Clif High - Arrogant bastard

Jan. 30, 2025 - Clif High

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Arrogant bastard

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	Hello humans, hello humans.
	January 30.
	My God, we haven't even made it out this month yet.
	30th of January, 4.09 a.m. on the Pacific coast here.
	There's gonna be a lot of coffee slurps on this one because I shouldn't be up this early.
	I think it's you know, planetary alignment or working too hard or something.
	Anyway, so um so I'm gonna be an arrogant bastard here.
	Uh on a couple of different levels, all right.
	Um in my chores uh the other day here, yesterday, I had to pick up some stuff, and I stopped off at um uh hardware store.
	And uh reasonably, I mean, actually, it's quite surprising to see the level of activity, a bunch of guys buying stuff to go build things, right?
	And uh most of these guys are uh well, they're all younger than me.
	I'm 72 this year.
	Uh but um most of these guys were young men.
	There was this one uh Hispanic guy and this other and this white guy, and they were standing there fiddling with stuff that I wanted to get around them to select what I needed, but I just happened to listen for a couple of minutes and and I intruded, okay.
	It it wasn't it turned out to be it was okay for them, it wasn't wise for me because it kept me there about an extra 45 minutes.
	What happened was these two guys were were discussing, they're maybe uh the one guy's 26.
	I asked him, the white guy, right?
	Because he was the one he was telling his um Hispanic friend there, his woes about this woman.
	This woman had him tied up in knots.
	He didn't express it that way, right?
	And at first I wasn't really sure he was what he was what he was trying to get across.
	Um because his metaphor was uh inappropriate.
	He doesn't have any frame of reference, and that's what I took away.
	So I talked to these guys for about 45 minutes and and told this kid about uh, you know, where I, as an arrogant bastard, thought he was going wrong in trying to deal with this woman.
	All right, and I shocked him, and and his Hispanic friend is also, and um, and uh the uh they were his friend was laughing at him, okay, because of his shocked reaction.
	But but it came down to this.
	Um, so let me preface and say, I am a romantic.
	Okay, that's a person that believes in this concept of romance.
	And you can go look it up and stuff.
	And uh I was in Europe when this um awareness came on me, and so at a young age, I started reading all these great romantic novels.
	Not like the, you know, the pulp trash kind of shit we've got now, but 18th century, you know, um uh really good Irish writers, all of this sort of thing.
	Uh so I had a very extensive level of um education in this by the time I was like in my teens.
	Um, another thing I'm gonna be an arrogant bastard about here is that I'm gonna presume to speak for women, and that's always dangerous for men.
	You can never assume you have any idea what's going on in a woman's mind, because her set of hormones are not the same as yours, and your minds are controlled by your hormones.
	So you'll never ever experience life like a woman.
	And that's why all this woke horseshit of men being able to be women is is bogus, right?
	Not only, you know, uh the physical stuff, but also this huge mental barrier to overcome.
	So I'm gonna be presumptive, right?
	First off, I'm gonna be arrogant to tell you guys that you know what you're doing wrong in your own damn life.
	That's really that's arrogant as hell.
	Then I'm gonna be arrogant and presumptive by saying that okay, I think I know how women think about this, or rather, how they want to think about it.
	Because a lot of that has been uh controlled by your guys' education.
	You you and the women you want to get at, right?
	You're all the same age, you've all gone to these weird woke schools that were infiltrated like 40 or 50 years ago, or even longer than that, 60 years ago, they took the um communists, the WEF, took over the teachers' college, colleges, and you know, infiltrated those, and then once you have those, every class you turn out from that point on is a woke teacher.
	They don't know how to do anything else.
	And so they're just out to be an activist and you know, change the social order and stuff.
	Well, the social order is changing back now.
	And uh I was pleased to hear this conversation once I understood what they were talking about, because it it meant that we are actually heading back that way.
	So this white kid, he's 26 years old, he's working, he's got a job, he's got money, and he finds his life very, very unfulfilling.
	And he happens to meet this woman, okay, and he doesn't know how to proceed because he's got no role models.
	That's what I had to determine in asking him stuff.
	And they were quite forthcoming.
