The Culture Serpent Is Still Lying

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, our toxic culture has programmed women and men to fail at life. We know people are failing at life because the birth rate is so low, family formation is low, and drug addiction is so high. Women sabotage themselves constantly and then blame men. Meanwhile, men have become cowards, abdicating their role as husbands and protectors. This isn’t an innate quality of mankind but an artificial imposition by the culture. The cultural serpent convinced girls that adopting a lifestyle that they’re emotionally, mentally and physically not suited for, is true freedom, and God’s critical role for women is slavery. Even as that same culture told men that there are unlimited sexual opportunities, and provided the pill and abortion to prove it… undermining a man’s natural tendency to cling to a wife.

Today most marriages end in divorce where the man is run through a mill. Unless he’s a psychopathic abuser, then the court system will bend over backwards to keep the abuse going. The courts are set up to protect and defend the worst of the worst, while crushing anyone with ethics and morals. The system works perfectly. Boys look at the system the progressive establishment has created, and ask themselves, “What’s in it for me?” Then answer, “Nothing.” So they join Tinder, pornhub, or go full MGTOW. Meanwhile the very few girls who still would like to have a family, life, and future… are shut out because no sane man would get married today. The system has made sure the incentive for family formation is as perverse as possible. The courts float atop this cultural froth… whipping it up.

Culture always has an underlying message. In the 1950’s in the US the message was we can do anything. In the 1980s it was, the future’s so bright we have to wear shades. Today the cultural message is, there’s no hope, climate change will end the planet… so play video games, become nihilistic, and grow fat. It’s obvious if we judge by outcomes. What’s the obesity rate today… compared to past decades? People with purpose are naturally lean. Purposefully busy people burn more than they eat. Those without purpose, however, have nothing to do and so eat more than they burn. Some argue it’s the fault of sugary snacks, but there were plenty of cheap sugary snacks when I was a child. A widespread lack of purpose creates obesity and thus indicates cultural rot.

The entitlement mindset is a product of our culture. Kids have an entitlement mindset. No one wants to earn a position… they believe they are owed it. This is partly because the youth don’t know much, while they think they know it all… because they don’t know enough to understand how little they actually do know. I was the same when I was misspending my youth. This makes up some of a kid’s arrogance… but culture makes up the rest. Our culture teaches kids they deserve a medal even if they lose. The schools tell them they know better than their ignorant parents. Which obviously undermines the parent’s authority and gives the youths a false sense of superiority. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao turned the youth against the adults to great effect… tens of millions died.

In popular television, videos, and podcasts the cultural elite shill the slut life to girls and the gangster life to boys. The culture sells them that, and an easy sell it is. It inculcates hopelessness as it glorifies drugs. These are choices the cultural elite make. Instead of telling kids uplifting Horatio Alger stories they tell absurdist Dr. Seuss instead. Even as, as we lament minimal family formation, a million kids die from overdose a decade, and low birthrates goad nations into importing people. All these negative social outcomes are because of our toxic culture. The genetics are the same as the greatest generation, the difference is upbringing. This means the problem isn’t with men or women, it’s the culture that programs us. To fix the culture, we have the boycott, a voice, and political power… if we use them.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

 

I just don’t know where to start,

From their mouths they do fart,

Their lips are moving,

Their lies are proving,

The media serves Satan a’ la carte.

 

The Biden White House was famously inane,

Obama said he liked snorting in the rain,

The EU is run by aristocrats,

Runny noses talkative chaps,

Because the people in power all love their cocaine.

 

Harvard had a really great gig,

Well regarded and quite big,

Reputation is all,

They gave it a pall,

And now it’s seen as a pig.

 

I heard of a demon Satan what a schmuck,

Smart as a bee sting and dumb as a duck,

Thought he’d be god,

But he’s a fraud,

He’s suffering forever but is blaming it on luck.

 

All we really have is our reputation,

Everything else is mere decoration,

Lies discredit,

A shameful edit,

And taint results in universal detestation.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Independence: A Matter of Character, Not Wealth

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, independence isn’t based on wealth, but on character. Because there are plenty of poor people who are totally independent, while most rich people are utterly dependent on the system. Like the old TV show Beverly Hillbillies illustrated. The hillbillies lived off grid and independent of societal comforts, then after they hit oil they continued to live independently. Even as the banker, who was rich all his life, was utterly dependent on society, illustrating this truth in a humorous situation comedy. Jed had practical competence. He could make anything from a chunk of wood. The family was humble but wary of insults. Their hard life proved an innate resilience. The Clampetts’ humility, authenticity, and independence was contrasted with the AstroTurf dependence of the city.

