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October 5th, 2014

American Cultural Trends And The Future

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The following trends, palpable and pernicious, can be expected to get worse in subsequent generations, and it may be that the time is not far off when older and better ways of living, now still with us, are utterly vanished, preserved, if at all, only in history books, if they still exist. As technology continues to dumb us down, even as it erases cultural memory, the following phenomena seem likely to become even more widespread and harmful.

1. A nation of borderline personalities

As I describe in my article “The Touchiness Of Contemporary America,” we have become a nation of borderline personalities. When we take the naturally corrupt self-interest of human nature, and add historically unprecedented comfort and convenience, we seem to get the following result: a mass of warped minds who, interpreting reality in self-interested extremes, believe that virtually anyone who fails to meet their silly (yet unwitting) expectations and entitlements is “unfair,” “abusive,” “sexist,” “racist,” and so on.
Many Americans, influenced by the media and the resentments of those who consider themselves the insulted and the injured, are now unable to distinguish between the problems and miseries that stem from the natural hardness of life and the injustices brought out by a minority of powerful persons. Human misery per se is thought to be some kind of conspiracy, the work of a bunch of unfair boogiemen, doubtless descended from Dead White European Males.
Likewise, simple frankness, without any kind of unmanly sugarcoating tacked on—the language of corporate America’s “good team members,” in other words—is now likely to be considered “hostile,” “threatening,” “intimidating,” etc. Basically, if you aren’t a happy little sycophant, endlessly timid and compliant, then the shrinks may be needed to deem that you have what they call “oppositional defiant disorder.” You disagree with their “diagnosis”? So what? They have your words and image on record, and here the only practically important thing is the perception or interpretation of those who are in charge.
Human nature, on average, has very little aptitude for objective and analytical thought. On the other hand, forcefully simplifying and misinterpreting the contexts of things, and reading into them what is not there in order to advance one’s interests, is as natural as eating and drinking, though rarely recognized. This ignorant rhetorical game, indeed, is what most people understand by “truth.”
As the young more and more become conditioned not so much to think, but to simply respond to and engage with electronic stimuli, the more faceless and impersonal the better, we can expect more and more human interactions to become effectively blind and incoherent. Here, as always, whoever has the most power will be the one who is “right” or “wins.”

2. The end of masculinity

Up until the PC assault that began in the 80s, what I will call “old school code” was the norm among men. In many instances, if you said or did the wrong thing—that is, what would have been an offense against honor in the old, high sense—a fellow man would give you to understand, by a look or language, that he’d kick your ass, or else he’d just do it; and the effect, though painful, may well have been good for you. It was not “traumatic,” and besides, you learned the hard way, the only way you were going to, hardheaded irrational creature.
Now the many negative responses to my last article here on ROK suggest to me that today even most so-called red pill men do not know how to distinguish between this old school code and what blue-pill-types simplistically and inaccurately call “macho posturing,” done out of “insecurity,” perhaps because you were “abused as a child.”
There’s no perceived difference between the way men were raised to be in the 50s and “bullying.” It’s all the same, some sort of “tough guy act,” and swallowing the red pill means nothing more than being aloof to women and not being sucked in by their games and manipulations. Asserting yourself in regard to other men will soon be the stuff of generations long past. After all, we have already come to a state of things in which the natural masculine aggression that has always been a vital part of sports causes tremendous “concern” for the media and non-athletes.
We men who grew up playing sports know that fights and tiffs, both on the court and field and in the locker room, are part of the very nature of the thing. They are rarely a big deal and can usually be shrugged off. Many liberals and non-athletes no longer seem to understand this, however. Kevin McHale (in)famously clotheslined Kurt Rambis in the 1984 NBA Finals. That sort of thing, back then, served to “set the tone.” Today, McHale would be fined and suspended as people blather about his “anger management problem.” The difference of judgment signifies our present cultural weakness.

