A love letter to the American Spirit

“Wait, who exactly did you vote for?” asked my college-aged cousin over dinner with my extended family during Christmas week. Oh boy, here we go.

My family lives in one of those States that had a run-off election for the senate, and that historically goes Republican. Things have been moving towards the left over the years in this here State, and my two cousins in attendance (both in their early twenties) are very liberal. They were the ones who brought up the run-offs multiple times over dinner and voted left not just for themselves, but for their parents as well, who are business owners of a restaurant. Despite the fact that Democrats favor statutory theft and wasteful regulation on their business, the parents caved in to their children’s demand for policy that promotes race-based outcomes under the banner of Diversity, Inclusion & Equity (I shutter at the thought that I, for a long time, had bought into those beliefs in a time gone by).

Having evaded my cousins’ prodding of my political leanings for a couple of hours, they turned up the heat with the direct interrogation above. After dropping the “look-we’re-family-let’s-not-let-petty-politics-get-in-the-way-of-ourselves” bomb, they finally let it go. Mostly.

Over the past few years, I’ve been reading about history, economics and psychology, while minding their relationship to Game and male/female dynamics, and my own experiences with men, women, siblings, parents, bosses, colleagues, acquaintances, friends and public figures. One thing I couldn’t help but notice, and this should come as no surprise to those indoctrinated in Red Pill, is that men tend towards to objective solutions and women towards subjective solutions. I captured the essence of this idea in a recent tweet.

To which Nash replied “Making bad decisions in the name of ‘compassion.'”

Think about the spoiled child, who encounters disciplinary measures from his dad after raising all sorts of household hell with his crayons and glue, only to then appeal to his mom for a lesser punishment. Children innately understand that moms are more lenient then their dads if only they shed tears and emote the sadness of their fate. Clever little rascals!

Or the female dog owner that has difficulty training her puppy because she can’t withhold treats when little Scrappy doesn’t deserve them.

These tropes exist for a reason. It’s hard to find formal studies on the topic, since even raising the idea can subject the speaker to exile as the author of Google’s Idealogical Echo Chamber found. Fortunately there is a brave scientist out there who built a career on studying the statistical differences between the cognitive abilities of men and women. Even more fortunately, the author hasn’t been canceled (yet?), likely because the author is a woman. Her textbook is buried somewhere on my list of books to read.

If you’ve read this far (and certainly if you’re a regular reader), you’ve accepted the premise that men and women are different and are geared towards providing different paths towards survival, which complement each other.

So let’s talk gender roles and feminism. If women are great at nurturing and providing care to their loved ones, and men are logical and physical problem solvers, who are best to run large scale institutions that support a community? Perhaps a man’s solution (product and technology) with a woman’s touch (marketing) will get the job done.

Working in tandem, I don’t think it’s a surprise that the States has achieved a supreme position for most of the 20th century in culture (Hollywood and music¹), technology (Big Tech), military (WMDs left and right), language (on the heels of our English parents) and influence (the US donates a lot of $$ to international funds).

So how is a society that has caved to feminism that is trading meritocracy for good feelZ leading in various measures around the world?

Well, for one, it’s not so much any more. In Ray Dalio’s upcoming book Changing World Order², he argues that post-WWII, the US was in a unique position to rise as a global super power through hard work, focus, creativity and of course, luck. Industry and government in the US took a strongly meritocratic stance and made massive gains in improving quality of life. In just the span of 50 years, the average person was able to afford their own refrigerator, air conditioner, television and car. Those were luxury items for the ultra rich before. Capitalism, and a respect towards the pecking order of life, led to those innovations. Threaten Musk with 20 years of prison if he doesn’t donate all the proceeds from his Mars Mission to save dessert plants and I guarantee you we won’t hear of another SpaceX launch or a Tesla delivery on this side of Orion’s belt.

But wealth distribution sure does sound good doesn’t it? Everyone deserves a big home. Everyone deserves a good family and a fun job. Everyone deserves a bespoke suit. Everyone deserves facial reconstruction surgery. Everyone deserves a 46″ flat screen LED TV that can fold for convenient transportation between personal islands. Whether you were the first to separate conjoined twins at the head (Ben Carson) or you canceled the last ten pick up requests as an Uber driver. Why don’t both of those get their personal chef, tutor, nurse, coach, assistant, house made, accountant and pool boy³.

And therein lies the heart of the matter: at functional levels and scale, meritocracy and competition isn’t for the standard girl just as sympathy and pity isn’t for the typical man.

Supply and demand, the natural allocation of resources, is THE way forward as a society–unless you’re content to live in caves and start fires with sticks and stones eating dodo meat⁴. Let man earn by the sweat of his brow, and beautiful things happen. A rising tide lifts all boats.

