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Monday, March 9, 2026

LIAM OUT LOUD: So learn to be thankful for enemies rather than perplexed or angered by them.


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If you find yourself feeling annoyed, angry, or impatient with the world or the people in it, I have some advice worth taking seriously.  Negative emotions are almost always the result of reality failing to meet our expectations.  You have no control over the world or the people in it. Most people barely have control over themselves.  That leaves only one variable that you can govern reasonably: your expectations.  

Marcus Aurelius understood this well.  He advised beginning each morning by reminding yourself that you'll encounter the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, and unsocial.  Once you accept this frame, once you accept that undesirable people exist and always will, you stop feeling shocked or personally wronged when you encounter them.  Go a step further, and admit that parts of you are undesirable as well and the reaction softens more.  You're no longer offended.  You are simply meeting expectations.  At that point, irritation gives way to something more useful, gratitude even.  Why wouldn't you want to learn from someone else's mistakes instead of paying the full cost of making them yourself?  With this mindset, angry, bitter, resentful, lazy, and ignorant people you encounter are no longer obstacles that you failed to avoid.  They become walking lessons.  The wise man encounters a fool and improves himself.  The fool encounters a fool and acts foolishly.  There may even be something shameful in allowing such people to unsettle us.  As Epictetus put it, if someone were to hand your body over to a stranger, you would be outraged; yet you think nothing of handing over your mind to anyone who provokes you allowing it to be disturbed and confused. So learn to be thankful for enemies rather than perplexed or angered by them.  Used properly, they become fuel for self-improvement.  Used poorly, they drag you down into the same resentment that consumes them. 

Thursday, May 29, 2025

LIAM OUT LOUD: In [Nietzsche's] view, women, particularly in their role as caregivers and moral enforcers, tend to prioritize safety and compassion over risk and freedom. In that instinct, while natural, is easily weaponized by totalitarian systems.

women have been propagandized to see every relationship as a power dynamic, except one with the State, which is ironically the centralization of raw power.  They've been told that to rely on a man is weakness but to rely on a bureaucracy is empowerment. . . . A woman without her own child often directs her maternal instincts towards abstract causes infantilizing minorities under the guise of social justice. --Liam Out Loud

George Orwell once wrote, "Women are always and inevitably on the side of the state."  He wasn't being misogynistic, he was making a psychological observation.  In his view, women, particularly in their role as caregivers and moral enforcers, tend to prioritize safety and compassion over risk and freedom.  In that instinct, while natural, is easily weaponized by totalitarian systems.  When conformity is marketed as compassionate, control is rebranded as care, the State taps into the feminine psyche to enforce ideological obedience.  

Now consider this.  Men will do almost anything to attract a mate, so when the state captures women through propaganda, redefining tyranny as empathy and compliance as virtue, men follow, especially those who can't compete in the traditional dating market.  They feminized themselves and trade strength for submission.  This is what evolutionary biologists call the "sneaky fucker" strategy, low-status males mimicking feminine traits or moral positions in hopes of reproductive access.  

And while all of this unfolds, families disintegrate.  Single motherhood, a top predictor of poverty and social dysfunction, becomes the norm.  Children from single-parent homes are far less likely to climb the economic ladder, and who steps in as provider and protector?  Not the father.  The state.  But here's the kicker.  The state is funded disproportionately by men, so rather than supporting the women they married and raised children with directly, men subsidized the state, which in turn provides for women through social programs. Why?  Because women have been propagandized to see every relationship as a power dynamic, except one with the State, which is ironically the centralization of raw power.  They've been told that to rely on a man is weakness but to rely on a bureaucracy is empowerment.  This is not progress.  This is dependency with a new face, and both men and women are suffering.  The childless middle-aged woman and the incel are two sides of the same broken culture.  A woman without her own child often directs her maternal instincts towards abstract causes infantilizing minorities under the guise of social justice.  What we are witnessing from psychologically unwell men and women is Nietzsche's concept of ressentiment, envy dressed up as morality.  The strong became evil.  The week became good.  Strength became tyranny.  We now live in a pathologically soft society that sides even with those who harm it, where punishing crime feels unfair, and victimhood is the highest virtue.  Nietzsche called them the tarantulas, those who preach justice but act from bitterness.  They don't want to uplift the weak, they want to drag down the strong.  Orwell saw them too.  "Most middle-aged socialists while theoretically pining for classless society clean like glue to their miserable fragments of social prestige."

These bitter, well-educated, and affluent types don't actually care about the downtrodden, they weaponize them.  The real target is success, competence, independence, because those qualities expose their own inadequacies.  But the answer to pathological femininity isn't pathological masculinity.  It's not swinging the pendulum too far in the other direction.  The answer is balance.  Masculinity and femininity are not enemies, they're symbiotic.  We've simply overcorrected.  We escaped a world where masculinity once tyrannized femininity only to arrive in a world where femininity is tyrannizing masculinity.  We are not oppressed by patriarchy, we are being suffocated by pathological softness, envy, and resentment, and unless we recognize this imbalance, the future will not be free.  It will be emotionally manipulated, morally confused, and biologically unsustainable.

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