	I was I was shocked because I was kind of prying into his life, and his buddy was saying, no, no, he's like this.
	He's he, you know, he thinks he's that way, but he's not really.
	Anyway, and so I was talking to him, and it ended up being like a 45-minute conversation, and we ended up with like maybe 10 guys there by the time I was done.
	Big knot in the in the aisle blocking everything.
	And then I said, you know, guys, I gotta pee and I gotta get out of here.
	And so they let me go.
	But anyway, so I'm a romantic, all right.
	So that taints everything I I do and see.
	Um, but but I saw in this kid that he he wanted to, so I, you know, he didn't couldn't even frame how he was approaching this in terms of what was his goal and stuff, and so I got real brutal and you know, um, and and helped him dig down and and discover that no, it was not just to go bed this woman.
	He wanted her, right?
	He wanted that personality and all of this kind of stuff, right?
	And I said, Aha, you want to woo this woman.
	And he's like, What?
	And I said, Yeah, you know, uh, you're 26 years old, you want a wife, and you're probably gonna want a wife and kids.
	And it's like kind of shocked him, you know.
	I don't know that he'd I don't know the circumstances of his life and you know, his family much.
	I mean, it was a brief contact.
	I so I I spent of that 45 minutes, I probably spent most of the time talking, right?
	Answering questions to these two guys, and then then the other guys that came around.
	But basically, it came down to this.
	His I had to I had to explain to him that his framework, that he's starting from um uh a deficit in terms of a framework.
	He's never uh been exposed to literature that inner tells him about the interaction of um men and women.
	They've they've stripped out all the movies, they've shoved all these trannies in there who have men minds.
	And that's why the males are so confused because the the trannies have the attractive woman body, but their minds are not as female.
	And so when these young men run into females, it's like, huh-huh, what's going on, right?
	Because women do not think like men.
	And so, so um uh I was talking to him about this sort of thing, and and I explained to him about how you can really suss this out in doing martial arts with a woman, right?
	And in Aikido, you have a disproportionately high number of uh women in classes.
	So I've been in Aikido classes that had 75% women.
	Mostly it's about 50%.
	It hovers around 50%, which again is very unusual.
	You go to a you know, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, maybe there's gonna be 10% women.
	Um, you know, that kind of thing, right?
	Uh and women by uh, by the way, uh for martial arts tend to favor the striking arts.
	Uh they like Aikido uh because it has the grappling moves, but they don't have to roll around with you know strange stinky men on the mats, right?
	So you you can choose your art.
	Anyway, one of the Hispanic guys said, Hey, you know, I know an Aikido dojo.
	So he's gonna go looking for a woman.
	But anyway.
	So there the kid there is um, he's telling me this stuff, and I had to frame it for him.
	And it was like a um like I had smackled him right across the face with a salmon.
	Uh when we were done, he was shaking my hands and you know, he's almost crying, giving me hugs and shit, because I had presided presented him a paradigm that had never been offered to him and told him how to go get more of it, right?
	Basically, I think the kid was a suppressed romantic.
	And so I presented things in terms of romance, the meaning of it, and in terms of you know, its interaction or its um overlay across the dynamics of male-female relationships, hormonal activity, yada yada yada.
	And that's why it took so long, had to lay out this thing, and you know me, I'm uh talk a lot, and it's um I start and try and build a base and and go from there.
	And so at the end of it, it was a good deal for the kids.
	Um, because I presented them a uh a paradigm that will allow them to uh grow uh some kind of knowledge base uh about themselves, which will lead them into um uh being able to better interact with women because as long as the the male is all screwed up here, you're not gonna get that correct interaction.
	Because he was shocked when I told him, uh, you know, do you really want uh basically I said, you know, you've got to get up off your ass and you have to be bold.
	You have to go on out there and risk getting your face slapped.
	You have to risk getting rejected.
	And when you are rejected, because it sure as fuck is going to happen, you have to stand there and take it, let it wash over you, and then go back again.
	Because there's a whole class of women that will reject you to see what kind of character you have.
	Are you are you able to persist and pursue?
	So, you know, women are judging you constantly.
	They have to, because of the nature of the female mind and how it's supposed to work in our social order, right?
	Women are the standard bearers.
