The book is a spiffing idea in its own right. However, it will also teach kids the foundational basics of the survival tactics they'll need to avoid the marauding cannibal gangs that will be commonplace by the time they are 30.
It also has the additional benefit of being extremely triggering to the libs. People who will celebrate castrating them, but enact legislation to censor a book like this. What a world they are inheriting.
I think they hate people who embrace responsibility too, like parents. A life of hedonism is not compatible with what a family requires. Plus the usual criticisms of families, the loyalty and the cohesion, all serious impediments to a rootless society living solo in pods made from recycled coke bottles.
Plus, it is the ultimate act of creation for us, and our only real stab at immortality, despite the dreams of the transhumanists.
Like so much of what is good I suspect it largely bores them. It seems small, inconsequential, unlike the bad science fiction-like dreams of the WEF brigade. Why have noisy, dirty kids and a house that looks like a permanent bomb site when you can have your 15 minute city with its squeaky clean identical apartments? Life versus sterility, which I think they sense at some level.
The irony is that those types are invariably very boring people. They're not out until 3 in the morning snorting blow off a stripper's nipples at Coyote Ugly, they're having low-energy dinner parties with IPAs and going to trivia night. If that. They're usually the first to demand that any actual fun be shut down by The Rules.
I quite agree. But it is the illusion of control. They have a planned out life. The whole family and kids thing seems like chaos I suspect.
I keep seeing Tik Tok videos of women who drank the feminist kool-aid and missed the fertility boat. Most of the coping is videos of exotic holidays and selling freedom, by which they mean not anchored to a family. Plenty of wine and cats obviously. Handbags too. I think it is that dynamic; selling family and kids as preventing other more exciting stuff, like seeing the Great Wall of China etc.
Imagine my reaction when at nearly 45 years old I looked in on a punk/skin/whatever-party with live music (friend of mine was DJ-ing) and saw they had a roped-off designate "mosh pit" area in front of the scene, with guards supervising.
Good point. Envy. One of the seven deadly sins for a reason. But with industrial grade solipsism everywhere, how can rivals possibly be allowed to exist?
I used to love playing military-themed games with boys in my neighborhood and school (we called it playing "war" for some reason, even though we were all literally on the same team). We'd take turns playing general and would run around with Nerf guns (or imaginary guns because schools didn't allow toy weapons smh), looking for some imaginary enemy to kill.
If only this book existed back then--We could've killed those tyrannical tree stumps and boulders with efficiency!
If ONLY there had been other kids to wage war against. Everyone else wanted to play family. But sometimes, you to take a break from your fake kids that are the same age as you and go conquer some land, ya know?
I admit to having a few rules of engagement. 1. You can’t shoot my statues of Mary and St. Fiacre, 2. You may not shoot the lady who feeds you and washes your underwear, 3. No shooting the baby plants.
But it IS okay to accost random toddlers in Barbie Jeeps, steal said Jeep (make sure to say please first because it's not your Jeep, it's your little sister's, and she'll tell mom if you're mean), and then use the Jeep as a means to get across the neighborhood
I’m afraid I’ll have to plead ignorance on this one, I have no siblings and have an only child. I’m told, however, that yes, that would probably be totally ok. I think my husband and his brothers would agree that is totally fair, lol!
Commandeering of essential equipment is a recognized prerogative of war, but isn’t it also a well-established principle that you don’t want to alienate the civilian population where you’re conducting maneuvers (like...don’t take the cow by force, buy the cow...and definitely don’t eat their pet chicken...rule). So...bribe Sis with a Twizzler and promise you’ll give her a piggy back ride and an ice cream when you’re done.
This looks pretty jolly to me and I'd think there are plenty of boys and girls of sufficient spirit to enjoy having their very own copy.
I hope Dr. Copper will add to his offerings something along the lines of "Where There is No Doctor," a book I keep meaning to go ahead and order. I live in an area overflowing with our very best physicians, none of whom I hope will ever get another hand on me, and I'd think it wise to give kids the most useful practical advice on how to render useful aid to the walking and not-so-walking wounded until them *professionals* can be summoned. Just for fun of course.