Practical competence is the cornerstone of independence. If you took some random person, stripped them and set them in a temperate forest… most would be dead within 24 hours. If you did the same to a cave man, he would thrive. Because the cave man has the practical skills to make what he needs from his surroundings. This is practical competence. The modern man however lacks the skills to survive in the wilderness… without a gun, tent, sleeping bag, various tools, food, a compass, etc… Even then survival over a long term would be tricky. This illustrates the practical ability to survive. Not simply in the forest but in the urban jungle as well. All skills learned improve our practical competence in our lives. Moreover, a modern person well skilled has a better chance of survival in the wilderness.

Humility might not seem like an important factor in independence but it is. Arrogance requires an audience. Humility requires nothing. Arrogant people then need others to be around. The proud person can’t lift a finger unless the world knows about it. So the proud and arrogant learn few skills, and those they do are largely theatrical. The humble, on the other hand, couldn’t care less about an audience. They can learn skills and apply them in the dark. Moreover, a humble person is able to take emotional knocks far better than a proud neurotic. This means humility brings emotional stability which is a factor in independence. The person able to take a gut punch and help others despite it, is independent, while the person who falls apart at the first sign of trouble, is dependent.

Resilience comes from humility, practical competence and is the final piece of the puzzle to independence. Lacking a huge ego that’s effectively a raw nerve, the humble roll with the punches. Because the skilled aren’t at the mercy of others, they are more resilient. Eastern Hemlock is a beautiful tree that can live for centuries. They have a tendency to fall over in windstorms though, they get ring shake, and their roots are susceptible to mechanical damage. Meanwhile, hard maple trees almost never fall over, they can get mutilated in a storm and keep on growing, and logging doesn’t harm them. For all their beauty hemlocks aren’t as resilient as maples. Because the maple tree can take a beating and survive while a hemlock could die from minor damage.

Virtue arises from resilience, humility, and practical ability. Independent people need not fear the trials of life, they have the resilience of a maple, the humility of a mouse, and the practical abilities of a cave man. So why should the truly independent fear anything? Those without fear are able to be virtuous. Because it’s generally fear that keeps us from speaking our minds, doing what we were born to do, and standing up for what’s right. Independence removes that fear, allowing us to be virtuous. Moreover, if you live in fear, becoming independent is the best solution for anxiety. People who can stand on their own two feet don’t get panic attacks. Such people comfort those who do. So, you don’t have to be rich to be independent… just practice humility, become resilient, and learn practical abilities.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

 

We wanted an AG to fight handy,

Trump handed us Pam Bondi,

She’s photogenic,

A bit egocentric,

So what we got was just a blondie.

 

Trump was elected and went on the attack,

The deep state corruptocrats fought back,

The courts self immolated,

The media’s associated,

And Trump’s agenda the swamp did hijack.

 

There once was a man from Islamabad,

A despot like Dionysius a desperate lad,

Called Erdogan,

He said as he ran,

If the truth is told I’m a terrible cad.

 

Justice Marshal would think today’s law a boor,

Usurping power doing things he would abhor,

The courts run amok,

Justice is outta luck,

But how can he complain he opened the door.

 

It’s obvious that the Brits are under attack,

The corrupt UK politicians are in the sack,

But tides are shifting,

Spirits are lifting,

Now the Brits are taking their country back.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Independence Versus Dependence

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, wise people seek to be as independent as possible. This includes, but isn’t limited to, independence from the grid, the ability to stand on your own two feet, a personal source of water, emotional stability, a lone wolf mentality that doesn’t follow crowds, as well as cultivating skills. Not to become hermits… but to be of use in times of trouble and not needy when chaos arises. These attributes are all earned not inherited. We must plant the seeds, water them with our intentions, and our actions make them flower. The fruit comes after, when we have those abilities, and stuff that makes us independent instead of a burden. Those who are not independent are by definition burdensome. They may pitch in but at best they are a well functioning cog, not an innovator who improves.

