Hard Work Is Easy When You Have a Why: Motivation is circumstantial The richest friend I have is a multimillionaire who started from nothing, but for all the hard work he put into his fortune, he had the honesty and decency to admit he was lucky. He was lucky first, and only after did he work hard. ***“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche*** Yes, yes, I know that success is not only money. But it is an aspect of it, which I use here as an…
Culturism vs. Racism: Is it ever OK to discriminate? In the age of bad argumentation and deliberate logical fallacies designed to evoke emotion over reason, no shaming tactic has been overused nearly as much as the “*racist!*” smear. Labelling, this compound fallacy (straw man, association, ad hominem, red herring, circular reasoning, etc.), is extremely effective because you can’t even begin to defend yourself against it. **A note on racism** You can’t live in 2026 and be…
Why Developed Societies Stop Having Children The soft suicide of childlessness and a new take on Maslow's hierarchy of needs Have you noticed how, once a society reaches a certain level of socioeconomic advancement, its people tend to want to have fewer and fewer children? There’s a clear correlation; so what’s the causation? **Statistics** Japan’s population is imploding. Ethnically Western couples are content with just one or two children maximum (below replacement). In…
The Purge Fantasy: The urge for sanctioned criminality and abuse Every turn of the new year, I notice how many cowards with bottled-up frustrations and festering insanity presume that it’s “justifiable” to manifest their psychopathy, simply because “it’s New Year’s, bro!” In fact, the celebration has nothing to do with anything. There is nothing for them other than a plausible excuse for acting like rabid animals, for manifesting their true nature. Consistently, we witness…
The Brothel of Corporate Life: Modern work culture and prostitution What is less undignified? Selling your body or your soul? I recently saw this post from Hogeon, a screenshot of a LinkedIn profile of someone’s radical “career” change: from Goldman-Sachs exec to OnlyFans virtual prostitute. Whether real or not, it got me thinking. https://substack.com/@hogeon/note/c-169603219 While many would scorn her for selling out her dignity for money, I can’t help but wonder… What’s…
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