The Silence Of The Zoomers

“Darling, you have to understand, in Britain in the ’60s, you could be a sex symbol and still have bad teeth. It didn’t matter.” – Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery

Disney® acquired Austin Powers™ and is going to make him a Star Wars© character. Obi Have. (All memes today are “as-found”.

Today I read that Facebook® denied that trans-women are women. They announced that Facebook™ would allow pictures of naked breasts for trans-women but not for actual-women. So, once again, life has proven to be transphobic, just like J.K. Rowling, who has been hard hit by her “there’s a name for ‘birthing people’ – it’s women” comment. Sources indicate that instead of having $1.1 billion dollars, she has slightly less than $1.1 billion dollars.

I’m sure she’s crying. There was even a video of a trans-rights activist rebinding Harry Potter books to remove Rowling’s name, thus proving that these “trans books” were exactly the same, just with a different cover.

Ouch!

While this is a societal issue, for many reasons, that’s not the purpose of today’s post, just a symptom of a society that has been turned on its head by technology. In the past, probably 95% or more of “trans” people would have ignored the nonsense and lived their lives. Some exceedingly small fraction would have pursued sex-change operations.

Frodo became a vegan, because he heard meat is Mordor.

Now, in 2023, there’s a community for everyone online. Feel sexually attracted to toasters? Or floor tile? I’m sure there’s a group somewhere that will validate that degenerate attraction. In 1975, if a kid got horny looking at linoleum, they’d generally ignore it until it naturally went away because, OF COURSE THEY WOULD.

Now? They have zillions of followers on InstaFace© or SnapGram™ showing lewd pictures of naked 1980s vintage vinyl floor tiles. In one sense, the Internet has concentrated and supported that nonsense.

If it stopped there, it would probably be okay.

It hasn’t.

How I would change video games if I was still 12.

When I was a kid (under 18) finding a Playboy™ magazine was rare. I found one next to the band room once, and, um, liberated it when I was 12. I was like a dog who had chased that Panzerkampfwagen VI and having caught it, wondered what I would do when I finally caught a Tiger by the tail. (See what I did there??)

Yeah, I had a Playboy™, and there were pictures of hot women, but I was like an underwear gnome:

  1. Get a hot chick,
  2. ????
  3. Fun!

I had no idea what Step 2. was. I just knew that looking at those girls made me feel funny. I was innocent.

Compare that to today. If I had been a 12-year-old in 2023, I would have had access to, essentially, every way that Step 2. could possibly be accomplished, including with midgets (no, in this context I’m not going to use “little people”), mobs, and MILFS.

Yeah, I’ve used it before, but it fits.

And I would have found a way to get there. There is absolutely no firewall that would prevent a smart 12-year-old from accessing all of the variations of what Step 2. means. The only solution would have been to cut the entire family off from the Internet.

I am lucky to have not been there. I’m certainly happy that I wasn’t a kid today.

When I was young, the market was different. Women might have wanted to have sex, but had to pretend like they didn’t. No woman I dated wanted to view themselves as the kind of girl who wanted to have sex. Why?

Duh.

They wanted love, and girls who had sex with lots of boys were tramps. Young men wanted sex, young women wanted love and commitment. Women were the gatekeepers of sex, constrained by being called tramps and being looked down upon. Men were the gatekeepers of love, and were constrained by the modesty of women.

In the society that existed, there was a strong pull toward monogamy. Divorce rates jumped with the pill, and that was not a positive for society. Additionally, as abortion was normalized and rationalized, tramps could tramp and not pay any sort of social price for killing their baby.

This was a bad situation, but salvageable. Probably.

Men and women a different. Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap. If there’s a war and 99% of men are killed, that 1% of men can impregnate the 100% of women that are left. Women are, though, tied to their children. Men can cut and run. They can leave the woman and child penniless, without support, and they might starve or die.

Except the laws changed. Men can’t cut and run because of child support. And if the woman can’t or won’t name the man, the government will pony up for both of them. Incentives matter, and that moves the tramp-o-meter pretty far to the tramp and/or gold digger side.

I’m sure it was because of a deep and abiding love.

Again, even that might have been salvageable.

But then we added in Tinder®. That made Step 2. all too easy for women, and gave them access in their prime to a wide variety of men. As noted above, women will engage in Step 2. like Hunter Biden on crack unless constrained. Now, they can be validated in ways that were previously impossible.

