@retirementkeys Looking forward to it. Seems like the fine line of healthily wanting something vs. NEEDing it. And that it’s ok to want/take and at the same time it’s going to feel better to give so you live with both
you play the piano. you’re good at chess. you’re valedictorian. you can put on a little well-spoken display of words in a well-groomed suit. even your hand movements reek of polish. in short, you’re a good boy. you do what society has deemed worth doing. you outsourced your taste, the poster boy of mimetic desire. God bless your soul. when will you grow up? when will you reduce yourself to zero? when will you realise that salvation is only attainable through annihilation? do you even know what you like? the moment you cease being a junk collector you will know God. start wasting time.
My best advice to any young person is to avoid the attention economy as a life/career/job path. Do something else - anything that helps people or builds something in the real, tangible offline world. If I had a time machine to restart my life, that's what I would do.
@amantdelucy For all the good you can achieve by taking up an "I am the problem" and "I personally have to fix this" mindset, it is completely useless when dealing with other people. You cannot control them, or influence them. The best you can do is show them who you are.
@PatrickMcEnroe@WSJopinion Patrick, the question you should be asking is: where are all the Americans in America. You’ll find the answer goes much deeper than tennis. Cheers and thanks for raising awareness
No, women are not retarded.
They are conformist.
To fall for, actually fall for, narratives like the Covid story, the BLM story, the ICE is Gestapo story, to actually whole-heartedly believe them, yeah, you would have to be kinda retarded.
But women didn't "fall for" those stories. Not exactly.
They aligned to them.
This means they went along with them, repeated them, reinforced them, not because they were convinced by evidence, but because they were convinced by the appearance of consensus.
Women are evolved to believe what the rest of the tribe appears to believe. Evidence is not considered.
Why?
Well, humans are smart. We survive by being smart. And in order to be smart, we need to grow big brains, and get started growing those brains early.
Which means human babies have giant heads. And in order to deliver those giant heads, human babies have to be born prematurely. Otherwise, head won't fit through pelvic girdle, and baby and mother both die.
This means all human babies are premature. That's why horses can run at the age of six hours, but humans can't lift our giant heads for months.
This means that human women, whether they are pregnant with a giant-headed baby, caring for a giant-headed baby, or just might be either one at any moment, are uniquely helpless and dependent on the support and goodwill of the tribe.
Metaphorically, and often literally, a woman lives in someone else's house — not because she's a useless layabout, but because she is too busy building the future to support herself in the present.
When you're in that position, you have to keep your controversial ideas to yourself.
And when you evolve in that position, you evolve to have no controversial ideas.
This was fine for millions of years. There was a division of labor. Women made people, men made stuff. And because the women made all those biological sacrifices to make men with big brains, the men were really good at making stuff. And the stuff was really, really useful, and it became big piles of stuff called "cities", and then it became a global system of stuff called "civilization".
The stuff became so valuable that there were big arguments about what to do with the stuff, which was called "politics". But the women stayed out of politics, because politics was about stuff, stuff was men's job, and no matter who won the arguments, the winners always made sure the women had enough stuff.
Why?
Because dependent, future-investing, conformist women didn't evolve in a vacuum. Men evolved along with them. When you have dependent women, you evolve protective men, because tribes full of men who aren't protective don't have future generations.
So women didn't wield political power directly. They were represented by men, and had a lot less skin in the game.
Eventually, someone decided this was unfair. This idea didn't happen suddenly, and for no reason at all, but that's a topic for another day.
But something funny happens when you give political power to women, especially in the form of a vote.
You see, then you have a situation where 50% of the vote is held by people who require a great variety of different persuasion techniques or evidence to convince them of something. And the other 50% is held by women, who are persuaded by only one thing... the appearance of prevailing consensus and power.
And what form of persuasion do you think is cheapest and easiest to project?
Women's suffrage removes evidence and discourse from politics, and replaces it with "consensus theater"... a puppet show designed to create the illusion of a single prevailing opinion.
When a narrative prevails, women vote for it, not because they are persuaded, but because it prevails.
This is an explosive feedback loop — a reverse thermostat which turns the air conditioner on when it's freezing, and runs the furnace all summer.
Because women's idea of how urgent an issue is comes not from an analysis of the situation, but an analysis of how many people endorse it.
And any opinion, no matter how contrary to obvious facts, no matter how retarded, no matter how destructive, can become the prevailing political platform, so long as women can be convince that most other people think so.
Covid was a Chinese bioweapon. The Covid shot was toxic and did not protect against Covid.
George Floyd was violent drug zombie who died of an overdose, and Derek Chauvin is in prison merely for being the last guy to touch him.
Police officers do not disproportionately kill innocent black men who are minding their own business, and body cams prove this.
Men cannot become women. The technology doesn't exist, and may not ever exist.
Diversity is, in fact, our greatest weakness. Diversity + integration = war.
America is better off without the vast majority of immigrants, even the ones who don't murder and steal.
Socialism doesn't work in any unit larger than the extended family. Communism has never worked, and cannot work.
Cows are health food. Plants are usually not.
Some kids are smarter than others, and we need to invest more effort in them, not less.
All of these things are inherently obvious, and women are not too retarded to see that, because they are not retarded at all. They are merely conformist. Susceptible to political theater.
So democracies cannot permanently survive female suffrage. No one is particularly happy about this, not even curmudgeonly iconoclasts like me who are willing to say it out loud. It's not only unfair in principle, it's decidedly inconvenient in practice.
The universe, of course, does not care.
We cannot change women. We can only change politics.
That won't be easy, either. But it's possible, even if the eventual process involves a lot more violence, or space colonization, than we find convenient.
@retirementkeys Nicely put but falls a little heavy into modern 'homosexual'. gay is just another layer to unwind in the darkroom
Every man is "gay"/inspired by his father, friend internet guru w/e. the journey for man is the infinite quest to being Yourself/soul . Almost none are 100% straight
You’re getting closer, but the fundamental divide between the older and younger generations comes from /pol/ and redpill culture distilling down to wider awareness. It’s not enough to conclude that a mess has been made based on economic and crime factors, the fundamental rift is whether you understand that the fabric of your society was compromised a century ago and the standards of normality you were raised to accept were spoon fed by media propaganda and institutional academic infiltration.
Bridging the divide between Gen Z and Boomer-influenced generations requires accepting that things like questioning the Holocaust and saying the N-word publicly being catalysts for ruining your entire life is actually weird and not normal, that racism is an inherent human instinct which cannot ever be stamped out by social conditioning, that our entire worldview on gender dynamics and relationship norms are completely artificial and detrimental to civilization building, and finally that all of these rhetoric points will manifest into chaotic archetypes set on burning everything down if they continue to be strangled by the status quo nanny state. These are not arbitrary edgelord trolls or delusional beliefs, they are instinctually resonant conclusions clawing through decades of artificial suppression. Until the stranglehold is lifted, proponents of these beliefs will continue to adhere to anarchistic Joker phenotypes that operate through defensive hostility and psyop subterfuge. The older generations are simply demanding natural born guerillas come out to be slaughtered by the war machine because they’re not “playing fair” and they’re refusing to dig their own tunnels and enter the jungle because they never had to learn how.
@dezgoldie “Post-politic” ?
And what country is that found in? Good vibes island?
At some point a “chad” is a steward and leader of his community and nation