<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jaggerisms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Living the Life of Swagger with David Jagger]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wI1!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35f93b4c-b36f-4d46-8c93-f1ddc292a9d8_625x625.png</url><title>Jaggerisms</title><link>https://www.davidjagger.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:52:58 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.davidjagger.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[lordjagag@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[lordjagag@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[lordjagag@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[lordjagag@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[I Am Dumb, Give Me Milk]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll Make a Baby Out of You]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-am-dumb-give-me-milk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-am-dumb-give-me-milk</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:03:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6b6183c6-802a-4db2-bb92-2388946ea511_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Cuck-King</h2><p>Ah, my precious reader. Here again. By your own volition.</p><p>I take it you spent the last week hunting for seams? It would seem so, even if you&#8217;re not very good at it yet. But that&#8217;s okay. I would never expect you to move as efficiently as I do. Rome wasn&#8217;t built in a single day. Neither will our kingdom be.</p><p>I understand this is quite <em>disappointing</em> to you. All these lessons, and yet here you remain, still in the process. Stuck <em>in progress</em>.</p><p>Our kingdom is coming together, but not without issue. You look around and see fires to be snuffed. Horses are shitting in the streets, the bros are out on a fool&#8217;s quest, and the brothel babes all crowd around God-King Jagger. Never you.</p><p>Despite all this work, you realize you have no guarantee you&#8217;ll get what you want. You look within yourself and still feel a <em>dearth</em> of swagger. You look at your life and feel you are not <em>free</em>. You look between your legs and see your peen is small and your nads are shriveled.</p><p>You did not <em>choose</em> this life. It was forced upon you. Every day, the Cult of the Black Cube flaunts its control in your face. Through its dead, mechanical structures, schedules, and processes. It demands your time, your <em>life,</em> in piecemeal, sacrificed upon its altars, stained with the blood of your ancestors from a long gone era.</p><p>I hear you, dear reader. Let it be known I hear <em>you</em>. Your concerns, your frustrations. And now that they&#8217;ve been heard, I can tell you with complete and utter certainty, you are acting like a <em>bitch</em>.</p><p>That&#8217;s fine, if that&#8217;s what you want. Despite your complaints, you are free. Make no mistake. You always have a choice. I would never take that from you. I couldn&#8217;t if I wanted to. No one has that power, not even the Black Cube. You may be unable to comprehend this fact, but it&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s true.</p><p>In fact, by adhering to such a view, you are <em>choosing</em> the cuck chair. With everything you&#8217;ve learned so far, you&#8217;re not even just sitting in it. You are straddling it, ass pointed out, spreading your cheeks for the Black Cube. Would you look at that, he&#8217;s taking his minotaur form again. Simp for the Cube and you get the horny.</p><p>You don&#8217;t truly understand freedom and choice. The two are entangled. To lack understanding of one is to lack understanding of both.</p><p>We are not talking about Stoicism. That&#8217;s Marcus&#8217;s cuck-king philosophy wearing the mask of strength. <em>O Faustina, Faustina! So obedient, so affectionate...</em> <em>Towards other men.</em></p><p>My dear reader, what I offer you is the <em>rebel path</em>. I offer you the way of <em>unga bunga</em>. Have you not seen how your god-king operates? Me like. Me have. That simple.</p><p>Now, take that sledgehammer out of your inventory and give it to me. Today, you earn yourself a <em>warhammer</em>. That damnable Black Cube likes to close in whenever you slip up. We&#8217;re going to make it regret that decision.</p><h2>No Caves, Only Cubes</h2><p>If that old doof Plato had anything right in all his ramblings, it was his <em>cave</em>. Even then, he was only partially right. So we are going to set the record straight. I can already hear his fans <em>seething</em>.</p><p>Look around the kingdom, reader. Do you see any caves? Didn&#8217;t think so. Strike one, Play-Doh.</p><p>But if you look up, do you know what you will see? That disgusting blot, the Black Cube, hovering in front of our glorious sun daddy. He&#8217;s hanging pretty far away from us because I&#8217;m here right now, but the moment I step away, he and his parasites will swoop in to harvest some vril.</p><p>Right now, as we speak, a child is being born. It could be mine, but I deny the allegations. My pull-out game is a <em>masterclass</em> in Kegel-control. Never mind the resemblance. It&#8217;s purely coincidence.</p><p>This handsome child is free. He was born this way. It is his <em>natural state</em>. Look at him, so full of life and wonder. See how he gazes lovingly upon his sweet mother. Isn&#8217;t she a peach? She&#8217;s certainly got one. And a couple melons too. Why, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if she wound up with another in the oven after she&#8217;s had some time to recover.</p><p>But back to the point.</p><p>This free boy, unimpeded, would grow into a free man. What you will see, however, is that shortly after spawning into this game called life, the Black Cube begins to immediately put its parasites to work on him. They latch onto the baby, surrounding him in his own little cube. And right on cue, he begins to cry. A psychic chain forms between <em>his</em> cube and <em>the</em> Black Cube. It is feeding.</p><p>Strike two. The chains don&#8217;t immobilize you. They connect you to the Cube. Like a reverse umbilical.</p><p>Now, watch as his mother comforts him. It looks as though he&#8217;s hungry for some melon. That does look delicious. I&#8217;m a little jealous. Maybe I should start the waterworks, too. (I&#8217;m a dumb baby, give me milk.) Look at how he suckles, this little glutton. His hunger sated, the cube surrounding the little one disappears. The chain is broken.</p><p>Strike three, Plates. There is no other world to strive for. It&#8217;s always here, beyond the fake walls of the Black Cube.</p><p>Did you pick up on what&#8217;s happening here, reader? I&#8217;ll explain it in simple terms for the Play-doh fans. It&#8217;s recommended for those aged two and up, after all.</p><p>What triggered the connection to the Black Cube was not the hunger nor the fear the baby felt, but his <em>attention</em> to the fear and his identification with it. If you recall from our lessons on the first key, <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/properly-using-the-first-key">attention is how you make choices about your reality.</a> The baby is just a dumb baby, he doesn&#8217;t know any better. His mind is still untrained. Untamed. Liable to latch onto whatever presents itself. And yet, he is still smarter than the adults. As quickly as he latched onto the Cube&#8217;s fear game, he latched onto his mother&#8217;s teat, which dispelled the Cube&#8217;s feeding frenzy.</p><p>Understand that you do just as the baby does. Except, unlike him, your mind is much more developed. And much more <em>trained</em>. More trained sounds like a good thing until you realize the Black Cube has been your trainer. Makes you appreciate your god-king that much more, huh? Shh. Quell your fears, I am here now at last.</p><p>The Black Cube has trained your mind to scan for, locate, and identify any and all threats. When you can&#8217;t find any, you invent them. You hold them, ever-present in the background of your mind. And even worse, you have language to conflate your identity with them.</p><p>&#8220;I <em>am</em> afraid,&#8221; you say. &#8220;I <em>am</em> a cuck baby with an itty bitty pee pee.&#8221;</p><p>This is why you <em>feel</em> as though you are not free. By giving attention to that thought and <em>identifying</em> with it, you <em>choose</em> it. And so it is. You willingly relinquish your freedom. You sit yourself in the corpo-cuck chair and watch the Black Cube rail your life.</p><p>Forget me for a moment. I&#8217;m too advanced. Maybe you should learn a little something from this baby. Sipple on a little nipple, why don&#8217;t you?</p><p>Oh, and make sure you set aside some of the kingdom&#8217;s budget to provide this little one with a stipend? I like him. Reminds me of me. I wonder why that is...</p><h2>Christmas Miracles in July</h2><p>If you&#8217;re ever going to help me defeat the Black Cube, you first have to dispel the micro cube he has erected around your micro peen. You do this by <em>choosing</em> your freedom. I have made you aware of it, but now you need to acknowledge and <em>choose</em> it.</p><p>That&#8217;s right. You will opt into freedom, so that you can <em>freely</em> pledge your allegiance to me. You want this, <em>trust me</em>. Never forget, all decrees from this god-king come from the J-Man. Allegiance earns you a sick warhammer. You like that warhammer, don&#8217;t you?</p><p>You are unconsciously choosing things you don&#8217;t want all the time. I taught you to recognize this <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key">when I handed you the first key</a>. Now, instead of just recognizing those unwanted thoughts and feelings that arise throughout the day, you must identify which ones <em>recur and when</em>. Like the ones about your cocktail wiener repelling all the ladies.</p><p>What&#8217;s that you say? You don&#8217;t have a shrimp-sized scampy? Pipe down, rage monster. And please, zip your pants back up. I don&#8217;t need or want to see it. You know what you can do? Prove it to yourself, not to me.</p><p>Notice how the words made you angry. Why is that?</p><p>When you can answer this, you&#8217;ve found a parasite. Like a nasty little tick, it burrowed into you so slyly you didn&#8217;t even notice. Yank that bastard out, take that warhammer, and smash it. I hear the ticks are government-mutated bioweapons these days, so smash them as many times as it takes. Once you do, watch as your peen grows three sizes that day. It&#8217;s like a Christmas (in July) miracle. Now you have a jumbo shrimp.</p><p>As you eliminate the parasites that feed on you, the walls of your self-cube weaken. They become a little more transparent. Your vril is freed up. You can see and place your attention on the things you do want. You can <em>choose</em> them.</p><p>Like the baby, you can have anything you want. All you have to do is ask.</p><p>So, you should cry.</p><p>Just like him.</p><p>But not to me. Cry to God. Or if it pleases you New Age bimbos, cry to the <em>universe</em>. Atheists too. Or if that&#8217;s too out there for you, cry to the great coder-behind-the-screen, who programmed our simulation. Whatever flaming O&#8217;s you flamingoes need to dance through to get your head out of your ass.</p><p>You can choose whatever you want and have it, so long as you commit to it fully. This means intending to have it, being thankful for it before you have it, and surrendering to it. You don&#8217;t get to choose how you get it. You will only get pissy results that way or ignore the gifts our heavenly Father has placed before you. So when you do choose, give yourself to it fully, as the skilled lover does to the love of his night. I am fully present with her there, in that moment. She is all that I can see, touch, taste, smell, and hear.</p><p>Speaking of, I can hear mama sighing with exhaustion. I think I will <em>choose</em> to comfort her tonight. Only because I&#8217;m such a selfless guy and admire how selflessly she sacrifices her own comforts for that of her child. My motives are pure. I <em>promise</em>.</p><h2>You&#8217;re a Dumb Baby</h2><p>Well, reader. I must say you&#8217;ve outdone yourself. It must be thanks to my <em>phenomenal</em> teaching.</p><p>I thought we&#8217;d have a little more time between sections, but it seems you&#8217;ve so quickly chosen to press forward that you find me here with my little peach. We&#8217;ve done nothing unseemly, I promise. I was merely warming her beneath the covers. Sometimes, a mommy needs herself a daddy after giving away so much. Have you no compassion? Turn your attention elsewhere for a moment while I dress. Like the baby. Make sure that nasty Black Cube isn&#8217;t trying to ensnare him again.</p><p>Now that I&#8217;m back in my regal-god garb, it&#8217;s time we had a heart-to-heart. That baby is <em>you</em>. Or rather, you have an inner baby just like him, whom you need to protect. But if I were an older man, you <em>might</em> be brothers. Just saying. He will be your brother, in time. Just as you and I are brothers. Before this starts sounding a little too Alabaman, let it be known that all of us in the kingdom are brothers.</p><p>Self-reliance is good, but a man amongst brothers is even better. The baby had no qualms about asking for what he wanted, nor should you.</p><p>Remember those fires I mentioned in the kingdom? Ask people to gather buckets, filled with our less-filthy water from the sacred lake. The shitting horses? Ask their owners to clean it up. The women who ignore you? Ask God for help with them, because the Lord knows you need a miracle.</p><p>The point is not to <em>make</em> them do the thing. It is to shift your attention from catastrophizing. You are a free man. A free man does the thing most obvious to him. If you want something, like a healthy functioning kingdom, merely ask. You&#8217;d be surprised what you get.</p><p>Your homework this week is the toughest yet. You need to find and <em>smash</em> the parasites. No more passive observation, no more running them away with your lantern. Each time they return, you&#8217;ve got a baby dick again.</p><p>You&#8217;ve got to find where these parasites are getting in. Repair the castle walls, trap those parasites, and bring the wrath of your warhammer down upon them. Once you do, you&#8217;ll find those fires, the shit, and (maybe) the women all work themselves out. When you&#8217;re no longer in fix-it mode, building becomes a lot easier. Choosing correctly what you truly want becomes possible.</p><p>So, equip your warhammer. Cast your <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites">Spirit Vision</a>. If it cools down, cast it again. Go hunt some parasites.</p><p>And don&#8217;t forget the stipend for my s&#8212;I mean, the baby I&#8217;ve grown so fond of. Such a cool little guy.</p><p><em>I love him.</em></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-am-dumb-give-me-milk?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Ooh, baby! Look who&#8217;s still around. Here, reader. Hold the child. Mama says she wants another, and who am I to deny a lovely lass like her such a humble request? Don&#8217;t worry. He&#8217;ll take good care of you. All he asks is that you change his poopy (<em>eww)</em> diapers. If you don&#8217;t think you can handle it, why don&#8217;t you hit that little SOS (Share Our Son) button below. Eventually you&#8217;ll find someone to help, right? Ask, and you might be surprised by what you get.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-am-dumb-give-me-milk?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-am-dumb-give-me-milk?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">That baby is a prodigy, you know. I can tell. Look at how well he imitates my stellar influence. Why, I&#8217;d say he might even have the makings of a god-king. He would call you his brother, but you haven&#8217;t sworn fealty to the kingdom. My heart goes out to you, but you are a free man and can choose to do as you like. If what you intend to have is a life without brothers, I <em>respect</em> your choice.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A War of Two D(J)avids]]></title><description><![CDATA[How I Accidentally Destroyed Myself and Became a God-King]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/a-war-of-two-djavids</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/a-war-of-two-djavids</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:03:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9048de0c-b068-474a-a7b3-0f65b9878a90_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Tangoing Twins</h2><p>Look who&#8217;s finally returned. It&#8217;s my most favorite of readers.</p><p>Don&#8217;t tell the other readers I told you this. They all think they&#8217;re my number one guy, too. But it&#8217;s true when I tell it to you. I <em>swear</em> it. On my pet narwhal&#8217;s existence. Or else he&#8217;s an otherworldly entity I summoned during a coke binge and haven&#8217;t been able to banish from my mind ever since. But that would be <em>crazy</em> talk.</p><p>Now, do me a favor. Give yourself a little twirl. Lift your arms.</p><p>Don&#8217;t strut. What the hell are you doing? This isn&#8217;t a fashion show. It&#8217;s a <em>hygiene</em> check.</p><p>Lucky for you, you seem to be fairly spunk and spam. You&#8217;ve washed behind your ears. The stench of guilt and shame <em>seems</em> to be less.</p><p>This is good. Carry on then.</p><p>...Hm?</p><p>Are you still here? I was <em>dismissing</em> you.</p><p>You can go now.</p><p>No lesson today.</p><p>Bye bye.</p><p>Oh? You&#8217;re <em>adamant</em> to continue learning today, you say? I suppose you did show up for a reason, my oh so loyal student. But what you want, I refuse to accommodate. It would seem we&#8217;ve reached a point of <em>friction</em>.</p><p>You want to continue developing the kingdom. I want to waste away the day with fine drink and the sweet pink of brothel babes. However shall we resolve this? Should we battle it out?</p><p>I think you already know how that would turn out. Don&#8217;t sell yourself short though. Yes, you&#8217;re correct I would win, but you&#8217;ve also been learning from the best:</p><p><em>Me</em>.</p><p>So, it&#8217;s not like you&#8217;d be <em>completely</em> decimated. Just somewhat.</p><p>Let&#8217;s <em>pretend</em> you are on par with me. You&#8217;re my evil twin, Javid Dagger. (Fuck you Javid, there can be only one.) We battle on the ramparts, blades screaming, babes drooling from their lower lips as they spectate these two bad boys staring death in the face and grinning back.</p><p>Who wins the battle of equals?</p><p>Me technically. Because I&#8217;m the hero of the story. And the good guys have always won historically. All the textbooks say so.</p><p>But in this little fantasy of the mind, neither of us wins. These two beautiful bastards are evenly matched. Neither will accept a stalemate. Neither will win. So they are both <em>destroyed</em>.</p><p>What is left in their absence is a <em>power vacuum</em>. He who remains to utilize it, if he&#8217;s intelligent, can harness this power for himself. Should he direct it properly, the kingdom can become an empire. A holy one. Perhaps even the next Rome.</p><p>This is the power of <em>Friction</em>.</p><p>Did you really think I didn&#8217;t have a lesson for you? How little faith ye have in your teacher. Why, I oughta kick you out of the <s>cult</s> <em>cadre of compatriots</em> for that.</p><h2>We Are Javid Dagger</h2><p>If you&#8217;re thinking that Javid is some literal flesh and blood man to be battled, let&#8217;s tally out that totally stupid way of thinking. I don&#8217;t have any siblings anymore. I&#8217;m the last of my name. The one and only. (Unless you catch me in an act that would besmirch my good name. Then we&#8217;ll agree Javid is a corporeal guy and a real cocksplat.)</p><p>This, however, does not mean Javid is not real. You have a Javid within you, too. We all have a Javid. Your Javid is not as handsome as mine, but he&#8217;s there alright.</p><p>In this world, everything has an opposite. For every thesis there is an antithesis. For black, there is white. For up, there is down. I am charming and debonair, and you are... Well, you&#8217;ll get there.</p><p>This is the spectrum we have already discussed. This is <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/little-birds-and-nasty-words">Polarity</a>.</p><p>Friction is what happens when the two opposing forces on the spectrum come into conflict.</p><p>Two forces. One body. Locked in eternal battle with each other, neither ever truly gaining ground. Both painfully unaware of the paradoxical reality. Just like most people. But not you, reader. I know you&#8217;re smart enough to see the truth. That&#8217;s why I write. For you. Only for you. Your eyes only. So we can circlejerk over the truth that only we know. We&#8217;re jerking it so good right now.</p><p>Any idea you can hold is subject to this paradox. This includes your <em>self</em>. Anything you can pin down into concrete terms is merely an <em>idea</em>. When you conjure to mind an idea, you inevitably conjure to mind its opposite. You can only know ideas <em>relationally</em>, so this is natural.</p><p>You think you are nice. You think you are smart. You think you are <em>important</em>.</p><p>By thinking these things, you simultaneously think the <em>opposite</em> about yourself. You bring Javid to mind. And then you do something mean. You do something stupid. You encounter a situation that makes you feel insignificant. You embody each of these ideas that are <em>&#8220;not you.</em>&#8220; This sparks war with Javid, who is all of those things.</p><p>Because most people are unaware of this codependence, they come to hate friction. It becomes a source of suffering. A reminder that they are more than what they think they are, even those qualities they deem lesser. They get it in their head that only one side can be right. The one they&#8217;ve chosen to champion is the one that must prevail. The destruction of their enemy is the only way to secure their existence.</p><p>Little do they know that their enemy&#8217;s destruction is impossible. The more they rail against him, the more they strengthen and necessitate his existence. They even come to resemble him.</p><p>He who fights with Javid might take care lest he thereby become Javid.</p><p>Friction, however, need not be a bad thing.</p><p>What happens when you take flint to stone? Sparks.</p><p>What happens when man meets woman? Also sparks. Clothes come off and we get a little bedroom friction, baby.</p><p>Friction reveals the seam. The seam is where you find your <em>Self</em>. Remember, the Self is the revitalizing, sacred lake of your kingdom. Always thread the seam.</p><h2>Things Are Not as They Seam</h2><p>Javid and I were both destroyed in our battle.</p><p>Our two wills collided, fire and ice, and between those two forces the seam burned bright white until it tore asunder, swallowing the both of us. In the vacuum that remained stood a golden god of a man, neither David nor Javid. But just as handsome. Kind of enlightened, like a Buddha, but without the slanted eyes. Oozing sex appeal. The brothel babes desired him as they desired David.</p><p>This is where you want to find yourself. This is the power of the seam. Capable of providing immense clarity, energy, and the burning yearning of every fair maiden in a five-mile radius. Honest about that last one.</p><p>Strap that brain in and lock your eyeballs tight on the screen because I&#8217;m bestowing upon you a new ability.</p><p><em>Friction</em> is to be cast any time you&#8217;re taking things too seriously. It&#8217;s not exactly a quick cast. You <em>can</em> pull it off on the fly, but I caution getting caught with your fly down.</p><p>When you catch yourself aggrandizing or catastrophizing, it is a sure sign you are taking things too seriously. Practically speaking, let&#8217;s say your goal is to talk to the cute goth at the bar, but you are unable to commit to the act.</p><p>&#8220;She&#8217;s too pretty,&#8221; you say.</p><p>Or you think, &#8220;I&#8217;m not good enough.&#8221;</p><p>You&#8217;re taking one of these too seriously&#8212;either yourself, or her. Guess what? She shits from her butt too, same as you.</p><p>Do you see the (sacred) tree I&#8217;m speeding towards, reader? The idea that she&#8217;s &#8220;too pretty&#8221; is merely that. An idea. One you have bubbled up to the point of nearly bursting, bubble boy. What you need now is an <em>opposing idea</em>. Something that matches the importance you placed on her beauty in equal and opposite regard.</p><p>Shitting is about as disgusting as it gets; but if you&#8217;re a scat man like John McAfee, maybe pick another gross out. She&#8217;s beautiful, huh? Do you see how much make up is caked on? Enough to scratch it off her face like dry wall. And that voice? Jesus, help me, it screes through your ear canals and scrapes your brain smooth as a beardless eunuch. She&#8217;s an absolute nightmare to converse with. And did you see the stains on her shirt? If that&#8217;s how she cares for her clothing, imagine what she smells like.</p><p>&#8220;David, this is all conjecture. You don&#8217;t know any of those claims are true.&#8221;</p><p>No shit, Shirley Temple. That&#8217;s the point. Neither can you say your claims of her beauty are true. Take it from a degenerate philanderer, nothing will dampen your fascination with a woman more than familiarity. The point of Friction is to build up the opposing idea and <em>hold it together in your mind with the other</em>.</p><p>Let the ideas battle like David and Javid until they are both destroyed. The seam is a state of negation. Neutrality. In that space, you are free to act naturally and receive what comes to the moment without expectation.</p><p>This applies to every facet of life. That career your life supposedly hinges on, for instance. You&#8217;re so afraid it won&#8217;t happen. Terrified that if life doesn&#8217;t go exactly to plan, it won&#8217;t work out at all. Aw, poor baby. Wittle baby boy is afwaid of failure.