3. The genders shall be more indistinguishable and sex more perverse

Endless selfies, duck face photos, and other narcissistic vulgarities of social media are now quite common among men, not just among the Second Sex. I often see groups of the former out at night who seem like teenage girls: they never get tired of taking their picture; they really will do this all night long. Meanwhile, when I hear men speak, in person and on television, I often wonder whether they are gay based on their womanly voices alone, even though they may seem straight otherwise. MSNBC—home of whiny liberal outrage and self-satisfied snark—is especially disgusting here.
Going along with this cultural trend is the depressing reality that dating or hooking up with an American woman under 35 is now very much like dealing with a man. For instance, I recently took a twenty-one-year-old woman home from a bar. The next morning she told me that when she goes home with a guy, she usually just gets up and leaves the next morning, without saying goodbye or getting his number. She made an exception in my case, though, because she found me “really hot.” What’s more, digging my tall, muscular body, she said that when she got up in the morning, she thought to herself, “Yeah, I tapped that.” Just like a man!
I picked up her girlfriend that morning—she too had left with a man—and as I drove them home I listened to them speak in the most shameless and coarsest way. “Did you even get his number?” asked Donna laughing. And she went on: “Was he tall? Was his stroke game good?” The friend did get the number, which, she remarked with a manly laugh, was not her usual custom.
Now I have been hooking up with college-age American women since my late teens (the late 90s), and write this about a week from my thirty-fourth birthday. In only about 15 years I have observed a startling change in the sexual character of these women: when I was 24 many still acted like women, not entirely masculine or soulless. Now that I am almost 34, it’s become quite rare for me to date or hook up with an American woman in her 20s who passes for a woman for reasons other than having a pair of tits and a vagina.

4. The end of a sense of value

Observing both people younger and those older than me, I often sense that for many of them all activities possess more or less the same worth. They seem never to consider the value of anything. Though they do take care to “work hard and play hard,” they basically pass unthinkingly from one activity to another. Some are more fun than others. None have any deep significance. People are more and more reflexive in their behavior, slaves to mere habit where in ages past people stopped to rationally evaluate the significance of their actions and way of life.
Even when it comes to doing business, many people, although they could talk on the phone, now choose to drag things out by text. It does not occur to them to simply get to the point by phone and thus save themselves time, for they do not value time itself.
They work some job which probably is either just bearable or downright contemptible. And to justify and cope with that, they turn to intense indulgence of some kind: porn, ecstasy, or who knows what. Or perhaps they are on anti-depressants since the art of living well is no longer of interest in what is amusingly still called higher education, whose real functions are to rip you off while exposing you to an agenda of politically correct resentment. You are thus left with massive student loans but no Wisdom.

Conclusion

Ralph Waldo Emerson—by far the wisest of American writers—wrote that
In history the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty;—and you have Pericles and Phidias,—and not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and in the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astrigency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
In other words, human beings thrive when, having transitioned to civil society, they still retain the strength and hardihood that they had in the prior, more severe state. This is what gives rise to periods of superb art and high culture. It is also what makes other nations respect us, and to think better of going after our resources or position on the world stage.
That time is now past in America. Creature comforts have made us soft and stupid. Another Great War, perhaps engendered by ecological disaster, may be needed to reduce human nature to its vital core, the source of both our vitality and our creativity.
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      • truth 2 days ago
        America is facing the collapse of society, socially, economically and politically.
        Today's man has now manifested itself into a metrosexual, effiminate hipster, where the man is now the trophy husband, and the women is now the masculine breadwinner.
        The evil cancer known as feminism has led to the destruction of masculinity and today's man is a sign of the decline of our civilization.
        Men are now tatooed from their neck to their bottom, wearing skinny tight clothes, listening to EDM (electronic devil music) all day, sitting in coffee houses with social media and displaying other feminine characteristics in their behaviour. No sense of style. fashion, work ethic and above all, intgrity and honour. The rise in masculine, aggressive career women and single mothers was the major indicator that man as we once knew, had started to die and led to all of the above.
        The truth is man no longer has a true function to serve in society anymore. When men were deprived the opportunity to work by corrupt HR departments, this led to the decline of masculinity. Feminism has led to the high divorce rate in the country along with men being financially raped in the family courts. It is a disease that destroys everything in it's path.
