The world of humans, in North America especially, has changed more in the last 120 years than it did for the previous 300,000 years of our existence. In the last 41 years of my lifetime, I have seen drastic changes in many areas of society and life. One of the most striking and interesting things about this is that most people are blissfully unaware of what has changed and what we have lost. Humans seem to have a tendency, even a desire, to forget the past and conform to a new order at an alarming speed.
Before anything else, humans are conformists. We are the most social animal on the planet, which is the root of our overwhelming need for the approval of others. We conform to the environment we are born into, and we conform to the group around us. Most humans do this unconsciously, and only great trauma will cause them to question their realities. Most quickly adapt and conform to the changing social fabric that the Elite dictate, and they question nothing.
I am NOT one of these conformists. I have always noticed and been aware of the inconsistencies in reality, and people, around me. I see all small changes that occur, and I’ve never wanted to simply ignore them, much to the chagrin of those who wish to manipulate me.
It appears that the default mode of most humans is a blissfully ignorant mental hibernation that loathes to notice anything that might cause pain. It is like an opiate of the masses which is self-induced and part of most people’s innate mental framework. One can see why this phenomenon has developed, as group cohesion and conformity has always been necessary for survival until modernity.
In addition, most people flock to external opiates to further intoxicate themselves to an extreme level of unawareness and ignorance. Modernity offers an unlimited amount of distractions, escapes, and drugs for people to choose from.
It is only when external pain rises to the level of severity and undeniability that a person’s ability to critically analyze becomes awakened and active. But with so many external opiates available in modernity that are freely or cheaply acquired, a first world human’s pain rarely rises to the requisite level. I used to think that most people had the ability to critically analyze the world around them. But I’ve always been idealistic about the abilities of humans, which has caused me to believe that the people around me, especially my employees, were capable of much more than they really were. This caused me to be let down and disappointed an inordinate amount of times. Admittedly, it is really not a practical or effective way to operate. I know analytically that there are few Great Men, and the remaining men are simply meant to conform and follow. I strive to abandon my the universalistic, equalist, romantic view of humans that has been brainwashed into me. The fact is the people are born with varying level of abilities and intelligence, and you can’t fit any more ambition or brains into someone than they already have.
Most of the problems with modernity revolve around these external opiates and advances in technology. I recently became aware of the term “supernormal” while listening to an enlightening lecture series on Addiction. The term supernormal refers to modern inventions that offer extreme neurochemical experiences far beyond what we would experience in our natural environment. These supernormal activities or substances are highly addictive and engaging, and many of them are part of everyday North American life. These supernormal experiences change our brain chemistry, warp our realities, provide extreme escapism, and numb our minds. It is these supernormal things that cause most people to be walking zombies, unaware of the rapidly changing world.
I have recently been thoroughly enveloping myself in the study of history, from Ancient Egypt to modern times. In fact, I have had the opportunity to listen to 12 hours of history lectures and books every day for the past two months. Learning human history in a comprehensive manner is something I have neglected to do thus far, and I am thorough enjoying it. Learning history also makes it impossible for men to forget what they have lost. And the truth is that men have lost nearly everything since the times of Egypt, Greece, and Roman Empire.
I am paying close attention to what has changed for the worse for men. And I am delivering part of my research to you here.
What’s interesting is that our modern world ignores the wisdom of many of the greatest minds the world has ever known. Many Great Men figured out the root of our problems long ago, yet modernity mostly ignores these legends. It’s like our current world is dominated by people that believe all change is good and progressive, and no one realizes that many things are best left unchanged and untouched. Every human is driven for more power, and this modern world has taken the power from the men who deserve it and distributed incorrectly. We should not discount the wisdom of these great minds, and it is foolish to believe change, in it of itself, is a good thing.
I will list the problems with modernity in no particular order.
1. Lack of Real War
I believe this is the single biggest problem for men and modern society, and it is the source of nearly all other problems.
Many Great Men have agreed that extended peace causes effeminacy and a decline in societal strength.
Plato said that a long peace leads to the softening of society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau lamented over the corrupting influence of civilized society and long peace times on men.
Montesquieu argued that luxury and the pursuit of pleasure, often associated with extended peace, could lead to a nation’s decline.
Nietzsche, in his critique of modernity, often expressed disdain for what he saw as the ‘decadence’ of civilized society, which could be linked to a broader critique of the effects of prolonged peace.
In “The Decline of the West,” Spengler proposed that civilizations go through life cycles, and a period of prolonged peace could be indicative of a civilization in decline.
As I walk around our modern society, I see the state of affairs for men is dire. Many grown men are feminine and juvenile in so many ways, and they don’t realize it. They walk softly and do not hold their head high. They speak like women with high pitched voices. They are far too agreeable, far too docile, and far too weak. They look disheveled, ungroomed, and take take no pride in their appearance. They are all wet noodles, just flaccid strips of nothingness.
This is what 80 years of peacetime and the invention of the atom bomb has caused. There is no more real war. Boys are no longer put through the necessary ritual of earning their manhood in the crucible of boot camp and combat. In fact, most boys remain boys for life, no matter what age they become. There is nothing hard enough in their lives that transforms them into men.
The lack of real war has also caused the rise of Feminism and female dominance in our society. Without real men being forged in war and trials by fire, women often become mentally and emotionally stronger than men. Most modern women will honestly and openly state that they do not need men for anything. And I don’t blame them for seeing it this way. When there is no real war, women do not feel any threat to their life and security, and thus are blind to the utility of men that would otherwise be quite useful to them. Women, like all humans, want to believe they are not dependent on others. The lack of real war certainly assists women in believing in their own independence. Many modern women see men as luxury commodities that are replaceable and not absolutely necessary. It is not hard to see why and how they can have this outlook.
2. Liberalism
When I used the word Liberalism, I am referring to something different than the current Democratic party of the USA. What I am referring to is a general liberalization of all of human society, especially in the Western world.
When you study ancient history and the history of Europe up to modern times, the massive liberalization of human societies becomes obvious. Many things have changed drastically, and many of the changes are bad for men.
For example, In ancient Rome, the “Patria Potestas” (power of the father) was a legal and social doctrine that gave the male head of a family (the paterfamilias, typically the senior male) extensive control over his family members. This right was deeply ingrained in Roman society and law, and it conferred several significant powers and responsibilities. This included a man’s total authority and control over his wife, children, and even the wives of his sons, without any interference from the State.
Equalism and the Elite
The leaders of massive corporations, who I often refer to as the “Elite”, have pushed equalism on our society for the past 70 years, not due to their humanistic values, but for the purpose of turning every American adult into a homogenous worker bee. What most people don’t realize is that for Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to have billions of dollars, they need millions of mindless workers that are willing to accept low wages in their companies.
Through Feminism, the Elite tricked women into believing that working full-time was better than raising children and caring for the household. Again, the Elite do not care about women, they did this for the sole purpose of bringing them away from their families and into the work place. The Elite support racial equality for the sole reason of creating harmonious enslavement of the populous in their factories and other workplaces. When the lines of gender and race appear to have been abolished, EVERYONE can now work together to make the rich richer.
An Italian philosopher and politician, Antonio Gramsci critiqued liberal ideology arguing that it represented the interests of the bourgeoisie and perpetuated class structures. Further, T.S. Eliot, the poet and essayist, expressed concerns about liberal societies, particularly the loss of religious and moral values.
People have been fooled into believing we are becoming more equal and that class structures are being torn down. However, Liberalism has only separated the Elite even more from the rest of society. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
The two main problems with liberalization are the destruction of the family and the rise of mediocrity.
The Problem of Removing Women from the Home
What no one wants to realize or acknowledge is that taking women out of the home and into the work place has destroyed families.
A notable study by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, published in 2009, found that while women’s life circumstances improved in many ways since the Sexual Revolution (such as increased opportunities for education and employment), their self-reported happiness declined both absolutely and relative to men in the United States. Similar trends were observed in Europe and other parts of the world.
Women are less happy while trying to play the natural roles of men, and it is not hard to understand why. Natural selection over millions of years bred women to function mostly as child bearers and child raisers. The existence and promulgation of our species required women to procreate as much as possible, since the majority of birthed children died before producing offspring themselves. For millions of years, females stayed within the perimeter of the tribe, or close to it, and focused on social life and raising children. Men left the tribal area and explored, hunted, fought, and did all of the hard labor. Women have been forced out of their natural roles and so have men, and this has led to the rise of unhappiness for both genders.