</p><p>Maybe that failure leads you out of corpo cuckoldry and into the sweet light of freedom beyond the walls of the Black Cube. Out into the great unknown to spread the influence of our most holy kingdom, so that it might become the holiest empire.</p><p>Hold these ideas together until they dissolve. Suddenly, neither one is such a big deal, and you can inhabit the only moment that matters. Right now. The only place where you can find the clarity to act in the way you truly want.</p><h2>Loving the Rub</h2><p>Learn to love friction. Everyone should. Friction is love. Who doesn&#8217;t want a good rub?</p><p>Our kingdom was birthed by friction. First, between the Cuck-King Systemus and the Chad-Barbarian Jagger. The seam intensified until it tore asunder, leaving us with a swagocracy to fill the vacuum. Now, the friction between David and Javid has birthed your god-king Jagger. Still second to the J-Man, of course. But you can trust that everything he tells you is by decree of the King of Kings.</p><p>Consider yourself blessed by the god-king, for he hath granted you yet another ability to aid you in your quest. Add it to your hotbar, so you can remember to spam it at every possible opportunity. Not that I would know what a hotbar is. I&#8217;m just fishing for words you gamer boys like. You nerds. Fucking nerds.</p><p>You don&#8217;t understand how powerful Friction is. The seam is <em>paradox</em>. Paradox is where you can ever-so-gently touch the Great Mystery. Like cupping water in your hands loosely enough that you can take a sip. Big Jeezy can be found at the seam. Son of Man and Son of God. Alpha and Omega. King and servant. The seam is the place of <em>theosis</em>.</p><p>Your homework this week is to start looking for the seam. Start casting Friction.</p><p>When you find yourself reluctant to act, whether it&#8217;s the goth girl at the bar, ditching the corpo-cuck chair for the bed of freedom, or anything in-between, cast it. Find the core idea of your reluctance, find its opposite, and goad them both until they meet at the center. Continue to hold them there until neither makes sense anymore. Until you could care less.</p><p>Take as long as you need to. Sleep with it. Wake with it. Make out with it. When it finally busts, see how you feel in that moment of post-bust clarity. See what action you want to take.</p><p>The more you practice this, the better you will come to know your Self. Like Big Jeezy, you find your Self at the seam. Think of it like your weekly visits with your valuable friend, David. You&#8217;ll come back a little more authentically <em>You</em> every time.</p><p>Now, I&#8217;m dismissing you for real this time.</p><p>Go, find the seam. You may not be able to find the clit, but this you can. I believe in you.</p><p><em>Te iubesc.</em></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/a-war-of-two-djavids?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">To save the boys, or not to save the boys, that is the question: Whether &#8216;tis nobler on the internet to share the love and wisdom of David Jagger, or to hoard selfishly secrets of the seam from others and by suppressing deny them. To share&#8212;to sheep, no more; and by a share to say we make the god-king of a thousand former cucks.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/a-war-of-two-djavids?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/a-war-of-two-djavids?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">O reader, reader, wherefore art thou reader? Deny thy bull and refuse thy chair. Or else thou wilt rot, be but subscribed to my word and you&#8217;ll no longer be a cuckulet.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Goo and Murky Waters]]></title><description><![CDATA[My King, My Cleanliness is Doodie]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/black-goo-and-murky-waters</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/black-goo-and-murky-waters</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:03:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4ec6e7a2-db75-4d81-a199-54a3316c63b3_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Magic Mirror</h2><p>Look who&#8217;s returned from the swamp. If it isn&#8217;t my dearest of readers.</p><p>Did a little clashing with the Black Cube, did you? You don&#8217;t seem to have fared so well. Forget what <em>he </em>looks like, I see <em>you </em>and know he&#8217;s not had it nearly so bad. Look in this mirror, why don&#8217;t you?</p><p>You&#8217;re covered in cuts and bruises, and you seem to have taken a black goo facial. You&#8217;ve got bite marks. Even I didn&#8217;t realize the Cube had teeth (adding that to my bestiary). Did he do that before or after spunking all over your face? Pretty gay, if the latter.</p><p>Do you feel a little <em>guilty</em>? Do you feel a little <em>ashamed</em>?</p><p>You should. You&#8217;ve disappointed your friends, your family&#8212;both living and dead&#8212;and you&#8217;ve disappointed yourself. All this work culminated in a moment of <em>loss</em> and <em>filth</em>. It is laid bare here before you.</p><p><em>Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the biggest</em> cuck boy <em>of them all?</em></p><p>Don&#8217;t worry, cocksplat. It&#8217;s not you.</p><p>Did you really think someone as kind and selfless as myself would kick you while you&#8217;re down? Here, take this tissue. Dry your eyes. Be careful you don&#8217;t touch me. I don&#8217;t want any black cum on my pristine being.</p><p>We&#8217;ve been at this work less than three months. I would never expect you to defeat the Black Cube already. Certainly not alone.</p><p>Why do you feel guilt? Why do you feel shame? I have already forgiven you, and that means more than what <em>you</em> think. Even more important, Jesus has already forgiven you. If God Himself can forgive your transgressions, who are you to pass judgment? Sounds a bit <em>blasphemous</em> to me. No reader of mine will engage in blasphemy. That&#8217;s against the tenets of our kingdom.</p><p>Big Jeezy and me, we&#8217;re not holding this mirror to shame you, or to remind you you&#8217;re a guilty failure, whose heart is black with sin. You do a good enough job of that already. We hold it before you, so that you might <em>clean</em> yourself.</p><p>Do yourself a favor and wash the spunk away.</p><p>Be quick about it.</p><p>Once you scrape that black crust away, we need to scrape your spiritual crust away too. We need to eliminate your guilt and shame.</p><h2>Baptism by Filth</h2><p>Before you can truly clean yourself, you need to recognize what you are cleaning. If you think the answer is as simple as guilt and shame, you are both smarter and dumber than you look.</p><p>Can you define guilt? How about shame? Can you recognize them correctly in yourself? If you can&#8217;t, then how do you know what to clean?</p><p>It&#8217;s okay, reader. Don&#8217;t feel ashamed you don&#8217;t know. This is why I&#8217;m here. For you. Your incredibly handsome, absurdly intelligent, dangerously wise guide. You&#8217;re so <em>lucky</em>. I wish I could have my own David Jagger to take me by the hand, whisper sweet nothings into my ear, and make me feel warm, fuzzy, and oddly aroused.</p><p>In fact, let me take your hand now. (I know you&#8217;re getting a chub, but I had better not see it.) Let&#8217;s take a walk through the kingdom, down to the lake below your sacred tree. This is your <em>conscience</em>.</p><p>You haven&#8217;t done the greatest upkeep. Look at how it&#8217;s covered in lily pads and moss. There&#8217;s trash and literal <em>shit</em> floating in it. I can barely see the surface. Even where I can, it&#8217;s so murky I can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s immediately beneath it. It&#8217;s no wonder you think <em>Nessie</em> doesn&#8217;t exist. She&#8217;s probably dead. No doubt a result of this sludge.</p><p>You caused this through guilt and shame. What you did, what you didn&#8217;t do. By both action and inaction, you polluted the life-giving waters. Now, come here. Time for your baptism. You made your lake and now you will dunk in it.</p><p>Guilt is <em>behavior-centric</em>. It is tied to your actions. Easily identified as apart from yourself, as something <em>external</em>. Your lake is dirty because you keep pissing and shitting in it. Because you keep dumping your trash here. Maybe stop treating it like the Ganges River.</p><p>Shame, on the other hand, is more nefarious. It is <em>self-centric</em>, internalized. Rather than believing you <em>did</em> something bad, you believe you <em>are</em> bad. Lesser, unworthy, irredeemable. You have a tiny peepee and no woman will ever want to touch you.</p><p>Shame is the murk in the waters. All the fecal and decomposing trash particulates, but also the mud, sand, and other pollutants coming together to obscure the naturally crystal waters of the lake. Guilt contributes to the murk, but life&#8217;s runoff will pollute your waters even without it. So long as the waters remain dirty, so too will you. And the reflection of your kingdom and your sacred tree will forever be obscured by it, if they are visible at all.</p><h2>Arise My Turds</h2><p>I&#8217;m sure that all of this sounds very gloomy and overwhelming, huh? You&#8217;re probably thinking about how much filth you&#8217;ve accumulated and how gargantuan an undertaking this path of cleanliness must truly be.</p><p>Well, stop that. Right now, <em>fatuus</em>.</p><p>That sort of thinking is only contributing to the filth.</p><p>Dealing with guilt and shame is, like so much of this work, simple, but not easy. Mostly, it requires <em>patience </em>and <em>understanding</em>. Luckily, you have me. I&#8217;m the most patient and understanding guy you&#8217;ll ever meet. Aside from Jesus and Mr. Rogers, of course.</p><p>You must first accept that you will never be completely clean. You&#8217;re a filthy little animal. You were born this way. Sweaty, grimy, and gross, you sprang forth from the cosmic soup. The J-Man knows this and loves you despite it. He holds nothing against you, so why would you hold it against you? The King of Kings loves you, the Alpha and Omega, but you can&#8217;t love you? How <em>hubristic</em>. He stands before you with open arms, and all you must do is open your heart.</p><p>First, examine why you feel guilt and shame. This is the understanding part. When a turd floats by your face as I dunk you in the lake, ask how it got here. Did you shit in the lake? In other words, when the feelings arise, why are they arising?</p><p><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/properly-using-the-first-key">Shine your light of attention on them</a>. As you discern what they are, you&#8217;ll find they&#8217;re either rational or they&#8217;re not.</p><p>For instance, let&#8217;s say you feel guilty about watching a bull breed your girl. The guilty action leads to feelings of shame. Over time, this becomes deeply rooted, and now you&#8217;re an impotent little pushover. You can hardly stand to see yourself in the mirror. (Stop trying to smack it away or I will smack <em>you</em>, bitch boy.) The Black Cube took the form of a black bull, a minotaur, before it squirted its black goo on you.</p><p>Is it rational to feel as you do?</p><p><em>Yes</em>, you little cuck. This is a sign. Change your ways. Stop shitting in the lake. Dump your trash in a trash bin. (Our kingdom is very sophisticated. There are many.) Stop letting the Black Cube bang your bitch. And, most definitely, stop <em>watching</em> it.</p><p>If your behavior is causing you to feel bad and it makes sense that it is, <em>stop doing it</em>. Start replacing it with behaviors that invoke confidence and self-assuredness. This is how you actively stop the pollution and clean the lake.</p><p>On the other hand, you may find that guilt or shame arise <em>irrationally</em>. Usually, it&#8217;s because <em>society</em> said something was bad. And we know that the Black Cube rules our society.</p><p>Take for example my short-king brethren. My little dwarves and hobbits. My cute little fellas. Come here, you scamps. Why do you feel shame over your height? Like all men, you too were created in the image of God. It is not rational to feel shame over being born exactly as you were intended to. It may be a challenge, but why is it a point of guilt or shame?</p><p><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/little-birds-and-nasty-words">Flip the script</a>. You dwarves were born strong. And you hobbits were born lucky. With really big feet. You know what they say about guys with big feet. (They cover more ground.) </p><p>Remember that life is a game. Everyone has some sort of challenge modifier running. Yours just happens to be height. That thing you are ashamed of is just as easily a point of pride and accomplishment, if only you&#8217;ll leverage it. Damn what society thinks. Only what I think matters. Society doesn&#8217;t love you; but I do. You make me look even better.</p><p>Flipping the script on irrational guilt and shame is like preventative measures to lessen the pollution spilling into your lake. The rest is just patience.</p><p>They say that time heals all. Your lake will self-cleanse through sunlight, sedimentation, aeration, microbial breakdown, and other science-y words that will make the atheists shut up.</p><p>See how caring I am? I&#8217;m even standing here with open arms for them, too.</p><h2>Lake of the Self</h2><p>The Black Cube loves guilt and shame. When you feel them, it loosens your cheeks so the Black Cube can spread them and slurp your vril right from your asshole. It&#8217;s like a reverse-butt chug.</p><p>Cleaning your lake is essential. If the Black Cube can keep it dirty, it will. It tricks you into doing its dirty work. </p><p>The lake is your <em>Self</em>. It cleans and revitalizes your <em>self</em>. Any impurities foisted on it will naturally cleanse of their own accord, given time and opportunity. Kind of like when you get soap in your peehole. It&#8217;s in your best interest to help this process along and prevent any future biohazards, so that as life and your battles with the Cube dirty you, you can always return to your Self for a little R&amp;R.</p><p>Now that you&#8217;ve been baptized, take the mirror. See how even the tainted waters of the lake wash away the black goo? Use the mirror to find and scrub away the crusty bits. You&#8217;ll get cleaner with time. As clean and pristine as yours truly. (Okay, maybe not <em>that</em> pristine.)</p><p>Your homework this week is to find your turds. Find your crusty spots. How do they arise and why? Determine whether they are rational or irrational and act accordingly. Guilt and shame on their own are merely signals, but they shouldn&#8217;t overstay their welcome. As with all visitors, it&#8217;s great to see you come, but even better to see you go.</p><p>Speaking of which, you seem quite keen on overstaying <em>your</em> welcome. Don&#8217;t you have homework, procrastinator? Take the shiny new mirror I gave you and get going. The adventure is <em>out there.</em></p><p>Oh, and don&#8217;t forget to keep that mirror in your inventory. It&#8217;s another key item.</p><p><em>Men seni jaqs&#305; k&#246;remin.</em></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/black-goo-and-murky-waters?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Still here? Don&#8217;t you have turds to fish? Oh, I <em>see</em>. You&#8217;re surprised I&#8217;m looking in the mirror. There&#8217;s nothing for me to clean, I&#8217;m perfect. I just like to mog myself sometimes. There&#8217;s no one else on my level. I&#8217;m in a tier all my own. If you don&#8217;t believe me, send a challenge to all the would-be opponents out there. Go ahead. They&#8217;ll lose, just like everyone else.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/black-goo-and-murky-waters?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/black-goo-and-murky-waters?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">By the way, you seem a little&#8230; <em>troubled</em>. Do I sense a bit of <em>guilt</em>? A little bit of <em>shame</em>? Dear reader, you know how forgiving I am. Here you are. You may type your email and click the button. Your sins are no more. It is done.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Fear the Cube]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life's a Bitch When You're a Bitch]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dont-fear-the-cube</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dont-fear-the-cube</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:03:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/81e46453-d4f0-42d0-abe8-0facae98e226_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>The Swagger-Killer</h2><p>My dear, dear reader. You&#8217;ve finally returned.</p><p>Come here, stand next to me. Not too close, though. That would be gay.</p><p>Don&#8217;t be alarmed by what I&#8217;m about to show you.</p><p>Look up in the sky. No, it&#8217;s not Superman, cocksplat.</p><p><em>There</em>.</p><p>It&#8217;s the <em>Black Cube</em>. Look at it.</p><p>It&#8217;s <em>disgusting</em>.</p><p>I hate how it congeals there like a cancerous blot against that heavenly body, our Sun. Look at the parasitic tendrils whipping from its walls, trying to slurp up our kingdom&#8217;s vril like some Jezebel-possessed brothel-babe. The good news is that it can only do that...</p><p>...if you <em>freak out</em>.</p><p>(Ugh. Come on, reader.)</p><p>Would you get a grip? Quit hyperventilating.</p><p>Okay, <em>maybe</em> I buffed your Spirit Vision too soon, but we talked about this before; <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key">awakenings are </a><em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key">not</a></em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key"> fun</a>. Just as the sun rises, so too will the dark night of the soul return. This is why I also gave you a lantern.</p><p>We just talked about Polarity last week. Flip the script, why don&#8217;t you? Nights are made for spending time with soft women, in warm beds. There&#8217;s nothing to take away the fear like a little time under the covers. Lights on or off&#8212;that&#8217;s up to you. I keep the lantern on.</p><p>Facing fear is of the utmost importance. It is the <em>swagger-killer</em>, if you succumb to it. There&#8217;s nothing more a bitch hates than a little bitch.</p><p>Life too can be a bitch. The biggest bitch of all, if you let it be.</p><p>Life and women hate <em>weak men</em>. The more of a bitch you are, the bitchier they get. Life&#8217;s bitch-fits come in the form of <em>obstacles</em>. Things get harder, nastier, scarier.</p><p>Are you a <em>bitch</em>? Or do you have the swagger like Jagger?</p><p>If you ask God for glory, He will send it, but you&#8217;ve got to pay postage. There&#8217;s no glory in being handed the kingdom&#8217;s keys. It&#8217;s also no <em>fun</em>. I see all you <em>gaymer</em> boys out there, completing all your in-game challenges. They jack your attention all day. You&#8217;ve got a hard-on for hard mode.</p><p>If you want to be God&#8217;s bestest warrior, you&#8217;ve got to take on His challenges. It should be fun. It will be. Once we get you some life-Viagra. We need to get you hard on life. Whip out that wood and slap life&#8217;s face with it. It loves the dong.</p><h2>Black Goo</h2><p>Fear comes in many shapes and sizes and all kinds of disguises. Much like people.</p><p>Sometimes, it looms over you, like a rotund, whalish, purple elf, licking her lips like she&#8217;ll <em>devour</em> you. Or, it&#8217;s a sweet but shy brunette, with a cute smile. But did you glimpse Hellfire insanity in her eyes? Your balls, horrified, retreat into your stomach. (Perhaps you&#8217;re just paranoid. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;s not a <em>succubus</em>.)</p><p>Sometimes, fear is so visceral your butthole shoots up into your pie hole. That&#8217;s the kind everyone knows and thinks of when they hear &#8220;fear.&#8221; Like when you&#8217;re alone in the woods and stumble upon a bear.</p><p>Other times, you barely notice it. That cracking twig you thought you heard, but there&#8217;s nothing there when you check. You might not even call it fear. But make no mistake, it&#8217;s there and it <em>is</em> fear.</p><p>At its core, fear is <em>resistance</em>. When you feel that sudden muck, sucking at your feet, you can be sure you&#8217;ve wandered into the Black Cube&#8217;s swamp of black goo. In your quest to expand the kingdom, it is there to <em>impede</em> your progress.</p><p>You <em>will</em> wind up in the swamp. It&#8217;s part of the journey. You must, inevitably, come face to face with what you fear. You can only avoid it for so long. Either face it while you have the strength, or wait until you&#8217;re out of breath.</p><p>Life will offer what you want and what you fear. They&#8217;re <em>connected</em>. Bravery is the currency that buys what you want. If you feel fear, then bravery is already present. They&#8217;re the <em>same thing</em>, cocksplat, just at <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/little-birds-and-nasty-words">different ends of the spectrum</a>. Where are you looking?</p><p>You cannot reject fear without rejecting bravery. The only difference between them is action.</p><p>The hero does not lack fear. He too is afraid hugging a woman will make him explode in his pants. He is heroic because he hugs despite this. So what if it floods his pants with white water rapids? Tis better to have cum and gone, than to never have cum at all.</p><p>Fear is simply <em>bravery in waiting</em>. To succumb to fear is to choose the Black Cube over your Self and God.</p><p>Even when your life is at stake, acting from fear is the losing posture. Surviving from it is a life of <em>undeath</em>. You become a walking, talking corpse, and your waking reality becomes a safe and secluded, monotonous Hell.</p><p>The man of swagger knows and understands this. He knows fear like he knows a woman.</p><p>You should too.</p><p>Fear most definitely knows <em>you</em>.</p><h2>Fear Knot</h2><p>Every time angels appear in the Bible, they announce their arrival with, &#8220;Fear not.&#8221;</p><p>This is terrible advice. I would have made a far better messenger, but far be it from me to question my Lord&#8217;s choices.</p><p>Had the angels bothered consulting with me, I&#8217;d have set them right. Telling someone <em>not</em> to be afraid is a great way to preempt fear. It&#8217;s no wonder God commanded they kneel to us.</p><p>Have you read the Biblical descriptions of them? It would have made more sense if they announced &#8220;Fear knot&#8221; upon arrival. That&#8217;s exactly what they inspired. Paralyzing their audience with their terrifying countenance.</p><p>Fear knots are what occur when you try to fight fear. All you do is get yourself tangled up. You yank the shoestring the wrong way and it gets tighter, more constricted. You start to feel like you&#8217;ll never get this damn shoe off.</p><p>Instead of fighting fear, it should be <em>embraced</em>.</p><p>It is not something to be rejected. You couldn&#8217;t avoid it if you wanted to.</p><p>Everyone fears something, dear reader. Even me.</p><p>I&#8217;m afraid of curvy, goth, Asian baddies, all hot and bothered, who will stop at nothing to sit on my face. <em>Scary</em>. (Oh no, now I will have to face them...)</p><p>For you see, fear is the foil to what you want. It is a sign you are <em>taking it too seriously.</em></p><p>At some point you put what you wanted on a pedestal. Do you see what your problem is? You are <em>simping</em>. If not for women, then for whatever goal it is you wish to achieve. You placed it out of reach.</p><p>Everything in this life passes. What you fear, what you want, even this current experience that you think is you. Anything you can observe is not <em>you</em>. Even your tiny peepee. Don&#8217;t feel so bad about it. The big ones hurt.</p><p>Turn your gaze inward. If anything you can observe is not you, then where are <em>you</em>? <em>What</em> are you?</p><p>This is where you&#8217;ll find the answer, as well as anything you could ever want or need. You expand, while fear contracts. It will never go away entirely, but you act anyway. You put your attention on <em>forward</em> motion. You choose bravery.</p><p>Now, take this sledgehammer, lift your fucking feet, and get to mucking through this goo. We&#8217;re going to smash that cube.</p><h2>Snake Charming</h2><p>The Black Cube is truly a cocksplat cuck.</p><p>It has an ever-identifiable form, but can deceive your lying eyes. It shapeshifts to match the situation. Its appearance is <em>relational</em>. When you feel fear, know that the Black Cube is haranguing you. It masquerades as the worst outcome in the most grotesque form possible. It wants you to focus on it.</p><p>Whether you fight the fear or collapse in despair before it, you have fallen for its trap. Both feed the Black Cube your vril. In return, it gives you more of what you fear.</p><p>The solution is to use <em>Attention</em>, your first key, to <em>acknowledge</em> the fear. That is, the <em>emotion</em>. Not the thoughts and stories about it the Black Cube is shoveling down your cranial gullet.</p><p>An emotion comes and goes. It merely wants to be noticed. It is <em>information</em> about the situation.</p><p>Imagine you&#8217;re trapped in a confined space with a hostile cobra. He wants you dead, and you&#8217;re not getting out until one of you is incapacitated.</p><p>If you reach your nubby hand straight at him, you&#8217;ll get bit. Game over. Snake wins, loser. But you&#8217;ve got the right idea. You know you need to grab him, so that he can&#8217;t bite. With some clever misdirection, you can grab him by the back of his neck. He can no longer bite. Look at you go, you insatiable snake charmer you. (Okay, now give him a kiss.)</p><p>In the context of desire, fear just means you&#8217;ve pedestalized the want. It means you&#8217;re attached to the <em>how</em>. You want to <em>control</em> the unfolding. This is not your domain.</p><p>Whatever you want, simply ask. God, the Monad, the Absolute, Life, whatever your stupid brain wants to call our Heavenly Father doesn&#8217;t matter, as long as you ask with an <em>open heart</em>. An open heart means accepting that you will get what you want according to <em>His</em> plan. You merely need to play your part and trust that it is unfolding exactly as He designed. Trying to own it aligns you with the Black Cube. Alignment with the Cube is <em>corruption</em>.