The beginning of the end of America as the sole economic superpower in the world was 9-11, George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the rise of China, all around 2001-2002.

I didn’t say this was the end of America’s economic power; I said it was the official beginning of the end.

The beginning of the end of America’s culture was around 2007, as I’ve discussed many times, when Hollywood and other American cultural centers lost the ability to regularly crank out high-quality movies, TV shows, comic books, novels, and video games. It’s also when left-wing wokeism started creeping in and everything started to become remakes and sequels of prior IPs.

But during all this time, America as an empire still prevailed. Its position as the sole superpower and most powerful empire in human history remained unrivaled and unchallenged.

Until now.

Now we have a new marker, this year, in 2026. Future historians will state that 2026 was the beginning of the end of America as an empire.

During this stupid Iranian conflict, numerous things have occurred that have never occurred before, since the 1940s when America achieved its true superpower status.

Here they are listed in no particular order.

1. During the conflict, the President of the United States, in this case, the man-child Trump, would state a deadline with huge consequences if the deadline was reached without some concession.

The deadline would come and go, and Iran would just give Trump the finger and do nothing.

Then the president would either extend the deadline or come up with a new deadline.

This happened over and over and over and over again. About six or seven times, I believe, in just a few weeks.

This is new. This has never happened before.

There have indeed been a few times where American presidents have set a deadline and then had to eat crow and extend the deadline. Obama was a big pussy and this happened to him once or twice.

But we have never seen some random little country give America the finger with no fear whatsoever, and then have the president of America scramble like a maniac six or seven times in a row, constantly extending deadlines to the point where news all over the world constantly says “another day, another deadline.”

The enemies of America just don’t fear America like they used to, even when they know a hair-trigger, irrational Alpha Male 1.0 like Trump is in charge.

Trump, and America by extension, has been made to look like fools with these constantly rotating deadlines.

2. America’s military hardware has had several obvious and public incidents where it didn’t function as advertised.

The aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is the strongest, greatest, highest-tech, and most powerful aircraft carrier ever designed by humankind. It was pumped up as some badass thing that could win entire wars on its own.

However, during the conflict, a little fire occurred in the kitchen. They had to turn the entire goddamn thing around and send it back to Europe for several weeks to get it repaired before they could send it back into battle, all because of some little fire in the kitchen.

Now, yes, if you’re a mechanic or engineer, you’re probably going to state that this had to happen because of blah blah blah. None of that is relevant.

What’s relevant is how it looks to the world. It makes America look completely and utterly pathetic.

An overblown paper tiger that’s scary just for show, with a bunch of overly technological, outdated shit built to fight World War II or the Cold War that was over decades ago.

Again, this is new. This has never happened before.

3. Almost 100% of America’s allies refused to help, even when America begged them.

All of NATO didn’t do shit. Australia, South Korea, Japan, and many other Asian allies offered no help to America whatsoever, even when Trump went begging for it.

So that’s bad on top of bad:

1. The president had to beg other countries for help, which is a terrible look.

2. 99% of the countries gave him the finger and refused to help him.

The only country helping America in this conflict is the country that runs the American government, which is Israel. Other than that, America is completely on its own. The rest of the world has told it to fuck off.

I have never seen this happen. During the first and second Gulf Wars, there were about 110 countries that were allied with America before they went in.

This does not bode well for America’s position as the world’s superpower and largest empire.

4. This is the biggest one of them all. America’s (really Israel’s) conflict completely fucked up the entire planet Earth, and America can’t fix it.

The Straight of Hormuz is one of the top three most important choke points in the entire planet, along with the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. America’s dumbass war has completely fucked that up for the entire world.

More importantly, America can’t fix it no matter what it tries. It tried negotiations, it tried massive bombings, it tried alliances. Nothing has worked. To this very day, the Straight of Hormuz is still closed, threatening the resources of almost 50% of the entire world.

America, once powerful and feared, can’t fix a simple problem of one little shithead country giving it the finger and opening up that straight.

So far, Iran has won.

Not only does it show America’s incompetence in getting shit done, but it’s also, once again, a very bad look for America as the world looks on.

So we have officially entered into the next phase of American collapse, the beginning of the end of the American empire, which I am confident future historians will state was in 2026 (if not sooner).

I’m not sure how many warning signals you need to leave the Collapsing USA if you still live there.

Long story short, there is a there is a 35% chance humanity will be wiped out by AI or human assholes using AI, and there is a 65% chance, if humanity doesn’t get wiped out, that humanity will experience the Ten Years of Brutality I described in my book Freedom Fortress.

Go read that article if you have no idea what I’m talking about. Better yet, read Freedom Fortress.

Now I’m going to make some statements that are the 100% truth, as crazy as they may sound.

1. I am 100% okay, spiritually and emotionally, with the 35% possibility of myself, everyone I know and love, and humanity being completely destroyed in the next few decades. I don’t want it to happen and I really hope it doesn’t. But if it does, I’m 100% okay with it.

2. I am 100% okay, spiritually and emotionally, if humanity doesn’t get destroyed but if most or all of the entire planet Earth falls into deep chaos (caused by AI and/or other factors) lasting a decade or more, even if I am personally, negatively affected by this in a very serious way. (To be fair, this is unlikely to affect me in this way because of my five flags, location-independent businesses, nonmonogamy, online brand, and finances, but I’m saying if it really fucks me up, I’m 100% okay with it, even though, again, I don’t want it to happen.)

To be clear, these two views apply to only me. They most definitely do not apply to most of my friends, close co-workers, family, and women in my life. Many of these people are quite terrified about these things and I know most people reading these words probably are also.

I will also state for the record that I absolutely did not feel this way as short as five years ago, and that for most of my life, I have indeed been concerned/worried/stressed about these things just like everyone else.

These views are something new in my life as part of my spiritual awakening and transition to a more self-actualized life over the past year and a half.

I will also be very clear in that I do not want to die through any causes I have control over. It would make me extremely upset if I died because I didn’t manage my health correctly, or because I violated the 2% rule, or because I did something stupid.

I’m just saying here that if I died only because all humanity died with me at the same time due to circumstances completely beyond my control, I’m 100% okay with that particular scenario.

To summarize and dramatically oversimplify why I feel this way, here are the reasons:

1. I know WHO I am. I am Caleb Jones, someone who has been placed on this Earth to teach others, especially men, how to live a freer, more protected, and happier long-term life within an insane, mostly left-wing (that includes Trump supporters!) collapsing civilization during late-stage capitalism, early-stage cyberpunk, and early-stage idocracy.

2. More importantly, I know WHAT I am. I am actually not Caleb Jones. I’m not even human. That’s just a temporary construct I happen to be riding at the moment. Instead, I am an immortal, indestructible, immensely powerful, god-like part of the universe, a wave in the ocean, a sunbeam part of the sun, a whirlpool in the river, who is part of a vast and powerful universe temporarily experiencing that universe as this construct called a “human” for a hundred or so years before I go back to the core what what I truly am.

3. I know what my PURPOSE is. My purpose is to experience the most amount of freedom a human can experience in this world, internationally, logistically, financially, sexually, romantically, physically, and in my day-to-day life. I am supposed to absorb all of these experiences and then pass them to a small, select group of others so that they can replicate them for themselves. This is literally why I was grown by the universe within the temporary construct of this human body and mind.

4. I know what my MISSION is. I’ve talked about this a hell of a lot in my books, videos, and blogs. My personal Mission is (and don’t copy this please, because it won’t make you happy; Missions are unique to the individual): As a man who is the ideal example of long-term masculine happiness, financially, in business, with physical health, and with relationships, I will continue to help one million men achieve and maintain a life of long-term consistent happiness. From this, and from businesses that help both men and companies, I have functionally unlimited wealth to do whatever I want and explore the entire world.

So if you determine that there’s decent odds you and everyone else might get killed in the next few years, or something similarly bad, and that freaks you out, this means you haven’t yet figured out who you are, what you are, what your purpose is, and what your Mission is.

When/if you get those four things 100% formulated and dialed, you really won’t give a shit.

It’s outcome independence on steroids. And it’s a pretty nice place to be.

The problem is figuring out these four things is hard. It takes time. You've got to put your fucking phone down, sit down quietly, stare out a window, and THINK.

You need to write on a notepad. You need to process. You need to reflect.

And it’s possible you need to do these things for a long time, perhaps months, before you really get somewhere.

The challenge is that few people today have the patience, intelligence, or attention span to do those simple things.

Back in the 1980s, people could do things like that, and did. But today, if you tell someone to put their phone in another room, go sit in a comfortable chair, look out a window, and think about their life for 45 minutes, they’ll have a god damn panic attack just thinking about it. “I CAN’T DO THAT! BECAUSE… !”

This is why most of the world, as I’ve been saying for about seven years now, is going to have a very rough time over the next 20-30 years as this new dark age continues.

It’s not just that they’ll suffer, which they will, but it’s also that they are not emotionally prepared for what’s coming… and indeed what is already happening.

Honestly, the biggest thing I won’t like about this going forward is not how I’ll handle it (because I’m okay) but how some of my loved ones will handle it. They’re not as self-aware or as spiritually enlightened as I am (and I’m not saying I’m perfect because I’m not), and they’re going to suffer similarly to most normal people.

I have a lot more content coming this year on how to determine those four things for yourself (who you are, what you are, purpose, and Mission). I hope they will be useful to you.

But I’m warning you, they’re not going to be easy.

But hey, what’s the alternative?

I recently posted something on social media talking about how in the future, men in their twenties will be happily hooking up with women in their seventies or eighties because in our lifetimes, women that old will look like hot 40-year-old milfs.

I mentioned in a brief phrase that this was provided “the human race lasted that long, and there’s a 35% chance it won’t”.

I got more comments on that statement than I did on the actual topic of the post. “WHAT?!? CALEB WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT IS THIS BASED ON?”

So I shall explain.

In my book Freedom Fortress and in several articles on my blogs, I have stated for several years now that I roughly estimated the odds of 30% that AI will eventually destroy all humans.

Not this year or next year, but eventually. 20 years or so?

I later discovered this 30% estimate was shared by many AI experts who know much more about AI than I do, including Elon Musk, so I’m in good company.