Bringing women out of the home and into the workplace has also caused children to suffer greatly. Every other primate besides modern humans features mothers being with their infants 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for many years. Modern humans, in their infinite wisdom, now substitute this natural behavior with daycare and then public education indoctrination. Children now spend less time with their parents than ever before, and they are indoctrinated by the State by women and feminized men, 8 hours per day, in our education system for 13 years or more. It is no surprise that children are more violent and more lost than ever before.
The Problem of Mediocrity
Nietzsche critiqued certain aspects of liberalism, particularly its emphasis on equality and democratic ideals, which he believed led to mediocrity and the decline of exceptional individualism.
This problem can be seen everywhere. In the effort to convince us that all humans are inherently equal and the same, the Elite have significantly lowered the bar for human intelligence and quality. The deficiencies of many races, women, and various classes of people are so glaringly obvious, yet we’ve been told from birth that all humans are essentially the same.
This is simply not true. There are exceptional human beings that have superior intelligence, creativity, and abilities, and there are less than exceptional human beings. The genders, races, and genes of humans are different. This is a fact of life, no matter how it sounds to the ears of sensitive equalism apologists.
The push for equalism and universality has caused the lack of recognition and detection of outstanding qualities. All humans are now forced into the same classrooms, the same workplaces, and the same neighborhoods. In order to accommodate the less exceptional people, the bar is dropped for everyone. And even worse, people are now brainwashed into giving unlimited advantages and leeway to women and minority races in order to maintain the lie that they have the same abilities as exceptional white men.
I’m not saying all white men are superior. What I’m saying is that instead of promoting a meritocracy where every individual is rewarded for their individual performance, women and minorities are now lifted up into positions of power solely for the purposes of promoting the religion of equality, not based on merit. It is reverse racism at it’s worse, and our society is suffering greatly because of it.
Every aspect of society, especially the integrity of our businesses and the quality of our intellectuality is declining because less than exceptional people are being forcefully injected into every corner of our institutions, neighborhoods, and workplaces. This profound dumbing down and loss of quality in our country is more profound than anyone wants to realize or admit. All the worst fears that most intellectuals of the early 1900s had about racial interbreeding and the loss of human excellence has become true. This country is becoming a mass of uneducated, oblivious, uncultured, homogenous fools that strive only to increase their worthless possessions and debts. This is exactly what the Elite want out of America, a mass of mindless workers and consumers.
There are many other problems with Liberalism that I do not have the time or space to address here.
3. Junk Food and Processed Food
This is actually highly related to Feminism, because the processed food industry was only able to grow into a trillion-dollar industry because women were taken out of the home and put into the workplace. Statistics show a sharp rise in the profits of processed food companies with the rise of Feminism.
Further, Feminism lowered women’s assignment of value on preparing meals and taking care of their families, so spending time preparing healthy meals became less of a priority. Thus, women no longer had the time or motivation to cook raw, real, nutritious food from scratch. So mothers and wives turned to packaged, processed food to feed their families.
Instead of focusing on raising the children, maintaining the household, being a supportive wife, and cooking the family’s food, women are increasingly self-centered and choosing to focus on their own careers and incomes. This, of course, causes the children and entire family to suffer.
People think they do not have time or money to make healthy meals, but mostly they just waste their time on supernormal activities when they should be cooking instead. Further, I eat a strict diet of vegetables, rice, and meat, and it costs less than $200 per month.
Modern processed food hijacks the minds of people. The food industry giants like Kraft, which is owned by the tobacco company Phillip Morris, know a thing or two about exploiting human nature to create gigantic profits.
Think about the diet of our evolutionary ancestors. It was plants, fruit, nuts, and occasionally meat. Our massive struggle to survive evolved our brains to chemically reward us for consuming caloric food that contained high levels of salt, sugar, or fat. Back then, the most caloric thing we could eat was some nuts or maybe buffalo meat. Modern processed food is much more caloric and has one thousand times more salt, sugar, and fat than what we are evolved to eat. This makes modern processed food “supernormal”.
Our prehistoric chemical reward systems get triggered to extreme levels when we consume this unnatural food, which creates an experience that is highly addictive. Further, it distorts our perception of food, and the bliss we receive from junk food makes regular, raw, healthy food seem disgusting in comparison.
As humans we are meant to be near-starving at most times. The way our bodies process and store fat is based on this experience. For virtually all of human history, food was scarce and survival was difficult. Now, food in North America is more abundant than ever before and we don’t even need to leave the couch to obtain it.