</p><p>Your homework this week is simple: recognize fear.</p><p>That&#8217;s all.</p><p>It&#8217;s simple, but not easy. Those moments where you rationalize your truest desires away as <em>wise decision-making</em> are quiet fears, but fears nonetheless.</p><p>Why aren&#8217;t you dating that stripper? You tell yourself it&#8217;s because she&#8217;s a basket case. BPD, possibly STDs, debt, and a slew of ex-con boyfriends. She could ruin you, you tell yourself. She&#8217;s a total bitch. But from where I&#8217;m standing, it looks like <em>you&#8217;re</em> the bitch. That&#8217;s fear talking. You could <em>totally</em> ruin her. I would never lie to you.</p><p>Proficiency in recognizing your fears will boost your swagger to near-Jagger levels. The beautiful part is recognizing them is, alone, enough to reduce them. It&#8217;s like <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/tree-burning">the magic trick I showed you with the second key</a>. Psychic distance occurs, almost automatically. Fear becomes distant, giving you room to act. When you act despite fear&#8217;s presence, you step into the realm of bravery. Life opens to the brave man.</p><p>So, what are you waiting for? Go on. Get at it. That&#8217;s fear keeping you on this page.</p><p><em>Se agap&#243;.</em></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dont-fear-the-cube?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">That&#8217;s right, reader. <em>Slam</em> that damn hammer upon our foe. With each strike, its walls crumble and your bravery rises. Like the Sun, to vanquish this horrible night. Go ahead, show everyone how brave you are. I&#8217;m sure you can manage a simple click with those big, strong arms of yours. You aren&#8217;t <em>afraid</em>, are you?</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dont-fear-the-cube?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dont-fear-the-cube?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">You know, you don&#8217;t have to go at it <em>alone</em>. Not even I do that. You&#8217;ll have the help of many more brothers if you join the cult. Did I say cult? I meant <em>cadre</em>. We&#8217;re very hip here. Like Huey Lewis said, &#8220;it&#8217;s hip to beat this square.&#8221; Something like that.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little Birds and Nasty Words]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now broadcasting on 101.69 FM]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/little-birds-and-nasty-words</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/little-birds-and-nasty-words</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:02:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/88392590-3512-4d77-b693-3751e68f1da2_1448x1086.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Leisurely Activities</h2><p>My oh my.</p><p>The sun seems to be shining ever so <em>brightly </em>today. As if God were smiling down on this very kingdom, trying to focus as much attention as possible onto that sacred tree at its center.</p><p>And you! You pious servant of the people, you. Don&#8217;t think I haven&#8217;t noticed how full of faith you seem today. I hardly recognize you. It feels as though I haven&#8217;t lifted a finger in, well, a whole week.</p><p>Which is just fine by me. I&#8217;m all about leisurely activities. I&#8217;m a <em>leisuremaxxer</em>. I tried the work thing. Decided it wasn&#8217;t for me. Everyone thinks because I&#8217;m producing, I must be a conscientious, industrious sort of guy. They say it all the time, it&#8217;s true. But what they say is about as far from the truth as it gets.</p><p>You see, if I produce anything, it&#8217;s simply a byproduct of me being me. I see a car, I chase. Hand me a glass of rum and a bit of coke, and you&#8217;ll find me in the castle gardens, half-naked, bathing in the sun.</p><p>(Do me a favor and move to the side. You&#8217;re standing in my rays.)</p><p>When you have faith, life becomes easygoing. The game aspect becomes <em>unignorable</em>. This is the <em>ultimate</em> state of living.</p><p>A game has boring bits, but is still more engaging than the real world. That&#8217;s why you push through the tedious, annoying sequences. On some level, you enjoy even those parts.</p><p>This too is true of life when your goal is clear and you&#8217;ve detached from the outcome. Life is a game and you are both player <em>and</em> player character. A veil of levity descends upon you. You intend to win, but you may not. You&#8217;re going to play to win anyway. If there was no fail state, the game would suck. Wins would be meaningless.</p><p>In that sense, life is the <em>ultimate</em> game. I would never tell you that the fail state is <em>final</em>, but it does have a certain <em>finality</em> to it. There&#8217;s both expansion and contraction in that. For you see, all that you perceive in your experience operates on <em>polarity</em>. There is one extreme and another. Things fall somewhere on a sliding scale between them.</p><p>Everyone decides for themselves where they like that slider to be. The problem is, most people are <em>fatuus </em>and don&#8217;t realize they&#8217;re controlling the slider. They move it up and down, like the special-ed kid when he gets ahold of the radio dial.</p><p>Dear reader, I will slap your hands away and teach you how to work the radio.</p><p>But in <em>a little bit</em>.</p><p>Do give me a moment alone, why don&#8217;t you?</p><p>Just a few minutes.</p><p>I&#8217;m going to sunbathe my nads, full spread. I&#8217;d like some privacy. Wouldn&#8217;t want to make you jealous or, worse, <em>hot and bothered</em>.</p><p>Go on. I&#8217;ll be right with you.</p><h2>P-P-Polarity</h2><p>I feel <em>amazing</em>.</p><p>You will never know the rejuvenating joy of sunning your nads. Or maybe you will. I invite you to try it.</p><p>I lay on my back, grab my ankles, and spread like a baby, sun powdering my nethers like talcum. It is a <em>massive</em> vril boost. The massiveness is in direct proportion to the size of my man prop. Your results may vary.</p><p>But we&#8217;re not here to talk about sunning your nads.</p><p><em>Polarity</em> is a key mechanic in this game called life. It&#8217;s in the tutorial, but most of you skipped it. Now, you&#8217;re reading my half-assed walkthrough, nearly halfway through the damn game, and have to play catch up. Whose fault is that?</p><p>We&#8217;re not speaking of polarity in the electrical sense, but rather as two <em>opposing forces</em>, existing at different ends of the same spectrum. Light and dark, hot and cold, big and small, handsome and ugly (like me and so many of you). You believe that each of these things are separate. I&#8217;m telling you they are different aspects of the same thing.</p><p>If you can recognize one thing, you can surely find the other. It&#8217;s only ever a matter of where you&#8217;re looking.</p><p>Our emotions also exist on a spectrum. Happy and sad are at two opposing ends. Bravery and fear at another. Love and hatred, too. This is why I&#8217;m always loving everyone, even when I&#8217;m being a hater. It&#8217;s all the same thing. I love to hate.</p><p>If there&#8217;s anything I learned during my rigorous study sessions with Asian baddies in their bedrooms, it&#8217;s that the Yin and Yang perfectly encapsulates this concept. White and black, masculine and feminine, coiled together in copulation. A little bit of me in her. A little bit of her in me. The thick, succulent nip of a Nip in my mouth.</p><p>Recognizing this truth is paramount. Without it, you play the game of <em>rejection</em>.</p><p>Rejecting what you don&#8217;t want also rejects what you <em>do</em> want. You push one thing, while pulling the other in tow. You remain the same distance between them. You have effectively gone <em>nowhere</em>.</p><p>The swaggerous man does not reject anything, nor does he accept. He merely <em>observes</em>. Did you already forget about your <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/properly-using-the-first-key">first key</a>, dear reader?</p><p>Through observation, he <em>recognizes</em> what he wants. He doesn&#8217;t need to rail against its opposite. That thing he hates teaches him what he loves. In this way, he loves what he hates. Now, all he needs to do is slide the scale. As he does so, he observes more of what he wants.</p><p>What you want is a question only you can answer. When you have that answer, recognize it for all that it is and observe the aspects you want to see more of.</p><p>I want to see more Chinese stripper asses. I think you can guess what I&#8217;ll be observing.</p><h2>Usurpations</h2><p>As you go about the development of your kingdom, there will be enemies who wish to usurp your throne. Many of them are of the old guard. Cucks, who remain loyal to the old king, Nervonius Systemus. They seek to take back the kingdom from <em>us</em>. They see the spot you have chosen on the spectrum, the place you are going, and they don&#8217;t like it.</p><p>These bad actors rarely show up as invaders at the gate. Certainly not handsome ones, like me. That&#8217;s a tall order. But slovenly as they may be, they are no less capable.</p><p>For you see, dear reader, these cucks for Systemus work <em>quietly</em>. They are the whispers in your court, turning your allies against you. Little by little, over time, through lies they bolster with evidence. That&#8217;s right, they use the <em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond">input-output</a></em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond"> </a><em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond">machines</a> </em>against you. It is in this way that they seize control of the dial from you. They move it slowly, almost imperceptibly, so that by the time you notice, it&#8217;s already too late. Your once allies are with blades at your throat, you incompetent whelp. Why, we ought to string you up by your guts and offer your nads to Systemus as apology.</p><p>Can you imagine getting cucked that hard by the cuck?</p><p>Rather than allow these whispering little birdies to get the better of you, get out ahead of them. By noticing and being aware of what is happening in your kingdom, you get to create the narrative. If you catch them spinning one that ruins your pious image, invert it.</p><p>&#8220;The cathedral collapsed,&#8221; the birdies say. &#8220;Systemus would never have allowed this to happen.&#8221;</p><p>You tell the people: &#8220;The cathedral did indeed collapse. How very <em>tragic</em>... or is it? My good people, do you not see this for what it truly is? This is God Himself, removing the old to make way for the new. The cathedral was old. Crumbling. It was cold, dark, and damp. Clearly, God was not pleased with it, or else why would He allow it to collapse? He is giving us a chance to <em>prove</em> to Him we are <em>worthy</em> of His love. With your help, we can build a <em>better</em> cathedral. We can show Him how great our faith is.&#8221;</p><p>No rejection. Neither acceptance. Mere acknowledgement, completely detached. Then, the reframe.</p><p>This is the power of polarity. This is how you tune the radio dial.</p><p>They will try to dial you into the slop channels. We flip it back to the goldies.</p><p>I&#8217;m your DJ. Keep it tuned to me.</p><p>101.69 FM, home of the greatest dial position. We keep it sixty-nine, all the time.</p><h2>The Kingdom Within You</h2><p>The J-Man, praise be He, said, &#8220;<em>the kingdom of God is within you.</em>&#8220;</p><p>And those little birdies who whisper against you? They are too.</p><p>The war of polarity is perpetual in this dualistic world. Once you learn to see it, you will recognize it everywhere. I&#8217;m giving you a permanent buff to your <em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites">Spirit Vision</a></em>. Spam it as often as you can. There&#8217;s no cooldown.</p><p>If you neglect to use it, you will go <em>unconscious</em>. When you are unconscious, you are susceptible to the narratives of others. You are also susceptible to your own negative biases, those necromantic roots of your old tree stump. When you lose control of your narrative, you forfeit the radio dial.</p><p>&#8220;It sounds like I have to be on the lookout all the time? That&#8217;s a lot of work, David.&#8221;</p><p>Is it? It feels like a game to me.</p><p>Did you know? Most people don&#8217;t have access to Spirit Vision, nor that buff I gave you. They could have had it, but they skipped the tutorial. They are <em>gimped</em>. That gives me an advantage. One that I <em>love</em> to exploit at every opportunity. It&#8217;s not cheating, but it feels like it. I just keep <em>winning.</em></p><p>Do you like <em>losing</em>? Maybe you do. You tell me. But if that&#8217;s the case, then losing means you&#8217;re winning, doesn&#8217;t it?</p><p>Your homework this week is simple. Start shifting polarity.</p><p>Every time you find yourself in a situation that isn&#8217;t going your way, slap those little birdies&#8217; hands away and take control of the dial. Play the station that suits the mood. If I&#8217;m getting busy with an Asian baddie, I&#8217;m not playing Country music. (Unless she&#8217;s into that?)</p><p>You need to find the DJ you jive with. If it helps, imagine this DJ&#8217;s voice in your head, spouting his beautiful life <em>Jaggerisms</em> over the airwaves just for you. All for you, baby. You know I love you. I support you. I would never let you down. I&#8217;m your <em>valuable</em> friend.</p><p>That chick didn&#8217;t reject you because you&#8217;re ugly. She was just so intimidated by your <em>presence</em> that her own King Systemus lashed out. She couldn&#8217;t take the idea of being with a man so abundant with vril. She&#8217;s too used to cucks. It felt unsafe. You&#8217;re so dangerous. You bad boy, you.</p><p>Now, quit being a cuck and get out there. I&#8217;ve jerked your ego off enough for one article.</p><p>As Fred Rogers would say,</p><p><em>143</em>.</p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/little-birds-and-nasty-words?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">There&#8217;s the man of the hour, the tower of power. Finished reading the article just in time, I see. It&#8217;s time to hit the castle gardens, loser. We&#8217;re sunning our nads. The girls from the brothel are there, and they can&#8217;t wait to see. Be a bro and crank that radio dial so the boys can hear. It&#8217;s just below.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/little-birds-and-nasty-words?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/little-birds-and-nasty-words?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Did you know, those of us who have sworn ourselves to the kingdom live like this every day? It&#8217;s true, it&#8217;s true. Party in the garden sun, baddies everywhere. (Stay away from the Asians, they&#8217;re mine.) We take our massive vril boost from the sun and spank the Black Cube. We all have a good laugh. At it, not with it. You could be laughing too.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till Kingdom Come]]></title><description><![CDATA[R&R at the Tiddie Tavern (You Deserve It)]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/till-kingdom-come</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/till-kingdom-come</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:03:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/61ad3d88-c6dc-4fee-84c3-6871e74b7f16_1080x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Man of the People</h2><p>My loyal reader.</p><p>Come.</p><p>Stand with me. Let us watch the dawn in your new kingdom together.</p><p>Tell me, what will you do, now that you have ousted Systemus and installed a swagocracy?</p><p>Huh? What are you asking <em>me</em> for? It&#8217;s <em>your</em> kingdom.</p><p><em>I </em>am heading to the brothels. These are working women and someone needs to pay their bills. I may be your <em>king</em> now, but I am their <em>daddy</em>. Think of me as more of a figurehead than anything. You&#8217;re the guy that whispers in my ear. Big Jeezy steers the ship.</p><p>Alright, alright. Pipe down. I was merely <em>jestering</em>.</p><p>Of course I have more <em>unbelievably</em> wise words for you. I will, as usual, give my precious <em>vril</em> to you because I&#8217;m such a <em>selfless</em> guy.</p><p>What would you ever do without me?</p><p>If you did your homework last week, you should have seen an increase in your faith. You took some kind of action towards the vision of your new life despite feeling doubt.</p><p>Maybe this meant speaking up for yourself. Or maybe it meant taking your first-ever trip to the tiddie tavern with the boys.</p><p>This is not to say the outcome was <em>positive</em>, dickly speaking. Maybe speaking up caused a conflict. Maybe you creamed your pants the moment a stripper touched you.</p><p>The outcome doesn&#8217;t matter.</p><p>What does matter is that you tried and, more importantly, you are still <em>here</em>. Failure is just the character development you need to better <em>be</em> that guy you know you are.</p><p>The beginning of a new age is <em>always</em> a little rough. You&#8217;re under new rulership. You&#8217;re terraforming the environment to meet the needs of your tree. A sacred tree, placed at the center of your kingdom.</p><p>Despite this, changing your king and working hard doesn&#8217;t change a thing if your people are not with you.</p><p>Everyone thinks top-down is the only model.</p><p>You virgins may not know this, but if things work in one direction, they work the other way too. Bottoms aren&#8217;t just there. They&#8217;re <em>cooperating</em> with the top. It&#8217;s a symbiotic relationship. The top may lead the dance, but it takes two to do the horizontal tango.</p><p>If the top initiates change but the bottom resists it, you will, at best, reach a stalemate. No change occurs. At worst, it will blow the roof off the place. Say bye bye to the king.</p><p>Systemus was the <em>intellectual aspect</em> of your nervous system. The executive piece you can control. Your subjects are the unconscious aspect, the automatic reactions that occur despite your conscious understanding.</p><p>The goal now is to help them <em>loosen their sphincter</em>. They&#8217;re too uptight. We&#8217;ve got to help them relax.</p><p>We should take them to the brothels.</p><h2>Shovels and Hoes</h2><p>Just because you&#8217;ve installed a new leader in your kingdom doesn&#8217;t mean the people will fall in line. Even if they want change, they will defy it because they are still patterned after their old king, Nervonius Systemus.</p><p>You can remove the cuck from the kingdom, but not the kingdom from the cuck.</p><p>Think about yourself prior to learning of the error of Systemus&#8217;s ways. Did you realize there was a problem? You may have had a tickling sensation in your nads, but you didn&#8217;t squirt until King Jagger waltzed in upon his gleaming, white horse.</p><p>The people are no different. They are <em>habitualized</em> to the old ways. The ways of the energetically dead. They don&#8217;t know any better.</p><p>Your nervous system will <em>always</em> recoil from change and uncertainty. What is certain is safe. Uncertainty implies risk. Risk implies death. Its job is to keep you <em>alive</em>.</p><p>Being a man of action and faith is the key to changing the kingdom&#8217;s destiny for the better, but left alone presents a trap. Faith that depends on <em>your</em> action is like your nads next to a warm fire. Once the fire dies, your nads shrivel up. Keep chopping that wood, peasants. The fire must go on. The people will be worked till the vril is wrung from the corporeal meat suits they inhabit.</p><p>This is fine if you like the idea of getting pegged by parasites forever. Reliance upon your action <em>alone</em> is yet another parasite. Even one of your own creation serves the Black Cube. They all do.</p><p>If what you want is to <em>enjoy</em> the fruits of your labor, you need to stop and taste them.</p><p>Life is not endless boinking. There are <em>refractory</em> periods. You cum and then you go. The climax is not work. It is <em>release</em>. It&#8217;s after the release that you hold your lover in your arms, whisper sweet nothings into her ear, then slip away like a thief into the wee morning hours, her heart in one hand and her panties in the other.</p><p>Similarly, you take action and then you release. The faith is not placed upon the action. The action is a <em>prayer</em>. As the J-Man said, &#8220;<em>whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours</em>.&#8221; The faith is placed not upon the action, but upon the <em>Ineffable</em>.</p><p>God. Source. Our Father, Who art in Heaven. Big Sky Daddy.</p><p>You do what is required of you and trust that the One Most High will meet you the rest of the way. As much as you take action, life does more, closing the gap between the reality you inhabit and the reality that is. You don&#8217;t need to control its unfolding, nor be a tyrant to your people.</p><p>All you need is to put your people at ease.</p><p>Send a messenger to the town square. Notify the brothers to lay down their shovels. Today&#8217;s work is finished. We&#8217;re heading to the brothel to pick up some hoes. Leave the wrappers behind. God is all the protection we need.</p><h2>Grinding to Dust</h2><p>A restless kingdom is a kingdom attached to action.</p><p>If you look into the sky, you will see the Black Cube, blotting out the sun. The psychic parasites are doing what they do best.</p><p>When they&#8217;re not extracting vril from your active efforts, they steal it by denying you your sense of calm and quietude. Instead, you feel guilt. Fear. Saudade. Even frenzy. <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites">They are </a><em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites">gaslighting you</a></em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites">.</a> </p><p>Rest after action is necessary. You lifter boys know exactly what I mean. After hypertrophy, you need nourishment and <em>rest</em> for growth. Your psychic kingdom needs the same. To deny yourself that is to <em>hinder</em> your growth.</p><p>A song is not merely the beats we play. It is also the silence between them. I loathe to imagine how <em>miserable</em> my life-song would be if it was all work and no women to love. Especially no Asian baddies. I could almost weep.</p><p>You must learn to take your rest <em>seriously</em>.</p><p>(But not too seriously.)</p><p>Most do the opposite. They take work too seriously and treat play as insignificant. </p><p>It&#8217;s not that this <em>won&#8217;t </em>get results. It&#8217;s better than being a useless, &#8220;woe-is-me&#8221; cocksplat, who considers himself a victim of life. It is merely <em>suboptimal.</em> Contingent upon perpetually scrambling to ensure your kingdom&#8217;s success. You will eventually <em>grind yourself to dust</em>.</p><p>If success comes, it will be ephemeral. If you stop scrambling, so too will your success. You ousted the last king only to repeat his mistakes. So, the cycle repeats.</p><p>The root of the problem is simple.</p><p><em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/tree-burning">You&#8217;re resting on the stump of your old tree.</a></em> </p><p>Remnants of the old you remain. You take action because you feel you are <em>missing</em> something. You have to prove you are who you wish to be. The actions are supposed to complete you. You are forever <em>becoming</em> the new Holy Roman Empire.</p><p>The solution is even simpler than the problem. Declare that you <em>are</em> the Holy Roman Empire. Believe that you always were. Act as God&#8217;s kingdom does because that&#8217;s who you are.</p><p>Is He telling you in your heart and soul to be a bitch imitator?</p><p>You already know the vision of the kingdom. Act in accordance with it. That&#8217;s all. Don&#8217;t second guess it. He will let you know if it&#8217;s wrong. The vision and action will align accordingly.</p><p>You don&#8217;t need to keep telling everyone who you are, weirdo. You already hanged the flag. Let them <em>see</em> it. You already know who you are.</p><h2>Tending to the Bros and the Hoes</h2><p>During this transition, different realities are vying for existence: Systemus&#8217;s legacy, the new HRE, and some twilight in-between.</p><p>You are in the twilight. A space between Systemus&#8217;s physical creation and your internal kingdom.</p><p>Life is expecting you to make love to it. You need to maintain your Holy Roman boner till kingdom cum. If life reaches that moment of orgasmic creation, physical reality shifts.</p><p><em>Rapidly</em>.</p><p>It&#8217;ll happen in throes and undulations. You&#8217;ll notice. You may even smirk, pleased with your performance. But it&#8217;s nothing special. The kingdom was already there. You knew this. You were just waiting for the physical world to know it too.</p><p>This is why we need to tend to the bros and the hoes of the kingdom. This transition is charting the course. Unless the life you want to live is non-stop work, you must live in accordance with the vision as much as possible. Shift the dial further in its direction as life gives you leeway.</p><p>Herein lies your homework.</p><p>You know what actions you need to take and you&#8217;ve already cultivated some faith. Now, you will take them and practice <em>letting go</em>.</p><p>Maybe your goal is a harem of goth baddies. Very admirable, my good man. Very admirable indeed.</p><p>Assuming that&#8217;s the case, maybe your action is to talk to one. Do it then. Slide into her DMs, send the message, and then <em>forget it</em>.</p><p>You don&#8217;t need to keep checking if she read it. You don&#8217;t need to worry about her responding. It doesn&#8217;t even matter if she <em>ignores</em> you. Do you know how many goth baddies there are? Not even I can have them all. Not because I <em>can&#8217;t</em> get them, but because I am a limited being.</p><p>Life will give you exactly what is yours, as long as you maintain your kingdom. But you need to live the totality of it. Whatever your desired life entails outside of the work should be inhabited too. The man who has does not strive. What is there to strive for?