Thomas: Two stories broke this week. They don’t seem related on the surface, but they’re the same story. One is in the UK, one is in Oregon, and both revolve around Gen Z men who believe that the institutions around them, schools, police, corporations, universities, and the media, hate them and want them dead. They feel they can’t trust those institutions with any decision-making.
The only way they believe they can stay safe is to fight the institution and burn it all down.
When a young man reaches that conclusion and feels he has nothing left to lose, history shows us what happens, and it shows us how to respond as a society. Culture makers play a big role.
Background
First, some background, because it’s important to understand the world these young men are in. By young men, I mean Gen Z, roughly 18 to 29 years old. You can think of it as 20-somethings. They were raised in school by social justice warrior teachers, and the young men had words like ‘privileged’ and ‘endemic racism’ used against them like weapons throughout their entire school experience.
Their schools were filled with organizations constantly encouraging girls to succeed, to be tough, and to lead, and to a lesser degree they were encouraging minorities, too. There was a Girls in Math Club, but no Boys in Math Club. If they tried to start one, they got punched down with words like racist, sexist, misogynistic, and privileged, and they often had to apologize for privilege they never actually experienced.
The message they internalized was, “We want everyone to succeed except for you.”
They emerged from high school with the perception that institutions were tilted against them, that companies didn’t want to hire men, that universities didn’t want to recruit men. Currently, two out of three PhD graduates are women because of strong anti-men recruiting bias.
Since January 2025, there have been 369,000 jobs added to the economy. Of those 369,000 jobs, 21,000 went to men. 94% of net job growth went to women. I fact-checked it. It’s government data.
These young men think the world is tilted against them, and the typical boomer reaction is to dismiss that and say, ‘You just need to work hard, have a firm handshake, look somebody in the eye.’ That advice falls apart when they’re trying to fill a diversity quota.
When a young Gen Z man hears ‘diversity,’ what he hears is ‘anyone but me,’ because in practice, diversity means anything but a young man.
Jonathan: A lot of this started happening around 2015, when these guys were teenagers, and they were being told it was fine that life was unfair for them. There’s something worth remembering here: crops grow silently. Whatever you sow goes into the ground and grows quietly. We’re now getting the fruit of that.
If you look at online chatter, racism is huge because of DEI hiring practices. The people who were preaching DEI and suppressing these young people sowed seeds of hatred, because suddenly it’s like, ‘Well, if life is just going to be unfair, fine, I’m getting my sword.’
Thomas: Seeing a less-qualified person get a job you were more qualified for because they help fill a quota is demoralizing when it happens once. It becomes soul-crushing when it happens year after year.
Henry Nowak “I Can’t Breathe”
Thomas: Now let’s talk about the individual news stories, because you need to understand the temperature in the room before we get to them.
Jonathan: What was growing that these are now the trigger for?
Thomas: The second story in particular, people are not going to understand why it’s such a big deal. The first one, I think we can all understand, and it’s the Henry Nowick story.
Henry Nowick was a young man, a Gen Z man, walking home from school, not bothering anyone, when Vikram Singh Diguwa stabbed him multiple times. The police were told that Henry was racist, which made him less than human in their eyes. He was already a white man, and police in the UK are not there to protect white men. The UK has a two-tiered police system. That phrase is so soft for what’s actually happening, which is that you are not treated the same if you break the law.
There was a story where a woman was punished more harshly than her rapist because she used a racial slur against her rapist when describing the rape. That gives you a sense of the two-tiered system. In the British system, the worst possible crime is to say a hateful word or a racist statement. It’s treated as worse than stabbing or raping somebody.
Henry had been accused of a racist statement, which we now know was false. He hadn’t said anything racist, wasn’t a racist person, and had not even spoken with Vikram Singh Diguwa. But Diguwa told the police he had said something racist, so police took this young man who was bleeding and couldn’t breathe and handcuffed him. At no point did they believe he was telling the truth about being stabbed and unable to breathe, until he fell unconscious from blood loss and died.
So far, we have some bad cops and an unfortunate murder. But these young men don’t feel like anybody cares about them, and nobody talked about it. Compare this to the thousands of articles covering the George Floyd murder.
Nobody covered Henry Nowick until Elon Musk said, ‘Are you seeing what’s happening here?’ Then X started making noise, which forced some media outlets to cover it, and they often framed it to make it look like Henry was the one who did the stabbing. You had to read paragraphs in to realize he was the victim.