For those that lack self-control, which is most of the human population, the lure of supernormal junk food is beyond their powers of resistance.
Further, the massive corporations have no interest in curtailing the horrible eating habits of Americans. The processed food is cheap to manufacture and highly profitable so the Elite want the people to continue consuming it. Additionally, the massive medical and pharmaceutical industries in this country reap trillions of dollars of profits from the illnesses that people inevitably contract from eating the processed food. Thus, it serves the interests of the Elite to normalize obesity in this country and remove the taboos around being fat. So we have now have society trying to convince men that fat women are attractive.
Being obese and fat is not acceptable or attractive, and it never will be, no matter what the Elite promote. It’s extremely unhealthy, unattractive, and it broadcasts many reprehensible character flaws in a person. One of the most disgusting things about modern society is the normalization of obesity.
4. Video Games
One of the many reasons I decided to step away and disassociate myself from the “Red Pill” community is that several of the so-called leaders of that “movement” aggrandize the playing of video games. Many of these men are just boys that never grew up, and not men that I can admire. Being a recovering video game addict myself, I haven’t played them in many years. Further, I see playing video games as a massive character flaw in grown men. The activity is also not appropriate for grown men that claim to be “unplugged”. You are simply not unplugged when you spend many hours per week staring at a stimulation that hijacks your brain.
Most video games that men play simulate war or combat in some way. They involve tasks and quests, and they have been created with the intention of being addictive. The intensity and realism of the graphics and experience in modern video games is extraordinary. Video games are another example of a supernormal experience. Playing video games is also engaging in a simulation of life instead of living real life, which is always a problem.
Video games allow men to get the thrill of combat without any of the costs. It bursts a man’s neurochemical reward system in an unnatural way, and dulls his real life. I can say from personal experience that the experience of video games can provide a level of enjoyment and excitement that real life can never match. This is what makes these games so addictive.
Further, every second a man spends playing video games is a second he could have spent improving himself and his real life. Playing video games is an activity that produces nothing and only makes the person worse. Life is short, and spending it playing video games is nothing but escapism. Mentally speaking, it’s the same as spending your time shooting up heroin.
5. Pornography
I started looking at pornography at the age of 12. Thanks to the advent of the internet, I could get on my dial up internet, use Netscape Navigator to visit hotsex.com, and wait 3 minutes for a pornographic picture to load.
I viewed pornography nearly every day after that for 29 years until I was 41. I often viewed it multiple times per day. I didn’t appreciate the profound impact that porn had on my psyche and experience of life until I was 41. I do owe this enlightenment to the book The Rational Male.
You probably don’t think porn is all that bad. What’s the problem with viewing a little porn and jerking off real quick? I was of the same mind and didn’t see the problem either. But here’s the problem…
For most of human history, it was very rare for men to see naked women, and even more rare to see other men and women having sex. And since procreation is the main purpose of our existence and the driving force of our genes, we are highly chemically rewarded by any sexual experiences we have. Our minds, bodies, and genes drive us, in every way possible, to seek out and have sex with women to impregnate them. The sexual drive is the driving force behind every man’s existence. It is so integrated into our psyches, and so dominant over our realities, that we often don’t appreciate its influence.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, held the view that the sexual drive (or libido) was a primary motivating force behind human behavior and psychological development.
Nearly everything a man does is motivated by his desire to have sex with women. Our high testosterone, among other things, causes sex to be at the forefront of our lives. It’s a violent urge that is present when we wake up, stays with us all day long, and is there when we go to sleep.
At least it should be…We can get into declining testosterone levels in men at another time…
The problem is that our primitive hindbrain, which is the part of our mind that controls our emotions, behaviors, and drives, cannot distinguish between real sex with real women and pornography, which is simulated sex with non-existent women. So when we view porn, we receive the same neurochemical rewards, and the same bliss, that we should only be receiving when we have real sex with real women. This distorts our entire realities and existences, and destroys our motivation in life.
Unlimited sex with unlimited desirable women is the primal goal of every man, whether they want to admit it or not. That is the directive of our innate sexual strategy. But only kings and sultans over history could actually obtain this. However, pornography tricks the hindbrain into thinking we are getting unlimited sex with unlimited women. And thus our brains reward us for doing nothing, which is a massive hijacking of our brains.