Men want sex, women are the gatekeepers. At the peak of sexual attractiveness, women can get their pick of dudes in 2023. A woman 5 can get a 10 guy, for a night. Why? Women, being tied by biology, want to have the kids of dudes that are upward on the scale. An 8 woman wants to have the kid of a 10 guy. A 10 guy? Unconstrained my morality, he wants to have sex with all the women. It’s 2am and the bar is closing?

A 5 will do.

Thus our 5 woman on Tinder™ who gets a “date” where she is one-night-standed by a 10 now believes she is entitled to a 10. Prior to Tinder®, people met in church or work or through friends. Now? It’s a match for the evening, where every woman is a 10 for a night.

So, who has the power here?

But it’s a lie.

Chads won’t settle down with Betty 5. If they settle down, it will be with an 8 or 9 or 10.

Then, Betty 5 gets to be 30. Chads won’t even acknowledge her.

This mismatch means that dudes who are 8s, 9s, or 10s get all women when the women are in their prime, but the women then get rejected when they pass their prime.

The consequences are that a majority of women in their best years for having kids spend their time drinking mimosas, making PowerPoints® for $39,000 a year, and meeting with Chad for “dates”.

The women hit 30? 35? 40?

I’m sure she’s happy.

They are ready to settle down. And all the men who have been abandoned along the way are their targets. But, deep in their hearts, they still are looking for more.

To be clear, Tom Brady got dumped.

Is there any way this leads to a functional, stable society?

No.

Zoomers in their 20s are checking out. They can’t get dates, so they don’t care. They have no incentive to improve, hit the job, be aggressive, and try to climb the ladder. It’s easier to hang home, do the least amount possible, smoke some weed, and play Call of Duty®. At least in Call of Duty© they have a challenge. At least there, they can be someone.

Women in their 30s wonder where all the good men are. The answer is simple, they’ve abandoned them in their rush for Step 2. gratification with Chad and become widows to men who never thought any more of them than as disposable play toys. Then they are told to “man up” and wife up tramps who will forever pine for the one night they spent with Chad.

Yup, dumped it all. And from what I’ve seen? Still single and collecting cats.

When looking at the Millennial and Zoomer generation men, understand their situation. They’ve been placed in a desert, but all they see is water. So, they gave up. A combination of Tinder®, laws, and lack of religion led them here.

When looking at the Millennial and Zoomer generation women, understand their situation. They’ve been lied to that they are special and that they can have it all: Chad, the mansion, and mimosas while making PowerPoints© for $350,000 a year. Sex and the City? It’s the big lie. Women change themselves to become an ersatz version of men, just like the “women” who can now post breast pictures on Facebook®.

This cannot last.

So, it won’t.

On Friday, I generally try to remoralize you, dear reader. If you’re reading this, you’re part of the solution. I don’t think I have many Millennial and Zoomer readers. That’s fine.

You (and I mean You!) need to help them. Encourage them. Bring them along. Encourage young women to be chaste. Encourage young men to improve themselves, to be the best that they can be.

This situation cannot stand. It leads to collapse.

And then, once again, men will become men, and women will need them.

And families will flourish.

This will happen because it has to happen, so do not feel dread, do not be discouraged, because we will win. And the ideas of virtue will never perish.

Ever.

So get to it. Help a kid today. And remember who can always help them.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

54 thoughts on “The Silence Of The Zoomers”

  1. …”because i DO NOT want a complete stranger making 90% of ‘my’ decisions”

    * A Variant of something that MUST be true, i saw it on the Internet.

    The replies to this article of Yours should be quite interesting (one for the record book potential, IMHO), to say the least.

    The Superman™ Meme?

    eye would freely associate that with the INVISIBLE MAN’s (™ symbol NOT visible. Either) woeful lament.

    And the potential juxtapositions of Your ‘observations’.

      1. bubba says:
        January 20, 2023 at 5:39 pm
        Dick?

  2. Marriage-minded family-forming younger women who are debt-free virgins without tattoos is porn, like Playboy, a fantasy because it’s so rare in actuality. That’s a pretty meme photo, did you airbrush out the tattoos and piercings? Then just try to find one of these women who is additionally atheist, libertarian, and unvaxed. Government is now the provider, not the husband. Laws for no-fault frivorce and child support and alimonEy and mother getting custody were all passed with mens’ approval.

    The solution to Liberal(TM) belief-contrary-to-evidence is not Jesus(TM) belief-contrary-to-evidence.

    2. These young women are not as rare as it appears. The lack of media attention distorts the picture – they are ignored by the “in crowd”.
      And yes, nearly all of them are Christians – others don’t have the motivation to do this.