Those who are independent are the source of the capital for institutions, the people, and governments. Their savings, ability to do things, and lack of need, creates the situation where others can borrow money, live in safety, and even become indigent if that’s their goal. Those who are not independent, the dependent, often must be on the dole… and thus drain capital, waste labor, and become envious. The more independent people there are in a nation the stronger that nation is by every measure. Even as the more dependent people in a nation the weaker it becomes by every measure. Which sets up a tension for the elite. Machiavelli said a wise prince seeks a way to make his people dependent to ensure their loyalty. Though, such a State must become weak in every way, other than in loyalty to the sugar daddy.

This exposes another reason why smart people seek to become as independent as possible… so they don’t become mindless automatons dependent on a meal ticket. Dependents who dare not have a whit of agency, or else it endangers their monthly government check. So even when a government tries to make you dependent… you aren’t. Because those who maintain their independence are heroes, saving society from the worst incentives of the elite and people. These perverse incentives which, left unchecked, destroy civilizations. The elite want a strong country so they can project that strength against their neighbors, but want a dependent people so we don’t get too uppity. This is why the easy path is the one to dependence while the harder path is the one to independence.

It’s easy to learn nothing, do nothing, and contribute nothing, but it can be difficult to learn, act and contribute. People are like water and electricity, we seek the easy path, which is why so many ride the recliner to dependence. Even as the smarter path is the one to independence. Not simply because that path makes us a bulwark against the perverse incentives of the world but because it gives us inner strength, intermixed with humility, while the dependent are often as arrogant as they are draining. The independent become synergistic with society. Independent people contribute with their labor, leading by example, and their mere presence forestalls a society’s decline. Then again, when has the easy path been the right path? Though the hard path, for whatever reason, is always the easier path in the end.

If we agree that wise and smart people seek to become independent in every way possible, how do we do it? Firstly, I think education is paramount. Learning abilities and skills like carpentry, wiring, plumbing, weaving rope from fiber, finding water, identification of edible plants, etc… these are abilities that allow one to stay on one’s feet in times of crisis. Then there’s personal independence. What if the water goes out? What if you lose electricity and gas while it’s the middle of winter? Will you have to find shelter, or will you be able to weather it at home? That’s personal independence. Then there’s mental independence. This is an ability honed through suffering that allows us to tolerate disrespect, loss, and disappointment. So I have to ask, do you want to be wise and smart… or a parasite?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

 

All creation stories require a miracle to win,

Because the universe we see is a phantasm,

Argue for eternity,

So we can see,

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

 

When calling a boy a girl is more critical,

Than fixing roads and sidewalks typical,

Priorities show,

What do you know,

There’s a just government wholly mythical.

 

Scientists are brilliant people of mind,

Seeking the truth though it be unkind,

But science is perilous,

Wrongthink can destroy us,

So you don’t look for what you don’t want to find.

 

The EU has failed and that’s a fact,

Led by corrupt elites without tact,

Go ahead and pout,

Soon they’ll find out,

The EU is indeed a suicide pact.

 

Lawyers always seem to be paranoid,

As police bypass what they can avoid,

Times do change,

It may seem strange,

But our Constitution’s now null and void.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Distraction as a Strategy

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, often the best way to hide something in plain sight, is to expose something eye catching that will draw everyone’s attention. Then the offending story can be memory-holed. I don’t know how often this tactic is used but I bet it happens more often than you think. Because in order to maintain the level of corruption of our governments requires that we be manipulated. Should you and I get the whole truth we would be forced to act which would upset the elite’s apple cart. The ideal distraction is something that confirms a thing we already knew, so it doesn’t actually reveal anything… but it grabs you. Timing is everything in such a psi op. So, given the payola press is prone to propaganda, I have to wonder at the timing of the CCP’s 2020 election interference scandal?

The FBI just released a firestorm. The 2020 election story now has evolved from, cleanest election in history, to the CCP waded in on behalf of Biden… who was in its pocket. Shocking to be sure, illegal and literally traitorous… but why highlight it now? Nothing can be done to bring justice to the situation. It’s something we already knew, Biden is on his way out, his cronies all have pardons, and Patel has proven he is unwilling to go after the corrupt actors in the administrative state. So why disclose this now? I submit the story is a distraction. I think Patel, Bondie, and Bongino released this to give the impression they’re doing something. Even though we all know there will be no investigation, charges, or convictions… because it’s just a distraction.