Not only does porn kill the motivation, self-improvement, and self-actualization of men, it also destroys their real sex lives. Just like video games, real women and real sexual encounters can never reach the excitement and bliss levels of pornography. Most men can’t have sex with women that come close to the beauty and perfection of porn actresses. Not to mention how makeup and video tricks make women in porn even more beautiful and perfect than they are in reality.
It’s interesting to think about what my sex life might have been like if I lived before the advent of pornography. I’ve often been unsatisfied with my sex life, even though I’ve had sex with more women than most men would in 20 lifetimes. I’ve done everything I’ve ever wanted to do with women sexually, including sex with multiple women at the same time, and fulfilled every fantasy I’ve ever had. Yet, it has never really been enough to satisfy me.
Personally, I’ve found the acceptance and full appreciation of the dangers and damage of watching pornography to be challenging. I’ve had periods of abstinence from it, and I have also lost discipline and starting watching it again. With modern smart phones, it is SO EASY, SO IMMEDIATE, and SO GRATIFYING to engage in. This can make porn difficult to resist. However, when you stop watching it completely, you will notice a positive change in yourself. You have to do it yourself to see what I mean.
Some men believe masturbating should be eliminated all together. I partially agree with this, with some contingencies. For example, right now I have consciously made the decision to not date, have sex with, or really interact with women for several months. I’m going through a transition and growth period in my life and I am removing the influence of women intentionally. I do not watch porn right now, but I still masturbate. And I masturbate because I intentionally want to stay away from women.
However, when a man is dating women, he should probably cease masturbating all together. There are several reasons for this.
Some believe that masturbating expels Beta pheromones that women can subconsciously detect, and thus you are less attractive. I believe this is true in a certain way. Women are certainly sensitive to the energy of a man, and they respond favorably to men that are more aggressive and sexually bold.
Abstaining from masturbation and ejaculation gives you an enthusiasm and drive to have sex with women that will cause you to have more sex with more women. The is simple to understand. The drive is to have sex with women. When you masturbate and ejaculate that drive is lessened temporarily, and thus your enthusiasm to have sex will be lessened temporarily as well.
Masturbating will cause your sexual performance to decline with real women. You want to save all your sexual energy and libido for real women, and give her everything you have to give when you are with her. If you can stay up all night giving her and yourself many orgasms, that is a good thing to do. This is a rule: The more orgasms the better. When you are masturbating a lot, it may be difficult to even stay hard or have one orgasm yourself. This is very bad and women are famously insensitive and not very understanding about this sort of thing.
Conclusion
While there are many positives to modernity, in many ways the new technology we possess is like giving chainsaws to toddlers. Humans now have these incredible new inventions, but most people do not have the discipline to use them responsibly or the intelligence to appreciate their dangers. And one cannot even expect the average human to do so, given that we are the exact same Apes we were 300,000 years ago. Perhaps the better expression is that modernity is like giving chainsaws to Chimpanzees, because that better approximates the reality.
The lack of real war is the direct result of the invention of the atom bomb, and the advent of other weapons of mass destruction like non-nuclear bombs, jets, drones, and tanks. Up until the 20th century, a group of men could rise up in revolt and topple an oppressive government. Everyone had the same caliber of weapons back then, more or less. Now, the citizen’s access to weaponry is exponentially weaker than the State’s. A mass of men rising up in revolt can be obliterated with one drone strike controlled by remote operators. Real war is over, and it as been since the atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The lack of real war has led to the exponential increase in Liberalism in society, which has led to Feminism and the general effeminacy of men. When real war no longer exists, real warriors are no longer needed, and thus real men are no longer needed. Only real men have ever or will ever start revolts, never women. So it serves the interests of the Elite to effeminize and neuter men and promote the rise of women. It follows that the natural virtues of masculinity such as aggression, strength, physicality, and brute force will be denigrated by a society that only wishes to produce a safe, homogenous workplace full of rats running on the wheels of big business.
When men have no real war, no women and children to protect, a dwindling amount of women that appreciate their provisioning abilities, and no great cause to believe in, they are lost without a purpose. Thus they are more susceptible to addictive drugs such as junk food, video games, and pornography.
This essay has been a good introduction to the problems we face as modern men, and what we do to numb the pain and escape these problems. We were meant for something more than a safe, sanitized world of simulated experiences. I’ve felt the burden of this unnatural world since the day I was born. Maybe you have felt it too…
Here are some quotes that I find relevant to this discussion and finding your purpose in life:
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