    3. Much as I hate to admit it, some beliefs-contrary-to-evidence have the advantage of actually providing sufficient social advantages that the absence of evidence for their core premises are pretty much irrelevant. Atheism has yet to prove itself a stable governing ideology (too many atheists adopt the secular religion of Marxism to fill the emotional hole left by abandoning the faith of their fathers), while various flavors of theism, tempered in the crucible of millennia of strife, have proven reasonably durable.

  3. You forgot the part about, when kids do fall in love and marry, they put off having children until at least one of them can get a solid, stable, job, and pay off that student debt, and… then they’re too old.

    2. A good point.
      I know groups of young people around the country who have avoided that trap by developing careers without getting into college debt and by living within their means.
      They have rejected the excesses of society without rejecting society (a contrast to the Amish).
      There are lots more of them than most people think since they live quietly and don’t draw attention to themselves.

  4. Generation Zyklon contains both the worst and the best of us. They tend to extremes.
    We cannot last as a single nation as currently constituted. What cannot continue, will not.

    1. ” We cannot last…”
      1:9 The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.
      I’m late, I’m late for
      A very important date

    2. I think that’s right. And GZ isn’t moving right as they age. The Communism might have taken with them.

  5. I have written it in other forums John, but I would find it incredibly hard to grow up in today’s world, to the point I do not know if I would have made it. I barely made it as it is.

    There is a whole travel genre that celebrates the single life with undisguised contempt for those that choose a “normal” existence. One of the most egregious is a book name “While You Were Breeding”, which chronicles a single woman’s travel adventures while her contemporaries were doing all the boring things that kept society going.

    What changes this equation is an economic disaster so intense, so destructive, that there is no choice but to hunker down and work on survival. We enjoy a lot of hobbies and “fads”, both personal and societal, because of the fact that we are wealthy society with a great deal of disposable income. Eliminate all of that, and many of the fads and hobbies disappear in the cold reality of (frankly) survival.

    1. Many years ago there was a newspaper funny pages comic called Kathy, in which the ditsy lead was a single woman with her career and her lame boyfriend Irving. She lavished all her affection on her little dog. Her biological clock was ticking but she had plenty of fashionable outfits. I remember one, where she’s dressed to the 9s, meeting some lady friends who were moms. One asks her “would you like to hold my baby?” Kathy holds out her $2000 purse and says “would you like to hold my Prada”? This was probably in the early 90s? So that “while you were breeding” concept isn’t anything new.

  6. My husband and I just celebrated our 49th anniversary. I look at the women I know who didn’t marry in the first place, or left a husband and looked for a “better man”, I could cry. They are so bitter and lonely, yet, somehow, don’t think of their part in the decisions they made.
    Instead, they blame men.

  7. It’s all about responsibility, which starts with teaching children decisions have ramifications, and everyone doesn’t win the lottery in life. We are not all winners, even the most undesirable people have feelings, and the actions we take can destroy more than we can ever imagine. In the long run, accepting irresponsible behavior from a few leads to unhealthy changes that threaten the fabric of a healthy society.

  8. “Still single and collecting cats.”

    Not to mention imbibing large quanitities of white zin box wine. Alone.

    John, thought you’d allude to the “Hot Crazy Matrix” as well.

  9. One more thing for the young ‘uns to hate about Boomers, as if they needed any more fuel for that raging inferno – it was still fairly easy to pair up early and start a family back in the 70s and early 80s. You could get by on a single income. Girls were still allowed to be girls, flirty and fun, without any of that superchick empowerment crap. Guys were not yet frau-beaten and #MeToo’d into abandoning the tomcat stroll.

    The memsahib and I paired up when I was barely out of my teens, and she just a couple of years older. But at 23, following a false start or two, she was already fearful of not finding a seat when the music stopped in that game of musical chairs. By contrast, the desperation driving today’s 35-and-up single ladies is orders of magnitude worse, hence the frightening statistic that 25% of them (conservatively) regularly gobble psych meds.

    Women, and particularly those with a feminist bent, are finally realizing that yeah, maybe a fish really does need a bicycle. Hypergamy is a fool’s wager in such uncertain times, leading to the current popularity of boxed cats and feral wine. And wouldn’t ya know it? I am all out of phvcks to give.

  12. Gore Vidal stated that who thought it was a good idea to have any idiot connect to another idiot regarding the alphabet soup Psyop known as social media.
    As they chant muh convenience and how edgy and progressive I am, the slaughterhouse goes up around them.
    The spiteful mutants have the biggest bullhorn and over representation in the Bolshevik enemedia.
    Born to be serf slave dependents in the hive borg and happy about it.
    Aldous Huxley said the controllers would figure out how to make enslavement palatable and we are here.

