Laws of Human Society-Edited
Conclusions I have come to after many years of contemplation:
Fundamental Principle #1: Law of Infinite Hypergamy. The higher the percentage of women in power, the more porous a nation’s borders will be, in order to expand women’s potential mating pool of high status males to an infinite asymptote. Corollary to Law of Infinite Hypergamy: vanishing borders are the clearest sign that one lives in a wholly dominant matriarchy.
Fundamental Principle #2: Law of Inverse Value. The more popular something is, the less it is worth. The Electoral Corollary to the Law of Inverse Value: popular elections will always end up promoting the mediocre, the incompetent, or the undistinguished—and usually all three. Second Corollary to Law of Inverse Value: Dunning Kruger Effect: the less a person knows, the more certain he is that he knows it. Third Corollary to Law of Inverse Value: the less a group of people know, the bigger and louder and more disruptive to society their public protest will be.
Fundamental Principle #3: Law of Derived Elections. if you control a nation’s media, you control its elections, therefore where a nation’s information media are privately owned, its election results will be determined by the owners of its media. “Saving Our Democracy” Corollary to the Law of Derived Elections: Preserving an entrenched regime that is protected by a lack of term limits, requires monopolistic control over most media and the suppression of all media which does not conform.
Fundamental Principle #4: Law of Heretical Speech: Under a state religion, all speech that does not glorify the Deity n praise its Priesthood is by definition heretical speech. Electoral Corollary to Law of Heretical Speech: Since elections are a form of speech, all popular elections are by definition heresy under an entrenched state religion and must be either banned beforehand, or falsified if they occur, or the results reversed by “legal” means if the results are inconvenient to the Priesthood.
Fundamental Principle #5: Law of Democratic Trivialities. Regarding anything one writes, most people, who by definition are of only average IQ, will ignore the important points n focus on criticizing any trivialities they can detect. The Media Corollary to the Law of Trivialities: All media will invariably report from a public statement only what is trivial while ignoring or misrepresenting the statement’s essential points.
I believe these principles are incontrovertible. No evidence has yet appeared that could challenge them.
Curious Things
45 is a Colt, and a short playing plastic record, and a Malt Liquor. And that’s the last time I hope to type ‘and’ when ‘n’ is quicker n easier. If dolts don’t get it, that’s their problem. I’m tired of dumbing down everything for people who can’t read above a 4th grade level.
If my books were to suddenly become popular, I would conclude that I had done something terribly wrong because only low-quality books ever become popular while t best books, n certainly t most intelligently written, almost always sell poorly. Just look at Nietzsche. In today’s collapsing intellectual environment, poor sales is a sign of quality n a virtue.
I’m thinking of making a list of books banned by Amazon n Ingram. There are hundreds, if not thousands. I don’t feel ready to tackle such a huge project.
Three very bad books that sell only because the cultic media constantly promotes them: To Kill A Mockingbird; The Great Gatsby; Things Fall Apart. I have read all three carefully. They are simply garbage.
I might write something about my “Thrice Exceptional Life”: an IQ unrecognized by the school system where I was often smarter n more educated than my perpetually offended high school teachers; virtually disabled as an adult, imagine going on job interviews in a wheelchair like I did; flaming red hair. If those three aren’t profound disabilities, then nothing is. Yet I overcame them all n, in a sense, woke up one day to discover that I had become an entirely different person. No longer red haired, no longer disabled, n no longer stuck in an institution suited only for prison, factory work, or the military.
I have noticed that publishers n literary agencies who yell t loudest about how they want to publish “marginalized” people always have zero “marginalized” people on their own staff, which is usually mostly or entirely NY natives. And if you think such entities don’t push for destroying the borders n don’t actively discriminate against white males every chance they get, boy are you out to lunch. Equus Publishing is boycotted n banned by every publisher association out there. Virtually all publishers n literary agencies, large n small, are active promoters of government propaganda, in particular the State Religion of DEI which I call the PC Cult, n which they call Wokeness as if its true nature isn’t Asleepness.
