We use the same words to mean different things, which can send us straight to hell. Shout "fire" in a crowded theatre, or change an exit sign to point into a wood-chipper, and you've used words as a weapon. In politics, the biggest words are these:

• Freedom
• Justice
• Liberty
• Equality

These are magic words because they suggest positive outcomes that the person hearing the word doesn't have to lift a finger to make happen. Here are their equivalents in product advertising:

• Free
• Guarantee
• No obligation
• New low price

Just buy this and it's all taken care of. Did you have a problem? Our product cures it -- guaranteed! New low price to make everyone happy. There's one for the whole family.

As our mainstream conservatives, or neocons, struggle to find a reason to exist, the Tea Party in USA and New Right in Europe is going to slam them hard. They will claim they offer more freedom, liberty and justice. Then the liberal parties will chime in. Whoah, total surprise! -- they're claiming the same thing.

In the midst of it all, the talking heads on the right are going to talk about how the essence of Conservatism is Freedom. Ron Paul will talk about Freedom. Then someone will pipe up that Marx, Engels, Mao, Clinton, etc. promised freedom too.

And this whole time, no one will have bothered to give a working definition of "freedom"!

One reason for this is that freedom is impossible to define without an object. Freedom from -- mosquitoes? exhaustion? bad smells? jobs? -- well, we don't know. If you're free you just know you are, I guess. Freedom requires an oppressor to be freed from, otherwise you weren't unfree in the first place. Who's trying to stop you from doing what? No one is going to open that can of worms.

Even more, freedom is a vernacular term for feeling like you could do anything. I feel free to do what the heck ever. But because all terms decay to the lowest common denominator through use, the most common meaning of the word freedom is this: no one telling me what to do. Of course, since those telling you what to do could be in some cases right, what we mean when we say "freedom" is "no oversight."

What's your definition of freedom?

I don't blame women for slowly taking over society through feminist policies. Western men are getting weak compared to their counterparts in other parts of the world. They've been domesticated by the welfare State, demonized by Marxism, and confused by post-Modernism. Since we at Corrupt represent a New Right movement that rejects all three of these Western diseases, we refuse to be instilled by feelings of guilt, fear and paranoia.

Guilt

Psychological pattern: Self-imposed ideas and principles keeping you from acting out urges, desires and will power.

Stereotypical comment: "I'm sorry man, I can't do it, because X won't let me!"

While he rags on guys, what about the girls? Many guys are turned into pussies because young women are just inhuman in their cruelty towards guys. Christian females today are certainly not very Christian I can tell you that for certain from all the easy lays I've had from those "good girls", good girls are some of the most repressed, and hence the most kinky they are just brimming with all that pent up sexual energy, many christian females are among the MOST likely to give it up as quickly as possible.

So men should remain passive and not strive for virtues because women won't let us? That's not a justification, that's an excuse to remain on the bottom. Of course women will tramp on you, and of course Christian women will screw you over; you're weak. People around you will sense it and take advantage of you. Grow up, take charge of your life. Do you want to end up as some kind of pussy hippie with an ugly, whiny bitch to wife who'll harass you until you die?

Fear

Psychological pattern: Self-insecurity, and as a result, inherent pessimism to any form of self-assertive action. Often leads to defensive behavior.

Stereotypical comment: "Wow, that's a confident person with opinions, and I'm not, so let's gang up and hate her for it!"

Now I know where my opinions come from, some chick in university with no credentials who thinks she is unique cause she writes for CORRUPT and clearly has a personality complex due to the way she dresses and acts.

You have no class. Why would you let someone control your opinions? You control them, unless you're a retard. Obviously Sofia's got academic credentials--what do you got, more than beauty talk? I expect you've got a psychology degree at minimum, since you're playing Freud based on how someone dresses and acts. The truth is that you're another feeble guy who don't know what you want, what you believe in, or what you should fight for. Because if you did, you wouldn't waste time throwing monkey shit around here, right?

Paranoia

Psychological pattern: The idea that people constantly try to hurt you and make you feel bad, which in turn ends up hurting you and making you feel bad.

Stereotypical comment: "I really would like to save our culture, but it's basically hopeless, because the Jews control my people!"

Read the Talmud sometime, you cretin. Read Jews, in their own words.

