The push to make the forum "apolitical" is actually very politically-motivated
06-29-2018, 08:49 AM
The problem with politics, as with religion, is that there is now to scientifically define the right answer.
In Math, 2+2=4, and that's the inarguable truth.
But there are no definitive, inarguable, answers in politics and religion (although certain role players may feel so deeply invested in their opinions that they do feel they are 'right').
With the result that a discussion on politics or religion can simply go on and on and on with no end, because the only way it can end is if there is a final answer, which as yet does not exist.
However, topics like self-improvement and game and travel can and often do reach conclusions. You can't argue against something that clearly makes you lift more weights, gets you laid more, or with good datasheets on foreign locales. Yes, there have been posters who have clearly bullshitted on these topics, but they tend to get sniffed out and pushed out, because definitive answers exist and that allows bullshit to be pushed out. In other words, these topics can lead to educational discussion and actionable conclusions that help enrich the lives of the men reading this forum.
But with politics/religion, we can rapidly end up on a merry-go-round that spins faster and faster and actually leads nowhere - because there is no definitive conclusion to be reached. These discussions are simply not useful in the long term.
There are more than enough places on the internet to have intense political discussions. If all the politics on this forum magically died overnight, men would still flock here for the other things. But if this forum suddenly just became a political echo chamber, and all the other topics disappeared, I doubt it would attract and hold the great calibre of men who have made this forum the great resource that it is today.
Politics is profoundly overvalued as a topic of discussion. True politics is done, not discussed. If you care so much about politics, get off the internet and pound some pavement in your neighbourhood and talk to people in the real world and hand out flyers and actually be the action you crave.
#MAKE ROOSHVFORUM GREAT AGAIN!
In Math, 2+2=4, and that's the inarguable truth.
But there are no definitive, inarguable, answers in politics and religion (although certain role players may feel so deeply invested in their opinions that they do feel they are 'right').
With the result that a discussion on politics or religion can simply go on and on and on with no end, because the only way it can end is if there is a final answer, which as yet does not exist.
However, topics like self-improvement and game and travel can and often do reach conclusions. You can't argue against something that clearly makes you lift more weights, gets you laid more, or with good datasheets on foreign locales. Yes, there have been posters who have clearly bullshitted on these topics, but they tend to get sniffed out and pushed out, because definitive answers exist and that allows bullshit to be pushed out. In other words, these topics can lead to educational discussion and actionable conclusions that help enrich the lives of the men reading this forum.
But with politics/religion, we can rapidly end up on a merry-go-round that spins faster and faster and actually leads nowhere - because there is no definitive conclusion to be reached. These discussions are simply not useful in the long term.
There are more than enough places on the internet to have intense political discussions. If all the politics on this forum magically died overnight, men would still flock here for the other things. But if this forum suddenly just became a political echo chamber, and all the other topics disappeared, I doubt it would attract and hold the great calibre of men who have made this forum the great resource that it is today.
Politics is profoundly overvalued as a topic of discussion. True politics is done, not discussed. If you care so much about politics, get off the internet and pound some pavement in your neighbourhood and talk to people in the real world and hand out flyers and actually be the action you crave.
#MAKE ROOSHVFORUM GREAT AGAIN!