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The Socrates Anthology just went live on Vimeo Video on Demand. The anthology includes all video content of Socrates as produced by The 21 Convention.

- The Relationship Talk Your Father Never Gave You (58 mins)
- Intimate Relationships : A Contrarian Guide (92 mins)
- Socrates The Documentary (63 mins)
- Socrates Florida T21C interview
- Socrates Texas T21C interview

Buy it all separately, $11. Buy it all together, $6. Or you can just get the new talk for $5. Your choice.

All of the videos can be streamed in HD for 1 year, 100% advertisement free. Vimeo works well with most tablet and mobile devices as well (just download the app). Vimeo even works on your Xbox 360 =).

New content is rolling out daily via Vimeo VOD. You can also download …

• There’s No Such Thing as Cardio by James Steele II
• Fitness, Health, and Liberty by Doug McGuff M.D.
• Rapid Escalation by Liam Mcrae

Doug and James also come with bonus presentations from previous events.

Sock’s video is out next on Youtube. It’s epic. Once I started reviewing it I knew I couldn’t wait any longer to publish it.

The full video will take ~8 days to release on Youtube, plus it has plenty of ads and no download capability, so this is a neat way to get early and premium access to the content. Once you download the videos they are your’s forever as well and are easy to take on the go with a phone or tablet.

Per usual, I am keeping the prices as low as possible to discourage pirating. Vimeo is a great platform too, check it out.

Update : here is version 2 of the poster.

Morgan Freeman gets it. Don’t chase. It’s that simple, even if it’s not always easy. This truly is “the secret” to picking up women.

Secret as in the most effective behavioral change you will *ever* make. Ever, ever, ever.

And what does it mean on a deeper level?

As you might have guessed, it’s a re-focusing on and of the self. It’s the application of selfishness to dating.

And I am not convinced there is a way around it for all the “not my personality” naysayers.

When someone says that, I think it’s tantamount to saying “strength training just isn’t my cup of tea”, which is tantamount to saying “teeth brushing is just not my thing, you know?”.

You’ll be amazed how passionately some people will defend the accumulation of past chasing experiences too. I’ve been there, and it’s stupid. Don’t waste your time.

Live your life, fight for your values tooth and nail, and let women flock to you.

For all for the “this is just theory jockey nonsense” naysayers … how the hell do you think I landed my girlfriend?

(Interesting fact : I was not going to give that interview because she was my girlfriend, but she encouraged me to do it anyway, and I’m glad I did).

• Thanks @ Andy Yosha for the video find.
• Related post : Why Women Should Always Chase Men

So I think I was recently the recipient of an award. I was kindly included on a list of unemployable bloggers. Truly a moment to remember in life, to receive such an honorable mention.

I’m only half kidding. This is actually a great article, and a great list of fellow bloggers.

The article does indeed hit close to home, especially the bit about not being able to handle corporate employment. Truth be told, I am unable to handle having a boss. Nearly every “job” I have ever held has ended in a serious disagreement between me, and someone who is a superior to me in said company or organization.

For example, I worked at the now bankrupt Circuit City back in highschool. I was very good at what I did, simple as the job was. I won sales awards, got raises, excelled in morning dodgeball competitions (seriously), etc. But as time went on, I realized this was because I was left alone.

You see, in the beginning, our store manager was closing in on retirement. A very attractive late 40s cougar with fake tits and all, if you will. As it turned out though, she was also stealing Ipods by the dozen and giving them out to her friends during the holiday season, when they were in high demand.

The regional manager didn’t like this, and forced her to resign, or face criminal charges. This left the store without a manager who didn’t care in the first place, for some months.

Anyway, we finally had some managerial shifts in the store, including the addition of a 5 foot 1 inch virgin in his late 20s. As you might imagine, this was a very bitter, angry person.

My employment at the store abruptly ended when he threatened not to transfer me to a Circuit City in my new college town (Orlando Florida), and I responded by telling this person to “go fuck himself”, and proceeded to take my company shirt off and throw it in his face.

As personal friends from high school and college will tell you, this was not the last time this would happen.

Stories aside, I find it highly amusing that I am (I think accurately) considered unemployable. At least unemployable by anyone who I have no interest in working with, or for. I say this because I am employed by The 21 Convention LLC. Of course, I am also the majority stockholder of the company, and it’s founder, and it’s CEO, and it’s president and it’s figurehead, and so on.

All that said, great organization, very smart for employing me =D.

Truly, you have to work for or operate a nightmare of a company to not consider me “employable”.  My entrepreneurial experience is well in excess of the value of an MBA, if such a chunk of paper is to even be considered valuable at this point.