It's safe to throw conspiracy theories around, because what you in fact do is casting the blame on a group without stating any facts whatsoever. It's a rhetorical move, but it doesn't impress me, nor anyone else whose IQ is equal to or above Western European standard. Instead of taking a handful of positive visions and at least making some of them reality, paranoid men regard themselves as victims of a group more successful than them. It's a mind-game: I can't beat X, so I'll keep saying X keeps me from doing good, therefore I have a moral argument against why I'm not doing good. Don't be fooled by this; it is laziness camouflaged as insight. Powerless people are sometimes sad, but powerless people who try to convert others to their cause is a societal problem. Cut them off.

I don't have a problem with taking a stab at psychological types manifested among our readership now and then. I don't hate anybody, I just believe in exposing negative behavior, calling it out in public, and giving examples of it. I don't believe people who manifest bad behavior are completely lost. They grew up in a decadent society that offers them too much safety, protection and propaganda. They need to learn to stand on their own. When you can manage a full time job, a family, a house, and at least push one civil movement forward, you won't even have the time to waste your life on guilt, fear or paranoia. You'll be too lucky to be alive as a man, as a Western citizen, and as a human being of the 21st Century.

I remember when I was a kid, and me and my best friend would sneak around in his house without much to do. One time his dad appeared and told us to follow him. He lived in the kind of stable but slightly boring marriage where you go to bed early after having watched American sitcoms. He stopped by a small cupboard. It looked like any other furniture in the house. Suddenly he fingered somewhere behind it and a small door flipped open. It was full of Scotch.

Later on I've begun to realize the full significance of having such secrets. It's a man-thing. It starts when you're a little boy. You find a stick, not just any stick, but the greatest warrior stick in the forest. You quickly sharpen it with a knife and hide it somewhere safe. When you grow to become a teenager, you hide all porn magazines, beer/pot and pictures of girls in boxes somewhere, praying your mom won't go on to look there when she's cleaning.

Then you become a man, a husband. That's when you need a stash, a protected zone, a place in the garage, a spot in the garden, a box full of old shit in the attic--it's gotta be there. Women always want to throw that kind of stuff away or ridicule those secret zones, and that's why we have to hide them in cupboards and garages. The point is not that you really need them. Rarely you do. The point is to have them, know that you have them, and that everyone else stays out.

Being a happy guy who likes the world and likes people, I also like happy music. That's why I dig a lot of Naija stuff which is earnestly happy and optimistic in ways which would just be totally embarrassing in any European or American mainstream music. This stuff is as positive as American gospel music, but you also get songs about hot chicks, spending money and other gospel-unapproved subjects. That's a great combination. I had an unexpected revelation when listening to the below track with its totally cheesy refrain.

I realized that I'm completely unlike Timaya in one way. My mother never told me I had to be strong. Neither did my father, or any relatives, any friends, coaches, teachers, bosses... no one. No one's ever told me I need to be brave or manly, either. That means that either no one ever actually says that stuff in real life, only on TV and in songs, or that I've done a pretty good job at being manly, brave and strong and haven't needed any encouragement.

It's an interesting exercise - to think about phrases you'd expect to have heard but have never heard in your life. You can learn quite a bit about yourself that way. Thinking about this subject some more, I realized that only one person has made any homophobic remarks in my presence during the past ten years. That person is a male-to-female transsexual. But I don't wanna think about what that implies!

A world of shit, known as our beautiful planet, has taught me a simple lesson:

"You dumb guinea"

"How the hell was I supposed to know he had a knife"

"Never trust a nigger"

"He could have been white"

"Never trust anyone!"

(The French Connection)

Why? Because with prosperity, unless constantly reminded of reality, people slowly breed corruption and filth. I realized this years ago when it was cool to walk around with A.C.A.B. shirts and mess with the cops on weekends. At that time I saw it as a working class condition. The "poor" people rising up against a wicked society. Or so my German friend believed, who smoked weed instead of going to school.

I tended to agree, recognizing the bullshit we were taught by teachers every day, until the people who used to deal him dope, suddenly also began to sell him stereo equipment. Where from? Take a good guess. The rich kids' neighborhood. It was then that I could see it wasn't a working class condition; it was middle class faggotry, because while it implied The Authority was the problem, the power structures in society were simply responding to violence and crime. Those people selling stereos and weed probably did more serious crime than just living a Hollywood thug life. So who was the Bad Guy now?