Supply and demand arguments, as simple as they are, applies equally well to the labor market. Let’s consider unskilled labor, which is where the practical minimum wage sits (note that in the US, the free market for wages mostly works, since it is generally above the $7.50 federal limit. If our government understood economics, it would understand that a federal minimum wage will have drastically different effects in NYC compared to the Boondocks due to a difference in the local purchasing power of the almighty BTC dollar). If there exists more hardworking applicants than jobs, wages will go down as the labor force supplies in excess of demand. And vice versa. SJWs pretend it’s a race problem; it’s not. It’s a quality problem and SJWs actively tell minorities to perform at low levels, thereby fueling unconscious bias rather than eliminating it. SJWs want you to believe that work ethic is a flaw of the white male, whereas it’s actually the makings of a masculine man and a prerequisite for quality production. Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it. Please see exhibit A below.

The above was on display in the Smithsonian. Yes, THE Smithsonian!

Does anyone else find it odd that the same attributes they demonize are the ones that lead to a productive life? Accountability and discipline aren’t white, male characteristics, they’re masculine characteristics.

With the same traits that lead to a productive life and are attractive qualities to women being vilified, it’s no surprise that marriage and birth rates are drastically falling in all corners of the West. Given the population reproduction rate is 2.1, we’re approaching an era in which population levels will soon decline, something Japan is already dealing with.

Western women are taught to be cold and calculating (and it’s backfiring), while western men are taught to cry. China noticed a similar trend and decided to implement measures to put an end to that. Whereas simply having that conversation in the US is politically incorrect⁵, China goes beyond allowing the discussion of male-female polarity. They’ve noticed our loud, obnoxious SJWs and renamed them as “baizuo” while sharply attaching the SJW psychology to it’s definition:

Baizuo (pronounced “bye-tswaw) is a Chinese epithet meaning naive western educated person who advocates for peace and equality only to satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority. A baizuo only cares about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment while being obsessed with political correctness…
The Chinese see the baizuo as ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours. –Urban Dictionary

…the term evolved to criticize some people among the left who seemingly advocate for positive slogans like peace and equality to boast their sense of moral superiority, but are ignorant of real-world consequences, and utilize destructive behavior like political sacrifice and identity politics. –Wikipedia

The meritocracy over which the American Spirit was founded is under attack, and has been under attack for many years. I only began noticing it a few years ago; the media had pulled the wool over my eyes since I was born. But once you see passed the Narrative, you see the propaganda everywhere.

• Schools are reconsidering merit-based admission since there are too many Asian-Americans in them. I.e. racial discrimination is only espoused when it undermines values such as hard work, diligence and persistence.
• A white guy shot up Asian employees at three massage parlors in Atlanta and stated it was a way to battle his sex addiction. It was deemed an act of white supremacy by the media. It would be more accurate to state that most massage parlors providing sexual services employ Asians.
• Before the details of the culprit were released, white supremacy was blamed for the mass shooting of ten people at a grocery store in Colorado. Once we found out the heinous crime was committed by a Muslim, the MSM⁶ turned around and criticized outlets that released his race or Muslim name as form discrimination.
• A black woman was told that she is a part of the KKK and Twitter went against their typical policy of policing hate speech (see below). They don’t consistently apply their Terms of Service; reserving its vague, flexible language as a weapon for the Left to manipulate the public.

And that’s just in the last week! For more examples, and bigger ones, check out the film Hoaxed by Cernovich.

So what is the Narrative? It’s that the American Spirit doesn’t exist. It’s that meritocracy is the devil’s doing. It’s that we’re not accountable for our own success and failure. It’s that the white man is bred in ill will and the source of man’s human suffering.

It goes beyond that in ways I don’t yet understand. Generally speaking, victimhood is celebrated. Science is replaced by pseudo-science⁷, nap time is canceled for scary-ass twerking drag queens in elementary school and eight year old boys are injected with testosterone blockers.

I can’t believe this is all real. How did this happen to a country so great?

I think feminism takes a large part of responsibility for making our country and its people weak, but it must be something else. Marxism has been around for 150 years, and I doubt the Former Soviet Union had even considered feministic principles. Even in The Master and Margarita there exists male-female polarity (written in the 1930’s). Hell, the girls in that book were slim, long-haired and often naked. If we’re gonna go all Marxism, let’s atleast bring feminine girls back to the mix.

So what’s next? In Dalio’s book referenced above, his outlook on the US’s status as a global super power are quite bleak. If China is serious about masculinity and innovation, they may very well come out on top. Global powers ebb and flow; I’m mostly concerned about the effects on my quality of life. If China becomes the next exporter of culture, does that mean we return to masculine strength and feminine beauty; or will we all be begging China to add a bit of extra noodles to our bowl of ramen in between working tedious labor jobs?⁸

1. In the sense that we export culture. Even Cambodians know who Justin Beaver is.
2. Currently available for free online.
3. I may use this as part of my attraction material early on in a set. “What do I do? I’m a pool boy. Just looking around for new clients, for pipes to clean. Know anyone? I can do your friends pipes, but then you’ll just be jealous.”
4. Considering how quickly we lost that bird, I bet dodo meat was the Wagyu of poultry.
5. I guarantee myself a conversation with HR if I were to suggest women are less interested in analytical roles than men. In fact, a conversation with HR would like be the least of my worries.
6. mainstream media
7. That is, they use science-sounding words while ignoring the need for a control group, experiments, data, hypothesis-testing and analysis in favor of the Narrative
8. Ramen is Japanese. You racist.