This post of John's made me think of The Hardy Boys, and this excerpt from the Wikipedia article on the book series is notable:
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In his autobiography, McFarlane described his rationale for writing the books this way, writing: "I had my own thoughts about teaching youngsters that obedience to authority is somehow sacred.... Would civilization crumble if kids got the notion that the people who ran the world were sometimes stupid, occasionally wrong, and even corrupt at times?"[48]
My little sons are devouring the first five Hardy boys books, which I picked up in a used bookstore. I mean, they LOVE these books, a little surprising given they're quite young and mostly read picture books. And we love reading them to them.
Kids love adventure stories; they love hearing words they can't quite grasp yet; they love the rhythm of language uttered by loved familiar voices.
Try to get as many original Little Golden Books as you can. Children's books writers of that era were smart. There's a reason they had so many animal protagonists. Hint: children of every possible background could "identify" with Pierre Bear...
Man, we are singing from the same song sheet here! The best books now, especially for boys, are what I find used or even discarded. Picked up an old Biggles book. The Iron Giant. The original Roald Dahl. Well, I won't go on, you understand. Books where kids DO things, save the day, solve problems. Our local library is really woke, but I'm getting proud of our own library...
I always thought Kyle Rittenhouse's story had a sort of Hardy Boys echo to it. He seemed to want to do what, in the days of those books, was commendable: a young man going out with the first aid kit and defending himself, an adventure to save his town (one admittedly darker than the Hardy Boys would be).
His trial was my Rubicon. Until then I watched CNN and MSNBC (Fox in previous years only for their Election Nights coverage which I found pretty level-headed). But I watched the entire trial, all the testimony and video evidence, and I was struck by what a nice, sensible young man Kyle seemed to be. It was remarkable how the prosecutors couldn't rattle him and how he didn't get adversarial himself. I know nothing about guns but his grasp of firearm safety and technique was compelling.
And the unrelenting and continuing attempts of everyone in the liberal media to lynch that boy, to lie outright and always about the facts of the case and about his pretty easy-to-discern character and motivations appalled me.
The various personalities on Fox are not in the least to my taste but the aftermath of the Rittenhouse case made it the only cable news channel I could at least tolerate.
I have that book. I'm glad I've never had to use it. Also a bunch of herbalist books, those may come in handy.
Bear in mind that the "professionals" are as likely to kill/main you as help you, these days. That is, if you survive the year-long wait for an appointment.
This isn't just critiquing from the sidelines. This is giving back. This is making the world a small, tiny bit better. Imagine if more people made the world a small, tiny bit better?
I work at a small Renaissance Faire (hold your horses -- this is not nearly as ghey as you think) that operates as a 501c3 because we have a particular emphasis on education. Every year our militia team teaches hundreds of little kids how to conduct pike drills, organize and deploy a team to storm a castle wall, and cooperate to subdue a dragon. (OK, that last one might be a little fanciful.) This is easily the most popular show we run; the second and third are the axe throw and bow and arrow shoot.
I saw this on Morgthorak's substack and I am glad its making its way around! It's great in general that the unwoke side of the Internet has started making its children's content. It's important to know that patient zero of the censorship cult was tumblr; a website that attracted many creative yet unhappy teenage girls through the artwork that was posted there by people who were also left-wing gender ideology activists. The girls became SJWs when they grew up and began to police others; that's why I think that it is through creativity that we could potentially break the indoctrination cycle
Conversely, the resistance was inculcated within the incomparably more creative anarchy of 4chan. Tumblrinas gave us SJWism, but /pol/acks and /b/tards gave us the meme.
Yep, and memes certainly have helped to undercut the msm. Hopefully substack has its role to play and will continue to contribute more full media pieces for the next generation to have an alternative to "anti-racist baby"
"In that case, Professor Copper’s Tactical Primer is absolutely not for you." Meh, I *am* gay but still prefer Professor Copper over gender nonsense. Though I'll admit I'm a bit unusual for my demographic.
I am hoping that a guerilla war against Spiders from Mars won't be necessary, but given the will to inflict Lockdown 2.0 I fear my hopes are dimming.
Everybody should at least learn wilderness survival, you're bound to learn something of use in the Coming Austerity. "Imma just go and eat berries in the forest and cavort with nature spirits" yeah/no...
