The job of a man is to interact with the world and, in some combination, understand, maintain, or improve it. Whatever your goals, the conduits between you and them are skills. Thus, every man should have as many skills as possible. That way, he has a multitude of methods by which to achieve his goals. This maximises his chances of succeeding and also the quality of his success.
Exactly. I'm 34 and just this week moved into a house with my fiancee and for the first time ever, I am having to do a variety of DIY projects, things which were never my responsibility before as I had always rented (and the landlord took on all jobs) or lived in someone else's house where they had responsibility for such things.
Now the onus is on me to get a lot of this stuff done and it is simultaneously thrilling, daunting, sometimes infuriating but always satisfying in the end. In a healthier time this is all stuff I would have learned 10 or 15 years ago, but better late than never I suppose.
Not having a religion means unprincipled men who are clearly frightened of the worst kind of women - the unmarried mother who are the agents of chaos and criminality. This display of abject fear means men failing yet another shit test by women causing women to hate despise men even more.
THis can be summed up in that conversation we have all had with women when something has gone wrong in their lives and we list off a number of ways they can get out of this mess and they utter their classic line ........ "I want to speak to you about my problems and you just keep wanting to speak about the solutions."
Women are never happier than when they are miserable and some mug, usually another woman or a man trying to get his leg-over, are happy to sit and listen to their interminable whining.
Women in trouble are like pigs in mud, they are in Heaven, i.e. they are the exact opposite of men who look for ways out of the mess they find themselves in rather than rolling in it and dragging everyone else around down into it with them.
Yup it is an utterly bizarre way of carrying on like their "lists" of things they need done round the house which they craft and add to daily instead of actually just doing the things. Never touch their lists, they are like relics to them like the bones of long dead saints that they worship several times a day at "list time".
The only things I’d add to practical skills that every man should know how to do is 1. basic emergency medicine (how to apply a tourniquet, how to treat a heatstroke, etc), and 2. how to handle a firearm.
It makes sense (from a psychos viewpoint) why the government got rid of apprenticeships. It gives young men a feeling of agency in their life. British tradesmen were the best in the world at one point, and knowing this will have given young British men the feeling that the world was truly his oyster.
Now, these life-skills have been substituted for the quasi-skills collected in levelling up in computer games. The body gets the dopamine hits, so the brain is tricked into believing it's achieving something, but alas it's another trick being played on us.
I've also noticed that "urban youth" teens/young men have an arrogance that they've achieved something or have some valuable life skills, when they haven't. Compare this to the British kids who are being humiliated bit by bit, who should have confidence based on what their predecessors have achieved.
BMW guy once told me, when they set up the Mini factory in (I think) Oxford, they had to send BMW Blaumaenner (blue collars) to train the English hires how to do the most basic everyday tasks, things any German apprentice would know.
In Scotland, they were sending people from all over the planet to see how they were doing a particular iron-work process at Ravenscraig, even the yanks couldn't work it out.
They later sent people from Japan to another site to learn the skills, they did this, closed down the site and moved it to Japan! Evil c@nts!
That's a tough one to read Woes. As a man who is well set in his path, competent, earning a good wage but under no illusions that by the time I reach retirement, given my my narrow skill set, I may be essentially useless unless I start learning how to grow food - the very opposite end of my ability spectrum. I could help rebuild a new world from my knowledge of science but I fear the need for that will be long after my passing. Trying to impart this crucial knowledge onto my young nephew is my primary concern.
Great advice-- for both sexes. I have appreciated your work for some years now; there was an incredibly insightful video on hipsters that I hope to find and indulge again.
Having money saved up is the most important point here. You have freedom to act authentically when you have one or two years expenses in a savings account.
Looking back from an age considerably older than Colin's, the only part that I would take issue with is "competence at fighting". Sure, being able to fend off blows or step back if someone tries judo moves on you might be useful, but beyond that a reputation for starting fights will limit your social circle or at worst lead to serving time (more so if alcohol is involved).
And the only things I would add are that most male remunerative activities involve some kind of professionalism, so you should look into that and set about acquiring a qualification. And building a table is pretty advanced carpentry - simpler to go to a second hand furniture shop!
