“Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?” – Three Amigos
He was also the first person to use CTRL-C.
So, I promised three blogs on the Modern World. They are here – The Modern World Part I: Health And Strippers, The Modern World Part II: Wages, Subscriptions, and Dating, and The Modern World Part III: You Exist To Be Farmed. As I sat preparing to do the blog tonight, I realized there was one more post to provide the capstone to the series, which I present in this post.
How do we deal with modernity outside of moving to a cabin in Montana?
Listen, despite the name, Ted made more than one bomb.
First, if you’re not healthy, get healthy. That’s actually horribly simple to do for most people.
- Limit the amount of food that you eat – we’re provided with a plethora of food choices daily. Most of it I don’t need. As I’ve railed for years, most (not all!) people in the United States could go without food for two weeks with no ill effects, and many would find the experience a positive, not a negative. Here is some sound advice I’ve incorporated into my life: you can’t outrun your teeth. But I can outrun most Leftists – you can tell they like carbs.
- Sure donuts (in metric, doughnuts) are good. Avoid them. Will one a week kill you? No. Will one a day? Maybe. Same with chips. I had a “snack size” bag of chips two weeks ago. Since I’ve been eating well, they made me feel queasy. Same with donuts. When your diet is good meat and real vegetables, donuts and that gooey cheese they serve with movie-theater nachos taste like . . . a chemical product. Which they are. Corollary: don’t let your teeth dig your grave. I wouldn’t want to ruin the gravedigger’s hole career.
- Pick foods that are as close as possible to actual food. If you’re gonna have a chicken sandwich at McDonalds®, pick the one that’s made out of actual chicken rather than some sort of processed chicken stuff. A baked potato or French fries? Baked, thank you. Seriously, once I stopped eating crap, crap tasted like crap. If it has vegetable oil or a list of ingredients longer than, say, seven, once a week. At most. Heck, I even had a kid’s meal at McDonalds today. It sure made his parents mad.
- The food pyramid is even poor geometry – heck, I read Pharaoh used slaves to build his. Bricks might have been easier? Regardless, real fats and meat (butter, a well-marbled ribeye) are good for you and make you feel full. Flour spikes your insulin and all the breads (except the ones I make from grinding the bones of door-to-door salesmen) are made from flour. Insulin tells your body to store fat. Do the math.
- Get exercise. It’s good for you. If nothing else, walk. If you can’t walk, undulate like a snake on a baby oil-covered shower curtain. One thing I’ve seen in life – when a man stops walking, death isn’t far away. Keep moving. Even if your legs are weak, you can still do diddly-squats.
- Avoid it, except, say, once a week. Maybe. I’ll have an entire post on that at some point.
The other day I said, “Alexa, turn on CNN®. I want to hear the news.” Alexa responded, “I’m sorry Lord John, you’ll have to pick one or the other.”
Second, feed your mind.
- Feed your mind like you feed your body. Go to the source, and check everyone (even me!) and determine what isn’t Truth. Journalists are now being taught in journalism school (it’s like real school, but they use pictures and coloring books) that being an advocate for the globalist, Leftist viewpoint is the point of news reporting. Understand that virtually every news story you are reading today in mainstream media is written by a rich kid who wasn’t smart enough to go to law school and believes that lying to you is ethical, as long as it advances The Agenda and The Narrative. And sometimes they change The Agenda and The Narrative in less than a week. Don’t believe me? Ask Psaki about COVID.
- The media lies. But I repeat myself. “Truth is the first casualty of war,” quoted Ethel Annakin-Skywalker in 1915 according to something I read on the Internet. Remember that “nurse” who told Congress of Iraqi soldiers tossing infants out when they took incubators from hospitals when Iraq invaded Kuwait? She was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Look it up. Before you believe a single thing coming from Ukraine, look it up, and understand this: your emotion is the aim. Heck, I hear manipulating your emotions is all the rage.
- Propaganda: even when you’re aware of propaganda, it’s effective.
