Why Teh MAndrosphere?

So my comment section on my last post has once again devolved into another iteration of the Gamers vs. Anti-Gamers debate that happens all over teh MAndrosphere. (some prefer the Manosphere, others, Androsphere. I don't particularly care who calls it what, so I'll just apply the Hegelian Dialect and go with the Synthesis, Teh MAndrosphere TM from here on out. lozlzolzol)

You're missing the point. It's not about giving or getting credit or status. It's not about appointing Roissy (or anyone else in these fringes of teh interwebz) as some sort of authority figure, hero or Godfather.

It's not about whether MGTOW or PUA, or MRA or Married Gamers or Paleo Diet adherents or Christian anti-Frivolous Divorce Crusaders, or White Nationalists are all part of this movement or that movement, or that we need to purge any or all of these factions from this so-called MRM in order to finally get together with common cause and "fix" the problems we all deal with by going mainstream.

There's nothing to fix in terms of society, the political system or pop culture. It's working precisely as it was designed to, in feeding our minds lies, half-truths and delusions, so that we embrace our slavery without even realizing it. Every niche and faction in Teh MAndrosphere has it's own contribution to attaining Red Pill clarity.

There is only truth.

Everyone thinks they understand "THE RED PILL."

But most are only focused on one or two areas of our modern life in which they believe the red pill has made clear for them. Sex. Relationships. Sexual Marketplace Value. Marriage Market Place Value. The Divorce System meat grinder. These topics are essentially 90% of the conversation of teh MAndrosphere. It's all good and necessary truths that need to be discovered and explored by everyone who happens to stumble upon our little virtual revolution out here on the fringe.

But the only true red pill, is the one that helps you see the entirety of the Matrix for what it is.

We have been assimilated by the Borg of Global Governance Incorporated.

The dysfunction of modern human mating and familial relationships is a state of affairs purposefully and deliberately socially engineered into our mass consciousness.

Mind control. Brainwashing.

For what purpose? For many, it's some grand conspiracy of the entire Female Gender following the herd led by professional class Feminists, to subjugate the male gender into perpetual subservience to the Feminine Imperative.

This is missing the forest for the trees. The "feminists" at the top of the movement, are in fact useful idiots and/or mass culture change agents. Usually both.

The Feminine Imperative is simply a program used by the social engineers who have a true understanding of human nature, who use this understanding to deliberately manipulate the masses, to herd us all into desired behaviors.

Population CONTROL. Human Resources Management.

Why does our public school and mass media driven society emasculate young men, pedestalize women, and incentivize the destruction of the Patriarchal Family as the base building blocks for society?

Why are the near limitless tales of these things occurring in countless lives across the globe, the ceaseless grist for teh MAndrosphere grill?

The answer is simple, really. We the Sheeple are human resources for the profits of the Global Corporate State's Shareholders.

All these things we discuss, debate and derogate in teh MAndrosphere, all stem from this agenda of control of us all, teh Menz and they Womynz alike. All of our wants and needs that used to be served for us by our familial structures and social bonds, have all been outsourced to our Corporate Overlords.  The subsidized single mother household has been subsidized to assure future revenue streams for our Corporate society.

John Taylor Gatto served for 30 years as a human resources programmer.

Here's his red pill:

Our schools are ... factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned .... And it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.

It's perfectly obvious from our society today what those specifications were.

Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives.

Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships; easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment has removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers have removed the need to ask questions.

We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.

We buy televisions, and then we buy the things we see on the television.

We buy computers, and then we buy the things we see on the computer.

We buy $150 sneakers whether we need them or not, and when they fall apart too soon we buy another pair. We drive SUVs and believe the lie that they constitute a kind of life insurance, even when we're upside-down in them. And, worst of all, we don't bat an eye when Ari Fleischer tells us to "be careful what you say," even if we remember having been told somewhere back in school that America is the land of the free. We simply buy that one too.

Our schooling, as intended, has seen to it.

Now for the good news. Once you understand the logic behind modern schooling, its tricks and traps are fairly easy to avoid.

School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. 

School trains children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and independently.

Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for boredom; help your own to develop an inner life so that they'll never be bored. Urge them to take on the serious material, the grown-up material, in history, literature, philosophy, music, art, economics, theology - all the stuff schoolteachers know well enough to avoid.

Challenge your kids with plenty of solitude so that they can learn to enjoy their own company, to conduct inner dialogues.

Well-schooled people are conditioned to dread being alone, and they seek constant companionship through the TV, the computer, the cell phone, and through shallow friendships quickly acquired and quickly abandoned.

Your children should have a more meaningful life, and they can.

First, though, we must wake up to what our schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands. Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to turn them into servants. Don't let your own have their childhoods extended, not even for a day. If David Farragut could take command of a captured British warship as a pre-teen, if Thomas Edison could publish a broadsheet at the age of twelve, if Ben Franklin could apprentice himself to a printer at the same age (then put himself through a course of study that would choke a Yale senior today), there's no telling what your own kids could do. After a long life, and thirty years in the public school trenches, I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women.

The solution, I think, is simple and glorious.

Let them manage themselves.

Feminism, socialism, cultural marxism, liberalism, neo-con imperialism. All are -isms designed to get us to plug ourselves firmly into the Matrix of Human Resource Control. The red pills we discuss in teh MAndrosphere are all related to all these aspects. How we eat. How we sleep. How we fight, how we fuck, how we breed. How we parent.

To reiterate Gatto's primary point:  

"Well-schooled people are conditioned to dread being alone, and they seek constant companionship through the TV, the computer, the cell phone, and through shallow friendships quickly acquired and quickly abandoned."

If Gatto where to write this article today, I'm sure he'd have included the cause of the Palm Zombie Apocalypse: MADs - the Mobile Affirmation Devices. (credit to Farm Boy and an Observer for that one!)

The system was designed to make us go mad. Deliberately so.

Teh MAndrosphere is the grass roots, counter-cultural push back...a movement of speaking truth to power. In there own ways, each niche or variation of Teh MAndrosphere contributes to this quest for these ugly truths in a world of beautiful lies.

The PUA lifestyle is not for me...but that doesn't mean I have nothing to learn from their own experiences they share here. Same goes for the White Nationalists. Same goes for the MGTOW, the anti-feminist MRM perspectives. Take what knowledge and experience each faction offers can contribute to your overall knowledge, and figure out the ways to make the best of our own individual situations.

To attempt to change the mainstream is like trying to use a fan to blow away a hurricane. To get swept up in some kind of collective movement...to place your hopes for change in any kind of collective action through mainstream approved courses of action are all destined for failure to make any meaningful changes.

Go your own way.

Let us manage ourselves the best we can, to find the ways and means to live life as best we can given our individual situations and circumstances where ever we may happen to be in this Brave New World Order.

Teh Manosphere is Dead...

...long live teh Manosphere.

Several prominent blogs in this fringe sector of teh Interwebz have recently shut down, prompting several other blogs, bloggers and commenters to declare that the manosphere is dead, or dying, or failing or whatever.

Some folks even claim to be responsible for getting these blogs to shut down. lzolzlolozlzolzol.

Do I dare tempt fate?

There is only one way the Manopshere is ever going to die, and it has nothing to do with any particular blogger or group blog deciding they're done with it all and deleting their blogs.

The day the Manosphere dies, is the day the Government decides virtual free speech zones can no longer be tolerated and they flip the switch and turn off teh Interwebz.

That is the ONLY way the Manosphere dies.

Those who think otherwise are failing to understand the reason why the Manosphere arose in the first place, and what keeps it going...as some of our more favored bloggers throw in the towel and call it quits, others quickly arise with their own voices, their own stories and their own perspectives.

That is because the Manosphere is founded on people discovering and discussing TRUTH.

More specifically, it is an organic, grass roots response to all the deliberate lies, delusions and deceptions our mass media driven society has attempted to brainwash and blind us with since we were born into this Brave New World Order.

When folks like Mentu, Ashur, Mojo, Will, 7man, CL, Duncan, Solomon, Ferdinand Bardamu, and others decide to quit, other newcomers "take the red pill", and gain the tools to properly analyze their past and understand their observations of life in this feedlot we call "society."