        I believe that being called a mysogynist in this day and age, really means you are being branded a war hero, because for too long, women have waged war on us.
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          • Eduardo the Magnificent > truth 2 days ago
            "The truth is man longer has a true function to serve in society anymore."
            Man's role in modern society is to earn so she can spend. Makes for a bleak life with no meaning. Fight Club needs to be the movie metaphor of the manosphere, not The Matrix.
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              • Mistral > Eduardo the Magnificent 2 days ago
                Bingo. As Dr. Warren Farrell phrased it: "men often feel obligated to earn money someone else spends while they die sooner--and feeling obligated is not power."
                Mistral
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                  • Clark Kent > Eduardo the Magnificent 2 days ago
                    Just last night I overheard my co-workers talking...
                    My one buddy works like 3 jobs and has practically zero time to himself... The other guy commented "Must be nice to be rolling in all that dough".
                    My friend responded "Somehow I manage to burn through all of my monthly savings in one night. I'll wake up and be like how did I just spend $400 getting fucked up last night?".
                    The lifestyle we have requires spending and luxury to justify itself... Otherwise where is the satisfaction of working in most jobs? Most people I know are not starting families. And most young guys know they aren't contributing to anything of real value...
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                      • Jios > Clark Kent 2 days ago
                        The lack of value and meaning in work is a huge problem in contemporary society. All the substantive value has been drained from work. Now work is just something people engage in purely for status and material gain. There is no sense of pride in doing a job well anymore unless it pays big.
                        Is it any wonder that men in particular become alienated from the world of work?
                        Even a guy like me in education struggles to find meaning in what I do because of all the political correctness. I'm exhausted at the end of the day teaching kids for what purpose? Most of them don't want to be there, and most of the teachers don't give a damn either. It's just a way for them to scrape together a vaguely middle class lifestyle
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                          • truth > Jios a day ago
                            Most of those kids probably don't have a future either. Schools are nothing but a conveyor belt to keep the masses busy and distracted by feeding them garbage which they will never use in their lifetime.
                            As a teacher, you should teach them the real facts of life and how the world really works. One day, they will be grateful to you.
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                              • Man of the Hour > Jios 13 hours ago
                                Get the fuck out of education, and do something meaningful with your life. You're clearly not cut out for it, since it's such a feminist regulated system in your country.
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                                  • Jios > Man of the Hour 8 hours ago
                                    It's either sales or education for me at this point of my life. I hate sales and I'm not a good enough bullshitter to talk my way into a high level great sales position. I make less teaching but I find it more rewarding. That should give you an idea of how much I hated being a salesman, even though I was reasonably good at it.
                                    You are correct though, education is best suited to P.C types and wannabe 'progressives'.
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                                    • englishbob > Jios a day ago
                                      Proper Marxist aren't you? A word of advice; whenever you find yourself whining that "life is hard", go back through the history of man and see if you can find a better time to live.
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                                        • Jios > englishbob 8 hours ago
                                          Englishbob, you should read more widely and think a little more deeply about the world. The question I posed was an existential one that has nothing to do with economics. Only drone-like Anglo conservatives see it that way.
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                                            • englishbob > Jios 6 hours ago
                                              This is a stupid and childish response. It is typically Marxist. Instead of acting hurt grow a pair and at least have the courage to stand by what you said. Then we can begin a proper debate.
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                                                • Jios > englishbob 6 hours ago
                                                  I do have the courage to stand by what i said. You just have no idea what I'm talking about, hence you try to throw a label on me. Who is the one being childish here really? You get what you put out in the world.
                                                  If you can't tell the difference between an observation and a 'whinge', or an existential point vs an economic one, what more can I say to you? What exactly are we meant to be having a discussion about?
                                                  My point about the modern working world is simple: it's all about appearances and money. There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money, but there is more to life than money.If that admission makes me a Marxist, then fine, I'm a Marxist, but that is not what most people would consider Marxism.