I can tell you as the CEO of a successful small business, the last thing I am interested in seeing is an MBA or similar degree from an “Ivy League” school. Why?

That degree says one thing to me : standardized mind.

It’s not only not impressive, it’s ironically, harmful to your qualifications. Putting your mind through a meat grinder and having it come out with contradictions, statism, subjectivism, and all sorts of holes, is unattractive, if not disgusting, and tragic.

To those of you who would scoff at the idea that my mistake filled business experience is light years more valuable than a degree from an archaic university  I would one-up you and state that the organization itself is an immensely superior learning institution, to any number of formal academic institutions.

That’s probably as much their fault as it is mine. I certainly didn’t encourage this country’s schools to teach contradiction filled illogical fucking nonsense not fit for a work of fiction. They did that all on their own.

They fostered their own irrelevancy, and I forged an important, useful organization out of thin air by the sweat of my own brow.

Brainwashing young men and women is not a miracle. Creating a business and being primarily responsible for it’s creation and continued existence, is (versus dumb luck, manipulating the government for special and illegal privileges, etc).

Now, I’ll end this on what should be obvious : I have no interest in ever being employed by anyone other than essentially myself. This doesn’t mean I won’t work with people through short term contracts, it simply means I won’t sit at anyone’s desk but my own.

I’ve discovered this suits not only my personality and my goals, but my entire sense of life.

The popular narrative is that this is immature … and yet, these are the same dipshits who tell you that to grow up is to renounce your values, give up on life, and submit to the will and opinion of the majority, in some form or another.

For now, you are free to choose your own path in life. I’ve chosen mine and have never looked back, and will fight to the death to protect my right to choose my own path in life.

Photo credit.

Dr. Doug McGuff M.D. discusses the importance of avoiding bad relationships.

Download the full length MP3.

When I released my recent post “The Real Secret to Picking up Women“, a number of people commented on the gender specific assertion I was making: that men should never chase, and women should always do all of the chasing.

I didn’t elaborate further, nor is this something that anyone could expect to be widely understood. Heck, I’m not even sure Brenth Smith understands why women should chase. And I stress the word “should” there because I mean that in the best and highest, all encompassing, sweeping statement sense.

As in, women chasing men is a matter of psychological health, not arbitrary whim/chance, or even choice. [You have about as much choice in the matter as you do in breathing.]

So why is this?

• Why must women chase men?
• Why can it be no other way?
• Can men not “like” chasing?
• Can women not “hate” chasing?

It is because nature to be commanded is to be obeyed, and the fundamental nature, the essence of femininity, is to look up to man. To revere and admire him, in the flesh of an individual man, and in conceptual form.

While there is enormous room for admiration of women in masculinity, in flesh and concept, looking up to women is not central to being a man. It is not it’s essence. It is explicitly not it’s fundamental nature.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the essence of being a man is actually the ideal compliment to the essence of being a woman: and that fundamental nature, is purpose.

To walk a straight line through life and through existence. To not waiver, not bend, not stray, and to pursue his vision of what could exist and should exist in this world by his judgement.

Chasing a woman is antithetical to this process and to this essence. There is no point and no degree in which it is appropriate.

Let me be clear here: as a man, chasing a woman is the single most aggressively unattractive action you can take, short of physical harm.

There is nothing more unattractive you can do.

• Women do not like it.
• They typically do not understand why.
• They will tell you the opposite.

Make no mistake, they are either confused (consciously, subconsciously, or both), have an underdeveloped sexual identity, or have a damaged sexual psychology.

I.e. they have actively and knowingly rejected what it is to be a woman. (This would be most modern, third wave collectivists-feminists).

Reductionism

Many people who read this post will be angered by it and will quickly reduce normal, necessary male/female behavior to what their personal definition of chasing is — which at this stage, is largely not a consequence of their own independent thought, but is instead intellectual garbage they have been fed since birth by news, entertainment, and a morally bankrupt culture at large.

In short, “chasing” is a jumbled, undefinable mix of conflicting ideas, that is now being associated with normal, socially intelligent behavior. You may be doing this because you’ve chased women your entire life and are afraid to admit it.

Well, stop it.

A word that can mean anything means nothing. Chasing does not mean anything. It means very specific actions that run in direct opposition to being a man (or inversely, actions that are highly feminine). YOU need to determine what these actions and psychological positions are in your own life. Stop jumping to conclusions and vomiting out the same old re-hashed garbage the world has fed you.

• You do not have to chase.
• Men should not chase.
• Women should chase.

You make the choice, same as what foods you put into your body.

Bonus

Here’s a woman who understands these concepts quite well, contrary to what you may believe her novels depict (which in all cases, generally do not reflect daily life and instead depict heroic characters in unique circumstances).