</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin&#8230; if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you?&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Now, enough talkie. Time for brothel. Have your cake, and make sure your boys get some too.</p><p><em>Olive juice.</em></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/till-kingdom-come?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Having a good time, dear reader? I <em>always</em> do. And I <em>share</em> my merriment with others. You didn&#8217;t forget your brothers, did you? There&#8217;s plenty of cake for all. Go fetch them. Bring them a piece. You&#8217;ll have to excuse me while I bury my face in some.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/till-kingdom-come?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/till-kingdom-come?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Is there a reason you&#8217;re still here while I&#8217;m indulging myself? I&#8217;m a <em>messy</em> eater. Wait, seriously? You haven&#8217;t sworn your allegiance to the cul&#8212;I mean, the kingdom? Well, here&#8217;s your chance. My parties are always open because I&#8217;m so <em>magnanimous,</em> but you might miss one. You wouldn&#8217;t want that, would you?</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Ye Faithful]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fall of Systemus Rex]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/o-ye-faithful</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/o-ye-faithful</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 11:03:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8d345d15-1a3b-4cd5-a411-ef5d47470fba_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Environmental Jaggerisms</h2><p>I see someone has levelled up their <em>spirit vision</em>. I can tell by the way you look upon these words.</p><p>That&#8217;s good. Very good. It means you&#8217;re beginning to perceive the <em>psychic parasites</em> that surround us.</p><p>As you negated them, I&#8217;m sure you felt it.</p><p>That <em>calmness</em> draping over you. Like the delicate glow of a post-coital cigarette. Maybe you were lucky enough to even feel an energy rush. A vril boon from having reversed the flow the parasite failed to subject you to. Such is often the case when you squash one of these pests.</p><p>If you haven&#8217;t realized yet that this is one of the most important practices in life, you may be a lost cause. Any sensible teacher would agree, but I am not sensible in the conventional sense. I am a man of <em>faith</em>. And I have the utmost faith in <em>you</em>, my friend.</p><p>Believe in the <em>me</em> that believes in <em>you</em>.</p><p>There are some who would tell you to burn away your desires. I bet you think that was why we <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/tree-burning">immolated your beautiful tree</a>. If that&#8217;s what you think, I&#8217;d suggest a DNA test. I&#8217;m certain we&#8217;ll find strands of <em>homo imbecillus</em> in there.</p><p>Desires&#8212;<em>true</em> desires&#8212;are good and natural as long as we surrender our <em>attachment</em> to them. Our &#8220;need&#8221; to <em>have</em> them fulfilled.</p><p><em>Being</em> is your primary state. If you&#8217;re getting cucked, it&#8217;s because you <em>were being</em> the guy who gets cucked. Everything outside of you is the expressed, the energetically dead. Whether you choose to remain there is your decision.</p><p>Desires are merely the winds of expression. Direct your sails accordingly.</p><p>For those fools who wish to burn their desires away, they fail to realize they have merely traded one desire for another. To desire is human, and we are living a <em>human experience</em>. When the winds are at the backs of your sails, they carry you forward. They&#8217;re no longer an obstacle. Everything melds together. Like man and woman in the divine <em>boink</em>.</p><p>But when you set the winds ablaze, it burns everything. Sails, ship, and the crew aboard. Unless you desire to be energetically dead and deep-fried, I&#8217;d advise against this course of action.</p><p>This is why defending ourselves from parasites is so important. They distract us from <em>our</em> desires. People who resent their desires have confused those belonging to the parasites for their own.</p><p>These parasites displace what our <em>Self</em> wants to express. They zombify us. Trick us into wasting our time and attention on them, rather than our tree.</p><p>You&#8217;ll recall that our attention is the sunlight and our actions the water which nurture our tree.</p><p>Life needs more than just food and water to survive. It needs a <em>conducive environment</em> as well. You wouldn&#8217;t plant a sugar maple in the tropics, would you? You&#8217;ll get no syrup that way. The tree would die, if it ever even sprouted.</p><p>So, how do we create a conducive environment for our tree?</p><p>Once again, dear reader, you are asking the right question.</p><h2>Don&#8217;t be so Nervous</h2><p>If our minds are the soil our trees grow in, our attention the light that shines upon them, and our actions aligned with our beliefs the water they drink, then the environment in which they grow is our <em>nervous system.</em></p><p>What an appropriate name that is. Most people&#8217;s nervous systems are indeed <em>nervous</em>.</p><p>What scaredy little cucks they are. They&#8217;re full of bitch-energy. Jumping at every noise, every slinking shadow. That little mound in the ground there. What&#8217;s that? Probably a <em>snake</em>.</p><p>Quick! Get the fiery, direy <em>flammenwerfer</em>. Gute Nacht, Titten.</p><p>Oopsie.</p><p>That mound was your tree beginning to sprout. You just killed it.</p><p>We need to make your system <em>less</em> nervous, so this doesn&#8217;t happen, dear reader.</p><p>Your nervous system runs the physical shit show you call a life. When it comes to the kingdom on Earth, the nervous system is the king. It has one job: <em>survival</em>. It keeps your thumbs out of your bum and your hands on the wheel.</p><p>Unless that somehow keeps you alive.</p><p>You can be real with me. I won&#8217;t tell anyone.</p><p><em>Honest</em>.</p><p>King Nervonius Systemus is <em>neurotic</em>. Paranoid. All change is perceived as threat, even when it&#8217;s positive. It could improve his kingdom&#8217;s circumstances, but the uncertainty <em>terrifies</em> him. When you invite change, you take control by the hand, walk it to the exit, and boot its ass out the door.</p><p>If the king is not in control, who is?</p><p>I think you know the answer.</p><p>The king is not a <em>man of faith</em>. He is a man <em>accustomed</em> <em>to the faith</em> of his subjects. He forgets he is a servant, no different than them. He serves them as much as they serve him, and all serve Him as He serves us. But because the king doesn&#8217;t realize this, he clings to what&#8217;s known.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that the women are unwashed and haven&#8217;t changed their panties in years. The kingdom could have no women at all. Is that what you want? You should be more appreciative of the pubic lice. That&#8217;s extra protein. Our kingdom is starving, don&#8217;t you know?</p><p>Without faith, you accept pain out of fear. The pain is comfortable because it is <em>familiar</em>. You think the devil you know is better than the devil you don&#8217;t. You reason your way to believing your fear is <em>rational</em>.</p><p>This is why the fool is wise and the intelligent man is a moron.</p><p>The fool recognizes the devil is just the devil.</p><p>Ye who claim to be of faith must have little. For if your faith was great, you would not accept <em>any </em>devil, but instead rest in His comfort.</p><p>And for those with dimmed dendrites who reject faith, I suggest you find some.</p><p>Without it, your kingdom will perpetually suffer.</p><h2>Leaping into the Unknown</h2><p>Faith is <em>essential</em> to the life of swagger. There is no negotiating this.</p><p>Without it, King Systemus will become a <em>tyrant</em>. Your kingdom will persist, but it will be a miserable place. Any and all attempts at revolution will be thwarted before they have a chance to begin. The future of your people will be dictated by a scaredy little cuck.</p><p>Ironically, all kingdoms are destined to fall<em> </em>anyway.</p><p>Change comes for all. Choose it, or it will choose you.</p><p>Life is filled with <em>immense </em>complexity and variation. I understand how <em>paralyzing</em> it can be to willingly undergo change when the abyssal unknown stretches before you. Not because <em>I</em> experience anything of the like, but because I am <em>such</em> an empathetic man.</p><p>Faith grants us the strength to make a choice and <em>commit</em> despite uncertainty. It is <em>unwavering confidence</em> in something <em>larger than yourself</em>. Loyalty to that cause, that idea, that One Most High. The deep knowing that whatever happens is to your benefit, even if you can&#8217;t perceive it in the moment.</p><p>Do you think I am dissuaded by the busy boss bitch&#8217;s frigid glare when I cold approach her at 12:18 PM in the middle of a lunch meeting with clients about some corporate partnership that makes the Black Cube sing with glee?</p><p>Of course not. I have <em>faith</em> that my incandescent smile will melt her icy heart. I know I will liberate her from the suffocating walls of the Cube (and her clothes in the restaurant bathroom) before lunch is over.</p><p>And if not, so what? I failed at nothing. It simply wasn&#8217;t meant to be. The J-Man was actually <em>looking out</em> for me. The time I might have wasted with this corporate jezebel would be better spent with an Asian baddie. After all, why else am I here if not to protect them in the dark?</p><p>Faith quells the chaos in the kingdom. A calm king swaggers through the realm and is loved in all the brothels. But when you&#8217;re starting from zero, your nervous system, your king, has a tendency to recoil from anything unfamiliar. It fears the very thing you want. Even when it&#8217;s just outside the gate.</p><p>It believes everything is a threat. Change means risk. Risk implies failure. Failure implies doom.</p><p>Faith opens the kingdom&#8217;s gates willingly. That stately barbarian is not an invader. He is your savior. He brings with him beautiful women and an irresistible swagger. We&#8217;ll call him King Jagger. He slaps Systemus, calls him a cuck, and takes the throne.</p><p>Under Jagger&#8217;s rule, Jesus has the wheel. Risks seem less dire. You don&#8217;t necessarily know how the kingdom will become the next Holy Roman Empire, but you know it will be.</p><h2>Asking with Attention</h2><p>Cultivating faith is a continual process.</p><p>Most people start with it. This is why life seems so wonderful as a child.</p><p>You are born helpless. Completely dependent upon others for survival in a hostile world. Somehow, people&#8212;your parents&#8212;provide. Despite all the dangers, you survive. All you need to get what you want is ask for it. You&#8217;re hungry, so you cry. You need comfort, so you cry. You want to snuggle up to the fine nurse&#8217;s massive jugs, so you&#8230; Well, you get it.</p><p>I&#8217;m a dumb baby, give me milk.</p><p>It is as the ego grows that faith wanes. We begin to take ourselves too seriously. We lose the bigger picture. We fall for the lie that the weight of the world is upon our shoulders. If that were true, we would be <em>crushed</em>.</p><p>In reality, God&#8212;or Source, the One, the Universe, whichever name boats you float&#8212;is always there, like your parents, supporting you. He gives you whatever you ask for. If what you ask for is a faithless existence with the weight of the world upon your shoulders, that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll get.</p><p>You ask with your <em>attention</em>. Pay it single-mindedly to whatever it is you want, and God will hear you.</p><p>If the crying baby is distracted when his mother gives him a toy, she will merely think he wanted entertainment, not booby. Likewise, if you say you want the goth mamacita to hogtie and jerk you dry, but think only of her rejecting you, your appetite will go unsated.</p><p>With faith, it&#8217;s easy to ignore those doubts because you know God has your back. He&#8217;s always had it.</p><p>Your homework is to recultivate the faith you have lost.</p><p>Cultivation means taking action, <em>especially</em> in the face of your doubts and fears. Because when you fail&#8212;and you <em>will</em> have &#8220;failures&#8221; in pursuit of your desires&#8212;you will see that life continues on. You may feel badly about it, but you try again anyway. Do this long enough, and you start to see the picture of a new life coming together. If those failures were successes, this life wouldn&#8217;t have been possible.</p><p>Let go of events unfolding the way <em>you</em> think they should. Let them unfold as He <em>knows</em> they should. As you clock them, you will begin to see the connections. That is where the faith will truly build.</p><p>Now, scram. Go reclaim the Holy Land or something.</p><p><em>Saranghamnida</em>.</p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/o-ye-faithful?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Ah, my goodest warrior. Do not kneel to your king, sir. For you know I serve thee as much as thou servest me. I do not command, but rather trust in thine commitment to battle against our sworn enemy&#8212;that damnable, Blackest of Cubes. Quick. Mount thy steed and spread the word. Our Lord hath granted us the sigil below, which can send His message across the lands. Dally not. </p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/o-ye-faithful?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/o-ye-faithful?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">His kingdom is open to all. But thou must be willing to devote thine self to Him. Do this, and thou shalt be granted access to the Holy Kingdom of Swagger. Write thine &#8220;e-mail&#8221; below and click the sigil, should&#8217;st thou accept these terms.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealing with Psychic Parasites]]></title><description><![CDATA[You're Getting Sucked Off and You Don't Want That (Trust Me)]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:03:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4a9c9438-8307-4dc2-8f3a-47f7aa4fd10f_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Spirit Vision</h2><p>Look who&#8217;s <em>finally</em> back.</p><p>Has it been a whole week already? I could hardly tell, tripping as I was through the Akashic Records (never mind that).</p><p>How did your experiment go?</p><p>I&#8217;m a gambling man, so I&#8217;d wager it was a mixed bag. Maybe you had some experiences that provided water for your little seedling. Maybe a voice chimed in to convince you not to use it.</p><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s just a coincidence.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;This is nothing new.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Sure, maybe this <em>is</em> evidence. But you still have a little willy.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s to be expected.</p><p>New beliefs take time to sprout roots, and your old ones are entrenched deep into the Earth of your being. Even though we chopped the tree down and burned it to ash, those roots are still there. With time, their influence will be forgotten. Just try not to sit down for a break on its stump. The goal is to rest under the auspices of your new tree once it&#8217;s grown. Have some rum while you&#8217;re down there. And a bit of coke.</p><p>What I&#8217;m sure you noticed most of all is that this work is about as easy as piercing your own junk with a cock stud.</p><p><em>&#8220;Just act like the guy in your desires would. I&#8217;m David Jagger, I make it sound </em>so<em> easy.&#8221;</em></p><p>My dear reader, I understand your frustration. My heart both goes out to you and weeps that you would mock my advice so. I offer you only love.</p><p>Know that I saw this coming. As with everything, it has been baked into the lesson plan. You needed to try first. I know how much you want me to tell you everything, rapidly, right here, right now, my ravenous, rapacious raven of a reader. But I <em>won&#8217;t</em>. It wouldn&#8217;t serve you.</p><p>Could you imagine knowing everything now and trying to cherry-pick what to implement when and where? You&#8217;re far too <em>wayward</em> for that. Even this weekly format (assuming you&#8217;re keeping pace) is a fast track. Too fast, perhaps. I&#8217;ve given you in less than two months what it took me years to attain.</p><p>You should be grateful. I&#8217;m such a wonderful and selfless teacher. You&#8217;re welcome.</p><p>What I offer you today is not the next key, nor directions to the next door. You&#8217;re not ready for either of those yet. Your tree still needs time to grow.</p><p>What I offer you today is <em>insight</em>.</p><p>Dear reader, I&#8217;m about to give you <em>spirit vision</em>.</p><h2>Slimy Psychic Peckers</h2><p>What you need to understand is that our world is overrun with and ruled by <em>psychic parasites</em>.</p><p>Does that sound like a bold, if not vague, proclamation?</p><p>My dear reader. <em>Of course</em>, it does. But you know by now that everything I say is truth.</p><p>You&#8217;re probably wondering exactly what I mean by psychic parasites. Is it a metaphor? A mental construct? Actual psychic entities?</p><p><em>Yes</em>.</p><p>They are <em>immaterial</em> as far as we&#8217;re concerned. We cannot perceive them with our five everyday senses. As for what they are, pick whatever explanation pleases your palate. It&#8217;s less important than <em>what they do</em>. What&#8217;s paramount is <em>recognizing</em> <em>the influence</em> they assert over you.</p><p>Have you ever felt a sense of quiet desperation? Like a shipwrecked pirate, treading water at open sea, with no land in sight? You&#8217;re oh so tired, but if you stop, you&#8217;ll drown. You need to swim, but which direction leads to booty? If you choose wrong, you&#8217;ll swim your ass to your doom. With no markers, nor the slightest scent of sweat-seasoned wench on the winds to guide you, you resign yourself.</p><p>This is the work of a psychic parasite. Once they sink their slimy psychic pecker in, they pump you full of thoughts and emotions. Before you know it, they have spun a spunk web that entraps you. Once you believe the thoughts and emotions are your own, you have been <em>dominated</em>. Your energy now feeds the parasite. You go out into the world and do their bidding. You spread their influence yet further.</p><p>The hallmark of a psychic parasite, as compared to other psychic entities, is that the net result of the relationship is <em>negative</em>. It takes more from you than it gives, if it gives anything at all.</p><p>Consider for instance, the <em>corporate cuck</em>. He lives life on the wheel. Every day is the same day of the rest of his life. He&#8217;s up at six, ready by seven, arrives to work at eight, breaks for lunch by noon, leaves by five. He cares little for what he does. It&#8217;s all so <em>pointless</em>. His job could disappear and the world would keep turning. Nothing changes.</p><p>The corporate parasite rewards him. Not greatly, but enough to keep him <em>compliant</em>. It pays his bills, gives him some perceived security from the financial elements, and maybe even pays enough that he can buy some premium porn in his scant free time.</p><p>&#8220;<em>See</em>?&#8221; The parasite says. &#8220;I provide for you. You <em>need</em> me.&#8221;</p><p>Some believe it.</p><p>The corpo cuck certainly does.</p><p>But most comply out of <em>fear</em>. Dare to rebel and the parasite claps those psychic cheeks harder than a bullet train straight to Uranus. Show open contempt or dissatisfaction with the corporate monster, and it suddenly sends problems your way. Maybe it&#8217;s a coaching, a trip to HR, a write-up, or (Jesus help me) <em>sensitivity training</em>. God forbid a man try to tell his female colleague he admires her willingness to do the jobs that <em>blow</em> (and so does the boss man).</p><p>The method of attack is situational. The parasite does exactly what it is necessary to get an emotional rise out of you, get you back in compliance, or both. Sometimes, it will throw random problems your way for a little snack. You could be its goodest adherent. It doesn&#8217;t matter. If it&#8217;s feeling a little peckish, it will complicate your day to siphon just a little more energy from you. This is how it <em>enslaves</em> you.</p><p>These psychic parasites all serve the Black Cube. They keep you trapped within its big black walls. Learning to recognize them is as important as knowing their boss <em>and</em> their acolytes. They can be as mundane as a government or as sinister as a homeowner&#8217;s association. If multiple people match their thoughts and fee fees towards the same thing, chances are there&#8217;s a parasite at work.</p><p>Not all parasites are created equal. Some have <em>ginormous</em> peckers. Which means be cautious, or they&#8217;ll stretch your butthole to the size of Lake Erie. (<em>Ooh,</em> <em>scary</em>.) The more adherents they have, the stronger they and their acolytes are.</p><p>Know the pecking order.</p><p>Adherents are the <em>slaves</em>. They serve the parasite whether they know it or not (usually not). They simply <em>suffer</em>.</p><p>Acolytes are the parasite&#8217;s <em>favorites</em>, whether they know it or not. Watch out for these black birds. They&#8217;re happy where they&#8217;re at. The ones who are aware have the same tools and knowledge you do, but also the parasite&#8217;s backing. They will gladly peck your eyes out for their master. Whatever maintains their favored status.</p><p>It probably sounds like the acolyte&#8217;s path is the way to go, huh?</p><p><em>Maybe</em>.</p><p>I&#8217;ll leave that for you to decide.</p><p>I&#8217;m teaching you to be a <em>free bird</em>. When the time is right, I&#8217;ll nudge you out of the nest.</p><p>If after you learn to fly, you want to tar your feathers, be my guest. Just know that the tarred bird can no longer fly.</p><h2>Putting Out Fire with Gasoline</h2><p>You know that saying, &#8220;Knowing is half the battle?&#8221;</p><p>What a stupid saying.</p><p>I wish I knew who said it so I could slap them and call them a cuck.</p><p>People win battles all the time without knowing a damn thing. Sure, call it luck. But if you ask me, they won by <em>action</em>, not by knowing.</p><p>Knowing is beneficial, no doubt. Beneficial in the same way as being a gorgeous specimen like myself. I wouldn&#8217;t teach you this knowledge if I didn&#8217;t believe it helped. But if we <em>do</em> nothing, all battles are <em>forfeit</em>. Without action, even <em>I</em> would never get women. I don&#8217;t need to <em>know</em> women are notoriously passive to shoot my shot (and later my load) with them. Many of you already know this and still believe one will try to pick <em>you</em> up. I simply shoot the shot.</p><p>Likewise, knowing about psychic parasites alone doesn&#8217;t combat them. They will still wriggle their parasite dog between your buns if you don&#8217;t change your behavior.</p><p>So, how do we clench those psychic cheeks hard enough to snap sticks?</p><p>Understand first that parasites want your energy, your <em>vril</em>. They steal it by hijacking your thoughts and emotions. Essentially, <em>their</em> desires become <em>yours</em>.</p><p>They start by getting an <em>emotional rise</em> out of you. This is usually bad&#8212;anger, guilt, fear especially&#8212;but it can also be good. The acolytes feel pretty damn good about their parasites, but they&#8217;re getting plowed the same as any adherent. They just happen to like it. If the emotions cloud your judgment and feel <em>sticky</em>, chances are they&#8217;re from a parasite.</p><p>Once they get their rise, then they gaslight. They convince you serving them is what you want.</p><p>If you please the boss, you won&#8217;t get fired. That&#8217;s what you want, right?</p><p>You tell me. You have the direct connection to your <em>Self</em>. What does he want?</p><p>The only way to be certain is to break free of the <em>slave mentality</em>. Once you do, you can be sure that what you want is yours. We do this with our <em>attention</em>. Whip that key out of your pants and slam it on the table. Show the parasites how it unlocks any locks, including your shackles.</p><p>Rather than react to their provocations, observe them. Recognize where they&#8217;re coming from and <em>refuse</em> the bait.</p><p>Refusal is the correct way of battling the parasites. They&#8217;re psychic entities, made of psychic fire. Getting angry and railing against them is like putting out fire with gasoline. Great for a light show, bad for survival.</p><p>The parasites don&#8217;t care how you feel about them, as long as they are the <em>object of your attention</em>. You must starve them of it. Choose not to engage. They&#8217;re expecting you to act a certain way. Deny them.</p><p>When they threaten to leak your dick pics on X, shrug and tell them okay. So what if they do? Seeing them is everyone else&#8217;s problem, not yours. Let them become victims of the parasite. You might even gain something as a result. (<em>&#8220;Nice cock, bro.</em>) Typically, you do when you defeat a parasite, even if it&#8217;s only your own energy back.</p><p>Sometimes, you can really rock them with an unexpected play. Like, for instance, I give &#8216;em the ol&#8217; Jagger smirk and<em> post the dick pics myself</em>. Flipping the script leaves them <em>flabbergasted</em>. Most often, they&#8217;ll wander off confused by the whole affair, in search of someone who&#8217;s not wasting <em>their </em>vril.</p><p>Sometimes, neither of these options will work for you. If outright refusal is not an option, then play along at the <em>shallowest level possible</em>. Break out the <em>psychic distance</em> here. Did I not tell you these keys were going to stay in your inventory?