                                                  As for your other point, well, yes, the only reason we have time to ponder these questions is because we live in relative affluence and have more leisure time compared to people say 100 years ago, but that does not contradict what I said, it merely supports it. These 'problems' we have in advanced industrial countries aren't all just in our heads. There is more to life than just survival, and these 'problems' we encounter are merely expressions of this desire to live a more meaningful life, even if they are often misguided.
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                                                    • englishbob > Jios an hour ago
                                                      One of the most attractive aspects of Marxism is that it echoes the complaints of the common man about the lack of meaning in life, work etc. It is a very emotional argument that everyone can relate to. You may not have studied Marx specifically but the Marxist approach is rife throughout society and politics. Many people do not realise that they are channelling it because it comes to them after many degrees of separation. However, it is an seductive evil that must be stamped out. Hence my forceful comments.
                                                      The reason you have the impression that there is no purpose in your teaching and that most of your students don't want to be there is because the students are forced to be there. You will not receive much gratitude from a slave. If people sought you out to teach them I guarantee you that you would find it much more fulfilling. I teach willing people and it is a fantastic experience.
                                                      Public schooling is a Marxist/Socialist construct and it is no surprise than many teachers display a Marxist ideology even without realising it.
                                                      Sadly, the Universe is cold impersonal place and cares nothing for you and I. Therefore, the only purpose in life is the one you make for yourself.
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                                              • Kai Herrmann > Clark Kent 12 hours ago
                                                yeah it's crazy how people do that, as if going out is a worthy way to spend your time and money. Then those people look at me like i'm a weirdo becuase i like to spend my weekends making extra money working on cars so i can build my own project cars.
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                                                  • Daniel Holland > Eduardo the Magnificent 2 days ago
                                                    nah mang, fight club is about a charismatic psychopath enlisting entitled white men into his quasi fascistic ideals.
                                                    Totes about white male hegemony.
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                                                      • Rob > Eduardo the Magnificent 12 hours ago
                                                        Yup--Fight Club was way ahead of its time.
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                                                        • melmoth > truth a day ago
                                                          But for all the talk of women 'becoming' men, there is one area where they haven't taken on any male trait at all; innovation. There is absolutely none. It's a blank. They march around, growling and glaring and barking and shooting whiskey, fighting etc. But they never innovate or problem solve at all.
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                                                            • Driver > melmoth a day ago
                                                              Women aren't "problem solver" which is why many of them can become CEOs of large "American" corporations.
                                                              Do a great job, fair job or shitty job and they all get paid, regardless. A CEO is a perfect position for a woman.
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                                                                • poaso > Driver a day ago
                                                                  There is a big difference between a CEO who founded the company vs a woman with many academic credentials who speaks well being put in charge.
                                                                  Given the clear record of yahoo, Xerox, HP, etc.. the few companies with women CEO's have done very badly I don't think many others will follow suit.
                                                                  You'd be surprised how many fortune 500 companies were built by male dropouts or otherwise little academic qualification. All women can do is get masters degrees then bitch when the fact is they lack the mental faculties for starting their own companies.
                                                                  "Why are men in charge" because men built the companies. When you take something men spent years building/developing then put a woman in charge......well you get what you ask for.
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                                                                    • Driver > poaso 13 hours ago
                                                                      Good point. Plus the founder will cherish the company more versus someone who is just 'taking over'. I really don't see many female CEOs doing well (now or in the future) because it takes a man to lead. Women are trying to fight it but it's their very nature (biology) that they are fighting against....not men.
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                                                                  • Clark Kent > truth 2 days ago
                                                                    Hey check out this video of this highschool student getting up from his chair, telling his shitty teacher how shitty she is at her job, and then walking out on the class kuz he isn't learning anything... If this isn't RedPill than I don't know what is.
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                                                                      • Eduardo the Magnificent > Clark Kent 2 days ago
                                                                        John Taylor Gatto would have been proud.
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                                                                          • Veni Vidi Vici > Clark Kent 12 hours ago
                                                                            I agree to a point but when he said that the teacher should not only be engaging but be entertaining as well and this is where I disagree. The problem with this generation is they want to be entertained constantly, and part of learning is about delaying instant gratification. The interest and rewards of learning should start with the parents teachers can't work miracles. No amount of teaching will make a dumb kid smart.
