I've been lurking here for some time, and I am an avid reader of Roosh's blog as well as Roissy's. Those two blogs tower over just about everything else in the "manosphere" in terms of insightfulness and quality. And when you get right down to it, these blogs are only about "game" in the most surface sense. They are really about self-determination, fighting the cultural forces that would diminish, humiliate, and marginalize men, and asserting our power and uniqueness as men in a world that is increasingly hostile to the very male power that has made civilization possible.
What I appreciate about Roosh is how his writings celebrate the "whole man." And what I want to say here is that the key distinction is whether you are going to be a "man" or whether you are going to be "half a man."
A man:
--Does not need a woman for fulfillment. He needs sex, but this can be gotten from a variety of women in whom he is not emotionally invested.
--Has his own projects and passions.
--Has integrity; sets his own moral course, and to hell with anyone else who disagrees.
--Draws people to him by the gravitational force of his excellence.
--Is not trendy, except perhaps in the most superficial sense (not wearing out-of-date clothes).
--Stays his course. Does not drift and vacillate depending on the prevailing cultural winds.
Half a man:
--Needs a woman to be fulfilled. This results in "one-itis." This explains the bodybuilders and other guys who would appear to be alpha, who nonetheless are reduced to infantile dependency on a woman who has captured their heart.
--Doesn't have deep passions or enduring projects. So he needs entertainment, hates being alone, resulting in clinging to a woman to occupy his time.
--Does not have core beliefs or commitments. Worries unduly much about what others think about him.
--Doesn't have a well-defined identity, so exercises no draw, does not impress people with excellence, but is just milquetoast, bland, and unremarkable in terms of personality and accomplishment.
--Is trendy. Is easily distracted by transient cultural bullshit. Is womanish/effeminate in his gossiping and delight at cultural trends. Easily excited.
--Is fundamentally adrift in his life, has no foundation, no core identity, so is not solid enough for anyone to depend on.
A man --a whole man -- who does not NEED a woman for fulfillment, is nonetheless the most attractive man for women, because he is solid, unshakable, and strong. She can depend on him. A woman may grudgingly settle on half a man, but she will never be satisfied. She will forever be quietly in awe of the real, whole men that she really wants. And if she finds herself in a relationship with a man (as opposed to half a man) she will be deeply in his thrall. If she cheats on a man -- as opposed to half a man -- then she will be revealing that she has deeply depraved character and should be summarily dumped. If she cheats on half a man, with a whole man, she is just showing half a man that she never really respected him, she settled with him for lack of a real man.
Western culture is increasingly set up to produce half-man. Our society is full of broken homes where moral lessons, lessons in how to live, are no longer instilled in young men. Women are raising boys to be half-men. We live in a culture that thrives on specialization, and when you finish your expensive education you are routed into crappy jobs in office parks and given a cubicle in which you are to sit eight hours a day to perform meaningless tasks while your waistline expands and your body turns doughy. You get two weeks of vacation time a year, so there's no time to travel extensively. Your boss expects long hours of you, so you are tempted to eat fast food, or eat cheap, processed junk food rather than healthy, simple meals, and your long hours make it hard to get out in the daylight and exercise and become strong and vigorous. Everything is working to make you a flabby, small-spirited, specialized half-man who is so broken and exhausted by your daily routine and your oppressive, corporate existence that you settle down and obey those who would presume to control you. You willingly imbibe the cultural propaganda that tells you that you are living a good, honest, productive life, all while you are consenting to have your manhood stripped from you just like a new inmate is stripped and searched when he's being booked into jail. Society is disarming you of your manhood.
Roosh is providing an antidote to this propaganda. You may be tempted to think that game is "cheesy," "undignified," "immature," etc., but the crisis of American manhood is so serious that there is no time to worry about good taste. Roosh is fighting fire with fire. He is providing a manual for how to reject the deal that society offers you., the deal that is sold to you by cultural forces who make used-car dealers seem like paragons of integrity and fair dealing.