This is what a corrupt middle class doesn't understand. It is breeding problems, because its values have lost touch with reality. It's easy to sit in a class room, recite Foucault and complain about inequality, police violence and class differences, but in reality we're all contributing to the decline of society by engaging in that very same process of filth. We buy filthy weed/alcohol, we consume filthy products, we reinforce filthy propaganda from television. We believe everything we're told, yet we insist on attacking the institutions that protect us from living in a third world gutter.

Yet all the middle class can do is to whine about modern problems. I couldn't care less about "modern problems," and here's why:

Patriarchy: The white, Western, middle class male invented and built almost every road, every house, every theory, every bit of literature you've ever encountered in your life. Without him, you're nothing.

Income inequality: For every piece of careless immigration policy, minimum wage system and union mob you advocate, you'll effectively lower the wages for yourself and your parents, who'll continue to suck either government pussy (Democrats/socialists) or multicorporation cock (Republicans/conservatives).

Climate change: You want the infrastructure, you want the prosperity, you want the lifestyle you're in right now--you are a walking environmental disaster. No matter how much toilet paper you recycle, you'll never change this simple truth.

Iraq/Gaza War: Every super power tries to moderate fundamentalist enemies before they take over. If you'd studied history, you'd know, but since you believe we just all need to get along with everybody and have a giant UN-party, you're lucky at all to see the day, every day. The people who live in these countries don't agree with you, and they don't need your sympathy. That's why they carry guns.

Racism: One camp thinks white people are going to go extinct like dinosaurs by 2050, another camp thinks white people are going to oppress every single non-white individual in the world by 2050. The truth: we're just not going to get along, so society will decline as a result and everyone will complain and feel unjustly treated. Diversity? Ha ha ha!

Capitalism: The crisis of capitalism? We've already been through the Cold War. Not even China or Russia believes in socialist economies anymore. The problem is not the system itself, but what values we attach to it. If nations are greedy and kill their economies, they are motivated by wrong values. Money, we'll always need, unless you want to go back trading copper for dolphins.

You cannot trust the public, because it doesn't know what it says or does, and as follows, you cannot really trust the leadership that panders to that same public. It's a vicious cycle of stupidity. But blaming the People or the Authority doesn't work either. Instead, trust yourself, find companions, create bonds, and make them last. Find a community you belong to and feel safe in. You don't want to smoke weed collected by the same gangster hoodlums who want to rob you tomorrow, or vote for a party that leaves you and your parents with less money and more trouble by the next election.

You want what's best for your immediate surrounding in a world of shit. Get back to work.

An excerpt from my latest article in the third issue of Interesting Times magazine:

Happiness is whatever that makes you more powerful. Sadness is whatever robs you of that same power. At least that’s what Nietzsche thought at the end of his philosophical career. Every man who has ever beaten the hell out of his opponent, made passionate love to a woman from dusk till dawn, or repaired his own car on the road, knows that this is not abstract talk. The feeling of power — it’s real. Every man seeks it, every woman desires its fruits.

Read the whole article, and other quality writing, by downloading the mag at the Interesting Times website.

"Why can't you stay?"

"I wanna be alone tonight. 2010 is ours. G'night."

Through the stormy, snowy, icy weather I stumble home. Under a bridge I pass two men. They've placed a bottle of champagne in the snow.

"Happy New," one man says joyfully while painting his name on the wall in urine.

Going uphill, I see a young boy and girl kissing while the snow whirls around them. They seem to have lost track of time. Like most young couples they consume each other every moment they can, as if every kiss could be the last. For a moment I share their warmth. It's not cold outside when your heart would like to explode any second.

On my way I pass groups of older people. Happy New Year. Happy New. Nice dog. Yes, it's fucking freezing, but it's not so far from home. I'd forgotten how long it takes to walk home with snow covering every step you take.

When I finally get inside, I crack open a bottle of whiskey. The smoky taste burns my throat. I look outside the window and spot a neighbor looking back at me. That same neighbor who always seems to observe me when I wake up in the morning. Is she waving her hand? This country may finally break the ice and embrace new possibilities. We don't have to be these cold-headed, socially pretentious bureaucrats who lack faith in tradition. 2010 might be the year we change and evolve.

Either way, whatever we'll leave behind, it'll be covered by snow in the morning.

A friend of mine, worked up over some guy who had hassled him, once began describing something that you very well could call the start of an interesting lifestyle:

...I just wanna promote capitalism, get my black belt in Taekwondo, finish business school, and pick up beautiful girls...

