Referring to mass migration as “an invasion” is as stupid as calling January 6 “an insurrection.”

People are being extraordinary drama queens. “Life-saving COVID vaccines”, “sleepwalking into WW3.” Gushing excitedly like 14-year-old swifties. “I feel unsafe”, “our democracy is at risk”, “this is fascism”, “books are banned”.

People truly need some actual hardship in their lives to gain perspective.

Remember, this can all be fixed with a simple executive order that bans accepting immigration applications from people who are in the US illegally. In normal countries, people apply to immigrate through embassies. And these spectacles of abjection are avoided.

We are being duped into believing that this is an intractable, extremely complex issue.

It isn’t.

Men and men, and women are women. Women can have some male subjectivity traits but never a fully male subjectivity. The subjectivity is grounded in our biological reality. And that’s a good thing.

What you can change is the personality traits you don’t like. Shyness is a good example.

Also, everything has a positive and a negative side. For example, female subjectivity is rooted in the need for safety. This makes women more careful drivers. This makes them engage in violent situations a lot less than men. As a result, women in developed countries live longer than men. But on the negative side, the need for safety generates high anxiety.

Or take the female tendency that we recently discussed to see oneself through the eyes of others, often utterly imaginary others. It’s anxiety-producing but at the same time it gives you a much better social life and support network than men are usually able to create.

Thank you for a great Anonymous Question. I love them with a fiery passion.

I have found my favorite book of the year, my friends. I always find it in January and then spend the rest of the year moping that nothing measures up.

Emma Cline’s novel The Guest is a bloody masterpiece. I read it in one day, a pretty busy day with no time to read but I made time for this “hit you in the face and leave you hemorrhaging on the sidewalk” kind of book.

You, folks, know what type of stuff gets to me. Gritty realism, the cleanest possible writing. By that I obviously don’t mean lack of swear words. I mean the kind of writing that Strunk and White will read for eternity after they die and go to heaven.

“Arkady, I beg you, don’t speak beautifully,” says a character of Turgenyev’s Sons and Fathers to his verbally incontinent friend. That’s what I often want to say to writers. Stop trying to show how clever you are. Stop trying to be cute or teach me a lesson. Tell me a story, that’s all I want.

In The Guest, Cline tells a story that grips you and cracks you like a walnut. The main character is an unsuccessful, washed-out 22-year-old prostitute Alex. Reviewers complain that Alex is tawdry, unattractive and self-defeating. As if a 22-year-old prostitute could be anything else. Alex is one of those people who are so chaotic in their minds that they warp reality around them. I don’t mean “crazy” or “mentally ill.” Alex is a healthy young woman. But she tarnishes everything she touches because that’s who she is.

I wonder if everybody knows, at least at some level, what it feels to have a disordered mind that turns everything around you to chaos. Or do most people honestly not know what makes the dregs of society what they are?

Cline does know. Her understanding of the people who are inexorably drawn to the bottom is superb. She’s been criticized for not depicting Alex as a victim of “systemic injustices”. But Cline creates literature, not didactic woke tracts. Alex is neither a pure, unfairly persecuted victim nor a terrible villain. She evokes compassion but also a desire to pity her from very far away.

There’s not a trace of wokeness in this book even though Cline is a Californian Millennial with an MFA. She drives a stake through the heart of the rich elites and shows what the world with only the very wealthy and the absolute rejects looks like. Cline writes like it’s 1991 and nobody heard of woke precepts outside of a few campuses. This is yet another thing that makes the novel so narcotic. Reading The Guest is like taking a vacation to a planet where wokeness doesn’t exist. It’s so unusual to read a book where an author talks honestly about how things are that one feels kind of overwhelmed.

OK, if I haven’t persuaded you to give the novel a try, nothing will. But I’m telling you. It’s extraordinary.

Hey, folks, I’m not hopeless. I understand cultural codes.

Rumor has it that there’s a fourth-grader who likes Klara. In the sense that he LIKES likes her, got it? All I managed to wrangle out about him is the opinion of Klara’s best friend that he’s sassy.

I knew immediately what it means. The boy is African American. Mind you, it’s not me calling him sassy. I’ve never seen the kid. It’s what another black child says about him.

Klara immediately subjected the boy to a spelling competition, and he’s a fine speller, so it’s all working out fine.

But am I good, or am I very good?

People are getting completely delusional. Joe Biden is currently president. He could enforce existing laws to address these problems. The “border deal” was only necessary because he refuses to do so. Joe Biden fully owes the border crisis. Just like Donald Trump did when he was president.

It’s scary to observe how political partisanship wipes out every shred of intellect.

My lengthy rummaging through book lists bore the fruit you can observe in the picture:

I’m starting with Emma Cline’s novel. Its protagonist is a prostitute, and that made me think about the absurdity of the expression “sex worker.” We don’t call me “a book worker” or an electrician “an electricity worker.” People are hiding their extreme prudishness behind these uneasy verbal contortions and end up sounding like idjits.

This is an obvious and primitive psy op. I don’t know if it’s promoted by Democrats or Republicans but that doesn’t matter. Neither want to stop or even mildly limit mass migration. Knowing that voters are very unhappy with the insanely high migration numbers, these bastards pretend that they were about to solve the issue but evil forces prevented them.

How do I know it’s a psy op?

The insanely inflated claims are a dead giveaway. “Trump won’t be able to run on immigration if we reach this agreement in Congress.” This insinuates that the agreement would have immediately solved immigration to the point that Trump couldn’t run on the issue. That’s an absolute lie. The agreement proposes such small-potato modest measures that a hundred Trumps would have ample opportunities to run on the issue.

Not that Trump wants or is trying to run on immigration. For obvious reasons, that wouldn’t be possible.

I’m beginning to realize that nobody ever will do anything but increase migration. I don’t know why it is so but it’s clearly where we are.

My normie friend asked me today if it’s “still possible” for Ukraine to win the war. This already showed me the state of the MSM news reporting.

The answer is, God, so very possible. If Mr Joe Biden stopped sabotaging, if the US stopped placing ludicrous limitations on what Ukraine is allowed to do, if we had just 20 airplanes and 20 more Patriots, it would all be done already.

People are so duped that they think men can be women, diversity is our strength and Biden is pro-Ukrainian when in reality he’s done everything to help Russia.

So yeah, it’s possible.

Another great true crime series from Netflix, people. This one is really good. It’s about a world-famous surgeon working in Sweden, at the most expensive hospital in the world, and doing groundbreaking work in stem cell research.

There was endless news coverage about this amazing doctor. Articles, interviews, documentaries.

But it was all a hoax.

The surgeon was a psychopathic butcher.

He was allowed to cut people – normally, very young ones – into strips because everybody was so in awe of the phrase “stem cell” that nobody checked what he was doing.

This story really has everything. People going in for highly experimental surgeries that they don’t really need and dying as a result.

The insanity of socialized medicine in Sweden.

A hypocritical liberal lady journalist from New York.

A bureaucratic machine that creates a breeding ground for psychopathy.

There’s even the stupidity of Putin’s Russia there.

I’m watching the series and I’m thinking, “Gosh, these people, this medical establishment, they can’t be bothered to notice when a conman butchers a sweet toddler to death under the guise of groundbreaking science, and we let them lock us up and inject us with some weird concoction because they are supposed to know best.”

Yes, it’s a bit of a monomania with me. But a great documentary.

Netflix disgraced itself with Making a Murderer but it’s more than made up for it with these less famous docuseries. They are so good that I watched two about American football stars involved in crime, and I now even kind of understand the sport.