Quote: (09-16-2017 02:15 PM)RoastBeefCurtains4Me Wrote:
Quote: (09-16-2017 01:19 AM)Fortis Wrote:
Quote: (09-14-2017 09:55 PM)IvanDrago Wrote:
Who cares about averages? Be exceptional at something that provides value to others or do something more complex or cutting edge than the typical pre-packaged 8 to 5 job where you just push a button on a computer and you won't have to worry about money or work with women.
I agree that we should all be the best versions of ourselves, but when the average (beta) dude begins to suffer extensively that is a sign of a society that is not in good shape.
The simple fact is that when the average man suffers, suffering is not far off for the exceptional men. Unless you have absolutely no ties to the West and you're so ballin that you can just escape any huge economic shifts, it pays to care about what happens to the common man.
That's how I view it.
I think we should support policies that are good for the common man. Certainly each of us should support policies that are good for average and left side of the bell curve men in our own countries, and arguably, we should support policies that are good for men worldwide.
However, I think RVF men can all excel and become exceptional, regardless of the circumstances. Even a man of average or lower natural talent can excel if they adopt a winner's frame of mind, and strive to get ahead.
Learn a skilled trade, work lots of hours, minimize your cost of living and stack cash, max out any 401k or similar opportunties, buy index funds and hold them, and in 20 yesrs you'll be very well off. If you live in an exceptionally depressed area, move to a place where things are happening, and play to win.
For more gifted men, the sky is the limit with red pill knowledge and a killer instinct.
Well, of course, I never said, "don't strive for the best," but the West is now in a situation where many opportunities for the normal man have been straight-up erased. The dream of having a small property, loving kids and a decent wife is now becoming harder to achieve. I don't care about that shit. I don't like houses or wives, but that is something that holds a lot of sway in the minds of many men. When that shit starts becoming harder to achieve that is scary. That shit is basic.
We can blame migrants, we can blame Hillary, we can blame Martians, but shit got tremendously harder for the average taxpaying man. They're having fewer kids, their buying less property, their saving's accounts have been plundered and many of them are becoming Incels. That scares me. Sure, I'm not one of them and I chose to do something different, but that still does bother me.
Sure, you can leave them all behind and say, "I escaped!" but what does that say about our society? I do worry about what happens to my fellow man since what is visited upon him may one day be visited upon me, no matter how exceptional we are.
Bank account seizures, restrictions on free speech, decimated work opportunities, skyrocketing healthcare and educational costs and a slew of other shit has gutted the common man.
When the common man has the flu, the cold is about to come your way. When the rich man has the flu, the bubonic plague is on the way for the common man. It's all connected.