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I've started reading United States of Fear by Mark McDonald, MD.



It's a short book and I'm halfway through already. Very good so far.

The author explicitly links feminism and the resulting weak men with anxiety among white liberal urban women, and their frankly insane over-reaction to the virus Fauci created in Wuhan.

Women are not safe with weak men as husbands and they know this at a deep level.

Other trends which contributed to the Covidian Cult:

Safety and self-esteem were elevated over accomplishment, mastery, and truth. This become law.

Liberals prefer the promise of safety to liberty.
Conservatives prefer liberty to the promise of safety.

Women were far more affected by fear of the virus than men, especially unmarried women (women without any man at all to protect them, not even a weak man).

Public officials wildly over-reacted to the small threat of the virus in order to avoid blame. There was no political benefit to being reasonable. This greatly increased women's fear.

Feminism claimed to be about freedom and opportunity, but turned out to be mostly misandry.

American men no longer play their traditional role of grounding and containing women's anxiety in a crisis. Instead, male weakness amplifies women's anxiety.

More insights:

Liberal women paradoxically demand that men be more feminized, and then strongly resent the feminized men they have helped to create.

Testosterone and grip strength have been dropping among men.

The more formal education a man has, the less likely he is to rate himself as "very masculine".

Republican men are twice as likely to rate themselves as "very masculine" than Democratic men.

3/4 of Republican men view masculinity as a good thing, but only 1/2 of Democratic men do.

"As feminism exults in its triumph over men, both sexes lose."

"The surrender of real courage by men inevitably produces fearful women, and fearful women channel their fear into controlling others."

Patrick says

Testosterone and grip strength have been dropping among men.

Why would testosterone drop? Pot use? One's politics will not affect juice level.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

Testosterone and grip strength have been dropping among men.

Why would testosterone drop? Pot use? One's politics will not affect juice level.

It does. The habits, soy food, being sedentary, not hunting women,not going to the gym but hiding in the basement, netfucks and chill. not asserting yourself, all have negative effects on T. It's been declining for decades now but leftoids are speeding it up.

I have read that psychology definitely affects testosterone levels. There is a positive feedback loop where winning men produce more testosterone. And conversely.

I've started reading The Federalist Papers as my next book.

The beginning says that the goal of our Constitution is freedom from tyranny, so it's very relevant to right now in America.

Patrick says

I've started reading The Federalist Papers as my next book.

The beginning says that the goal of our Constitution is freedom from tyranny, so it's very relevant to right now in America.

Lol, just ran across this on https://patriots.win/?source=patrick.net :

Huh, just learned from The Federalist Papers that bankruptcy law in the US is largely a federal affair because the framers of the Constitution foresaw that some people would try to move property from one state to another and then declare bankruptcy in the first.

Patrick says

I finally finished The Origin of Species by Darwin.

I love that book. I've read it several times.

Read Brave New World again. As a kid I kind of saw it as a sort of paradise, as an adult, I can see it for the dystopia it is. No progress, people are just meat robots servicing the machine. A completely purposeless life.

I have an audiobook of The Gulag Archipelago and am in the process of fixing it to remove the useless tidbits of "now flip the cassette over to side B" and so on. It's a dark comedy, or would be, if it wasn't based on reality. I'll send you a link once I edit it. It's 104 audio tapes. I think I'll break it up into 3 parts.

The Constitution has this section:

Article 1, Section 10
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

How are they able to not use "gold and silver Coin" in payment of their debts?

Another bit of the Constitution that seems violated:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

So how is it that states like California can simply refuse to enforce federal immigration law?

Or how can California legalize marijuana when it is illegal under federal law?

Patrick says

Another bit of the Constitution that seems violated:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

So how is it that states like California can simply refuse to enforce federal immigration law?

Or how can California legalize marijuana when it is illegal under federal law?

The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper - George W. Bush told you 20 years ago.

The United States doesn't enforce the Constitution any more than the USSR enforced THEIR constitution. If American citizens don't care, fuck 'em.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Government_employees.webp/800px-Government_employees.webp.png?source=patrick.net

In Federalist paper number 45, Madison claims that the number of federal employees will always be far below the number of state government employees. He was wrong.

mell says

HeadSet says

Patrick says

Testosterone and grip strength have been dropping among men.

Why would testosterone drop? Pot use? One's politics will not affect juice level.