I dunno how alone you are. My wife reads a gay online forum, can't remember the name right now, and she says all the fags on that site can't stand all this gender-bender trans bullshit and find it deeply offensive and dangerous.
Some of the toughest guys I've ever known were gay. You are not alone!
This is quite true in my experience. Gender theory is a sort of universal solvent. The TERFs figured this out a while back, and I think the gay culture is catching on too. It's maybe a bit worse because they're included in the rainbow as implicit supporters even as the T eats the other letters.
University departments are an interesting example of this. In many places you don't find Women's Studies or Queer Studies anymore, it's all been subsumed by Gender Studies.
The vast majority of gays HATE being included in the bullshit rainbow crap. Gay kids are supposed to chop off their dicks and pretend they're women rather than simply being what they are. It's a far more perverse and harmful form of conversion therapy than anything the right ever came up with.
That's what I hear. I wonder though, I think in their case they truly think they're doing the right thing whereas here... it just seems to be a fanatical mission made up about 5 seconds ago. I dunno, the result is the same in the end but I don't know Persian culture and don't feel placed to judge what they do the way I can for my own. The way provincial Americans apply their own made-up-yesterday cultural "values" to the rest of the world is embarrassing.
If I had smiled a little more upon reading this, the top of my head would have fallen off.
Adding to your list of "You could put someone's eye out with that"-toys, did you ever make sling-shots (think also called catapults?) out of the inner tyre (the air-hose) from a bike?
We made such and used ball-bearings and dowel-nails (think that's the name, u-shaped nails used for fastening fences to posts) for ammo.
Also, the thick heavy card-board tubes used to roll up classroom maps or wallpaper or linoleum carpets on, plus inner tyre, plus tennis ball filled with some combustible mix including styrofoam, soap flakes, shredded plastic and whatever we could get hold on.
Mate and me got started on building a polish resistance-style grenade launcher out of an old bike, but (perhaps thankfully) we never finished it.
Basically, the pedals and corresponding gear is connected to a pitcher arm with a basket, same as on a catapult or onager from ancient times, and old-style leaf suspension is used to store the energy from cranking the pedals. All of it mounted on a small bike-drawn two-wheeled carriage.
As for precision, I think it's along the lines of "anywhere within a 45 degree angle from the direction aimed in, is good".
Hope there's a section on traps in the book. Few things slow people down as knowing there might be 2' pit with a feces-smeared piece of girder sticking out inside it...
I shop class when I was in 7-9 grade (age 13-15) we had a former high seas merchant sailor as teacher, awesome guy too. The stories and tall tales he could tell!
Anyway, since he knew full well that boys will be boys (unless the femi-fascists stop them) he guided and instructed us in the making of nunchuks, shuriken, knives and "baseball-bats" (read: bat-sized metal-reinforced clubs, no-one played baseball in Sweden) and in one case a real crossbow.
Since he wasn't an idiot, we didnt get to take the weapons home until after we graduated and only if a parent tagged along to fetch it. We did get graded on how well we made them though.
2 yards-long broom handles with a whole roll of duck-tape wrapped around the hurty end of them were lots of fun too (though you had to make the lightsaber-noises yourself...). Ahh, memories...
The book is a spiffing idea in its own right. However, it will also teach kids the foundational basics of the survival tactics they'll need to avoid the marauding cannibal gangs that will be commonplace by the time they are 30.
It also has the additional benefit of being extremely triggering to the libs. People who will celebrate castrating them, but enact legislation to censor a book like this. What a world they are inheriting.
I approve of this book and this review 🤓
The children must be kept safe, which is why they must be castrated and have schizoid psychosis induced.
Indeed. We have to destroy the village in order to protect it.
I genuinely think that they simply hate children.
I think they hate people who embrace responsibility too, like parents. A life of hedonism is not compatible with what a family requires. Plus the usual criticisms of families, the loyalty and the cohesion, all serious impediments to a rootless society living solo in pods made from recycled coke bottles.
Plus, it is the ultimate act of creation for us, and our only real stab at immortality, despite the dreams of the transhumanists.
Like so much of what is good I suspect it largely bores them. It seems small, inconsequential, unlike the bad science fiction-like dreams of the WEF brigade. Why have noisy, dirty kids and a house that looks like a permanent bomb site when you can have your 15 minute city with its squeaky clean identical apartments? Life versus sterility, which I think they sense at some level.
