8 Nov 2018

Nihilism And Beyond For The Zeta Male

Foreword
This essay originates, in part, from an AVfM article by Jewel Eldora and a discussion in its comment section [1]. The theme of Eldora’s article is that men do not have a mechanism for “in-group bias” and, as such, men as a group are “idiots”.
You may have realised yourself, for example, that whereas women have no compunction about using the word “we” to refer to all women or women in general, men only ever refer to other men as “men”, and never “we”. This seems to be as true in the MRM as it is in the wider world.
While I appreciated that men do not self-identify as a group, I originally took issue with Eldora’s assertion that men are idiots. For me, however, the focus of interest was not just the article itself but a discussion in the comments section with two posters, “JackABond” and “Factsseeker”, on the wider question of what it all means for guys like us — men who regard themselves as MGTOW or Zeta Male [2]. I began by disagreeing somewhat with JackABond, but later came to appreciate his comments. In fact, both Eldora and JackABond caused me to re-evaluate my own beliefs and this essay is the result. I’d like to thank them both.
Jewel Eldora was dead right, of course.

MRA-UK's Oxford Talk On The History Of Universal Suffrage

By MRA-UK: My thanks to Oxford Men’s Group for hosting and organising this event, and for giving me a platform for my hobbyhorse: the true history of universal suffrage in the UK.

Time's Running Out For A Brexit Deal & That's A Good Thing

There is still no Brexit deal and if there isn't one soon,
the world will not end...
Authored by Mike Shedlock: At 11 PM local time on March 29 2019, the UK is scheduled to leave the bloc. A deal is still not in place.
Preparing for a No-Deal Brexit
Eurointelligence has an interesting take called Preparing for a No-Deal Brexit Between Friends
The truth is there are simply no newsworthy Brexit developments. The reason is that, as of now, there is still no majority for a deal.
So let us focus instead on smaller pieces of the puzzle that might become relevant later.
One of those was a small item in the Financial Times from the Hauts-de-France region in Northern France, whose president is demanding a constructive attitude by the EU in the case of a no-deal Brexit. Expect to hear more of this as we approach the Brexit deadline. If the EU plays it tough to the bitter end, not only Hauts-de-France will be clobbered along with the UK.
The EU could in theory turn a no-deal exit into a de-facto blockade of the UK.

Another US Senator Sides With The Jewish Apartheid State Israel Against Free Speech - Of Course He's Feminist

"Israel, an apartheid state. ...There's been a big movement by politicians in the United States to make you protesting Israel illegal!"
Jimmy Dore: Cory Booker comes out in support of the latest Anti-Boycott Bill. Here are his excuses why he's gone full shabbos goy pro-apartheid retard...

Our Dystopian Gattaca Future

Salve, Mater Salvatoris: Honoring The Great Woman In Medieval Europe

Mary, mother of Jesus, dominating little menIn twelfth-century Europe, Christians were intensely devoted to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Within “a prevailing climate of fevered Marianism,” the Christ of Christianity, like so many other men, became merely a nominal leading figure:
the cult of the Virgin had assumed such proportions and evoked so much fervour that the figure of the Mother Of Christ began to eclipse that of her Son {Jesus} and of all the apostles and saints. It might seem almost true to say that, in the later Middle Ages, the central object of the popular cult was in actual fact the Virgin Mary, exalted to the rank of Queen of Heaven, crowned with the twelve stars, and invested with all those human and tender attributes in which the early Church had first clothed the figure of the Saviour. [1]
Adam of Saint Victor’s early twelfth-century liturgical hymn (sequence) “Hail, O mother of our Savior {Salve, mater Salvatoris}” exemplifies intense devotion to Mary and its implications for men.

7 Nov 2018

Divide And Conquer

'Elementary rights, such as the freedom to think openly, have been eradicated and replaced by a strict regime of correctness.'
By Gilad Atzmon: I am not even remotely a Trump supporter,  but I do think that he has managed to expose the spectrum of western political morbidity, both left and right. Trump is the ultimate Post Political icon -- the symptom as well as the disease.
For the last four decades, the West has been subjected to an intense cultural and social revolution. The cause of ‘social justice’ has made some fundamental changes in western society.  Elementary rights, such as the freedom to think openly, have been eradicated and replaced by a strict regime of correctness. In retrospect, it was reasonable to believe that there was little significant resistance to these social justice heroes. During that time, it seemed that their agenda had prevailed. Just five years ago it looked as if the Tyranny of Correctness was here to stay. But then, unexpectedly, the tide changed.