I’ve since seen video of things burning and Gen Z men in Britain fighting with police. They are marching toward civil war. The boomers in Britain don’t realize that all Gen Z men need is a leader to call them to war. They’ve already decided that war is the only solution. Right now, no leader has called them to war. It’s still latent, emerging organically here and there. But it’s bubbling hotter every year, and historically, it eventually bursts.
Bricks & Minifigs
Thomas: In Oregon, it was the same story with different details.
Bricks and Minifigs is a resale shop for Lego. One local franchise contracted with an 84-year-old man to sell his Lego collection, which some say is worth as much as $200,000. At first, it went well. They were selling on consignment and giving him money. Then there were shenanigans. The franchise owners got pushed out, new owners came in who didn’t recognize the contract, wouldn’t return the man’s Legos, and kept selling them anyway. Effectively, they stole the Legos.
The man is dying. He’s very sick. His grandson looked into legal options, but as a Gen Z man, he didn’t believe any of them would work in time for his dying grandfather. Five years in court and $150,000 in court fees to get your $200,000 back after you’re dead doesn’t seem like a good solution.
This is where him being a Gen Z man means he just thinks, “burn it all down.” So he reaches out to a YouTuber whose whole thing is infiltrating cults and dismantling institutions through asymmetric warfare.
That video is some of the best YouTube storytelling I’ve ever seen, it is a quintessential example of asymmetric warfare. At one point, this guy, who used to infiltrate cults and learned brainwashing techniques, actually brainwashes one of the Bricks and Minifigs employees to get them to snitch on what’s happening inside the store. It’s a wild story.
The store keeps calling the cops on the YouTuber. They keep getting him arrested, they SWAT him, they charge him with crimes and threaten civil liability. But here is a really important thing to understand: you cannot threaten someone who already thinks you want them dead.
Saying, ‘We are going to sue you and take away everything you have’ doesn’t work when someone has nothing.
Gen Z owns roughly 2% of assets in the United States. Boomers spend more on cruises and vacations in a single year than the total asset holdings of Gen Z combined. Many Gen Z men foolishly listened to their parents’ advice to go to college and now carry unresolvable debt they’ll never be free from, since bankruptcy does not discharge student loans. The minimum payments aren’t enough to keep the balance from growing. The amount they owe goes up. There’s no hope of escape.
When you threaten somebody in those circumstances with a lawsuit, the answer is simply, “Okay, sue me. I have nothing to lose, and I’m going to burn this institution down.”
Burn it Down
The Gen Z men watching this video are going crazy because they all feel that same boot on their neck, and Bricks and Minifigs becomes a symbol for an entire society they want to burn down.
The rabbit hole goes very deep. It turns out Bricks and Minifigs is connected to the Mormon Mafia and a potentially corrupt police department. Now, not only is Bricks and Minifigs potentially going down, so is the police department, and maybe the Mormon Mafia. What we’re watching is effectively a mafia war between the YouTube Mafia and the Mormon Mafia.
What’s striking is that cultural leaders in the Gen Z manosphere, on the left and the right, figures like Hasan Piker and Asmon, guys who hate each other and agree on nothing, are both saying, “Burn it down.”
There’s an African proverb that says, ‘The boy who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.’ I’ve been using the phrase ‘burn it down’ throughout this segment precisely because I was building to that proverb.
If you’re writing for young men, and I know many of you write them off, young men don’t buy books so why should I care? They will make you care.
Jonathan: Be powerless for a long period of time, get threatened, and you’re going to trigger something that doesn’t need to survive.
Thomas: Almost all of the physical violence done throughout human history has been done by young men. They commit the majority of violence against the police. On both sides of any military conflict, it’s the young men who are charging the trenches, going out of the boats at Normandy, willing to kill to accomplish their goals.
So your book about identity, ‘you just need to know your identity in Christ,’ that’s not going to resonate with these young men. They think you want them dead. They don’t think you care about them at all. They don’t think you’re listening to any of their problems.
Jonathan: And you just proved that you weren’t.
Civil Wars are Common in 4th Turnings
Thomas: The common refrain when a young man is dismissing an older person is, ‘They don’t know what time it is.’ That means you don’t understand the zeitgeist. You think these are minor problems, but these are civilization-ending problems.
We’re in a fourth turning.
Fourth turnings tend to produce world wars or civil wars. The last fourth turning was World War II. The one before that was the American Revolutionary War, which from the perspective of the southern colonies was a civil war between the Tories and the Patriots. Before that was the Glorious Revolution, very violent.