- Look for things that make you happy. When I go on the Internet, sometimes (when I’m in a growly mood) I look for things that will make me mad. There’s plenty. Twitter® is a sea of it. Most social media is a sea of it. That’s why (except for when writing for research purposes) I avoid it like the plague – remember, all work and no plague makes for an entirely different 13th
- For 95% of people, there is no reason you can’t be happy in this moment, right now. There are people in this world who have serious problems, but for the most part you’re really not one of them. Even if you are, why would you let those problems rob you from a moment of being happy? There is a time to grieve, a time to be sad. When you let it rule your life, you’re a victim. Stop it. Don’t make me come over there and make you.
I brought a grenade to a water balloon fight once. It did level the playing field.
Then, there’s marriage. These rules aren’t for 1970, (though they would have worked) but more for today – the world has moved on. It is far harder today to find a good match than it was even when I met The Mrs. two decades ago. If you’re happily married, ignore and skip to the next section.
- If you’re not married, take care in picking your partner. A lot of care. A bad match will last just as long as a good one (if you have kids) and be amazingly costly. And never pick woman obsessed with Star Wars® – divorce is strong with this one.
- Avoid dating apps. They’re really just casual sex apps. And never go casual. Get competitive.
- If you’re a young dude (below 35), try to get a wife who is no older than 20-24 years old and marry for values and character. Why? Nothing good happens with a single woman in their mid to late 20s now.
- If you’re a young woman, find a quality guy who has values and character, and stay a virgin until marriage.
- If you’re a young person, especially a man, avoid marrying a spouse whose parents divorced when they were young (0-16). Understand their family and their values. Understand that the values on display with the parents are another clue to how your future spouse will be.
- If you’re a man, don’t let your wife’s work interfere with raising the kids and keeping the house. Raising kids with decent values are more important than most luxuries.
- And while we’re there about kids, understand this – the move to turn government schools into an indoctrination center has never been higher. Which values do you want your children to have? Yours? The governments?
But I hear it’s at a pretty low interest rate. Heck, I think we could refinance New Zealand to make the balloon payment.
What about economics?
- Avoid debt to the extent possible. Never borrow to buy a car, unless it’s the only choice. Never buy a new car unless your net worth is over $1 million or a company you own is paying for it. Heck, I hear the best way to get back on your feet is to miss two car payments . . . .
- I have one. I could pay it off in cash. Why could I pay it off? Because I never borrow to buy cars (since 1997). I hear Spongebob® isn’t paying his mortgage – his house is underwater.
- Understand that luxury has multiple costs: first, there’s the cash that has to be paid every month. Second, there’s a moral cost. Just like a donut, occasional luxury won’t dull the character. But every month, and forever? It robs bank accounts and robs the most precious thing that any person controls – their time.
- Video games are a luxury. If a person spends 20 hours a week playing video games, what else could have been done with their time? Imagine if Hemingway spent his spare time playing Grand Theft Auto instead of sitting under the Catalan Sun drinking wine from a bota and watching bullfights? GTA is a life stealer. And for Ernest, so was a shotgun.
- Why live in a big city? The high housing cost? The crush of incessant humanity surrounding you? Oh, yeah, you can get Thai food at 3am.
- Realize the dollar is going to die. The United States prints them, and then other people take them. When Jen P-saki said that this was “Putin’s Inflation” I asked the question: “When did Putin take control of our money supply and then started printing trillions of dollars?” If you salted away a bit of gold and silver (and lead, too) the best case is that you could give it to your kids when you pass on. The worst case? Well, between you and me, silver and gold might be the biggest bargains of the century in 2022 (I am NOT an investment advisor).
- Realize that in the future, there is a high degree of probability that having “divergent” opinions to The Narrative will result in cutting people off from their money – it has already happened in Canada. You may not believe it, but it’s Tru-deau. How will you prepare for that?
- You have a year’s worth of food, right? You buy a little extra each month and salt it away? It’s a lot easier to do when the shelves are full, and when shortages hit you’re not part of the problem – you’re part of the solution because you won’t be adding to the panic. It’s not hoarding if you bought it before the panic hits.
I heard he was sad later in life. He had a Kipling depression.
The Modern World thinks that this is a new scenario. It isn’t. Kipling wrote about this many, many years ago in The Gods of The Copybook Headings:
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Avoid it, except for once a week? Are we talking about thingy?
Never taunt happy fun thingy.
Welp! It certainly is an entertaining food fight over “marriage”, but it reminds me of the Federalists vs. the Anti-Federalists of our founding fathers. BOTH sides had good arguments, and how they ever ratified what they did I haven’t entirely figured out.
