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I hope you’re right, but it’s not because I’m some pickme. I’m not even white or straight, just Jewish and bisexual. It’s because I don’t understand feminine HR culture, even as a woman. All the decoding and hidden social contracts make no sense to me. I like things clear and out in the open. Straight white men have always been more upfront than any other group. I don’t want to live in a culture that is deliberately obscured.

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Sadly, just about everything "official" these days is the exact opposite of what they claim it to be. As I said in a recent post, whatever officialdom says is best for you, do the opposite. If they demand it, head in the opposite direction.

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An outstanding essay. You touched on all bases.

A man. I wrote an essay https://wholeamericancatalog.substack.com/p/children-in-adult-bodies

Boys became men at 10 years old when they went to work to support their family because their father had died. How in 1899 newsboys brought Pulitzer and Hearst to their knees by striking for a fair deal. And there are biological males who will never become men. What happened to:

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - Martin Luther King Jr.

My dad worked at the Post Office. He died in 1982. Years before that, he came home from work one day really disgusted. A black guy who consistently called off on Monday and Friday was fired six months prior. He was back at work WITH SIX MONTHS BACK PAY!

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Thanks David.

You piece is worth a read. America is indeed in many ways, a cult of youth.

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It complimented your piece.

"Excellence in moral character and integrity comes from overcoming challenges and difficulties, making mistakes, learning from them and becoming stronger for it. It is the willingness to hear many viewpoints, discerning what is true, leaving the rest. It is having a firm sense of self that is not threatened by other people who have different views, recognizing that freedom for everybody depends on the freedom of fools to be foolish as long as they aren’t harming anybody but themselves. It is knowing who I am, resilient in that, not collapsing in the face of criticism, or raging. Character is doing what you say you will. It is having a moral center your ego is humbled to."

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Isn't this what parents could/should be teaching their children?

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Great research and good points, Hunter.

I now default to offering this [far superior] option:

Figure out how to become self-employed, even if it takes a few years and means living a simpler life with far less flagrant display of opulence.

Because really, what the hell is a Lamborghini or a $3 million mansion or a multi-million dollar stock portfolio worth if you're a complete slave to both the Matrix *and* The Man and you don't largely control your two most precious resources: Your Mind and your Time.

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That is precisely what a lot of professional men, like myself, are doing. I have several ideas about how I want to proceed, but then running your own business does often take most of one's time, so one would need to love it, and that somewhat interferes with my plans of being my parents primary caretaker, which will be a job of it's own soon enough. I'm giving myself my 50th year to think about it (and focus on gardening, playing guitar, writing...)

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Indeed, part of "the magic" is setting your intention and allowing the Divine Architect to rearrange the plasma fields as you follow through on each step!

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I share your concern for white men, William. I think one of our earliest conversations was about a friend of mine who took his life so he wouldn't be a burden--someone who should have been a treasure to his community in the real world for his skills and helping nature. Men have first been emasculated by putting them behind desks (now couches) and then by taking that status away.

As one of those white women HR mgrs, I can tell you stories about the black HR Dir who only came into work half the time then filed a complaint with the EEO when he was fired. Or the gay receptionist harassing another receptionist in the lobby, then claiming discrimination when he was let go. But I can also tell you stories about the CEO and CFO harassing young women, and firing them (and me) when complaints were filed. In the end, it's still an old white boy network at the top. They don't need a majority but that's where the power is. We're all complicit in taking the bribes and special status when they're offered us, then complaining that it's 'not fair' when that's someone else.

As I often say, there's only two sides: empire and sovereignty. If you're not putting attention into how to change the system, because you believe that's not possible, you're just competing for who's on top. And your definition of terrorist or oppressed depends on identity, not a description of actions and measurable attributes independent of who they apply to. You're thinking like an empire, my friend, and just jostling for position in it. And I agree with you that having white men excluded from the corporate tier serving the ruling class may be an incentive to reconsider if that's the system we want. Or to join the military or defense contractors, since qualifications in the business of killing still matters.

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"You're thinking like an empire, my friend, and just jostling for position in it."

There is leadership by example, and leadership by dictate, like you say, the difference between empire and sovereignty. I'm trying to get at leadership by example, restoring the sovereignty of the people over institutions, but it is entirely possible I did not make that very clear in this post.

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I have been hearing about toxic masculinity most of my life. I took that to heart as a young man, to my great detriment. I want to have an ongoing conversation about tonic masculinity.

Most of the hires were new, low end jobs, though as per the article, at a few corporations, half of hires for executive management were "oppressed." You are right though, the leadership of these toxic institutions is primarily straight white male. My hope would be these institutions fall, with that largely pathological leadership with it. I'm mostly speaking to those lower on the rung, get creative and start building the foundation of a better America outside the institutions you are being excluded from.

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I don't know if you know Ratio Broadbornius, who does memes as Startle Magazine? I think you'd like him. On this post https://startlemag.substack.com/p/onlymemescom-2 there's a serious, old-fashioned cartoon halfway down that says, "Want to help your children? Love their mother. Want to help the world? Love your children." That seemed very similar to how I defined tonic masculinity when I coined it.

