Quote: (02-03-2014 08:25 PM)DarkTriad Wrote:
It's not guys not "stepping up", it's the fact that so many men have been beaten down. In addition to all the other ways the system is grinding men down, think about this - In previous eras, people got paired off young, and grew confident leading families their own way. There was no giant split between the alpha players and hordes of betas. Those same "regular guys" are now living lives of sloppy seconds, rejections and fatties till 30. This can't help but put holes in their soul. You can't just instantly rebound into a confident alpha after so many years of being beaten down, even when the tide begins to turn.
The "where have all the good men gone" does have some merit. Those confident, regular working guys are now a "lost generation". They've been wiped out like we had a major war. We had a war, but it was a war on men.
Exactly! Men who have grown up in the past 40 years or so have been told how much of a piece of shit they are by Americunts for their entire lives. What rational person would continue to play when the deck is stacked against them?
This has already been covered by a well known manosphere writer:
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She was somewhat surprised at my response. She said, "so they just give up? They don't go out anymore? Don't they want to find somebody? Anybody?!"
"Yeah, more or less."
"That's crazy! How do they ever expect to find anybody?"
I replied, "Well...they don't."
Regardless, the point was her reaction surprised me in return to see this was that shocking of a revelation to her. I always thought it was kind of common knowledge, men do indeed give up after a while, but apparently it's not. So allow me to explain.
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But what ultimately results in the decision to exit the market is more of an economic decision. It is the realization that as you have less and less remaining life you have to make surer and surer bets as to how to spend your time. It's no different than switching from equities to bonds as you approach retirement. Ergo, whereas when you were 18 you would stay at a party all night in the hopes of getting a girl's phone number, when you're 25 you start to think about working instead of partying, and by the time you're 30, you rarely go to clubs, dance halls, bars opting instead to play video games at home or read a book or put some more hours in at the office.
The reason is the expected rate of return of your precious, finite, and perpetually dwindling time. If you go out, hot as you may be when you're 18, you have little to no control over succeeding in getting a girl's number or a date. And as experience will tell you it's a 1/20 shot you will succeed, and that's assuming you have good game. All in all, I would estimate most 20 somethings waste an equivalent to 4 full years of full time work chasing girls to relatively little avail. A significant opportunity cost.
http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/20...arket.html