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                                                                              • Clark Kent > Veni Vidi Vici 11 hours ago
                                                                                I agree with you that you can only expect so much from teachers...
                                                                                But can't we expect SOMETHING from teachers? I've had good and bad teachers in the past and some of them are clearly there just because it is an easy pay-check.
                                                                                Luckily I went to a highschool with great teachers, but I remember some real shit-for-brains in elementary school.
                                                                                The value of a good teacher is worth the money in taxes... a good teacher cares about the students, teaches them human values, is encouraging, wants to hear their questions.
                                                                                When teachers are just burnt out and school is just day care... don't you think there is something wrong with that system?
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                                                                              • Fisherking > truth a day ago
                                                                                The future will be hilarious when feminism has Naomi Wolf who doesn't believe ISIS exists. Believes the killing of westerners a fake and Ebola not to exist. When feminism has friends like that who needs enemies. If rational men stepped out of the debate for a day these feminists would understand that the white devil is an angel and that 1950s America is sweet compared to the bitter after taste that is 3rd world patriarchy lol
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                                                                                  • englishbob > Fisherking a day ago
                                                                                    I have to say, Naomi Wolf has a point. Obama has wanted to hit Syria for a while and has tried all sorts of things (like the false flag chemical attack). Nothing worked. Then up springs ISIS, ISIL, IS or whatever the fuck they are called with a bunch of decapitation videos. Hey it worked before why not now?
                                                                                    And so, Obama is now hitting Syria to his heart's content. Now I don't think that the videos are fake but I do question the true identity of the perpetrators.
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                                                                                    • spicynujac > Fisherking 11 hours ago
                                                                                      Before you criticize Naomi Wolf, take a look at her film, End of America. It echoes and amplifies much of what is said in this article, and backs it up from a historical perspective (did you know that the terms "Homeland" and "Enhanced Interrogation" and even "Blackwater" were ripped straight from the Nazi playbook?) I understand she became famous for writing a book on western women called The Beauty Myth, which I have not read but seems to criticize cosmetic surgery, pornography, and the fact that women, while they have more material goods than ever, are psychologically unfulfilled. Seems reasonable to me. And ISIS and Al Q are western government creations. In the long run, they develop into a real group as people join this mysterious "rebel" group but there was no such entity a year ago.
                                                                                      From End of America, the 10 steps a fascist group takes to destroy a nation state:
                                                                                      Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
                                                                                      Create secret prisons where torture takes place
                                                                                      Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens
                                                                                      Set up an internal surveillance system
                                                                                      Harass citizens' groups
                                                                                      Engage in arbitrary detention and release
                                                                                      Target key individuals
                                                                                      Control the press
                                                                                      Treat all political dissidents as traitors
                                                                                      Suspend the rule of law
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                                                                                        • FrancisChalk > spicynujac an hour ago
                                                                                          Naomi Wolf is a Marxist to her core. She doesn’t give a hoot
                                                                                          about liberty and personal freedoms. You do realize that Fascism, Marxism, Socialism and Communism are extremely closely related doctrines all designed to control
                                                                                          the masses. Marx provided the seed corn for much of Hitler and Mussolini’s fascist ideas. Read the first 200 pages of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and you’ll see Hitler greatly admired Socialist methods and borrowed heavily from them (although he despised the Socialists/Communists for their denial of nationalism, Jewish ties, and as competitors for power in Germany). Hitler’s original (and never modified) 25 tenants of Nazism are chocked full of Marxist ideals. So to be taken in by Naomi Wolf’s “America is becoming fascist” charade is naive in the extreme. Naomi Wolf and her Leftist/Marxist cohorts seek the same totalitarian future for America that Hitler, Stalin and Mao sought for their own countries. Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, diversity, social justice, gay rights, feminism, and the entire litany of Leftist ideas are all in lock step (or goose step) with Marxism. Just go on YouTube and check out “The Frankfurt School.” Naomi Wolf and her ilk could be Frankfurt School distinguished grads. Your 10 steps (written as a portrayal of Bush policies) are in fact what Obama and the left are doing to America to a level exponentially higher than anything Bush and Cheney tried. The massive and unprecedented NSA spying on our citizenry under Obama, combined with using the IRS to squelch free speech, and Obama’s Lawless Executive orders are truly Hitleresque/Stalinesque. And by the way, which exactly of Bush's fascist policies has Obama undone? Bush was a “shop lifter” of personal freedoms, but Obama is an “armed bank robber” of them.