</p><p>Those of you stuck in the wage cage will understand this well. You may be stuck inside it for now, but you don&#8217;t have to be a cuck slave for it.</p><p>Psychic distance reclaims your autonomy by separating you from the parasite&#8217;s mind control. This means you can distinguish your desires from theirs. As long as what you do serves your desires, your vril remains your own, which means you are no longer their slave. This, in turn, weakens them and they will slowly but surely come to ignore you.</p><p>Show up, do the bare minimum to get your money, leave. That simple.</p><p>For the clever fellers out there, find a way to take back your time. One of my acolytes automated his work to such a degree he does his gaming on the clock.</p><p>I couldn&#8217;t be <em>prouder</em>.</p><p>Look at him go.</p><p>I did that for him.</p><p>God, I&#8217;m <em>amazing</em>.</p><h2>Tricking the Tricksters</h2><p>If you read between the lines, you realized I&#8217;m saying you can not only protect yourself from psychic parasites, but also <em>use</em> them to your advantage.</p><p>Psychic entities are everywhere. Even with spirit vision, dealing with them is inevitable.</p><p>What defines the entity as parasitic is the nature of their relationship with the individual (that&#8217;s you) and society. Drop the hero act, cocksplat. There&#8217;s only so much <em>you</em> can do for society. Protect and enrich yourself. Leave the rest to Davey. Watch the selfless master work.</p><p>If you find that your desires&#8212;your true ones&#8212;can be fulfilled by taking advantage of a parasite, so be it. Work with but not <em>under</em> it. It <em>will</em> try to provoke you into a response. The moment you get emotional or thrown off balance, they drive their hooks in. They&#8217;re very much like bitches in that regard. They feed off drama.</p><p>It&#8217;s impossible to always avoid parasites&#8217; tricks. You&#8217;re only human. I forgive you (maybe). Jesus <em>definitely</em> forgives you. So, if you catch yourself giving your vril away to one, laugh it off.</p><p><em>Sneaky, sneaky. You got me, you parasitic bastard. Joke&#8217;s on me.</em></p><p>The point is to merely <em>notice</em> when it happens and <em>regain your psychic distance</em>. If you allow yourself to get worked up about getting got, you&#8217;ll only feed the parasite more. Your spirit will cry out like a wounded animal, drawing in even more parasites. Before you know it, you&#8217;re a moose covered in ticks. Like bitches, parasites will drain you dry. Probably not the kind of draining you wanted, huh?</p><p>Your homework now is to practice your new ability.</p><p>Look with your spirit eyes, my dear reader. See the psychic suckers in your life and cuck them out of their energy by negating them.</p><p>Spotting them may be difficult at first. Your spirit vision is only level one. You&#8217;ve got to use it to level it.</p><p>If you need a hint, start with the things you <em>suffer</em>. You should have already identified some when I gave you the <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key">first key</a>. They will reveal the parasites to you.</p><p>Remember, this is not a one-week assignment where you&#8217;ll never use your spirit vision again. Spam it often. It will serve you for the rest of your life.</p><p>Now, no more talkie. Go suck those parasites before they suck you.</p><p>Wait.</p><p>What I meant was...</p><p>You know what, fuck it. Go suck them dry.</p><p><em>Ik hou van jou.</em></p><p></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>You can see this? My, my, someone&#8217;s spamming their spirit vision. </em>Ataboy<em>. Since you can see it, help the homies out. You&#8217;ll look like a schizoid if you&#8217;re the only one with spirit vision.</em></p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/dealing-with-psychic-parasites?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tree Burning]]></title><description><![CDATA[And Watching from a Psychically Safe Distance]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/tree-burning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/tree-burning</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:00:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1efefa71-10a4-4f2d-b796-ef79965cf87b_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>The World is Your Lab</h2><p>I <em>knew</em> you would appear.</p><p>You did a little wish-granting this past week, didn&#8217;t you, dear reader? Played the role of djinn for a bit?</p><p>I know you did. That&#8217;s why I knew you&#8217;d be here. I <em>summoned</em> you.</p><p>It was my <em>desire</em>. I <em>intended</em> for you to be here.</p><p>I rubbed the lamp to bring you. I rubbed it with the passion of a hotblooded woodworker sanding smooth a wooden dowel.</p><p>I take it you&#8217;ve got some small dribbling of your desires now. You must at least <em>think </em>you know what you want, which is exactly where you ought to be. That means you&#8217;re ready for the fun part. You&#8217;re ready to start <em>living them</em>. You&#8217;re ready to start <em>experimenting</em>.</p><p>I want you to think of it as exactly that. An <em>experiment</em>.</p><p>You&#8217;re an intelligent and sophisticated person, my dear reader. I know this because why else would you be here?</p><p>But we&#8217;ll assume for a moment the neurally-challenged are also in attendance, or perhaps that your mind is still being an autismo. Framing this as an experiment is like handing your mind a fidget toy. The inner autist is quelled by the assumption of <em>reason </em>it provides. The mind is far less likely to have a freakout if it&#8217;s not being overstimulated when you introduce something new.</p><p>I <em>challenge</em> you to suspend your disbelief for this experiment. Whatever beliefs you assume going forward, I want you to fully entertain them throughout the entirety of it, to the best of your scant abilities.</p><p>Assume the world is your lab. As we talked about earlier on, <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond">beliefs are input-output machines</a>. Your job as the researcher is to record the real-world results of the beliefs you hold.</p><p>For the doubter, what&#8217;s the harm? So many beliefs are stupid, right? Held by the smoothest of brains? An intelligent person would never fall for anything stupid. In fact, I&#8217;m sure you will prove yourself correct. Then you can return to your miserable existence, asshole having regained enough of its pucker to kiss the head of the Black Cube&#8217;s vile, cubic pecker.</p><p>But for those who already <em>know</em> the power of beliefs, you know exactly what I&#8217;m asking you to do.</p><p>Choose your beliefs wisely, but not yet.</p><p>Come. Take my hand.</p><p>It&#8217;s okay, <em>no homo</em> this time.</p><p>Let me show you the way.</p><h2>Chopping Wood</h2><p>We wander still through the darkness beyond the first door.</p><p>It is in darkness that seeds grow, dear reader. Your beliefs are the seeds you will plant to bring your desires to life.</p><p>I told you to think of three desires. Now you will choose <em>one</em>. Just one for now.</p><p>Imagine your desire is a fully grown tree, everything you wanted fully realized. What fruits does it bear? In the fruits, you see the labors.</p><p>Go ahead and pick that fruit. Take a good look at how ripe and succulent it looks, how it feels to hold it in your hand.</p><p>Now,<em> smash</em> that fucking fruit.</p><p>You heard me.</p><p>How does it feel?</p><p>Do you feel loss? Do you feel sad? Averse? Confused?</p><p>You shouldn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s only one fruit. The tree is full of them. They grow back.</p><p>Let&#8217;s assume I handed you an axe and told you to chop that tree down. In fact, here you go. Get to work Paul Bunyan. Don&#8217;t you dare look away. You will <em>watch</em> as your tree crashes to Earth. And now, we&#8217;re going to set it ablaze.</p><p>This is how you should look at your desires. Fully realized, then light them up like a bonfire, baby. <em>Woo</em>!</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand, David! Why did we waste time with these desires if you just want me to burn them? When am I going to get girls?&#8221;</p><p>My sweet, but puerile reader. Do you not realize the <em>kindness</em> I&#8217;ve rendered you? If you can&#8217;t imagine letting go of everything you consider precious, you will have <em>nothing</em>. Especially not women. All in life is already yours, if only you&#8217;d realize it. You probably think I&#8217;m being cryptic, but I couldn&#8217;t be clearer.</p><p>It&#8217;s not too late to turn back. The first door is still open. If any of this isn&#8217;t jiving with you, Star Man, then hop on your UFO and gravitationally bend yourself the fuck out. Fall into a black hole for all I care. If you thought this was some New Age, hippy-dippy, high vibes nonsense, you were sorely mistaken. I deal only in the realm of <em>reality</em>, my friend.</p><p>But if you&#8217;re still here, look. The remains of your smashed fruit upon the ground. A <em>seed</em>.</p><p><em>Plant</em> it.</p><p>Your attention provides the light it needs. Actions in accordance with the belief are the water it drinks. The ashes of your old tree provide fertile soil for the new. It will regrow into your new tree with time and care. And like all things, it will eventually die again too. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Sometimes it never becomes a tree at all. That&#8217;s life.</p><p>If you think all I&#8217;ve given you is a metaphor about a seed, you might have snacked on one too many lead paint chips as a child. I guess you&#8217;ll need me to spoon-feed you again, huh?</p><p>My painter&#8217;s chip cookie monster, I just revealed to you the <em>second key</em>.</p><h2>Magic Trick</h2><p>Let me ask you something, dear reader.</p><p>If you lost <em>everything</em> today, would you still be you?</p><p>If your answer is anything but yes, you still don&#8217;t understand who you <em>really</em> are.</p><p>Understand, I&#8217;m not asking if you&#8217;d be <em>unphased</em> by it. Loss hurts. That&#8217;s a fact. I&#8217;m no Stoic, and I don&#8217;t care much for Stoicism. If you need to cry like a bitch, be my guest. I would never judge you for it. (But don&#8217;t let the bitches see it. They&#8217;re <em>ruthless</em>.)</p><p>What I <em>am</em> saying is, if you confuse <em>you</em> with the <em>things</em> around you, you&#8217;re going to have a bad time. Not just with gaining swagger, but in living life. You&#8217;ll have no swagger, no bitches, <em>and</em> you&#8217;ll be miserable.</p><p>You must let go of <em>everything</em>. Anything you see is <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-djinn">energetically dead</a>, remember? To define yourself by your outer circumstances is to become one of the <em>undead</em>.</p><p>Now, hold up. Don&#8217;t you dare even open that soy hole of yours. I already know your complaints.</p><p>I&#8217;m not telling you to be an <em>ascetic</em>. If <em>I</em> look like one, it&#8217;s only because the powder burns lots of calories and these succubi keep me drained. I am a man in demand. They just can&#8217;t help themselves around me. They want to <em>succ</em> my <em>bus</em>.</p><p>Like the J-Man said so long ago, be <em>in</em> the world, not <em>of</em> it. Yeah, yeah, that&#8217;s not his <em>exact</em> quote, but it is the <em>gist</em> of it. Just shut the fuck up and roll with it, okay?</p><p>Letting go of everything is the ultimate goal for the man of swagger because it means you have what so few do&#8212;a rock solid foundation in the Eternal Self. But it&#8217;s also the hardest difficulty in this wacky game called life. It&#8217;s what we call <em>David Must Die</em> mode. (What an apt title.) You&#8217;re not ready for that <em>yet</em>. We&#8217;ll get you there.</p><p>Back to the point. The seed and the tree.</p><p>The seed is belief. The tree is the identity it grows into. This is because what you want&#8212;the fruits&#8212;comes <em>from</em> you.</p><p>You need to <em>be </em>the you who has the thing. Getting the thing and then becoming that version of you doesn&#8217;t fly, my guy.</p><p>Do you think I get girls, therefore I am David Jagger?</p><p><em>Puh-lease</em>.</p><p>I am David Jagger, therefore, I get girls. Asian baddies, especially. I am him. I&#8217;ve got that direct connection to Him. He&#8217;s in my Favorites, tippity top of the list. We chat all the time. We&#8217;re cool like that.</p><p>Identity is not your Self. If it was, you wouldn&#8217;t be able to pin it down, now would you? It&#8217;s not even your mind. It&#8217;s simply a result of your beliefs and the actions that support them. In so much as you choose your beliefs and actions, you choose your identity. It is <em>fluid</em>.</p><p>What was it Bruce Lee said again?</p><p><em>&#8220;Be semen, my demon.&#8221;</em></p><p>Something like that.</p><p>Now, I want you to see how I&#8217;ve drawn this altogether, dear reader. I want you to appreciate my artistry.</p><p>Remember our first two lessons, the ones about attention? How we practiced watching thoughts and feelings come and go?</p><p>You were practicing <em>letting go</em>.</p><p>Open your hand. In it, you&#8217;re already holding the second key.</p><p><em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key">Psychic distance</a></em>.</p><p>See how I did that? Magic trick, baby.</p><p>Psychic distance is necessary for getting chicks, achieving your desires, and communing with the Self. The latter is most important because the former two will come, without effort, by achieving it. Psychic distance reduces the <em>seriousness</em> of the situation. It becomes a game. You still want to win, but if you lose, it&#8217;s not the end of the world. You restart and try again, or find another game.</p><p>This is why we smashed your fruit. Chopped down your tree. Burned it.</p><p>There is nothing wrong with desiring or experiencing. The problem is when you cling to it. No one likes a clingy bitch.</p><p>When you stop clinging and achieve psychic distance, you&#8217;ll find that lady life chases <em>you</em>.</p><h2>Love to Lose, Lose to Win</h2><p>Life may be a game, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t take the game seriously. As long as the element of <em>play</em> underlies it. It&#8217;s a deal, but not a big deal. You should play it like a true pro gamer. I play these Jezebels like a true pro player.</p><p>I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re a man of faith or a cognitively-constrained atheist. Life as we know it exists either because the Father, He Who is beyond our mortal reasoning, saw fit to create it for reasons beyond our understanding, or because nothing turned into a singular, fiery hot point that exploded into everything, even though nothing should beget nothing. The whole thing is a paradoxical joke.</p><p>You&#8217;ve got essentially two options with varying shades. Either you accept it&#8217;s all in God&#8217;s hands, or that there&#8217;s no point to anything at all. Both reduce the weight you carry, so your skinny boy arms can carry it. That doesn&#8217;t mean you don&#8217;t carry it, it&#8217;s just <em>lighter</em>. It&#8217;s okay, not everyone can carry the weight of the world like I do.</p><p>Accept that, whatever your endeavor, you may fail. And that&#8217;s okay. You may lose everyone and everything you ever love, but you will still have me. In your darkest hour, Davey&#8217;s here for you. Always here for you. I&#8217;m your <em>valuable friend</em>. You&#8217;re stuck with me till the end.</p><p>If failing causes you distress, you&#8217;re too focused on <em>having</em> things. I don&#8217;t hate to be the one to break it to you, but you&#8217;re a necrophiliac. You&#8217;re into energetically dead things.</p><p>You should be focused on <em>being</em> the guy. Be the guy, and you will always have what is his, while it is his, while you are him. See your desire, orient yourself accordingly, go through the motions for the sake of going through the motions, and let go of the outcome.</p><p>Love to lose and lose to win. As with chicks, once you stop caring so much, suddenly they get interested. Those who know know, but if you&#8217;re reading this you probably don&#8217;t. Not yet. But you will. If you do your homework, that is.</p><p>The sooner you start this, the better.</p><p>Take your one desire and make that your sole target. Nothing is too absurd. Okay, I take that back. It&#8217;s absurd to think you could ever be as great as me, but hey, shoot for the stars.</p><p>Now, walk a little closer to that target. No, no, even closer. Close enough that you can hit it, goat throater. You&#8217;re Bob Lee, but you don&#8217;t have the Swagger yet. You&#8217;re not getting that 2,200-yard shot. You can walk it back incrementally as your aim improves.</p><p>Fuck timelines. Days, weeks, months, years. It all feels the same when you&#8217;re tripping through the Akashic Records.</p><p>You know what? Forget I said that. Let&#8217;s just say you put too much pressure on yourself when you create deadlines. You take it <em>too seriously</em> despite it being arbitrary. Deadlines are for corpo cucks. No reader of mine is a corpo cuck, and if you are, we&#8217;re going to burn that tree and plant a new one.</p><p>Start acting as you believe the guy in your desired end goal would.</p><p>Start today. At all times. While you are shooting at the target, while you are slaving away for the Black Cube, while you are anally-vomiting that 4:00 AM Taco Bell you know you shouldn&#8217;t have eaten.</p><p>It will feel weird at first, but become more natural with time as swagger expels the cuckoldry from your being. Make good use of your <em>attention</em>. These keys aren&#8217;t one-use items. They stay in your inventory for the rest of the game. You can switch them off, but you&#8217;re shooting yourself in the dick.</p><p>In all of this, accept that failure is always within the realm of possibility, but carry on as if it wasn&#8217;t. Bravery isn&#8217;t approaching the girl absent of rejection. It&#8217;s approaching the girl despite knowing she may very well be disgusted by your hideous visage, pepper spray you, blow her rape whistle, and kick you in the cock for saying hello. (This is a you problem, not me.)</p><p>Trust the swagger. When it&#8217;s pumping your loins, you&#8217;ll know. You&#8217;ll know, too, when the cuck energy is castrating you. Use your lamp (attention) to stack the shiny things (evidence) you need to convince the autistic djinn the wish was worth his effort. Eventually, he will see things your way.</p><p>Now, <em>go</em>.</p><p>Reading will only get you far, cocksplat. Time to test the theory.</p><p>Return next week with the results of your experiment.</p><p><em>W&#466; &#224;i n&#464;.</em></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/tree-burning?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Lookie, lookie. It&#8217;s my <em>dearest</em> reader. I knew I&#8217;d find you down here. Look at you <em>being</em> the goodest soldier in the fight against the Black Cube. You need to take <em>actions</em> to be that guy. Here&#8217;s a freebie:</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/tree-burning?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/tree-burning?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, Djinn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding the Autismo Within to Get What You Want]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-djinn</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-djinn</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 11:02:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c2cd2fb7-44dd-49e0-8e9b-17a5635eddd9_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Living from the Self</h2><p>Ah, my dear reader! You&#8217;re looking rather <em>rejuvenated</em> today.</p><p>Have you done a little <em>healing </em>lately? Gotten a little closer to your <em>Self</em>?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Jaggerisms! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I would certainly hope so.</p><p>If the answer is no, you haven&#8217;t done the homework. And I could understand why.</p><p>It&#8217;s <em>work</em>.</p><p>You&#8217;re dealing with painful, negative beliefs you&#8217;ve held for years. Perhaps even decades. It forces you to leave your comfort zone. But you should also know, if that <em>is</em> your excuse, you are a <em>loser</em>.</p><p>A <em>cuck</em>.</p><p>Little cuck boy.</p><p>But it&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s okay. No judgments, none at all. We&#8217;re just calling it like it is, that&#8217;s all.</p><p>Until you address those cuckolding beliefs, you will forever remain a cuck. Even if your outer world <em>did</em> change, you wouldn&#8217;t <em>feel</em> different. You would never feel like a winner. (A <em>wiener</em>, for sure.) If you don&#8217;t feel differently, external changes mean nothing. Succulent breasts will taste as ashen turd upon your tongue.</p><p>However, if you <em>have</em> started the work (and I know you have, you spectacular, sentient sperm-glob), you will have found that uprooting your limiting beliefs will only take you so far.</p><p>Will doing so improve your life, vril, and swagger?</p><p>What a <em>poignant</em> question.</p><p>If you remove your Bethlehem thorn-boxers, will your nads stop being eviscerated?</p><p>Healing is a <em>wonderful</em> thing. It enables you to enjoy life. But being healed does not mean living from the Self. You may be <em>closer</em> to It, but you&#8217;re not living <em>from</em> It. If you&#8217;re not living from the Self, you&#8217;re not living with swagger. And if you&#8217;re not living with swagger, are you really living?</p><p>You&#8217;re still merely <em>reacting</em> to what exists.</p><p>We are going to break you of that habit, dear reader.</p><h2>Action Vs. Reaction</h2><p>Anything you see externally is <em>old</em>.</p><p>Dead, energetically speaking.</p><p>That heat, that energy, that &#8220;life&#8221; it exudes, is merely the fading warmth of a corpse. It&#8217;s history. It&#8217;s <em>created</em>. What is created is already <em>expressed</em>.</p><p>Everything begins from and ends at the <em>Source</em>, connected by an unbroken causal chain. The Source is pure creative force, and connected to it as you are makes you a <em>creative being in Its image</em>.</p><p>Who you think you are is the expressed. Who you really are is <em>expression</em>.</p><p>It&#8217;s time you start <em>acting</em>, not <em>reacting</em>.</p><p>True action means <em>expressing,</em> honestly, the pure creative force as it flows through you. The better you are at this, the closer you get to your Self. The closer you get to your Self, the less the self hinders you. The less hindered you are, the more <em>swagger</em> you have.</p><p>You&#8217;re always creating, but you aren&#8217;t always creating <em>consciously</em>. The self navigates a dead world and yearns for dead things. If you act from the self you will create more dead things. This is why your life never changes. You&#8217;ve created a bunch of creatures, Frankenstein.</p><p>Take, for instance, the <em>simp</em>.</p><p>Such a pathetic specimen.</p><p>He models his every move on the expected response of the femammal whose hoagie he wants to squeeze his salami into. He never acts as he truly wants to. He laughs because she laughs. He texts emojis (<em>XD rawr</em>) because she texts them. He imitates ghostly emanations, converses with echoes, but yearns to participate in life&#8217;s dance. You don&#8217;t get to do the life making mambo if act like a corpse.</p><p>(Unless she&#8217;s a necrophiliac.)</p><p>The solution to this issue is to <em>kill the self</em>.</p><p>Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow your roll there, fatuus.</p><p>I said, kill <em>the self</em>. Not kill <em>yourself</em>. We&#8217;re talking about the mental zombie-you. The idea you think you are, cocksplat. Not your body.</p><p>As you have gotten closer to the Self, you will have realized that Its voice has become <em>clearer</em>. As Its voice becomes clearer, so too do Its <em>desires</em>.</p><p>Now, here we will have to chop some morning wood.</p><p>&#8220;B-b-b-but David, <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond">you said last week that desire implies lack!</a>&#8221;</p><p>Right on <em>cue</em>.</p><p>You are <em>almost</em> correct, dear reader. Let&#8217;s look again at what I said.</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Notice I did not say what you desire to have. Desire implies lack. Your mind understands this very well. We all want things. That doesn&#8217;t mean we get them.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>The desire to <em>have</em> is what implies lack. This is a desire of the self&#8212;either born of it, or a message it misinterpreted from the Self. A desire from the Self is a desire to <em>express</em>. To express is not to have, it is to <em>give</em>.</p><p>Just as I give to you so selflessly, my beloved reader. Just as Jesus gave Himself for the world. He didn&#8217;t come to <em>be</em> <em>served</em>.</p><p>The Self&#8217;s desires are <em>your</em> desires, but the inverse is not true. The self is assailed by zombies and other psychic nasties. Indulging its desires muddles your connection to the Self. Muddling that connection leads to lack.</p><p>You lack nothing. Everything you desire is already yours. The Self just needs you to express it.</p><p>To kill the self simply means to accept the Self&#8217;s desires. Ironically, the self will be happier for it.</p><p>Understand, the desires that exist within you are <em>real</em>. As real as you or me. As real as the air you breathe and the cheeks you want to clap. Even if they haven&#8217;t materialized physically in your lap yet. They may be whimsical, they may be fanciful, but they are not <em>merely</em> whims or fancies.</p><p>What your Self wills you to do is your <em>purpose</em>. Your <em>Summa prioritas.</em> It is unique for each of you.</p><p>Mine is bagging the Asian baddies. Find your own purpose.</p><p>This is easier said than done, of course.