

The official inflation figures of both nations underestimate inflation as it experienced by the poor. This is because food and energy are increasing at a faster rate than luxury goods.

These pressures are largely caused by currency devaluation and are easing in the UK as sterling may be near its floor. The dollar is predicted to fall further.

N.B Everything in this post is an oversimplification.

Everyone needs a second job (like a hole in the head).

Many of us are short of cash or afraid of the future. One solution is the second job. This is tempting but it is generally a mistake.

Rather than increasing your hours further - have you thought of reducing them?

Take a typically overworked American who may work sixty hours a week, or a typically overworked Brit who may work forty five hours if they have the misfortune to be male. Let us imagine that they both reduce their workload to the European average of thirty or thirty five hours.

What would happen?

Well. Their income would initially fall- but what else?

A second income would arise automatically. This does not even have to be planned. It just happens.

This is an invented example but fairly real.

WEEK ONE.
You slow down a little. Catch up on your sleep and wonder what you will do with the twenty or more hours free time you have each week. You find that your tax bill is reduced by about a third of what you would have otherwise earned. In other words you are getting back at least £33 pounds for every £100 you have surrendered in wages.

Further savings will come on line in the coming months. This includes wear and tear on work clothes, dry cleaning and travel.

WEEK TWO.
You find that you have time for household tasks such as defrosting the refrigerator (which saves on energy costs) and buying food in the cheaper supermarkets. I am not talking about cheap and nasty food here. I am talking about planning your shopping and cooking proper meals at home.

Household savings will accumulate over time because old fashioned housekeeping is a lost skill for many people. It is quite reasonable to expect savings of twenty five pounds per adult per week within three months.

WEEK THREE.
Your mind is clearer. In fact you begin to look for new challenges. Maybe you decide to learn a new skill. This is quite easy to do over the Internet free of charge. This may start as a hobby but may open doors in the future.

WEEK FOUR.
Something strange happens at work. You find that you are getting as much work done in thirty hours as you previously did in sixty. This is noticed by your line manager.

You also notice that you seem to have the same amount of money in your account at the end of the month even though you are working half the hours you previously did. It is not clear why this is at first but you analyse your bank account and find that you are no longer spending money on alcohol, cigarettes and impulse purchases. These pick me ups are the result of tiredness and depression- neither of which you suffer from now.

So.. if working more is not working for you- try working less!

You are not who you think you are.

Traditional wisdom has it that an individual should spend the first half of his life as an outward journey and the second as a return to the self. What does this mean in reality?

Up until middle age life is an outward journey of discovery. One discoverers ones own values, acquires new skills and learns about the opposite sex. Life is a process of exploration and discovery but also of struggle.

The second half of a successful life was held to be a reversal of this process. The individual would become less egocentric and learn to see the big picture. He would make amends to those he had injured and forgive those who had injured him. Eventually he would become entirely unselfish and live his life through the next generation.

I have known people who make this transition. They are a paradox in that they become more happy with each passing year and yet they fear death less. This state resembles that of Buddhist enlightenment in that the old person realises that their concerns are not all that important and 'life goes on within and without you' as the Beatles sang.

The basis of this transformation is a very interesting question- 'Who am I?' or more usefully 'Who am I not?'

The man in middle age realises that he is not the things he has been chasing. He is not fame or prestige or money. He is the process of life. This causes him a degree of pain but it also gives him the opportunity to remember the lost ideals of youth and to capture some of the intensity of youth as well.

We are all the process of living and nothing else.

In olden days a man would find meaning in middle age by immersing himself in religion or in his own growing family. In this way he could shift the focus from his own mortal life and immerse himself in something greater than himself. This option is not open to many modern men because it is impossible for many of us to believe in God and because we are no longer heads of our families. This means that the mid life crisis hits us harder than it did- but it also offers us more wisdom in return.

One substitute for God is the Internet. By means of the Internet our thoughts become immortal. The Internet takes our jumbled lives and purifies them. Each of us is a mix of correct and incorrect notions. We muddle our way through life in this way trying to sort one from the other- and always slightly too late. The Internet takes this mix and strips everything from them that is not useful. Nobody links to notions they find muddled or unhelpful except to criticise them. In this way only the good survives.

I have asked the ancient question of myself 'What am I?'

The answer I have come up with is that I am my own Avatar. An Avatar is intellectual and financial capital built up over a lifetime. Prior to the Internet I would have believed that my life was the position of my body. In other words I would have fretted that I was forced by poverty to work on Saturday and as a result could not enjoy my life as others do.