The lesson that Roosh is telling us is, be a man. A whole, dynamic, self-possessed man. If you insist on being a man, great riches will come to you naturally.
What I appreciate about Roosh is how his writings celebrate the "whole man." And what I want to say here is that the key distinction is whether you are going to be a "man" or whether you are going to be "half a man."
A man:
--Does not need a woman for fulfillment. He needs sex, but this can be gotten from a variety of women in whom he is not emotionally invested.
--Has his own projects and passions.
--Has integrity; sets his own moral course, and to hell with anyone else who disagrees.
--Draws people to him by the gravitational force of his excellence.
--Is not trendy, except perhaps in the most superficial sense (not wearing out-of-date clothes).
--Stays his course. Does not drift and vacillate depending on the prevailing cultural winds.
Half a man:
--Needs a woman to be fulfilled. This results in "one-itis." This explains the bodybuilders and other guys who would appear to be alpha, who nonetheless are reduced to infantile dependency on a woman who has captured their heart.
--Doesn't have deep passions or enduring projects. So he needs entertainment, hates being alone, resulting in clinging to a woman to occupy his time.
--Does not have core beliefs or commitments. Worries unduly much about what others think about him.
--Doesn't have a well-defined identity, so exercises no draw, does not impress people with excellence, but is just milquetoast, bland, and unremarkable in terms of personality and accomplishment.
--Is trendy. Is easily distracted by transient cultural bullshit. Is womanish/effeminate in his gossiping and delight at cultural trends. Easily excited.
--Is fundamentally adrift in his life, has no foundation, no core identity, so is not solid enough for anyone to depend on.
A man --a whole man -- who does not NEED a woman for fulfillment, is nonetheless the most attractive man for women, because he is solid, unshakable, and strong. She can depend on him. A woman may grudgingly settle on half a man, but she will never be satisfied. She will forever be quietly in awe of the real, whole men that she really wants. And if she finds herself in a relationship with a man (as opposed to half a man) she will be deeply in his thrall. If she cheats on a man -- as opposed to half a man -- then she will be revealing that she has deeply depraved character and should be summarily dumped. If she cheats on half a man, with a whole man, she is just showing half a man that she never really respected him, she settled with him for lack of a real man.
Western culture is increasingly set up to produce half-man. Our society is full of broken homes where moral lessons, lessons in how to live, are no longer instilled in young men. Women are raising boys to be half-men. We live in a culture that thrives on specialization, and when you finish your expensive education you are routed into crappy jobs in office parks and given a cubicle in which you are to sit eight hours a day to perform meaningless tasks while your waistline expands and your body turns doughy. You get two weeks of vacation time a year, so there's no time to travel extensively. Your boss expects long hours of you, so you are tempted to eat fast food, or eat cheap, processed junk food rather than healthy, simple meals, and your long hours make it hard to get out in the daylight and exercise and become strong and vigorous. Everything is working to make you a flabby, small-spirited, specialized half-man who is so broken and exhausted by your daily routine and your oppressive, corporate existence that you settle down and obey those who would presume to control you. You willingly imbibe the cultural propaganda that tells you that you are living a good, honest, productive life, all while you are consenting to have your manhood stripped from you just like a new inmate is stripped and searched when he's being booked into jail. Society is disarming you of your manhood.
Roosh is providing an antidote to this propaganda. You may be tempted to think that game is "cheesy," "undignified," "immature," etc., but the crisis of American manhood is so serious that there is no time to worry about good taste. Roosh is fighting fire with fire. He is providing a manual for how to reject the deal that society offers you., the deal that is sold to you by cultural forces who make used-car dealers seem like paragons of integrity and fair dealing.
The lesson that Roosh is telling us is, be a man. A whole, dynamic, self-possessed man. If you insist on being a man, great riches will come to you naturally.