What could they be distracting us from? One thing is their lack of action on Trump’s executive orders. Right now all three are in direct defiance of Presidential executive orders, to release the Epstein files, as well as the JFK and RFK files. Instead of releasing the files of Epstein’s customers, Bondie says she has to watch every second of Epstein’s blackmail kiddie porn, to protect the victims. Of course there are far more criminals in our government than just the elite pedophiles that run the deep state. There are also dozens of cases of perjury before congress they could investigate? The entire Covid cover up is a rich source of investigation material as well, but the three mouseketeers are diligently incurious. Is that what they are trying to distract us from? Their lack of curiosity?

Of course, along with the lack of investigations we have a fomenting insurrection. Someone bought pallets of bricks just before the recent LA riots. It must have been quite the building project. I would love to see it. The rioters showed up suited up with brand new equipment as well. Their professionally printed posters were eye catching and emotive. Though we shouldn’t expect the three amigos to investigate that money trail. Even as the same FBI under Biden used geo-fencing to track down grandmas who were waved into the Capital on Jan 6th. I’m sure there’s nothing to see there… so look at the CCP’s 2020 election interference. They’ll do nothing about it, because a foreign government interfering in our elections isn’t nearly as offensive… as Americans protesting it.

Then again, maybe the news story is organic and it came out now because they just discovered it. Since the story seems so complete, we should expect immediate charges filed against the numerous individuals involved. The indictments should flow with the same ferocity as the Jan 6th indictments did. That will show us that this is indeed a real news story that has teeth and legs. If however, no further investigations, or charges are filed, then we can rest assured that this story was just a distraction… so the elite can memory hole some other news story they don’t want us to pay attention to, or talk about. Because when the corruption is as pervasive as it is in our governments, we must be kept in a deep dark cave, with only the shadows they want us to see projected before us.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Breaking The Cycle Of Power and Corruption

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, opportunities to break a cycle of power and corruption are few and far between, so when we get one, as we do today, squandering it is not only foolish, it will lead to retaliation when the administrative state gets back in power. One only needs to read the story of Dion in Plutarch’s Lives. He overthrew a despot, gave the tyrant mercy and squandered his chance to right the ship… allowing the tyrant of Syracuse to slip back into power and he exacted brutal revenge on Dion’s allies and the people of Syracuse. The outcome was worse than the start. I submit this isn’t an isolated, but storied example, but the normal cycle when an opportunity to oust a despotic government is wasted. We are in such a time. However, I worry this chance is being wasted, with terrible consequences if it is.

There is no more dangerous bear than a wounded bear. The beast will fight with a ferocity and abandon that makes it a mindless killing machine. Powerful people whose egos have been wounded are no different. The moment they get the chance they strike with ferocity and abandon to ensure they never get wounded again. When the bloodletting is over they might regret some of it… but it’s too late then. Like when Alexander, in a drunken rage, murdered Cletius… to whom Alexander owed his very life. That’s why I believe that once it’s back in power the deep state will move, ruthlessly, to make sure it never gets another Trump to deal with. No matter what it takes. When the bloodletting is over, the administrative state can regret in comfort and leisure.

Ronald Reagan cut the power of the State even though he had a congress beholden to the administrative state. By talking around the gatekeepers and congress directly to the people, he convinced us that cutting the power of the State would result in prosperity. People demanded his agenda be pushed through… and it delivered prosperity. So much so popular music adopted songs like The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades. The zeitgeist moved decisively to limited government. George Bush then exploited the end of the Cold War, turning it into a globalist progressive long march. He called it… The New World Order. Then set himself to re-empowering the administrative state. So another Reagan couldn’t get elected again. It worked… until it didn’t.

We have seized the dragon’s den but Trump’s appointees are squandering this opportunity. Appeasing the dragon until it returns. Hoping it will spare them… but history proves otherwise. So the administrative state is allowed to stonewall Trump’s executive orders, maintain abuse as usual, and build up the military industrial complex. Instead of using this chance to limit the power of the State, Trump’s very appointees are working for the bureaucracy… not the American people, or Trump for that matter. Not all of them. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. astounds me, as do Tulsi Gabbard and Harmeet Dhillon. All three are doing what they can to dismantle the deep state, but without the backing of the DOJ or FBI, their efforts will quickly come to naught when the administrative state is back in power.