The Internet has taught me that the position of my body is really not that important. I can talk to you, dear reader, wherever you may be in the world. I may learn about any thing that interests me or I may speculate upon the price of gold. I may do all of these things without leaving my chair.

I say that 'I' may do these things but this is not really true. The person who is talking to you is really an image of myself who was created some time prior to you reading this. It is a sort of intellectual snapshot of a particular moment in time. My Avatar.

If I were looking for something greater than myself that I can really believe in I would choose my Avatar which resembles a feeble god. My Avatar will continue to influence the world long after my physical body is dead. It is the nature of the Avatar to be free of both space and time and so it is quite possible (and this is a spooky thought) that I may be talking to you from beyond the grave right now.

Two hundred years ago an aging man might put his faith in god and thus believe himself immortal. Today we build Avatars that (we hope) will act upon the world in useful ways and achieve a form of immortality that has some basis in reality.

I ditch a Witch (yes a real one).

I have just broken with one of my Harem- a real life living breathing spell casting witch. She really does use magic. I am not just insulting her.

Basically my rationalisation hamster has just fallen off its wheel. Here are the red flags.

1) Upon first giving her my number I received multiple messages. I was unable to answer these as I was asleep (I work shifts). I also found out that she had been approaching third parties that may or not know me because she seemed to believe I had given her the wrong one.

I put this down to over gaming her. Game is supposed to make a woman keen on a man and it is very powerful. Maybe I just needed to reduce the dose?

2) The day two went very well but she had some anti male attitudes that I challenged- that men were sex obsessed and incapable of intimacy. To her credit she shifted her frame when I told her to.

The biggest secret I have discovered about women is that they will feel whatever you tell them to feel provided you tell her with absolute certainty. This only works once she is attracted and once she sees you as Alpha. It is even possible to tell a woman to orgasm in this way and she will do so without so much as a kiss. Think Jedi mind tricks and you will not go far wrong. I simply told her 'no feminism, no negativity' while passing my hand across her face. She changed in an instant. Remember- this has nothing to do with bullying or arguing. These are Beta behaviours. The Alpha simply states what a woman is to feel as a matter of fact. This knowledge is so powerful that it should be used lightly and with caution.

3) She was chronically late and I know she does not do this to her employers.

My old Beta self would have made excuses for her but my new Alpha self can recognise a flake as a flake. Tomorrow I will go out and pick up someone to replace her. It really is that easy. I never thought I would find anything about women easy. I wish her well but wonder if I will look like this in the morning.

Never let your enemies see you bleed.

No doubt. No fear. No regrets. Nothing to comfort the feminist or the mangina. Never let your enemy see you bleed. Ever.

Twitter from space.

This is a map of what the world is thinking. The most brightly lit areas are the most prosperous and democratic. The blueish areas are chiefly text while the yellow areas are chiefly pictures. These are the areas most open to new ideas and it is interesting to note that each of these areas has developed its own MGTOW and Game philosophies. India is coming on line right now but for some reason Japan is not. My own view is that Japanese culture is based upon a sort of supercharged betadom. Japanese men have always been willing to sacrifice themselves for the Emperor and for women. Right now they are working themselves quite literally to death or killing themselves when they lose their job. If you live in London you will know that Japanese men under 70 never go on holiday. The only young tourists you see here are women because the men never take time off work. We need to talk to these guys.

Strength.

Thank you. I am much better.

Getting ill is very much like getting in debt. If your basic health is good you feel that you may make more withdrawals than deposits- and then suddenly it all catches up with you.

Men are more willing to become ill than women- just as we are more willing to die than women. I wonder why this is? Men are notorious for not seeing a doctor until they are at deaths door. We also eat more junk than women and carry more weight. The same applies to more sudden causes of death- such as lead bullets. Men often volunteer for military service knowing the risks in advance. Women rarely step into the line of fire deliberately. I know that women can join the army now but they are kept well to the rear and out of harms way. If they ever face danger it is likely to be a career ending mistake on the part of their male commander.

This male willingness to die seems to exist in all cultures. Young men engage in tests of courage while older men die for family honor. It is all very odd.

The only thing we can do is consciously decide not to follow them. Eat as well as you can afford. Get regular sleep and do not engage in needless conflict.

Exaustion

I am exhausted.

I had to take a break after this sentence. Why am I exhausted?