The irony is that those types are invariably very boring people. They're not out until 3 in the morning snorting blow off a stripper's nipples at Coyote Ugly, they're having low-energy dinner parties with IPAs and going to trivia night. If that. They're usually the first to demand that any actual fun be shut down by The Rules.
I quite agree. But it is the illusion of control. They have a planned out life. The whole family and kids thing seems like chaos I suspect.
I keep seeing Tik Tok videos of women who drank the feminist kool-aid and missed the fertility boat. Most of the coping is videos of exotic holidays and selling freedom, by which they mean not anchored to a family. Plenty of wine and cats obviously. Handbags too. I think it is that dynamic; selling family and kids as preventing other more exciting stuff, like seeing the Great Wall of China etc.
Imagine my reaction when at nearly 45 years old I looked in on a punk/skin/whatever-party with live music (friend of mine was DJ-ing) and saw they had a roped-off designate "mosh pit" area in front of the scene, with guards supervising.
>no words for my reaction<
Of course they do.
We the Woke are Good, Right and Just. We age and die. Children replace older, both physically and ideas-wise.
Conclusion: Prevent children from existing, and if they do exist, from being better than us.
Eminently logical if your underlying assumption is that you're the only thing that really exist.
Good point. Envy. One of the seven deadly sins for a reason. But with industrial grade solipsism everywhere, how can rivals possibly be allowed to exist?
I used to love playing military-themed games with boys in my neighborhood and school (we called it playing "war" for some reason, even though we were all literally on the same team). We'd take turns playing general and would run around with Nerf guns (or imaginary guns because schools didn't allow toy weapons smh), looking for some imaginary enemy to kill.
If only this book existed back then--We could've killed those tyrannical tree stumps and boulders with efficiency!
The boys in the next subdivision over would have stood no chance.
If ONLY there had been other kids to wage war against. Everyone else wanted to play family. But sometimes, you to take a break from your fake kids that are the same age as you and go conquer some land, ya know?
I admit to having a few rules of engagement. 1. You can’t shoot my statues of Mary and St. Fiacre, 2. You may not shoot the lady who feeds you and washes your underwear, 3. No shooting the baby plants.
But it IS okay to accost random toddlers in Barbie Jeeps, steal said Jeep (make sure to say please first because it's not your Jeep, it's your little sister's, and she'll tell mom if you're mean), and then use the Jeep as a means to get across the neighborhood
I’m afraid I’ll have to plead ignorance on this one, I have no siblings and have an only child. I’m told, however, that yes, that would probably be totally ok. I think my husband and his brothers would agree that is totally fair, lol!
Commandeering of essential equipment is a recognized prerogative of war, but isn’t it also a well-established principle that you don’t want to alienate the civilian population where you’re conducting maneuvers (like...don’t take the cow by force, buy the cow...and definitely don’t eat their pet chicken...rule). So...bribe Sis with a Twizzler and promise you’ll give her a piggy back ride and an ice cream when you’re done.
Alienating the civilians is only a problem if you plan to stick around.
This looks pretty jolly to me and I'd think there are plenty of boys and girls of sufficient spirit to enjoy having their very own copy.
I hope Dr. Copper will add to his offerings something along the lines of "Where There is No Doctor," a book I keep meaning to go ahead and order. I live in an area overflowing with our very best physicians, none of whom I hope will ever get another hand on me, and I'd think it wise to give kids the most useful practical advice on how to render useful aid to the walking and not-so-walking wounded until them *professionals* can be summoned. Just for fun of course.
Perhaps he will. A medical manual would be useful indeed in a world in which we can't trust the medical system.
If this sells well, I'd love to make it a series. Propaganda and politics are already on my radar. A medical primer would be a great addition.
I had a feeling you'd say that!
This post of John's made me think of The Hardy Boys, and this excerpt from the Wikipedia article on the book series is notable:
---------------------------
In his autobiography, McFarlane described his rationale for writing the books this way, writing: "I had my own thoughts about teaching youngsters that obedience to authority is somehow sacred.... Would civilization crumble if kids got the notion that the people who ran the world were sometimes stupid, occasionally wrong, and even corrupt at times?"[48]
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Apparently it would crumble if they didn't....
