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Ree

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I recently saw one of my heroes "jordan peterson" trolled to the point of having a mental breakdown,
I agree with most of his views,and I dont even see them as being controversial,yet a lot of people do,
When I was new to seduction I was a little bit of a preacher,preaching game,but very negative feedback made me learn to keep these views to myself,
now here lies the problem,if everyone was like me people like chase,mystery ,darwin ,dawkins would never have spread their knowledge to me,yet personally the social cost of spreading such truths seem to be so high,that I often wonder if its worth it.
recently a Kenyan seducer coach was trolled by twitter so hard by ignorant men and women, i shared their beliefs but I was not wiling to risk any social status by supporting him,actually I steer clear of any remotely controversial topics on social media.
Is there an answer to this,if you had truths that people dont want to hear,even if these truth could help people,should you spread them like jordan peterson and darwin,or should you just shrug and keep to yourself like me?
 

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Quick reply for now, but here're my thoughts on more or less the underlying phenomenon you're aiming at, Ree:


More on the mark of what you're discussing though -- usually it is not worth it to be a martyr for a cause, at least early on.

In my day-to-day life, I never talk about seduction with anyone who is not already game-aware.

If non-game-aware people are critical of seduction, I just ignore it.

You can't convince everyone of everything. And trying to change one man's views is hard.

You can make your whole life about fighting for a cause. But there will always be more causes you could fight for instead.

Choose very carefully the ones you want to fight for.

In my case -- I am happy to talk seduction with guys who want to learn it.

With guys who don't -- well, maybe they'll find me some day.

Meanwhile.... I'm not going to chase them around shoving pamphlets in their faces. Would suggest you do not either ;) Life's too short.
 

Ree

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Meanwhile.... I'm not going to chase them around shoving pamphlets in their faces. Would suggest you do not either
man i have been guilty of this on many occasions,I learnt not to do it online,but in real life interactions I always find myself lecturing someone on either seduction or the freemarket ,i think this is something I should work on.
 

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Depends:

1) Is your cause worth fighting for?
2) How large is your motivation and your capabilities? What is the reward?
3) What are the capabilities of the opponent?

Regarding seduction, I think this is a cause which fails most of these tests. The majority will never be pro seduction due to most men being chodes, it is also zero sum. Women will denounce it in public. There is not much money in it. So high risk, low reward.

Jordan Peterson is an example of a guy who lacks capabilities. He is a chode academic who is also mentally ill. This makes him unsuited for conflicts, particularly any prolonged ones. To make it worse, he has engaged multiple opponents at once. He is basically an extreme example on the typical blue pill person or expert with something important to tell - and under the illusion that everybody will like to hear it, even when it makes people lose justification for privileges etc.

I don't think Dawkins has suffered much. He is an older and seemingly happy man, you can easily find Youtube clips where he reads his hate mail with friends and laughs. I think he loves being an arrogant academic making fun out of Creationists. I have also read somewhere that he is a bit of a PUA also, which helps a lot in this context, in contrast to the chode JP.
 
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Ree

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Regarding seduction, I think this is a cause which fails most of these tests. The majority will never be pro seduction due to most men being chodes, it is also zero sum. Women will denounce it in public. There is not much money in it. So high risk, low reward.
I agree,although I dont understand why so many people are very hostile towards seduction,


I don't think Dawkins has suffered much

I hope so,I really value these people,and it hurts me how society persecutes them.



anyway this whole thing
1) Is your cause worth fighting for?
2) How large is your motivation and your capabilities? What is the reward?
3) What are the capabilities of the opponent?

it makes me then wonder,what sort of cause would you deem worthy?
 

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@Ree,

I agree,although I dont understand why so many people are very hostile towards seduction,

I've given this a lot of thought over the past several years.

Why men are hostile to seduction -- well, imagine you spent 10 years learning to play a really hard sport. You spent inordinate time in the gym getting fit, practiced your shots or hits again and again, and finally got good. Then some guy pops on the scene telling people, "If you learn this sequence of straightforward moves, you will DESTROY all those other guys playing the sport!" Then, worse still, guys try the sequence out and it actually works. Guys who do it are able to beat you at this sport you've invested huge amounts of time, pain, and effort into. You know these guys can't possibly value the sport the same way you do, after all the blood, sweat, and emotion you put into it. That just makes you even angrier. They are depriving you of something you have worked so hard at and value so highly, by using this easy way to get it and not even valuing it like you do!

The sport is "meeting women, dating them, having sex with them, and making them fall in love and stay devoted", and the way most guys go about it is by going to school, getting a degree, interviewing for companies, slaving away in offices to build their careers, developing their friend groups, nurturing their social media profiles, and very carefully, gradually, slowly "earning their dues" in the world.

Then the seducer comes along and says, "Hey broke loner man who isn't on social media, here's what to do to shag 20x more girls than those guys working their asses off, and be the guy those girls fall HARDEST for and devote themselves to like no other guy in their lives before or after you!"

It just completely blows up the entire universe of a lot of normie guys.