Have you ever asked yourself why there are hundreds of publishers who advertise themselves as devoted to “women’s fiction” but NOT ONE publisher for “men’s fiction”. Why is that? Partly because much fewer men read fiction. But more because of the active suppression of men’s causes in general by the “cultured thugs” who create the narratives coming out of New York City. Never forget: masculinity is outlawed in modern matriarchal America and men are second class citizens. To promote men’s causes is a crime! That’s why Equus is banned everywhere.
More dumb things Americans have said to me:
“I’m not changing what I do for you or for anyone else.” (cops soon corrected his antisocial bad behavior)
“You have cats living under your house.” No, I have pets who live in my house, not under it. Is anyone really this stupid? Apparently.
Google’s Gemini is inventing fake reviews, all negative, n directed against books by political dissenters. I expect this trend to expand until every right-of-center book, or every book written by a person known to be right-of-center, will immediately attract a collection of negative reviews invented by Google. Things To Come.
There is a strange idea that all languages can be translated. Not true. Most cannot be accurately translated into English, or vice versa. Some have no words at all for abstractions n some languages have no name for numbers beyond 3, only “many”. Some languages have no neuter nouns, like Arabic. It is not possible to remove gender from that language. Why is it that Americans in particular seem unable to acknowledge such facts? I know the answer but few are willing to open their ears.
There is an unfortunate trend among poseur intellectuals to attach meaning to the root of a word. For instance, ‘radical’ at its core means ‘root’. But in everyday discourse it is absurd to use the word ‘radical’ as ‘root’. Radical means extreme bordering on illegal n actually has nothing to do with roots. It’s deceptive to drag out this etymological sleight of hand. ‘Intellectuals’ do it only to puff themselves up so they will look important.
Do time machines have rear-view mirrors?
Much more to say but no more time.
Pronouns For Thee and Me
I can’t help but make public my own pronouns. Keeping in mind that others must now address me by these legally enforceable identity-confirming words, I specify the following pronouns: “Hey You!”; “What the hell?”; “Your aunt said what?”; and “Oh, really?” I have more pronouns but they don’t compare to Jihad Bubba’s carefully selected pronouns. You’ll have to read the book to learn what his pronouns are and the legal trouble he got into because of them. If I mention them here, I might get arrested before you have the chance.
Equus specializes in anti-woke satires including:
Judge Crater Takes A Powder (The Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book 1)
Cross-Dressers From Pluto (The Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book 2)
The Warriors (The Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book 3)
Quantum Marlowe (kind of)
You will never laugh as hard as when you read these laugh riots that mock DEI, Wokeness, and Regressives.
The Traditional Publishing Scam
In former times–meaning antedeluvian–I worked for a small press. I reviewed unsolicited manuscripts, called the slush pile, to locate undiscovered gems for publication and I also did some editing. Not once did the small press publish anything that came over the transom. If they wanted to publish something like a vampire novel, for instance, instead of putting something from the slush pile under contract, they would assign the task of writing the desired mss to one of the staff editors and totally ignore the slush pile. The editor, who usually had a publishing history, would then get to work in his or her spare time and crank out a vampire novel. Nice work if you can get it.
This makes me think of the old structure of “authorship” and the exploitive process of a writer getting published.
First, the writer hunkers down and hammers out an outline for a novel. It’s always a novel, by the way. Keep in mind that everyone–and I mean absolutely everyone–eventually writes a novel, usually about their “amazing” life which no one but their mother will ever read. Case in point: an engineer friend of mine, now deceased, wrote a book on pipelines. He put it on Amazon and to his surprise it sold a hundred copies a month for year after year with zero marketing. “This is way easy,” he said to himself and he wrote a novel and posted it on Amazon too. Zilch. Zero sales. Year after year went by with no sales despite herculean efforts on his part to push the book. And it was not even about his “amazing” life. Today over a million books are “published” each year, most of them fiction or autobiographical, or both, most self-published, and the number is increasing every year. And most are never read by anyone once the writer runs out of friends and family.
That bit of info is just to alert the reader as to the realities of fiction publishing. I don’t call it a marketplace because publishing is not a marketplace, but a monopoly. You can always tell a monopoly because monopolies can afford to fire their customers. Amazon bans books by the hundred–that’s because Amazon functions as a monopoly. The biggest distributor, Ingram, also fires its own customers, routinely putting publishers out of business because Ingram is also a monopoly.