Never show fear was the traditional advice to men, but everywhere in the West men display abject fear of the worst of their women - the unmarried mother.
I'm Gen X and the only thing my parents effectively taught me was How to Tie a Tie. Many such cases, Iater found among my bitter peers.
Years ago, a Boomer Eng Lit professor made a cloth case for my fob watch after it fell out of my pocket & came a little apart; when I, amazed, asked how he knew how to do such things (he'd also rewired his entire house, and repaired a torn 19th C book for me) he said that he'd grown up helping his grandfather tinker in his workshop and so just knew how to work with his hands.
That chain of competence broke some time in the 60s, after that nothing was handed down and so you now get this slew of e.g. Clint Eastwood films, or the Cobra Kai series, about an older man handing down what were once obvious life lessons, to Zoomers raised on hip hop, vidya, and porn. So much has been lost, so quickly.
Excellent piece of advisory writing. This article has relevance for men of all ages, but particularly for young men. I will be sharing this with my sons. Woes delivers, once again.
No religion - unprincipled atheists and nihilists unable to defend a principle. Men like that only deserve extinction. Their women know it and are acting on that knowledge.
Very important fact you pointed out: the degradation of social morays necessitates improved social skills. Very much appreciated!
I would say Christ is the only rock that offers 'resilience' long term. Everything else is building on sand. Prayer is an essential habit to maintain and develop.
Christianity is kaput, so using a kaput religion is not going to save your civilisation. In fact, displaying stubborn stupidity and adhering to the religion of the stupid people is just going to encourage your enemies.
Jews and Muslims don't have to believe that Jesus is God. Indeed, Jews believe Jesus to be a blasphemer and Muslims are commanded to admonish those who claim God has begotten a son. https://quran.com/18/4
Thanks for the great read. A good tool that I try to use is Luke Smith's independence heuristic: when faced with a decision, make the choice that leads to further independence.
This is a superb article. We are living in a world where it takes much longer for a man to establish himself in the world. For this reason, this article would educate many older men as well. I have jumped from one fragmented society to another so I found it personally valuable.
MW's message to men incorporates fatherhood but it doesn't assume that the men are in a position to be fathers.
You might consider there is a load of unmarryable women in Western society now: they are self-absorbed, brainwashed with liberal propaganda, told that they don't need men, told that having babies is bad for the environment.
I am indeed making the case that the problem with being a matriarchy is that such a society would produce mostly unmarriageable illegitimate offspring, which describes the condition of degeneracy.
Matriarchy is a society prioritisng the preferences of unmarried parents who casually conceived and parented their illegitimate offspring.
Patriarchy is a society prioritising the preferences of married parents who want to properly parent their legitimate offspring.
No one will make a case for treating unmarried parents as sex offenders though. This is presumably because even the men complaining about feminism do not want the means to challenge and defeat this ideology because proposing what is necessary to defeat feminism means raising the price of sex. Marriage is the most expensive form of sex.
Advice for young men, certainly; but also a useful refresher for a man of any age. I shall be reading this one again.
Exactly. I'm 34 and just this week moved into a house with my fiancee and for the first time ever, I am having to do a variety of DIY projects, things which were never my responsibility before as I had always rented (and the landlord took on all jobs) or lived in someone else's house where they had responsibility for such things.
Now the onus is on me to get a lot of this stuff done and it is simultaneously thrilling, daunting, sometimes infuriating but always satisfying in the end. In a healthier time this is all stuff I would have learned 10 or 15 years ago, but better late than never I suppose.
How do you feel about abolishing no fault divorce?
How do you feel about grooming gangs?
Not having a religion means unprincipled men who are clearly frightened of the worst kind of women - the unmarried mother who are the agents of chaos and criminality. This display of abject fear means men failing yet another shit test by women causing women to hate despise men even more.
THis can be summed up in that conversation we have all had with women when something has gone wrong in their lives and we list off a number of ways they can get out of this mess and they utter their classic line ........ "I want to speak to you about my problems and you just keep wanting to speak about the solutions."