                                                                                          And when it comes to Al Qaeda and ISIS being American
                                                                                          creations . . . wow . . . where to begin? How about start by abandoning the mindless deceit of Naomi Wolf, academia, Hollywood, Obama, and the left, and pick up any version of the Koran or the Hadith; both are packed, page after page, with references to dominating the infidel and advancing Islam through the sword. Al Qaeda, ISIS and every other Islamic group (Hamas, The Moslem Brotherhood, Hezbollah, etc.) is dedicated to, first and foremost, advancing Islam. Go read what they say about themselves; don’t take my word for it. And to be a good Muslim is to follow the Koran and Hadith, word for word, without exception. So, the “moderate Muslims” I bet you know are really just bad Muslims, little different than a “Catholic” that never received the sacraments and doesn’t go to mass. You need to read some real history my friend and free yourself from the Marxist cesspool of propaganda that so dominates current Western society.
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                                                                                        • bgluck > truth 2 days ago
                                                                                          Agree 100% plus it seems that men no longer have men sanctuaries to vent and pass down knowledge and philosophy to the next generation.
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                                                                                            • Ray Wolf > truth 2 days ago
                                                                                              we've had the collapse of communism, now we are going to have the collapse of socialism, which is basically invisible communism where you have to take more care of the government's shit.... make no mistake, they own your car, house, wages etc.... just try not paying your taxes and see what happens.....
                                                                                              and you thought you were living in a free society..... go buy yourself a gun you're gonna need it.... be sure to save the last bullet for yourself, you might need that too...
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                                                                                              • Danny > truth a day ago
                                                                                                Equality is code word for communism. If things don't change at the earliest in the next 10 years? We're going to be looking like Europe, shit... We already are.
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                                                                                                • Man of the Hour > truth 13 hours ago
                                                                                                  What the fuck are you talking about? Men's role in society is simple. It is what it always has been: to innovate and dominate. If you can't do that in this world, you're just another slave to the kings. That's the way it's always been. The only problem now is that feminism is making it harder for men to realize that, or to realize the inherent power true masculinity has over all of society. Don't be fooled: even aspies like Zuckerberg have realized this and used it to their advantage. The true power of masculinity isn't doing what others do. It's tearing down everything that already exists and replacing it with your own paradigm, because you 're just that much better than everyone else. Women lack this capability. That's why there are so few female fourtune 500 CEOs or dictators. You have to pick up your shit, build something useful, assemble a team, and fuck everybody else. That's the path to success in this world, and the whole foundation of every single society.
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                                                                                                    • truth > Man of the Hour an hour ago
                                                                                                      "What the fuck are you talking about?"
                                                                                                      Read my post again.
                                                                                                      I stated that feminism is a cancer. All that talk you give about power of masculinity, is dead, thanks to feminism and mangina policies.
                                                                                                      Its more easier to talk about innovation and the power of masculinity, but in reality, men are being crushed by feminism. Be it being raised by a single mother, misguided and trapped by the feminist entrenched education system, fucked over by the feminist influenced family courts or not being offered a job thanks to the feminist assholes known as HR, feminism is an evil force.
                                                                                                      I don't disagree with anything you have said, but if you want men to go to war, be my guest. But in reality, you are fighting a losing battle. Men are now choosing to go their own way because as men, we know that we are not going to win this war. Its pointless. Society has collapsed and hence, you are witnessing the errosion and decay of our civilization.