	They're supposed to do all of this stuff.
	Our society is all screwed up because women have been screwed up.
	And we end up with all these um uh you know uh liberal women and the woke mind virus because of their interaction with the school system and the fact the fact that women are uh social animals in the way that men are not.
	So women will form a consensus in um in their mental attitudes with their social interaction.
	Men do not form a consensus that way.
	We form a consensus through power politics.
	So if you had tribal situations, you'll notice that the women are the gatherers.
	They go on out in groups.
	Well, groups for safety, you know, wild animals, etc., but also it's the part of their social nature that they talk and discuss and stuff while they're doing this work of you know, gathering the berries or whatever the hell, right?
	Whereas men, that's not the case.
	You have to be a silent hunter.
	You mostly hunt alone, unless you're going after a mammoth or something, right?
	So um, and even then you're gonna be quiet, you're gonna be sneaky.
	Um so it's a different kind of a life.
	It's supposed to be that way.
	This is the way the biology is made us, and we're gonna be going back in our social order to an understanding that biology is triumphant over uh a lot of like mental illness, right?
	So, you know, no man's ever gonna get get a uterus, and no man's gonna grow a uterus and have kids.
	And they'll never develop an artificial womb that is affected.
	So, sorry about the length of this one, but I wanted to point out that if you're a young man and you've got these feelings that you're having a very difficult time to express, then look to uh romance as a novel base,
	not like romantic novels, but like the I t uh basically the Irish and the Italian uh and French uh novels and discussions about romance and uh its place in our reality as a driving force.
	And these things were suppressed and they've been suppressed for years.
	I'll see if I can find a um uh I I read Italian, so it's difficult.
	Uh I'll see if I can find some good ones in English and post a little list, right?
	And if you've got if you've got male children, uh expose them to this, right?
	Let them see that side of themselves.
	Because at the core of it, you'll see this what really attracted me to romance when I was like, in terms of the the great novelists and stuff, was that they always had this central theme.
	Uh and and this was like um, I was reading stuff from the you know 800s.
	That that's difficult to get into, but but the um uh from the 1200s onward, especially into the 1700s um and 1800s of the novels, especially located in Italy and and in Ireland, um, you get this this basic theme that comes out of it.
	That at the core of it, romance is defining the relationship between um male and female, and that from the male's perspective, uh there is an aspect of love that is just rarely talked about, and that is that you've got you when you find that woman, you'll know, okay.
	She may rebuff you, you'll stand up there and you'll take it, go back at it or again, maybe she'll do it two or three times.
	Maybe you get into some fierce fights, but that's a really good key, right?
	Because if you look at it and you you're attracted to her and all of that, and you and you know, her mind appeals to you and this kind of thing, and we're not talking video game kind of interaction, right?
	We're talking up in your face where she's gonna tell you nasty things about yourself, and you're just gonna have to stand there and take it.
	If you like her, if you want her, right?
	And so the core of the romance novels always comes down to these three issues, and and it was almost formula in the way they were written.
	That uh the man expressed his love by fighting with the woman, fighting beside her, and fighting for her.
	And that's where the testosterone shows up in the males.
	And that's what got this little kid, uh, this guy, this 26-year-old kid, I shouldn't say little, bigger than I was.
	He's like six foot three or something.
	And you know, he's all twisted up because this woman vexed him.
	She just irritated the absolute fuck out of him.
	And he didn't know how to react, you know, and and his friend kind of had a hint of what's going on, uh, but really couldn't express it to him.
	They they just don't have a common vocabulary that allows them to understand the nature of that interaction.
	Anyway, so so there's my I'm being I'm done being an arrogant bastard here, but you'll find, in my opinion, that those women that rebuff you may be doing so out of their own uh their own uh situation, right?
	Protecting themselves, etc.
	etc.
	And the biology behind that.
	And it's like, hey guys, you know, you're not to be uh violent or aggressive or any of that kind of stuff, but um persistence furthers when universe favors.
	So you gotta be real smart to pick this shit out.
	But um check it out and go read some of the romantic literature and see how men interacted with women uh back before all of the technology and before all of the woke uh mind virus shit, right?
	It was a truly different world in those ages.

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