New York publishers function as a monopoly also because they work together to screen out “heretical” writers and ensure that they will all publish the same ideological slant to the same targeted audience. New York publishing companies are mostly owned by multinational megacorps with oodles of advertising dollars which they can use across multiple venues to make sure the books the publishers wish to push on the public conform to their biases and ideological preconceptions. Monopolies can afford to act this way because profit is not their chief motive–pushing their ideology is. This is called ESG.
After completing your outline, you will then create a first draft, which you will be advised by some of the great many ancillary businesses that prey on would-be authors to submit your work to a “beta reader”. Professional readers, as the term suggests, charge money for this service. Usually the writer will skip the “professional” part and contact a friend who is known to write a bit on the side, for instance a diary, and dragoon the reluctant friend into plowing through the first draft. It’s hard to say which is better: the friend who doesn’t want to offend you, or the “professional” who will quickly “correct” your draft into the kind of ideological drivel that cash-paying publishers want.
Then comes editing. Again, some will pay cash for a professional first draft initial editor, as if every joe and his dog don’t know how to compose sixth grade English, while the thrifty writers will dragoon another friend for some kind of barter deal.
Once the writer makes the recommended “corrections”, which are certain to remove any spontaneity the manuscript (mss) formerly possessed, our forlorn, and now perhaps poor-lorn writer, will turn his work over to what’s called a developmental editor. They are even more expensive because they actually look at such items as character development, and analyzing the work for the required 25% intro, 50% body, and 25% resolution portions. As if readers give a flying F for such things. But you’ll be told you have to do these.
Next comes the copy editor. If we don’t yet have enough cooks in the kitchen to completely flatten and obliterate any creativity that remains in this crockpot, the copy editor will entangle you in a ridiculous series of nose-heightened “writers’ style manuals” that will dictate where you must put your Oxford commas, and apostrophes, and hyphens while catching misspelled words, as if Word won’t already do that.
And we’re still not done. Next in line is the professional editor who will rapidly transform your once charming story into a dreary, predictable, boring tale devoid of any style at all.
The predators, in fact, will keep coming as long as your bank account holds out: the format editor, more beta readers, more reviews by copy and characterization editors, etc.
Whew. Finally, after all has been lost, it’s time to submit your work to an agent. Don’t ask the silent questions like, for example, is the agent married to a conglomerate publisher, which in effect means the publisher will double-dip into your royalties. These swindles are yet another dirty secret of New York publishing. Agents too operate effectively as a monopoly, in fact are part of the NY publishing monopoly, acting as recruiters for their very selective recruitment of writers in exchange for kickbacks from the orgs they pretend to “negotiate” with.
If your mss is too long, the agent may reject it and reject you. If your mss is very short, meaning no longer than a few scribbles on a page, then your agent might be willing to market it to a magazine. If medium length, the agent might be willing to market it to a select book publisher. But if your mss is in-between in length, then it’s a novella, and the agent will reject it and you because no one publishes novellas anymore because monopolies can publish whatever they like and they don’t like novellas.
But to give agents their due, they actually sometimes are honest and have a difficult job. This is because NY publishers today have not only a litmus test which will automatically exclude a writer’s work, but now excludes writers themselves, sight unseen, and work unread, specifically white males.
Case two in point: Equus Publishing is open to msss (how often is that spelled?) by writers. I receive a steady stream of submissions, sometimes with explanations of why they have come to Equus instead of to an agented NY publisher. A recent writer told me that his agent helped him place several books with NY publishers and they have all sold well, even reviewed by the NY Times Book Review (one of the conglomerate venues I mentioned that NY publishers use to promote their chosen ideologically favored books, much like the Oscars and just as honest). But despite this success, he suddenly has a problem: his agent is firing him. Why? Because the NY publishing monopoly is no longer accepting manuscripts from white males. So she can no longer place any more books by him no matter how creative and brilliant his books are.
So it’s no longer enough to merely comply with the octopus-like PC Cult, but white males are now heretics by definition and can no longer publish, no matter the quality of what they write. If you are a white male, you have been or will soon be fired and your msss rejected, both sight unseen, and no agent will represent you.