I had to work twelve hour shifts through a heavy cold. I did this for eleven days. Prisoners and cattle are entitled to rest and sleep but not the average working man it seems. This is because the tax system taxes men more heavily than women and nobody seems to think this odd.

Sure.. I could go on a rant about this- but I am exhausted.

Feminism uses high taxation and exhaustion as a means to social control. Gulags are old technology from the Soviet Union. Feminists have replaced the propaganda of power (May Day parades and so forth) and replaced it with a propaganda of weakness (pretending that men have more power than we do). Apart from this central difference the effect is remarkably similar. Men are silenced and worked half to death. Only the barbed wire and the guards are missing. This is a double advantage to the feminists. Excessive work restricts our movements but it also prevents thought. A man needs leisure for thought and an obsessive focus upon work results in a limited mental world.

The first enemy therefore is exhaustion. Exhaustion is cumulative. First one finds one does not have time to eat properly and then one becomes ill. This means that everything takes longer than it should. I no longer have the energy to visit the supermarket and so gradually I stop eating completely. It is easy to do this if one is exhausted and ill as one has no appetite.

Actually I am dieing and I have only just realised it.

The answer to exhaustion is a Safe Haven. This a place where one may recover from what the world throws at us. Lack of a safe haven is the hidden cause of many, many illnesses.

Last month (long before I became ill) I felt the icy hand of exhaustion upon me and began by some instinct to create my haven. I bought a juicer and resolved to drink carrot juice each morning. Carrot juice is filling and it is possible to work for many hours on a carrot juice and some toast. I also bought a bale of towels for the bathroom. These are a beautiful virgin white and I have used the old ones as pipe lagging. Simply using them gives me a subtle boost each morning.

We all have the intuition to know what should be in our Haven. Unfortunately we often ignore this. if I had used my juicer every day as planned I may never have become ill.

To develop your intuition simply stand in a room for a while. How does it feel? How could it feel better? Choose a cheap and practical fix and repeat the process.

COSTINGS

One cup of carrot juice- 33p (23p carrots + 10p capital cost of the juicer).

Incidental savings.
a) No need to take a vitamin pill in the morning.
b) The carrot juice will replace one cup of coffee.
c) Carrot juice is more filling than tea or coffee meaning you will eat less.

The future of Game.

How much more can be said about Game? Probably not much. A great deal of complexity is driven by the need to appear clever. The essence of Game is very simple- be high status, be fun, be relaxed.

The only thing missing is the girls. Game will tell you how to talk to all the girls you are not meeting. This is hugely destructive to a man who cannot talk to the women he meets in daily life. How do you think he feels when he is told he needs to dress up like a whack job and hang around night clubs? This brutal environment terrifies me and my social skills are quite good. It must freeze the blood of a beta introvert.

An introvert cannot become more social by humiliating himself. He can only progress through good experiences. Saying 'good morning' and receiving the same back can be progress for some people.

I predict that the future of game is in providing these experiences- small social baby steps where men can meet women without pressure to be anything special. Most of us are not Brad Pitt and quite honestly this does not matter unless we can only date Angelina Jolie.

Game trumps feminism.

Many critics of Game mistake the journey for the destination. Game is a box of tools that may be unpacked and used almost anywhere for almost any purpose. If you want to bang a nightclub chick then tools exist to do this- but Game is not the act of banging chicks. Game is the power of choice.

It is even possible to use Game for non sexual purposes. Being an old man I no longer need sex. It is nice to know it is available to me but I am in no hurry to get there. This is because I am enjoying the new experience of being respected by women. I enjoy flirtatious contact and I enjoy knowing that I have five women's numbers in my telephone and all of these will be pleased to hear from me should I call them. These women are interesting and fun and they go dutch. Quite honestly I would rather have this than a girlfriend I was responsible for.

There are even men who use Game to ensure failure with women. One example is Omega Virgin Revolt. This blogger has at least some Alpha characteristics he could work with. He has an online following which means that he is at least an Alpha among Omegas. Nevertheless he has built a self image based upon his failures with women and blames this at least partly upon the false promises of Game. What he does not realise that he is in fact running Game in reverse. While most gamers use Game to assume an Alpha persona, White and Nerdy (the owner of the blog) uses his blog to promote an Omega persona. This works exactly as you might expect and results in constant humiliation from women that he can then blog about. The irony is that White and Nerdy believes game does not exist- while running a deadly reverse game upon his own life.