Women are never happier than when they are miserable and some mug, usually another woman or a man trying to get his leg-over, are happy to sit and listen to their interminable whining.
Women in trouble are like pigs in mud, they are in Heaven, i.e. they are the exact opposite of men who look for ways out of the mess they find themselves in rather than rolling in it and dragging everyone else around down into it with them.
"Stop trying to solve everything and just listen!"
Been there, done that.
Yup it is an utterly bizarre way of carrying on like their "lists" of things they need done round the house which they craft and add to daily instead of actually just doing the things. Never touch their lists, they are like relics to them like the bones of long dead saints that they worship several times a day at "list time".
Bravo, Woes.
The only things I’d add to practical skills that every man should know how to do is 1. basic emergency medicine (how to apply a tourniquet, how to treat a heatstroke, etc), and 2. how to handle a firearm.
Men cannot regain their former position in society until they challenge and defeat the matriarchy.
It makes sense (from a psychos viewpoint) why the government got rid of apprenticeships. It gives young men a feeling of agency in their life. British tradesmen were the best in the world at one point, and knowing this will have given young British men the feeling that the world was truly his oyster.
Now, these life-skills have been substituted for the quasi-skills collected in levelling up in computer games. The body gets the dopamine hits, so the brain is tricked into believing it's achieving something, but alas it's another trick being played on us.
I've also noticed that "urban youth" teens/young men have an arrogance that they've achieved something or have some valuable life skills, when they haven't. Compare this to the British kids who are being humiliated bit by bit, who should have confidence based on what their predecessors have achieved.
BMW guy once told me, when they set up the Mini factory in (I think) Oxford, they had to send BMW Blaumaenner (blue collars) to train the English hires how to do the most basic everyday tasks, things any German apprentice would know.
In Scotland, they were sending people from all over the planet to see how they were doing a particular iron-work process at Ravenscraig, even the yanks couldn't work it out.
They later sent people from Japan to another site to learn the skills, they did this, closed down the site and moved it to Japan! Evil c@nts!
We need a return to guilds, to masters and apprentices, professional secrets. The alternative is the locust.
And we need to give them additional voting rights.
Masculinity is destroyed by co-education in secondary schools.
This is absolutely what I needed to read at this point in time. This is why I'm a paying subscriber. Thank you, once again, Woesy.
And thank you.
That's a tough one to read Woes. As a man who is well set in his path, competent, earning a good wage but under no illusions that by the time I reach retirement, given my my narrow skill set, I may be essentially useless unless I start learning how to grow food - the very opposite end of my ability spectrum. I could help rebuild a new world from my knowledge of science but I fear the need for that will be long after my passing. Trying to impart this crucial knowledge onto my young nephew is my primary concern.
But.. growing food is easy really once you start. I would say most important thing is your network
More white flight is not evidence masculinity.
In this modern world having money and social skills counts for 90%
Great advice-- for both sexes. I have appreciated your work for some years now; there was an incredibly insightful video on hipsters that I hope to find and indulge again.
Having money saved up is the most important point here. You have freedom to act authentically when you have one or two years expenses in a savings account.
Until your money gets inflated away.
Make it 20 years
Looking back from an age considerably older than Colin's, the only part that I would take issue with is "competence at fighting". Sure, being able to fend off blows or step back if someone tries judo moves on you might be useful, but beyond that a reputation for starting fights will limit your social circle or at worst lead to serving time (more so if alcohol is involved).
And the only things I would add are that most male remunerative activities involve some kind of professionalism, so you should look into that and set about acquiring a qualification. And building a table is pretty advanced carpentry - simpler to go to a second hand furniture shop!
Never show fear was the traditional advice to men, but everywhere in the West men display abject fear of the worst of their women - the unmarried mother.
I'm Gen X and the only thing my parents effectively taught me was How to Tie a Tie. Many such cases, Iater found among my bitter peers.
Years ago, a Boomer Eng Lit professor made a cloth case for my fob watch after it fell out of my pocket & came a little apart; when I, amazed, asked how he knew how to do such things (he'd also rewired his entire house, and repaired a torn 19th C book for me) he said that he'd grown up helping his grandfather tinker in his workshop and so just knew how to work with his hands.