Some of it is apples vs. oranges. Arthur argues marriage as a relationship that is the bedrock of civilization, Aesop argues marriage as a legal minefield entirely tilted against the male. Both are correct. I am convinced at this point that there is no recourse to salvaging our deteriorating institutions save burning them down and starting over. I don’t want to see that, but there appears no alternative.
As for marriage, I’m the last to have any sound advice; I’ve been married 33 years now. We met at work when we were both 35; she was a widow with two teenagers. It certainly has NOT been all sweetness and light, but we are more comfortable in our relationship now than we ever have been. For any single, younger person now, of either sex, I would only say: Networking. Get to an institution that sustains and encourages the kind of society we want to live in (that’s a church community for most of us), avoid the meatmarket of bars and social media, and network! Find someone you can admire, and ask them if they know of anyone you might be interested in. Ask that person out. NOT that they might be your dream relationship, but they might know someone else you haven’t met yet, who just could be so.
25 years here. Social networks and Tinder are cancer. Networking is a fine idea.
Sorry, but it’s 2022:
https://i.imgur.com/94IbjzS.png
FIFY.
Stipulate that the filing fee for any divorce is a successful criminal prosecution of the spouse in advance, or a fee of $1M cash same-day, or else abolish all spousal and child support, and make them unconstitutional under the terms of the 13th amendment, then we can talk.
Otherwise, it’s a sucker bet, and the quickest road to lifelong poverty and slavery for men.
Imagine Jeopardy! where the two losers had to pay the winner’s take, and see how many people would be stupid enough to play. Because that’s exactly what it is now, with the added bonus of debtor’s prison: Abolished in the 1800s, and brought back in the 1980s by Family Court.
The actual wonder is that more people don’t simply kill the spouse that attempts to leave in 90% of cases.
And if anything I’m under-billing this.
It is bad, and it’s worse in California, and it’s far worse if the woman in question has had 5 or more partners (the numbers don’t lie). They system needs to be fixed, but it can (and will) work for the young ‘uns, especially after Uncle Sugar dries up and the economy becomes dicey. Coming soon . . . .
Nothing but wisdom there John. The health and food is a something everyone should be doing. There is a great deal that could be done to stave off lots of our common ailments simply by eating responsibly and exercising (although that would grind out entire industries of fast and junk food of course).
The mind? Develop it as much as you can. Franklin said something to the effect that he that puts his pennies into his mind (through education) will never have them stolen away. We literally are stupidifying and dumbing ourselves to death. And yes, deal with only facts – in all things. Honestly, if there are not facts simply do not comment.
Dating? Not in the market now and have not been for many years, but yes, all of that. I cannot imagine trying to date in the current world.
Money? Save all you can, give all you can, invest (whatever that may mean to you) all you can, and live off the rest.
The sorts of things you recommend are the sorts of unglamorous, simple, daily practices that actually get results. Would that we all practiced them.
Yup, but they’re not things you can sell books and programs on, so the real Truth gets ignored.
Mr. Wilder, sir, I very much appreciate your adding Mr. Kipling’s poem. I often recite it to myself while walking with my GSD. So much wisdom in so few words and they rhyme 🙂
He tore it up with that one. One of my favs.
John, you blew it, NO Bikini Babes or nothing…. What’s a matter you?
Chuckle, excellent advice given in good humor. But the adrenaline junkies, I got to have it NOW, fast food addicts (but I repeat myself) would be SO BORED.
Was it Socrates that said, “Let your Medicine be your food, let your food be your medicine”? And someone wise (maybe You?) said, “Beyond a gentle discipline be kind to yourself”.
Always look forward to your thoughts and search for them in various comments sections elsewhere.
Give the Mrs. a Hug for me
And as Thomas Jefferson might say in times like these “Plant more potatoes”.
And I think it was Socrates that didn’t let his students eat before coming to class. Will let The Mrs. know of all the goodwill!