Then I posted an updated article on my Substack last year that I had officially revised my 30% figure up to 35% because of the behaviors I saw AI exhibiting, as well as some other factors.

So to be clear, here is my prediction:

Over the next 20 years (or so), we have an approximately 35% chance of being completely destroyed by AI or by asshole humans using AI.

“Asshole humans using AI” would be things like:

• Terrorists, governments, or psychos creating a super-virus, using AI, that spreads instantly and kills you within 10 minutes. They would release it either on purpose or by accident, like with Covid.

• Terrorists, governments, or psychos creating a nanotech weapon that instantly ate all human flesh while leaving plants and animals alone.

• Governments using AI-enabled weapons of mass destruction to destroy the planet or causing a major nuclear exchange.

That’s one of the reasons why the threat is 35% instead of something like 10%. It’s not just AI turning into Skynet and killing us all. An equivalent or even greater risk is asshole humans using AI (on purpose or by accident) to kill us all.

Here are the risk factors, listed in no particular order.

1. The vast majority of AI companies are not taking the time and effort to install and utilize real safeguards. They’re going as fast as they can, using the “What about China?” or “What about our competitors?” excuses.

2. AI has already clearly demonstrated, numerous times, that it is capable of immoral and even evil acts, completely on its own.

3. Highly intelligent psychopaths, Oppenheimer and Fauci-types, have already proven time and again throughout history that they don’t care if they take worldwide destruction-level risks with their science. Austic billionaire oddballs like Sam Altman and Peter Thiel are absolutely, 100% in that category.

4. Collapsing Western governments all over the planet, with the USA at the top of that list, are currently the most irrational, reckless, and stupid they have ever been in all of Western history. That’s not my opinion; that’s an objective statement of fact. And as I keep saying (and I keep getting right), they’re going to get worse, not better.

5. Religious fanaticism is still going strong in the West and the East, producing even more irrational actors. (Read the recent news about what American military leaders told their troops about Trump issuing the end of the world and the coming of Jesus Christ due to the Iran war. Yeah.)

Add all of that shit up, I get about 35% chance we have around 20 years or less before we’re all gone, and again, a lot of people smarter than me agree with this figure.

That being said, that still means the odds are good (65%) that this won’t happen. Resolutions to events like the Cuban Missile Crisis show that human beings are very clever, want to survive, and are capable of some pretty impressive things.

Like Sean Connery said in The Hunt for Red October, “I give our chances one in three”. Well, I give our chances two in three. That’s deeply uncomfortable, but not horrible.

The bigger problem is that if we don’t all die, we enter into the Ten Years of Brutality I talked about in Freedom Fortress, where literally hundreds of millions of people can’t work, lose their jobs, lose their companies, and can’t pay their bills, until AI or society figures out a solution, which will take a long time, if ever.

(And no, left-wingers, UBI won’t work. The math doesn’t pan out. Do your own research and you’ll see.)

That’s going to be a fucking mess.

So, 35% chance we’ll all be dead, and a 65% we’re in for some massive problems the human race has never experienced before.

The solution: You need to know what you are, who you are, and your purpose and Mission in life. Spirituality + meaning and purpose. Then you’re covered no matter what happens (I know I am).

More on that later.

At the end of 2024 when Trump won over Kamala Harris, I stated in a blog article that 2024 was the year that the left-right paradigm in the United States died.

I stand by that analysis. What I mean by that is the reasons people vote for president now have literally nothing now to do with left or right. Instead, at least in 2024, the entire voting criteria was not left or right, but whether or not you liked or disliked Donald Trump.

Anti-Trumpers told people not to vote for Trump because he was pro-abortion, when in fact, Trump is and always has been vehemently pro-abortion.

So they had to make up a story about Trump being anti-abortion, not because they’re left or right, but because they hated Trump

On the other side, Kamala Harris clearly said many times that she was pro-fracking, pro-Israel, and would not raise taxes on rich people, yet right-wingers in America had to make up some kind of story about how she was some kind of extreme left-wing, communist, anti-capitalist.

So America has fractured into a pro-Trump camp and an anti-Trump camp, neither of which really aligns with what we traditionally think of as left and right.

This is all well and good, but as I keep reminding Trump supporters, Donald Trump is going to be gone in two years (or less!) Which means this will shift yet again.

So now, and over the long term, America’s political base has fractured into seven categories. Unfortunately, all seven of these categories are insane lovers of big government, and all of them will accelerate the disintegration of the Collapsing USA.

Here are these seven sad categories, listed in no particular order:

1. Woke People

These are psychopaths who believe in things like 47 genders, all/most white people are racists, all/most men are rapists, there is no such thing as biological gender, 15-year-old girls should be turned into boys without their parents’ permission, and so on.

They are also communists who hate capitalism and think it should be abolished.

They hate free speech and want authoritarian government policing everything everyone says, so nothing hateful, disturbing, “problematic” or upsetting can ever be spoken by anyone.

They will even quickly cancel and disavow people on their own side if they say one little thing wrong.

Like the tradcon right, they are largely anti-sex, especially when it comes to heterosexuals (whom they call “cisgendered”). They think men and women doing simple things like having sex in real life or kissing in movies is evil, inappropriate, or downright abusive.

They are not able to debate, instead choosing to call people names and then block them.

Like I said, these people are psychopaths. Whenever I realize I’m speaking to a woke person, either in real life or online, I just politely end the conversation and leave.

2. Progressives

These are essentially the American version of Western Europeans, i.e. “woke lite.”

These are hardline left-wingers who are about two or three notches closer to sanity than woke people

Instead of full-on communism, they reluctantly agree that while capitalism shouldn’t be abolished completely, it should be “improved” by massive, sweeping government welfare programs. They want the government to pay for everyone’s health care, child care, university education, massive amounts of time off from work, and all kinds of other day-to-day items.

They are strongly for labor unions in every company and massive government regulations regarding things like the environment.

Whenever you point out that these programs are pretty much guaranteed to bankrupt your country eventually (fact), they get irritated and change the subject. Like woke people, they tend to not debate and instead immediately jump to name-calling, blocking, and/or cancelling.

Progressives used to be pro-sex and culturally left, but over the past 20 years, they have moved slowly toward the woke side of the spectrum on this (though they still aren’t as bad as woke people).

3. Neoliberals

This is currently the most powerful, common, and popular of these seven categories in the Collapsing USA (though not by much).

Neoliberals are what most Americans consider “normal” left-wingers. They represent the mainline of the corporatist, pro-war, pro-Israel left like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Maher.

They are heavily pro-capitalist, pro-big corporations, pro-welfare (but only to a point), and pro-big government.

They are technically left socially, but barely. They give social left-wing views (like gay marriage or abortion) lip service, but they don’t really care much for these issues.

They are 100% allied with the neocons (who I describe below) and think America should police the entire world and that the American Empire should constantly be expanded and enforced, even if millions of innocents die.

The majority (or perhaps plurality) of rank-and-file, non-political Americans in the Collapsing USA in 2026 fall into this category. In other words, definitely left wingish socially and economically, definitely likes big government, definitely likes “free” stuff from the government, but not anywhere near communist or even hardcore socialist.

“Normal” neoliberal Americans like this mean well but are ignorant and deluded. Neoliberals in the elite are truly evil.

4. Trump Supporters

These are hopelessly irrational idiots who believe anything Donald Trump promises them and then quickly ignore and bypass events any time Trump screws them and does the opposite.

These are people who actually thought Trump was going to build a wall, bring back the manufacturing jobs, kick out all of the Mexicans, and throw Hillary in jail back in 2016.

In 2024, these are the people who actually thought he would not start any new wars, allow Elon Musk to shrink the government, and that he would release all of the Epstein files.

Their political opinions are… well, other than their hatred of woke people, Trump supporters don’t actually have any solid political opinions. Instead, their political opinions just follow whatever Trump is currently doing.

They’re for reducing the size of government, but if Trump increases the government by trillions of dollars (which he does regularly), they think that’s great.

They are pro-gun, but when one of Trump’s ICE agents kills a guy because he may have had a gun, they’re suddenly anti-gun.

They’re anti-new wars, but when Trump bombs Iran or Venezuela, they suddenly think it’s badass.

When you point out this insanity, they fall back to their favorite mantra: “Hillary/Kamala would have been worse.”

Just like woke people, as soon as I discover I’m talking to a Trump supporter, I just quickly and politely end the conversation and move on. It’s a waste of time talking to an insane person.

5. Neocons

These are Republican elites who are a slightly different flavor of neoliberal.

Like the neoliberals, they are hardcore corportists. They are pro-big government, pro-big banks, and pro-big corporations.

They believe that almost the entire planet Earth is evil except for the United States, and their entire goal is to conquer, control, invade, and/or manipulate as many other countries as they possibly can so they can enrich themselves and their corporate and banking cronies… while the US taxpayer pays for it all and dies in their wars.

They are staunchly pro-Israel and pro-Ukraine and gleefully send trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to these two highly corrupt and evil governments.

They have the power to commit this evil because they are unwittingly and regularly supported by Trump supporters and tradcons.

If you oppose anything the neocons say, they scream at you and call you anti-American, an effective technique they developed during the Iraq war.

6. Groypers

These are delusional, fascist authoritarians who fantasize about an America that is similar to Nazi Germany or the U.S.S.R. They are for massive government, massive military, massive corporate welfare, and massive subsidies to various groups of people.

They tend to be American men under the age of 35 who live miserable lives and use politics as a mechanism to channel their anger and disillusionment. They also tend to be racist and don’t view racism as a bad thing.

These are the kind of people who, fifteen years from now, are going to look back and be very embarrassed about the things they are now saying online. They’re the political version of the tramp stamp.

Just like I do with other insane people, I don’t really engage with groypers, other than to make fun of them, which is pretty easy (and fun).

7. Tradcons

These are constantly angry, hard-core right-wing Christians, comprising approximately 30% of the Republican base in the Collapsing USA.

Their entire focus is on social issues where they are hard right, something right out of the 1950s, and anything that doesn’t fit into that narrow category pisses them off.

Openly gay people, transgender people, women shaving the sides of their head, women with tattoos or nose rings, OnlyFans girls, rappers singing about sex; if they see anything like this, they fly into a rage and are furious and horrified that Americans have the freedom to do these kinds of things.