Let’s say you do have a sizable dose of melanin, or you feel like a 13 year old girl today although you are in fact a 56 year old man. Thus you qualify to bypass the ideological screening. But if you are still not part of the in-crowd, there will be no $ up front, no marketing, perhaps misspelled words on the cover of your book (that happened to me), and you will have to resign yourself to criss-crossing the country doing all the marketing yourself at your own expense, because advance fees only go to former presidents or select members of the chosen few. The more books you sell, the deeper in debt you will go.
This whole traditional publishing framework works like this because it is driven by advertising. IOW, the reading audience does not buy books, rather books are sold to them. The monopolies and their conglomerates know that because they have the dollars and the advertising venues, they can sell whatever they wish to the public and the public will buy it so long as it’s not written above a sixth grade level. It is not a market, but a cash cow of Manchurian Candidates, a public so conditioned that the moneyed publishers know in advance that the public will buy whatever the publishers choose to sell, backed up by a slew of “reviewers” owned lock-stock by the same conglomerates, therefore would not dare write something negative about the stream of trash that comes from NY publishers.
BUT THEN CAME THE INTERNET and all of the above is crumbling. Now anyone can set up his own website and promote his own books and market using AI, audio , and videos. It is no longer necessary for a writer to submit his work to ANY publisher, including Equus Publishing. Of course, I am still happy to assist talented writers in any way I can, and there is still the issue of de-conditioning the public at large, which is something like deprogramming a religious believer, and making them aware that the best books are no longer being produced by the NY publishing monopoly, but are to be found in small independent outfits like Equus.
AI comments
The developments of AI are disturbing. How can a democratic process work if everything one sees and hears is fake propaganda? ChatGPT has already been tagged as having a political slant that is readily identifiable and now Google Gemini portrays whites as blacks, but never blacks as whites. For those who think this kind of falsification is good, I suppose it presents no problem.
I wonder how law schools will handle this? In law school there are right answers and wrong answers which lends itself to AI. Law students must write many papers investing a huge amount of time when time is severely limited. Suddenly students can go to the head of the class having done no research. Of course that would become evident at exam time.
I didn’t go to law school to practice law but merely for the knowledge. Back then it was affordable and I paid cash all the way through. But today most lawyers owe huge $. A foolish investment IMO since the market is glutted with unemployed lawyers who can already be hired for spare change. I see even more lawyers becoming unemployed once AI gets better. Maybe before long one can consult a lawyer online that is completely AI. OTOH maybe that would be a good thing since IMHO 90% of the lawyers out there are completely superfluous. Even immigration law, which had been absorbing the excess, is now proving a desert for the legions of unemployed counselors as people simply walk across and squat.
I have no fear that any writing of mine can be replicated by an AI bot. I use language in innovative ways and my books have complex and carefully weighed plots with surprise endings. Of course, that means my books will never be bestsellers since the biggest sellers on Amazon, today’s virtual publishing monopoly, are mostly AI products. It’s too bad the general public can’t tell genuine creativity from machine production.
Latest books from Equus
It’e been a while since I myself wrote anything of consequence. My latest effusions (that sounds better than emissions) are Quantum Marlowe and Jihad Bubba. I actually wrote another novel before I wrote those, titled The Glow.
This is a sci-fi horror novel about a young man who must keep the same coins in each pocket otherwise he will burst into flames. He’s okay with that, but there is another angle to his problem–his Glow is contagious. If he touches anyone, or if they are stupid enough to ignore his warnings and touch him, then they contract the Glow and if they don’t learn real quick how to control their new illness, then they will burst into flames. And if they touch anyone else, the Glow will spread like an epidemic. IOW this is a horror novel about spontaneous human combustion, except it’s not really spontaneous, but extends from this eccentric young man with his strange affliction.
Although several years old, The Glow is making the rounds of agents and publishers, but so far no bites mainly because a white male wrote it. That’s the unfortunate state of modern America. Being on the inside of publishing, I am occasionally contacted by writers who tell me the difficulties they are having with mainstream publishers due to the one fact that they are white males. New York City publishers (that’s almost a redundant phrase) don’t like white male authors. Thank goodness for the amazing tools that have appeared which allow places like Equus to put their talents and ideas before the public without the intercession of hostile enemies bent on silencing white males. In the words of Elon Musk, “They can go fuck themselves.”
