Why Books Are Now The Best Indicator Of Class

When dating, people look for many different things in a partner. Some look for strength, some look for beauty, some just look for fun. But most people look for a hard-to-describe quality that equates roughly to how much value a person has to society. This quality is generally known as “class” and most people in the dating game are both representing it and trying to find it in an other.

The complication? Traditional class markers have disappeared for several reasons, of which two are foremost.

The first is abundant wealth. 25 years ago, you had to be a baller to own a cellphone, now children have them. Cheap flights mean that international travel is no longer a sign of class either. Even ownership of an expensive car means little, because those are so often rented nowadays. There is so much abundant wealth today that ownership of it is no longer suggestive of class.

The second is general trashiness. Traditional markers of lower class, such as heavy substance use, sexual promiscuity, shabby dress, tattoos, swearing and intellectual ignorance are now often celebrated. Whereas lowering the standard in such a manner used to be a ticket to rapid social isolation, people now appreciate it for creating a relaxed atmosphere.

Because people who are otherwise classy so often present themselves as trash, it’s now necessary to look for inadvertent class indicators. Being slim is a good example: in the Age of Obesity, slimness has become a sign that you have impulse control.

This essay argues that the single best indicator of class today is that a person is into reading books, collects books or has a decent library.

A survey by Date Psychology showed that the number one male hobby from the point of view of women was reading. As much as cooking, foreign language mastery and playing musical instruments were considered attractive by women, reading topped them all. There are several reasons why reading in particular, and books in general, might serve as the most salient class indicators nowadays.

The first point is that a person has to have intelligence to even want to read. Dumb people are incurious about the world. Reading is a sign that a person is ambitious, but in a good way. They’re not content with sitting and stagnating in ignorance. They want to create, to build, to make the most of life. It’s a sign that a person is moving up in the world.

True intelligence is very classy. It’s one thing that money can’t buy. If a person reads because they want to, and not because they have to, it’s a sign of possessing high natural intelligence. Women can’t avoid noticing this quality and wanting their children to inherit it.

A second point is that a person has to have impulse control to sit down and read a book. Trashy, impulsive people need more powerful stimulation: television, alcohol, loud music, scrolling. Readers have to be capable of imposing order upon their own thoughts and desires to sit down and quietly read.

This ability to impose order upon one’s own thoughts is true masculinity. Someone who can put their thoughts in order can put their emotions and bodies in order too. This represents a competence that women often find even more attractive than intelligence.

This ties into a third point, which is that readers have to have their lives under control to have the free time to read. Many people have effectively been reduced to slavery today. They spend almost all of their time on the commute-work-sleep grind. Someone reading a book is effectively signalling possession of the ultimate luxury: free time.

It can also mean that a person is wise when it comes to apportioning their spare time. Many people with the free time to read books spend that time on television or video games instead. Someone who reads has probably thought about what’s actually valuable in life, and how they can get to a place where they have more of it.

The fourth point is that people who read tend to be free mentally. Reading is a sign that a person is not a slave. They want new ideas – perhaps because they’re building their own philosophy of life – rather than mindlessly following someone else’s. That’s very attractive in a system where 95%+ of people are little better than drones.

If you want to look like a classy person today, forget the tailored suit or the sports car – build a library.

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Is Professor Jiang At Risk Of Assassination?

The hottest property on the Internet right now is Chinese history professor Jiang Xueqin. Prof. Jiang’s blend of meticulous research, epic range, humour and eccentricity – but with a Western presentation – has people all around the world waiting for the next video drop. His Predictive History channel on YouTube is, at time of writing, closing in on a million subscribers. But the phenomenon might be too good to last.

Prof. Jiang comes across as a Chinese version of David Icke. Like the Brit, Jiang’s research is so thorough that he can talk for hours in incredible detail. His Secret History lecture series covers many of the same topics as Icke: Freemasonic conspiracies, Khazar conversion theories, Rothschild Zionists, globalist banking dynasties and more. Like Icke, Jiang weaves all of these disparate strands into a coherent, anti-Establishment worldview. This makes him dangerous.

David Icke is banned from over 30 countries, including the entire Schengen Zone. The purported reason is that Icke is a “potential threat to public order”. The actual reason is that he tells the truth about the government.

Although Icke is frequently smeared as a racist, this is simply absurd, because he makes a point of emphasising that all of us are a fragment of God consciousness underneath the skinsuit, and therefore that all racial divisions are fundamentally arbitrary and meaningless. I would, in fact, argue that Icke is less racist than 90% of people in general and 99% of his audience. The racist and Nazi accusations are only distractions from the truth, which is that Icke has seen through the lies of the ruling class.

Prof. Jiang has also seen through the lies of the ruling class, particularly the political, religious and spiritual ones. He openly states that Jews invented Christianity to enslave Europe, and that the Western ruling class run Israel as a colonial project. We’re supposed to believe that antisemitism is an entirely organic phenomenon caused by the inability of whites to control their inherent racism, but Prof. Jiang explains that it’s artificially stoked by the ruling class to get Jews to move to Israel. He also speaks freely about the prevalence of pedophiles in the higher echelons of Western society, and explains that this is about mutual blackmail.