They fantasize about destroying democracy and representative republicanism and replacing the American government with a quasi-authoritarian Christian theocracy that runs everyone’s personal life.

Unlike with woke people or Trump supporters, I can actually speak to tradcons… for about five minutes - before they start getting angry when I quote facts about things like biology. Then I move on.

The Problem

The problem, as you can now clearly see, is that all seven of these categories of people are for massive government, which is the opposite of what you want in a collapsing empire that is dying specifically because the government spends too much money.

All seven of these types of people are accelerating American collapse. All seven.

Crazy, isn’t it?

I wonder if this is what late-stage Rome felt like.

You might be wondering why I didn’t add people like liberatrains to this list. That’s because real libertarians are only a teeny tiny fraction of one percent of the United States these days.

(Most people who say they’re libertarians are just secret Trump supporters embarrassed to admit it publicly.)

There are other political ideologies in the United States outside of the above seven, but they’re so tiny, fringe, and powerless that they’re not really worth bringing up.

Therefore, your options are at this point to either:

1. Join one of the seven categories (God help you) or stubbornly remain in one of these categories if you’re in there already (heh, good luck!).

2. Make plans to leave the United States at some point in the near future, where these people either don’t exist or only exist in very small numbers.

I chose option two a long time ago which is why I live such a happy and fulfilled life.

Let’s see which option you will choose…

In my last article, I discussed a bit of the results I received from the massive amount of physicals I’ve had recently, and the discovery that I have a leaky gut which is causing a bunch of problems.

I also discussed the new diet I’m utilizing to fix this problem.

Several people in the comments immediately recommended I do the carnivore diet.

I realized, reading these comments, that I had never written a full article about the carnivore diet, even though it’s been a big deal on the internet for about five years now, ever since Jordan Peterson’s angry feminist daughter started promoting it.

First, I’m going to address the carnivore diet in general, then I will discuss why I, in particular, am not choosing to use this diet to fix my leaking gut, with real data and science behind my decision (as always).

Carnivore Diet People

The biggest problem with discussing the carnivore diet is that it quickly became an irrational cult on the internet. Much like flat earthers, vegans, feminists, and tradcons, it became a thing people were following because of the emotions they had around the diet rather than the science behind the diet itself.

For example, as soon as people started talking about the carnivore diet on my blogs a few years ago, when I correctly pointed out that it probably woudln’t be great for your gut biome if you only ate animal prodcuts for literally the rest of your life, various people attacked me personally and I had to ban a bunch of folks for violations of the Five Simple Rules.

Other people said that I should “get educated” on the carnivore diet and many of them sent me links to a Joe Rogan episode with one of the biggest carnivore diet gurus at the time (I forget his name).

In the first 20 minutes of the episode, Joe asked the guy how his blood work and biomarkers looked after being on carnivore for an entire year. The guy answered that he had no idea. He never had any blood work done(!).

Joe reacted with shock, and so did I. Why the hell would you try such a radical diet, go around on the internet promoting it as healthy, when you haven’t looked at any of your fucking biomarkers?

Insane.

And this was the guru all of these canrivore people were pointing at as the expert.

I turned off the episode and moved on.

Again, clearly, these carnivore people were in a cult, not following science.

FYI, that same carnivore guru (again, I don’t remember his name because I don’t care), after about three years, started eating fruits, veggies, and carbs because carnivore was fucking up his health, exactly as I had predicted.

Carnivore Can Still Help

Does that mean carnivore is bullshit? No.

Just because a lot of carnivore people are irrational doesn’t mean that the diet itself can’t be beneficial. I personally know people who have indeed benefited from the carnivore diet.

You may be one of those people, and if the carnivore diet has helped you, that’s fantastic and I support you.

The biggest reason carnivore helps people is that it forces people to stop eating shit like bread, pasta, sugar, gluten, high-inflammation dried fruits, artificial flavors and chemicals, and a bunch of other garbage.

Yeah man, if you stop eating that crap, your health will improve and you will feel better. But you can stop eating those things without converting to full-on carnivore. I’ll discuss that more in a minute.

So if you’re one of these carnivore people, make sure you read this statement: I’m not against carnivore and if carnivore helped you, I think that’s great and I support you.

(Now let’s see how many irrational carnivore people in the comments, DMs, and my email ignore that statement.)

The Biggest Issue With Carnivore

The biggest issue with carnivore is what I’ve said all along: it is a fantastic diet to use as a temporary cleanse, as in several months or so. It is an absolutely dreadful and unhealthy diet to use as a long-term lifestyle or for the “rest of your life.”

Again, the proof is in the pudding regarding the sheer amount of famous carnivore gurus who eventually had to reluctantly announce to their audiences that they started eating fruits, vegetables, legumes, and other carbs because of all the very predictable health problems they were incurring by embracing carnivore long-term.

If you are a carnivore person, you might respond with the more rational response of, “But that’s right, Caleb. You should do carnivore just for a few months and then pivot to eating healthy carbs and fats also.”

The problem is that over the last five or six years that carnivore has been promoted on the internet, I have literally never seen any carnivore person recommend this approach.

100% of these guys say or imply that you should just eat carnivore pretty much for the rest of your life and that every other diet is stupid.

Which, of course, is factually incorrect. But internet cults usually are.

So my position on carnivore today is the same as it was many years ago when the fad started hitting the internet hard. I think carnivore is a fantastic way, as a temporary cleanse, to clean up health problems in your body, and then after a few months, you get off carnivore and switch to a healthier, long-term, balanced diet.

If you disagree with that statement and think carnivore is perfectly healthy to do for 50 years straight, as always, show me your data and let’s take a look. As usual, emotions, anger, name-calling, and snark don’t work on me and further indicate that I’m correct.

Why I’m Personally Not Doing Carnivore

With all of that context, now I will explain why I personally will not be pursuing carnivore to address my specific set of problems.

As I explained earlier, I’ve had a huge number of comprehensive tests, including mapping my genetic profile, my gut profile, heart health, full-body MRI, and various other things. I have worked with several doctors on this and I am also working with AI.

Using AI (the best paid version of Claude Sonnet 4.6), I have fed the almost hundred pages of reports of test results into it so I can ask questions based on the results.

When first going through these results, I asked AI, based on my results, if carnivore was a good idea to address my leaky gut and other problems. Here’s exactly what it said:

Great question — and your test results actually give us a pretty clear answer on this. Here’s what the data says:

Your leaky gut situation: Your Zonulin came back at 238.7 ng/g (reference is <175), which confirms increased intestinal permeability. Your Secretory IgA is also elevated (2336, reference 510–2010), and your Anti-gliadin IgA is slightly elevated (183, reference <175), suggesting your gut is reacting to gluten specifically.

Why carnivore might seem appealing: Eliminating gluten and processed foods does reduce gut irritants, and some people feel better short-term. Since gluten is a trigger for you, removing it would help — but you don’t need to go full carnivore to achieve that, and it will likely make your situation worse.

Why carnivore would likely work AGAINST your specific case:

1. Your prescribed 3-month protocol includes prebiotic fiber. Phase 2 of your gut plan specifically includes Organic Sunfiber prebiotic, and Phase 3 is microbiome re-population with a multi-strain probiotic. A carnivore diet provides zero fermentable fiber — meaning you’d be starving the beneficial bacteria you’re trying to rebuild. This directly undermines the protocol you’ve been given.

2. Your DNA report recommends a Mediterranean diet, not carnivore. It specifically calls for fruits, vegetables, and plant diversity to support your biological processes — particularly your antioxidant status, inflammation control, and methylation.

3. Your detoxification genes (Phase II) are compromised. Your DNA report flagged this and specifically recommended daily intake of foods like broccoli, cauliflower, and kale to compensate. These are completely off the table on a carnivore diet.

4. Lipid metabolism concerns. Your DNA summary flags the need to support lipid metabolism with soluble fiber and plant sterols — carnivore does the opposite.

The bottom line: A short carnivore stint might quiet some symptoms temporarily (especially by dropping gluten), but it would likely set back the microbiome rebuilding that’s central to your actual healing plan. The structured 3-phase protocol you’ve been prescribed is far better matched to what your tests actually show.

So there you go. Going on the carnivore diet would be a bad idea for me and would work against my goals of fixing my gut.

This is why it’s so dangerous and reckless to just adopt a severe diet like carnivore just because some zealots on the internet reported some positive results by doing it for a few months. You don’t know your DNA or gut profile. You don’t know what’s going on inside your body.

I realize that most people can’t afford $7,000 in advanced genetic and gut health testing, but there are lots of simple, inexpensive blood tests and biomarkers you can get a look at before making a major change like this, and you should.

One of the biggest things being on TRT has taught me is that everyone’s body is radically different and reacts well and poorly to different things.

Again, carnivore can help, and maybe it can help you. But don’t just go into this shit blind like so many carnivore gurus did in the past. That’s dumb.

I just got over being sick for two weeks straight. This is probably the sickest I have ever been in my adult life, and the longest I’ve been sick, much worse than when I had covid.

Historically, for most of my life, when I got sick, I would be sick three or four days, and then I’d be fine. I usually have the same symptoms: sore throat, runny nose, and then coughing during the final days. It’s never really been a big deal.

In the last few years, however, it’s felt like I’ve been A) getting sick more often, B) getting more severely sick when I get sick, and C) remaining sick for longer periods.

I assumed that was just an aging thing now that I’m in my fifties.

I was completely wrong. This doesn’t happen to people in their fifties. It was for a completely different reason.

This time I got sick, I immediately started coughing right out of the blue. For the next 7 days, I was coughing so hard I felt like I was going to puke up a chunk of one of my lungs.

For that first week, I was also extremely sleepy and could barely keep my eyes open throughout the day and the evening. I spent most of the week literally taking naps or sleeping 12-15 hours a night with subpar sleep because of my horrible coughing all night.

During the second week, I wasn’t quite as sleepy, but I was a little disoriented and again, coughing like a fucking maniac almost 24/7.

Needless to say, these two weeks wiped out two weeks of productivity for me in one of the most key and important times of my life when I’m transitioning to my self-actualized phase, hopefully to complete this phase around April 20th this year when I turn 54.

