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A.D. honestly wants to know why his very important comments and questions are spammed on sight.

 The Last Roman asks a pertinent question:

So what made the Boomers different? I mean, why did they fail in such a spectacular manner? 

I’m a firm believer in the concept of the formative years. Who hasn’t observed how the confidence in her youthful beauty sustains the fat, middle-aged housewife who still sees herself as “the pretty one”, or how the certainty of his social superiority shines undiminished in the university Alpha at the gym even when he’s little more than a middle manager going nowhere at the office? Conversely, who has failed to notice the seeming anomaly of the occasional lack of self-confidence in even the most successful late-bloomer? 

So, if we consider the historical situation in which the Boomers found themselves in childhood, the heirs to the literal conquerors of the world, who stood astride a planet in ruins while in possession of the only fully-functioning industrial base, living in the most technologically-advanced society in known human history, it should be no surprise that they behaved with all the circumspection and self-control of a highly indulged princeling who knows he will never have to wear a crown.

It is common for the successful – particularly those to whom success has come with little in the way of cost or effort – to believe they are beyond good and evil. The Boomers didn’t feel they needed the traditions of their forebears that gave them their status, and they rejected those traditions in favor of pursuing short-term pleasures. They became lotus-eaters, soft, fat, and totally unfit for competition and conflict with the rest of a battle-hardened world that was rebuilding from the ashes.

And now, it’s our turn to become hard men capable of embracing and winning the inevitable conflicts to come. This is why it behooves the younger generations in the West to not only reject, but to despise the Baby Boomers, and to refuse to listen to anything they have to say on any subject. They are complete failures, disastrous failures on a scale never before seen in history, and they have absolutely nothing to teach us, except to assiduously avoid following their example.

One Boomer, caught up in emotional projection of his own philosophy, shrieked that the younger generations anticipate the Day of the Pillow in order to acquire their material possessions. This is not only wrong, it completely misses the point. The reason we anticipate the Day of the Pillow is because on that day, the sweet silence of the Boomers will finally arrive.

On a not-unrelated note, an observation from SocialGalactic:

If Boomers were farmers, they would eat all of your seed corn and break every appliance in the kitchen doing so, then lecture with terrible advice on how to avoid the imminent starvation you will soon be facing.

Which, of course, is totally wrong and unfair. I think we all know that if Boomers were farmers, they’d immediately sell the farm, then buy a boat and a condo in Florida. 

As apparently some of them have proved salutory:

After following your advise on graduating Gamma, namely, shut up, work, and speak the truth. I am making huge strides in social settings.

The alpha is giving me more responsibility and respect, and girls are not repulsed.

I just want to say, without your constant Gamma beating, which are awesome course correction points, I would not have gotten this far this fast imo.

I am still working at it, always will.

Oh and ah, tell those boomers who has done next to nothing to go away.

Inspiration and relentless truth speaking by the capable is how many of us climbs out of the hell they left us with.

Conquering one’s instinctive behavioral patterns is always difficult. They will always be there to be reverted to in times of stress, defeat, and failure. But they can be suppressed and surmounted with sufficient effort. Persistence is the key. Even when you slip – and you will – don’t spend the next six weeks in denial, rationalization, and self-justification. 

Just admit the error, dust yourself off, and force yourself to start treading the right track again.

 A Boomer doesn’t understand why his g-g-generation is held in such open contempt by the younger generations:

I’m not sure I understand. As a 69-year old boomer, I don’t know any boomer of my acquaintance who wouldn’t, and hasn’t, tried to help his children and grandchildren in any way he can, whether with time or money, or any other way.

Very well. I think we can solve this conundrum. Ask yourself these four questions, Boomer:

1. On average, how many days per year did you see your grandparents as a child?
2. How many days per year do you see your grandchildren?
3. What did you inherit from your father and grandfather?
4. In real terms, do you expect to leave more to each and every child and grandchild than you received, or less.

A Boomer writes to explain why it’s better not to hope, and why the right thing to do is to sit around waiting for others to get the job done before you get involved:

Except politics isn’t a soccer game where organized players supported by infrastructure and committed to achieving a goal can be expected to take the initiative in those fleeting moments that could make a difference. Real politics is low intensity warfare where people lose family, careers, freedom, health and life. 

The blightwing and its dissident fringe is comprised of impoverished/cheap, unorganized, indolent cowards “led” by grifters. They look for someone else to do the heavy lifting as they observe from afar, doing handsprings in skirts, chanting silly cheers. It has been that way for 57+ years.

When I see the blightwing organized locally, regionally, and nationally, destroying the enemy, taking casualties and caring for their own, taking the initiative, always working and raising the ante – then and only then will I resume active participation on the ground, where it counts.

Of course by then, no one who has been active locally, regionally, and nationally will have any use for his useless, oversized Boomer butt. 

I’m not saying anyone should vote harder, or place any trust in Con Inc. or in the Republican Party. I’m also not saying that anyone should blithely proceed in the blind confidence that Donald Trump is flawlessly executing Q’s 12-D underwater chess strategy. 

But only the weak of mind and character fear to hope, and prefer indolence and despair to inspiration and determination.

Don’t you see? Don’t you get it? Matt and Benny totally OWNED THE LIBS!

In your most recent stream you said your high intelligence would have made the Naval Academy difficult for you.  What about higher intelligence makes the military more difficult?  I’m asking as someone who’ll likely be attending either the Naval Academy or West Point next year. 

You have to follow orders you know are stupid given by your intellectual inferiors. And you have to try to communicate with people across the 2SD communications gap. It can be done – my uncle is smarter than I am and he succeeded brilliantly at Annapolis and in the Corps. But he has tremendous charisma.

Two years pass…

You were right. I am currently in the process of leaving the Naval Academy.

A US military officer stationed in Europe explains how the vaxx is being imposed on U.S. soldiers serving abroad:

Longtime reader here, first time email to you. Wanted to give you additional background on the military side of the vaccine issue, at least as it’s applying to service members in Europe and some folks stateside. 

For the last couple of months or so, leadership has been giving heavy encouragement, basically pushing the vaccine on everybody. It’s interesting to watch, because the DOD has structures in place for all service members to get vaccinated routinely, via MEDPROS. Meaning, we get yearly flu shots, we’ve gotten anthrax, smallpox, tetanus, etc. All vaccines listen under MEDPROS are mandatory and required, no getting around them. They’re all also thoroughly FDA approved, so the government can require them of employees or service members. Not so with the Covid vaccine, of course. That is voluntary, but for many folks it’s akin to being “volun-told”. 

I hear from many soldiers, and a number of friends and coworkers, all manner of stories about it. Most of us have been pressured about receiving the shots. We know that at some point, FDA approval will be pushed through, and they will be mandated. Many of us are resigned to waiting for that day. The carrot and the stick on this are getting progressively more visible and annoying. Those fully vaxxed can stop wearing masks. They can freely travel, all by showing their shot card. They don’t have to worry about social distancing anymore. Our battalion and our brigade have been far gentler about things than other commands have been.

I have heard horror stories from others; these are second/third hand sources that I trust. Folks in DC were told that if they didn’t get vaccinated they’d be considered traitors, and they needed to be on “the right side of history.” I can attest to witnessing and being in formations where we were given a brief lecture on opting out of the vaccine. The Army has lists of those who have opted in, and opted out. I have been told many senior leaders at high levels haven’t taken it yet. I have heard from others that O5/COL level leaders, and E9/CSM level leaders, have been leveling pressure on enlisted soldiers down to the E1-E4 level although typically this doesn’t happen. It’s an all-in effort to get to herd immunity, but somehow I don’t trust the inflated numbers. Even the folks who don’t want to get the shots see less and less choice; the peer pressure it outstanding and intense.

Knowing all the risks of getting the shots, I’m still weighing on when to get them, seeing as I won’t have a choice as long as I wear the uniform… Most I’ve spoken to on this matter acknowledge the bitter irony that we’re watching to classes of people being legally formed: the vaxxed, and the non-vaxxzd. The vaxxed will have substantial privileges and benefits; the non-vaxxed who’ve done nothing wrong legally, will be punished and penalized.

We’ll see how long this social pressure lasts as it becomes ever more clear that the vaxx is a death-mark akin to painting a genetic target on your chest for a foreign bioweapon. Between this, the tranny initiative, and the feminization of the US military, it increasingly appears that an external force has penetrated the US military and is in the process of rendering unable to fight.

Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing on the macro level is a legitimate question. But it is absolutely and unquestionably very bad for those who are in the service. At this rate, one could almost imagine that the step after requiring the vaxx will be mandating gender transition.

As if the US military wasn’t facing enough challenges, now the generals want to kill off the soldiers before they even enter the battlespace with genetic mutations:

The Pfizer model is the one they want us to take. It’s what’s available at the on-station clinics which means personnel would have to go out of their way and risk personal expense to get any others.

The pressure to take the vax mostly emanates from the officers. I’ve noticed a contrast with Officers trusting this thing like it’s come down from God while NCO’s are far more skeptical. Regular soldiers even more so with the distrust. From my officer’s perspective, what they hit us in particular with is nonsense about setting the example. Rather a bastard misuse of telling junior officers to set the example. About being “the first off the helicopter” in Vietnam or “the first off the boat” at Normandy. Do I need to go at length about how absurd this is?

