A lot of people on the "right" assume the "left" must be retarded. After all, they say the dumbest things imaginable, especially the woke crowd, the cultural Marxists, the people trying to dismantle every functional institution of Western civilization and replace them with fake equality cults and grievance bureaucracies. But here’s the truth: not all of them are dumb. Some are brilliant in narrow fields. But when it comes to society, governance, or basic reality, they malfunction, not because of low IQ, but because their minds are structured like prey animals, not predators. The right tends to think like hunters, strategic, territorial, hierarchy-aware. The left burns most of its mental energy trying to stay inside the herd. Their primary fear is being cast out, so they build entire inner worlds of self-deception just to avoid saying something problematic. They lie to themselves constantly, about gender, race, power, biology, because they have to in order to remain socially acceptable in their echo chamber. And when 90% of your brain is running internal defense systems just to avoid social exclusion, you do not have much left over for truth, clarity, or coherent thinking. That is why they sound insane to us. Not because they are all dumb, but because they are trapped in a mental structure built for safety, not sovereignty.

One of the most common sources of conflict in marriage is not the relationship itself, but the tasks left undone, the things each person thought the other was going to take care of, but never got done. The fix is simple: Each person must have clearly defined domains of responsibility. Not vague agreements. Not good intentions. Specific duties with measurable outcomes. If you say you are going to do something, but that “something” is not clearly defined, operational, and measurable, then you had no real intention of doing it in the first place. To be legitimate, a commitment must be tied to clear outcomes, and you must be willing to be held accountable for delivering them. This is not about control. It is about trust, leadership, and the structure that keeps a household, and a marriage, functional.

The most important factor in your ability to handle the uncertainty of today’s world is your confidence in your own competence, the deep, earned belief that you can deal with whatever comes, no matter how unexpected. You cannot plan for everything. But you can be prepared to face anything. The second most important factor? Surround yourself with people who carry that same level of confidence, confidence born not from ego, but from practiced competence. Men who have been tested. Men who are ready.

Can you tell the difference between a narcissist faking competence, and someone who’s confident because they are competent? What actions or behaviors do you look for? What are your criteria? “I just feel it” isn’t enough. That’s how pretenders slip through, and how real talent gets buried for being unapologetically good. If you can’t name what you’re using to judge, maybe you’re not actually judging. Maybe you’re just guessing. And that means you might be missing something very important.

Status is just reputation. And reputation matters, because human beings are social creatures. Reputation is how we build trust. And trust is what makes cooperation possible. Never let anyone tell you that status does not matter. What they are really saying is that reputation does not matter. That cooperation does not matter. And you will usually find those people are quite isolated, their criticism of status is their way of coping with the fact that they have a poor reputation, that no one trusts them, and that no one is offering them status. But here is the key: Reputation is earned differently in different groups. The traits that earn status among powerlifters will look very different from those that earn it with old church ladies, or your local Rotary Club. Status in a group of men will be different than in a mixed or female group. And the virtues of a group can be seen in the path required to gain status within it. This is why you can be high status in one group and completely excluded from another, because you do not meet that group’s minimum status threshold. And that is not a problem. That is a good thing. My own method for gaining status has been simple: - I live by my values. - I act virtuously. - And then I observe what groups are drawn to that, who selects me in, or even drafts me in. Because when your virtues align with a group’s values, you earn status naturally. And in that space, you can amplify what is good, and leverage what is right, and do it better together.

Being happily married to a good woman is the best "health hack".

I do not love my wife just because she is the mother of my children. But I certainly love her even more now that she has given me three sons.

My wife belongs to me. She is my property. I belong to my wife. I am her property. My children belong to me. They are my property. I belong to my children. I am their property. We both belong to our ancestors. We are their property. We both belong to our descendants. We are their property. And so we live no longer for ourselves alone but for all that came before us and for all that will come forth from us. In a world where people are desperately searching for belonging, we already know where we belong. We know who our people are. We know what our obligations are. We know what our responsibilities are. We are not disconnected from what came before. And we are not severed from what will come forth through us. People today are miserable because they do not belong to each other. They do not belong together. They do not share ownership of one another, or of each other’s future. They do not invest in one another. They do not protect one another. Because they are not each other’s property. That is a miserable state of affairs. We, who know the proper function of family, We are not ashamed to belong. We are happy to be owned, Because we are owned in love, in duty, in covenant. And we own each other the same way.

Earlier this year, I had several weeks of chronic back pain, right under my shoulder blades, and I could not figure out why it kept coming back. Even after a deep massage, the pain would return. Nothing fully reset the area. Then I spoke with a friend who is a physiotherapist. She suggested something I had never considered: it might be my breathing. For whatever reason, I had slipped into bad breathing habits. I was no longer fully expanding my lungs, and that meant the muscles under my shoulder blades were not getting stretched with each breath. They were tensing up, locked in place. I was also beginning to experience a bit of diastasis recti after recovering from a hernia. Once again, the culprit seemed to be my breathing,specifically, the fact that I was not exhaling completely. I was only working with the middle third of my lung capacity, never fully emptying or filling my lungs. I was also beginning to experience a bit of diastasis recti after recovering from a hernia. Once again, the culprit seemed to be my breathing,specifically, the fact that I was not exhaling completely. I was living in the middle third of my lung capacity, never fully emptying or filling my lungs. Whenever I sprinted or did intense cardio, the pain would ease, but I assumed it was because of warmed-up muscles. In truth, it was the breathing that helped. Deep, natural, forced breathing. Since then, I have been consciously retraining myself to breathe deeper and exhale more fully. It takes a little time for the effects to become automatic again, but it works. Posture improves. Pain fades. Energy returns. Bad breathing sabotages posture, energy, and muscular function. Fixing it changed everything.