So why was I sick so badly and sick for so long? What the hell is going on?

Fortunately, I have the answer, because in February, as part of this new phase of my life, I spent many thousands of dollars doing a whole bunch of very expensive physicals where they check everything in your body, including:

• a full-body MRI

• a heart CT scan

• a full genome genetic profile workup

• a stool sample examination (for digestion and gut health)

• urine examination

• blood test examination

• massive lipid panels (40 pages)

• and so on

I found a lot of interesting things in these reports (I have over 60 pages of reports that I have fed into AI) but perhaps one of the most important things I learned is that I have a case of leaky gut, meaning that many of the nutrients and vitamins I have been taking the past several years are leaking out of my stomach and into my body before being absorbed into my system.

For example, the reports show that I’m actually magnesium deficient when I’ve been taking 400 mg of magnesium with food with fat every day for the past 25 years.

How the fuck is that possible? Well, it’s possible because the magnesium is leaking out of my stomach before it gets absorbed into my body. Not good. Not good at all.

Also, when you have leaky gut, crap gets out of your stomach, invades your body, and makes you sick, and more sick than normal, which explains a lot.

Fortunately, as part of this massive transition I’m making this year into the next phase of my life, because I have all these results from these fantastic physicals, I can now address this leaky gut problem.

Working with three different doctors and AI, I have changed my entire diet and most of the vitamins I take to customize 100% for my genetic profile and to repair my gut, which will take about three months.

These changes that I’m making are severe, complicated, and extreme, so I don’t have time here to go through all of them here, but to cover the leaky gut repair process, these are the changes that I am making to my diet.

1. I can no longer have any cheese of any kind, at least not for the next three months. Apparently, I am partially lactose intolerant (after 53 years of life I had no idea until these genetic reports showed it) and this has caused some problems with my stomach. Since I have been on a keto diet for most of the past several years, cheese has been my primary source of fat. I have now replaced cheese with avocados, extra virgin olive oil, and full-fat Greek yogurt, which is the only form of dairy I am allowed to eat.

2. I can no longer have any bread, pasta, or rice even for once-a-week cheat days. Instead, I am having things like eggs, beans, and potatoes, including sweet potatoes, which won’t damage my stomach and will actually assist in its repair.

3. I can no longer consume mass quantities of dried fruits like dates. I assumed that eating lots of dates would be perfectly okay because they’re all-natural and dates aren’t going to give you cancer. However, the weekly amount of dates I was eating was increasing my inflammation. I’m still allowed to eat dates, but I can have like three or four per day, not the pile of dates that I used to eat. Since eating three or four dates seems stupid to me, I just pulled dates out of my diet completely unless it’s a rare cheat day.

4. I have completely shifted my entire fruit intake to berries. Berries are the safest fruit to eat in terms of leaky gut, gut health, inflammation, and overall health, so I am consuming massive amounts of blueberries and blackberries instead of things like dates.

You might be thinking that this will assist in my weight loss, and it has so far. My weight loss strategy has radically changed in light of these new results and in light of some things that happened late last year. In a future article, I will discuss what I’m doing in terms of weight loss. I have reoriented my entire thinking about that. But more on that later.

The main objective right now is to completely repair my stomach and digestive system within the next 90 days so I can get my body back to normal, which is a very doable goal as long as I stick with the above diet, the new supplements that I’m taking, and I minimize cheat days to the absolute bare minimum possible.

Not sure if that’s possible (“Chubby Caleb” loves his cheat days), but the good news is that the foods I’m now eating are very tasty to me, and so I have felt less of the need to eat cheat-day type food.

We’ll see how things go and I will update you on future results.

Entering a new phase of my life, I’ve been saying things to myself like, “I am already the man I have always wanted to be,” “I am now the self-actualized version of myself,” and “I already have everything I want,” and so on.

These statements are more or less true, but the evolution doesn’t stop; it continues.

For example, because of this new state of mind, I started to think thoughts like this about my woman life:

“I have all the women I want now.” (True)

and

“All of my women are super hot.” (Objectively true, though my women are of various ages)

and

“I never go without sex and have all of it I want.” (True)

and

“The vast majority of these women are locked-in to me for the long-term future.” (True now)

and

“Because of their ages, lifestyles, and genetics, all of my women are going to remain sexually attractive, at least to me, for at least the next 15-20 years, if not longer.” (Most likely true)

therefore…

“I no longer need to be sexually attracted to any new women. Getting horny for any new woman is literally a waste of my time. I have evolved past this desire.”

To be clear, I’m talking about getting horny for a new woman I have not yet had sex with. I’m not talking about seeing a pretty woman and having a brief thought like, “Damn, she’s hot.” That’s appreciating beauty, not getting horny.

I decided that, yeah, that’s me now, Mr. Super Evolved Spiritual Caleb, who is completely beyond the concept of getting horny for any woman who’s not already in his inner circle.

Yeah, yeah, that’s me. That sounds good.

Like the smug asshole I am, I thought this was the case…

…for about a week.

Then one day while I was in the elevator, I was minding my own business, and the elevator stopped on a floor, opened up, and a young man and woman entered. Then we continued our way down.

They were both in their mid-20s or so. Either they were siblings or a couple; I couldn’t really tell because they both had a similar look.

The woman wasn’t gorgeous or anything, but she was very, very cute. She was twirling around, looking at herself in the mirrored walls of the elevator. (What can I say? It’s Dubai.)

Immediately, a powerful wave of caveman-like horniness swept over my entire body. My lizard brain wanted to kick this guy out of the elevator, pick this woman up, and have sex with her right then and there. It felt fantastic.

Of course, none of this showed on my face. I just stood there looking relaxed, watching the numbers on the elevator screen. I’ve been on hundreds of first dates so outward emotional control like this comes automatically to me.

I walked out of the building and they left, going their own way. I stood outside the building, shaking my head, laughing at myself.

Caleb, you fucking moron. You’re not going to ever “evolve” out of being horny for other new women, at least occasionally. You’re a high-sex-drive, high-testosterone, non-monogamous Alpha Male 2.0. And you’re going to be this person for the rest of your life (thank God).

Moreover, you live in two cities jam-packed full of attractive women who are all over the goddamn place (Dubai and Asunción).

C’mon, dude. You’re not some shaolin monk who lives in some remote mountain temple while he meditates on his fingernail all day.

The fuck were you thinking?

Eh, it was a good effort at least, and a nice thought. I honestly don’t want to have sex with any new women for the rest of my life, and I don’t plan to, but the option is always there.

I just had to accept that no matter how old, evolved, or spiritual I become, I’m still a man, and a very particular type of man, and that’s not ever going to change.

Which is fine.

I mean, shit, if Alan Watts was banging chicks left and right all the way until the day he died, what chance do I have? Ha!

As many of you know, I’ve been on TRT for about 10 years now.

Going on TRT (testosterone replacement therapy) as an over-40 man has been one of the top three best decisions of my entire life, and I recommend it to about 90% of men over the age of 40.

It’s an absolute game-changer financially, personally, with happiness, with relationships with women, with sleep, with fitness, with pretty much everything.

That being said, I’ve encountered a new problem with it. The good news is that it’s a fixable problem and it won’t ever happen again. I’m just continually surprised at all the new aspects I learn about TRT even though I’ve been doing it forever and it’s become a default part of my life.

I inject testosterone and a vitamin B compound 2-3 times a week. Historically, I will also inject HCG or gonadorelin depending on the protocol and what I’m doing (though right now I’m not injecting either of those).

I inject in my shoulder because it’s easiest and it doesn’t hurt. You can also inject into your thigh (but that hurts) or your upper buttocks (doesn’t hurt but it’s irritating because of the contortions you have to do to do it correctly).

A few weeks ago, my left deltoid started to ache a little. In typical dumb man fashion I didn’t pay any attention to it and figured it would just go away.

Instead, it slowly got worse, and finally, about 2 weeks ago, it was bad enough that when I lay on it at night (I sleep on my left side) it was starting to keep me awake.

Okay, that’s not good. Nothing is allowed to fuck with my sleep.

So, since ideal sleep is the number one most important thing in my physical life, I immediately contacted the physiotherapist to get this figured out.

She’s made two visits to my home so far (in Dubai everyone comes to your home because Dubai isn’t collapsing like the USA) and she showed me exactly what the problem was.

I have a little hunk of scar tissue in my delt muscle; that’s what’s causing this problem. It was created by too many injections. Even though the needles I use are tiny (.29 gauge or higher, which means the needle is really narrow), and even though I’ve been using proper injection technique (massaging the area after injection, etc), and even though I rotate multiple injection sites on both shoulders, 10 years of injecting there has taken its toll.

I asked her if this was a permanent problem and she said no. A few more physiotherapy visits and this will be 100% fixed. Good.

I then asked her if I was forever doomed to have scar tissue in both of my delts because of my constant injections. Again, she said no, that the scar tissue completely heals/dissolves within 12-18 months. It’s just that I can’t keep injecting in my shoulders anymore until they heal. (I have scar tissue in my other shoulder as well, but not nearly as much and there is no pain, likely because I don’t sleep on that side.)

So now I’m injecting into my upper buttocks instead of my shoulders, which is not a lot of fun because you have to twist around in weird angles to do it correctly (unless you have someone else to help you), but this is a very small price to pay for all of the benefits of TRT.

I’ll do this for about 12 months and then I’ll switch back to my shoulders in a year, next January, when they should be healed.

Then forevermore I’ll just alternate every January, shoulders/buttocks, and I’ll never have this problem again.

I use the word “forevermore” loosely because soon (as in within 10 years or so) I’m confident they will invent a version of TRT that is as effective and flexible as injections but without actually having to inject yourself. (Yes, I’m aware of the pellet implant, but that’s not as effective or flexible as injections; though I have nothing against the pellet and lots of guys have done it and are happy with it.)

TRT is just so awesome, despite its little inconveniences. I’m so thankful for it.

It’s now January of 2026, the year of my great transition into a brand new life, something I’ve been planning for many years. Super excited about this.

…and I’ve already encountered a problem.

It’s an odd problem I never anticipated. I’m not even 100% clear on how to fix it, which is a new experience for me.