Marijuana Federalism Won In The 2018 Midterms

“I think he [President Trump] is going to legalize marijuana”
Authored by Brian Darling: While the nation was gripped by House, Senate and governor races, there was another important contest on the ballot in Tuesday’s midterms related to the future of adult-use and medical-use marijuana. With several ballot initiatives in states that would liberalize laws on marijuana, it was a great day for the idea of federalism in marijuana laws.

Federalism is a core value of America. It is the idea that states, not the federal government, hold powers that are not specifically enumerated to the feds. Police powers have traditionally resided in states and with local officials, yet the federal government has slowly creeped into the law enforcement business when it comes to all forms of crime.
The history of marijuana regulation started with states outlawing the drug early last century, before the issue was federalized with passage of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1970.

Men’s Day: London Plans

By : “Why are men afraid? They live in a culture which terrorises them. They live in a culture which demonises them and which hides this under all kinds of pseudo-respectable and ‘toleration’ based ideologies… This is intentional. This is a constructed part of our culture – to demonise men and to banish men and to make men obsolescent… We are constantly being pummeled with images and ideas of men which destroy our sense of masculinity… It’s amazing how a trope can be adopted… I defy any of you to think of the word ‘masculinity’ without the word toxic coming one or other side of it, like a Google search. This is what they’ve done.” said John Waters in his opening speech at The Battle of Ideas debate, ‘Is masculinity toxic for boys?’, in 2016.
You may not have heard of John Waters, the Irish journalist and author (and champion of father’s rights and masculine values) but he is unequivocally one of the most compelling, and most challenging voices in the Men’s Human Rights Movement

China - Big Trade War Loser?

Max and Stacy discuss Marshall Auerback’s assessment of Trump’s trade war. The fact is that China is, so far anyway, the big loser. It is much easier as the hollowed out, high deficit nation has everything to gain while the export nation had millions of jobs and expensive factories to lose. In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about the plunge in tech shares and rising interest rates.

Ralph Murphy, Brett Kavanaugh And The Automatic Outgroup Derogation Of Men

By : The last two articles attempted to demonstrate how Blue Church and Red Church news outlets differently exploit group biases against men.
The Blue Church sees the role of government as complexity manager. They focus on the teenaged mothers with children in the caravan. They also call on male college students and immigrants to emulate the women in the elevators outside the U.S. Senate Chambers. One could imagine how two immigrant men raising their voices and blocking a senator may end differently.
The Red Church, also exploits the caravan’s perceived criminal impact on women and children.  Similarly, The Red Church spreads Keith Ellison’s affiliations with Minnesota based male terrorist organization, Antifa, while subtly alluding to his past public support of the Nation of Islam, another male-centric organization.
Both sides exploit the automatic out-group status of men, they just follow different patterns. They point at these biases against men, because, these news outlets are trying to sell shoes and maintain control of the government.
Another area of the media where we might find automatic outgroup bias would be in the $40B songwriting and music publishing industry.

Adam Of Saint Victor And Le Tumbeor Nostre Dame

Virgin Mary statue in Monasterio de San Jerónimo, Granada
In the more liberal and less repressive circumstances of medieval Europe, men understood that they could serve women with their bodies as well as their minds. Medieval men had poignant examples of both types of woman-serving. Early in twelfth-century Paris, Adam of Saint Victor composed rhythmic Latin hymns to honor Mary, the mother of Jesus. About a century later, a tumbler engaged in vigorous physical activity to please Mary. Men deserve freedom to engage in one, both, or neither of these forms of woman-serving while at the same time having their own intrinsic human dignity and worth respected and appreciated. Deeply devoted to Mary, Adam of Saint Victor directed his extraordinary literary skills to honoring her. According to a story preserved in a text written early in the thirteenth century, Mary herself acknowledged Adam’s intellectual effort:
The venerable Master Adam, canon of Saint Victor’s in Paris, was composing the sequence Salve mater Salvatoris. When he had just written another strophe of rhythmic poetry, namely: