GROIN

Strong opinions are seductive because they seem like a confident and positive path. In times of crisis, you look toward people with these attributes to find a way out of the mess you’re in.

However, there’s a way to exploit this trust. You can hack other human beings just like you can hack computers, and one way to hack both is to create a false authority. Act like you’re confident and positive, and people are seduced by your strong opinion.

There is always a strong seductive influence to the ideology that pairs (a) victimhood, or the sense that your lack of something was done to you by someone else, and (b) revenge, or the notion that if you just take that something back, everything will be OK again.

Feminism is one such ideology. You have to be a true idiot to believe it, which is why they preach it at you constantly through multiple sources (Hollywood, academia, media, social pressures, government). Slowly they seduce your brain with this victimhood narrative.

But it’s an easy ideology to believe because it relieves you of the burden of solving your own problems and finding your own path in life. Instead of thinking, “What must I create in order to make my life meaningful?” you are thinking in terms of a pre-defined narrative, the intellectual equivalent of a TV dinner.

In this narrative, you have been wronged and all that matters is getting back what you deserve. Does this sound like a familiar plot? Over half of all Hollywood movies use it. Almost all American-style wars use it. Just about every #occupy-style protest uses it. Neo-Nazi groups use it. Whether it’s the banksters, the Jews, men, the popular kids, evil dictators or the rich, someone did this to you and you must crush them and get it back.

What they never mention is that very few things in life are actually tangible things. For example, the prosperity of a country. This is not a huge hoard of gold sitting in a bank somewhere. It’s a complex interaction between leaders, workers, planners and knowledge workers that produces an end result on a continual basis. You can steal a farm, but can you then work that farm and make wealth from it? Those who seized farms in Zimbabwe learned the hard way that it’s not as easy to make wealth as to seize the means by which others can make it.

Unlike most MRAs, I’m not bitter toward women. I recognize that the quality of women varies. Some women are faithless sluts, while others are not, and the proportion is about the same as it is in men. Most people are chaff who cannot make a strong decision on their own, and so they are faithless whores to whatever idea flits across their screens.

Unlike most PUAs, I realize that sex does not equal manliness. Further, I’ve seen enough of life to realize that sex is not what I want out of a woman. Spending my life chasing after poontang makes me a slave to the whores, not someone who rose above and saw the bigger situation, which is that most men who have red blood want a woman who is a battle-comrade, true comrade and partner in making a family.

However, I do recognize that feminism is bunk and that most MRAs are acting to affirm feminism rather than dethrone it. Feminists want women to have no obligation to men; MRAs want the same thing. Both use the same method, which is destruction of marriage and the family. The result is a lot of lonely women and men who live alone in bitterness, having been deprived of the joy of family.

I don’t expect I’ll convince a lot of people. Strong victimhood narratives are more seductive than what I have to preach, which is self-reliance and a journey of self-discovery and adventure in creating a place for yourself in life. Yet I know that in ten years’ time, those who take my advice will be much more satisfied than those who deny it.

Our modern lives are ruled by published science. These notions of truth, in the form of “studies” or “papers,” consist of a series of experiments on a topic, followed by the construction of conclusions based upon that data, and then the rest of us rely on those notions and act as if they were true.

The problem with this is that science exists in two stages. The first stage involves finding statistical correlations. We know a lot of smokers die of lung cancer. The second involves finding the actual cause. Nicotine is a mutagen? Tar keeps it bonded to fast-growing lung cells? Fast-growing cells are the most likely to become cancerous? We connect the dots in that second stage.

This brings us to the problem presented by another word in the first sentence of this post. “Published” refers to scientific journals, and then a trickle-down through the specialized magazines to the mainstream newspapers, magazines, TV shows, blogs, tweets, etc. that we all experience.

In that mainstream part of the science process, there are two ugly forces at work. First, the consumers who prefer pleasant illusions to complex (not even unpleasant, just requiring some thought to see the good from the bad) truths. Second, there are the people who pander to them and make money by offering products that these people want to buy.

People want to purchase affirmations of their behavior and lifestyles. They will run off and buy books and magazines that tell them what they are doing is the right way to live, or simply an acceptable way. They will also run out and buy movies, clothing, novelty items, etc. related to this “lifestyle.”

No matter how screwed up your lifestyle, as soon as there are enough of you to buy products en masse, you will have defenders in commerce. They want to sell you these products, and so they will legitimize your lifestyle. They will even do it by commissioning “scientific” studies that tell you that you’re good and the other team is bad. Whoever that is.

“Study debunks stereotype that men think about sex all day long”

[T]he research discredits the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours. In the study, the median number of young men’s thought about sex stood at almost 19 times per day. Young women in the study reported a median of nearly 10 thoughts about sex per day.

As a group, the men also thought about food almost 18 times per day and sleep almost 11 times per day, compared to women’s median number of thoughts about eating and sleep, at nearly 15 times and about 8 1/2 times, respectively. – Medical Xpress

Who is surprised? We all grew up hearing that men thought about sex all day long, which was a convenient fiction that allowed our media to portray men as sex addicts and thus women as being in a defensive role against this onslaught. Women = victims, preached the media.

While that pithy lie gave women ammunition to use against men while arguing for feminism, it also had a bad effect on them. It taught them to see themselves as inevitable victims. So at some point, they stopped protesting. Whether that was casual sex with creepy guys in college, or even date rape by a colleague at work, or just feeling a sense of despair about life and ever having a mate, they went for it. We taught them to, with our trillions of dollars of media power, triggered by the need for some women to buy products that confirmed their lifestyle.

Science can be easily misinterpreted. That opens the door to manipulation.

Cigarette smoking has been shown to increase serum hemoglobin, increase total lung capacity and stimulate weight loss, factors that all contribute to enhanced performance in endurance sports. Despite this scientific evidence, the prevalence of smoking in elite athletes is actually many times lower than in the general population. The reasons for this are unclear; however, there has been little to no effort made on the part of national governing bodies to encourage smoking among athletes. – PLOS

This is from an article describing a scientific “review” published in a well-esteemed major journal. The point of the article was that by cherrypicking which aspects of a situation to analyze, and then presenting that analysis out of context, the exact opposite of a realistic outlook can be created.

For example, smoking decreases body weight and increases both lung capacity and blood hemoglobin, which are beneficial traits for a runner. Does this mean smoking is good for runners? No, because there are other ways of doing the above, and no, because smoking also has disadvantages.

Religion, science, government, etc. can be used to make lies out of the truth by looking selectively at the facts. Much of our modern world, especially the relentless con-artist propaganda assault against men, consists of such lies. It’s time we started calling them what they are and refusing to let them hide behind the veil of “science.”