I read this as a worldview that’s exhausted. They’re referencing their sacred motifs and deeds to pressure people into taking a rushed production gene therapy whose long term health effects are conjecture. And that italicized portion of the text doesn’t even fully capture the awful picture of the Pfizer serum, as you and your regulars know I am sure.

Then of course there’s the hard incentives. Want to take your mask off in office meetings? Gotta take the vax. Want to avoid ‘quarantine’ when you arrive overseas (which just happens to be done at the same place they house prisoners)? Take the vax. I know people who appear intelligent who took it on that first basis of just wanting to not wear a mask. 

Next up is attitude. Don’t want to take the vax? The officers on board with this will let you know they think you’re not a team player and probably a tinfoil hatter. Right; me and the others who refuse to be tested-on are nuts. This is their perspective: Guarding the CIA’s poppy fields in Afghanistan for a whole year of one’s life is perfectly normal and a checked box on your resume, but refusing literal poison is suspicious silliness. I anticipate as the vax-refusal situation progresses the retribution will get serious. It’s only a question of severity.

All the pro-vax people I’ve spoken to about it think it’s a regular old vaccine and don’t understand why anyone would be skeptical of it. They think Corona Chan is a horseman of the apocalypse and if they get it then they will die. Barring that, they think it will kill old people and mutants with immune disorders if everybody doesn’t let a corporation with a criminal record play God with their genes. That last part is of course is out of my head, not theirs, as they don’t even know it will mess with their genetics. Which reminds me; who or whatever is producing propaganda directed at us is knowingly lying. One “TAKE THE VAX” pamphlet I glanced over had a bullet point to the effect that “some people think the Covid-19 vaccine will change their DNA.” Which is of course higher level attempt to deceive the reader, because while it’s true the serum won’t tamper with DNA, nobody ever alleged it does. It screws with your mRNA.

Fortunately, mRNA is just junk DNA that doesn’t serve any purpose, right? Trust the science. It’s totally settled.

Every now and then, I think it’s salutory to provide the readers here, particularly those who have so faithfully backed Castalia over the last seven years, the occasional glimpse behind the curtain.

I used to wonder why publishers refused to deal directly with authors and always insisted on working through agents, especially when it became clear how totally useless most agents are. They often wouldn’t even look at an unagented query. Due to my game industry connections, I had a book deal before I had an agent, and I fired him as soon as the editor who signed my first novel – who is now a serious player very close to the top of the Big Three – made it clear that he much preferred dealing with me to putting up with the agent, who was admittedly more than a bit of a whiner. So, it always seemed strange to me, and a little unfair, that the publishers forced authors to jump through the hoop of signing with an agent and thereby giving up a percentage of their advances and royalties.

Now, however, I understand. I still don’t agree with the policy, but I understand it. Here is a good example of why publishers don’t like dealing directly with authors, and also, how to make sure that you never get published by one.

Dear Sir:

[Five paragraphs of flowery description of accomplishments and credentials which aren’t too bad, although I’d never heard of the guy, redacted. There wasn’t much about the book itself, but the genre was at least potentially of interest.]

With every good wish, I am

Faithfully yours,

               [REDACTED]

Given how occupied we are with simply attempting to keep up with the growth of our existing commitments to Library and Arkhaven, we’re not looking to sign any new Castalia authors at the moment, but since one always has to keep an eye out for exceptional talent, so I dashed off a quick note at about 3 AM letting the guy know I’d be willing to take a look at what he had, but alerting him to the realities of the situation.

You can send an epub when you’re finished and I’ll take a look at it. We’re not really looking to add more content lately, but you never know.

Thank you,

Vox 

What I didn’t realize, however, is that far from doing the guy a favor by carving out a little time to give him a shot, I was actually failing to sufficiently acknowledge how impressed I was with the Special Boy who had been so gracious as to deign to honor me with his supplication.

“Vox Day”,

Sorry to learn your company has sunk to the level of your manners.

[REDACTED]

Sent from my iPhone

So, if you ever wondered why I don’t bother responding to requests, submissions, queries, and so forth, now you know. Forget rejection, there are no shortage of would-be authors who don’t take consideration, or anything that falls short of gushing enthusiasm and immediate acceptance well. But don’t be mistaken and think that I regard this as a bad outcome in any way. I mean, can you imagine what actually having to work with the Special Boy would be like?

Speaking of Castalia House, however, the Kindle versions of the first three volumes of the Junior Classics 2020 Edition are now available at Amazon. The epub editions are available at the Arkhaven store. A post later today will address those backers who didn’t receive the last week’s email with the download access.