                                                                                                      I am glad there is a place like ROK to share your views, but unfortunately, when you try to speak about the red pill outside the world of the internet, you will get ass fucked.
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                                                                                                      • Daniel Holland > truth 2 days ago
                                                                                                        The alt right needs to become more unified, offering a fairly cohesive criticism of the status quo.
                                                                                                        It will probably start with anti-feminism since women voting for the status quo will need to be fixed.
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                                                                                                        • dddd 2 days ago
                                                                                                          I split my time between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. -- I’ve also travelled widely in Europe and even lived a year in Asia -- so I feel quite justified / qualified as a well-traveled, middle age / middle class man in offering up the following opinions and observations: there are no people on this Earth that I’ve come into contact with that I dislike more than Americans, especially the women, but also the men. The main reason is because Americans (especially blacks, but ultimately all races that spend any significant time in the country being subjected to the “culture”) are the most slavish to the ridiculous fucking concept of “cool.” Cool is the most important concept in American culture now and completely overshadows such antiquated cultural memes such as hardworking, innovative, exploratory, creative, just, moral, ethical etc…
                                                                                                          Interestingly enough, cool behavior and trends always seem to be terrible for your health, immoral, unethical, deviant and/or look completely clownish or totally marginal and trashy, but Americans can’t get enough of it. They have been destroyed by constantly seeking to be cool and even muttering the word “cool” every third word (the other two words being “awesome” and “absolutely”). As such, Americans always appear to be acting irreverent, phony, arrogant or slightly cocky because they always think, despite enormous evidence to the contrary, that they are the coolest fucking cats in the room. They have high intelligence about the latest cool trends, cliché riddled phrases, faggy / slutty fashions and their sports teams, but are complete morons when it comes to everything else, especially in their perception of how every other culture views them. Although incredibly, the delusional state created by the quest for coolness has them actually believing the exact opposite -- that they are still an intellectual force to be reckoned with on this planet!!! Still a righteous force for good!!! Still the world’s Sheppard!!! The irony and shamelessness never ceases to amaze me and actually prevents me from going out more often and mingling with the natives of Arizona, who I expect are a rather above average lot compared to the rest of their countrymen -- I can only imagine how much worse it is in lesser states…
                                                                                                          Now I realize that the vast majority of guys reading this are American, and I must admit that I have two American friends (culled from the hundreds I’ve met and interacted with) and banged more than a few Americunts, but the truth must be told regardless of its unpopularity. I expect scolding replies, but the fact of the matter is that the U.S. is an amazing physical land mass that’s being populated by increasingly more shitty people who are proving to be worthless at best, and corporate fascists / international psycho killers at worst. I look at the average American and see a bloated carcass filled with preservatives, stimulants and prescription drugs -- although always holding some corporate branded sugary beverage in their fat hands and wearing cheap white running shoes; dressed in some ill-fitting, overly casual, completely inappropriate ensemble that street beggars from the 1950s wouldn’t have been caught dead in; covered in piercings, awful tattoos, stupid haircuts and plastic wristbands (pretending to support some bogus cause). Their minds constantly distracted and filled with either inane vapid fluff, or hardcore propaganda via some flickering video screen, big or small -- TV, computer, iPhone, etc. Their dull eyes are quick to gloss over at the mere whisper of basic truth on any topic, particularly anything to do with politics or health. Their obsession with Hollywood, NFL/NBA and the latest reality shows just distractions keeping them from taking stalk of their desperate situations. It’s gotten so bad that I can no longer set foot in an American Walmart no matter how cheap some shit is because the impact that so many worthless losers make on me really shakes my faith in mankind -- seriously, no exaggeration.
                                                                                                          However, if you are somewhat intelligent, self-aware, relatively fit and comparably stylish in the classical sense, then as a man you can easily slay gaggles of crass Americunts, even the most feminazi of the group, and even bitches who don’t completely resemble wildebeests. Shit, add some good game to your gender relations and you likely can't muster the time or money to nail all the mangled pussy trying to ensnare you. In all likelihood it's never been easier to stand out (in a good way) in this country by simply not acting or looking like: a) a total douche bag, b) a total ass-kissing pussy, or c) some overly trendy fucktard. But honestly, I just can’t stomach it anymore. It’s just wet and sloppy American meat to surround my dink with at this point.