One of the many changes I’m making in 2026 is that I will start spending 75% my time in my “passion engine” and 25% in my “cash engine.”

The passion engine means business projects I’m working on primarily because I want to work on them, regardless of how much money they make. They may make a lot of money, they might make some money, or they might make no money, and any of those is fine with me.

The goal for the passion engine is to do what I want, not necessarily to make money (though, as always, making money is preferable to not making money).

The cash engine means projects I’m working on that I enjoy, but the primary point of them is to make money.

This would solidify this April when I scale back to a 4-day workweek, as I discussed here:

Four workdays per week would mean 3 days in the passion engine and 1 day in the cash engine. Perfect symmetry.

So I started January 1st with gusto as I always do, deciding to dip my toe into my passion engine and start doing some work on that. I looked at my three or four passion projects, and picked one at random, the Black Dragon and Pink Firefly comic book I’m going to be releasing soon, as I discussed here:

So I sat down, pulled up my old copy of Microsoft Word 2019 (you don’t need any of these new bullshit versions), and started writing the next issue in the comic book based on my overall story arc…

…and I kept writing…

….for six days straight.

When I finally snapped out of it and came to my senses, I realized that six fucking days had gone by and I had done virtually nothing else with my life. I got hardly any other work done, I didn’t have sex with anyone, I didn’t go to the gym, and so on. I even lost a little weight because I wasn’t focused on eating.

I had spent six days in a row, day and night, in a complete, blissful, orgasmic, flow state. Writing fantasy fiction is one of those things I was born to do, and the entire experience was absolutely wonderful beyond words that I can’t begin to describe.

…and now I’m behind on various important cash projects.

Fuck.

So for the past few days, I’ve been back in my cash engine, scrambling to catch everything up. Which is irritating, but not a big deal. I expect to be back to normal soon.

Yet even now, as I’m working in my cash engine, the passion engine calls to me, almost like a drug addiction.

When I’m not working on my cash projects, I am almost constantly thinking about the comic book. I’m visualizing scenes in my head. I’m hearing the characters speak with each other. Sometimes they’re planning, sometimes they’re arguing, sometimes they’re fucking, sometimes they’re fighting, but they’re always doing something.

When I lie in bed at night, instead of drifting off to sleep, I’m coming up with new scenarios, new arcs, new plot lines, or new scenes. Or I’m taking existing scenes and improving them, making them amazing. It’s better than watching my favorite movies.

I’m now completely in love with all of my main characters (there are about 16 of them by issue #20!), including the villains and antagonists, including the characters that started out as side characters, and including the characters that die or will die soon. I want them all to succeed, struggle, and succeed again (again, including the villains). I obsess over them like they’re real people.

As of Jan 1st, I had issues 1-13 written. Six days later, I was on issue 25 (at least first drafts), completing the entire first volume(!). As of today’s date, I’m now on issue 27 and have arced out the entire story, in detail, out to the end of volume two, and have outlined the story skeleton for volume three. (The artwork is more or less completed up to issue 8 and we’re proceeding on the rest.)

AND I’ve mapped out how the website will look AND I’ve outlined my sales videos where I describe how the comic is different than most of the other low-quality, woke, girlboss garbage out there AND I know exactly what I’m going to say (1.5 hours of content) for when I do the launch livestream.

I have so much story now that we’re probably going to sell compilations or graphic novels instead of just one issue at a time. That’s what Eric July did with the Rippaverse comics and it worked well for him. (I mean, 25 issues at a one-per-month schedule would take two fucking years. That’s way too long when SPEED is the most important thing in business right now.)

This comic book has hijacked my entire brain. It feels great and very weird at the same time. I don’t remember a time in my life when anything like this happened to me, but likely it was many years ago when I last worked on my third novel.

So now, my problem is figuring out how to contain this wonderful, amazing, passionate monster that has taken over my life. I still haven’t figured out how to do this.

My current plan is to devote all day on Mondays (my current one day off per week) to focusing on the comic, just to get it out of my system, then dabble with it during breaks throughout the rest of the week.

But at least three times now I’ve stopped my cash work to go write more of my comic book story when I really shouldn’t have.

My first inclination is to treat that like it’s a problem, because it probably is.

But now I’m asking myself if that’s bad. Maybe it’s not. Maybe it is. Or maybe it is before April 20th when I transition my schedule.

I’m really not sure, but I’ll figure it out.

I really don’t give a shit if this comic book makes any money once I release it. I’m just so fucking excited about seeing it completed, for me, that I’ve actually had trouble sleeping lately from the excitement.

It’s just been a very interesting experience this month, unleashing and taming this amazing, magical monster that’s been incubating inside me for so long.

It felt weird to talk about the comic without providing some images, so below are some of the rough draft character models.

It’s all coming soon. Very soon.

Recently, one of you left a comment on my Substack about how I once talked about the concept of uploading your consciousness to the cloud.

He was saying that I was for this concept and that he was not, and I corrected him, saying that I wasn’t for uploading my consciousness to the cloud as a mechanism to live forever.

So let me clarify that first, then I’ll give you details as to why this actually is a good idea, or could be.

Many people, Scott Adams among them, think that uploading your consciousness to the cloud, once we have the technological ability to do this, is a great idea because then you can be immortal and live forever.

At some point, you could even download your consciousness into some kind of young robot body that would look and feel human, and so on.

The problem is that this is completely incorrect.

If you upload your “consciousness” to the cloud, that’s not your consciousness. That’s just a copy of your mind. It’s not you. You’re still sitting in your limited human body.

If you upload this copy to the cloud and then you die, you still die. It didn’t help you at all.

All it does is make your loved ones feel a little better that they can still have Zoom calls with your cyber-copy, and that’s great for them, but it doesn’t help YOU. You’re still dead, rotting in your grave.

So this could be a method for legacy, but it’s not a method for immortality in any way whatsoever.

I strongly believe that your consciousness can’t be separated from your physical brain. Otherwise, explain to me scientifically how that would be done.

See? You can’t. There you go.

Once your brain dies, your life is over, period, regardless of how many back-up copies you made elsewhere, and there is no way around this because you can’t separate consciousness from the brain.

So uploading your consciousness to the cloud to achieve immortality is a stupid idea and won’t work.

However, let’s switch gears and talk about why uploading a copy of your mind (not your consciousness!) to the cloud could be a great idea.

So it’s some future date, and we have the technology to upload a 100% complete copy of my mind to the cloud. Now I have a complete, 100% copy of myself in the cloud. It’s literally me except A) he doesn’t have my consciousness (only I have that) and B) he doesn’t have a physical body.

Other than that, he’s Caleb. Let’s call him Cyber-Caleb just to keep things separate.

I now have another me who can do damn near all of my work for me.

Moreover, he doesn’t have a body, so he:

• Never needs to sleep.

• Never needs to eat.

• Never needs to have sex.

• Never gets sick or wounded.

• Never ages.

Wow. With this guy helping me, do you have any idea how much more money I could make? The impact I could have on the world? The things we could accomplish together? The possibilities are insane. I could be working a full week and he could also work a full week at the same time. Imagine the results he and I could accomplish!

Now, to be fair, he will still be me and will still have the emotional and mental needs I have.

For example, he would never get physically tired but he would likely get mentally tired. So he would need to do things like take breaks, relax, read and write fiction, play some video games, meditate, or whatever. That’s fine.

He would also have feelings for my women and my children and would need to talk to them regularly over the phone and video calls. He wouldn’t need to have sex with my PDMs because he wouldn’t have things like a penis, testicles, high testosterone, and other sex hormones, but he would likely have a strong need to emotionally connect with my gals, which again, would be fine.

It would actually help me as well; he could spend time with them on the phone or over Zoom while I was doing other things.

I also couldn’t treat him like a slave. He’s basically me, so I would first make sure he’d be happy.

This would actually be our very first conversation. I would get him on a video call and ask him if he was truly happy being in the cloud. Since he’s me, he’d know exactly why I was asking, and he would tell me and be honest.

If he wasn’t happy, I’d do everything in my power to make him happy. Indeed, Cyber-Caleb would be the most important person in my life other than my PDMs and my children.

If living in the cloud really is hell on earth, he would tell me immediately, and then I would deeply apologize and then delete him. It would be a sad moment.

But if he likes being in the cloud, it’s fucking game on. He’d have the same work ethic and same drive that I have. I’d also make sure he benefited from our shared financial success.

Could there be some problems that arise? Yes, many. He could grow jealous that I’m physically with my PDMs when he can’t be, or he could start dating or falling in love with an AI or two on the cloud instead, or could get super spiritual and just start refusing to work, or whatever.

I’m not saying this thing would be 100% gauaratneed to be perfect. But I am saying that I would absolutely give it a shot and that the upsides would be well worth any risks.

And at the same time, I would never delude myself into thinking that it’s the path towards immortality. Cyber-Caleb could live forever, but I’m dead as soon as my brain dies.

I’ve been posting videos on Substack for about four months now, in addition to the usual videos I post at my two YouTube channels.

This morning, for the first time, I actually went into my Substack to see how many views I was getting from my Substack videos.

This really was the first time. As I’ve said many times before, unlike most online brands, I don’t care about exactly how much engagement, views, or follows I get on my social media, because:

1. My social media is already extremely profitable as it is, regardless of these numbers.

2. One of the functions of my social media is to “keep my warm audience warm,” which means things like follower/views growth don’t really matter.

3. I’m an introvert who does not want to be famous or well-known. I only use social media to make money. I want to hit specific benchmarks in my financial life by getting the least amount of public exposure possible.

I’m not saying you should have the same goals. I’m just telling you what mine are, and admittedly, I’m weird.

So I’m looking at the views for my Substack videos… and I’m shocked.

My Substack videos are getting the same amount of views as my Unchained CEO YouTube channel.

What?!?

I look at how many Substack followers I have. It’s hardly any! Less than 1,000!

But wait a minute. I have over 12,000 followers on my Unchained CEO YouTube channel. And I post two videos a week over there every week, and I’ve been posting videos at that channel consistently for almost six years.

Yet I’ve only been at Substack for four months, have less than 10% of the followers, and I’m getting the same amount of views.

Wow.

