Quote: (07-28-2014 10:21 PM)MaleDefined Wrote:
Quote: (07-28-2014 09:45 PM)lurker Wrote:
Quote: (07-28-2014 10:26 AM)darklightdispatch Wrote:
Quote: (07-28-2014 08:16 AM)Blaster Wrote:
The main difference between them and Jezebel is that with Jezebel, it's plausible they actually believe the shit coming out of their mouths or are just acting out emotionally. With TM, you know that he knows better and is deliberately, consciously misrepresenting for his own benefit. It's Hugo Schwyzer syndrome.
Maybe, but we might be giving Tucker too much credit regarding what he actually understands. He was a decent-looking rich kid who fell into the successful frat boy experience due to circumstances. I read his books a while ago and, more than anything, he strikes me as a throwback to an earlier time.
He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in three years and took a full ride to Duke Law. You can say a lot of things about the guy, but don't underestimate his intelligence or ability to parse something, whether or not he chooses to display it in his public persona.
What has he done with it though? What has he done in the past 10 years?
Any lawyer could tell you that law school and the bar has nothing to do with actual law practice.
Tuck is in his mid-30's. That's the point in life where no one really gives a shit where you went to school or what your GPA is. What have you done as an adult?
1. Please. Law school may poorly prepare you for the procedural realities of litigation and do absolutely nothing to prepare you for the business aspects of running a law practice, but any lawyer who tells you it has nothing to do with actual law practice is either talking out his ass or too stupid to reflect on what he learned in the academic world. Law school teaches you how to think, read, and write like a lawyer. Guess what lawyers spend most of their days doing?
2. What Tucker Max has "done with it in the last ten years" is write multiple top-3 NYT bestsellers, including one that hit #1, sold 1,000,000 copies, and stayed on the bestseller list for six years, plus create a media and publishing company that chugged along for several years and launched the careers of several other intelligent writers, like Rob Dobrenski and PhilaLawyer. Yes, his movie was an epic disaster and his fame appears to be gone, but that isn't the sum total of his accomplishments.
3. Neither of those are germane to the original point, which is that to make it through a UChi ("we shit rigor"/"where fun goes to die") econ degree with honors in three years and to get awarded* a full ride to Duke Law means his logical abilities are off the charts.
*This, by the way, is substantially harder than graduating from a t14 school, or getting honors there.
Quote: (07-28-2014 10:40 PM)darklightdispatch Wrote:
To me, all that academic success is a point in support of the idea that he is and always was a status-quo progressive/feminist. That's the underlying ideology that permeates all of academia.
There are plenty of smart and ambitious people who just aren't very thoughtful or reflective. My impression is that he's like the archetypal politician. His angle, what is best for him is always the top, if not only priority. The issues or ideas don't matter for their own sake, it's how they can be used for personal gain. In contrast, someone like Roosh makes a point to say the harsh or ugly truth, regardless of whether its going to benefit him.
That doesn't mean he doesn't understand the issues.
Look, I get that he's at his nadir in popularity among this crowd, and that he most certainly brought it upon himself between the plagiarism and the unwarranted falsehoods. However, the wholesale shitting on every aspect of the man's being is the exact hivemind social reaction this group is always screaming about women being guilty of. Note his transgressions for what they are and move on. Roosh has already replied in the calmest, correct, and most direct way.