Why not? Sounds much like the kind of lifestyle I try to convey on Corrupt.

Everybody wants to call themselves something or be a part of some group. I guess that's how human nature works. But that doesn't mean that whatever group you're part of or what opinions you hold really matter. I argue that much of what people believe doesn't matter at all, either because they don't act on their beliefs, or the ideas they hold simply have no practical bearing on everyday life.

One of the brightest students I met was a hardcore Communist. Every day in class he wore a Lenin suit with the Soviet symbol. Eventually we had a chat and it turned out he was both very friendly and intellectually sharp. When it came down to it, it didn't really matter that I was on the opposite side of the political scale; we pretty much reached the same conclusions about society, and agreed on similar philosophical conclusions.

If you believe evil polar bears are secretly controlling the world, why should I care? If you're friendly, I'll still like you. If you're a dumbass, you're dumb either way.

To be certain, people in general take their beliefs very seriously. I've been attacked several times for the opinions I express publically, but this has less to do with politics and more to do with human psychology. People want to fit in and if they see someone that doesn't, that's a threat to their homogeneous views. And so that person is attacked until it caves in or runs off. It's one of the most horrific features of crowdism, but if you truly understand how pointless it is to go around caring about what other people say or believe, you'll start to look at outcomes, e.g. what really goes on in reality. Let's leave the rest to our dreams.

When I was leaving the editorial staff room today, someone had left a note on the door with my name and the initials of a nationalist party I'd once worked for. Simple psychology: if you don't have guts to directly attack someone, you do it indirectly so that no one notices you're the aggressor.

My first instinct was to tear it off and go home. Then I thought about it: obviously a very sad and bitter person put this up. Someone who is afraid of what I am and what I represent. Yet, I could not force myself to feel any hate. I just don't have any bitterness left for such people anymore. I left the note on the door and walked out.

I truly believe that if you understand and apply the philosophy we talk about on Corrupt, you will be able to set yourself free. Free from guilt, remorse, bitterness and other emotions dragging your life down. It's about recognizing what you can do to improve your life, not how you can attack someone else in order to feel good. Our enemy is within ourselves. Break free!

A lot of people like to say that art isn't/shouldn't be/can't be "just a product". Although I tend to think of art in very cynical, functional terms, I actually agree with them to some degree. If you buy into Denis Dutton's ideas about the purpose of the arts being to provide people with glimpses into the souls of other people, art is an unusual and slightly fuzzy product. In addition to the physical medium (or reproduction), the product that is art also contains a little glimpse into the mind and personality of its maker. It's not "selling your soul" in the way Faust did, but it is renting out access to some part of it. In this way art works the same way prostitution does. (I wouldn't suggest they're morally equivalent, though. Most prostitutes are much nicer and more useful people than most artists nowadays!)

This is why protesting that "I'm only in it for the money", "I'm only doing what the people buy", "it's not my band, I just work here", "I don't have a soul" and so on will never really work. Even if you believe it, the public never will. They will always assume that you are giving them a window into yourself. Conversely, that doesn't mean that talking about revealing the depths of your soul makes you any better than anybody else - all art does that anyway. Explicit soul-baring doesn't make you any more artistically valid and if you overdo it you just end up being annoying.

Sofia, a philosopher, recently blogged about her ideas regarding free will and determinism in one Q&A session on her blog. (I'm sure she'd be open to any questions any of you have too. )

Alex also states that:

Learning to accept the powers too great for you is part of growing up--but using those conditions to your own advantage and creating greatness out of life, that is a task only worthy real men and women.

How much control do we have over our own lives? On one extreme of the answer to this question is al jabr*: our paths are determined by forces external to the self. These forces could be anything from divine will to the inevitable conclusion if one thinks in terms of what is purely physical: that we are governed by forces that are random, impersonal and inevitable in nature.

There is much to be gained from acceptance and peace with one's self and its nature. There is much to be gained from being satisfied with little in this life. Yet, routed in this perspective makes us unable to take responsibility for either what we do or what occurs to us. We regard ourselves as machinery, incapable of influencing our own programming even if we could fathom it. Believing in al jabr births an apathy that easily causes us to suffer more than we need to do. It leads to a disengagement with ourselves and this world; we do not seek to influence nor improve either.

An example of being ruled by al-jabr is the use of prayer in disease which may be beneficial but is not curative on its own, using it to the exclusion of all else has been terribly damaging. This emphasises the importance of the concept of al-ikhtiyar.