My little sons are devouring the first five Hardy boys books, which I picked up in a used bookstore. I mean, they LOVE these books, a little surprising given they're quite young and mostly read picture books. And we love reading them to them.
Kids love adventure stories; they love hearing words they can't quite grasp yet; they love the rhythm of language uttered by loved familiar voices.
Try to get as many original Little Golden Books as you can. Children's books writers of that era were smart. There's a reason they had so many animal protagonists. Hint: children of every possible background could "identify" with Pierre Bear...
Man, we are singing from the same song sheet here! The best books now, especially for boys, are what I find used or even discarded. Picked up an old Biggles book. The Iron Giant. The original Roald Dahl. Well, I won't go on, you understand. Books where kids DO things, save the day, solve problems. Our local library is really woke, but I'm getting proud of our own library...
I always thought Kyle Rittenhouse's story had a sort of Hardy Boys echo to it. He seemed to want to do what, in the days of those books, was commendable: a young man going out with the first aid kit and defending himself, an adventure to save his town (one admittedly darker than the Hardy Boys would be).
You capture Rittenhouse exactly.
His trial was my Rubicon. Until then I watched CNN and MSNBC (Fox in previous years only for their Election Nights coverage which I found pretty level-headed). But I watched the entire trial, all the testimony and video evidence, and I was struck by what a nice, sensible young man Kyle seemed to be. It was remarkable how the prosecutors couldn't rattle him and how he didn't get adversarial himself. I know nothing about guns but his grasp of firearm safety and technique was compelling.
And the unrelenting and continuing attempts of everyone in the liberal media to lynch that boy, to lie outright and always about the facts of the case and about his pretty easy-to-discern character and motivations appalled me.
The various personalities on Fox are not in the least to my taste but the aftermath of the Rittenhouse case made it the only cable news channel I could at least tolerate.
I have that book. I'm glad I've never had to use it. Also a bunch of herbalist books, those may come in handy.
Bear in mind that the "professionals" are as likely to kill/main you as help you, these days. That is, if you survive the year-long wait for an appointment.
One of the most useful books on my shelf is James Duke's "The Green Pharmacy."
This isn't just critiquing from the sidelines. This is giving back. This is making the world a small, tiny bit better. Imagine if more people made the world a small, tiny bit better?
Thank you.
There is a belt fed machine gun in .22LR which is perfect for kids. Unfortunately is pretty rare.
✍️
Thanks, ordered it for my son, though he will get it second hand.
Hah, nice
I also survived BB Guns, cherry bombs and Roman candles. This will make great Christmas gifts this year!
Incredibly based on both counts.
Finally a philosophy to replace the Scouts of America-shaped hole in our culture
We indeed badly need something like this.
I work at a small Renaissance Faire (hold your horses -- this is not nearly as ghey as you think) that operates as a 501c3 because we have a particular emphasis on education. Every year our militia team teaches hundreds of little kids how to conduct pike drills, organize and deploy a team to storm a castle wall, and cooperate to subdue a dragon. (OK, that last one might be a little fanciful.) This is easily the most popular show we run; the second and third are the axe throw and bow and arrow shoot.
I can easily believe it. Sounds hella fun.
This is fricking awesome! Remember kids, Train How You Fight.
I saw this on Morgthorak's substack and I am glad its making its way around! It's great in general that the unwoke side of the Internet has started making its children's content. It's important to know that patient zero of the censorship cult was tumblr; a website that attracted many creative yet unhappy teenage girls through the artwork that was posted there by people who were also left-wing gender ideology activists. The girls became SJWs when they grew up and began to police others; that's why I think that it is through creativity that we could potentially break the indoctrination cycle
Conversely, the resistance was inculcated within the incomparably more creative anarchy of 4chan. Tumblrinas gave us SJWism, but /pol/acks and /b/tards gave us the meme.
Yep, and memes certainly have helped to undercut the msm. Hopefully substack has its role to play and will continue to contribute more full media pieces for the next generation to have an alternative to "anti-racist baby"
I think a Little Book of Useful Chemistry might not go amiss.
OMG this is the kind of children's book we need!