  13. I’ve seen my son struggle with this. I try to tell him where the girls are. You just have to be around them, and they are normally in Church, or do church related activities.

    I got into watching Ken Samuels videos on Youtube. I came upon them from a post after he died. Man, they are funny. But they mostly deal with soul sisters. To a one:
    They are nearly always 35-45
    Painfully average. No man would look at them twice at walmart.
    I haven’t seen one where the woman had a father in her life, or grew up in a nuclear family.
    Most have 1, 2 kids and baby daddies.
    They all think they deserve a ‘high value’ man – good looking, well into 6 figures.

    He proceeds to give them advice a father should have given them.

    The problem is, these men (even the huwhite ones) are loooking for a wife, and women these days never learned how to be one. They learned how to be a guy.

  14. 10s don’t “wife up” 7s. And every woman over 40 is a 7, on her best day.
    “The light that burns twice as bright lasts half as long.” – Dr. Eldson Tyrell, Blade Runner
    Time and gravity are two cruel consequences of physics, yet another physics lesson that even high school dropouts learn eventually.

    But you left out Step 2.
    Again.

    “1. And then, once again, men will become men, and women will need them.
    2. ???
    3. And families will flourish.    ”

    What you’re leaving out is the civilizational collapse, post-apocalyptic disaster, and women going from persons to commodities. Again.
    And hastened by millions of unattached males with nothing to lose.

    Like One Million Years B.C., but no Raquel Welches in sight.

    You know, like all that patriarchy from Day One to 1973, which is coming back starting in 20??.

    But it’s going to happen. Like green sprouts after the spring rains.
    The lies of feminism are about to result in that reality. Even to bring it about in the first place.

    As the King said to Buttercup’s suicide threat in The Princess Bride,
    “Won’t that be nice?”

    Cheers.

    1. Aesop, if you marry for boobs, yes over 40 means less “pretty” or plastic surgery.

      If you marry because you have that weird feeling that she completes you and you Love her as she is, then even old age or injury doesn’t make her less beautiful in your eyes.

      But then again, I remember your rant on this blog about how bad the divorce courts screwed you so, sorry your encyclopedic knowledge about everything doesn’t carry over to a successful marriage.

      2. Michael, this has nothing to do with marrying for boobs, and in fact, in most cases, the only boobs at weddings these days are the ones holding the ring.

        I do hope for your sake your wedding tackle is longer than your memory, because I was no such screwed over by any divorce court, nor made any such rant as you remember, here or anywhere else.

        Men who are 10s at any age (like by having a 12″ wallet) can find a woman who completes them, yet doesn’t look like an avalanche victim who caught on fire, and then had the flames beaten out with rakes and pickaxes. And they do exactly that. They tend to be picking from amongst the newer model years as well. Almost like men were visually stimulated and attracted, or something. Unless one is blind, doing otherwise is as silly as getting a cake with no frosting.

        What they won’t be doing is going for the slagged out middle-aged leftovers who’ve ridden a triple marathon on the Penile Carousel, have a personal body count of bedmates into the triple digits, and have all the mileage and wear and tear to show for that, plus brats from multiple baby daddy sperm donors.

        The women who figure this out too late don’t even get to chose from the guys they passed over in their youth, because those guys are either confirmed lifelong bachelors by choice by then (why buy a cow when milk is free?), or able to pick from the cream of the younger crop, because they have their lives and finances well in order, not having squandered their time and money on wifestitutes constantly monkey-branching and trading up, and undsaddled by confiscatory alimony and child support payments.

        When, and more likely if, legislatures end the foolish experiment with no-fault divorces and state-paid welfare, women will cross their legs again, and stay married to the partners that brung them to the dance. Until then, marriage is a sucker bet, most guys aren’t having it – in droves – and women haven’t figured out the answer to that is a return to earlier values, because Uncle, and/or some conga line of suckers who haven’t learned the realities of the current game, will be paying for them to continue the way things are.

        That arrangement is coming to a cliff, just as most women who bought the lies are hitting the wall.

        1. I’m sure your laptop keeps you warm for the “Commodity Women” that fall into your victorious life.

          1. A blunt foil, like your retort, makes for a poor riposte.
            No need, nor point.

            I haven’t met a woman I’d consider marrying in the first place in the last twenty years, nor feel any the worse for learning that lesson, save the time wasted in looking.

