“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Understanding Alpha

We in the ‘Sphere spend an awful lot of time navel-gazing about what is, and is not, an Alpha male. It is the focus of an enormous amount of time and attention, and rightly so. To be an Alpha is to lead, to command, to be granted near-automatic respect and...

The sex ain’t worth the cost

That picture above is from the wedding album of a Taiwanese financier who married a Taipei-based fashion blogger. They got married on the island of Capri, and apparently their wedding cost many, many millions of dollars. And that is about as kind as I can be about all...

A sense of perspective

One of the most common and prevalent themes within the Manosphere, or at least among its writers based in America, is the one about how America is now turning into the kind of Marxist-socialist hellhole that this country once fought. There are plenty of writers in the...

German-style realtalk

Apparently there was a bit of a kerfuffle recently concerning a (really rather well-spoken and eloquent) German teenager who goes by the account handle RageAfterStorm. (Yeah, I know- kids these days…) Her great and terrible thoughtcrime amounted to speaking...

The saddest words a woman can utter

Gentlemen, what is the most depressing thing that you have ever heard a woman say? To be clear, I’m not talking about words that shock you with their profanity or vulgarity- such as when the town bike walks into the local watering hole and gives graphic and...

Let us pray

Star of Bethlehem by Jon McNaughton Note: this is going to be one of those introspective posts that talks about faith and religion. For those not inclined to read such things, there are plenty of other posts here about beer and babes. Truth always reveals itself to...

Saving Souls, Pt. 2: Resilience

A few days ago I wrote up a piece about how “waking up” can be incredibly painful yet liberating at the same time, and how accepting the truth can quite possibly save your life. As it turns out, Rollo Tomassi, who ultimately inspired that bit of commentary...

Saving souls, Pt. 1: Immunisation

Perhaps the most severe consequence of “taking the red pill”, or “waking up”, or whatever you prefer to call it, is that you usually undergo a deep personal crisis in which just about every core belief that you have ever held comes into...