"In that case, Professor Copper’s Tactical Primer is absolutely not for you." Meh, I *am* gay but still prefer Professor Copper over gender nonsense. Though I'll admit I'm a bit unusual for my demographic.
I am hoping that a guerilla war against Spiders from Mars won't be necessary, but given the will to inflict Lockdown 2.0 I fear my hopes are dimming.
Everybody should at least learn wilderness survival, you're bound to learn something of use in the Coming Austerity. "Imma just go and eat berries in the forest and cavort with nature spirits" yeah/no...
There's gay and then there's gay ;)
Wilderness survival and small unit tactics aren't only potentially invaluable. They're also a lot of fun to learn .
There's homosexual and then there's gay.
Exactly.
I dunno how alone you are. My wife reads a gay online forum, can't remember the name right now, and she says all the fags on that site can't stand all this gender-bender trans bullshit and find it deeply offensive and dangerous.
Some of the toughest guys I've ever known were gay. You are not alone!
This is quite true in my experience. Gender theory is a sort of universal solvent. The TERFs figured this out a while back, and I think the gay culture is catching on too. It's maybe a bit worse because they're included in the rainbow as implicit supporters even as the T eats the other letters.
University departments are an interesting example of this. In many places you don't find Women's Studies or Queer Studies anymore, it's all been subsumed by Gender Studies.
The vast majority of gays HATE being included in the bullshit rainbow crap. Gay kids are supposed to chop off their dicks and pretend they're women rather than simply being what they are. It's a far more perverse and harmful form of conversion therapy than anything the right ever came up with.
Indeed. State policy in Iran supposedly.
That's what I hear. I wonder though, I think in their case they truly think they're doing the right thing whereas here... it just seems to be a fanatical mission made up about 5 seconds ago. I dunno, the result is the same in the end but I don't know Persian culture and don't feel placed to judge what they do the way I can for my own. The way provincial Americans apply their own made-up-yesterday cultural "values" to the rest of the world is embarrassing.
If I had smiled a little more upon reading this, the top of my head would have fallen off.
Adding to your list of "You could put someone's eye out with that"-toys, did you ever make sling-shots (think also called catapults?) out of the inner tyre (the air-hose) from a bike?
We made such and used ball-bearings and dowel-nails (think that's the name, u-shaped nails used for fastening fences to posts) for ammo.
Also, the thick heavy card-board tubes used to roll up classroom maps or wallpaper or linoleum carpets on, plus inner tyre, plus tennis ball filled with some combustible mix including styrofoam, soap flakes, shredded plastic and whatever we could get hold on.
Mate and me got started on building a polish resistance-style grenade launcher out of an old bike, but (perhaps thankfully) we never finished it.
Basically, the pedals and corresponding gear is connected to a pitcher arm with a basket, same as on a catapult or onager from ancient times, and old-style leaf suspension is used to store the energy from cranking the pedals. All of it mounted on a small bike-drawn two-wheeled carriage.
As for precision, I think it's along the lines of "anywhere within a 45 degree angle from the direction aimed in, is good".
Hope there's a section on traps in the book. Few things slow people down as knowing there might be 2' pit with a feces-smeared piece of girder sticking out inside it...
That is an industrious level of bloody-mindedness. Very impressive.
We used to make crossbows out of steel rulers and pencils.
Ohhh! Yes! Those are legendary.
I shop class when I was in 7-9 grade (age 13-15) we had a former high seas merchant sailor as teacher, awesome guy too. The stories and tall tales he could tell!
Anyway, since he knew full well that boys will be boys (unless the femi-fascists stop them) he guided and instructed us in the making of nunchuks, shuriken, knives and "baseball-bats" (read: bat-sized metal-reinforced clubs, no-one played baseball in Sweden) and in one case a real crossbow.
Since he wasn't an idiot, we didnt get to take the weapons home until after we graduated and only if a parent tagged along to fetch it. We did get graded on how well we made them though.
2 yards-long broom handles with a whole roll of duck-tape wrapped around the hurty end of them were lots of fun too (though you had to make the lightsaber-noises yourself...). Ahh, memories...
That man deserves a medal as world's best shop teacher. They'd never hire him now.
This looks really cool. I'm sure it's a slam dunk. I'll share with interested parties.
Excellent.