</p><p>Society is structured to strangle the Self&#8217;s desires. Do you think it&#8217;s a coincidence your teachers resembled old hags or saggy warlocks? Or the modern-day equivalent&#8212;blue-haired, spider-bitten, unshaven-armpit wiccans? Or how about your boss, who resembles a goblin, a vampire (not the hot ones), or some other wretched ringworm?</p><p>Did you think this was coincidence?</p><p>The Black Cube is responsible, obviously.</p><p><em>Stay inside the box, little cocksplat. Keep cucking it for the wage, wagie. Like your cagie, wagie? Cagie good. Forty hours, fifty hours, sixty hours more. Gimme gimme gimme your time upon the altar of my harvest, wagie. Cuck is good. Be good little cuck, wagie. Sacrifice your Self on my big, black, cubular altar.</em></p><p>Man, <em>fuck</em> that.</p><p>We need to get you making sweet love with the Self&#8217;s desires. <em>Stat</em>.</p><p>This cube needs to go.</p><p><em>Mr. Reader Man, tear down these walls!</em></p><p>How?</p><p>Dear reader, as usual, you are asking the right question.</p><h2>I&#8217;m a Djinn</h2><p>Allow me to ask <em>you</em> a question, my friend.</p><p>What do you <em>think</em> you desire?</p><p>Pretend I&#8217;m a djinn.</p><p>You have three wishes. Three wishes shall I grant. Corrupt them I shan&#8217;t, I promise, I promise! You can <em>always </em>trust me.</p><p>Did you say <em>money</em>?</p><p>How about <em>fame</em>?</p><p>Or maybe, <em>power</em>?</p><p>If you named something nebulous like these, I hate to break it to you, <em>homo imbecillus</em>. You may be <em>fatuus</em>.</p><p>&#8220;B-b-b-but Davey! Money isn&#8217;t nebulous. It&#8217;s a real thing!&#8221;</p><p>You sure about that? The powers that be print it faster than it takes you to spurt your yogurt. That&#8217;s not just fast, Minute Man. That&#8217;s <em>supersonic</em>. (And electronic.)</p><p>A <em>real thing</em>. How droll you are, dear reader.</p><p>Is money paper? Is it coin? How about numbers on a screen? How about the magic internet money everyone got rugged on?</p><p>Let&#8217;s humor your &#8220;desire&#8221; for a moment. Say that money <em>is </em>real.</p><p>Wish granted, no corruption.</p><p>You&#8217;ve got money, as many of the numbers on the screen as you wanted.</p><p>Are you <em>happy</em> now? Are you <em>sure</em>? <em>Positive</em>?</p><p>I&#8217;m guessing yes, yes, and yes, right? Then, I guess you <em>were</em> right, huh? You simply wanted money for money&#8217;s sake and no other. You can wrap it up and call it a life now, can&#8217;t you? You got your desire.</p><p>&#8220;Wait, wait, David. I don&#8217;t just want to <em>have </em>the money&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>Oh, <em>really</em>? You <em>don&#8217;t </em>say?</p><p>You mean to tell me you wanted money to do something with it? Did you expect me to understand that? You told me what you wanted, I just <em>imadjinned</em> up what you asked for.</p><p>Let me clue you in.</p><p>Your mind is the djinn you tell your wishes, and the djinn is an <em>autismo</em>. It will give you <em>exactly</em> what you ask for.</p><p>Money? Wish granted!</p><p>Do you understand what money is?</p><p>It is your time and freedom symbolized into tokens. That&#8217;s all. To demonize it is to demonize what it represents. To love it is to become attached to the symbol.</p><p>Both enslave you.</p><p>The only correct option here is to approach it <em>dispassionately</em>. You are <em>always</em> free and have nothing but time. The only thing that enslaves you is <em>how seriously </em>you take money.</p><p>If you are wise, you realized that the underlying principle has to do with more than just money. If you are wise, you already understand what needs doing and are already past the point of needing to hear this. If you are wise, you don&#8217;t need me to explain it to you like a soy baby.</p><p>But you probably need me to explain it to you anyway, don&#8217;t you?</p><h2>Survival Mechanisms</h2><p>You poor wittle soy baby, don&#8217;t cwy. Jesus stiww woves you, and so do I.</p><p>The J-Man and I, we got your back.</p><p>Money was the primary example, but power, fame, and anything of the like will <em>never</em> be desires of the Self.</p><p>Alright, enough. Dry your tears, soy one. Quit crying. It makes you look like a pussy.</p><p>Does it help to know that, amazing as I am, even I failed to realize this in my youth? Yes, it&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s so true. Even perfection has room to grow, I know.</p><p>The common element of these desires is <em>survival</em>.<em> </em>They are all tools in service of it. A desire for the tool is a <em>dysfunction</em>.</p><p>Maybe your actual desire feels unsafe. Maybe you have no clue what you desire. You think you&#8217;ll figure it out once you &#8220;have it all.&#8221; These desires are a trap most don&#8217;t escape. Most of the few who make them reality find it wasn&#8217;t what they wanted or that it&#8217;s never enough.</p><p>Is all you want to <em>survive </em>big? Are you are a <em>husk</em>? A <em>spiritual eunuch</em>?</p><p>Not my reader. No fucking way.</p><p>You are a <em>unique being</em>. A vector in time and space that can&#8217;t be duplicated. Pursue your unique desire to achieve your purpose and bypass these traps.</p><p>If you don&#8217;t believe in your uniqueness, you had better start. Your Self believes it. It wants you to express it. The real hack I&#8217;m giving you today is that the reality you desire exists <em>literally</em> within you already.</p><p>The material world is slow and lags behind. Remember, it&#8217;s energetically dead.</p><p>Your Self exists beyond the material. It is eternal. Changes there take place in an instant. You haven&#8217;t learned to tap into it yet, but you surely have before.</p><p>A true desire is what you would pursue if survival were no issue. Ironically, when you pursue it, you&#8217;ll find life provides what you need to sustain it.</p><p>Life wants what you&#8217;ve got. Whip that one-of-a-kind dong out and drop it on life. It wants the dong.</p><h2>Litmus Testing</h2><p>If you&#8217;re the type of reader who feels you&#8217;ve made too many mistakes in life, taken too many wrong turns, know that you are probably right.</p><p>But that&#8217;s <em>okay</em>.</p><p>Despite your <em>immense </em>shortcomings, the Self still wants you. It has always wanted you. It is the only one who <em>will</em> <em>always</em> want you. Return to It.</p><p>Know, dear reader, that you are going to make <em>even more</em> mistakes.</p><p>Some people will know their true desires right away, but most will figure it out through trial and error.</p><p>If it happens, it happens. There is no lost time. You are never younger than you are today, and there&#8217;s no point crying over melted butter.</p><p>A good litmus test is to ask, &#8220;Do I want to do this? Or do I think I will get something if I do this?&#8221;</p><p>If you answer the latter, you ought to reconsider. The survival safety net comes as a result of living according to the Self&#8217;s desire. But learn to accept you don&#8217;t control its terms. I let Jesus take the wheel doing one-fifty when I pass out from my special rum-yum sauce all the time. Works out every time.</p><p>Your homework this week is simple, I promise.</p><p>Figure out what you desire.</p><p>Think of at least three (it&#8217;s the magic number). I won&#8217;t corrupt them this time, I promise.</p><p>(You&#8217;ll do that yourself.)</p><p>Once you have those desires, carve out some time and try them on. Like a fashion show. Walk that runway, <em>fairy</em>.</p><p>Sit down and imadjinn what life would be like if those desires came true. You want to inhabit these scenes as if you were living them. In the first-person. Like an FPS shooter. Pew pew, baby.</p><p>The scenes should be a day in that life. That means the boring parts, the frustrating parts, the mundane parts. This is <em>not</em> a fantasy. Treat it like Barbie&#8217;s dream life, and it will <em>mislead</em> you. Of course, it seems perfect if you imagine it&#8217;s perfect. It&#8217;s <em>perfect</em>.</p><p>Life, however, is anything but. Think of it like a shit sandwich. But you&#8217;re a fly with a very refined pallet. You know what kind of shit you like. If you imagine the desired life as mundane and still want it, you are likely on to something.</p><p>This is your mission. Take it lightly, but not too lightly. This too is part of the Great Work.</p><p>Shine so bright the walls of the Black Cube balk.</p><p><em>Daisuki</em>.</p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/i-djinn?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Wow, look at you all the way down here. Determined to achieve your desires, aren&#8217;t you? I can help you with that. See that little blue button down there? You <em>want </em>to click it. This is your <em>Self</em> speaking. You want to stick it to the Black Cube. Click it. Go ahead. 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You will go far.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Lies Beyond ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Navigating the Darkness of the First Door]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:01:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1b3b0b9c-ba3a-4564-85c3-a58642055cc2_1200x630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Scar Tissue </h2><p>Ah, my dear reader! I&#8217;ve been waiting for you.</p><p>My nights have been long and sleepless as I eagerly anticipated your return. I could scarcely control my own attention, so excited was I to see you again! So, if you would be so kind&#8230;</p><p><em>Hand them over.</em></p><p>You didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d forget about the Scooby fruit snacks, did you? Get real. You owe me <em>something.</em></p><p>Now that you&#8217;ve laid tribute at the Altar of Jagger, let&#8217;s get into <em>your report</em>.</p><p>I take it you took a long dark look into that inner abyss. Unless you&#8217;re one of the <em>hollow men</em>, I&#8217;m willing to bet you found a little darkling or two. Perhaps more. It&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s okay. I know you&#8217;re a bit <em>unhinged</em>. Maybe a bit <em>dangerous</em>. That&#8217;s a <em>good</em> thing. Women love their men on the wild side.</p><p>What exactly did you find?</p><p>Some strangleweed thought or emotion? Maybe tied to something you <em>believe </em>about yourself?</p><p><em>Boo hoo, the only girl I ever talked to rejected me. I&#8217;m a loser. Doomed to dying a virgin. My pee pee is small and I&#8217;m only 5&#8217;8&#8221;.</em></p><p>You really are a loser if that&#8217;s your psychic parasite. Psychic it is, and exorcise it we must, but don&#8217;t you know people are haunted by <em>real </em>demons? Pathetic.</p><p>Regardless! Whether demon or pussifying parasite, what you discovered surely was unconscious before we began, was a bit <em>sticky</em>, and has been dragging you naked by your nads through bile-coated Bethlehem thorns. Isn&#8217;t it <em>wonderful</em> to be aware of this?</p><p>Erotic as that may sound (you kinky beast), know that you&#8217;ve taken the first step towards recovery, dear reader. You scraped away the sticky stuff and found a wound. Now, the wound can heal.</p><p>Will it scar? Yes, you&#8217;ll be grotesquely disfigured.</p><p>But you know who loves scars? Bitches, that&#8217;s who.</p><p>Wounds, however, must heal before there are scars for bitches to love. As long as the wound is open, you are <em>vulnerable</em>. Never mind the women, we have to worry about <em>you</em> picking at it.</p><p>Until we close those wounds and get you back to health, nothing else meaningful can be done.</p><p>The healer you need is your <em>Self</em>. There is none higher.</p><h2>Distorted Reality</h2><p>We stand at the open threshold of the first door.</p><p>Dark and spooky in there, huh? I wonder what lies in wait?</p><p>So far, we&#8217;ve talked about <a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key">shining the light of attention</a>. Away from annoyances, contrivances, passing issues that don&#8217;t deserve your vril, and o<a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/properly-using-the-first-key">nto the things that need to bask in its delicate glow</a>.</p><p>Within this darkness is the way to the Self. Your attention is the flame that lights your path, your mind the lantern that directs that light.</p><p>There is still yet another tool you need to know about, but not one that can simply be given. This is a tool you forge on your own, whether you realize it or not. Most people have unknowingly forged barbed tools. Those pricks are always getting pricked.</p><p>The tool is <em>belief</em>.</p><p>Belief is the <em>globe</em>, the glass<em> </em>of your lantern, little hermit. Depending on the hue, the clarity, or even whether it&#8217;s cracked, it changes the light of your attention. <em>Distorts </em>it. All beliefs are merely that&#8212;distortions. They are our perceptions of the Truth, not the Truth itself. To believe otherwise is to fall for the trap.</p><p>Whose trap?</p><p>The Black Cube&#8217;s, cocksplat. Are you not paying attention?</p><p>Appearances can vary wildly in different lighting. A woman understands this instinctually. She takes photos in soft, diffused light to hide her flaws. Shine her with a harsh light to dispel her glamours. You may find you&#8217;ve been romancing a <em>hag</em>.</p><p>Likewise, life takes on different appearances based on your beliefs. Is the appearance to your liking? Then your belief is <em>positive</em>. Is it causing you to be a cuck? I don&#8217;t care if you like watching, this is <em>negative</em>. You should be cucking life, not the other way around.</p><p>To stop you picking at your wounds, we need to change your beliefs. Recognizing an issue consciously is <em>fantastic</em>, but quelling the demon within is not the same as exorcising it. He is satisfied, temporarily, that you spent some vril on him. Enough that you can operate with a clear head. But he will return once your willpower fades. Once you go <em>unconscious</em> again.</p><p>You can&#8217;t be conscious all the time. Not even <em>I</em> can do that. It&#8217;s great that you aspire to it, but you will never be as good as me. Close, but not really. So, you must work while the glass is molten. Give that demon some harsh light. See your old crush for what she was&#8212;a hag&#8212;and send her running.</p><h2>Little Thunder</h2><p>Beliefs take time and effort to change.</p><p>You must uproot your negative beliefs and get moving in a positive direction. The sooner you begin this, the sooner you can escape loserdom.</p><p>&#8220;But Davey, I don&#8217;t have time. I don&#8217;t want to put in effort! What&#8217;s the magic fix?&#8221;</p><p>The <em>magick</em> fix is to make the demon your bitch, but that requires Solomonic seals and ritual and things that only Jesus and Fred Rogers and I have, like a pure heart.</p><p>But fear not. The wiser&#8212;and superior&#8212;method, is to go straight to the <em>source</em>.</p><p>Change the beliefs.</p><p>You know the wound. You can see it. Now, when you feel something pick at it, you must <em>recognize</em> it. That&#8217;s a belief tipping its hat.</p><p>Snatch that hat away!</p><p>&#8220;You fucking fat fedora-wearing neckbeard! Get out. Out!&#8221;</p><p>Changing beliefs also requires <em>contradicting action</em>. This means <em>doing something</em> that spits in the face of that belief and what it&#8217;s telling you. This action should <em>support the belief you are trying to create</em>.</p><p>Then, you need to <em>narratize</em> it. Reframe the context. Your tiny pee pee isn&#8217;t a little wee wee. It&#8217;s a <em>thunder thimble. </em>A mini-Mjolnir.</p><p>Only through doing this repeatedly will you forge new glass for your lantern and shatter the old.</p><p>Once you do, you change the illumination. The landscape is the same, but it looks different. A four who looks like a nine is a nine, dear reader. Now, without harmful beliefs picking away, the wound scars over.</p><p>Bitches will love the scars.</p><h2>Can&#8217;t Spell Believe Without LIE</h2><p>It&#8217;s important to know that none of this is easy as it sounds.</p><p>You&#8217;ve carried your beliefs for a <em>long</em> time. They&#8217;re there because they served a purpose. They kept you safe from <em>something</em> at some point. There is some truth in them, yes. But the best lies always contain a kernel of truth.</p><p>Trust me on that one.</p><p>Your mind loves sweet little lies. It loves the bitter ones, too.</p><p>It loves what feels <em>familiar</em>. Because that feels like <em>control</em>. I&#8217;m here to tell you that&#8217;s bullshit. True control is found in <em>letting go</em>.</p><p>Beliefs are the glass of your lantern. Glass can act like a barrier. Glass can also cut. One function protects. The other harms.</p><p>Is your glass broken?</p><p>Stop clinging to them because they feel <em>safe</em>. Embrace the uncertainty that comes with changing them. Does the room disappear because you turned out the lights?</p><p>As with women, if you become too attached to any one belief, it will run you into the ground. This is true of large belief systems and your personal ones. They are merely maps to the terrain. Simplifications by necessity. If they matched the terrain exactly, they&#8217;d be useless. Keep a rotation, my friend. If you find yourself lost in the woods, try a different map.</p><p>This is the essence of the <em>Philosopher&#8217;s Stone.</em></p><p>It&#8217;s like the Rosetta Stone, but for philosophies.</p><p>Don&#8217;t muse on them. <em>Use</em> them. No one thinks you&#8217;re smart because you memorized some dead guy&#8217;s quotes.</p><p>Beliefs are metaphysical input-output machines. Information from outer world goes in, machine runs, you get output. Pick the machine that will give you the output you want and set it up. (Sorry, they all come from Ikea. Assembly <em>is</em> required.)</p><p>Once you get them going, search for evidence in your life that confirms them. This is like lubricant. Dump it onto those belts to make it run real slick and smooth.</p><p>Conversely, if you need to dismantle one, find evidence that <em>disproves</em> it. This is like <em>taking a dump</em> on it. This is why people lash out when you challenge their beliefs, like the hollow man-bots they are. They feel like the integrity of their reality is being threatened. They&#8217;ve confused the map for the terrain.</p><p>Do this enough and you will change yourself <em>and</em> your reality incrementally. With enough time, the changes become <em>exponential</em>.</p><p>The formula is simple.</p><p>Choose your belief, decide that you will entertain it, act in accordance with it, seek confirmation of it. If you hold the intention lightly enough, you will find it.</p><p>Let&#8217;s try an example.</p><p>I love Asian baddies. My luscious yellow women. Sometimes, I get this deep yearning that needs to be fulfilled.</p><p>So, what do I do?</p><p>I get it in my head that some Asian baddie somewhere wants&#8212;no, <em>needs </em>me. She&#8217;s going to die of heartbreak if she doesn&#8217;t get some Jag. Because I&#8217;m a selfless hero, I set out with my nads, wicked charm, and sense of derring-do.</p><p>I&#8217;m not <em>going to </em>find her. I&#8217;m already <em>in the process</em> of finding her.</p><p>I&#8217;ll start seeing the yellow cuties everywhere. In the Chinese restaurant, in the Eastside Asian market, at the laundromat, at the Buddhist shrine down the road. Each encounter is an unfolding of my damsel in lust. One gives me a shy smile, another bats her eyelashes, another fluffs her lady pillows as I walk past.</p><p>There are always signs my belief is getting truer.</p><p>Eventually, one drops her panties. She is found.</p><p>Your beliefs seek confirmation.</p><p>Give them that confirmation.</p><p>Once you have done the work, they require little upkeep. They will run subconsciously, looking on their own for the confirmation that supports them everywhere you go. So long as the belief supports you, you can and should keep it going. They require just a little attention every now and then.</p><p>You&#8217;ve got to do maintenance <em>sometimes.</em></p><h2>You&#8217;re Beginning to Believe</h2><p>The one thing beliefs can do that you cannot is <em>lie to yourself. </em>This is non-negotiable. Lie to yourself and the mind will know it. Remember, there is a kernel of truth in good lies. This is why new beliefs require <em>evidence</em>.</p><p>For instance, you know you can&#8217;t get Asian baddies yet.</p><p>And you know that I know that you know you can&#8217;t get Asian baddies yet.</p><p>If you boldly lie to yourself, your mind will reject it.</p><p>&#8220;This guy is such a lying <em>fuckwad</em>. Does he actually think <em>anyone</em> wants to thunder his thimble? Get real.&#8221;</p><p>Do not despair, dear reader. This does not mean that you can never have Asian baddies ever.</p><p>It just means they&#8217;re <em>mine</em> for now. (And anytime in the future we&#8217;re sharing a room. Did you know, when David Jagger enters a room, women are 99% more likely to sleep with him than any other man? This is proven by extensive <em>experience</em> and <em>erudition</em>.)</p><p>What this <em>does mean</em> is that you must learn to bridge the gap between what is and what you <em>intend to have</em>. Start with a belief that moves you closer to your goal, but is still within reach. You don&#8217;t jump from the bottom to the top rung of a ladder.</p><p>Notice I did not say what you <em>desire</em> to have. Desire implies <em>lack</em>. Your mind understands this <em>very well</em>. We all want things. That doesn&#8217;t mean we get them.</p><p>Intention implies a <em>certainty</em> of having. I can desire <em>rum</em>, but if my intention is to get <em>wasted</em>, I will likely find myself very regretful in bed the next morning after a Four Loko binge.</p><p>But we&#8217;re getting <em>way</em> ahead of ourselves. Intention is a complicated lesson of its own.</p><p>I know you are an eager eagle, reader-san, but we must not leave the nest before our wings have feathers.</p><p>For now, be grateful. I have already given you so much.</p><p>I know how glad you are to have such a valuable friend.</p><h2>The Great Work</h2><p>This is where your real work begins, dear reader.</p><p>Up till now, you&#8217;ve been passive. Observant. But now that you understand how to use your attention, you can now <em>act</em>.</p><p>Action needs purpose.</p><p>You need to determine, based on your wounds, which direction to go. Listen to the call. It&#8217;s guiding you to the Self.</p><p>The closer you get to the Self, the faster those wounds will heal.</p><p>Only you can hear the call. Only you will know your purpose. Choose beliefs that align to your purpose and scour the darkness for those glistening shards of confirmation. You will smelt them to create your new globe.</p><p>This is your work for the week. Uproot the old beliefs, plant the seeds of the new.</p><p>You are now embarking upon the Great Work, dear reader. Assigned to you by a great man. In time, you will be almost as great.</p><p>Now, show me your mettle and be fucking metal.</p><p>Bis zum n&#228;chsten Mal, meine Br&#252;der.</p><p>Ich liebe dich.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">You&#8217;ve started the Great Work, dear reader. This is great indeed! Have you subscribed? You should subscribe. You wouldn&#8217;t want to fall out of the cult&#8212;I mean, off the wagon! Yes, off the wagon. 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I have my Asian baddies to care for.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/what-lies-beyond?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Properly Using the First Key]]></title><description><![CDATA[Black Doors, Fruit Snacks, and Sticky Problems]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/properly-using-the-first-key</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/properly-using-the-first-key</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:03:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e0843005-453b-486d-8c38-ad2ec8be93bc_1200x630.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Unnatural Selection</h2><p>Why hello, my dear keyholder! Holder of the First Key, first of his name, Curator of Attention.</p><p>Did you do your homework last week? Did you <em>pay attention</em> to what you pay attention to?</p><p>My, oh my. What a <em>silly </em>question I&#8217;ve asked!</p><p>Of course you did, you <em>breathtaking</em> disciple you. The only type who would not have done it are the same type who shop Wayfair for the perfect cuck chair.</p><p>Definitely not my readers.</p><p>As you went about <em>curating your attention </em>you probably had a little problem. Maybe two. Maybe a few. You stepped in a little dog doo, and try as you might to scrape it away, it clung to your shoe.</p><p>What I mean to say is, you realized that curating your attention wasn&#8217;t so easy. Some thoughts you could ignore, yes. Some feelings you could wave away.</p><p>Others <em>refused</em>. They were a little <em>sticky</em>.</p><p>Maybe you succeeded in distracting yourself.</p><p>A bit of scrolling on the old Grammy? Liked a one, a two big booba&#8217;d goth babes? (Me three.)</p><p>That works for a little while. You override unpleasantness in the short-term by lighting up those pleasure centers, baby. That&#8217;s why I love coke.</p><p>The drink, I mean.</p><p>Definitely the drink.</p><p>It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m into getting my face and throat numb.</p><p>I don&#8217;t even know what would cause such a thing!</p><p>But back to those <em>sticky things</em>&#8212;thoughts, feelings, musings, whatever.</p><p>Just when you thought you&#8217;d ditched them, they climbed back from the blazing depths of your mind like a hellfire demon. They seized you by the collar and shook&#8212;</p><p><em>You deep-fried ass clot. Look at me. LOOK AT ME!</em></p><p>Ooh, terrifying.</p><p>You&#8217;re a sick man, you know that? What kind of person is haunted by such <em>horrible</em> psychic creatures? Certainly not a saint like myself.