Never do anything on your own initiative and never make any plans without asking if you’re allowed to do it. Don’t just join the gym. Never plan a night out with friends.
Pretend that you’re just being considerate when really you want to foist all the responsibility onto her.
2. Overshare
Gossip like a woman to your wife, as if you’re just one of the girls.
Vomit out your feelings at every opportunity. Burden her with every little anxiety and fear. Make a habit of crying often. Treat her as an emotional crutch.
Act like an absolute mess at the merest hint of failure, conflict, or difficulty.
3. Never make any decisions
The magic words are, "I don't know. What do you want to do?"
Never be decisive. Always second-guess your own decision. Be silent until your wife steps in to save the day. Making a decision means you might make the wrong decision and look foolish, so better not to make any decision at all.
4. Nag your wife to work outside the home
It’s much easier to get your wife to collect a paycheck than to work to better yourself, seek out opportunities, or take on another job yourself.
Let her take on a more masculine position.
As a bonus, she’ll take on some more masculine traits, so you’ll have something to hold against her in the future.
Adbidate. Offload as much responsibility onto her as possible.
5. Never work with your hands
Hire someone else to mow the grass. Never build anything from scratch. Always call the plumber when there’s a clogged drain. Show no curiosity or interest in hobbies that involve tools or dirt or sweat.
Keep your hands soft and clean.
6. Roll over at the first sign of conflict
Don’t stand up for what you think is right. In fact, better not to have an opinion at all.
If you start standing up to your wife, she might think you would show some courage and stand up for something else in the future. That’s pressure nobody wants or needs.
Apologize just to keep the peace, even if it’s a lie.
7. Construct your identity around being a consumer
Measure your life by when the next Marvel movie, Star Wars show, or video game is coming out.
Prove you are a malleable piece of clay, shaped by any outside force stronger than a soft breeze. Don’t just enjoy these things.
Become obsessed with these things. Wrap your entire identity in pop culture.
8. Never let her be a woman
Never let her feel safe enough to be weak and vulnerable.
Scoff at any attempt to pretty up the house.
Be weak, so she is never tempted to rely on your strength for anything. A wet noodle should be more reliable than you.
Shrug in apathy whenever she tries on a new dress.
Act impatient and confused whenever you think she’s acting irrationally or emotionally.
Never desire her, and act as if you are ambivalent to her presence.
You don’t even have to do all of these. Just three or four, done consistently, will ensure your wife despises you almost as much as you despise yourself.
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A Colombian philosopher spent 80 years writing fragments that read like prophecies.
Known as the "Nietzsche from the Andes," he rarely left his library and published books that almost no one read.
His name was Nicolás Gómez Dávila, and he would have dominated X. Some bangers:🧵
“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”
You'll be more informed about current events by reading old books than by watching the news.
“Hierarchies are celestial. In hell, all are equal.”
Egalitarians hate beauty, and so wherever they are, hell follows.
is often celebrated or dismissed as environmentalist propaganda. This misconception is understandable. The film pummels the audience from the opening credits with a cartoonish version of human waste, prodigality, and corporate excess.
Towers of trash have replaced skyscrapers and the earth is bereft of all life except for robots and cockroaches.
If you asked a 6-year-old what the Earth would look like if adults kept littering, he might draw a similar picture.
For anyone not among Gaia’s faithful idolaters, the whole thing feels like you’re about to be scolded by your third-grade teacher for exhaling too much carbon dioxide, so I can forgive viewers who roll their eyes at the premise.
A recent study highlighted what everyone already knows, deep down.
Divorce places a generational curse on its children. The effects last for years, and unless someone stops the bleeding, they are passed down to the grandchildren.
Divorce is bad even for adult children.
Household income plummets by 50% and never fully recovers, even after a decade.
Kids who experience a divorce at a younger age are more adversely affected, surprising no one.