It does. The habits, soy food, being sedentary, not hunting women,not going to the gym but hiding in the basement, netfucks and chill. not asserting yourself, all have negative effects on T. It's been declining for decades now but leftoids are speeding it up.

Chronic masturbation?

Another good insight from The Federalist Papers, from number 50: it is necessary and good to have multiple political parties opposed to each other "because an extinction of parties necessarily implies either a universal alarm for the public safety, or an absolute extinction of liberty."

This does seem to be true. In the case of, say, attack by space aliens, I think people would work together and forget about which party they belong to until the danger has passed. On the other hand, in countries not under attack, a lack of multiple parties is a reliable indicator of despotism, as in North Korea.

Another interesting thing in The Federalist Papers is that the writers of the Constitution clearly intended the Electoral College to be independent. That is, the people are to vote for the electors in their state (one elector for each member of the House and Senate for that state). Then the electors themselves are to choose the president.

Now why doesn't it work that way now? It seems that you vote for an elector who has already declared himself or herself in favor of a particular candidate. The original idea was that the people simply pick electors of good character and let them decide on a president after that.

Patrick says

Another interesting thing in The Federalist Papers

If you enjoy that, you may enjoy this :

http://resources.utulsa.edu/law/classes/rice/Constitutional/AntiFederalist/antifed.htm?source=patrick.net

Yes, it would be nice to hear the arguments against the Constitution as well.

Lol, too much!

@Patrick

Not a paper book, but a good audio presentation of 1984.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBPNrVQwqeo

I've read this book many times but I like to experience it many ways. This version is not abridged, so it's like 10 hours long.

I turned it into an MP3 if you prefer:

https://samoyed.dynu.net/~patrick/1984%20-%20audiobook.mp3

You can just download that onto a device. I'll keep it around there for a few weeks, but eventually I'll organize it. I do like to collect.

Been reading through the Old Testament lately. I skip over the super Jewie stuff(large parts of Deuteronomy), but overall really enjoying it as I've always liked history. And next time a Jew tries that holier than thou shit, remind him of Numbers when they refused to go to the promised land. Temper tantrum of epic proportions. They whined so much God struck them with three different plague's/calamities.

Contrary to popular belief, the Bible isn't full of saints, its chock full of sinners. God doesn't ask for perfection, just that we try.

My next book after The Federalist Papers is "The Guide for the Perplexed" by Moses Maimonides, a Jewish scholar writing in Arabic in about 1100 AD. It attempts to reconcile the Old Testament with Greek philosophy, partly by analyzing words and taking them as metaphors rather than literally.

I ran across a funny passage in which he says:

In the same manner does the root "nasa" (to lift up) denote both elevation in space and elevation in dignity.

NuttBoxer says

Been reading through the Old Testament lately. I skip over the super Jewie stuff(large parts of Deuteronomy), but overall really enjoying it as I've always liked history. And next time a Jew tries that holier than thou shit, remind him of Numbers when they refused to go to the promised land. Temper tantrum of epic proportions. They whined so much God struck them with three different plague's/calamities.

Yeah, I skip over the various rules and regualtions too, but I gotta get a large print in my old age. I stopped about where you are now.

The Jews are an example of why humans can't just be given some laws and obey them to prosper. They have to be graced with Spirit. But some fall into the Marcionite Heresy - not understanding the OT is needed to understand the NT, which refers to it constantly.

I think the most relevant story to today is Jehu vs. Jezebel. A bigmouthed, burly general who "Rode his chariot recklessly" and adored by women, did what a Prophet was scared to do. 2 Kings? I also believe it's 2 Kings that trashes the Oral Torah idea: They couldn't have forgotten Pesach/Passover if they had the phony balony Oral Torah fiction. Notice the Bible, including the NT, NEVER references any Oral Torah crap. Another confirmation is that ALL the Prophets and Kings descent is given through the male, not female like Oral Torah claims, line. Jewish Protestantism! The Karaites also suggest the Oral Torah is a post-Temple invention, not given to the Levites with that very vague passage in Exodus as claimed.

Also interesting: Maimonides knew the earth was spherical before the year 1200:

For a proposition which can be proved by evidence is not subject to dispute, denial, or rejection: none but the ignorant would contradict it, and such contradiction is called 'denial of a demonstrated proof.' Thus you find men who deny the spherical form of the earth, or the circular form of the line in which the stars move, and the like: such men are not considered in this treatise.