Above all Game (for me) means NO FEMINISM. I simply tell each woman I meet that I am anti feminist and she then has a choice. She can go into a miserable feminist sulk (and be laughed at by other women) or she can simply put her feminism aside while she is with me. Generally she will do the latter because it is FUN to be gamed and girls just want to have fun.

You might think it rather gross to have a 50 year old man game an 18 year old woman but it is hilarious. I may take liberties with her (public groping and so on) that I could never take if I were younger. This is because I am probably older than her father (or even her grandfather) and this makes me somehow safe for her. She thinks that sex is unthinkable with me but Game works its magic regardless.

Sugar Rush!

Boris Johnson and a boy band.

I visited the new M&M world shop in Leicecer Square in London. It was one of the most sureal experiences of my life.

In her early 1990's classic 'No Logo' Naomi Klien talked of brands as a sort of Frankenstin monster that were created to sell a product but who had lately broken free to devour their creators. She argued that companies such as Nike and Starbucks were no longer producers of running shoes or coffie. They were primeraly concerned with the promotion of brands and the product had become an afterthought to be outsourced to the cheapest producer.

Nothing in this fevered book came close to describing M&M world.

So what is it? M&M world is a ten million pound theme park devoted to this rather bland peanut snack that has never been a great seller in the UK. There is something disproportionate and absurd about this from the very start. How can so much marketing be piled upon something so small and cheap?

Entering M&M world is like joining a cult. The staff line up each side of the door and dance in their wacky costumes- grinning and applauding everyone who enters. The Unification Church call this 'love bombing' and it is very powerful.

A second aspect of cult indoctrination is to regress the target to a childlike and trusting state. This is often done through games and songs. M&M do it by placing their target in a gigantic adult creche. This seems to delight Japanese women in particular who run about squealing with delight.

Each floor (there are four) is designed to install an emotional trigger and attach it to the sweet.  The first trigger is Britain. The second trigger is fairytale Princesses (it is possible to act out Disney type Princess scenes). The third trigger is individualisation. The target is invited to take tests to find their ideal M&M and the final trigger is Hollywood and the American teenager.

This works even if you know it is nonsense. I came out feeling euphoric and strangely identified with the sweet even though I do not even particularly like them.

Bizarre- but is it sinister or is it all harmless fun?

Nine skills every man needs .

Here are what I believe to be the nine key skills to male life. They amount to a magic bullet for almost any problem that life may present and almost guarantee an exceptional life.

WOMEN (GETTING).

1. Handwriting analysis.

This is not a science but it does guarantee a meaningful conversation with just about any woman you may wish to talk to. Simply ask for a sample of her writing and analyse away. You can go very deep with this very quickly and find yourself talking about her deepest sexual and romantic yearnings before you know her name. There is no need to be a fraud about it. Tell her the truth- that you are not sure if there is truth in it or not, but you would like to investigate. The 'investigation' opener also explains why you are approaching strange women and offering readings. If you did not have a legitimate reason for doing so this would seem try hard-hard and needy but a fun experiment is OK.

2. Read body language.

This is similar to point (1) except that you will spook yourself out as well as the girl. We are all giving away a thousand clues to our natures with ever step we take. My own favorite opener right now is to guess a woman's nationality. This works with FSU women because many people do not even know that their countries even exist. It is colossally flattering to be told that there is some special essence that only women from a single nation have. Be careful though. The last time I ran this it was on a Polish woman who had been painfully divorced from a Romanian man. It appeared that he dominated her to such an extent that she walked and held herself as if she were Romanian.

3. Learn your own opener.

Openers only really work if they come from the heart. There is nothing more lame than Mystery method delivered without conviction. My own favorite right now is "What is your opinion of female sexual submission?" This should be asked before you even ask her name. Make sure she is in a public place and surrounded by her friends as it could be seriously creepy if she is alone.

This generally results in shrieks of laughter and a group of girls will compete with one another to be the most wild by demanding that you spank them and so on. The more confident the girls the better it works.

Do not try this unless if feels right to you.

WOMEN (AVOIDING).

4. Find your safe haven.

When women attack it is rarely with fists. More often it is by destabilising you in some way. This may involve undermining your sense of reality, convincing you that you are generally disliked by the world or attacks upon your sexual nature.

One solution is meditation. This need not involve sitting cross legged or shaving ones head. It can simply mean finding some still point within oneself that one can return to when one feels one is going mad. This sensation is a common symptom of living with a crazy woman.