Tinkering around the edges won’t work because the core is corrupt. George Bush undid Reagan’s legacy of limited government in four years. Because even as the courts stand in the way of dismantling the deep state, they will facilitate its rebirth. Unless the soil is salted. Reagan started it, and Trump has to finish it. The bureaucracy is premised on the false notion that concentrated authority, the experts running the world from the top down are far better than the distributed authority of limited government. This means we’re fighting not only the corrupt actors and the deep state, but the very idea of a deep state. We must limit it through law and discredit the idea of expert despots altogether… salting the soil of despotism to protect future generations from it. If we don’t act… the deep state will be ruthless.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

 

When the nation falters while the elite live large,

The country’s listing and moving like a barge,

Inflation erodes,

Crime corrodes,

And the fault rests with the people in charge.

 

In some places ideas just can’t be kenned,

Invention threatens the paradigm to upend,

A zealot’s ingratiation,

There will be stagnation,

In a land where innovation means your end.

 

The elite are well known to be fraidy cats,

Worried about ideas, fleas, and dingbats,

On an FBI watch list,

Catholic nuns amiss,

Now they’re afraid of men in tuxedos and feathered hats.

 

There is a place that’s freedom’s nexus,

Where people drive trucks not a lexus,

From the Cross Timber’s hills,

To the southern bogs and rills,

That place of liberty has always been called Texas.

 

Wrong speak makes us haters despicable,

Gate keepers expose our racism invisible,

Wrong think is sin,

So take it all in,

Because a raw nerve’s outrage is predictable.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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On Leftist Violence

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the left is violent at its core. The evidence, historic and topical, is undeniable, and the conclusion that the left exploits violence as a strategy is the only one that can be reached. So if one is violent in nature, the left is the ideal place for them. Progressives, however, will not tolerate any violence used against them. This creates a double standard, where violence is tolerated… if it’s from the left. Riots characterize leftist political agitation, from today’s “No Kings” riots to the 2020 Summer of Love. This predilection to violence is magnified when we tolerate it, and by the tacit approval of the administrative state. The deep state further encourage such antics when they drag their feet in prosecutions, and then pay rioters millions for “violating their Constitutional Rights.”

In Mein Kampf, Hitler said that the reason he established the Brown Shirts was to keep the Bolsheviks from violently dispersing his rallies. In other words, the violence of the Nazis was a direct result of the violence inflicted on them by their political foes, the communists. The reason Hitler was forced to go to such extremes was because the Weimar government wouldn’t do anything about the communists’ violent tactics. The rallies of the Weimar loyalists were also targeted by the Marxists to great effect… not only keeping the moderate message from getting out but driving everyone to the Nazis. The Brown Shirts would have fierce street battles with the communists to protect their rallies, so they could meet in peace, even if only to plot more violence. Showing tolerance of violence only encourages it.

In every union strike there is a threat of violence. From both the corporation and the union… all of it directed at the innocent worker. The union bosses and the corporate executives are free from the violence they prescribe to the rest, though. The scab is threatened with beatings, and the picketers are threatened with losing their jobs, and even gangs with clubs breaking up the picket lines. Even as both the unions and corporate executives favor the left. The unions because their grift is protected, and the executives because their lobbyists manipulating top-down economics allows them to monopolize their markets. Both use violence if it suits them. Because materialists aren’t concerned with right or wrong, the afterlife or the state of their soul, they demand results here and now.

The left generally holds atheistic materialism as their core philosophy. They claim to follow the “scientific method,” though a bastardized version, to be sure. In their view, consensus establishes a paradigm that can’t be overturned by evidence. Indeed, all attempts to falsify their paradigm are met with slander, attacks on credentials, and ostracism. This means what they want to be true must be true, and therefore any evidence to the contrary must be false. In other words, they’re idealists who think they’re pragmatists. Take this mindset to its logical conclusion and you get people who are willing to break a few eggs if they want an omelet. Because there are no immortal consequences… only temporal advantages. So why wouldn’t people who believe such things exploit violence?

It’s obvious that the more socialist a nation is… the more expansionist it is as well. While the US was in the position right after the Cold War ended to conquer the world by military might… it didn’t. By contrast, communist China expanded into Tibet and Mongolia at the first opportunity. Moreover, it threatens war with all its neighbors over “disputed” land. The Nazis were socialists, so were on the left, not right. The racist argument is undermined by the fact that the leftist Woodrow Wilson was also an unapologetic bigot. Therefore, looking at the historical data of leftist expansionism, the violence that accompanies all leftist organizations, and even the leftist violence we see on our streets today, all illustrate the violent nature of the leftist ideology. So if we want it to end, we should stop tolerating it.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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