Quote: (04-30-2015 03:03 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
Quote: (04-30-2015 02:57 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Fixed.
I've liked your posts in the past LM, and am sorry to see you leave, but I doubt you're going to find any trace of sense and rightness anywhere else.
We are the sense of rightness, Bosch. It has always been us.
When McCoy is finished wandering in the wilderness, he'll realize that we've always been the sense of rightness. (Otherwise, the wilderness will just destroy him.)
Damn straight we are.
My point more was, yes, of course the Manosphere has its groupthink, demonised outgroups, issues and pathologies. I've done a lot of soul searching over this at times myself, but the reality is, so will
any group in society LM choses to interact with.
He could be describing a group of friends, local government, a workout crew, a band, an office workplace or a sports team.
Any group of people he chooses to associate with in the future will have a demonised out-group it needs to feel superior too to strengthen group unity. There will be certain beliefs - frequently illogical or hypocritical - he will need to hold to remain part of the group, at risk of expulsion.
It's simply how tribes work. It's not always about skin colour.
A Leftist Friend, posting on FB recently: "Ugh, can you still believe that people still think this way [about race] in 2015?" I wanted to reply:
"Ugh, can you still believe that people still believe in tribal unity in 2015", he said, showing his clear, unquestioned allegiance to his tribe of upper-middle class liberals from rich communities that are over 97.8% White but nevertheless make a constant show of Not Being Racist. (And I've checked out the census demographics of the towns on all of these tools on my FB: 97.8% was the
least-homogenous population).
What LM is trying to escape is everywhere: hypocrisy, stereotyping, pathology. Given that choice, I'd err on the side of Neomasculinity every time, particularly as I'm damn fond of my balls.
As I grow older, my core beliefs about life have changed due to experience and research, and, as such, I'm more convinced I'm right about any topic I've seriously-considered, whilst also being less-convinced that I know everything. It's a good place to be in mid-life.