That chain of competence broke some time in the 60s, after that nothing was handed down and so you now get this slew of e.g. Clint Eastwood films, or the Cobra Kai series, about an older man handing down what were once obvious life lessons, to Zoomers raised on hip hop, vidya, and porn. So much has been lost, so quickly.
Properly doing a tie knot is in itself a lost art and I believe a good mark of general competence.
Fatherlessness is obviously the problem, but men fear to propose raising the price of sex by forbidding and punishment unmarried parents.
Excellent piece of advisory writing. This article has relevance for men of all ages, but particularly for young men. I will be sharing this with my sons. Woes delivers, once again.
No religion - unprincipled atheists and nihilists unable to defend a principle. Men like that only deserve extinction. Their women know it and are acting on that knowledge.
I wanted to ask anyone's opinion on something.
Me: I don't want them in my country...
Other person: You're racist!
What's the best reply. I've categorised the responses into 3 sections:
1. Nullification
2. The Socratic Method
3. Attack
1. The term "racist" is just an ad hominem invented by Leon Trotsky.
2. What's your definition of "racism?"
"Not wanting other ethnic groups around".
"Oh really, so Israel is the most racist country?"
"Well that's not what I meant" etc.
3. Racist?! I'll give you fuckin' racist (pulls out a copy of the Kalergi Plan and The Racial Plan for the 20th Century.)
What's your thoughts?
I think all three are viable, you simply need to gauge the temperament and how combative your opponent is as an individual.
Who cares what you want when you're too afraid of the matriarchy to challenge its preferences?
Very important fact you pointed out: the degradation of social morays necessitates improved social skills. Very much appreciated!
I would say Christ is the only rock that offers 'resilience' long term. Everything else is building on sand. Prayer is an essential habit to maintain and develop.
"Morays" is "mores".
Christianity is kaput, so using a kaput religion is not going to save your civilisation. In fact, displaying stubborn stupidity and adhering to the religion of the stupid people is just going to encourage your enemies.
If Christ is dead then I'm a wretched fool as you say. But if Christ is alive then he can never be kaput. :)
But he never promised following him would make us successful in worldly terms, quite the opposite.
Jews and Muslims don't have to believe that Jesus is God. Indeed, Jews believe Jesus to be a blasphemer and Muslims are commanded to admonish those who claim God has begotten a son. https://quran.com/18/4
I'm aware. Naturally I think Jews and Moslems are mistaken or otherwise I wouldn't be a Christian.
You're Christian because you think Christianity is white ignoring the fact that it has been failing for half a millennium.
Thanks for the great read. A good tool that I try to use is Luke Smith's independence heuristic: when faced with a decision, make the choice that leads to further independence.
This is a superb article. We are living in a world where it takes much longer for a man to establish himself in the world. For this reason, this article would educate many older men as well. I have jumped from one fragmented society to another so I found it personally valuable.
Most Western men are not married fathers. What is the point of telling unmarriageable men who will never be fathers how to be fathers?
MW's message to men incorporates fatherhood but it doesn't assume that the men are in a position to be fathers.
You might consider there is a load of unmarryable women in Western society now: they are self-absorbed, brainwashed with liberal propaganda, told that they don't need men, told that having babies is bad for the environment.
I am indeed making the case that the problem with being a matriarchy is that such a society would produce mostly unmarriageable illegitimate offspring, which describes the condition of degeneracy.
Matriarchy is a society prioritisng the preferences of unmarried parents who casually conceived and parented their illegitimate offspring.
Patriarchy is a society prioritising the preferences of married parents who want to properly parent their legitimate offspring.
No one will make a case for treating unmarried parents as sex offenders though. This is presumably because even the men complaining about feminism do not want the means to challenge and defeat this ideology because proposing what is necessary to defeat feminism means raising the price of sex. Marriage is the most expensive form of sex.
To just live life not having any skills besides breathing and being reliant on others is what I'd describe as a *waking nightmare*