5. Travel independently.

Many traditional societies have rituals and ordeals to mark a mans entry into adulthood- which generally starts at puberty. The Aboriginal Australians have something called a Walkabout. This involves his leaving the tribe to survive on his wits in the wild. This decisively separates him from his mother and teaches him that he has everything he needs within himself. It is the ultimate MGTOW experience.

Some cultures require a man to kill a dangerous beast or undergo religious purification rituals. The effect is the same- to remove him from the world of women and his natural need for their approval.

Modern men try to recreate this experience without quite knowing it. This is one reason many adolescent males go through a crazy period where they may get involved with crime or excessive drinking. A spell in prison has more or less the same effect as any other initiation as it bonds him with men while eradicating the feminine within himself.

Each man must find his own Walkabout. The most constructive is probably backpacking where a man learns to think on his feet and deal with what comes. Once a man has truly learned to separate from women he may return to them later- but not as a boy (the mangina is an approval seeking boy) but as a man.

The MGTOW movement is essentially a group of men who have left their Walkabout far too late. They have been 'Nice Guys' and suffered for it. They did not find their masculine core but they will certainly do so- and many will come to love women once they do.

6. Ignore them.

Let's face it. When you are wrong with a woman there is nothing you can possibly say or do to be right with her. She may accuse you of making her fat, looking at her strangely and being a vampire bat on top of it all. There is no point in arguing. Simply deal with it in a politely bored way and say something neutral such as 'I am sorry you feel that way'. This may be continued indefinitely without being drawn into an argument or becoming upset.

THE SOCIETY OF MEN.

7. Develop a masculine style of intimacy.

Simply reading this heading gives a sense of how creepy this could be. Most men seem to have a grater fear of homosexuality than do women. This means that many men spend their entire lives in fear of crossing some invisible boundary in their lives. This can result in friendships based upon jokingly tearing one another down. This can sometimes extend to a fear of any meaningful conversation- not just personal matters but politics, money, goals, ambitions and relationships- anything beyond this endless AMOG battle.

The art is to discuss real things and express care for other men without any hint of homosexuality.

8. Learn to cook.

Men should know how to cook- and every other wifely art. Male cooking is not about showing off. It is about producing delicious but simple food quickly (steaks and so on).

9. Appreciate the fine thngs of life.

Have one luxury and let no one take it from you. I like cheese.

A green con?

This film confirms something I have suspected for some time- that carbon offsetting does not reduce carbon emissions by very much.

Carbon neutrality is a middle class marketing scheme by which retailers will purchase carbon credits to offset the CO2 emitted in their own operations. What is a carbon credit? This is a credit generated where a company or nation who is 'entitled' to emit carbon finds some way not to do so. There are a number of problems with this. Firstly, the payments may not change economic behaviour very much. In other words an investment in green technology may have taken place anyway. Secondly (and the film does not address this) the payments often go overseas. This gives foreign competitors an advantage in green technology that we should reserve for ourselves.

This website is carbon neutral. You may think that all websites are carbon neutral but the page you are viewing is stored on a server that consumes a great deal of power. To offset this I support plant conservation projects around the world. My main object is not offsetting. It is the hope that these endangered plants may have economic value for some very poor people.

No Logo

Here is a documentary by Naomi Klein- one of the more intelligent Liberal commentators. The film makes some very good points about brands and their power over us (I have been saying similar things on this blog). Unfortunately the film offers no solutions. This is because Naomi can only blame the usual suspects (men, capitalism, the USA) because she cannot blame the people she hopes will buy her book (feminists, socialists and so on). This leads her to treat consumers (mostly women) as simple sheep who buy whatever is put in front of them.

We all want to agree with Naomi and blame the business man. There is something sickening about millionaire CEO's using youth rebellion to sell clothing and then paying sweatshop workers five dollars a day to make it. The problem is that this leads nowhere. Would it help to abolish brands? No. It would simply make life dull and grey. Would it even help if we were to stop buying this stuff? No. This would simply throw the sweatshop workers out of work. For all her carefully targeted criticism Naomi has no solution.


The great irony and hypocrisy is that Naomi is the very thing she hates. She admits that she decided to write the book when she became aware of an anti corporate political movement. In other words she identified a market and then wrote a book to appeal to a particular demographic. She has branded her variety of outrage and sells it to liberals who lap it up. Unfortunately the product is as empty and hollow as the brands she criticises.

In short- this film describes the current situation brilliantly but offers no solution. It remains worth a view.