Al-ikhtiyar is literally translated to 'the choosing'. Here is the perspective that our destiny is what our ambition makes it. That we are what we choose to think, eat, speak, wear and do. In its extreme form, it is a rejection of all that seeks to assert that we are indeed limited. From al-ikhtiyar arises the desire for individual freedom, equality of opportunity and fairness that if applied purely can be irrational and indiscriminate in nature. Somewhat paradoxically to these ideas, we also hold ourselves ultimately responsible for our lives and our failures: when we do not fulfill dreams or hold true to the choices we make.

Either view can be pathological in nature. The balance is difficult.

The lesson to take away is to understand what is good for you, rather than be trapped of circles of abstract reasoning: you can only be helped if you help yourself.

*(al-jabr:"the forced", sharing an etymological route for the world 'algebra' coming from the idea of forcing together i.e. reuniting parts that are broken)

Fate, if you look at it from an analytic perspective, is pretty much a dead thesis. If you interpret it to mean that whatever happens, (inevitably) happens, you haven't contributed with any significant information. However I act, when we look back on it, we can always say that "that's how it had to happen." If you'd write it down mathematically it'd look like this:

A = A

Obviously such a vital concept for ancient societies and cultures around the world cannot possibly just mean that events take place, period. It wants to address something else. When Julius Caesar threw the dice and repeated that he'd thrown the dice, he was trying to emphasize something beyond mere events. A decision had been made and no one could change it.

Before civilization as we know it, people were much more aware of their ruthless environment. Fate was probably introduced as a way of communicating that no one could change much of what was going on in life. Death, diseases, old age, storms and wars. All of it beyond the individual's power. And still it's all part of life. At that point you come to accept certain conditions in life, maybe even try to embrace them (compare with Nietzsche's philosophy).

Fate is therefore a two-sided coin. On the one hand it teaches us to accept the limitations of human existence. We can't do much about death, age or hunger. It's all part of our natural cycle. On the other hand it seems to suggest things happen anyway, so why bother doing anything about them? This is a negative attitude, one that Corrupt is constantly waging war against. Learning to accept the powers too great for you is part of growing up--but using those conditions to your own advantage and creating greatness out of life, that is a task only worthy real men and women.

Learn to accept--love--what is necessary, and embrace that which is possible.

The Left doesn't understand the problems with materialism, because it's ultimately motivated by envy. Whatever I have that's more fancy than what you've got, I should give as much of it to the government so that you don't feel let down. I was never persuaded by that anti-materialist argument, one reason being that not all individuals have the same motivation to succeed and earn the same amount of material standard. I like competition--I've just never been bothered by the existence of rich people.

What does bother me about materialism is how it makes people attached to material welfare as a form of personal safety. Obviously no one wants to starve or be homeless, but even a homeless person will feel empty inside unless it finds a purpose outside of getting a home. We hide behind our widescreen TVs and big houses because we don't have anything else that can fill our big black voids known as souls.

One of the best changes I ever made in my life was to pack three big bags and just leave to a new place. I basically only had a laptop, a few jackets and a book with me. 6 months later and I still basically only own necessities like a bed, tools and kitchen equipment. I haven't felt the need to buy anything else. I've seen people, good people, being swallowed up by TVs, computer games and animals. They're wasting their lives on toys.

The best thing that could happen to most people is to trash 85 percent of their lives and only keep the best 15 percent. The rest should give room for socialization, work, love, fights and physical adventure. I don't believe in the ultra-capitalist Republicanism of America or the suicidal welfare culture of the Swedish Left. They are both designed to occupy you with things made so that you feel "safe," when that really doesn't make anyone happy. I believe in a lifestyle where every man and woman will find their destiny, pursue it with passion, and leave the rest to the boundless space of time.

When people become self-aware of their fears, they usually project them unto others. Nietzsche called such people "tarantulas," because they tear others down to increase their own status. At its core, tarantula behavior is all about resentment, something that eventually eats people up inside until there is nothing but bitterness left. Here are a few curious examples of behavior you want to avoid if you want to succeed in life:

When she realizes you spend 90% of your time blogging about how much weight you can lift and how many super sweet clubs you go to she'll never talk to you again.

This person wants me to fail. The problem is that even if I did, it wouldn't make that person's life any better--it just feels that way.

