So what's your plan?

The lost generation

If you haven’t read it, Compact writer, Jacob Savage has written about the depersonning of white America in the economy.

It’s a good read. It’s a dismal read.

A growing number of men are discovering that what they thought was personal failure was actually a broad cultural and economic realignment that quietly locked them out. As elite institutions reshuffled access in the name of progress, resentment, regret, and denial replaced any serious plan for adaptation. This piece argues that blame is irrelevant and reversal unlikely. The only winning move is pragmatic: men pooling knowledge, bypassing gatekeepers, and building parallel paths wherever opportunity still exists.

The great Meh,

To pithily summarize it, white male leftist progressive allies tell their stories about how in academia, Hollywood, the 4th estate and finance have refused them entry into the economy in favor of women, gays, and minorities. Boomers and older GenX were grandfathered in as it was too difficult to remove them.

That’s right. The west already had its cultural revolution, and you thought you were just being out competed. Luckily that cultural revolution now has immigrants pulling a 2.0 [my emphasis]

I did find it funny, that while the feminist, progressive allies (shitlibs, I’m told are their preferred pronouns) found out they were selected against, their reaction wasn’t to get angry, or second guess their ideals, but to lament that they didn’t see the writing on the wall sooner and make way. “I should have known better”

I also find it funny that the conservative response (of those under 40) is to get angry at everyone, which they should, but then sit back with an “I told you so” or a “This just means what we build out of the rubble will be better. They did us a favor”

And the older generations look at this thinking that bootstraps would have fixed official government policy on the de-economicization of an entre two generations of men.

It’s guys that didn’t ally hard enough to pivot, and guys saying they weren’t fired, they quit and the older people on the last chopper out of Saigon calling it a skill issue. And this sounds awful flippant and dismissive, because it is. It’s no different than dating has been changing over the years. there’s a joke about Men today work ten times as hard as their grandfathers to compete for women who are ten times worse than their grandmothers.

And it’s not about whose at fault, who is to blame, what punishments should be doled out, because none of that will happen, at all. What, all of a sudden society is going to vilify an entire generation of women because they went feral for 20 years on the economy? Not a chance. We aren’t hardwired for that, we are hardwired for female deification, not vilification.

So the question to ask is: What are you going to do about it? No one will ask, but everyone will struggle with it personally.

Now you can hate the red pill dudes for misogyny, or crass language, or whatever, but the one thing I’ve enjoyed about what it is (used to be) was guys swapping notes about what to do about it, as opposed to navel gazing about what happened. Economically, there’s some of that, but it’s balkanized. Podcast bros making bank, influencers, writers… any space that doesn’t have gatekeeping mechanisms (and therefore, DEI initiatives) has seen an influx of men creating value.

Expatriation is a real thing now. I’m not talking about passport bros going to Thailand for sex. I’m talking families going to Uruguay for private school. London residents moving to Albania for quiet safe streets. Mexico, even with the cartels, are safer than St Louis. The saying is ‘Go to where you’re treated best’ and a lot of guys are packing their families up and doing just that.

And in my own absurdist humor, I would find it hilarious if the entirety of India moved to America and Canada, while Canadians and Americans move into India, clean up the trash, and turn it into paradise. But now I’m just being goofy.

To end this. There are many guys who have already tried to answer how to adapt to this horse shit. They are spread out and balkanized. Should you find yourself in a space, whether political, sexual, economic, or hobbyist, where men are swapping notes about what to do, you’re part of the solution.

Which as always, is local. And the more cross pollination the better. Warhammer fans trying to get around women ruining Warhammer talking with expatriates and passport bros about where to move to get away from crumbling infrastructure, no women, trans-free schooling, and a functioning real estate market talking with Red Pill dudes on dating, sex and relationships in the SMP (sexual marketplace) talking with Hollywood working rejects about indie projects talking with …

You get the idea. There is no greater force for personal growth than a collection of men with a similar purpose getting together and collaborating on the problem.

I contend that younger men in the West have been systematically excluded from key economic and cultural institutions by deliberate policy and ideological shifts, not by meritocratic failure. Moral outrage and generational blame are distractions, and that the only realistic response is pragmatic adaptation through parallel institutions, male networks, and geographic mobility.