And I had to chuckle at this line:

he whose testicles are warm, humid, and vigorous, and the organs connected therewith are surcharged, will not easily refrain from sin, even if he makes great efforts to restrain himself.

Patrick says

And I had to chuckle at this line:

"he whose testicles are warm, humid, and vigorous, and the organs connected therewith are surcharged, will not easily refrain from sin, even if he makes great efforts to restrain himself."

Why is there a Quaker on Quaker Oats?

Because it's been thought of since forever, that meat and eggs makes people horny, and bland food makes people have a lower sex drive. Therefore, to be continent, be like a quaker and eat bland, grain based foods.

AmericanKulak says

I also believe it's 2 Kings that trashes the Oral Torah idea

I attended a Christian college, and have never heard of an "Oral" Torah. Starting with the 10 Commandments God wrote them for the Jews on stone tablets. That's not that much to remember, but God purposely wrote them down. There's no way they just memorized all of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. There are several references to reading the law during festivals, and at other critical junctures in Israel's history.

The Oral Torah is a whole other set of laws in addition to the written Torah, which has not only the 10 Commandments, but a slew of other laws. Maimonides counted 613 rules for Jews, I think all from the written Torah, but not sure.

The Oral Torah idea sounds kinda bullshitty to me, especially because the written Torah explicitly states that nothing may be added to it, but it's accepted by mainstream Judaism.

The Karaites are a small Jewish group that has always rejected the Oral Torah and the Talmud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism

"Sins of the Father" by Eileen Franklin and William Wright. I picked this one up last month for one dollar at a used book store.

Eileen Franklin's testimony of a repressed childhood memory of her dad George Franklin's brutal murder of eight year old Susan Nason in San Mateo County was a sensational news story. The trial was in 1990 with a guilty verdict.

There was no doubt that Franklin's repressed memory about the crime was accurate, as she described details from the body dumping scene that only law enforcement folks knew. Nonetheless the verdict was overturned and George went free, because an appeals court ruled that repressed memory was not admissible evidence. So much controversy in the media about all this back in the day.

I'm about halfway through the book. So far, the narrative about the crime is more like a storytelling vehicle for life in Foster City and the Peninsula in the 1970's. So much to unpack from that narrative.

For all you Hipsters out there who think the SF Bay Area is all about Silicon Valley and "tech" and RSU's and Teslas and Status Symbol European Sedan cars and Woksterism, this would be a great read for some broader perspective. Also as you read be mindful of the concept of Latchkey Children in quiet, leafy, white, "safe" suburban neighborhoods that have schools with High Standardized Test Scores.

You're exactly right. There is no oral Torah, but many Jews are taught there is one. That it was secret instructions given to Levites in the wilderness, but really fabricated by rabbis around 300ad in exile

Started reading Paul Schneider's autobiography. Pastor who grew up in Germany before and during WWII. Draws some disconcerting parallel's between Germany than, and America now. Especially when it comes to self-censorship of free speech, I think we are already there.

Finished Schneider's autobiography, pretty short book. Close to the time he started getting in trouble with the SS a friend of his tried to tell him to tone down his opinions contrary to the Nazi's, and pointed out his wife and four children. Schneider looks at the guy with obvious emotion and says "God has charged me with my families spiritual well-being as well as their physical"(my paraphrase). In a fucking scary situation with a young family like that, for Paul to see so clearly what mattered not just at that moment, but for eternity.. wow. I hope I can be half that man if my time comes.

Thanks @NuttBoxer I did not know about Schneider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schneider_(pastor)

https://t.me/kagbabe/8695

Tucker Carlson gives advice to young men.

"Read books. Actual, physical books. Set aside an hour every day. Any book written before WW2 has a kind of ease about it. There’s less self-censorship. This was a much freer country before WW2. It’s very obvious in the literature."

I'm still on my Aunt Millie's old Latin textbook. This is going to take months, but I'm enjoying it.

Patrick says

This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.

Look at who funds groups like AntiFa and other Woke statists and militant groups. It non profits like Act Blue and Bend the Arc.

Have to find out how these non profits get funded and from who. I would not be surprised if Chicom money such as from Chicom-connected businesses are involved with indirectly funding these non profits.

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Patrick says

won’t be removed by cancel culture from your book shelf remotely

I might have plugged it before, but Richard Taylor's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer), is a very good application of Lee's letter. I've heard the same of Stonewall Jackson's, although Sheridan certainly his an interesting take on the man.