The girl obviously was annoyed by you, she used dinner with her parents as an excuse, and she likely gave you a false number. loser

Here I smell a lot of insecurity. Everything that's said here is based on doubt. A real loser's logic: Since you can doubt just about anything, why bother to do anything?

That was the least appealing description of love I've ever, ever seen.

I wasn't giving a definition of love, I was using an example that relates to the feeling of being in love. This person just missed the point.

Was it really love you were feeling, or simply the excitement of asking a cute girl out with the potentiality of getting sex?

What's curious about this comment is that it's posed formally as a question, but it's really trying to project a statement. Where do I mention sex in the post? I don't, that's something this person simply made up.

Then 3 months later you realize you really don't like this person at all, give her an angry pirate and never talk to her again.

Heh, this was kind of the point I was trying to make about love, although no one, including myself, cannot really comment on what I'll do in three months.

I quote these comments because they highlight perfectly the type of behavior you can expect from people today who carry a lot of fears. Fear is a real life killer because it's constructed around doubts that eventually take over completely - unless you simply go for it. If I ask someone out, I might be nervous or in doubt (who wouldn't with a total stranger?), but I do my thing anyway. The experience and the goal to achieve something matter more than self-doubt.

Personal development á la CORRUPT means doing what you believe in, not in absence of fear, but despite it.

An anonymous commenter presents us a view common among unattractive nerds who like boring music and hate fun:

shouldn't the quality of music being performed be what's worth paying special attention? isn't that what people are paying for?

Of course people care about what musicians and all kinds of artists look like, act like and are like as people. (Even if they didn't it'd be a good idea to dress well in any situation where large numbers of people will be looking at you anyway.) We all know they do, but why? Those fun-hating nerds would say "because they're shallow and stupid and I'm better than them". But is that the real answer?

As Denis Dutton wrote in The Art Instinct, "intense interest in art as emotional expression derives from wanting to see through art into another human personality: it springs from a desire for knowledge of another person" and "Creative arts inexhaustibly give us ways of looking into human souls and thus expand our own outlook and understanding". Now, I personally find the idea that someone wants to look into my soul because I'm plucking some strings pretty weird, but it's true.

People are more interested in the souls of interesting people. No one really wants to peer into the soul of someone who's boring, low-status and ugly. Now, if you sound really, really good that will get you enough status that some people might start to be interested in you, no matter how uninteresting a person you actually are, at least in theory. In practice I've never known anyone who achieved much in any kind of music without at least one charismatic person, except for church organists and playing background piano music in restaurants. Even symphony orchestras and military bands need conductors and/or soloists with serious presence.

No matter who you are and who your audience is, though, there's no sense in intentionally looking boring because "it should be all about the music". Audiences will always prefer to seek this spiritual communion with people they think are better than them. If the audience thinks you're better than them, they will be more interested, the communion will be deeper and they will actually get more pleasure and more understanding out of the performance. Don't deny them that by intentionally looking and acting boring.

And just for the hell of it, one of my personal bass heroes...

As mentioned before, I don't have a any beef with most feminists. I do however accuse feminism of deconstructing male identity for Western men. Living among them it's easy to forget how faggot-ized men are becoming, and for a bad reason. They think if they just start serving women and their growing needs like the political elite tells them to, they'll be left alone. Ha ha. Time to drop the bomb.

Free nights at the club

Woman at the bar, flirts with the man next to her: Hey, I'm thirsty!

Man, so hard he wouldn't be able to walk away: I'll buy you a martini?

No you won't. No free nights for women who think they can freeride by fooling men that they're interested. They're not, they're just looking for a pimp. The next time some girl walks up to you and wants you to pay for her expenses, you tell her you would consider talking to her if she bought you a beer. And it better be a good one.

Work out as I tell you to, honey

Woman at the gym, whining to her man about how to work out: Can you help me put on these weights? No, you take that machine, I am busy. God, you're slow.

Man running errands and listening to her bullshit instead of doing some real work: How much do you want me to put on?

What is that? If my girl tried to turn me into an errand boy/conversation doll while I was building muscle, I'd ignore her completely for the entire work out, then have a 2 hour sauna session in the changing room and exchange jokes about minorities with fellow friends. If you let a woman babysit you in your own natural environment (gym = artificial jungle where strength and endurance are key to dominance), you've become a puppy. Shake it off.