Still, The Glow is a mainstream Stephen King-like horror tale which should find appeal with a cellophane corporate publisher that has the bucks to promote it, unlike Yours Truly who has zero dollars to put into advertising. I publish my truly strange books with Equus, but mainstream works like The Glow should ideally find a home elsewhere.
My new novella of 34,000 words, completed last spring, titled ‘Temple of the Double Sun’, is also making the rounds. No bites yet there either. It’s too long for sci-fi mags and too short for sci-fi books, but maybe it will eventually find a place.
Confessions & latest news
Despite careful proofreading, the sample copies of ‘Confessions’ revealed several typos. I really, really hate typos. I corrected all of them n reposted the file on Amazon. ‘Confessions’ should be typo-free now but the book may not be available for shipping until Tuesday, Sep 5.
My sci-fi novel The Glow has been carefully proofread n submitted to a major sci-fi publisher. It will be a few weeks before I get an answer. It might be helpful if I had an agent to help open some doors, but I have an issue with NYC publishers anyway, so maybe not. One of my queries to a NYC publisher received a reply roughly in the vein of “How dare you propose that we publish a book such as you described in your query. Don’t ever contact us again!” That was likely ‘Cross-Dressers From Pluto’ which I finally self-published. Originality and humor just cannot find an audience among agenda-driven Woke NY publishers. That’s why I am open to publishing similar creative works by others. No one else will do it. Agents tend to be in bed with publishers anyway–literally.
‘Confessions’ spy book published – comments
After months in preparation, my latest book, Confessions of a CIA Spy in the Soviet Union, is finally out and available from Amazon. For many years I kept to one side the journal that the CIA requested me to keep, thinking that with the Soviet Union gone, no one would be interested in what it was like to live, or more accurately try to survive, daily life in that Communist country. With the current war in Ukraine and people of all factions and convictions splitting on whom to support and why, or having no interest in the matter under the impression that what happens over there has nothing to do with what happens over here, I thought this book might be educational as well as entertaining. ‘Over there’ is a lot closer to ‘over here’ than it used to be. I am also finding that many young people today seem to have no idea what the Soviet Union was like, some even advocating similar conceptions to be implemented in this country. Such–to me–is simply astounding.
This is not strictly a political work, but in a sense an exploration of cultural anthropology by a trained anthropologist and historian of Russian and Islamic history. On the other hand, it was quite impossible to refrain from observations and conclusions after many surprising personal experiences and unexpected encounters. Perhaps my most surprising observation was not why the Soviet system did not collapse sooner than it did, but that the S.U. did not so much ‘collapse’ as simply fail to improve over 70 years, and its people simply could see no reason why they should continue with it. When the majority of the people learned the reality of their situation, the regime was doomed. Many people today also seem to equate modern Russia under Putin with the Soviet Union, believing there is little difference. I invite such people to read ‘Confessions’ first and then make the comparison.
Despite my best efforts, today I found several typos in the text. Having promptly corrected them, I hope Amazon does not postpone any deliveries as a result. I did the cover using Amazon’s new cover creator. It was clumsy but seems to have worked. As for the price, it’s just about impossible to put out a substantive book anymore without a $16 price. Even then, given the time and $ that it costs a publisher to do so doesn’t come even close to genuine compensation. There really is no profit in book publishing these days unless one sells tens of thousands of copies, which only the cellophane megacorps have the marketing resources to achieve, which does not include Yours Truly. I hope readers find my latest effort entertaining and informative.
Update on ‘Confessions of a CIA Spy’
I am now in the editing phase, correcting typos and verifying facts. It’s fun relating all the parties I had with friendly Russians and their ever-present vodka even if some portions of my journal aren’t as sharp in my memory as I would like. The journal has much detail so luckily I don’t have to rely much on my memory. Some scenes, of course, stand out clearly even after 33 years. I relate much about what it was like to actually live in a Communist society. I tried to blend in as a common Soviet citizen as much as I could and I learned many lessons.