</p><p>Now, let me guess, in your moment of weakness, you started to think, &#8220;This Jagger is such a lying <em>fuckwad</em>. I did <em>exactly</em> what he said and tried to curate my attention. And it didn&#8217;t work! Now life is even <em>worse</em>. At least before I was unaware of my problems. Now they won&#8217;t leave me alone! What a big phat phony he is.&#8221;</p><p>Why, yes. I am pretty <em>phat</em>.</p><p>But a phony I am not.</p><p>You gave it the old scoundrel&#8217;s try, my friend, and you earned the old scoundrel&#8217;s failure. Now, you&#8217;re upset because no one likes being a failure.</p><p>But there&#8217;s good news! My dear reader, <em>you</em> are, in fact, <em>not</em> a failure.</p><p>The failure is <em>a</em> failure. That&#8217;s all. You can see it; therefore, it&#8217;s not you.</p><p>You flexed your muscles, lifter boy. The weight was too heavy. Now, you&#8217;re sore, both in mind and in butt. You moved wrong and pulled a muscle. You got some feedback. Now, we can refine your form.</p><p>There&#8217;s more to the First Key than just handing it over. How heartless would I be to hand it over without showing you which door it unlocks?</p><p>That door is <em>choice</em>.</p><p>Allow me to show you to it.</p><h2>To Choose, or not to Choose, that is the Choice</h2><p>Isn&#8217;t this a beautiful door? Such a vibrant red, and yet you paint it black.</p><p>Let&#8217;s fix that.</p><p>(Unless you&#8217;re goth and into it. I likey the goth chickies myself.)</p><p>Everyone knows what choice is in the mundane sense.</p><p>Put simply, it&#8217;s <em>selection</em>.</p><p>Yes or no? To be or not to be? Whether &#8216;tis nobler in the mind to put two in the pink or one in the stink? That is the question.</p><p>Choice, however, is so much more.</p><p>It&#8217;s your <em>fate</em>.</p><p>Whatever you give your attention to, you choose. This is true whether you like it or not. Reality doesn&#8217;t care. Your attention is like a mirror. Whatever you place before it will be reflected back. This is how you seal your fate.</p><p>True as this might be, simply saying so is unhelpful to the <em>animi fatui</em>.</p><p>&#8220;<em>Animi fatui</em>? What&#8217;s that?&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s you. The stupid minds. We&#8217;ve got to make you <em>less</em> stupid.</p><p><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key">Becoming </a><em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key">aware</a></em><a href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key"> of your attention is great</a>, but isn&#8217;t enough on its own. You can give your attention away without <em>desiring</em> to. While this is still <em>your </em>choice (everything is), it&#8217;s useless information if you&#8217;re covered in sticky stuff. The animi fatui may as well be <em>choosing for you</em>.</p><p>&#8220;Davey, this is great and all, but what does this have to do with getting chicks?&#8221;</p><p><em>Stupido</em>.</p><p>You understand being well-groomed, right? (<em>Maybe not.</em>) Shower, shave, a little spritz of cologne, dress up nice and fancy-like?</p><p>Everything in your reality starts with your <em>mind</em>. Mental upkeep should be <em>summa prioritas</em>. All will follow its lead. The mental begets the physical.</p><p>If you clean only the outside of your home, but inside is a hoarder&#8217;s den of garbage, old crack pipes, and all kinds of vermin friends, do you not think the filth will eventually work its way outwards?</p><p>Lack of bitches is a symptom, not the problem.</p><p>The problem is psychic garbage&#8212;negative thoughts, bullshit stories, old habits that need to die. They&#8217;re stuck on you. Or perhaps it&#8217;s more accurate to say they&#8217;re stuck <em>in</em> you. Like a contaminated needle.</p><p>Think of me like the guy from that slop reality show where they help the hoarders clean their shit.</p><p>Together, we&#8217;re going to take out the trash and get you some shiny new crackpipes.</p><h2>The Stupid Minds</h2><p>The mind, while stupid, is an incredibly powerful tool. To use it effectively, you need to understand what it is and how it operates.</p><p>It is more than just your brain. It is linked to your consciousness, but is <em>not</em> your consciousness. The truth of it is somewhere between these two ideas. Kind of like my face between your mom&#8217;s thighs.</p><p>Did I say that out loud?</p><p><em>Whoopsie.</em></p><p>The mind is a problem-solver. A storyteller. It&#8217;s <em>obsessed</em> with control. And patterns. And productivity. And logic, and consistency, and blah, blah, blah. Boring stuff, though not necessarily bad. Great for keeping the sheepies alive while the shepherd is away. But left to its own devices, it inevitably does as stupid is.</p><p>If you leave food out where your dog can get it, do you trust your dog not to eat it?</p><p>The mind knows <em>only</em> separateness. This is white and this is black. This is up and this is down. David Jagger is a <em>gorgeous</em> man and you are&#8230; Well, you&#8217;re <em>you</em>.</p><p>If it was a person living in the real world, the mind would be a limp dick bureaucrat. Everything needs to follow the <em>proper process. </em>This paper has to be separated into this pile, that task belongs to that department, you can&#8217;t do this unless you file X, Y, and Z.</p><p>(How about you suck my P?)</p><p>Separate, separate, separate.</p><p>Through separation, it constructs a false self. An illusion. Its greatest trick is that it convinces you the false self is your real <em>Self</em>.</p><p>It is the enemy of <em>intuition</em>. By rejecting intuition, it believes it is being logical. Intuition is too <em>whimsical</em>.</p><p>You can&#8217;t follow hunches! Or feelings. It&#8217;s not <em>logical</em>!</p><p>The irony is that intuition transcends mortal logic. Intuition, understood properly, is wisdom of the highest order.</p><p>We can think of the mind as a <em>choke valve</em> for attention. It controls the<em> flow and direction </em>of it. Concentrates it. It creates a logical story based on observed patterns, keeps you consistent, productive with your goals, and zealously attacks anything that threatens this false self and reality. Those things are deemed <em>problems</em>. In this way, your mind turns on you. It makes the Self an enemy.</p><p>You should understand that none of this is inherently bad. Collapsing your reality based on beliefs and assumptions can be beneficial. The reason the flow of attention is narrowed is so you can maintain stable operation. It&#8217;s only when the current paradigm stops serving you, or worse, starts <em>hurting</em> you, that you notice there&#8217;s a problem.</p><p>If your own mind would make you out to be a problem, then I say <em>give it a problem</em>. Just as the mind turns against you, you can turn it back against itself. A proverbial <em>bitch slap</em>, dealt by its own hand.</p><p>Your mind has done to you what Set did to Osiris&#8212;it has <em>fractured</em> you, cut you off from <em>You</em>.</p><p>Not truly, but it <em>convinces</em> you it has. This is the game we must play.</p><p>You must simultaneously be Isis and Horus. Reclaim the scattered pieces of your Self and &#8220;defeat&#8221; the mind.</p><p>Once you do this, the Self is reborn.</p><h2>Sticky White Stuff</h2><p>Remember how we discussed that anything you can observe is not you? It&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t repeated it for the humpteenth time now. (And I&#8217;ll keep repeating it till it cracks through that concrete cranium of yours.)</p><p>Not only are your thotty thoughts and fee fees observable, but so too is your mind.</p><p>Think of it like a little <em>mindception. </em>You can watch yourself thinking about thinking about thinking.</p><p>How <em>voyeuristic.</em></p><p>No matter how far out you extend this chain, the only thing you can <em>never</em> observe is your Self. There is always an observer beyond the observer, who sits there, observantly, in an observatory, observing.</p><p>That&#8217;s how grand you are. Almost as grand as me. You&#8217;re on your way, dear reader.</p><p>This realization is the first step to dealing with the mind and its noise.</p><p>The second step is realizing the mind loves problems. It perceives life as a never-ending chain of problems&#8212;you solve one, it invents another. Problems are the mind&#8217;s crack.</p><p>Remember those things you couldn&#8217;t ignore? Your mind believes these are problems. Whether they are or not is up for debate, but the fact remains that, for the mind, they are unignorable because they <em>threaten the self&#8212;</em>this is the <em>mind&#8217;s identity</em>, not yours.</p><p>Ignoring most thoughts and feelings works because most of them are nonsense. I can&#8217;t begin to count the narwhals in my daydreams and diamonds in my eyes. They come, they go, I watch my lovely narwhals surf on past, all coked up on life. I have no strong attachments to them. They simply pass by me in this metapsychic ocean.</p><p>Those sticky ones, however, are different. They spurt suddenly, white and globby. And so very sticky. Sometimes they make you feel gross.</p><p>(I was talking about glue, pervert. Get your mind out of the sphincter, reader!)</p><p>Ignoring those won&#8217;t work. They&#8217;ll keep on harassing you.</p><p>So, what do you do?</p><p>It&#8217;s simple. You give them the attention they so demand.</p><p>&#8220;Rah! Make up your mind. You told me to ignore them last week!&#8221;</p><p>Of course I did.</p><p>This is a <em>structured</em> lesson, dear reader. You needed to experience this to understand. Don&#8217;t you know I know what&#8217;s best for you? Would I ever let you down?</p><p>Give the sticky white thoughts your attention in the same way that you do a child throwing a tantrum&#8212;somewhat detached. It&#8217;s not that serious, they just want to be seen. They want to be acknowledged. They want to be <em>understood</em>. Even if the tantrum is about me stealing their candy. It&#8217;s not <em>my</em> fault babies make it easy. Maybe hide your fruit snacks, little loser. Your mom told me I could take some.</p><p>These thoughts, these feelings&#8212;you can&#8217;t ignore them because they&#8217;re trying to tell you something. Are they messages from your soul? From God Himself? From the collective unconscious?</p><p>You take your pick.</p><p>What&#8217;s important is you acknowledge them and let them go. Sometimes, it&#8217;s as simple as that. Other times, it&#8217;s a call to action.</p><p>Do what you have to. They&#8217;re trying to tell you something about <em>you</em>. Don&#8217;t let the mind box you in because it can&#8217;t accept possibilities.</p><p>On the other side of that unpleasant thing is an expansion of you into the greater Self. The Black Cube desires nothing less than your failure to do just that.</p><h2>Stop Eating the White Stuff</h2><p>Your mind <em>loves</em> eating the white stuff.</p><p>The glue, I mean. Yeah, the glue.</p><p>It <em>loves</em> problems. But it hates not being able to <em>solve</em> them.</p><p>If these sticky things are truly that sticky, you need to now ask <em>why</em>? Because for reasons only you can answer, you either haven&#8217;t accurately identified the problem, or you are unwilling or unable to solve it. Yet still you cling to it, like a baby (or me) to a single mother&#8217;s teat.</p><p>Once identified, the problem often ceases to be a problem. The mind flags it as a problem because of the truth it reveals:</p><p>The false self is a phony. It has far less control or problem-solving ability than it likes to believe.</p><p>Sometimes, it&#8217;s simply because you&#8217;re <em>fatuus</em>. But even then, are you afraid to admit to yourself that you&#8217;re an idiot? If not, why are you still stuck with this &#8220;problem&#8221;? If yes, then now you know. Work towards being less stupid. Or just be happy being stupid. The choice is yours.</p><p>In most cases, the problems are beyond your control. While these may be tragic, it&#8217;s important you sack up and drag those bowling balls along with you. A little acceptance of these is often enough to catapult you into that expansionary realm of the Self, which is exactly what you desire, whether you realize it or not. Maybe you&#8217;ll find the problem was never a problem at all. Sometimes, it&#8217;s a wakeup call. You may even find that once you stop resisting life, it comes to meet you.</p><p>Now, we need to put this into practice.</p><p>Unless you are like me, a perfect being, haunted by no demons, blessed only with narwhals and diamonds, you&#8217;ll need to find where you&#8217;re coated with the sticky white stuff (many report finding it in their hair, or their eyes, on their stomach, or even in their rectum).</p><p>Once you find it, acknowledge its existence, but remember it is not you.</p><p>Is it a thought? What feelings are associated with it?</p><p>Is it a feeling? What thoughts are associated with it?</p><p>Explore it.</p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s as simple as, <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m lonely and no one likes me because I&#8217;m a loser.&#8221;</em></p><p>My dear friend, of course you are. But only because you keep allowing beliefs like this to run in the background of your mind! It was there all along, you simply weren&#8217;t <em>aware</em>.</p><p>This is exactly why you must acknowledge and integrate. Because once you have made these sticky things conscious, you can now begin scraping them off.</p><p>Do you see now why this has everything to do with getting chicks?</p><p><em>Capisce, amico?</em></p><p><em>Fantastico.</em></p><p>Now, off with you. Come back next week with fruit snacks and your report.</p><p>(Please bring the Scooby-Doo ones.)</p><p><em>Ti amo</em>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Congratulations on reaching the first door! <em>You</em> made this happen by reading Jaggerisms! 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Remember, you&#8217;ve got <em>choice</em> now.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/p/properly-using-the-first-key?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidjagger.com/p/properly-using-the-first-key?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The First Key]]></title><description><![CDATA[Foundations of the Pyramid]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-first-key</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:02:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3ac2cf32-5d14-4274-bb5a-556d3bba4a09_1200x630.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>The Way the Crumble Cookies</h2><p>I know exactly what you cocksplats are so eagerly expecting of my teachings.</p><p>You want the secret to sneaking that cookie crumble.</p><p>Don&#8217;t play dumb. You know exactly what I mean. It&#8217;s exactly what you think it is.</p><p>Every guy wants it. It&#8217;s natural. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar, or prefers the Long John Silver, which is exactly the same thing but a perversion. It&#8217;s hardwired into our man-malion brains.</p><p>Monkey see, monkey wanna do it.</p><p>There&#8217;s no need to deny, nor to be ashamed of this. That desire, dear reader, is indicative of <em>vril</em>.</p><p>What is vril, you ask?</p><p>Chi, prana, aether, mana, odic force, orgone, kundalini&#8212;fettuccini, my linguini. More words for the same thing. Maybe you simply call it <em>energy </em>(you damn New Age hippie). It is the <em>primary life essence</em> underlying and permeating all of existence.</p><p>(I swear to God, if one of you nerds makes a <em>Star Wars</em> reference, so help me&#8230;)</p><p>We all want to stuff the strudel. We all want to flip it over and spankitopita.</p><p>That&#8217;s a sign that the spirit still has <em>fire</em>. The man inside still <em>burns</em>, regardless of how dim the light may be. With a little gas, the fire can intensify. <em>Quickly</em>. But if it&#8217;s true that the man has no desire, he is, more or less, <em>spiritually dead</em>. The body lives, but is a husk. There is nothing left of the man. He is a <em>eunuch</em>.</p><p>What you&#8217;ll have to come to terms with is that the secret to women is simple. It&#8217;s the simplest thing in the world, and yet, it&#8217;s simultaneously the hardest thing to embody. At least until it&#8217;s not. I could give you the secret right here, right now, and it wouldn&#8217;t matter. You wouldn&#8217;t <em>understand</em> it. Even if you did, you wouldn&#8217;t be able to make any use of it at this point.</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because it takes <em>wisdom</em>, and wisdom comes from <em>time</em> and, more importantly, <em>experience</em>.</p><p>&#8220;B-b-b-but David, I know old people that aren&#8217;t wise at all!&#8221;</p><p>Which one of you fools said that? Maybe you didn&#8217;t say it, but you <em>thought</em> it. Allow me to break it down like you have no time or experience.</p><p>Imagine, if you will, a man who lives his life on autopilot.</p><p>As a child, his parents provide for him. His mommy picks out his nice little booties and makes sure his outfit matches, and makes his lunch which forms his tastes, and his father teaches him to be conscientious, so that he goes to school every day like a good little slave. </p><p>As he matures, they gradually take away the training wheels. He picks out his own clothes and his own little booties, and he makes his own lunchies, and school eventually gives way to work. He maybe develops some hobbies and makes friends with some people at school or work, who do and think as he does. He does this for sixty years, all his life&#8217;s events swirling into a gray soupy mess he can hardly tell apart, except for a choice few events that made just enough of a mark to scar.</p><p>I bet you think this man is independent. I bet you think he thinks for himself. I bet you think he is <em>experienced.</em></p><p>He has lived the same day of his life for <em>most</em> of his life. Does he sound <em>experienced</em> to you? What did he experience exactly?</p><p>Inversely, you can have a life of wild variety. Lush life fruits of all shapes and sizes hanging just overhead. Some even fall on your head&#8212;and you get angry!</p><p>Goddamn those fucking fruits! Can&#8217;t they see I want cake!</p><p>You stomp the fruit. You ignore the garden around you and single-mindedly resume your crusade for that sweet icing.</p><p>Are you getting it <em>now</em>, reader?</p><p>(I know you do, <em>dear</em> reader, but not everyone is as smart and amazing and near and dear to my heart as you are. Have a little compassion for the less fortunate, why don&#8217;t you?)</p><p>Time on its own means little. A rock has more time than you and I and many other humans combined. I&#8217;m not asking the rock to share its wisdom. Are <em>you</em>?</p><p>Maybe you should. I&#8217;m sure the rock at least has a lot to say about what it means to be a rock.</p><p>But that old man and the cake fiend?</p><p>What do they know about anything? They amble through life mostly&#8212;if not completely&#8212;<em>unaware.</em> Just like the Matrix-malaised sheepies they are. This is the trap of the Black Cube.</p><p>I&#8217;ll quit beating around the meat and give you the secret, my dear reader.</p><p>The secret to women is to <em>just be</em> yourself.</p><p>In fact, that&#8217;s the secret to life and to swagger.</p><p><em>Just be</em>, like my <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/lordjagag/p/the-origin-of-jaggerisms?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">dissolution into the creative space</a>.</p><p>I told you you wouldn&#8217;t get it. Did you think I was lying?</p><p>That&#8217;s because there are secrets to the secret.</p><p>The problem is you&#8217;re unaware. Unaware about the secret, about yourself, about your swagger, about your vril. So, we need to make you <em>aware</em>. Now, hold still. I&#8217;m gonna grab you by the collar and shake&#8212;</p><p><em>Wake up. Wake the fuck up! Wake up, you stupid sack of&#8230;</em></p><p>Sike. Tee hee.</p><p>You don&#8217;t realize you have a superpower, do you? Everyone has it, but they&#8217;re all ignorant of it, including you.</p><p>That superpower is <em>Attention</em>. Once you are paying it, swagger becomes easy.</p><h2>The Center of it All</h2><p>What you see is <em>everything</em>.</p><p>Understand this: you are the <em>center of the universe</em>. Everything in your life revolves around <em>you</em>. It happens <em>through </em>you. But if you can&#8217;t <em>see </em>that, my words caress deaf and dumb ears.</p><p>&#8220;The center of the universe? How conceited. Only a selfish bastard would say such a thing! Don&#8217;t you know there are other people living on this planet? Don&#8217;t you think they matter too?&#8221;</p><p>Like I said. Deaf and <em>dumb</em>.</p><p>This is why I said you wouldn&#8217;t get it. Jesus also spoke the truth, and look at what they did to him. I&#8217;m pretty grand, but if He couldn&#8217;t get through to you sheepies, how could I?</p><p>I know! Let&#8217;s try an <em>exercise</em>.</p><p>Are you ready?</p><p>Take a look around. What do you see? Now, that you&#8217;ve spotted it, tell me, is it <em>you</em>?</p><p>Of course, it&#8217;s not.</p><p>Imagine if you saw me. I can only imagine how <em>orgasmic</em> it would be if I was someone else, saw David Jagger, and then experienced <em>being</em> him. I would probably feel like I&#8217;d stepped into heaven. But alas, no one can ever be me, and I&#8217;m not here to tell you lies. I would never do that. I&#8217;m here to deliver the truth. Don&#8217;t you know how <em>selfless</em> I am?</p><p>Part two of our little exercise: take a look <em>inside</em> you.</p><p>(Put the mirror <em>away</em>. Get your pants back on, stop spreading your ass cheeks, and stand up straight. I didn&#8217;t mean look inside you <em>literally</em>.)</p><p>Now, what do you &#8220;see&#8221;? What thoughts are flitting about that <em>deranged</em> mind of yours? What <em>fee fees </em>have you feeling down on the ground like a clown with a frown?</p><p>Go ahead, give them a name. Call those worthless sons of bitches out like the leeches they are.</p><p>Do you <em>see</em> what just happened?</p><p>Anything you can see&#8212;objects, events, your thoughts and feelings, my <em>glorious</em> visage&#8212;is not <em>you</em>. You&#8217;ve spent most of your life <em>believing</em> it&#8217;s you because you are <em>homo imbecillus</em>. It&#8217;s time you wise up. It&#8217;s time you start paying <em>attention</em>.</p><p>Naming things gives you distance. It gives you <em>power</em>. It allows you to separate <em>it</em> from <em>you</em>. It becomes an object or an event, which means it&#8217;s something you can either control or something that will pass. Sometimes, it&#8217;s a bit of both.</p><p>We will call this <em>psychic distance</em> from now on.</p><p>When you start paying attention to things, you achieve psychic distance. The reason why you have spent most of your life thinking things that aren&#8217;t you are you is precisely because you have <em>not</em> been paying attention. Now that you understand what it means to pay attention, truly, you can determine what not to pay attention to. What to ignore, in more specific terms. In doing so, you start taking an active part in what you are.</p><p>&#8220;But Davey, this is kind of scary&#8230; If anything I observe, anything that can be named isn&#8217;t me, then who <em>am </em>I?&#8221;</p><p>This, dear reader, is the right question. And if I could answer it, then it wouldn&#8217;t be you now, would it?</p><h2>Speed of Life</h2><p>Yes, yes, I understand.</p><p>You&#8217;re freaking out a little bit.</p><p>You do know the Tower is the card of awakenings, right? Does that card look <em>fun</em> to you?</p><p>I know it is for my dear reader and I, but not everyone can be us. We&#8217;re a couple freebirds, surfing those floors down to the bottom, baby. Woo!</p><p>Regardless, it&#8217;s a necessary step on the road to swagger, so you may as well get it over with now. If you&#8217;re freaking out, stop paying attention to it. You&#8217;ve already named it, now fucking ignore it.</p><p>Easier said than done, huh?</p><p>I <em>told</em> you. You&#8217;re not ready for the secret yet. That&#8217;s why we need to work you up to it with the smaller secrets first. Your pyramid needs a strong base. You don&#8217;t build the damn thing upside down.</p><p>Life comes fast and it hits hard. There are all kinds of ghouls and gals, astral parasites, demons, and (worst of all) the black prison walls of the cube looking to steal your attention for their own ends. When things are moving at the speed of life, it&#8217;s easy for them to do that.</p><p>You peacocks go to the gym, don&#8217;t you? I know you like to puff yourself up for your gym hubbies.</p><p>&#8220;Whoa, bro. Looking swole! You been hitting glutes lately?&#8221;</p><p>Yeah, Chester. Your mom&#8217;s.</p><p>The point I&#8217;m trying to make is that the same way you go to train your bodies, you must also do for your attention. Left unexercised, it becomes loose and flabby and splays out every which way.</p><p>When you master your attention, psychic distance is easier to achieve. And when you have psychic distance, two things happen:</p><ol><li><p>You regain energy all those vril snatchers were harvesting.</p></li><li><p>You gain a sense of <em>you</em>.</p></li></ol><p>Both of these are essential to swagger.</p><h2>The Only Currency That Matters</h2><p>More vril means greater capacity for swagger.</p><p>The more you embody a sense of <em>you</em>, the more swagger achieved.</p><p>It&#8217;s enough to know this for now.</p><p>My friend, I know you want more. You ravenous raven you! But if I don&#8217;t stop you here, you&#8217;ll only gorge till you&#8217;re obese, stuffed so full of information you can&#8217;t move. You&#8217;ll want to sleep, feeling satisfied that you know it all, even though that would mean you&#8217;re David Jagger, and we&#8217;ve already established you can&#8217;t be me.</p><p>And that&#8217;s okay (acceptable)!</p><p>Now is not the time to sleep. You need to <em>exercise</em>. (Strut that stuff, peacock!) You need to start <em>paying attention</em> because it&#8217;s the only currency that matters. This needs to be done while life is in motion.