In other words, Prof. Jiang is giving a way a lot of the plan – the plan that was supposed to be secret.

On his Substack, Jiang writes of the importance of reconnecting with the Monad (i.e. the true God). We have argued previously that genuine spirituality is the most subversive activity possible and the one thing the control system fears the most. Jiang has spoken openly about how people who truly know God – and who therefore know that they will survive the death of their physical bodies – terrify the political establishment, because these people can’t be manipulated into submission with threats of eternal hellfire or bodily torture.

This is tantamount to going onto a slave plantation and telling the slaves they can be free and leave.

Anyone speaking such hardcore truth is the foremost danger to the political establishment, who otherwise have everything locked down and squared away. Much like plantation owners, the Western ruling class don’t want their slaves getting ideas about liberation, especially spiritual liberation. This ruling class wants people pinned by the Clown World Fork of mindless Christianity or soulless atheism. Truthspeakers like Jiang are enemy number one.

Prof. Jiang’s rise has been so rapid that many are not yet aware of him. Thus, he has no established reputation as an antisemite, conspiracy theorist, terrorist or any of the other labels commonly used to silence people. This might change. It’s easy to predict that Jiang’s rising following will attract the attention of the Western ruling class, and that they will take measures to destroy him out of fear that he will wake too many people up.

David Icke can be banned from travelling, and his reputation can be trashed by the mainstream media. If the Western ruling class ban Prof. Jiang from travelling to/in the West, he probably won’t care, because he lives in China anyway, and can communicate with the world through YouTube. Likewise character assassination: the Sinosphere has its own media, so if Jiang is smeared in The Daily Mail it will reach few Chinese people.

This makes actual physical assassination look like a relatively appealing option. Socrates was killed for speaking too much truth, and so were Julius Caesar, Giordano Bruno and countless others. Western powers could easily arrange a hit on Jiang to shut him up and to send a message to anyone else thinking about giving too much of the gameplan away.

The Western ruling class assassinating a podcaster might sound outlandish, but a further possibility is that Jiang is disappeared by the CCP. Anyone who has studied history knows that tyrants like to murder their critics, and the governments of the world at the end of 2025 are becoming more tyrannical with every passing month.

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Undiagnosed Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is one of the most devastating mental conditions in existence. The term means “split mind” and refers to a condition in which the patient – or a large part of the patient – appears to be working against themselves. It’s a terrifying condition for both sufferers and their friends and family. This essay argues there’s a lot more of it in existence than most people realise.

In the same way that physical trauma from a knife or axe can cause a person’s body to split, psychological trauma from abuse or neglect can cause a person’s mind to split. The difference is that physical trauma is well understood, whereas psychological trauma is not.

For one thing, psychological trauma is often hidden. If a person cuts their arm open, it’s obvious to everyone that they’re injured. But if a person’s mind splits, they can often convincingly pretend to be well. Even so, the trauma exists, and if it is not treated it can manifest as all kinds of mental illness. Undiagnosed schizophrenia – schizophrenia that has not yet come to the attention of the mental health services – is one of the most common of these.

This condition is on the rise today because society is naturally traumatising. It’s naturally traumatising to work a full-time job for minimum wage, just to see most of it disappear in taxes and rents, or to live in a media environment where it’s not okay to be white, and, if you say that it is, you get a visit from the cops, or to live in a culture where spirituality is reduced to either worshipping an idol of a dead rabbi or nothing. Thus, there are a lot of people out there who are damaged.

Because society is so traumatising, and because there are so many damaged people in it, schizophrenia has come to appear more and more normal. In a vicious cycle, this leads to it getting diagnosed less. So there are a lot of people out there with split minds who are completely unaware that their minds are so split. Many of them have extremely difficult lives emotionally and socially, but are never able to figure out why.

These wretched masses are the undiagnosed schizophrenics.

The first sign of undiagnosed schizophrenia in another person is extreme moodiness. If a slight irritation causes so much rage that it feels like another personality has been brought out, chances are a split mind underlies them both. Schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder (dissociative identity disorder, or DID) are different conditions, and borderline personality disorder is different still, but they all overlap to some degree. If excessive moodiness is not part of DID or borderline personality disorder, it could be undiagnosed schizophrenia.

A deeply traumatised person will often react strongly to reminders of the trauma, even if those reminders are only subconsciously perceived. Thus, being asked to do something, even politely, can provoke a powerful anti-social reaction because it reminds the hearer of being ordered around by their parents. Such reactions are typical of undiagnosed schizophrenia.

Perhaps the most telling sign is self-contradiction. If a person claims to hold a certain moral value one moment and then deny it the next, something isn’t stitched together right in their mental fabric. This is also true if they say one thing and do another. This is especially true if a person doesn’t keep their promises, which often happens because they feel that one part of the mind made the promise and another part is being asked to keep it.

Another sign is substance abuse to deal with the suffering. As mentioned above, schizophrenia is a deeply unpleasant condition to live with. It’s common for people with the condition to use drugs in an effort to alter their emotions into something more tolerable. If someone’s natural state is so unpleasant that they need substances to cope, it’s very possible they’re an undiagnosed schizophrenia case.

