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The Rise of Transparent Self-Promotion

by Frost 05.14.2012
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The days of dishonest marketing are numbered. What is dishonest marketing? Here’s an example: The Confident Man Project Now, would I describe this website as shady? Maybe I wouldn’t go that far. I’d say there’s a chance the author really believes in what he’s doing, and that he’s really selling a good product. Hell, it [...]

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Meditation Junkies

by Frost 05.11.2012
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What’s the difference between a crackhead and a Yogi? Consider a few similarities: Both renounce all their worldly desires in pursuit of one all-important goal — Sahasrara/crack. Both are dirt poor, rail thin, and can be found panhandling all day. Both mutter and sing to themselves at uncomfortable volumes in public. Both give precisely zero fucks [...]

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Should You Quit Your Job and Travel The World? Fuck Yeah

by Frost 05.09.2012
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Once upon a time, a handsome young gentleman named Frost wrote that quitting your job to travel might not be a the best idea for young men. Well, mea fucking culpa. If you have a boring job that you aren’t learning anything from, quit it tomorrow and buy a one-way ticket to Bangkok. A lot [...]

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Breaking News: Violence, Gunfire, Events Make Shoppers Not Be Alive Anymore

by Frost 05.08.2012
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Events occurred in the neighbourhood of White Oaks, Michigan last week, when a jolly squad of mischief-making troubadours came upon a Whole Foods at 9:18 pm on Tuesday of last week and allegedly caused eighteen shoppers to no longer be alive. According to testimony by the one surviving shopper, who managed to conceal herself behind [...]

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The Manifesto

by Frost 04.23.2012
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I’m sitting in a dismal cafe in Udaipur, wilting in the scorching heat of summer in the Rajasthan desert. I’m surrounded by dust, feces, and hideous middle-aged women with bare midriffs, as is the fashion here. I am thrilled to be alive. Taking in my surroundings, there is only one thing to be happy about [...]

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The Rise and Fall of Tucker Max: Part 3

by Frost 02.09.2012
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Remember to read Part 1 and Part 2. It’s never fun to watch your heroes fall. I have zero shame in admitting that, for many years, Tucker Max was a hero to me. At the age of 20, when I first came across Max’s website, I was already a hard-drinking, skirt-chasing asshole. I didn’t need [...]

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The Rise and Fall of Tucker Max: Part 2

by Frost 02.08.2012
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This is the boilerplate on TuckerMax.com. It hasn’t changed since I found the site, sometime in 2005: I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a [...]

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The Rise and Fall of Tucker Max: Part 1

by Frost 02.07.2012
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Tucker Max had the opportunity to be a spokesman for a generation. He had the opportunity to lend his voice to the revolt against the effeminization of North American men, and maybe even lead a 21st-century revival of classical masculinity. Instead, he is pissing that opportunity away in the hopes that he’ll earn a morsel [...]

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A Reply to J.W. Black

by Frost 01.18.2012

Raging narcissist that I am, one of my self-indulgent Google alerts led me to this post by JW Black (read it first) here at In Mala Fide. I typed out a pretty lengthy reply, so I thought I’d paste it up here for all and sundry to read.  Greetings from Sihanoukville, Cambodia! This is an excellent post. There [...]

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Throwback Week, Day 6: 2Blowhards

by Frost 12.19.2011
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I have saved the Godfather of the Alternative Blogosphere for last. 2Blowhards, a group blog that employed considerably more than two authors over its lifespan, is now in retirement. If you’re even a little bit new to the alternative blogosphere, you’ve probably never even heard of it. Today, we change this. The 2Blowhards archive is, [...]

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Throwback Week, Day 5: Ferdinand Bardamu

by Frost 12.17.2011
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My favourite quote describing our esteemed host, Ferdinand Bardamu, is not actually about Ferd. It is by Mencius Moldbug, profiled in this series yesterday, contrasting Ludwig Von Mises and Thomas Carlyle: Carlyle is the greatest of all, however, because his vision is the broadest. The analytic power of Mises is much greater; when Mises and [...]

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Throwback Week, Day 4: Mencius Moldbug

by Frost 12.16.2011
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One of the consequences of reading alternative sources of information on topics such as health, careers, and dating, is the development of a healthy distrust for the mainstream. After you realize you’ve been lied to all your life about high-carb diets, safe careers, and traditional marriage, a man’s natural inclination is to start questioning other [...]

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Throwback Week, Day 3: Jack Goes Forth

by Frost 12.15.2011
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Roissy and Roosh were pioneers, and to this day they continue to walk the Manosphere as titans. Spend some quality time with their archives, as I suggested, but also follow their current and future work, as their best contributions may yet lie ahead of them. But while the first two installments of Throwback Week were [...]

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Throwback Week, Day 2: Roosh

by Frost 12.14.2011
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If you read Manosphere blogs, you already know Roosh V. But you’ve probably never asked why. Roosh is one of hundreds, if not thousands of Game bloggers. But while almost all of these labour in relative obscurity, Roosh has built one of the internet’s most popular Game, Travel and Lifestyle communities. The Roosh blog and [...]

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Throwback Week, Day 1: Roissy

by Frost 12.13.2011
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There are a few names used to describe the loose collection of blogs that address the intersection of gender politics and seduction — the Alternative Blogosphere, the Manosphere, the Evil Patriarchy. None has really caught on, and maybe it’s better that way. But if any single writer is worthy of this community’s eponymous tribute, it [...]

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Alternative Blogosphere Throwback Week

by Frost 12.12.2011

Our generation is retarded. I’ve expanded on this claim here and here. The nature of our retardation is information addiction. Our brains evolved in a world where it was essential for us to take notice of anything new in our environment. Any change in our surroundings likely meant a predator, another person, or something to [...]

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Energy is the X-Factor

by Frost 10.28.2011
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Willpower is vastly overrated. Whenever I’m in a positive state in my life, having “willpower” comes incredibly easily to me. On a high-energy day, I never have to force myself to have a great workout, grind though a tough and frustrating project, or get amped up to be social, meet girls, and have a good [...]

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Paul Elam Does Not Have the Answers You’re Looking For

by Frost 10.25.2011
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It’s a weird time we’re living in. If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve come to the conclusion that our society’s mainstream sources of information are broken. So like me, you’ve set out into the intellectual wild west known as the blogosphere. Out here, there are no laws, no certainties, and you have to make [...]

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