manliness | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Sat, 31 Oct 2020 19:32:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/wallstreetdealmaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pitbullgif.gif?fit=32%2C22&ssl=1 manliness | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com 32 32 155119938 Hollywood (HBO) misses again https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2020/10/hollywood-hbo-misses-again/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2020/10/hollywood-hbo-misses-again/#respond Sat, 31 Oct 2020 19:27:49 +0000 https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/?p=2293 I am currently re-watching GoT Season 8 . It was a great show, as millions around the world know it. There’s nothing else good to watch, HBO is going going from great (Game of Thrones) to shitty. Next month, they’re releasing a show about “investment bankers lives” based on a … Continue ReadingHollywood (HBO) misses again

The post Hollywood (HBO) misses again first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> I am currently re-watching GoT Season 8 . It was a great show, as millions around the world know it. There’s nothing else good to watch, HBO is going going from great (Game of Thrones) to shitty. Next month, they’re releasing a show about “investment bankers lives” based on a formula by two rookie investment bankers, names Konrad Kay and Mickey Down. It should be dully noted these guys never made it past three years in banking, yet the’re producing a series. A series about Gen Z “investment bankers.” More like Excel Monkeys because that’s what we call them.

“Young, ambitious, and insecure” is the moniker for this show which…I’m not going to watch. This is a time waster for me, like most shows on TV these days.

The WSJ did a piece about it October 29, 2020.

“She’s very good and she’s meant to be in these rooms, but she comes from humble beginnings so there’s an imposter’s syndrome.” -Myhal’a Herold about her character Harper.

WSJ, John Jurgensen, Oct. 29th, 2020

One of the dumbshits who’ve made the show:

“The way my desk was structured, you could see your career progression across the room, the Vp on one end and the managing director on the other,” Mr. Downs said. “I left, but I think I would have been pushed…I was really, really not very good at it.”

WSJ

Good. Which qualifies you for nothing. And now you’ve made a movie. Which nobody’s gonna watch.

Meanwhile, I have a movie idea that’s 100% solid and has nothing to do with romanticizing banking careers.

Until Hollywood finally wakes up to making a good movie, I’m re-watching GoT and other movies worth watching.

The post Hollywood (HBO) misses again first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2020/10/hollywood-hbo-misses-again/feed/ 0 2293 Manliness in the age of fools-with a surprise instead of a brain quiz https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/manliness-in-the-age-of-fools-with-a-surprise-instead-of-a-brain-quiz/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/manliness-in-the-age-of-fools-with-a-surprise-instead-of-a-brain-quiz/#respond Wed, 04 Apr 2018 06:45:00 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/04/manliness-in-the-age-of-fools-with-a-surprise-instead-of-a-brain-quiz/ In episode 12 of the Part One series “Blood and Sand” Spartacus is put to test by Legatus Glaber and has to fight a couple of Roman soldiers. Spartacus’s master, Batiatus, agrees to the fight, although Spartacus is not in a fair fight (he holds a wooden sword). Batiatus does … Continue ReadingManliness in the age of fools-with a surprise instead of a brain quiz

The post Manliness in the age of fools-with a surprise instead of a brain quiz first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> In episode 12 of the Part One series “Blood and Sand” Spartacus is put to test by Legatus Glaber and has to fight a couple of Roman soldiers. Spartacus’s master, Batiatus, agrees to the fight, although Spartacus is not in a fair fight (he holds a wooden sword). Batiatus does so because he seeks Glaber’s favor.

Is it ever a fair fight ?

Earlier in the episode, Solonius is executed ad glatium, but not before Spartacus gains the inside knowledge that it was Batiatus who ordered his wife finished. Bingo !

 “Underneath the sands, in the holding area, a chained Solonius is visited one last time by Batiatus. Batiatus gloats and ridicules Solonius, Solonius then asks if Ashur was always Batiatus’ dog. Batiatus takes great pleasure in telling him that “His loyalty never wavered”. (Ashur became Batiatus’s fixer. If you’ve watched the series, you know Ashur becomes the next Master’s fixer, working for Claudius Glaber this time) -From Spartacus Wikia Fandom

Throughout the series Batiatus, as the owner of slaves is referred to as “Dominus” (Master).

How many Dominuses do you have in your life ?

I’ll be making some observations today on the WSJ weekend interview with Harvey Mansfield, a Harvard faculty who’s just turned 86.  In his interview with Tunku Varadarajan, Mansfield makes some comments about manhood. These aren’t new to those in the manosphere.

“Trump is an image of [his base] notion of what money can buy. They rather like and appreciate his vulgarity and his baseness, his impulsiveness.” Trump won a majority of white women-and women are attracted to manly men, I think.” 

“Trump’s success was a backlash in favor of masculinity.” “You could look at 2016 as a revolt of the lower-IQ half of America against the upper half, which is dominated by the universities. -a replacement of the people who reflect the values of American universities, where manliness is taboo.” 

“We haven’t had a real political debate about manliness and maybe Trump is the first stage of it.”  -all quotes from Prof. Mansfield’s interview

Yes, Mr. Mansfield, except that manliness doesn’t belong in the political debates, nor in universities.

It belongs in the ring.  With people like Spartacus, God bless him, and myself.


We don’t need any clowns running around like Batiatus here. All arguments aside, explain, if you will, the emergence of the MeToo movement. Why did this tick off in the age of Trump ? If he was that good to manliness, why ? [We can imagine the Professor by now walking on shells, if he at least has the honor of a carpetbagger] Your model of manliness was Margaret Thatcher ? [Note: that’s another woman who learnt to speak in a deep voice, which seems to get you access to money in Silicon Valley] Give me a break.

“There are times when men in good conscience cannot blindly follow orders.” –Captain Picard, TNG

Tell me, why should the stupid patronize me, because they have more money than I do ? Unacceptable.

Trump hasn’t helped manliness, he’s distorted it. Cut the crap, professor Mansfield. I don’t believe in obedience, or in the strict line of command.

Spartacus took a lot of shit until he didn’t. That’s what I call manliness.

I let Spartacus be my teacher, not some fool.

   

Thought of the day: “Embrace the pain. It is the only way.”-Oenomaeus,
Doctore (Trainer) at the Gladiator’s school to Crixus as he wip lashes Crixus to the bone.
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Let’s have some fun here…with a recipe. Does this stuff taste as good as it looks ?


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