Helping the ungrateful

Flirty woman asking you for the 99th favor: I have trouble with this essay, and feel sooo stupid, but maybe you, who are so smart, could help me write parts of it?

Man observing her puppy eyes, getting weak, deciding to write all her essays for five years ahead: Move aside and I'll take care of it.

Haha, first she asks you to take her to a movie, then she wants you to clean her room, cook her food, write her essays and massage her feet. Being helpful is nice but being used is only for suckers. You can help her getting started, but then you also want something in return. Tell her she should cook you a meal next Friday, and if she fails doing that, she'll get bored and try to fool another men who can't resist her pleading. Nietzsche called those people tarantulas because they destroy you to get ahead of others. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

"Gentleman"

Woman trying to play pool, but fails miserably, playing the ball over the table, hitting a tough guy standing nearby: Oh God!

Man playing with her, rushing to rescue, claiming it was he who played the ball: I am terribly sorry, it was me who did it, are you okay?

He probably is, but you're not going to impress anyone by playing knight in armor. In fact, you're a fool, because you're indirectly assuming the woman should be treated as infantile and unable to account for her own actions. She played the ball, and if she pisses of a tough guy, you can always step in between, but it's plain silly to suggest you did it. Being protective and being a father, although sharing similar functions, are not the same thing.

Oh noes, did I offend you?

Man pulling a nasty "racist" joke about blacks: ...and so they could be used as wheel chairs!

Black guy nearby, of course: Excuse me, do you think that was funny?

Woman listening to your joke: Look what you did, you upset a black person!

Man, going totally defensive: You're right, it was bad of me to say this.

Really, so why do it? There's nothing more pathetic than not standing up for what you say or do. Sure, pulling racist jokes may not suit all environments, but if you do it, don't back down. You said something bad, you may not repeat it again, but you're not going to go down on your knees and pretend to feel bad, just because some whiny chick tells you that's the "right" thing to do. Either you do it because you feel you should, or you leave it be and move on.

There is more, but I leave it at this. Please don't pardon your existence as a man. You're a testosterone-packed wolf seeking pretty legs, good food, physical challenge and lonely battles against a moronic society. And you'd be an idiot to deny yourself your identity, your needs and your expression as a man.

I was talking to Martin today and he told me how this past year we've been working together has been a real blast. Unlike many other "anti-modern" sites out there that try to explain to unhappy people why their depression is morally justified ("life is not fair, don't you hate yourself?"), we bring a much more positive message: we're basically happy people who are here to tell you how to make your life even better.

Our positive psychology sets us apart from the rest, because if you think like we do, you can achieve so much more good in life. Think about the whiners who always complain about how violent society is, how corrupt our leaders are, how NWO is controlling us, and how unfair life is. What do they really get done? Not much. Then think about the people who are aware of the problems around them, but believe they at least can change their daily environment. Who do you want to be? What do you want to be--bitter and angry or positive and successful?

People who argue over whether we are "Traditionalists," "NeoCons" or "Aryans" are missing the point. They're trying to play with labels, because that's how moral justification works: "I am not doing anything constructive, but at least I am X, or part of X." We're not always easy to put on a map, so people like to do it for us. If they just read our ideas and thought about it, they wouldn't need any labels. We represent ourselves, unapologetically.

When you grow up from this infantile label-game, you realize your attitude and approach to daily problems matter more than what world-spanning interest group you claim to represent. People who do good things are too busy working to consider "what" they are. But we've come so far as to say we believe in a few basic ideas. Less government and bureaucracy. More traditional culture and individual responsibility. Happy families and good beer. An active lifestyle and homemade food. Maybe a war or depression now and then to keep us busy and focused on reality.

Brett Stevens once wrote:

There is no reason to step back from the world, say "well I coulda done that if The Man let me," and then sulk in failure. Life is joyful war.

I still believe he's right. Go for it.

Summarizing my religious beliefs isn't easy, because they're a mix between Nietzsche, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Norse paganism and Scandinavian Protestantism. I do know what I'm not, and that's a Catholic. Here's why.

1. During the 30-year War Europe came to recognize the Catholic Church for what it really is: a religious empire trying to centralize the whole Western culture to Italy. 'Nuff said about that. Protestantism means nationalism, means national independence, means room for real tradition and diversity.