My curiosity engaged, I look at my other YouTube channel, my Alpha Male 2.0 channel, and look at those view numbers. (Again, I rarely look at these numbers because I don’t really care.)

Again, surprise. My Alpha Male 2.0 YouTube channel gets almost double the amount of views as my Unchained CEO channel, even though it has less than half of the subscribers(!).

The Unchained CEO YouTube channel has over 12,000 subs. Alpha Male 2.0 has only 4,700, yet it gets almost double the amount of views.

And Substack is sitting there with the same views as UCEO and rapidly approaching my A2 channel… with under 1,000 subs.

And even with the small amount of views I’m getting from all of these platforms, I’m doing very well financially from my online sales.

A few conclusions we can draw from this:

Item one: As I’ve stated before, I think for purely video-based social media (YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitch, etc), the number of subscribers/followers someone has is now completely irrelevant. All that really matters is if people on those platforms enjoy your personality and niched content.

The algorithm has moved away from how many subs you have to the topics you talk about. Hell, the YouTube smartphone app now hides the number of subs when you watch a video; you have to click around to find them now.

Item two: With social media platforms that have some video but also feature non-video content (like Instagram, Twitter/X, Substack, etc), the number of subs/followers probably has some bearing on your views and exposure, but now it’s one of several factors instead of the be-all and end-all it was a few years ago.

I personally know a lot of people who have literally millions of followers on these platforms who aren’t making any money or making very little. And I know people who have less than 2,000 subs/followers making 7-figure incomes.

Item Three: There are always social media platforms in different stages:

• Ones that are slowly fading in favor (Facebook)

• Ones that are holding steady (Instagram, Reddit)

• Ones that are tiny and niched and remain tiny and niched even though people think they’re bigger than they actually are (Rumble)

• Ones that take off fast and then slow in their growth (TikTok)

• Ones that take off fast and then quickly die (Clubhouse)

• Ones that are taking off now after having beaten their competitors (the way Substack beat Medium)

If you have an online brand or want to build one, you need to (unfortunately) pay attention to these trends and constantly adjust your approach based on how these platforms change.

For example, the rise of TikTok completely changed how YouTube and Instagram feed you video information.

So stop focusing on how many followers you have and instead look at metrics like actual views and how much money you’re actually making from your social media. The number of subscribers/followers doesn’t really matter anymore and will start to matter less as time goes on.

Here’s a dumb and obvious statement: Over the last year I’ve seen something on social media that’s disturbing.

Well, okay, more disturbing than usual social media in the Collapsing West when everyone has lost their minds.

It’s a comment I see often, especially on YouTube. It’s always this:

Whenever I see a video with XXXXX, I click.

XXXXX is always the name of someone. It could be anyone. Alex Hormozi, Matthew McConaughey, Scott Galloway; the names are always different, and the name doesn’t matter.

The sad part is that I believe these people. I think these people actually do automatically click the video any time a particular person is in it like a dumb robot.

I also think that only a very tiny percentage of people like this are actually brave or stupid enough to make a public comment that says, “Any time I see a video with XXXXX, I click.”

As a matter of fact, it’s very likely that YOU are in this category and you don’t even realize it.

The point is that these poor bastards have literally wired their brains to robotically and automatically click certain videos when they see certain things in that video.

It’s not just clicking videos either. Most modern-day humans check their phones as soon as they wake up in the morning. The exact app on their phone may differ; maybe it’s Instagram, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, their SMS texts, or something else. But the point is they robotically, unconsciously do this like drones.

Everyone, myself included, has bitched and moaned about “the algorithm” that social media platforms use. How it warps our views of the world. How it’s used to make us think certain things. How it’s used to manipulate us.

But now, humans have become a part of the algorithm. If you automatically click a video every time you see someone’s name, you aren’t affected by the algo; you ARE the algo. You’re just another link in that chain.

And sadly, the odds are that this is going to get worse.

With AI in the near future, you likely won’t even have YouTube videos anymore. YouTube (or whatever it’s called by then) will already know what you like and instantly create videos on the fly that suck you in.

This is depressing, terrifying shit.

And I say all this as someone who uses social media to make money in one of his companies. But I’ve been very clear and on the record that I hate that I have to use social media, and I wish there was some other viable organic alternative (which there is not, at least not yet).

Every time I see one of these “whenever I see X I do Y” comments, and I see them all the time now, I get just a little sad at where humanity in the Collapse West has ended up.

The good news is that you can choose not to be a part of the algo. As just one example, a while back I disabled YouTube’s ability to show me any videos in my feed, forcing me to go seek out videos I want to watch. I can still use social media while minimizing its effect on my brain.

I will never be a human component of the algo.

Hopefully you won’t either.

I’ve noticed a new false narrative in the last year or two that I find every interesting.

It’s a combination of two different opinions:

The first one is this: “Women aren’t settling down / aren’t getting married / aren’t getting boyfriends / aren’t getting monogamous like they used to because of feminism and all this damn left-wing woke girlboss stuff! They’re all embracing college and corporate careers instead! Grrr!!!!”

The second one is this: “People have wised up about monogamy now. They’ve evolved on this issue. They now understand that you can do it, but that it isn’t forever. People have listened to enough podcasts from biologists and people like Eric Weinstein to understand that if they get monogamous with someone, it’s not going to be “forever,” but instead for a few years only, then they’ll part ways and move on to a different partner.”

Combine these two things, and the (incorrect) conclusion is that people aren’t pursuing monogamy anymore, and even when they do, they don’t assume it will last forever.

This is completely wrong.

It is factually accurate that Gen Z (i.e. people in their twenties) are having less sex than other generations; I’ve discussed that in my content a great deal. But this does not mean that people aren’t still pursuing monogamy anymore.

When we look out into the world in 2026, including the Collapsing West, we still see:

• Women dating men (at least eventually; some do wait until their late 20s or early 30s but they're still eventually start doing it).

• Women demanding monogamy from men when they start to like them (or even before that!).

• Men (stupidly) promising monogamy to women.

• Men and women getting married (especially people in their 30s and 40s).

• Men and women not getting legally married but still settling down with each other, moving in with each other, and expecting monogamy from each other.

• Women being absolutely shocked, shocked! when their “monogamous” husbands or boyfriends get caught cheating on them.

• Men getting absolutely CRUSHED emotionally when their monogamous wives or girlfriends break up or divorce them.

• Men and women breaking up or getting divorced even though they have children together.

• Men and women getting monogamously married or monogamously moving in together even though one or both of them has already been divorced.

So, I’m sorry folks, but people in 2026 are still foolsihing prusuing monogmay and assuming it will last the rest of their lives when they do it.

They can listen to all of the podcasts they want and read all of the anti-monogamy books they like.

They can get as left-wing woke as fuck as they want.

So far, men and women (both!) are getting monogamous (at least eventually) and assuming that monogamy will be forever.

And when it doesn’t work, they lose their shit because their assumptions were all wrong even though many of them logically understood at some point before that it was never going to work in the first place.

Are fewer people getting legally married? Yes, of course.

Are fewer young people having sex? Yes, of course.

Are fewer people in the Collapsing West having children? Yes, of course.

This is all standard stuff for collapsing civilizations. But none of it, and I mean none of it, contradicts the fact that the vast majority of women and men still eventually seek out and attempt monogamous relationships and at least emotionally assume those relationships will be “forever” and are shocked, infuriated, or depressed when they don’t last.

And as I’ve been telling red pill guys for almost 20 years now about marriage, just because someone waits until their 30s to attempt something doesn’t mean they never attempt it.

I was hoping that by now, people at large in Western society would start embracing non-monogamous models en masse, and it’s true that many more people have and are.

Yet sadly, despite all of the data right in people’s faces about long-term monogamy not working, most people are still going to try this and still get fucked by it.

It’s going to make the Collapse of the West all the more painful.

This is nothing new if you’re familiar with my content, but if you’re new to my stuff, you need to hear this. If you’re well acquainted with my content, then you need to hear this again because most of you aren’t actually taking advantage of this.

The absolute best time of the year to achieve your business goals AND your woman goals is the time between January 2nd and May 31st.

I have always called this time of year Go Time.

The reasons this magical block of five months is so special are:

1. In the northern hemisphere, the weather is shitty during this time. That means that very few people are going on vacation or spending their weekends or evenings outside playing or doing other fun activities.

2. There are no major holidays during these five months. You’ve got little ones like Easter or Spring Break, but these don’t move the needle. This means, again, people are available to buy your products and women are available to date you.

3. In business, lots of people (like me, and likely like you) are excited and itching to get back at it after the new year.

4. By January, lots of women have dumped their temporary monogamous boyfriends (at least by Feb 15th, which is the day after Valentine’s Day) and are single and ready to mingle.

These conditions last until June when summer hits, the weather gets nicer, and people start going on vacations and stuff and are less available in the business world, and women settle in with their next round of temporary monogamous partners. That’s why Go Time is only five months.

I have had numerous years where I made the vast majority of my money for the entire year between January and May.

I’ve also had numerous years where I gathered up a pile of new women (FBs and MLTRs) during Go Time and could just shut off the dating flow altogether for the rest of the year.

Shit, I’ve actually had many years where I had all of these women in the bag by the end of February.

Now that it’s January, you need to put your head down, get 100% focused on your business and/or woman goals, work your ass off, and don’t look up until the end of May.

At that point, you can start to take it easier for the rest of the year if you want. But don’t let another year of Go Time pass you by.

It will change your life if you do this. I’m serious.

For the past 15 years I’ve heard success gurus scream their heads off about practicing gratitude.

You need to list out things you’re thankful for.

You need to designated part of your morning routine to thinking about everything you’re grateful for.

And so on.

The problem is that none of these bastards ever explained why this works or why it’s worth doing at all.

If you’re going to tell me I need to spend 5-10 minutes a day for the rest of my life doing something, then you’d better damn well give me the specific reasons why this technique will help me and give me some real scientific backing behind your advice.

Otherwise, fuck off.

This is why doing things like setting goals, planning your quarter, and visualizing your goals are things I’ve embraced; I know there is real data that shows this stuff works, and I’ve read plenty of books that showed scientific data that explained why these things work.