Nobody wins in a civil war, but the people who don’t lose are the people who have nothing to lose.
The baby boomers who control our institutions have been poking Gen Z men for their entire lifetime and don’t realize it. Every boomer I have talked to, without exception, has been ignorant of the coming storm. I’m a millennial, and among my millennial friends, the men are all preparing for war. We all smell it. We’re preparing physically, financially, emotionally. We’re close enough to Gen Z to see they’re going to burn this place down.
Jonathan: They’re not going to calm down. He doesn’t have any money. Everyone hates him.
Thomas: What do I threaten him with? I have nothing to threaten him with.
Jonathan: It’s like trying to fight a drunk guy who doesn’t feel pain. Usually, the way you stop a fight is by making someone feel enough pain that they decide they don’t want to play anymore. But someone who’s drunk or on crack doesn’t feel pain. In that case, you’d have to do structural physical damage to his body. You can’t break the desire. Pain is the lever for turning off someone’s desire, and now that lever is gone. You’d need serious technique and a whole lot of force, and that’s what we’re feeling here. You can’t convince them to stop.
Gen Z Women
I was just talking with a Gen Z woman who only wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. She had a newborn, a two-year-old, and a five-year-old, and their family budget was about $800 short. They’d already cut spending as much as they could. She was struggling to find a job she could do from home.
The only reason she needed those extra $800 was because she was drowning in student debt from listening to her boomer parents who told her to go to college. She got a psychology degree that isn’t helping her. Between that and her husband’s degree, which he also doesn’t need for his job, that’s the $800 noose around their neck.
Meanwhile, 10 to 15% of her husband’s wages are being garnished for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, most of which goes to their parents, who get free medical care and a government check and are living very nicely. She just had a baby with complications, and all of that money is coming out of her pocket. Women are feeling this pressure too, and they’re getting desperate.
What are the off-ramps before this boils over?
Thomas: Something has to change. There are at least two off-ramps, and these are things we can start doing, and that you as novelists can start doing to affect the culture. The war hasn’t kicked off yet. There’s still time.
Don’t Write Off Youn Men
As storytellers, resist the urge to write young men off. Most people have been trained to automatically ignore young men and their problems, or to blame all of a young man’s problems on the young man himself. Resist the urge to say ‘young men don’t buy books anyway.’ That’s what everyone is saying in every part of their lives, all the time.
Jonathan: Young men do burn books, historically.
Off-Ramp 1: Expeditionary Wars
Thomas: Two solutions come from history. The first is expeditionary wars. You take all the restless young men in the village, and you put them on a longboat and say, ‘Go to the British Isles and make your fortune. Come back when you have enough gold to survive in our society.’
There’s a less violent version we used to have, captured in the phrase ‘Go west, young man.’ Instead of plundering monasteries, they were going to war with a rough, uncultivated land.
Jonathan: There’s a theory that the Crusades were all about exporting the criminals and restless Normans, the ones chivalry didn’t work on, to fight Muslims and get them out of Europe because of all the plundering happening there.
But this off-ramp breaks down today. Guess how wars are fought now? Drones. And guess what you don’t need when you send drones? Restless young men.
I was in the Marine Corps, which is full of restless young men. When we were too miserable, too froggy, I had a gunnery sergeant who told me, “We make your lives suck so that when we take you overseas and say, ‘you’re allowed to go kill those guys,’ you do it.”
The Japanese had an island that couldn’t have been taken in 100 years with 100,000 men, but it was overrun in two days by young restless men who’ve been tortured by their sergeants.
Thomas: This is option one, and it’s not a great option. Drones make it more complicated, although this is exactly what Russia is doing—feeding their restless young men into the front lines of Ukraine.
Off-Ramp 2: Marriage
The second solution is the better one, and it is marriage. It is vital that we lower the marriage age to around 20 years old in the United States if we want to avoid war.
Right now, older people universally discourage young people from getting married young. They say, ‘Are you 18 and in love? Don’t get married. That’s the worst thing you can do!’
Meanwhile, novelists and culture more broadly have been discouraging young people from getting married, giving the fruit of their youth to a corporation that doesn’t care about them, and then giving the leftovers to their family.
Jonathan: There’s a second problem here, which is the culture of Gen Z women and body count.
Thomas: There’s a parallel reactionary culture in Gen Z men, which admonishes them, “Don’t stay with a cheating woman.” That mantra runs counter to the female culture of ‘my body count shouldn’t matter.’