2. While Catholics regard every human life as holy, Protestants are less whiny about things. They mourn genocide, war and exploitation, but they're fine with abortion as long as it's motivated on sensible grounds. The Protestant God believes we can spare a few million lives, and the planet will still be OK. My guess is that he reads Pentti Linkola.

3. Many Catholics are uptight about sex before marriage, and sex in general. Protestants see this pleasurable activity for what it ultimately is: not some holy ceremony never to be stained by filth, but natural reproduction of the species (notice how the Pope only recently had to put the cards on the table and admit the theory of evolution seems like a credible idea, after all). Protestants stress marriage while promoting condom use, meaning you might as well have fun if you're going to do it more often. Smart Protestants sometimes skip the rubber and decide to have a family.

4. Catholics are often very anthropocentric. Only humans matter, because they possess godlike morality, unlike animals and flowers, who are basically just here for our godlike use. Protestants think a bit further ahead: humanity might be fantastic (at times it might be), but without a clean environment we're going to be neither godlike or moral much longer. Put simply, Protestants recognize the larger picture, while Catholics don't. God only gave us one planet. That's the Protestant argument for greenism right there.

5. Many convert to Catholicism because it's traditionalist in nature, even if some (Mel Gibson, are you reading this?) believe the current Pope is a fraud. Protestantism, they say, is some liberal-multicultural-greenist-democratic-feminist garbage sect composed of false Christians. Okay, there's some truth to that; the Protestant Church in Sweden, and elsewhere, has lost much of its authority and direction. But this is not due to Protestantism itself, but because of the current cultural and religious climate in Scandinavia. Note that Catholicism, too, went modern after the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. The Pope occasionally smokes dope and declares Islam the great threat of the West, but apart from his sudden bursts of conservatism, Christianity as a whole is moving toward modernization. This is a cultural development that needs to be addressed independently, which brings me to the next point.

6. In Catholicism, you are dependent upon the Pope and the Church of Rome. That's the spiritual epicenter of Catholicism. Protestants early on bypassed both Church and State, after recognizing that both were subject to corruption and sodomy. Even though Sweden clearly exchanged tyranny of the Pope with tyranny of the nation State (soon to be welfare State), Luther had it right: just read the damn Bible and find meaning in what it says. You don't need some Nanny authority to become a Christian. If Luther was alive today, he'd be a Conservative, probably reading CORRUPT.

7. Catholics, including those who are satisfied with the modern Catholic Church, enjoy a heavy dose of spiritual baroque. Protestants think in simple terms and don't need extravagant masses to feel religious. Spirituality embodies itself through your actions and devotions. Anything else is fashion and art, which is nice, but nonetheless baroque.

8. This one is obvious but very important for me: the Protestant Church respects the individual. I'm not a collectivist. It's extremely important to recognize family, culture and nation (and tyrant, if there is one). You're not a desert island. But I need a church that respects my individual choices and don't fill me up with propaganda about how I'm sinning if I tell my girlfriend to abort a to-become-a-handicapped fetus, or if I've discovered Jesus in my bedroom when drinking too much beer. I need space for individuality.

With apologies to Martin.

I watched a person die for the first time this week. With worries about confidentiality, I can't tell you very much about Mrs A. It wasn't peaceful and expected, it was dramatic and rapid. Yet, she was around eighty years old. Peace and rest be with you, Mrs A.

Before sending us on to hospital as medical students, they attempt to prepare us with ideas about the concept of dying. This is when they introduced us to the concept of a Good Death and what it entails. I felt a visceral revulsion to that terminology initially: how can anything be good about facing mortality?

There is a stigma around speaking of death or showing any occupation with it; an assumed disposition to suicide or homicide. I do think it is a justified suspicion with certain groups (goths, emos, certain branches of metalheads): its much more likely to be symptomatic of a pathological nature in one way or another in these cases.

That shouldn't preclude an honest discourse around it. If we do have to die, what are the conditions that would make it as ideal as we could make it? I could tell you what I've been told but that's in a way valueless. People's ideas are different. So how about you tell me:

What might you call a Good Death, preferably for you but if you find that concept disturbing, for someone else? Some thinks you might think about are the Who, the What, the Where, the Why and the How of your Good Death? How would that relate to the life you've led and the people you know or love?

EDIT: Alex's coincidental wishful 'Let Me Remain In This World' is just one in a series of strange happenings around this. The night before Mrs A's death, I'd felt the same sign that she should've manifested and didn't. Yet, she was the one diseased and I was the one healthy.