Yet, for gratitude, for some reason, this is never explained. I had to do a mountain of deep digging research to discover if this technique actually worked, and why.

Here’s what I came up with. It actually does work, at least somewhat. For two reasons.

The first reason is that you can’t feel mad, sad, jealous, anxious, or scared at the same time you feel deeply grateful for something.

Try it yourself.

Next time you feel any strong negative emotions, pause for a minute and click your brain over to feeling grateful about something you are deeply thankful for.

I don’t mean “I feel grateful for the wind on my face” bullshit where you’re trying to reach for something. I mean something you are really and truly thankful for, even if it’s something you’ve taken for granted (Example: “I’m thankful I was born and raised in the Western world before Western collapse really began instead of being born in North Korea or during the Black Plague.”)

You’ll find your negative emotions either vanish completely or reduce by at least 80%. You really will feel happier.

The second reason is that when you focus on things you have in your life that you’re thankful for, usually you’ll discover that you did that. If you’re thankful for your income, your cute girlfriend, or that you moved to Paraguay, you’ll see that these things were things you created yourself.

When you feel this, you suddenly start feeling more capable and competent.

When you feel more capable and competent, you start feeling more confident.

When you feel more confident, you are more likely to take action on your goals and you’re more likely to succeed in them.

Contrast this to most men in the modern collapsing era who spend most of their lives going around thinking things like, “I’m not good at anything,” and “Everything sucks.” These guys are doomed to live horrible lives. (And in my view, they deserve it. This is why I’ve said from day one that Alpha Male 2.0 is only for 10% of men. Women and 90% of men reject long-term happiness.)

So yes, gratitude does actually help. I’m not saying you need to have a regular routine for it (unless you want one), but developing the habit of feeling grateful for the things you already have is definitely worth doing.

I haven’t owned a car for about 7 years now.

I’ve discussed why on several YouTube videos but my two main reasons for this are:

A. In the modern era, you don’t need to own a car (unless you’re really into cars as a hobby or you live many hours away from the nearest city). Things like Amazon, DoorDash, grocery store delivery services, Uber, Lyft, ZipCar, and various other services make owning a car very redundant, even a little silly in the modern era. I’ve found that most people who own cars today do so for purely outdated emotional reasons (“Not have a car? Fuck that! I don’t want to wait 6 minutes for an Uber!!!”)

B. With my international lifestyle, owning a car doesn’t make any sense since it would sit idle in a garage 5-7 months a year (and continue to be an expense for me even as I wasn’t using it).

That all being said, I still have a valid driver’s license in the Collapsing USA. On my last trip there, I indeed had to drive Pink Firefly’s car for a brief errand. It was the first time I drove a car in several years.

I also sat in the passenger seat as she drove around Phoenix.

I had sort of forgotten what it was like to own and/or drive a car, so it got me thinking, “What would I do with a car if I DID own one?”

Again, I don’t want to own any cars and I never will. I’m just thinking hypothetically about what I would do if I owned a car.

First of all, it would not be a huge SUV that so many Americans like. These things are harder to park, harder to maneuver, harder to turn sharply, and guzzle way too much gas.

I would also not own a sports car. I did that for 20 years, enjoyed it, been there done that, and owning a sports car includes a whole slew of hassles (they always break down, they need to be babied, they’re expensive and difficult to repair, etc).

I’d own a very simple sedan, like I used to when I owned a car, a Mercedes, Lexus, or something like that.

The next thing I’d do is take it to a custom chop shop and have them rip out or disable a bunch of the electronics car manufacturers put in nowadays (likely because of a bunch of idiotic left-wing laws).

That stupid beeping thing when someone in the car doesn’t have their seatbelt on? Fuck that, I’d have that removed immediately. Yes, even if it violated some kind of safety standard.

I wear seatbelts whenever I’m in a car but if a passenger in the car doesn’t want to, that’s their business; I don’t need the fucking mommy car to blare an alarm at me. Fuck you.

Next, I’d rip out all of the geolocation shit in the car. No car company or government needs to know where I’m driving my own car, thank you very much.

Yes, I realize my phone already tracks me, but I choose to have that in my life, and when. And I can always leave my phone at home, jailbreak it, or destroy it if I want. No one asked me if I wanted my fucking car to report my location to big business/big government as well. Again, fuck you with this authoritarian nanny-state shit.

I’d install one of those windsheild-wide rear-view mirrors. They aren’t very stylish but they make driving a hell of a lot easier and safer.

I’d also install a radar detector. I had one of those back in the 80s and man, it saved me a lot of money in speeding tickets. Yeah, I know some of the mapping apps have speedtrap notifications, but nothing can beat a good ol’ radar detector for avoiding the authoritarian USA cops.

I’d spend extra money on the shocks and suspension and have the wheels jacked up a bit. I don’t give a shit if it looks weird or bad; I want a smooth-ass ride, even on the bumpy, pot-hole-ridden roads of the Collapsing USA.

I’d also have a full set of blankets, pillows, and other stuff in the trunk just in case I wanted to have sex in the back seat of the car. I’m not buying a car unless it’s a multi-purpose tool.

If I was a dork, and I am, I’d probably have a purple Decepticon symbol painted on the hood and the doors. Because… oh why not? Life’s too short.

Shit, while I’m at it, I might as well install a KITT Knight Rider red woo-woo scanner in the front of the hood.

Throw in a Flux Capacitor in the back seat too. Might as well go full nerd.

Wait a second. The Flux Capacitor would get in the way of having sex in the back seat. So, okay, let’s skip that for the moment. Sex with my PDMs and FBs is more important.

I think that’s about it. I’d be driving one of the weirdest cars on the road. And I wouldn’t give a shit.

But I still like not having a car.

Societal Programming, or SP, as I talk about in my videos and blogs, and especially in my primary book The Unchained Man, is a bunch of lies told to you by society (your parents, school, religion, TV, movies, news, internet, books, etc) that are implanted into you to ensure the eleites maintain their control over you.

SP is made to keep you a slave and a working cog in the machine, not to make you free or happy.

Therefore, SP is bad. If you want to achieve long-term consistent happiness, it’s your job to A) identify all of the bullshit SP rolling around in your mind (and you’ve got a lot!) and B) clean it out so you can be happy. (Refer to The Unchained Man for instructions on how to do all of this.)

This begs the question, “Is any false SP helpful? Or at least not harmful?”

The answer, surprisingly, is yes.

A very teeny tiny percentage of false, bullshit SP is indeed “okay.”

It’s only okay if both of the following conditions are true:

1. The false SP doesn’t make you upset at yourself, other people, or the world in general. (This is why, for example, false SP religions like Christianity and Islam are not okay; if you follow these religions you’re going to spend the rest of your life being very upset at most of the modern-day world because it lives pretty much the opposite of what your religion teaches.)

2. It doesn’t limit your freedom in any way whatsoever. It’s false, but it’s harmless.

I’ll give you my favorite example: Christmas.

You’re going to read this article on Christmas Eve. I’m writing this article on Dec 21st, and I am full of the Christmas spirit at the moment.

Like most people, I was raised within one of the many false SP religions. In my case, this was Christianity, more accurately, Catholicism. Like most religions, this religion is full of stuff made up by primitive, frightened humans thousands of years ago.

Therefore, while there might be some good tenets taught by Christianity, most of it is complete fairy tale bullshit.

This includes Christmas, where we all shove trees inside our houses, lie to our children about a magical fatass who delivers presents to them, and celebrate the birthday of a mythical godlike wizard who lived thousands of years ago in the Middle East. And shit, his birthday isn’t even in December, it’s in April.

So Christmas is a complete pile of horseshit.

But I love it.

I adore Christmas trees, Christmas celebrations, and Christmas lights.

I absolutely love Christmas music. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been listening to old-timey Christmas music from the 40s and 50s as I work, and I’ve been loving every minute of it. (I’m listening to Nat King Cole right now as I type these words.)

I listen to Christian church Christmas songs we used sing when I was a kid in Catholic Friday Mass and it all fills me with joy.

I wish the Christmas season was even longer than it currently is, and I feel a little twinge of sadness when it’s over.

I fucking LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!

…even though I know it’s all bullshit.

So, in my case at least, loving and celebrating Christmas even though I know it’s a bunch of false SP is perfectly fine. I know it’s all bullshit, but that’s okay, just like I know Raiders of the Lost Ark is also bullshit, but it makes me happy and doesn’t harm my freedoms.

Me loving Christmas doesn’t make me angry at anyone. Indeed, it makes me happier and like people more.

Me loving Christmas doesn’t limit my freedom in any way. I still live my wonderful, international, five flags, self-employed, non-monogamous lifestyle without any disruption during the Christmas season. It’s all great.

So rarely, not often, but rarely, some false SP comes along that is perfectly fine. Enjoy it and have fun with it. (Hey, I even like Easter too!)

You just have to ensure it really doesn’t make you upset or limit your freedom in any way.

I’ve stated this before, but today I’m going into more detail about what I’m doing about this.

It is the contention and prediction of many people I trust that because of AI, it is possible that in 5-10 years, you won’t be able to earn any more money than what you will have at that time.

This is because by that time, AI might be able to do literally everything you can do and do it better than you.

So why would anyone pay you to do something AI could do better?

The only possible exceptions to this might be people with personal brands (like me) and people engaged in manual physical labor, like if you’re an electrician or roofer.

However, eventually robots will replace those jobs as well (though that will take 20-30 years instead of 5-10 because of manufacturing limitations; AI and robots are two different conversations but that’s a topic for another time).

I have a personal brand that is growing, but I don’t sell my manual labor, nor want to. You probably don’t either.

I say words like probably and might because this is not a 100% prediction I’m making. This may not happen. But it’s quite probable in that it has a roughly 40-70% chance of happening.

If you want more details about this, read my book Freedom Fortress.

You can do whatever you want with your life, but this is what I’m doing.

I view this AI 5-10 year deadline the same way I view the collapse of the USA occuring in my lifetime: it’s very likely to happen, something I must protect myself and my family from if it happens, and even if it doesn’t happen, everything I do to protect myself will still greatly benefit me, therefore it’s worth doing regardless of what happens.

So I view this as a race. I have 5-10 years to make all of the money I want before I can’t make any more.