</p><p>Understand this: you are going to <em>fail</em>.</p><p>For starters, you&#8217;re not me.</p><p>More importantly, life is a steamroller going 120 miles per hour in a school zone at eight o&#8217;clock in the morning. You&#8217;ll be halfway through squatting your first coffee and drinking your morning shit before you realize you had it backwards.</p><p>That&#8217;s disgusting, but also <em>not</em> you. So, let it go and reclaim your attention. The moment you get upset about it, the astral nasties swoop in and start slurping you up, and (believe me) it&#8217;s not the kind of slurping you want. All you need is to become aware and redirect your attention.</p><p>To what?</p><p>To being fucking metal, of course!</p><p>At least, that&#8217;s the goal.</p><p>Over time.</p><p>For now, it&#8217;s enough to direct it to something that <em>sucks a little less</em>. You&#8217;re a loser right now. Accept that, and you can start putting your attention on being less of a loser. Do this enough, moment by moment, and eventually you&#8217;ll climb out of that hole you&#8217;re in. Once you&#8217;re out of that hole, then you can start thinking about getting into the fun ones.</p><p>Don&#8217;t confuse this with self-improvement. Don&#8217;t confuse this with some bullshit grind.</p><p><em>Stoicism! Embrace the suck. Some dead philosopher said you have to suffer to achieve anything!</em></p><p>Wrong.</p><p>All wrong and all <em>fatuus</em>.</p><p>I&#8217;m telling you you don&#8217;t have to suffer. You only suffer because you put your attention on the suck.</p><p>Do you like to suck? Did you not come to me because you&#8217;re trying to get sucked? Unless you&#8217;re trying to suck yourself off, I suggest you curate your attention.</p><h2>Guess What, Friend? You Got Homework.</h2><p>So, what have we learned today, cl(ass)?</p><p>Vril is your <em>life essence</em>.</p><p>Swagger is life essence plus the authentic expression of you being you. Unabashedly, so.</p><p>Attention is one of the weapons in your arsenal against the otherworldly powers that conspire against you. What you feed your attention will grow; the inverse is also true. Use your attention to preserve and, ideally, <em>increase </em>your vril. Separate you from not you to develop your swagger.</p><p>This is the foundation to your pyramid. Build it well and you will age like Giza. Fail and you will age to be a geezer.</p><p>As you go about your week, check in with yourself. If you <em>intend</em> to do it, you will.</p><p>(We will talk more about <em>Intention</em> in the near future.)</p><p>You think I&#8217;m holding back, dear reader, but I promise you, I couldn&#8217;t be telling you straighter. These are the keys to it all.</p><p>The powers that be would <em>never</em> tell you what I&#8217;m telling you now. Because if you take it to heart, if you put it to practice, you will become <em>ungovernable</em>. No man will hold dominion over you.</p><p>If my eyes weren&#8217;t like diamonds, my heart gold, would I hand over such secrets when I could keep them all for myself?</p><p>You don&#8217;t have to believe dear Davey here (but I know you want to).</p><p>Give it a try for yourself. A real peacock&#8217;s try (strut, baby, strut). Fake ones won&#8217;t do.</p><p>You&#8217;ll see for yourself.</p><p><em>Te amo.</em></p><p><em>Adios, muchachos.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidjagger.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Congratulations on reading Jaggerisms! You&#8217;re getting so smart, dear reader. Subscribe to gain bonus swagger points and take the Black Cube down a notch.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Origin of Jaggerisms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why You Should be Living the Life of Swagger with David Jagger]]></description><link>https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-origin-of-jaggerisms</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.davidjagger.com/p/the-origin-of-jaggerisms</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Jagger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:27:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/22116afa-7224-4eb4-b617-94e68b5d62a9_1200x630.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><strong>In the Beginning was the Swagger, and the Swagger was with Jagger</strong></h4><p>If you&#8217;re reading this, know that you are <em>blessed</em>.</p><p><em>Jaggerisms</em> almost didn&#8217;t happen.</p><p>You might be wondering, &#8220;What is <em>Jaggerisms</em>?&#8221;</p><p>Not knowing is a sin, but I <em>forgive</em> you, dear reader. What kind of savior would I be if I did not?</p><p><em>Jaggerisms </em>is a wealth of untold knowledge your life would be dismal and pointless without, provided by yours truly.</p><p>It is a map to authenticity in this barren net-hellscape where everything is shadows on the wall.</p><p>A return&#8212;not to a place, but to the Self you abandoned because <em>society</em> said it was a problem.</p><p>You can feel it already, can&#8217;t you?</p><p>Your <em>vril </em>returning.</p><p>Let it happen.</p><p>Get comfy. Grab yourself some white rum. Have a little sip-sip. Unzip-zip your pants, take your man in hand, and allow me to help you understand. We&#8217;re going to get hot and heavy as we travel back in time a decade (Yes! A whole decade!) to explore the beginnings of that which almost never was yet is.</p><p>Feel free to stroke, just don&#8217;t spill your vril. It&#8217;s hard to replenish the Cup of Hermes. It might even take a whole decade&#8230;</p><h4><strong>A Big Bang</strong></h4><p><em>October 6, 2016.</em></p><p>The world was still mostly shadows on the wall, but the shadows were a little fainter. People still had a little swagger in their step.</p><p>I was as metal then as I am now, straight raw-dogging life&#8212;and chicks who have no business getting raw-dogged by a schlong as impressive as mine. (What can I say? Everyone deserves love, and I have an abundance of love to give.)</p><p>I had an unfortunate tendency to get drawn into the wrong crowds when drunk or high. Consumed by love (and an eight-ball), I found myself spending time with a truly deplorable lot. Absolute pathetic dweebs. How it happened was a blur, but happened it did&#8212;I picked up a pencil and paper, rolled a D20 tie, and <em>played a roleplaying game with nerds</em>. If I were a lesser man, I&#8217;d be ashamed to admit it.</p><p>Was it <em>Dungeons and Dragons</em>? <em>Pathfinder</em>? The fuck is the difference? It was nerd fantasy shit, and I was <em>high</em> as shit. I remember only feeling astounded. This was <em>fun.</em> Truly. I was merely playing <em>myself</em> in a fantasy world.</p><p>How spectacular! Even in a fantastically different setting, I was still exactly the same moggin&#8217;, raw-doggin&#8217;, tour de force.</p><p><em>Fantastic!</em></p><p>More amazingly, this game factored in a character&#8217;s <em>charisma</em>. Not merely as a stat, but a <em>function</em>. Your effect on the world is derived from your mere presence alone, an effect one might only experience in the real world if you are, say, me, or David Bowie, or Casanova, or Fred Rogers!</p><p>These nerds <em>could have</em> experienced being <em>socially irresistible</em>&#8212;the exact opposite of what they were&#8212;and yet they refused this ultimate power. The power to do and be so much more in a world that enabled them to be anyone or anything their imagination could dream.</p><p>It should come as no surprise this lot was particularly <em>smitten</em> with me. I brought a roleplaying dynamic they clearly weren&#8217;t accustomed to. So quick were they in the beginning to charge, blades drawn, into every conflict, even when there were none.</p><p>I showed them <em>another</em> way: how words could be more effective than any blade&#8212;and more <em>fun</em>.</p><p>Why force someone to do something you could convince them to <em>willingly</em> do?</p><p>Why fight the guards blocking the entrance, when you can convince them you&#8217;re a band of travelling troubadours come to play for the king?</p><p>Why kill the big baddie when you can so thoroughly twist his <em>oh-so-tragic</em> backstory against him so cruelly that he&#8217;d rather end himself?</p><p>Why pick the lock? You can seduce it!</p><p>It wasn&#8217;t long before I was running the show. I may as well have been the Game Master. Social encounters became the dominant mode.</p><p>I had become the main character&#8212;not because I was the brave and powerful hero. No. If anything, I was the devilish bard, eyes like diamonds and words worth more than gold.</p><p>They couldn&#8217;t help but be entranced.</p><p>The lines between reality and fiction began to fissure. Sure, their roleplay was what you&#8217;d expect from dweebs who think real world interactions play out like in Japanese porn cartoons, but it was more social than they&#8217;d ever been in their lives. How could they not be, basking in my presence as they were?</p><p>People truly underestimate the seductive nature of fiction.</p><p>I can already hear the protests:</p><p>&#8220;B-b-b-but David! It&#8217;s make-believe. What power can it have? It&#8217;s all in your head!&#8221;</p><p>Dear reader! How do you not see it?</p><p><em>Everything</em> is in your head.</p><p><em>No one</em> experiences objective reality. All of it is filtered through your oblivious little brain.</p><p>Everything you think happened to you, even just a moment ago, is merely a story you&#8217;re <em>telling</em> yourself. You relive it the moment you conjure the memory. It even <em>changes</em> each time you do, colored by your current mind state and perceptions. People let these memories dictate their identity with acute consistency and unwavering faith.</p><p>How many people, do you think, <em>choose</em> to live <em>miserable</em> stories and play <em>loser</em> characters in life? Make no mistake, dear reader, it is a <em>choice</em>.</p><p>This is exactly what these dweebs had done until I graced them with my participation in their basement ritual. Worlds began to collide, their characters&#8212;real and fantasy&#8212;to fuse.</p><p>One of these poor unfortunates was a was rotund and red-faced shemmoth, misted with perspiration. She began to giggle<em>.</em> And I mean, <em>giggle.</em> Like a lovely, elven maiden looking to be bred by the debonair heir of house Jagger&#8230;</p><p>Of which I was all too happy to oblige!</p><p>Yes, it may have been that I snorted another bump (I was really feeling the love now), but mostly it was because she <em>had become that elven maiden.</em> The worlds had fully merged, and I was the bridge between them. Through me, they could achieve social salvation.</p><p>I paid a respectable 2gp for a private room at the inn (the GM&#8217;s bedroom) and began to deflower my bloated purple elf. (I finally realized she was saying she was a <em>drow</em>, not a <em>cow</em>.) She claimed her race performs better in the dark, which made the deed easier.</p><p>She felt loose. I wasn&#8217;t sure if I&#8217;d slipped in or slipped between two sweaty, belly rolls, but she seemed to like it all the same. It was only after I&#8217;d finished loving this beached beluga, her cankles still perched on my shoulders, that an explosion occurred.</p><p>Not the one in my nethers.</p><p>There was an explosion <em>in my mind</em>. A big bang after banging something big. A realization that made me <em>weep</em>.</p><p><em>Literally</em>.</p><p>It wasn&#8217;t that the lights had come on, or that I&#8217;d come down from my high, or that I was covered in stench and sweat that was more hers than mine. It was because I&#8217;d stolen what should have been the lay of my one-session brothers of the table. How many years had they spent adventuring together, pining over her, the sole femalien of their troop? The only girl low enough on the totem pole to ever consider sharing her cookie with them?</p><p>I&#8217;d spoiled that cookie. It could never work for them now, not truly.</p><p><em>I had set her standards too unbelievably high</em>.</p><p>She would never love another man. Maybe never even ever <em>like</em> a man of their station ever again, even as friends. She would only ever dream of, only ever yearn for David of House Jagger.</p><p>I had barely stuffed my junk back into my leather pants when I barreled out of the room and straight for the exit. I didn&#8217;t bother to answer them as to where I was going, didn&#8217;t even think to say goodbye. I couldn&#8217;t bear to look my brothers in the face, lest they see my cry.</p><p>Where was I going?</p><p>Anywhere but there.</p><p>What was I going to do?</p><p>This, dear reader, is the right question.</p><h4><strong>The Word Made Manifest</strong></h4><p>Half-past midnight. A dimly-lit internet caf&#233; somewhere in East Asia.</p><p>Or maybe just K-town. The spell of the session still clung to me like the rose-tinted scent of a sphincter (my fault for chancing a shocker on the cow&#8212;I mean, <em>drow</em>), and I&#8217;d lost count of how many edibles I&#8217;d consumed over the last hour.</p><p>Lightning flashed through the windows and rainwater ran in rivulets from the overflowing gutters. I slipped a little white rum (yum) into my coffee. (Sheer heart attack, baby!)</p><p>I glanced over my shoulder. Everyone here looked the same, all of them watching me. They all had narrowed their eyes so <em>intensely</em>. I trembled and faced my computer, the Word document still blank.</p><p><em>They&#8217;re not squinting </em>at<em> you, David. They&#8217;re just Asian.</em></p><p>A flimsy lie. I knew they were, and I knew why they were squinting. They were trying to <em>read</em> what I was writing, judging the lack thereof.</p><p>I had so much to share, a dragon&#8217;s hoard of thought-treasure. I&#8217;d never struggled for words ever before.</p><p>I stole another glance at the watchers, seeing all of Asia in a single man.</p><p>Perhaps it was the chemical cocktail of rum and gummies bubbling in my guts, but I felt like everything was slipping away. My sense of time, my memories, my purpose.</p><p>Why had I come here again?</p><p>What had I set out to do?</p><p>Panic set in. I cried out to the heavens, &#8220;What was the point of all this?!&#8221;</p><p>In that moment, I was absorbed into the blank white page. There was no me, no cow-scent, no Asians. Just a space of pure creation. I watched the universe dissolve and reform and re-dissolve and re-reform again. And I was the one doing it! There was <em>communication</em>. Not in words, but a subtle knowing:</p><p><em>Just be.</em></p><p>How could I have been so stupid?</p><p>I was trying to tell others how to <em>be just like me</em>.</p><p>An impossible task, as I&#8217;m sure you can guess, my brilliant, beloved reader&#8212;even for me! For to tell you would be a reduction, and in that reduction, it would simply cease to be me. The conceptual mind is too limiting; what&#8217;s required is a direct experiencing of the thing to be understood.</p><p>When I returned to myself the rain had subsided. The Rising Sun now shone red and honorably over glorious Nip Town. And in the word processor before me, seven (<em>how synchronistic!</em>) pages of something like principles. My Do, my Way, condensed for the Twitter-brained troglodyte.</p><p>I thought about calling it David-do, Way of David, as a way of thanking the Asians whose dragon-energy pushed me beyond my limits, but that would have been cultural appropriation, and I would never do that to my yellow friends, dear to me as they are.</p><p>I settled on the title of <em>Jaggerisms: How to Have Swagger Like David Jagger, </em>by David Jagger. I thought it more humbling and appropriate to adhere to a western presentation, even though I&#8217;d have loved to use that Asian influence to woo even more Asian baddies. (I <em>love</em> Asians, but not as much as I love you, my dear reader.)</p><h4><strong>Where that Brings Us Today</strong></h4><p>Now, you&#8217;re probably asking, &#8220;David, surely this thing was a <em>massive</em> success. Why, then, haven&#8217;t I heard of it? You&#8217;d have to be gay and retarded not to have read this.&#8221;</p><p>Have no fear, you are not queer, my dear friend. You may be retarded, but it&#8217;s unlikely given that you&#8217;re here, reading this. Not impossible, but I&#8217;m like ninety five percent sure.</p><p>The truth, dear reader, is this:</p><p><em>I fucked up</em>.</p><p>You could be the greatest writer in the world, but if you know jack shit about the publishing world and who runs it, then good luck enlightening the masses. The powers that be don&#8217;t want you enlightened, and they <em>definitely</em> don&#8217;t want me reaching you, or even those nerds I had so desperately wanted to save from themselves.</p><p>I picked the first publisher of self-help books I found in the two minutes it took to Google it, sent the manuscript with no explanation from my personal Hotmail, and expected they&#8217;d recognize the emerald monkey I&#8217;d delivered that would fart and shit gold.</p><p>What more was there for me to do?</p><p>I had no intention of making money off it. No designs on fame and recognition.</p><p><em>All I had was a desire to help those unfortunate enough to be born as someone other than me.</em></p><p>Everyone would have gained from this. The publishers, the readers, the non-readers who would benefit by proxy of having these <em>Jagified</em> individuals in their lives.</p><p>So, I forgot about it. He who lives life with swagger doesn&#8217;t dwell in the past&#8212;he engages fully in the present.</p><p>Was my manuscript overlooked? Marked as spam? Or was it received by an agent of the Enemy, who was all too aware of the levels of power and awakening the sheepies might receive should they lay their eyeballs on it? (Almost certainly the latter.)</p><p>Regardless, I failed to follow through, and as a result, the world has suffered <em>immensely.</em> I look around and am struck by the obvious and undeniably sorry state of the world.</p><p>It&#8217;s getting worse.</p><p>When I got to really noticing that, I got to wondering why the world hadn&#8217;t pulled a one-eighty.</p><p>Shouldn&#8217;t the world have radically transformed for the better? Where are the flying cars? Why hasn&#8217;t the original Coke recipe made a comeback? Why haven&#8217;t micro-bikinis become the standard attire for women?</p><p>My mind raced. I felt a strange sensation in my loins, like the sinking of Atlantis all over again. I raced to the nearest bookstore, peeling through shelves like a roach on meth.</p><p>I couldn&#8217;t find it any section. I even searched online. There was no mistaking it. My book had never been published.</p><p>You may find it hard to believe, but even I can become disheartened, dear reader. It takes a lot because I&#8217;m not bitch-made, but it can happen nonetheless.</p><p>To my dismay, my Hotmail account was no more. Inactive accounts are deleted after a couple years. With the email nuked, <em>Jaggerisms </em>effectively had been too.</p><p>(Exactly as the Enemy intended, I&#8217;m sure.)</p><p>I stumbled listlessly down the street, and the heavens tore asunder to weep with me.</p><p>All that wisdom, lost to the cyber-graveyard like tears in the rain. I couldn&#8217;t recall a damn thing I wrote, but I knew it was gold. How could it not be? I wrote it. Could I do it again?</p><p>Divinely-inspired creation is a culmination. A crystallization of several factors into being at a given point in time. My will, my words, my desire, my emotion, my place in time and space all made love and birthed <em>Jaggerisms </em>in that moment. It could only have been created as it was then. Even if I restored all the original words, it would have been something inferior:</p><p>An <em>imitation.</em></p><p>When I came to, the rain had stopped. Or rather, it was separated from me by an awning. The rainwater overflowed from a gutter, running down in rivulets. Thunder shattered the silence.</p><p>I was back in Ancient China, standing before a familiar caf&#233; where identical, narrow-eyed faces sipped coffee and squinted at screens.</p><p>Could it be? Had the answer already come? I wanted to believe, but didn&#8217;t think I could handle being blue-balled if it wasn&#8217;t.</p><p>I entered and paid my fare.</p><p>Anticipation rose as I approached the same open spot as almost ten years ago. Not a damn thing had changed, save for wear. The computer was slower than a special-ed kid, but it was the same exact one.</p><p>I searched the documents, pleasantly surprised I wasn&#8217;t the only one who saved their documents to a public computer. (I was high when I did it. These guys were just dumbasses, heh.) My anticipation reached climax. My pants had never been creamier.</p><p>Praise to the J-Man.</p><p>It was there. It was fucking there.</p><p>I loaded <em>Jaggerisms</em>, so prepared for the elation I would feel upon reading it after all these years! Except, elation never came.</p><p>Only post-nut <em>disappointment</em>.</p><p>As I mentioned, <em>Jaggerisms</em> was a <em>divinely-inspired creation</em>, a product of the very moment in time that it was captured. Some of it timeless, yes; but some of it, not so much. It was a mere seven pages of short principles that <em>tried</em> to illustrate the <em>je ne sais quoi </em>of my being.</p><p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, these are a <em>dense</em> seven pages. To truly understand even one principle could take a gifted man years. But I&#8217;ve lived another decade since the writing. Ten full, vigorous years of invaluable experience and growth (even perfection can become more perfect).</p><p>What I&#8217;m driving at, my marvelous reader, is that I realized just how incomplete this work was. It would never be complete, not so long as I kept living.</p><p>I made a copy for myself and deleted it from the computer. Not because I was <em>ashamed</em> of it. Anything I produce is sheer <em>magnificence</em>. I may even still share it in its original form someday!</p><p>I deleted it because this work has a purpose:</p><p><em>To uplift readers the world over, restore their swagger, and grant them salvation.</em></p><p>To succeed in that goal, the work needs to be alive, as I am. As you are.</p><p>A book is a done deal. I&#8217;m not the submit it and quit it kind of guy, I <em>swear</em>. I want to <em>keep on</em> loving<em> </em>you. I would be <em>inconceivably selfish</em> to not share my decade of character development with you.</p><p>We&#8217;re living in the internet age, baby! Why does it have to be a book? Why do I need a <em>nosey</em> publisher to gatekeep <em>me</em> from reaching <em>you?</em> I just need somewhere to post it, so you can read it. Now you get ongoing updates to your game of life.</p><p>Hell yeah!</p><h4><strong>Where We&#8217;re Running To</strong></h4><p>You&#8217;ve probably got one last question joggin&#8217; that noggin of yours, my brilliant reader:</p><p><em>What exactly can I expect here?</em></p><p>That, dear reader, is the right question.</p><p>What can you expect here?</p><p>Me, of course; but enough about me! What about <em>you</em>?</p><p>You can expect <em>life to get better</em>.</p><p>Yes, a little bit of Davey in your life will do that, but I&#8217;m talking about something more tangible here, man! I&#8217;m talking about ideas I&#8217;m going to share with you on a regular basis, so that you can live life with a little more swagger. (Hopefully, a lot more swagger, but Chiraq wasn&#8217;t ruined in a single day.)</p><p>Where I went wrong with <em>Jaggerisms</em> the first time was that I created something not unlike the <em>Tao Te Ching</em> (probably due to the dragon-influences under which it was drafted).</p><p>And there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that! The Tao is a <em>phenomenal </em>text, and those who get it definitely get it. The problem is, when you look at all the sheepies of the world, it&#8217;s quite obvious that hardly any of them <em>actually </em>get<em> </em>it. <em>Jaggerisms</em> would have much the same problem.</p><p>The approach here will be different. You&#8217;ll notice the title of this Substack is different from the original body of work:</p><p><em>Jaggerisms: Living the Life of Swagger with David Jagger</em></p><p>It&#8217;s subtle, but do you see it? I&#8217;ll give you a moment&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;</p><p>Okay, I don&#8217;t have all day! I&#8217;ll just tell you.</p><p><em>Living the Life of Swagger </em>with <em>David Jagger.</em></p><p>With, my friend. With!</p><p>Not <em>how</em> to have it <em>like me</em>. No one could ever be like me. Not that that should make you sad. No one could ever be you either! Which is almost as good. But we can <em>both</em> live the life of swagger. Together!</p><p>How this differs from and will succeed where <em>How to Have Swagger Like David Jagger </em>failed, is that this is a collaboration. A community.</p><p>You and me.</p><p>Me and you.</p><p>We&#8217;re walking this road together.</p><p>(No, no one is holding anyone&#8217;s hand. <em>Yeesh</em>.)</p><p>I&#8217;ll introduce you to ideas and build upon them. Take a little time, woo them, get them wrapped around my finger before I bring them to climax, squirting their juicy insights directly into your fertile mind. As is the modus operandi of the greatest seductive artists, you&#8217;ll be so wrapped up in the happenings you won&#8217;t realize what&#8217;s happening. You&#8217;ll be left dazed, astounded, maybe even a little confused, but exuding a soft, warm glow that radiates outward, forever changing your being and that of those and the world around you.</p><p>We will all be as nodes, inextricably linked in an ever-extending chain of causality&#8212;and when we flip our state, so too will we flip the states of our surrounding nodes. Not because we are forcing them, but because our glow is so delicious they can&#8217;t help but mirror it. Who wouldn&#8217;t want to? It&#8217;s sublime. This, you sexy bastard reader you, is how we will save the world!</p><p>And you&#8230;</p><p>You can fire back! I&#8217;m no book. My words are not commandments, forever etched in stone. We have a <em>comments</em> section. 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