This is another issue where novelists are a real problem, encouraging female hypergamy. If you’re over 40, you’ve probably not heard the word hypergamy, but it’s very common among young people. It describes the female tendency to share high-status men, where the top 20% of men get the top 80% of women.
For example, one football player ends up with six or a dozen girlfriends. An NFL player might have a dozen. This is detrimental to society because the 11 men those women might have matched with, if they weren’t all sharing the NFL player, are now becoming restless young men motivated to burn it all down.
The Romans had a civilizational hack called monogamy. It was a uniquely Roman virtue. We often think of the Romans as decadent, but they were decadent only after hundreds of years of virtue.
Every Roman citizen could expect a Roman citizen wife because you were only allowed one. The high-status man, the consul of Rome, could only have one wife. The tribune of the plebs could only have one wife. One wife all the way down. They weren’t totally virtuous, as evidenced by their practice of slavery. But among free citizens, this meant they were willing to fight on behalf of their civilization in a much more disciplined way. They weren’t trying to burn down Rome. They were willing to go burn down Gaul.
Monogamy is one of the biggest differentiating factors between Western civilization and others. And monogamy is something the boomers rejected in the 1960s with the sexual revolution. We’re now harvesting the fruits of that rejection. Hypergamy, is where women gravitate toward a few men, and the remaining men have to be increasingly violent, aggressive, and willing to take on risk to try to break into that minority.
How does culture actually enforce monogamy?
Thomas: This isn’t something you can fix with laws easily. Historically, it’s enforced socially, where women put pressure on women to be monogamous. We now call that slut-shaming.
Slut-shaming was seen as a bad thing, but it actually serves a societal purpose. If women do not police other women’s behavior, high-status men love the system of having a dozen girlfriends. The NFL player is perfectly happy with this arrangement.
We’re seeing this supported in fiction quite a bit, where hypergamous values are celebrated and any critique of women is harshly punished. You can be as rough on the men as you want. Churches won’t shame female sins like anxiety, but they’ll readily preach against male sins like lust. Both sins are addressed by Jesus in the same Sermon on the Mount. He condemned lust, and he also condemned anxiety as a sin you should repent from and not a medical condition to foster. Same sermon.
The Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew, is in red letters. If you only read the red letters, that’s where you’ll find it.
Every Memorial Day, we watch Sergeant York. It’s a World War II propaganda film made about a World War I hero based on a true story, about a conscientious objector. He was an Appalachian long-rifle shooter descended from the Scotch-Irish and one of the most accurate shooters the Army has probably ever seen. But in the film, his fiancée says to the mother, ‘I worry for Alvin.’ And the old woman chastised her for the sin of worry.
It used to happen. Women policing female sins in other women, and this was Hollywood in the 1940s, depicting a culture from the 1910s. The sin of worry shows a lack of faith in God. If you’ve read the Sermon on the Mount, this shouldn’t be shocking.
If you have a Gen Z man in your life, you’ll find it’s hard to get him to open up. He’s been sniped at.
Jonathan: Beaten dogs don’t come to you.
Thomas: Exactly. It’ll be very difficult to get into his world, but if he does let you in, listen.
Young men are one of the most lucrative audiences to write for because no one is writing for them. I interviewed Seth Ring, who sold a million copies of his books, and he writes for Gen Z men. Nobody else writes for Gen Z men, so the few who do are quietly making a lot of money.
A Seth Ring book is the ultimate fantasy for a Gen Z man. His protagonists are powerful. His sexual ethic is monogamous. It’s the inversion of everything these young men hate. They’re reading it and thinking, “This is how I wish the world was.”
They don’t care about identity. ‘You just need to understand your identity in Christ’ is the kind of thing a comfortable boomer wants in his comfortable life. To a Gen Z man, his identity is, “You want me dead. You don’t care if I live or die. You’d probably be happier if I died, and when someone like me gets killed, you celebrate, or you say nothing, or you criticize us for being angry about it.”
That’s where they’re at. That’s the environment. They need hope. They need a path to survival. They need to know they’re loved and that there’s actually a place in the village for them, and that has to be a true statement. You can’t just say it. You have to say, ‘I’m going to hire you. I can mentor you and teach you how to do my job.’
Jonathan: They need hope. I’m in a lot of fights, and you always leave your opponent hope. That’s the purpose of mercy in a fight. You can stop and you’ll still be okay. Because as soon as they know there’s no mercy, they have no reason to stop. Then they get savage. They start breaking rules you weren’t ready for because you thought you were being tough by saying ‘no mercy.’