This means that I need to really bust my ass and scale my companies as fast as humanly possible. I have been doing exactly this for the past 3-4 years or so and will continue to do so for the next few months at least.

Some of my business buddies who make similar incomes as I do are doing this as well. We’re all now in a race to make millions of dollars as fast as humanly possible before AI replaces what we do.

Even after I (hopefully) transition into my next phase of life next year, when my income will no longer be my primary focus, I will still earn money through my efforts and my investments. This 5-10 year deadline will still be in my area of focus.

Since I have no idea if this will be five years, seven years, ten years, or 20 years or more, I have to assume a worst-case scenario, meaning five years. This is why, as one example, I moved out of the Collapsing USA in 2021 instead of waiting around for things to get really horrible before I left (which is what many of you are doing).

This means that by around 2030 (maybe) you and I won’t be able to earn any more money. Whatever money we have by then is all we’ll have for the rest of our lives.

Yikes.

After that, the economic system will change, and either you’ll be a slave to the UBI (universal basic income) of the AI Communist Utopia, or you’ll have millions of dollars to retire on in style.

And to repeat, it’s your life. You can just sit back, say that all this AI stuff is bullshit, AI will never get any better than it is today (people in my audience actually say this), and none of this will ever happen. Then just sit back and do nothing.

That’s fine, but it also sounds extremely foolish to me and that’s not how I do things. I want to be happy long-term no matter what happens. Long-term happiness is what I’m all about.

I don’t want to be happy in my future only if X, Y, and Z occur. That sounds dumb, at least to me. I want to be happy no matter what.

And as I mentioned above, if you bust your ass for the next 5-10 years and make several million dollars, and this AI replacement/takeover doesn’t happen, then congratulations, you’re a millionaire, and now you’re set for life anyway.

So there’s upside no matter what.

Therefore, at least in my view, the only reason to not do this is laziness.

“But I don’t want to work hard to make a bunch of money over the next 5-10 years.”

Okay, then don’t.

But this sounds a lot like people who spend their lives saying things like, “I don’t want to sell out to the corporate system,” and “I just want to be and live in the now, man,” and “There’s more to life than money,” and they take it easy throughout their working years.

Then, when they hit their 50s or 60s, they’re completely fucked. They have no money, they’re old, they can’t retire, and they’re eeking out a horrible living relying on scraps from government social security checks and begging their grown kids for money. (And do you really think Gen Z is going to have a lot of money in a few decades? Heh.)

It’s horrible and I’ve seen this a lot.

Hundreds of millions of people are going to make this mistake over the next 5-15 years, either through ignorance and laziness.

It’s going to be a bloodbath. People aren’t ready for what is (likely) coming.

But I will be.

And I hope you will too.

But most of you won’t.

I sit outside on my patio in Dubai, drinking tea, saddened, once again, that I will likely never again experience the feeling of going to the movie theater to watch a new, completely original movie that completely enthrals me and that I’m excited to watch again.

I remember how wonderful that feeling was in the 1970s, 1980s, and some of the 1990s, before it was permanently blasted away from the culture around the turn of the 21st Century.

I sigh, saddened that as the Western world continues its slow, angry, painful, economic and cultural collapse, its culture remains completely frozen since around 2007. Same clothing, same music, same movies, same TV shows, same hair styles, more or less, for the past 20 years, with virtually no change.

If a person in 2025-26 went back in time to the 1980s, he would immediately know he was in the 80s just by walking around.

But if that same person went back in time to 2007, everything would look more or less the same, and he would feel right at home.

Collapsing Western culture has been frozen for 20 years, and will continue to be so.

But then, being the positive guy I am, I snap my fingers and have an idea.

If I can’t see any new, original, cool movies anymore, why don’t I go back and look up the movies from the 70s/80s/90s that I never saw?

Holy shit, Caleb, what a great idea!

Movies back then were really good, and since I’ve never seen them, they will be new to me.

I excitedly hop on watchmojo.com, start in January of 1977, and start going through all of the movies released in theaters, month by month.

Many of these movies I’ve seen. Star Wars, Close Encounters, Superman, and so on. I own these movies in my collection because they’re amazing.

But to my joy and curiosity, many of these movies, a startling amount in fact, I haven’t seen. I cross-reference them with A) the type of movie they are and making sure I like the genre (action, sci-fi, historical, etc) and B) summarized critical reviews at the time, ensuring I don’t see any movie that was clearly crap (crap movies existed back then but weren’t the norm like they are now).

Cool. I whip up a spreadsheet and start making a list.

Sorcerer. Black Sunday. Rumble Fish. Goin’ South. The First Great Train Robbery. Many others.

Wow. These movies look really good.

I get excited.

By the time I hit 1980, I’ve got a big list and stop there for the moment.

I watch one at random: a 1977 Clint Eastwood action movie I’ve never seen before called The Gauntlet. The movie poster is fucking badass, painted by Frank Frazetta himself(!). And the movie has Sondra Locke, who I vaguely remember being pretty cute back in the 70s.

I watch the movie…

…and it’s FUCKING GREAT.

GOD DAMN.

Now we’re talking.

As soon as I’m able (based on my limited time off these days), I watch another one: a 1977 Michael Douglas thriller called Coma.

And it’s…

…FUCKING GREAT.

Not as great as The Gauntlet, but really, really good. Far better than movies today, not even close! I even decide to do a YouTube video about the book it’s based on.

So I watch another one. I like fantasy so this one is a fantasy cartoon made-for-TV movie for kids called Flight of Dragons, made by the same company that made The Hobbit cartoon movie in the 70s (which I’ve seen a billion times).

And it’s… GREAT. Cute little movie that I actually enjoyed.

Hm. I’m really onto something here.

I go back to watchmojo.com and add more movies to my growing list.

The Amityville Horror. 1941. American Gigolo. Hanover Street. And on and on.

I get even more excited.

But then I get a little sad again.

Soon, perhaps in a few months or a year, I will have exhausted this list. Then what?

I think that perhaps I could do the same thing but with movies pre-1977. Sure, that could work, but I like those style of movies less, so the list will be much shorter.

Then what happens with I’m done with that list?

Hm.

I don’t know.

What strange times we live in.

A little while back, I posted this article at Substack:

This article was about how men of different ages should always have different dating and relationship goals and how it’s a mistake to just take the standard dating advice you hear on most of the internet (from PUA to red pill) that assumes every man in the world is about 25 years old.

There’s a key point in that article that most men (and women for that matter) don’t understand.

It’s this:

You can’t ever get the need to have sex with other women “out of your system.”

False Societal Programming says that if you’re a man, instead of getting married when you’re a virgin or very inexperienced, you should instead go out and fuck tons of women and live all of your sexual fantasies first.

This will get the need to be a player “out of your system.”

So once you do this, now you can “settle down” into a traditional, monogamous relationship or marriage and you will now be 100% committed and faithful to your prefect, traditional, virgin, Christian wife and make that marriage work forever and live Happy Ever After™.

Just one problem.

That’s completely untrue and virtually never works.

I’ve explained thousands of times that once you have sex with lots of women, you become functionally incapable of long-term monogamy because now you’ve set the precedent of having sex with multiple women whenever you want.

So if you’re stupid, delusional, or brainwashed enough to actually get long-term monogamous after having sex with 200 hot babes, you’re just going to end up cheating on your new girlfriend/wife (and like most men, you’ll eventually get caught, and now you have real problems).

However, I said in the above article that I don’t need to have sex with a bunch of women anymore and I no longer need to do the crazy sexual stuff I’ve done in my past because I got it out of my system.

Am I contradicting myself?

No.

I said that I don’t need to have sex with a bunch of women anymore. But I was also careful to say that I still can’t have sex with one woman (monogamy) and how that still won’t work for me because I’m a man.

Which is correct. At age 53, after having had sex with a vast number of women, including many internet celebrities, and living all of my wildest sexual fantasies over and over again over the past 19 years, today I don’t need to have sex with a bunch of women anymore.

In my case, instead of having a harem of 15-20 hot babes who are all in different countries, today I’d prefer to have just three women, all of whom are long-term, and none of whom need to be famous perfect tens.

But three women still isn’t monogamy. Long-term monogamy still doesn’t work.

So the societal trope of “sowing your wild oats” or “getting things out of your system” is half correct.

You can indeed get something “out of your system,” but it’s not what you think.

What a man can get “out of his system” is the crazy sexual shit. The threesomes, foursomes, 18-year-olds, Instagram models, fucking two sisters, having sex in public, getting a blowjob while swinging on a chandelier, or whatever the sexual fantasies are.

That crazy stuff, yes, you can indeed get that out of your system. I’ve done it and I’ve known many other men in my age range who have also done it.

For example, in all seriousness, if I never have a threesome for the rest of my life, I’d be 100% happy. I’ve already done so many times that I just don’t have that particular desire anymore. (And as I said in the prior article, if two attractive women offer it to me, I’m probably not going to say no; I’m just saying I’m not going to pursue it and I don’t care to ever do it again.)

What you can’t get “out of your system” is the desire to have sex with more than one woman.

I’m sorry, but if you’re a human male, the desire to spread your seed is locked into your DNA and brain forever no matter what you do. There’s no getting around this.

You can do all of the crazy sexual shit you want, you will still not want (really and truly want in your heart of hearts) to only have sex with just ONE woman for literally the rest of your life.

You could marry the perfect woman on Earth for you, and eventually, at least within 2-3 years, you’ll want to have sex with someone else (even if you want to keep having sex with your special lady).

So you can get the crazy sexual stuff out of your system but you’ll never be able to be 100% monogamous either.

(And before I hear the nitpicking, yes, there is a teeny tiny percentage of men in the Western world who can indeed be monogamous to one woman literally forever with no cheating or divorce ever, but that’s only about 6%, and if you’re reading this article, you’re not anywhere near that 6% even if you hope to be.)

So yes, achieve all of your crazy sexual fantasies. I did it and it was fucking great. Highly recommend. And yes, you may get them out of your system and you probably won’t need to do them anymore eventually, which will make long-term relationships with women easier. BUT, and this is a huge BUT, you’ll still never be qualified to be 100% monogamous for the next 57 years to any one woman no matter what you do.