There is nothing more self-defeating than angry and bitter men telling other men to not get married because it might not work out. Marriage and family is how we will survive as a people. Without that, what exactly is the point other than living a few years longer and being bitter while you are at it? Not to mention that it isn’t like the world is full of great prospects among young men. Find a young woman using the criteria John outlines above, let her know you are looking for a wife and family and then make it happen. Nothing is more important in a man’s life than family. Being defeatist about marriage is precisely what the people that hate you want, give them the middle finger by making a marriage work.
Arthur and John, you both know marriage takes that 4-letter word: work. It takes respect for each other and honest but kind communication, also a LOT of work.
But it’s worth it 🙂 It also takes forgiveness, also a difficult task but thankfully my bride had a lot of that, because I am far from perfect.
Proverbs 31 sings to such an awesome wife.
10 [a] An excellent wife who can find?
She is far more precious than jewels.
11 The heart of her husband trusts in her,
and he will have no lack of gain.
12 She does him good, and not harm,
all the days of her life.
But it’s a two-way street, you don’t abuse a loyal dog and expect it to remain a good dog but I see men speak ill of their wife and wonder why she is angry at him.
A good marriage is hard work but well worth it.
I’m neither angry nor bitter: the state has killed it, by design.
The idea of marriage is a fine thing, and a divine invention.
But I can’t live in the theoretical world, Arthur, I have to live in the actual one.
And in the actual world, no man can beat the awful calculus the state has decreed: it takes two people to get married, but only one to get divorced.
When it took two (apart from clear-cut and criminal and civil penalties that had to proven beyond a reasonable doubt) the institution endured, and so did civilization.
It has been sawn asunder, and there’s no saving it, least of all by wishful thinking.
Some men, and overwhelmingly most women (who institute 80% of divorces nowadays) are hopelessly broken.
Unless you’re incredibly lucky (and it’s already less than coin-toss odds now), there is nothing to win and everything to lose by the arrangement.
Women now have a fiduciary incentive to eject from the arrangement at the slightest whim, with a better than 90% chance of coming out financially better off for life, while for men it’s exactly the opposite. It’s in every man’s best interest to never marry, under any circumstances.
People aren’t stupid, which is why marriage and birth rates decline inexorably towards extinction in every developed country. Men have realized that they cannot win the gamble, and so they’re choosing not to play in the first place. Because they’re not idiots.
It’s definitely a social catastrophe, but an inarguable mathematical and financial reality, and all the whining from nostalgic traditionalists won’t change the arrangement as currently constructed. It’s been sabotaged, and is sinking like the Titanic, and all the gainsaying in the world cannot change that.
Society has had its say: a woman can get an abortion all by herself. But they want it both ways: if she doesn’t get one, the support is the problem of both parents. The same with the marriage: leaving on a whim entitles the woman to a claim on your earnings, in perpetuity if the union was longer than a given span. That’s unconstitutional indentured servitude, and should be pursued as such under the 13th Amendment. But it hasn’t been. So men have said “Adios, bitchez!” to that double standard.
Either they’re dual decisions, requiring unanimity, or they’re not. The same should be true for divorce; if one person can elect to get out for anything less than criminal conduct, then it isn’t an equal arrangement. If that’s what they want, then whoever files without provable cause should walk away with bupkus. No money, no house, no kids. You’re free: DLTDHYITAOYWO.
Until that’s reality set in concrete in both law and custom, the entire idea of marriage is asinine on practical grounds, and a delusional romantic fairytale on all others. You’re arguing against gravity here. And it’s got nothing to do with marriage being work. It’s got to do with it being legislated unending financial rape of men, enshrined into law. The courts even set aside pre-nups and call it lawful, so there’s no point in even beginning the arrangement within that legal climate, unless one is a thoroughgoing moron.
Call me when a no-fault divorce is as hard to get as Texas has made abortions and New York has made capital punishment, and we can talk. Make getting one a financial punishment instead of a deep pockets incentive, and you can have your institution back. And the society that will bring. Not before. You want a civilization, but you aren’t willing to look at the foundations for it that have been (deliberately!) blown apart with dynamite, leaving cavernous holes at the cornerstones.
That will never work, and it isn’t. Anyone who can’t see that coming a mile off hasn’t been looking very hard.
You’re a real cynical guy and you must have really been burnt by ( a )woman/women in your life.
The problem with the institution of marriage is that the state is involved. They charge a fee for the license, and in the case of divorce with children, the state also gets a cut of the child support.
