A Letter To The Young

Their world is dying – and they want you to with it.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There’s an entire society of fools trying to stop people like you from listening to people like me. They’ll tell you I’m dangerous or deranged, and they’ll ridicule me with baseless slander, not because they can prove me wrong - but because they’re desperate for you not to listen.

They’ve wrecked their lives and their civilization. Broken families, godlessness, antidepressants, birth control pills, promiscuity, debt, and childlessness are endemic - all evidence of decay, rather than prosperity, and yet they think themselves an authority.

And they will not fall into the abyss quietly. No - they want to drag the young down with them, clinging to every wrangled privilege and grubbily obtained cent on their way out.

They are impotent custodians representing the final impotent throes of a dying civilization - defeated not by its incompetence, but by its hubris - their lifestyles and values the very cause of its decay. And yet despite their dysfunction, they do not learn, relentlessly rallying against any wisdom that offends their all too delicate sensibilities.

They are a failed generation of people, trying to breed more copies of themselves - gatekeepers who squandered their inheritance, speaking with the arrogance of sovereigns unfit to preside, and history will render judgement against them as such.

They do not have better arguments. They are not pro-truth. They are not pro-reason, and they have desecrated and squandered much beauty.

They have nothing to teach except what not to be (via negativa) - and yet their preachings are the loudest and the hollowest. This is why they favour censorship. Their ideas cannot compete. When you cannot compete, you must engage in protectionism - whether economic or ideological, "SHUT IT DOWN!" is their rallying war cry.

Their bodies are dying, and their ideas with them - and yet they won’t go off into that gentle night quietly. And that’s why they want you - the young - to believe what they believe. Not because they care about you, and not because they want to help you become stronger or build a better life - because the wisdom required to functionally manifest such benevolent parental aspects is at scale absent, but because they are ideologically possessed - members of a godless religion they want you to be part of. And like a virus, they need new hosts before the old ones perish. Except many of them don't have children (or too few) and so they can only live on by corrupting other people's.

That makes you their target host.

And it is for this reason that these fools - whether maliciously or unwittingly - all too often act as saboteurs rather than guides.

Do not trust those older than you, simply because they are older than you. The modern world allows many fools to reach old age - it is no longer proof of wisdom. An elder was not historically esteemed simply because they were old, but because it was implicit that to reach that age required a certain level of skill, from which could be inferred a certain degree of insight and understanding of the world.

In the modern world, these assumptions collapse because advancement into one's older years is no longer contingent upon wisdom, and because society changes at an ever greater pace for which they did not come of age in, are not adapted to, and subsequently cannot keep up with. This is not to say there are not timeless (dare I say, immutable) fundamentals inherent to human nature that can be passed on, and still remain as true today as they were 2,000 years ago - but it does mean that someone who made their money or dated say, 20, even 10 years ago cannot give you solid advice on how to replicate the successes they had, because the world they achieved those things in is so vastly different from the world you're trying to achieve them in.

Good advice today becomes obsolete tomorrow - this is the unfortunate downside of the beast that is a socially decaying but rapidly technologically advancing society, initially catapulted by the revolution that is the internet, followed by the hyperconnectivity of social media, which has at present culminated in the fever pitch that is the emergence of AI. You never really get a chance to catch up, because you're in a process of infinite adaptation. And so just as you've adapted, all of a sudden you're maladapted again. Not because you've changed, but because the environment has.

So always be sceptical, and always think for yourself. This isn't to say you cannot value the opinions of others, but it does mean you should try your hardest to think as rigorously as your mind and courage permits.

When most of your elders are spiritual failures - dilettantes in religion, consumed by self-worship, promiscuity, and materialism - they are not fit to lead you. They are failing as the stewards of civilization, as protectors and providers of their children, for they have left you a most heinous mess - spiritually, socially, and quite often - financially.

You are the generation told to become everything - while being given next to nothing to become it with, and to compound matters, they are trying to actively program you with value systems that will destroy you - to say the pressure on you is immense, is to quite frankly, egregiously understate it - because you, in no uncertain terms, are paying the ultimate price for the failures of your forefathers.

As society crumbles, safety nets vanish, and tribalism rises as opportunistic foreigners taste blood in the water and seek to pillage (both sexually and economically) the rotting fruits of a once great society, the young as they burst in their nascence into adulthood find themselves in a brutal, winner takes all game.

