At the behest of a friend I watched Palahniuk on Rogan and he said something that struck me. He said there is a scarcity of fiction for men, almost nothing that speaks from the masculine heart. My paraphrase. Of course we could all think of some examples...
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The apathy of the universe is bottomless, and to a man, uniquely to a man, he begins to feel this apathy even from a very young age, he becomes the object of a radical indifference, in equal measure to what vitality he shows
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A woman can never know of the consummate coldness of the universe, for man and woman alike feel the overpowering, all-consuming need to care for women; Woman thinks that she has been controlled by man, but in fact there is no difference between control and protection
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To be regarded with apathy is the price one pays for libertyhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1050389201181528064 …
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She never even glimpses the contours of masculine reality. And because she does not feel the coldness of the universe, because man has always put her in the safest, warmest, most interior place, next to the food and the fire, she cannot see the world as he sees it, as mechanism
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fMRI is probably pseudoscience but I seem to recall reading that the same part of a mans brain is used for tool use and also for regarding women.https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1047115237478912000 …
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Objectification of women is not a sin but an immutable fact. In the eyes of man there are only objects, and women the most cherished of all! There is nothing more valuable to a man than feminine beauty; to behold a beautiful woman is sufficient justification for all existence
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For this reason few things injure us so much as the egregore known as "social justice activism," because it is an autocatalytic loop of uglinesshttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1054376830839345153 …
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An ugly woman is not as well cared-for as a beautiful one, hence she is less controlled. Being unloved, she consoles herself with a lie; "I do not WISH to be loved", except she phrases it, "I cannot bear to be ruled by a man" To prove it, she makes herself uglier
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There are few things more dangerous than feedback loops without dampeners. The classic example of cybernetics is the thermostat which tries to change the temperature of the room in response to the temperature of the room. A signal modulates an action which modulates a signal
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In the situation of the ugly woman, her self-amplification of her ugliness causes others to love her even less, and so she makes herself even uglier. Ugliness creates a desire whose fulfillment creates even more ugliness, a feedback loop without a dampener
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And I often hear "society teaches men to hide their weaknesses, as a result they are emotionally repressed". no No NO. Men who have no connection to their own masculinity parrot this idiocy. Masculine inner life is different from feminine. Our nakedness does not look like yours
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Man's vulnerability IS written out, at impossible length, across the whole of civilization, and its twin aspects are Woman and the Void. These are our weaknesses. Man's vulnerability is not the fear of being crushed by our protectors, it is the pain of god's radical neglect
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And there is something ineffable about woman's power: nominally she submits, but in submitting, she rules. To be crass, she "tops from the bottom". All of man's striving and sacrificing is ultimately to please her, to protect her, whatever he tells himselfhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1046165281695891456 …
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It's better to see women as a force of nature. Her weakness is her strength, her submission is her domination. Giving her explicit and nominal political power substantially raises her above man, since her power is informal, covert, almost impossible to describe
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Even the most powerful man is ruled by women, in a way that, if you say it, sounds stupid and fake, sounds like it's all in his head, sounds like something imagined. He is ruled by his implicit and inexorable gynolatry
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As for all that alpha male, red pill, strong independent man who don't need no woman type of posturing, what we call machismo: it's a bit like the ugly woman feedback loop, but unlike its reflection, it can be useful in pushing a man towards sexually attractive actions
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Many things that are partly true, or half-true, or outright false, can still be useful things to believe. Such things can be even more useful than the truth, in many cases. Masculine pride is like that.
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Do you mean MtF transsexuals?
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No. You can find accounts online of women who have taken male hormones and tried to live as men and expressed surprise and dismay at how indifferent everyone becomes to them.
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This is perhaps the thing that most convinced me (hearing this sort of thing myself from other sources) that the basic thesis is correct - that the world really is experienced so astonishingly differently by the fairer sex. Imagine if "being valued" was the default!
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Cosmic preference for egg-bearers goes far deeper than anything males might want (while ultimately determining that).
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Nature: "So you're saying your gametes are small?" *pulls on Mengele mask*
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From where fertile age females are sitting, the entire male life-experience must be pure Lovecraft. Which is why so many of them who hit the Wall childless and single lurch into gibbering insanity at the revelation.
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