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 of this month yet.
	30th of January, 4.09 a.m. on the Pacific coast here.
	There's going to 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 I'm going to be an arrogant bastard here on a couple of different levels, all right?
	So in my chores the other day here, yesterday, I had to pick up some stuff and I stopped off at a hardware store.
	And 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 most of these guys are, well, they're all younger than me.
	I'm 72 this year.
	But most of these guys were young men.
	There was this one 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 I intruded.
	Okay, 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 discussing, they were maybe, the one guy's 26, I asked him, the white guy, right?
	Because he was the one who was telling his 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 what he was trying to get across because his metaphor was 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 told this kid about where I, as an arrogant bastard, thought he was going wrong in trying to deal with this woman.
	And I shocked him.
	And his Hispanic friend also.
	And his friend was laughing at him because of his shocked reaction.
	But it came down to this.
	Okay, 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 I was in Europe when this 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, really good Irish writers, all of this sort of thing.
	So I had a very extensive level of education in this by the time I was like in my teens.
	Now, another thing I'm going to be an arrogant bastard about here is that I'm going to 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 bogus, right?
	Not only, you know, the physical stuff, but also this huge mental barrier to overcome.
	So I'm going to be presumptive, right?
	First off, I'm going to 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 going to 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 controlled by your guys' education.
	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 communists, the WEF, took over the teachers' colleges and 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 change the social order and stuff.
	Well, the social order is changing back now.
	And I was pleased to hear this conversation once I understood what they were talking about because 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 shocked because I was kind of prying into his life and his buddy was saying, no, no, he's like this.
	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 aisle blocking everything.
	And then I said, you know, guys, I got a pee and I got to get out of here.
	And so they let me go.
	But anyway, so I'm a romantic, all right?
	So that taints everything I do and see.
	But I saw in this kid that he wanted to, so he 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, and helped him dig down 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, you're 26 years old, you want a wife, and you're probably going to want a wife and kids.
	And it's like, kind of shocked him.
	You know, I don't know that he, I don't know the circumstances of his life and his family much.
	I mean, it was a brief contact.
	So I spent of that 45 minutes, I probably spent most of the time talking, right?
	Answering questions to these two guys and then the other guys that came around.
	But basically, it came down to this.
	I had to explain to him that his framework, he's starting from a deficit in terms of a framework.
	He's never been exposed to literature that tells him about the interaction of men and women.
	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 trannies have the attractive woman body, but their minds are not as female.
	And so when these young men run into females, like, huh?
	What's going on, right?
	Because women do not think like men.
	And so I was talking to him about this sort of thing, 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 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 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, maybe there's going to be 10% women.
	That kind of thing, right?
	And women, by the way, for martial arts, tend to favor striking arts.
	They like Aikido because it has the grappling moves, but they don't have to roll around with strange, stinky men on the mats, right?
	So you can choose your art.
	Anyway, one of the Hispanic guys said, hey, I know an Aikido dojo.
	So he's going to go looking for a woman.
	But anyway, so the kid there is telling me this stuff, and I had to frame it for him.
	And it was like I had smackled him right across the face with a salmon.
	When we were done, he was shaking my hands and he was almost crying, giving me hugs and shit, because I had 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, in terms of its interaction or its overlay across the dynamics of male-female relationships, hormonal activity, yada, yada, yada.
	And that's why it took so long.
	I had to lay out this thing.
	And you know me, I talk a lot.
	I start and try and build a base and go from there.
	And so at the end of it, it was a good deal for the kids because I presented him a paradigm that will allow them to grow some kind of knowledge base about themselves, which will lead them into being able to better interact with women.
	Because as long as the male is all screwed up here, you're not going to get that correct interaction.
	Because he was shocked when I told him, you know, do you really want, basically I said, you know, you've got to get up off your ass and you have to be bold.
	You have to go 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 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, you know, liberal women and the woke mind virus because of their interaction with the school system and the fact, the fact that women are social animals in the way that men are not.
	So women will form a consensus 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 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, and even then, you're going to be quiet.
	You're going to be sneaky.
	So it's a different kind of a life.
	It's supposed to be that way.
	This is the way the biology has made us.
	And we're going to be going back in our social order to an understanding that biology is triumphant over a lot of like mental illness, right?
	So, you know, no man's ever going to get a uterus.
	No man's going to grow a uterus and have kids.
	And they'll never develop an artificial womb that is effective.
	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 expressing, then look to romance as a novel base,
	not like romantic novels, but like the basically the Irish and the Italian and French novels and discussions about romance and 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 I read Italian, so it's difficult.
	I'll see if I can find some good ones in English and post a little list, right?
	And if you've got male children, expose them to this, right?
	Let them see that side of themselves.
	Because at the core of it, you'll see, what really attracted me to romance when I was like, in terms of the great novelists and stuff, was that they always had this central theme.
	And this was like, I was reading stuff from the, you know, 800s.
	That's difficult to get into, but from the 1200s onward, especially into the 1700s and 1800s of the novels, especially located in Italy and in Ireland, you get this basic theme that comes out of it, that at the core of it, romance is defining the relationship between male and female.
	And from the male's perspective, there is an aspect of love that is just rarely talked about.
	And that is that 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 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're attracted to her and all of that, and 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 going to tell you nasty things about yourself and you're just going to 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 it was almost formula in the way they were written.
	That 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, 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 his friend kind of had a hint of what's going on, but really couldn't express it to him.
	They just don't have a common vocabulary that allows them to understand the nature of that interaction.
	Anyway, so There's my, 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 situation, right?
	Protecting themselves, et cetera, et cetera, and the biology behind that.
	And it's like, hey, guys, you know, you're not to be violent or aggressive or any of that kind of stuff, but persistence furthers when universe favors.
	So you got to be real smart to pick this shit out.
	But check it out and go read some of the Romantic literature and see how men interacted with women back before all of the technology and before all of the woke mind virus shit, right?
	It was a truly different world in those ages.

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