There will be many casualties - people who, without the sense of fraternity, community and social scaffolding of a high-functioning society, will perish in the chaos.

But those who not only survive, but transcend - they will be some of the greatest men and women to ever live, and in being so, will create some of the most robust and beautiful families - think pioneer spirit - think founding stock.

You see, even though you might not realise it, and although some conveniently deny it with fingers in their ears as they wilfully ignore social rot and marvel at all the technological progression - you are in fact in the "hard times create strong men" phase. You will have to learn everything for yourself, build a great deal by yourself, and utilise every immediate resource at your fingertips just to even be in with a chance of having a good life.

The most capable among you will become formidable precisely because you had so little, and precisely because you had to do and become and be so much just to have the opportunity to stand in this world rather than crawl along it. Gone are the days of paying for your university with a summer job, or buying a house with a mere three years of manual labour.

And yes, at times it will seem bleak. The apathy of nihilism will whisper to you: "What’s the point? Everything’s broken. Life is hard. I've messed up too much." People always thinks it's too late to become something irrespective of age, because regret is self-condemning and cowardice seeks exit ramps - but in truth, it never is. It might get harder as you get older, yes, but with sufficient will, improvement is never impossible.

Tides always change, and the pendulum always swings. And you are part of that shift, a part of that cultural return - a once (and latently still) brilliant people, who must lift themselves out of perdition through a return to greatness, clarity and beauty. Where there is not only dysfunction from inversion and delusion and destructive chaos, but also structure and order and chaos in its generative form, so that we may reap all the coalescing beauty that comes from the perfectly harmonised relationship between these dualistic tension generating forces as a microcosm of the ideal union between man and woman - but I digress, forgive a man for his poetic indulgence.

Some of you are depressed. Some of you are angry. Others are just apathetic. But you should know that despite the injustice, selfishness, and sheer unfairness - you are alive now. This is your chance. This is your war. This is your opportunity. Every generation has its defining challenges, and this is yours - to make something out of nothing whilst being sabotaged by almost everything - to be the rose that grows between the cracks in the concrete.

You have the internet. You can find kindred spirits, make money, build, and learn in ways your ancestors could only dream of. Unlike them, you are not trapped by tribe or geography - you are not limited to the fifty to one hundred people you grew up around, doomed to work the same profession your father had, or date one of the only 3-30 viable (but often far from ideal or even desirable) people from your local town or village.

There are traps everywhere - distractions, propaganda, poisons. Your task is to navigate this labyrinth of sheer fuckery, and find your way out. Be sure to bring string - you will need it.

Do not get brainwashed - deprogramming is expensive. What was adaptive in the past can be maladaptive in the future. Learning is hard enough - you do not want to forfeit too many years unlearning.

It is, for example, easier to never buy into self-destructive narratives (like gender equality), than to deprogram them later. Your goals - strength, prosperity, excellence - are not aligned with the goals of the dying generation. Their goal is not to help you win (in a proper mentorial and custodial role, as is their divine duty), but to maximise shareholder value, while ensuring their values live on, even if it ruins you in the process. Be acutely aware of this conflict of interest in your dealings with them.

I likewise say the following out of realisation, rather than from vanity: people like you need people like me to speak sense to you - because most of you are forced to suffer fools, which is why you're here reading this. And they don’t even want you to have that. They don’t want you to reshape the failed reality they've built by learning from dissidents, philosophers and other associated "dangerous thinkers" or "radicals". They want us to disappear, and for you to be anaesthetised, compliant and ignorant.

So do not blindly trust what society says, or blindly accept what you are told. Do not rebel purely for its own sake, but to determine what is true, correct, functional, meaningful, and beautiful.

Thinking for yourself has never been more necessary, but neither has collaboration ever been so advantageous (because so many are so isolated), nor come at such a premium (due to how much societal trust has fallen).

Build relationships and alliances with people who prove their integrity, and demonstrate a capacity for resourcefulness and higher thought. You will need all the allies you can get in the coming times ahead, for as great as you may be, no man or woman is an island. So waste nothing, and waste nobody. Think hard, work diligently, cultivate peace, and as always, in the grand chaotic mess of it all - be beautiful.

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