            Reality is a harsh mistress, but it never takes your house and half your income forever. I escaped that fate by sheer fortunate timing, and have no desire to repeat the wager. Which is why you never read any such rant as you pulled from your imagination about my circumstances. It never happened.

            Women in general used to marry for love and companionship, and brought that into the bargain. One or two out of a thousand still do, and have the character to stick to their commitment according to their vows. The rest have no such plan, and switched to marrying for Bill Gates’ fortune, de-selecting their available talent pool down to virtual single digits. By the time they figure that out, they’re bitter used-up hags, with a semi-trailer of emotional baggage, one to three brats from other baby daddies, incapable of love (just desperation in a transparent masquerade), and worthless even as companions. I fix enough broken bodies in the ER to want to take on human pound puppies and feral cats on my own time, and try to make housebroken companions and functional adults out of other men’s leftovers in their waning years. How little I miss that cannot be measured with existing instrumentation.

            The most accurate marriage vow for most couples now, going back half a century, should end “until I get the itch to switch”.

            A happy marriage requires absolute commitment to same from both parties.

            If you aren’t willing to do that, and/or you can’t find a partner willing to do that too, you can’t beat the math, or “the itch”: It takes two people at the courthouse to get married, but only one to get divorced.

            To then saddle the person who wants to stay married (60-80% of all divorces now are instituted by women, and it’s been that way for decades) with lifelong payments to the one who quits, for not getting that outcome, is to add insult to injury. It’s like making you continue to pay the loan after the bank repossesses the car. Which is why men are staying single in record numbers, and women are racking up 2-3-5-eleventy divorces in a lifetime. For them, every one of them is a payday. There’s a word for women who play for pay, and it applies to most of them these days. However distasteful they find that truth, the shoe fits.

            (Curious male social scientists can prove it by trying “I’m unemployed” as a pick-up line. The overweaning concern for the potential payday, now or later, tells you exactly what most women are really after.)

            Until they start passing that immutable wisdom on to teens and twenty-somethings of both sexes, in time to make a difference before they make the same societal mistakes, and revoke “I’m not happy!” as grounds for divorce-filing, civilization is doomed.

      3. God is supposed to complete you. Not woman. Woman is to obey you, to comfort you in all ways, and to live under your spiritual shelter. (And man is supposed to obey God and live under His spiritual shelter.)

        You make the Romantic Error so common to men of our feminist times and cultures. Read Genesis again, and get based before God about what men and women really are, and why this planet is perennially effed-up. Also, read some Dalrock.

        1. Ray might want to read the bible a bit more.

          Starting with Genisis and maybe Proverbs 31. Then maybe into the rest to include a fair bit of the New Testament.

          Woman was created to be a partner and helpmate. Not a “Commodity Woman”.

          1. Women made themselves the commodities.
            (The few who don’t deserve all the happiness they find.)

            Now the market has spoken, the price has dropped on spoiled milk, and so they’re pissed.

            Twenty-somethings find out their freshness date goes south before forty, and forty-something men can have their pick of twenty-somethings, because now they’re accomplished men of substance.
            And the washed up wifestitutes have to survive on box wine, cats, and half-pension.

            Supply, meet demand.

            Boo frickin’ hoo.

            [Pro tip from Adam Smith: The market is never wrong.]

    2. Excellent, excellent point – there is that second set of ???? that causes the reset.

      Won’t that be nice”

    1. Divide and rule over the squabbling brats.

      Has worked well sad to say in the “Age of Reason”.

      I keep hoping a few blue hives earn an extra sunrise from messing with Russia. Like Sodom and Gomorra.

    2. It has been. And it has always been a part of the playbook – it was the first thing they tried to do after the Spanish Revolution . . .

      1. It was actually baked into the cake by Genesis 3.
        Modernity has merely unbridled it.

        Disobedience breeds sorrow like mud follows rain.

  17. For a while now I’ve been thinking that the USA is sliding toward the abyss and one of these days our society is going to suffer a cataclysmic collapse. My thinking has changed recently and now I think our society is just going to continue sliding down the slope until we end up in the same swamp that Latin America is in. The impoverished are susceptible to communist propaganda, and when the number of poor gets to be very large you get communist revolutions and then you are really in the shit. The big problem is the government, the military-industrial complex and the medical industrial complex are a mafia, concerned only about their own well being and not the welfare of the country as a whole. Okay, so this is a little off-topic but it’s the best I can do at the moment.

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