If you don’t want to get married, then get yourself snipped. If you don’t, and father a child or three, you deserve, and have a moral obligation, to support them.
@thatmrgguy
It’s not that Aesop is just “a real cynical guy”, as you label him. He is the poster boy for the Dunning-Kruger effect. His self proclaimed expertise now extending even to the field of marriage and family rearing.
His extended vitriolic diatribes against individuals who give even the slightest criticism of his opinion says something more about the man. He has beautiful prose, no doubt, but he is someone in love with his own words. His protacted ramblings display this self-love.
In short: he is a narcissist. A very sad condition.
Your butthurt is noted. Having fun with futile attempts at my expense only underlines that neither of you soopergeniuses can assail anything I just said, because facts are stubborn things.
You want to make me the whipping boy for all the manifest failures to wrestle the institution of marriage back to anything like enough safety that would allow its sustainment? You’re thus shown as nothing more than impotent whiners, overtaken by incontrovertible events, and all you can do is wet yourselves in mock pity, and then claim someone else wet your pants. How droll.
Name any benefit to men of marriage in a society with a 50% divorce chance.
(And that’s only overall marriage chances; it gets worse with subsequent attempts: 60% for second, and 73% for third marriages.) the only reason the rate is going down is that marriage percentages are going down as well.
The marriage rate is half what it was 30 years ago: it’s now 0.5%. From 1 in 100 to 5 in 1,000.
That means over a 60-year adult lifespan, 70% of people will never get married. And with only a nominal a 20-year window to procreate, that’s an extinction-level of rejection of the entire concept.
Good luck trying to pin all that on me, or claiming that 70% of everyone is similarly misguided, when only 15% of anyone in this country can expect a lifelong marriage. (I’m sure it’s nice for the 15% who pull it off, but telling everyone to try – knowing how unlikely you’ve made any success – is exactly like looking at gas prices and telling everyone else “Stop being poor”.)
And you expect men to gamble their entire future, income, and indeed, their lives, on those odds? That’s risible lunacy.
Mathematics, statistics, and accounting don’t suffer from romantic delusions, they only catalogue the utter failure of the entire society to maintain an institution that civilization needs in order to survive.
You want to have the roof without doing the work to build a proper foundation.
You want civilization? Make marriage the inviolable contract it was always intended to be.
Too hard?
Enjoy the water lapping at your feet, as the Titanic that was civilization slips under the waves.
I didn’t sink it, but you’re going to be the ones riding it to the bottom of the ocean, and in complete delusional denial of that truth until you too slip under the surface.
It’s too late to see the truth then.
Aesop, there’s nothing wrong with being cynical. I was cynical after my first marriage, too. Took me 10 years to get over it and find the right woman for me. That was 25 years ago and counting.
As far as being a Sooper Genius, aren’t we all at one time or another…even you. Your acerbic wit can be funny sometimes, but also misplaced. Just something to keep in mind for the future.
Some advice I got when I first entered the adult world was…don’t burn all your bridges. That friend or acquaintance you put off ten years ago, could very well be the only person who can get you out of that jam today, if only you hadn’t burned that bridge back then.
I’m not cynical.
I’m just being a realist, rather than a romantic.
Romance is nice, but it doesn’t pay the mortgage or buy the groceries.
Unless you’re a divorce lawyer. 🙂
Can someone tell me where to find young virgin white women with non-divorced parents who want a traditional family and don’t require you to lie about what you believe to join their church? I keep hearing about them, but they seem incredibly hard to find in the wild.
Once married, how do you minimize the influence of other women trying to split you up? How do you minimize the social and financial incentives? These are actual questions, not arguments.
Just because some men are angry or bitter doesn’t make them wrong (though maybe for other reasons). There is clearly a war on healthy families, and down in the trenches it’s easy to mistake women for the enemy. They are usually the immediate danger.
>Nothing is more important in a man’s life than family.
Agreed. Novelist Lois McMaster Bujold put it this way: All true wealth is biological. I would add that, after family, your clan, your people, your folk also matter greatly. The people who resent, envy and fear you — and have done so very very much to destroy you as a folk — operate off of a hyper-ethnocentric world view. I might wish it were otherwise, but the same is needed to counter them.
