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🇫🇷 It was all a Dream.

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

You have to be really stupid to get married if you don’t want kid, especially as a man.

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Beginning in 2014, prestige industries decided they urgently needed to diversify. They didn’t purge established Boomers. Instead, they did everything possible to avoid hiring white millennial men.

This is the story of a generation derailed by DEI.
https://t.co/kUfmpHfaMH

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

the thing about calling DEI 'economic genocide' is that it undersells it

yes, young White men were systematically excluded from careers during their peak marriage years, but that's just first-order effects.

second-order: marriage market collapse. women date across and up. men without careers become invisible to the women who would have married them and disappear. the "eligible bachelor" pool shrinks.

third-order: fertility crisis. fewer marriages, fewer children. but it's worse than just men not marrying or having families. the women who "won" the DEI lottery got careers instead of families, delayed fertility until it was too late. DEI attacked family formation from both sides, excluded men from provider roles AND diverted women from their fertility window. everyone lost.

fourth-order: psychological. young men couldn't even name what was happening to them. the same institutions that excluded them told them they were "privileged", that complaining was proof of weakness. so they internalized failure as personal inadequacy rather than systemic rigging, retreated into depression, video games, porn. the symptoms we then pathologized as "male failure". the system broke them (on purpose) and blamed them for being broken.

fifth-order: institutional trust gone. once you know positions are filled by demographics rather than competence, every credential becomes suspect (if not a priori worthless). is your doctor qualified or a diversity hire? your pilot? your engineer? you can't prove any individual is incompetent, but you can't trust any individual is competent either. medicine skepticism, academic failure, media skepticism, none of this emerged organically. it was manufactured by the DEI hire you can't be sure is qualified to treat you.

sixth-order: reality became unspeakable. noticing any of this was a fireable offense. pointing out the obvious got you called a bigot, deplatformed or fired. pure totalitarian censorship and the problem couldn't even be acknowledged (until now, finally)
men knew they were being cheated but couldn't say it. women sensed something was wrong with the men but couldn't identify it. relationships poisoned by a dynamic neither party could name.

seventh-order: the feedback loop. fewer eligible men means more women competing for a shrinking pool, more women losing the marriage market, more resentment, more "men are trash", more support for DEI, fewer eligible men and the system accelerates itself.

and the worst part is that DEI was just the economic arm. the same people and institutions pushed the complete package
"toxic masculinity" to pathologize male identity
"the future is female" as explicit zero-sum framing delusion
"believe all women" to weaponize trust against men
"men are trash" to normalize open contempt
a coordinated ideological assault on family formation.

and it even had a business model. HR departments exploded (millions of jobs invented to administer the regime). DEI consultants became a multi-billion dollar industry. politicians got voting blocs dependent on racial grievance. established boomers kept their positions while their competition was eliminated.

the architects knew what they were doing
you don't accidentally build a system that specifically targets men during peak marriage years, tells them they deserve it, makes it unspeakable to complain, attacks their identity as toxic, promotes women into career tracks that burn their fertility, then acts confused when society collapses

if you wanted to suppress the fertility of a specific demographic, engineer the breakdown of trust between the sexes, and make it illegal to notice, the playbook would look exactly like this.

DEI should be held responsible for the fertility crisis, the marriage collapse, the epidemic of male depression and suicide, the destruction of institutional trust, the atomization of society, and the manufactured war between men and women

but DEI was the weapon
the people who designed it, funded it, made it mandatory, enforced it through HR, fired anyone who resisted, called all opposition hate and racism, built careers and industries on its maintenance, they knew. and they're the ones who should be remembered as the architects of one of the worst crimes against humanity

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head:
For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.

Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.

Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.

Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.

And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.

Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?

Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.

Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?

Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

Training for a marathon is a journey that taught me about running, but also about myself.

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

Three lessons I learned while training for my marathons:

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

3 - Solitude is part of the process.
Long runs can feel lonely, but they are also a chance to reflect.

It’s like meditation in motion.

The peaceful miles taught me resilience and provided an opportunity for introspection.

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Top 50 Personal Growth Books to Transform Your Life 📚

1. 📚 Atomic Habits – James Clear
2. 📚 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey
3. 📚 Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
4. 📚 How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
5. 📚 Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
6. 📚 The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
7. 📚 The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
8. 📚 Deep Work – Cal Newport
9. 📚 Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Angela Duckworth
10. 📚 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck
11. 📚 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* – Mark Manson
12. 📚 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert
13. 📚 You Are a Badass – Jen Sincero
14. 📚 Eat That Frog! – Brian Tracy
15. 📚 Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
16. 📚 The 5 AM Club – Robin Sharma
17. 📚 Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
18. 📚 The One Thing – Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
19. 📚 The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
20. 📚 Start With Why – Simon Sinek
21. 📚 Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
22. 📚 The Art of Happiness – Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler
23. 📚 Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
24. 📚 Unlimited Power – Tony Robbins
25. 📚 Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
26. 📚 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain
27. 📚 The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
28. 📚 Awaken the Giant Within – Tony Robbins
29. 📚 Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
30. 📚 Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway – Susan Jeffers
31. 📚 Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
32. 📚 Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
33. 📚 Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Daniel H. Pink
34. 📚 The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
35. 📚 Buy Yourself the Fcking Lilies* – Tara Schuster
36. 📚 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
37. 📚 How to Do the Work – Nicole LePera
38. 📚 The Attention Revolution – B. Alan Wallace
39. 📚 8 Rules of Love – Jay Shetty
40. 📚 Failing Forward – John C. Maxwell
41. 📚 Philosophy for Life – Jules Evans
42. 📚 Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It – Kamal Ravikant
43. 📚 The Gifts of Imperfection – Brené Brown
44. 📚 10% Happier – Dan Harris
45. 📚 Waking Up – Sam Harris
46. 📚 The Slight Edge – Jeff Olson
47. 📚 QBQ! The Question Behind the Question – John G. Miller
48. 📚 Stop Overthinking – Nick Trenton
49. 📚 Choose Wonder Over Worry – Amber Rae
50. 📚 An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth – Chris Hadfield

These Books reflect a mix of modern and classic self-improvement concepts​​​​.

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[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Milton Friedman on Government Spending

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

@monad_xyz Let's goooo

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@cryptodan19 Send

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

Pursue Pain to feel pleasure.

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

Hurt people hurt people.

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

“Exercise has a more profound and sustained positive effect on mood, anxiety, cognition, energy, and sleep than any pill I can prescribe”

- Anna Lembke, MD in Dopamine Nation

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

Scientists call it initially the seed of willpower, but more and more the seed of the will to live.

Your aMCC/willpower can grow throughout the lifespan by regularly doing undesired things, that are hard.

[Hellyes @iamhellyes]

Just finished the Huberman / Goggins podcast.

I highly encourage everyone to listen to it if you have the time but if you don't, at least listen to the 7 minutes part about the Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex: https://t.co/ftHuwZq39T