More Peculiar English Etc
Perhaps the most puzzling to foreigners is ‘ou’. While spelled similarly, pronunciation varies wildly.
‘Though’ is pronounced ‘long O’, as ‘throw’.
‘Through’ however is pronounced ‘u’ as in ‘you’.
‘Could’ is like ‘good’.
‘Thought’ is like ‘awful’.
‘Thorough’ is like ‘throw’ again.
‘Ouch’ and ‘couch’ are pronounced like ‘cow’.
‘Tough’ and ‘enough’ and ‘couple’ are pronounced like ‘stuff’.
Biblical ‘thou’ is pronounced again like ‘cow’.
‘Imminent’ is pronounced almost the same as ’eminent’ but have opposite meanings.
‘Sanction’ includes opposite meanings, either a boycott or an endorsement.
This one confuses every foreigner striving to learn English: ‘straight’, ‘strait’, ‘weight’, and ‘wait’ are all pronounced with a long A, as in ‘state’.
‘Truth’, ‘roof’, and ‘booth’ are usually pronounced the same, as in ‘moo’. But ‘roof’ can also be pronounced ‘uff’, as in ‘hoof’. But ‘hoot’ and ‘poof’ are back to ‘truth’!
‘Break’ is pronounced like ‘brake’, but ‘creak’ is pronounced like ‘eek’.
‘Pipe up’ means speak louder. But ‘pipe down’ means shut up.
Who can make sense of all this? There is no sense to it. English needs to be radically reformed in its spelling. Very few languages have such inconsistencies.
Words ending in -tion, -cian, and -cion all are pronounced ‘shun’.
‘Owe’ as in owing money is ‘throw’ again. But ‘how’ is like ‘cow’. No sense at all.
The ‘ach’ in ‘stomach’ is pronounced ‘uk’. But ‘ache’ is ‘long A’ pronounced like ‘eight’ (!) or ‘ate’. While ‘cache’ is pronounced ‘cash’.
‘Epoch’ in the US is pronounced almost like ‘epic’. But in the UK it is pronounced ‘ee-pock’.
‘Wreck’, pronounced ‘rek’, means destruction, especially of cars. ‘Wreak’ is to inflict a wreck, to destroy something or create disorganization as in ‘to wreak havoc’. ‘Wreak’ is pronounced ‘reek’ as in ‘Greek’.
‘Infer’ and ‘imply’ are often confused, even by native speakers of English. ‘Infer’ means to extract or induct information, while ‘imply’ means to suggest something not obvious.
‘Eunuch’ is a castrated male, sans cojones. Pronounced ‘you nik’. Contrary to ‘Reuters’ which is pronounced like ‘oysters’.
Then there are the homonyms:
‘Peace’ is pronounced the same as ‘piece’. ‘Survive’ the same as ‘serve’. ‘Rush’ the same as ‘Russia’. ‘Scene’ the same as ‘seen’. And ‘worse’ the same as ‘curse’ and ‘hearse.’ How can anyone explain this to foreigners wishing to learn English?
This is why foreigners learning English often can speak it but can’t write it well, or write it with many spelling errors. Not many languages besides English have spelling championships because most are spelled exactly as they sound. Only the chaos of English requires this kind of memorization.
But then there is Arabic! In Arabic Fusha, the classical tongue, almost all nouns are ‘broken nouns’. Like ‘man’ and ‘men’ in English. Every Arabic noun must be memorized therefore in pairs: singular and plural together. Plus most Arabic nouns have multiple plurals that are broken in different ways. That is a prodigious task.
Not to mention Russian. In Russian, the nouns are rational, but every verb comes in pairs and must be memorized together. That’s another kind of chaos requiring more prodigious memorization. But I’ll give Arabic the top score for difficulty due to its hard grammar on top of its required memorization. Russian is not so bad with its cases which are similar to Latin and Greek, tho some Russian words are utterly bizarre in their case construction and require more sweat memorization. Arabic is not so detailed in its cases, but its sentence structure is utterly unlike any Western language typically beginning with the verb, followed by modifying clauses, then the object with more modifying words, and finally the subject of the sentence. But word order, as in Russian, is not important in Arabic. Why do I bother reading these three crazy languages and just learn Esperanto?
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