The popular narrative is that people get “addicted” to drugs on account of that the drugs are inherently pleasurable. But this narrative misses the reality that some people are much more susceptible to habitual drug use, because their natural state is unhappiness. For the people who have schizophrenia, undiagnosed or otherwise, it costs enormous emotional and mental energy trying to figure out what’s going on. Without release in the form of substances, many of these people would crack.

Perhaps the most salient sign of undiagnosed schizophrenia is poor decision making. If a person consistently makes truly bad decisions, as if sabotaging themselves, there’s a very high chance they’re an undiagnosed schizophrenia case with one part of their mind working against the other. This goes double with the point above about substance abuse: if they keep sabotaging themselves with hard drugs, for no obvious reason, undiagnosed schizophrenia is very possible.

Taken together, these four signs often reveal an underlying pseudo-schizophrenic condition.

Undiagnosed schizophrenia is a vastly underestimated problem in our society. Only by taking trauma and mental health seriously can we hope to overcome it.

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Enclownification

The world is now familiar with the term “enshittification”. Coined by science fiction writer Cory Doctorow, it accurately describes today’s tendency towards lower quality and worse service in every facet of modern life. There’s another term we need to know to understand today’s Clown World: enclownification. This essay explains.

Enshittification is predictable: the quality of everything gets lower over time. Manufacturers of decent products start to take shortcuts in production, or substitute lower-grade materials for higher-grade ones, or they outsource customer service to a country that can’t speak English properly. The user experience is frustrating and humiliating.

Enclownification is not predictable. The quality might stay the same, but be harder to access, or be only available at certain times, or you might just get so confused by the craziness of it all that you don’t know what’s what anymore.

Enclownification is when things become absurd. Not necessarily bad, just absurd. The difference is that, with enshittification, you feel like you stepped in dogshit. With enclownification, you feel like the world is laughing at you.

A recent example: I was trying to install a printer. In attempting to make a WiFi connection, it turned out that my printer operates on one frequency GHz, and my computer another, and they were not compatible. Who knows why they were manufactured this way? Then I tried plugging in the USB cable, which allowed me to print but, for some unfathomable reason, not scan. Scanning required that I register an account with the scanning software, which was then able to detect the printer but not connect to it over USB. So ultimately I could only half use the printer.

I could imagine the customer relations department of the printer manufacturer getting inundated with complaints about this lunacy – and them having a good laugh about it rather than caring. That’s enclownification.

People frequently encounter enclownification through dealing with the Government. Anyone who has had the experience of waiting on the phone and then being randomly disconnected knows this. Likewise anyone who has called Department A, to be forwarded to Department B, to be forwarded to Department C, to be forwarded back to Department A.

The school system is perhaps more ruthlessly enclownified than any other aspect of today’s world. HONK HONK can be heard every time another Holocaust Awareness class begins. Unfortunately, the rulers of the modern West understand that manufacturing consent for their rule depends on brainwashing young people into accepting it. The best time to do this is while they’re too mentally vulnerable and soft to resist. Hence, young people are taught at school that their ruling class is the wisest, smartest and best of all ruling classes, their current standard of living the highest and their freedoms the broadest of any culture in history.

Race relations in general have been enclownified by the Brown Communist narrative that Western societies are structurally racist, and therefore that even the most wretched, broken and impoverished white person is an oppressor and riding high on inherited privilege. This has led working-class whites and working-class blacks and browns, who would otherwise have had class in common, to resent each other.

The narrative that white men are privileged, and therefore that disprivileging young white men is racial justice, is pure Clown World. Yet it endures. So many young white men have been disadvantaged by diversity, inclusion and equity practices that some call it a lost generation. The enclownification of the workplace can be seen in the difficulty that young white men have finding work today, no matter how high their education or experience levels.

Class relations have been enclownified by the above phenomena plus the severe inaffordability of housing in the modern West. This has led to a situation where anyone in line to inherit housing is doing extremely well, but anyone who isn’t is looking at a lifetime of poverty: the feudal era in all but name. Many a person will have sat down, looked at their mortgage numbers, realised that they won’t pay off their house until after they’re dead, and laughed about it, because otherwise they would have cried.

The most totally and utterly enclownified aspect of modern life, however, is spirituality. Russell Brand is the face of this phenomenon. Brand’s shamelessly performative evangelism – which began in the wake of a series of sex crime accusations – would normally convince no-one. But because widespread enclownification has affected people’s judgment, he is able to convince millions that he’s sincere.

The spiritual enclownification of today is summarised in the Clown World Fork. This concept describes how people are directed to choose between soulless, meaningless, atheistic materialism on the one hand or delusional, hypocritical, junkie-dream Christianity on the other, and strongly discouraged from exploring genuine spirituality. Anyone who does explore genuine spirituality is pathologised as a schizophrenic by the mainstream medical system (to the sound of honking).

The solution to enclownification is for things to start making sense again. Confucius spoke of beginning the process of restoring society with a “rectification of names“, a widespread movement to use language as accurately as possible. This would minimise disorientation and confusion, leading to a more harmonious society.

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