You should never send any of your children to college. If you do, you are a lib.

The Cathedral stands in concrete towers,
Where priests of progress shape the mind,
Through lecture halls and wasted hours,
Leave old beliefs and truth behind

Each department serves its role
In crafting true believers new,
While admin priests demand their toll
To shape the faithful's worldview

They manufacture thoughts in line,
Each graduate a temple's drone,
The state religion's grand design
Spreads outward from its college throne

Your children go in whole and clean,
Return with spirits crushed and broke,
Four years of debt to fund this scene
Of minds now bound to bear their yoke

Your daughter comes back with colored hair,
Your son returns with a darkened soul,
These temple grounds breed deep despair—
The price of progress takes its toll.

25 years from now, at the rural Ontonagon Antiversity's discampus, on the second day of the winter unsemester, after having handed out the countersyllabus on the first day, during a delecture on the Phobosophy of Dr. Poor for a dis-course on abnormative ethics, Contraprofessor Eino Maki—an unfaculty member in the antihumanities counterdepartment—looked at his class, pointed at the above poem's ultimate line, and asked, "By 'progress,' did Dr. Poor mean 'progress' as in social and political progress or 'progress' as in personal progress towards a respectable profession and wealth?" His destudents, looking up at him in confusion, answered, "none of us are phobosophy unmajors, so please dumb down the discurric." Not a single destudent in his counterclass ungraduated that year. Sad.

10 poor points to whoever can identify what I'm making fun of here.

Somehow I imagine this won't lead to service folks not asking for tips....

I somehow missed that one of the tenants of Stoic philosophy is to be a narcissist

This sort of thing is why most people shouldn't be allowed to read books

My son is 22 yrs old, works at UPS since high school @ 70k yr, girlfriend is 10 yrs older. No college. Talking marriage and kids and yes, he's fit.

Scott Greer, one of the highest caliber internet intellectuals, has launched a crusade against the above post. He has undertaken a campaign to educate all of us regarding the evils of not sending your children to be educated by professorial leftists so that they can get high paying jobs and live in an urban area.

He starts by pointing out that some of the people who claim that you shouldn't go to college, you should move out of the cities, you should be happy working a low class job, &c, are actually hypocrites because they themselves are living in wealthy areas and don't work such jobs:

The post might sound silly, but it’s part of a very serious conversation among conservatives. It’s become a cliche for conservative pundits– who all went to college, don’t do manual labor for a living, and dwell in high-income areas–to tell young men to abandon college, get a blue collar job, and move to a downscale rural area. They were once again engaged in this lecturing this week.

In a debate over whether the problems facing young men are really that bad, Christopher Rufo argued that things are actually pretty good and suggested that there are great jobs at Panda Express and Chipotle.

Someone with an IQ of under 180 might proclaim, "tu quoque fallacy!" Such a middling intellect would argue that these people being hypocrites does not suggest that they are incorrect, just as my claiming that "you should not cut off your right arm" is not refuted by the fact that I have done so. But Scott, a true intellectual, a rival to Platon himself, understands that Rufo claiming some other people should work at Chipotle while not working there himself undermines the entire idea. Nobody should work at Chipotle!

Of course, people need to work at places like Chipotle.

Err, wait, nevermind. I was wrong. Some people apparently do need to work there, but not people like you! Not people who are smart enough to read Scott Greer! You're better than that!

And that really is the crux of it, ain't it? After all, "It’s one thing to tell kids to go to trade school; it’s quite another to start celebrating demeaning service sector jobs." Those jobs are just inherently demeaning for someone of your high caliber. Nobody who's truly a genius like Scott, or any of his readers, would be able to live a decent life while doing something as ignoble as working a service sector job, and that's why "telling smart white men to settle for them is tone deaf beyond belief." Yes, Greer has it right: honest service work is simply shameful. Imagine doing something like making people food for a living; can someone like that even call themselves "human"? Scott knows the answer. No, only people who do important work, such as online journalists like Scott Greer, can consider themselves fully human.

But wait, there's more!

Rufo may have only been highlighting the “decent” pay at these jobs to demonstrate “full employment.” But the implications of posts like this and others in the current debate demand that young white men need to accept declining status.

Greer hits the nail right on the head like only a true intellectual titan can: white men need to not accept their declining status, as they clearly have the power and ability to do something about it. The times they are a changing! And this time, it's the white man's turn! Don't let the fact that American history has gone the opposite direction at literally every point in recent memory convince you otherwise; don't let yourself be fooled by pattern recognition, and, instead, do the intelligent thing and put all your energy into living as if Trump's 2025 presidency will bring about a new age of white power and prosperity.

Now, do yourself a favor and remember how good your parents had it:

[Your] parents had respectable, white-collar jobs that provided for a family. Now the sons have to settle for a dead-end job.

Ah, yes. Back to the Crux of it... We need respectable jobs. Your parents were secure in the knowledge that they never had to do something as vile and disgusting as preparing food for another human being. They had white collar jobs, and that was respectable. Don't you just feel like you deserve the same? Why should you have to live a less noble life than your parents? How unfair!

And don't forget about how "terrible" online advice given to struggling young men is:

Housing prices too high? Just buy a home in the middle of nowhere! Have trouble getting a girlfriend? Just do cold approaches at rural truck stops! Feel your ambitions are thwarted at work and struggle to make ends meet? Just find meaning as an assistant manager at Panda Express!