Take this powerful testimony by Manosphere newcomer, M3.

I'm not excerpting or quoting any part of M3's post here. It needs to be read in it's entirety.

As Deti exhorts over at The Private Man's:
 

Go back and read it all the way through. And then go back and do it again.

Force yourself to do it. I did.

It’s that important.

It’s that important because right now, somewhere on this continent, a man writhes in agony, a victim of his parents and teachers who told him to “be nice.”

It’s that important because right now a man is trying to figure out why for the 17th time a woman has rejected him and said she “just doesn’t feel it”.

It’s that important because right now a man is preparing to marry a 28 year old former semi-professional cum receptacle. He thinks she’s the bee’s knees. She thinks he will be a great father for her kids and will soon buy her her house for nesting. He thinks she’s hot. She thinks he’s reliable. He is in love. She is planning how best to use him. He wants to make a life with her. She wants him as an accessory to her life. He thinks she’s a victim of failed relationships. She knows he is her last chance to lock down a man as she gets kicked off the carousel and The Wall looms large before her.

It’s that important because right now a wife is plotting her “I’m not haaaaappy” divorce from her husband of 10 years. It’s that important because he will not see it coming and it will flatten him like a Mack truck.

It’s that important because right now a newly divorced man, court orders in hand, is moving out of his 4 bedroom colonial in the suburbs, and into a studio apartment on the wrong side of the city with little more than what he could fit in his car. Tonight that man will eat a fast food dinner while sitting on a used recliner he bought with his last bit of cash. He’ll watch some TV before going to bed on the pullout mattress. As he rests his head, he’ll wonder how all this happened to him. He’ll fear for his children, and wonder when he’ll see them again. And he’ll ask himself how he will ever comply with the court orders he’s just been given.

Deti's comment is precisely right. It is why many of us do what we do. When any of us feel we have nothing more to contribute, or are in danger of losing something for speaking truth to power, others like M3 will inevitably continue to come forward and let their voices be heard.

As Ulysses remarked recently about all this turnover in the Manosphere: "The bards shall come and go, but the song remains the same."





To those who are newcomers to these fringes of Teh Interwebz, here's a quick rundown of how this place became what it is today.

The Manosphere is the bastard child of another blog that no longer exists.

That place was called "Roissy in D.C." The Manosphere arose from the comment threads of that place.

The Spearhead, In Mala Fide, and other blogs to numerous to mention have been inspired by both Roissy's blogging and the debates and commentary in the threads of  his daily blog posts that regularly got 800+ comments. Til this very day, people discover the archives of Roissy in D.C. over at Chateau Heartiste, and they find THE RED PILL.


The byline to that blog was "Where Pretty Lies Perish."

That is the ethos of the Manosphere. The paradigm. The zeitgeist.

The most  viewed post I ever wrote here at my own blog, was Game is the Red Pill.

I was wrong.

The Manosphere in sum total is the Red Pill. If you're reading this, you most likely have already begun your journey to see how far the rabbit hole goes.


As long as we live in a world for which lies and delusions promulgated by mass media indoctrination and institutionalized thought control systems are raising generations of deluded, unbalanced, sick and stunted sheeple, and we have THIS place where we can go to figure it all out, this "Manosphere" will exist.

The Path to Mastery

"Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick." -- Bruce Lee

Consider the following post from the Shutterfinger blog, in which he relates Bruce Lee's philosophical statement with his practice in his chosen art form of photography:

Before you begin learning an art such as photography, the techniques it takes to practice the art are undifferentiated to you. All cameras and lenses look pretty much alike, you're not aware of differences in quality and direction of light, and differences in visual style appear subtle at best.

As you begin to learn the art, however, your mind and awareness begin to expand. You see things you never noticed before. Things that were once unimportant become extremely important. It's easy to become obsessed with a particular style or technique, the Right Way to do something, or owning The Perfect Lens.

You might even look down on photographers who lack your refined knowledge and sensibilities.

