Quote: (07-02-2012 02:45 AM)Hooligan Harry Wrote:
People dont realise they are repeating the same mistakes of the past. I dont doubt Soup believes what he does and has good intentions, the problem is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Ironically, it was Marx who said that any democracy is the road to socialism. How right he was.
Im also amazed at how many PUA's who accept evolutionary biology as a fact of life and resent feminism take so easily to socialism and post modern liberalism when they are rooted in the same line of thinking. There is no alpha or beta without competition and heirachy, and if everything is only a social construct, why are you practicing techniques that are contrary to that belief in the first place?
Liberalism is the denial of evolutionary biology, yet game as a concept falls flat without it.
We've tried both extremes in the past and neither have functioned in practice.
South Africa and Rhodesia both ran on the premise that some are more equal than others at birth (intelligence, capacity for restraint, athletic ability, etc), and ran their governments according to these principles.
The result of running a nation with these principles was evident. Both countries were at the brink of civil war until the international community stepped in. Regardless of how well a minority lived, or how high the total GDP of the nations were the end result was chaos and fear for all.
This whole HBD evo psych shit that some being more intelligent than others and must therefore be granted greater rights always leads to ruin because people have dignity and will never be subdued to 2nd class citizens based on inherent traits.
I won't deny the science (and I won't confirm it either), but running a government based on this principle always had historically led to ruin and civil war.
Then we have the other extreme, the redistributionists, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" communists. Their "goodwill" left the world littered with corpses, from Stalin Holodomor in Ukraine, to Pol Pot's Cambodian killing fields from attempts to create a 'cosmic society'. The eventual collapse of the USSR was the culmination of years of failed redistributive policies. The basic premise that without incentive, people won't work.
All people aren't equal, but all people deserve an equal shot at life, the results aren't going to be equal and that's fine.
Extremes dont' work. Its always been about striking a fine balance. Unlimited welfare will bankrupt a nation, but so will unrestrained wild west type capitalism. It's why a strong constitution exists to protect all citizens. Rich and poor, white and brown, women and men. A system that only protects some citizens will always be flawed at the centre. It will always lead to collapse, or reform.
As for the game concepts being rooted in evolutionary psychology. Game concept is about what gets a dick hard and a vagina wet. The intellectual masturbation that is found in so many game blogs today is nothing more than attempts to try and justify rejection and failure.
They create hamsters backed up by very carefully pre-selected academic studies (usually badly interpreted too) that lead to the most common themes:
-She likes bad boys, but she needs a good beta to provide for her otherwise she'll be poor. This is why America is fucked up.
-She likes blacks/mexicans because she's low class trash, this is why she rejected me. This why America is so fucked up.
-Weak men with no game and more intelligence built civilization so it's an inherent right for them to reproduce, but they can't even get laid. This is why America is fucked up
-Intelligent men can't have game, that's why so and so race are better at game.
Don't get me started on the whole "is this beta/alpha" insecure obsession that goes on in the game community and the countless links to what monkeys in zoos do to feed that hamster.
"If a ripped a mans' penis off with my bare hands and beat him over the head with it, is that Alpha? Am I alpha? Here's a pdf link confirming that's totally alpha."
*Still doesn't approach women.*