What young men really need is to see that they are above living in the middle of nowhere, that they're too good to talk to random girls at rural truck stops (I bet such rural women haven't even been to college), and that only a loser would enter food service. You wouldn't want to be a loser, would you?

Dr. Greer then goes on to profess to us about how living in such a way will pull men out of the dating pool. After all, most young women are going to college! And there's so many of them in the cities! Critics will tell you that the women he's telling you to chase after have already been through a gamut of 1,000 cocks while having their minds bored into by Vampirolepis liberalis, but Dr. Greer knows better! He knows that you can save them! After all, you're an above average IQ white man, and so, for you, anything is possible, logic and pattern recognition be damned!

If young white men accepted this terrible advice, it would accelerate their own dispossession in the country their forefathers built. The only way to preserve their inheritance is to achieve success in our society–and that doesn’t look like contentment as a line cook.

Doing away with the pretensions of taking this clown seriously, he puts his message right up front here: he refuses to accept reality. He's in denial about America. He thinks this place belongs to people like him, when it never has. A normal, healthy reaction to living in a country that despises you is to try to get by, to be happy with less and accept your position as something outside of your control. Greer views himself with such grandiosity and pride that he can't manage this, and he projects this outwards and demands that you do the same. "No, don't be content with a simple job in a small place with a healthy family! You need to do something more important!"

Friends, don't listen to advice from this fool. What matters most is being a good person. What matters most is living a good life and making a positive impact on the things that you can control. Don't let a wild sense of self-importance convince you that you need to try to accomplish something more grand. You're probably better off attending your focus closer to home. Direct your efforts towards being a decent human being and trying to help those whom you care about thrive as best they can in the toxic times that are ahead. That is your true responsibility.

You don't want to date a woman who thinks like this? Guess you're a loser, pal. Have you even received any awards this year? You haven't been featured in a documentary? Loser.

Why is it that every Telegram channel is run by filthy, nefarious, scheming liars?

"The Daily Poor" is run by a Jewish multimillionaire.

The Daily Pour doesn't actually consume alcohol every day.

✨Spicy Steamed Memeballs✨ claims that they don't message their subscribers, and yet constantly sends me great crypto opportunities.

Donkey's Comfy Foodposting claims to be a page run by a donkey, yet some of their photos contain human hands!

Bombadil's Athenæum appears at first to be an institute for the study of literature and science run by a fellow named Bambadil, and yet I've yet to see a single discussion of a piece of literature or a scientific paper take place there.

Alt Skull's Charnel House markets itself as an alternative to the works of Skull, and yet, if you pay close attention, the posts are all either written or curated by Skull.

Voter Apathy Party might sound like a channel that's apathetic towards political matters, but they are actually known to manually force their subscribers to go out and vote using a whip and chains.

MurderTheMedia has actually never killed a journalist; they haven't even caused such a death by manslaughter or gross negligence, let alone murder.

Punished Clossington has never been banned from Telegram.

I'm starting to think that the only honest channel on this entire platform is God's Strongest dvmpster Divers 2: Electric Boogaloo. They are truly the only channel where you can read the noscript without being deceived.

One practical bit of wisdom: as inflation and housing costs increase, you'll notice that the prices of the homes in the suburbs, where most people are buying, have prices going up much faster than rural areas. A consequence of this is that the home you might want to buy could fall underneath the mortgage minimum at most major banks.

This happened to us when we were buying our house back in 2022. Most banks required a mortgage to be for either at least $75k or at least $100k. The house we were buying cost less than that, and we were putting $10k down. But we were able to get a loan with a small, local bank that was more familiar with the local area and typical housing costs there. Looking in that direction might also be helpful to you if you end up in such a position.

Such banks do charge slightly higher interest rates (think 0.2% or so higher). But on the other hand, you deal with real people in the local economy rather than handing your money over to a monster like JP Morgan. I'd probably recommend looking into it even if it wasn't required given the price of a house.... And if it is required....

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BTFO'd again

We poors tri-meat cooking tonight. (And all to 137.5°F.)

Young Henry Ford told me to tell y'all to study phonics: https://x.com/atlanticesque/status/1880105982136840359?t=5NOeCUkeu3APtD-w_e_6zw&s=19

Medium rare chicken is the perfect midnight snack. If you disagree, you are a lib

There's truth in both sides of this.

Plumbing is a productive mode. It's not the sort of profession that would be fulfilling for the highest IQ niggas without a penchant for it.

So they should become politicians and such? No, to succeed in those fields today requires that you tarnish your very soul. Our ruling class has set things up so that in trying to change things, you will ruin yourself.

Bright men must find something they can do that fulfills their basic telos, their God-given purpose, while also not tarnishing their souls, the very most important part of themselves.

It's difficult. But luckily, they're intelligent and that brings with it some chance of success.

On a different note, there's reason to avoid using plumber as your example. The average person's perception of plumbers is lower than for most trades:

They work on the poo poo part of the house, man! Gross.

Is thinking like that immature and stupid? Yes, but it's common perception, which is nearly always immature and stupid.

Ergo, plumber as an example is provocative, but it also makes the case less convincing. Using it will lead to your critics insulting plumbers, and with current public perception, those insults will tend to win out. Sad, but it's how it goes.

I recommend that you opt for carpentry as an example. It's more neutral in public perception, and it makes the anti-working class vitriol more self-apparent when folks see insults being thrown at Christ Himself's mortal profession

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