If you're fortunate and you stick with it long enough you'll find yourself coming out the other side. Where you were once focused on differences you now begin to look at things more holistically. Equipment and techniques are simply means to an end and your vision is far more important than the tools it takes to achieve it. A camera is just a camera, a lens is just a lens, and software is just software.

In short, the path to mastery is to integrate what you learn so that it becomes as much a part of you as the way you walk, the way you talk, and the way you sign your name. You do them all without thinking and without effort, yet they express more about who you really are than all the clever tricks you know or masks you wear.

This is the truth for anyone seeking to attain mastery of any endeavor. The guitarist who can play a solo without watching his hands, the pianist that closes her eyes while playing a difficult and complex arrangement; the artwork turned out by the skilled hands of the sculptor, the painter, the candlestick maker...all are the results of this journey along 4 stages of awareness. As commenter "Syed" notes at the end of Shutterfinger's piece:

In my first regular job (not related to photography and just fresh out of college) one of the senior guys told me that I would typically go through four stages of development: (1) unconsciously incompetent; (2) consciously incompetent; (3) consciously competent; and (4) unconsciously competent.

There's only one way to get to stage 4: practice. When your tired, sore, wore out, beaten down and on the verge of quitting, you practice some more. This is true of any and every task, hobby, sport, or art you decide to engage in. 

While I was contemplating this topic in the midst of composing this blog entry, another old maxim came to mind - "Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach."

That quote has been attributed to a number of sources, including H.L. Mencken.


In terms of teaching subject matter in institutionalized educational systems based on an imposed curriculum from a centrally planned, bureaucratic organization, that quote has a lot of truth to it. It is certainly relevant to the current system of indoctrination carried out by our nationwide public education system.

Despite my regular denunciations of the public education system, I know many public school educators. Many of them are passionate educators doing their best to teach the subjects of their passion. Foreign language, music, writers, mathematicians, scientists and artists. Teachers teaching subjects they love. But as a cog in the great brainwashing machine, all must teach other mandatory classes like "Social Studies" (socialist studies), history, and other courses for which they do not have expertise nor passion, but rather have to teach such subject matters from the "book." In regards to this aspect of the education system in this country, Mencken is absolutely correct.

When it comes to the 4 stages of competence alluded to by the Shutterfinger commenter, I believe Mencken's derogation of the teacher archetype is absolutely incorrect.

Those who cannot do, certainly cannot teach. 

However, the converse is not true. Many practitioners of art forms can personally reach stage 4 of mastery - unconsciously competent - yet cannot teach the techniques knowledge and experience they've gained to a student at stage 1. Many long time practitioners arrive at stage 4 intuitively, in which many hours of practice combined with natural talents allows a person to develop mastery, without explicitly understanding how they got there.

In other words, some talented individuals go from stage 1 to stage 4 over time without really gaining the technical insights of stages 2 and 3. These people we call "prodigies" or "born naturals."

But ask them to teach their art to a beginner, and they fail when their pupil doesn't grasp the nuances and techniques "the natural" intuitively developed.

Indeed, my first martial art instructor had a saying that he always repeatedly told our class, that directly contradicts Mencken's quote - "You never really know something until you are able to teach it to someone else."

When I was a student myself, I didn't really understand this. As a young child, I had participated in a large number of sports and activities that required athletic skill and developing eye-hand coordination. When I came to my martial arts class as a young man, many of the skills and abilities I first developed from prior athletic pursuits, made studying the martial arts easier for me. When I became an instructor, I learned an entirely new perspective. I had to learn everything all over again. To analyze,  ruminate and re-consider aspects of things I had foolishly thought my knowledge of, was complete. 

You think you've mastered some skill or trade? Good. Now teach it to somebody else. You'll find out real fast how much you really know and understand your chosen art form. By teaching others, you will also discover something else: no matter how much of a master you've become, there is always something new to discover and develop in your chosen pursuit. If anyone can claim complete mastery, that they have nothing more to learn - that is when you know the spirit of their personal artistic essence is dead.

The path to mastery is a road that never ends.

I'm not one for enthusiastically quoting vegan pacifists very often, but in the case of finding your passion and pursuing the path to mastery, Mahatma Gandhi said it best:


“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”