The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’
Can you threaten a man who has nothing?
Thomas: During the Byzantine Empire, there was this era of ascetics, a kind of combination of holy man and stuntman. A guy would go up on top of a pillar and stay there for days, not eating, just praying. One man did it for 20 years on top of a pillar. He would have things to say about politics. People would come talk to him.
When he criticized the emperor, the emperor realized there was nothing he could do to the ascetic. If you kill the holy man on top of the pillar, you’ve just created a martyr. And you can’t threaten him because his life is already more miserable than your prisoners. ‘I will starve you.’ The man doesn’t eat. ‘I will take your money.’ The man only wears rags.
His influence was enormous. At one point, an emperor had to come and apologize to the ascetic because the power inversion was so complete. The emperor could use no coercive force at all. Only carrots, no sticks, because none of the sticks work on a man who is already starving. Someone has to have some degree of comfort for threats to have any value.
Behavior Over Exceptions
Jonathan: People are too focused on generational labels. Labels section people as a massive data set and assume they all behave the same, and people don’t, which is why everyone in the comments is arguing about being the exception.
The behavior is what we need to focus on. By and large, boomers tell young people to get over it, work hard, give a firm handshake, and stop buying avocado toast. They blame young people for their problems. When boomers were growing up, in a different time, your problems were because of you.
Thomas: The classic example is blaming young people for getting participation trophies. ‘Oh, that’s the generation that got participation trophies.’ Who gave them the participation trophies? Their parents.
The young people desperately wanted achievement trophies with winners and losers. They were robbed the opportunity to succeed because they were robbed the opportunity to fail. They didn’t choose the participation trophies. The boomers did.
Jonathan: The behavior is what we’re talking about here.
Not all Gen Z men feel this way. Some of them are the NFL stars, and they don’t feel this way. But this trend is achieving enough critical mass, enough of a front, that if it combines with other fronts, it’s going to create a real storm system that does a lot of damage.
Thomas: Most Swedes during the Viking Age never left Sweden. Most Danes never left Denmark. It was only a small percentage of young men who left, and that’s all it took to create the Viking Age.
Jonathan: They were everywhere.
Thomas: They completely reshaped the world. For about 150 years, there was a prayer said at every mass in England: ‘Save us from the Northman.’ A longship only had maybe 50 to 100 people on it. Not a lot of men. But they could land, do incredible violence, steal, and vanish. That’s not a lot of people, but it was enough.
Jonathan: You’re not listening if all you’re doing is talking about how you’re the exception. It means you feel attacked, and you’re trying to separate yourself from being shot at instead of asking, “Why am I standing somewhere I’m getting shot at?”
Thomas: That being said, for young me to dwell on it too much is very unhealthy. There is some truth in the pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, firm-handshake advice. There’s the concept of internal versus external locus of control. Somebody with an external locus of control sees themselves as a victim of fate, unlucky, with nothing they can do to change their circumstance. If you have that worldview, you’re trapped. Life will never improve.
Sometimes you have to hold two concepts at once. The world is tilted against me, and there are people who want me dead and don’t care if I succeed. That’s true.
But it’s also true that there are things you can do about it.
Can you guarantee success? No.
Can you be as successful as your parents? Maybe not.
Can you be more successful than you are right now? Absolutely.
You can clean your room. You can go to the gym. You can start embracing suffering. You can change the things you can change, take control of what you can control, and make a difference. You can go find a wife. There are Gen Z women out there who are not practicing hypergamy.
Jonathan: There’s another concept everyone likes to skip over. The line from the show Epic is, ‘Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves,’ which is entirely antithetical to scripture. People like saying it because it worked in a fictional story that was entirely constructed.
Thomas: It’s very resonant with young men because it’s exactly how they feel.
Jonathan: When you choose ruthlessness as your modus operandi because mercy is a mistake, you are not making a better world. You are trading long-term sustainability for very short-term gains.
What we need in this period, when everyone has made mistakes, is grace. Gen Z is angry, sure. Millennials are angry, yes. Boomers are angry because everyone’s targeting them. Gen X is mad because they’re always getting ignored.
There needs to be some grace. Some understanding of where everyone’s coming from. Let’s reset. Give me a blank slate, and I’ll give you one. We’re going to try to address the mistakes we all made. Grace is the single biggest, most attractive thing about Christianity. It’s the fact that you can be forgiven.