To those who cite admittedly worrisome statistics about failed marriages and the adverse financial aftermath, I would say only this: You are not marrying an aggregate probability derived from society at large. You are marrying an individual person. Choose wisely, mutually put in the hard work to make the marriage work (this includes not having to have the last goddamn word on everything), and while your odds of an enduring union will never be 100%, they will be much higher than the population average.
I haven’t given up the search, Mike.
Just the expectation that there’s any likelihood of success.
Realistically, unless and until society pulls a complete 180° turnaround, and values marriage itself enough to give people more of a fighting chance to succeed at it than walking a tightrope over a chasm in a full gale, those fearful odds will whittle civilization all the way to collapse, and whatever comes after is more likely to resemble pre-history than anything else.
People have knocked the wheels off the wagon, and yet still expect it to roll. What cannot continue, simply won’t.
Yup, and if they can wife up worthy women, I’m thinking The Boy and Pugsley will provide some wonderful grandchildren.
Your new career as self-help guru appears to be flourishing, JW, but you are preaching to the choir. The vast majority of sheep who need to hear your words won’t venture over this way for fear of pissing off the shepherd.
For the first time ever, I am relieved that I am no longer a young man. The minefield that White, heterosexual Christian fellows must tiptoe through now has decimated male mojo, leaving young men so risk-averse that I can’t blame them for dropping out.
Subtract White men from authority and Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe. Subtract “toxic masculinity” from society and Bruce Jenner becomes Caitlyn Kardashian. Subtract competent patriarchy from America and Biden/Harris become the “adults” in charge. It’s the difference between Make America Great Again and Built Back Bitter [sic].
The food supply is tainted, the money’s no good, women are overly entitled, shrieking harridans and it’s open season on White men with no bag limit. I don’t know how we got ourselves into this mess, but I see no option other than shooting our way back out of it.
That quote about weak men and hard times is appropriate here. But hard times make strong men.
“…moving to a cabin in Montana…”
Only if it were on a large dental floss plantation with 10+ Shetland Ponies and a limitless supply of cubic zirconium tweezers to pick the crop.
Nice Zappa reference.
Glad you got on moving to Montana. As my days at Starksville were when we had 5000 idiots, probably knew David who comments.
David, Dr. Wiseman was my frat Big Bro. Our politics never agreed.
Ha! I got that reference! Still remember the first time I heard that song . . . “whaaaat is he talking about???”
Marriage is not all that tough. Two rules: 1) choose the right person, 2) be the right person. Yes, it takes a ton of work. Been doing it for 35 years. Same gal, and she’s a peach.
Amen. My biggest key? Be grateful.
It was over in 1965 when the floodgates opened.
Raygun and Tipsy O’Neil laughed over Kobe steaks as some more was heaped onto the bonfire in 1986.
The globalist traitors have been proceeding ever more boldly since then with fake hecho en China lapel pins.
Comrade Lenin said that the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves and that’s what the Grand Old Politburo is.
Now even Red State has a Chongo’s Taco Wagon, Paki Kebab Shack or Pajeetastan Cuisine on every other block.
1986, 1965, 1913 . . . some very bad years.
We cancelled Russia and won WWIII.
Woke scolds are the winningest winnarz evarz and will rule for 1000 glorious years as the Magic Soil sprouts Wakanda.
Anyone not onboard is a Meanwich Stinkburger who will be shunned from the winner’s circle.
Proof of Ukraine support required to enter.
Yay! We won! Now COVID is vanquished forever!
This is probably one of your best, John.
Interesting that most of the comments are about your marriage advice, although it is only about a quarter of the column…..
Thank you very much! Marriage is difficult, and is the cornerstone of what we must restore, to restory society. It is SO broken.
Heartfelt agreement with that.
Society casually discards things they think are little unimportant bits of civilization.
And then, usually all of a sudden, and just past too late, they find out how important the lug nuts on the wheels are.
Well meme’d, sir.
This was gift to my son when he was 10-
IF—
by Rudyard Kipling – 1865-1936
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
I would often go over that with new employees who showed promise (they were mainly guys) and The Mrs. did a calligraphy version of that for The Boy when he graduated high school.
Ted, sometimes nowadays I start to think his manifesto was correct.
Modernity is its own cure.