Some normie guys hear seduction and are like, "YES!!! This is the cheat code I have been looking for. THIS is what will let me skip to the head of the pack!"

But a lot of normie guys hear it and are like, "No... it can't POSSIBLY work! It doesn't rely on career, or friend groups, or social status, or money, or looks... it can't POSSIBLY..." and they get dissonance and feel angry and like you're lying to them or tricking them if you tell them it works.

Other normie guys hear it and are like, "This guy is a goddamn devil. He is just tricking all these women. Women REALLY want a guy like me... one who has worked on his career and his social media profile and worked his way up the status ladder. These guys are doing some trickery to deceive women and sneak them away from me, even though I am the one who has EARNED those women. Those guys haven't earned it. They are devils, cheats, and manipulators."

The system doesn't like seducers because the system is built on male obedience, and 99.9999124% of male obedience is motivated by the ultimate thought of "This will get me pussy from women" (or, when men are older, "This will provide for my kids... and also maybe get me pussy from women"). Seducers skip around the rule of "obedience to the system gets pussy" by learning social skills instead of inventing technologies, building the economy, working for business owners, being a good Christian, or being a good progressive, whatever it is the system demands of men right now. Most seducers still have jobs or businesses and various ideological positions anyway, but the rewards they get (in terms of sexual success) are outsized compared to their contribution to society/economy/social agenda, which degrades the system's reward structure. No strong society likes seducers -- conservative Christians hate seducers, and liberal LGBTQ+ feminists hate seducers. Seduction threatens the system's ability to dictate male behavior, by breaking the relationship between the demands of the system from the system's rewards.

As for women, women do not actually hate all seducers. They hate two specific types of seducers:

  1. Lame guys who are going to pester and annoy them instead of accept their place as platonic friends and supporters

  2. Sexy guys who shag them but make them feel bad / devalued after a romp

When a woman rails against seducers, she is always thinking of one of these two guys. Women actually like and are intrigued by seducers who are not lame, and who do not make them feel bad. They love these guys. But they will publicly rail against seduction, because they are thinking about those other two guys, or are conscious that if they say anything in support of seduction they will get accused of supporting lame guys or mean guys.

When you talk to a woman about seduction and she acts grossed out, it is always because you came across as a lame guy seeking her approval of you studying seduction, or because you came across as a callous guy who likes to shag women and make them feel bad.

And actually, women dislike the lame guy a lot more than they do the callous guy.

Callous guys can actually turn women on, if they don't auto-reject. But they still have to act like, "Ew, I would never! As if!" just to keep face socially.

So, various different reasons why various people dislike seducers.

The old Teddy Roosevelt quote works well for seduction: "Walk softly and carry a big stick."

Walk softly, in terms of not going around proselytizing everyone. Carry a big stick in terms of your game... and uh, that big stick in your pants ;)

Chase
 

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But a lot of normie guys hear it and are like, "No... it can't POSSIBLY work! It doesn't rely on career, or friend groups, or social status, or money, or looks... it can't POSSIBLY..." and they get dissonance and feel angry and like you're lying to them or tricking them if you tell them it works.

The emotional calculus is interesting here.

Option A: Accept a huge sunk cost, deal with the emotional pain, adjust views.
Option B: Trade the sunk cost to cognitive dissonance, deal with the cognitive dissonance by suppressing dissenting views, keep old views.

Boils down to short-term acute discomfort vs long-term silent despair.


Rakkum
 

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The emotional calculus is interesting here.

Option A: Accept a huge sunk cost, deal with the emotional pain, adjust views.
Option B: Trade the sunk cost to cognitive dissonance, deal with the cognitive dissonance by suppressing dissenting views, keep old views.

Boils down to short-term acute discomfort vs long-term silent despair.


Rakkum

Oh yeah. And the escalation of commitment link is correct.

Humans on average are really bad about doubling down on things that aren't working.

There's a happy medium between not abandoning things too soon, before they've had a chance to work, and not sticking with things too long, past the point where they obviously aren't working.

Many people shift back and forth between these two extremes... they abandon diet and exercise before it can work, for instance... or they abandon learning seduction before it can work... but then they spend years or decades on things they hope are going to pay off that ultimately never do.

Why people choose to invest their energy into the things they do, and not other things, is an entire topic on its own.
 

Ree

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very interesting and enlightening,man that topic of dissonance has always been very intriguing to me,
someone does something that does not give results(In kenya people pay evangelists a lot of money to pray for them etc),if you point out that these things dont work,rather than people being disenchanted, their reaction is usually lashing out in anger or even violence,
My brother lost a lot of money on get rich quick schemes(multi level marketing and bitcoins)all throught his journey when I was pointing out mlm is just a pyramid scheme,(after he had invested a lot of time and money) rather than be introspective ,he would become very emotional and enraged.
I guess this was dossonance at work.
I wonder what evolutionary advantage such a self defeating mechanism offers,
 
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Ree

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Option B: Trade the sunk cost to cognitive dissonance, deal with the cognitive dissonance by suppressing dissenting views, keep old views.
99 percent of times ,i just see everyone choose this,i wonder why evolution wired humans so badly
 
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