Thomas: And that you can change. You can go from being a sinner to being someone who’s redeemed. You can go from being someone who stole to someone who works with their hands and blesses other people. That’s really encouraging.
Just because you did bad things doesn’t mean you’re doomed to always do bad things.
Jonathan: The ruthlessness needs to stop. Even if you’re on the bad end of the power distribution curve, you need to show some grace, because this anger isn’t going to do anything but burn the world down, and you’re in the world, you idiot. Grace takes maturity and it takes strength. That’s why God was always saying, ‘Be strong and courageous.’ That’s what it requires to show grace.
Give people some space. If they say something they’ve heard repeated 50,000 times online because AI bot farms are propagating lies to create a system where everything burns down, show some grace. The only way to fight that system is not to play. You remember Beast Games? The only way to win is not to play.
Thomas: Grace is critical, but it’s not the only aspect of Christianity. There’s also hope.
There’s belief in divine providence, that God is guiding the affairs of nations and can reset things and fix things. What young men need, and what young women need, is Jesus. There needs to be a heart transformation, and you as an author can help point people toward Jesus and toward his teachings. For young men, it means embracing discipline and resisting lust. For young women, it means embracing discipline and resisting anxiety.
Jonathan: Resisting manipulation, because there are forces trying to cause those things in you.
Thomas: We have been very fortunate that no one in the UK has yet realized how much power they could gain by saying, ‘Let’s burn it down together.’ This window, this period of God’s grace, may not last forever. The repentance has to come now.
I will say I was encouraged recently. There was a large pro-UK, anti-immigration rally, and the gospel was presented clearly several times, because the rally organizers were bringing in preachers who had been arrested for sharing their faith, men who’ve been oppressed by police.
Praying silently can get you arrested in the UK if you do it in the wrong place. You can go to jail for a year. These nationalist figures were bringing in pastors, and the pastors were seeing this giant crowd of young men and preaching the gospel, clearly and articulately. One of them didn’t say, ‘If you want to follow Jesus.’ He just commanded the crowd, ‘Pray with me,’ and led tens of thousands of people in a sinner’s prayer. It was very masculine. This isn’t an invitation. It’s a command. You will pray and you will follow Jesus.
Jonathan: There is a way to speak to an angry young man. You can’t go to him and hug him and tell him Jesus is love. I’ve done a lot of this with Marines, men who’ve been in the worst emotional places people can be in, and they’re there more often than most. They’re going to swing at you. You need to be ready for that.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone in to give a guy a hug and spent the whole time blocking punches. I don’t hit him back. I just block, divert, move aside, block. Until he respects me, because he can see I’m strong enough that I don’t need to hurt him.
That’s why the Bible says older men need to teach younger men. Stronger men need to teach young men to be strong.
Thomas: And older women need to help younger women, just like in Sergeant York, where the older woman told the young woman not to worry. That message has to come from a fellow woman who’s been there and struggled with it and can say, “I know what it’s like to be tempted to worry. But worrying about a possible future brings the possible evil into reality today, when it may never actually come.” Worrying just creates more evil in the world.
Jonathan: Women have to teach each other.
Thomas: Hopefully you understand a little bit more about which way the winds are blowing.
Jonathan: My books are for Marines. I’m not writing smut or revolution porn. I’m here to try to reach these guys.
Think about the kind of world you want to live in, the kind of world you want to sell books in. You need to be preserving that world. To do that, you need to understand the way the winds are blowing, which is why we do this zeitgeist work. It’s context for trying to help people make the world better.
Sources:
- Wikipedia: Murder of Henry Nowak
- BBC: Weapons-obsessed killer jailed for student’s murder
- Southampton Crown Court sentencing remarks (June 1, 2026)
- Wikipedia: Bricks & Minifigs–Reckless Ben controversy
- Reckless Ben YouTube videos and Patreon updates (May–June 2026)
- Bricks & Minifigs corporate statements and lawsuit filings (May–June 2026)
- GoFundMe records for the Mansell family (as of June 4–5, 2026)
- Public reaction and commentary from Hasan Piker, Asmongold-adjacent communities, and broader online discourse (May–June 2026)
- Wikipedia: Bricks & Minifigs–Reckless Ben controversy
- Reckless Ben: “I tracked down the thief who stole $200,000 of LEGO”
- Reckless Ben: “I got arrested because of legos”
- Bricks & Minifigs official statements and timeline (June 2026)
- GoFundMe campaign for the Mansell family legal fund (referenced across the above sources and raised over $382,000 as of June 4–5, 2026)