How the 'Tonic 7' defined it was as another form of empire. You are the only one among them who said, "Real men have skills. Get skilled!" If your focus is on defining masculinity as opposed to femininity, rather than on defining tonic as opposed to toxic, it's just superiority hiding under the veneer of a pretty (and stolen) term. It's keeping things exactly how they were and doing what the propagandists do by naming things their opposite.

I believe these institutions will fall with their pathological leadership. What replaces it depends on what's available. If a system of sovereign small-scale economies is on the shelf, ready-to-go, I think that's what will replace it. It's what we all want. But if YNH is right that there's no alternative to the global liberal order, that's what will come next. Your choice, not anyone else's. Before you can lead, you need to figure out what you're leading towards, imo.

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The biggest problem I have seen from the "dissident" community is a failure to articulate anything like an alternative vision. When I read the dissident left complaining about the elite, it is often indistinguishable from right critique.

One of the issues seems, the elite prior to recent climate change doctrine have essentially said you can have anything you desire, whenever you want it - you just have to make enough money, and anybody can! Most people seem to still believe it. That is a recipe for ecocide, but it also speaks directly to our basest instincts, which tends to over-ride logic or reason or sense.

Anyway, I am trying to get at articulating that alternative vision, but it is difficult, and I appreciate you holding me accountable.

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I completely, whole-heartedly, 100% agree! I've had that complaint about them for 30 yrs. Which is why I spent 10 of those years writing my book, which was first meant to be A 2020 Vision, the Economics of Community. And then I realized that we weren't understanding the problem. Exactly as you say, we think that a redistribution of money will solve it, but money represents stolen labor. So before we could talk about the solution, we needed to understand the problem. If you're looking to research an alternative vision, I'll post my bibliography on my Stack (thanks for the idea!). That's where I started. Or ... you could shortcut that process and read my book. Jus' saying ;-)

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It better be good. :). Most books about a better future are practically unreadable.

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As I say in my author bio: "Tereza Coraggio offers no credentials. Read it and decide for yourself" ;-) https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607

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TC, you whine about the problem, but your narrow perspective IS the problem. “Or to join the military or defense contractors, since qualification in the business of KILLING still matters.” I hate to be so abrupt, but if you are always focused, working to be the best you can be, no one can stop you but yourself.

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I'm not experiencing any personal failure in my ability to work within the system. I have a great life. Do you mean that comment for William, to say that whining about discrimination against straight white men is illusory, and really it's the failure of individual men to stay focused and work to be the best they can be? I don't agree with that, I think William is right that this is a systemic failure and not individual. But I personally have nothing to whine about.

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If you choose to work for those corrupt companies that have unfair bias, accept the crap that comes with it and be your best. Character development is what we used to call it.

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Sorry c, I'm missing your point. I don't work for any company. Once again, I think your comment is directly at William. Rather than complaining about corrupt companies with an unfair bias against straight white men, you're saying "accept the crap that comes with it and be your best." That's character development.

As practical advice, I don't disagree. I left the corporate world in disgust after the CEO/CFO incident and started a faux finish painting business. I left when I was 7 mos pregnant breathing in turpentine fumes on 15' ladders. When that daughter was six months old, I wouldn't quite say I went crawling back to the corporate world, but close. Manual labor is SUCH a hard way to make a living in our current system.

After two more kids and 10 more years, I stopped working. Since I had bought a house before I met my husband, the mortgage was low enough to survive on one income. My daughters are unlikely to have that choice. After 40 yrs of a soul-sucking bullshit job, my ex will retire next year. Maybe that's character development but I would have loved for him to have worked in the system I've designed because he would have been a gem to his community rather than a wage-slave.

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One exception I take to your musings is the comment on “late stage Capitalism”. We haven’t had capitalism in decades...it’s all a blend of the worst elements of corporatism, fascism and communism.

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Fair take. Marx was right about that at least, Capitalism would devour itself. Trick is going to be how to maintain free markets with the GAE empire in a state of catabolic collapse, lefties trying to take everything down with them.

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I don’t think capitalism devoured it as much as it was subverted and co-opted by those who seek power. The Federal Reserve Act was the beginning of the end and we are very near now to the end of the end. The replacement for it is going to be even worse than we can imagine.

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Regardless how it was devoured, we have to do everything we can not to be devoured by it/build a parallel system to subvert the destroyers.

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I am in the San Francisco Bay Area. Somehow I have never noticed a low sun that is inadequate for a garden. I am at 38 degrees latitude (I just checked). And sea level.

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Only way to know for sure is to try. I'm at almost 46Lat so you have a lot more sun. You can definitely grow food there for about 4 months where I cannot unless I artificially heat the space overnight with lights in the morning and evening.

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Are the lights primarily for heating? Not that you can stop them from heating. Unless you use those special fluorescent tube grow lights (which I did 30 years ago, I used them to start seeds). Are infrared bulbs good for warming seedlings? It's been a long time since I thought of growing salad greens, I would have started them in an unheated room or the garage. And then set out the seedlings in hopes the varieties I had chosen were cold hardy.