                                                                                                          However, travel north or south of the U.S. and faith in humanity is restored, even by an old Mexican security guard patrolling a deserted beach or a young Canadian landscaper trying to put himself through University. Talking to these people is refreshingly enjoyable. They are a different, nay better, cut of humanity outside the U.S. borders and this fact is becoming painfully obvious. The concept of cool is killing American culture, destroying everything that this once great country stood for. Stinky and rotten to the core it has become, but the country still has decent roads and bearable airports to transport you to foreign places where the people will once again restore your faith. You will want to befriend the men of these lands and seduce the women with a new-found passion. You will want to eat the healthier foods and partake in fun activities that are not satanic themed. It will never cross your mind to play video games or fap off to porn. Ahhh yes, it feels great to escape the American gulag once in a while because the “culture” has become so toxic -- which is all by design of course.
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                                                                                                            • Red Hood's Assault > dddd 2 days ago
                                                                                                              Wow...just...wow. I am black, and often while growing up, I'd wonder why there was no sharing of knowledge. I'd read the newspapers for info, check encyclopedia for facts and get some classical readings for expansion. America is a scary place for anyone with half a brain.
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                                                                                                              • CardinalMethod > dddd a day ago
                                                                                                                Some valid points, but I think that 21st century British might just edge out Americans for the douchiest on the planet
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                                                                                                                • pauldrake > dddd a day ago
                                                                                                                  I could nitpick this or that but your brutally blunt post is for the most part painfully true. The saddest thing for me as an older hand here is that I've been alive to witness the collapse from the time it first got traction.
                                                                                                                  "The main reason is because Americans (especially blacks, but ultimately all races that spend any significant time in the country being subjected to the “culture”) are the most slavish to the ridiculous fucking concept of “cool.”
                                                                                                                  This part resonated the most with me. I've been railing against culture collapse since the late 60's. It is especially tragic among our country's black residents who have forsaken a great musical heritage for the worst, the most banal, violent crap. Blacks have always had a major influence on the rest of us when it comes to music so they're taking all of us along for the ride to hell. The whole country is spiraling downward but blacks lead the pack. I say this not out of hatred, but a mixture of bewilderment and sadness.
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                                                                                                                    • dddd > pauldrake 21 hours ago
                                                                                                                      I agree. Out of dismay, I've claimed for years that the American negro is the most denigrated and devastated specimen the world over. When you compare how rich and proud traditional West African culture is and compare it to the current sick African American cultural matrix, the fall from grace is the most extreme I've ever witnessed -- even worse than the native Indians of Canada. The main difference between the 2 is that no native Indian thinks their peoples situation or stereotypical behavior is cool in the least, whereas the vast majority of AAs think that rappers, gangstas, pimps and ballers are the ultimate expression of black coolness.
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                                                                                                                        • socoloco > pauldrake 2 hours ago
                                                                                                                          The music industry created a market for that, for lack of a better term, shit. Made it "cool" threw money into it, made it controversial. There are a lot of good black people that are shocked and appalled at this I'm sure. The most pathetic thing I've seen is "wiggers." Too many awesome black artists are being buried under the weight of crap from gangster rap.
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                                                                                                                          • Jios > dddd a day ago
                                                                                                                            Agree, the obsession with projecting a 'cool' image has become deadly in the U.S. Even the goddamn president tries desperately hard to win 'cool points'.
                                                                                                                            America used to be a place of doers. Now it's a place of bullshitters where people are constantly rewarded for blowing nothing but hot air.
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                                                                                                                              • dddd > Jios 21 hours ago
                                                                                                                                Agreed. Notice how the top priority for most American parents is to appear cool to their kids, and make sure that their kids appear cool to society at large? It's not only pathetic, but very destructive to the parent / child relationship. All middle class American parents that I know always try to be "cool friends" to their kids, which backfires because the kids eventually lose respect for the parents' authority and leadership.
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