Quote: (07-07-2012 12:07 AM)thedude3737 Wrote:
On a deeper level, we should always be aware of what the media is trying to sell to us. Articles are written for a reason, and they are funded privately by individuals with an agenda. I wouldn't call myself paranoid, but the more I extricate myself from mainstream media, the more it all seems incredibly manipulative to me when I do encounter it. I haven't had a T.V. in about 10 years, and when I see it now, it blows me away that people can sit in front of this thing for hours at a time.
Broadly, there is a conspiracy of sorts. There are just a few companies that control virtually all mass media. The executive staff is intimately involved with our financial institutions, the government, universities, and think tanks.
For the most part, something along the lines of Brave New World is the ultimate goal here. The elite wishes to maintain their positions of power. Within the United States, this largely comes from being direct beneficiaries of our imperial system of extracting wealth from the world economy via sovereign debt (See Michael Hudson's _Super Imperialism_).
The problem in the US is we don't really have a functional economy. Nearly all wealth comes from this imperial system, but only a few can benefit and live a life of largess. The vast majority of Americans are effectively economically obsolete within this economic structure.
So, we get the service economy, we get the office drones, and we get loads of welfare.
This kind of life is not satisfying on a base level, so propaganda is necessary to reinforce the supposed value of this lifestyle. This is the function media serves.
Masculinity is one of the greatest threats to this system, but attempts to control it have been mixed due to liberal philosophy. There is no question original propaganda efforts to undermine patriarchy and encourage promiscuity was very much in the Brave New World mode of placating people with casual sex. No one anticipated however how primal female sexuality is, i.e. the 80/20 rule.
The resurgence of propaganda glorifying relationships is a way to keep the beta males from revolting, even if all the are doing is playing video games and jacking off to porn. It's enough to keep the delusion going.
So where does that leave us? Yes, sex is fun. But we all know what really happens when you are fucking a lot of women. Women sense it, and want you. Men also sense it, and respect you. Historically, the men who got the most pussy were leaders.
Being a player can be fun, but it is a path to power - the kind of power necessary to overcome the present nihilism and degeneracy of modern society. The revolutionary army of tomorrow will be composed of broken-hearted beta males. It doesn't take much to convince a man that wholesale destruction is a lot more fun than youporn.