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Typically it is LED now. Heat would come from some less diffuse source. Though I knew a guy who grew tomatoes in Alaska in a basement with lights only, at 40F. He said as long as the aquaponics water was heated they were fine.

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I must say that much as I've encountered young people who preach wokery and regressive ideas, the most difficult thing has been that I've seen and heard more boomers & xers of Anglo-Canada come out in support of it. Especially older women, and it is a growing trend that has me weary and determined to leave the Anglo-Sphere.

I refuse to remain where I am hated, and would rather go to France (as I've friends there) to be amongst those who love and respect, and to carry the fight on for a civilisation and country I love more than almost anything else. France to me, is second only to my dog and Dieu.

But loved this article of yours mon ami.

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Thank you, and that is why I left Minneapolis for rural Minnesota. Minneapolis has turned into a Minnesota version of Portland Oregon or San Francisco.

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Yeah, if I had to move to the USA, it'd either be Texas or Arizona for me, love those two states very traditional.

And it is why I'm moving to one of the most conservative parts of France, where they are having a conversation about arming the population (I'm not a gun guy (got some disabilities that might prevent my ability to purchase a gun), but I'd feel safer if my neighbours and my futur wife could be armed).

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Good luck, on the future move and marriage. Sounds amazing. I assume you are talking about the potential breakaway region. I hope and pray you find the weapons you need.

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Nah, there are no breakaway regions in France, it is simply that boat-loads of regions are becoming more conservative and wanting to break out of the EU and slowly pushing for a 'cultural revolution' of sorts to protect the traditions and culture of France.

Some regions such as Bretagne, SPM and others are taking Zemmour's advice on arming the populace rather more seriously.

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I think I was thinking Spain. I am provincial American, I get my European nation state politics mixed up.

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Oh that's alright, I myself worry over Spain (they have a humongous French diaspora and Spanish folk are wonderful). I really hope Spain survives the next few years and breaks off from the EU also.

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According to John Michael Greer, the professional managerial class (PMC) is headed for a bright future. So lets not stand in their way, or wish we were in their shoes.

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Not sure "bright" is the right word...

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The percentage of workers who are white would be more useful to me if it could be subdivided by job classification, especially to separate the management class.

I believe the main cause of problems in corporations is the belief that management is management, that a knowledge of the business is not required to manage it well. My last manager at Charles Schwab comes to mind. I believe that attitude arose from an IBM or Harvard Business School story that went the rounds in the management magazines and journals, especially the Harvard Business Review Journal, about 1980. It proved disastrous. Skin color, gender, and sexual preference cannot overcome the simple lack of knowledge and understanding of the significance of a department within the overall corporation. And yes, I have with 2 short exceptions, worked for large corporations.

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MBA education can be summed up as: how to reduce the number of employees, wages and benefits, and the quality of products, to increase the wealth of executives and investors.

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I do have an MBA. I was not taught what you wrote, but I am sure there are lots (way too many) people who believe that is their task. Whether those people have an MBA is impossible to say, they more likely are just kissing up to their boss.

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Since that has been the trajectory of business in America, I guess I just assumed that is what they have been (obliquely) teaching.

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I don't blame you. There certainly is too much of what you described.

I suspect that in some businesses, and some offices, focusing on $$ is easier to do than to focus on quality. And I imagine that there are a number of people who doubt the American consumer gives a shit about quality. But they would be wrong.

There are products that have captured the consumer's heart, witness the Tesla (which I will never buy, given my strong preference for internal combustion engines and Mercedes Benz autos.)

Certainly the trajectory of business has not been flattering. And after the last 4 years, if you cannot buy it from Amazon, it is worthless if not non-existent. I quit buying from Amazon, except for books that my local bookstore cannot get. I am clearly an oddball. And proud of it!

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I haven't bought anything from Amazon in a decade at least. I got out of general contracting/remodeling in part because the vast majority of product has turned into garbage, even a lot of the so-called high-end stuff. Working now part time in the greatest of all big-boxes, I see the end-point of Capitalist logic, the collapse within view.

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Are you planning a winter garden? I guess it snows where you are, how do you garden in the snow?

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Do you get a sense of capitalist America being devoured from within? This notion comes to me every so often.

My opinion of capitalism has changed significantly in the last 20 years, mostly since 2008. Sometimes it appears to be a monster that continues by eating its young.

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Straight white men are underrepresented among migrant workers. When will this injustice be rectified?

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Probably never.

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Not to mention the scarcity of women in locomotive engine repair shops.

A veritable hotbed of misogyny.

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I wonder what the female version of misogyny is called?

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Misandry.

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Methinks that is even more common than misogyny these days.

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A policy of misandry would exclude men from every ethnicity.

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Discrimination didn’t stop the “Japs” or Jews from succeeding.

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Or the Russians or Chinese.

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Bloomberg wants a white male uprising. 🤑

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To feed the war machine, weapons contractors and their investors, probably.

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