Quote: (04-02-2019 09:32 PM)_Different_T Wrote:
Considering the very concept of "refinement" relates to increasing purity, is it odd to think you can "refine" your model while believing truth is subjective?
Increasing certainty, not purity. This is how knowledge works. Fuzzy logic.
Quote: (04-02-2019 09:32 PM)_Different_T Wrote:
Let's reword it: is it odd to say you're against a "a one-size-fits-all prescription" while claiming that the way to view "truth" is as subjective?
Certain truths are not open to interpretation. If you put your hand in a fire, it will burn. If you walk off a cliff, you'll fall. I'm not talking about that sort of stuff so don't let that confuse you. I'm talking about certain rules that the world seems to follow but where there are different camps. Red pill vs. blue pill is one of those things.
Take Alexander Grace's Red Pill interviews for instance. One way to test whether red pill is true is to take a risk and go out and ask women point blank about these theories. The more women he approaches, the larger the sample size, the more questions he asks, a pattern emerges. Red pill concepts may never reach 100% certainty, but they don't really need to in order to be true enough to begin to lead your life as if they are true for the sake of self-protection.
Usually those who are most averse to red pill concepts are either naive, meaning they haven't gone to the school of hard knocks, or they have extreme ideological reasons for not buying into it (male feminists, etc...).
Another thing is about business. I'm in my late 40s. I've got my share of office-space type war stories about what works and what doesn't. Who gets promoted and why? How do you deal with conflict?
So when I am talking about "truth" I'm talking about a set of guidelines for how to live that results in the best possible outcomes (on average, hence Gengis Khan is a statistical outlier).
This is something we all do as we go through life, presumably getting better at it as we go along if we're not NPCs, but my personal operating system will be different from your operating system. But I can only go by my own data-set.
I have my own notions of when to take risks and when to play it safe. This way of thinking is all built into the human genome. It's our survival instinct. Our problem solving instinct.
Sometimes you see convergent evolution at work. Two completely different cultures will arive at some very similar conclusions. Joseph Campbell was writing about this in Hero with 1000 faces. It's not necessarily that the monomyth evolved out of one primordial story, but that the story is a direct consequence of fundamental truths of human nature.
So for red pill, how often have posters here quoted some ancient author saying something about how women were back then which is just as valid today? They didn't use a metaphor from The Matrix, but they were saying the same thing.
So the "truths" that I feel most confident in tend to have that sort of backing, but none of them are going to be without dissenters. Just as SJWs are vehemently denying human biological differences or saying that there is no such a thing as beauty standards, etc... You'll never ever achieve complete buy-in.
If people who latch onto falsehoods see that as their truth, that's their prerogative, but then life will attempt to teach them otherwise. They will then either invalidate their model or rationalize/double-down. How often do you hear stories of women continually dating the bad-boy and waiting for prince-charming? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of madness.
Most of us fumble through life like that, clutching at incomplete or wrong models, and then (hopefully) course-correcting. Those who don't wind up like your Anthony Bourdains.
Quote: (04-02-2019 09:32 PM)_Different_T Wrote:
Is it odd to think that everyone else was "raised in a different culture and indoctrinated to believe X, Y, Z," except for you?
IMHO, you're just evading the question by turning the tables. Think about it.
I'm not going to doxx myself by offering too much autobiographical information. What I will say is that I was raised to be an independent thinker rather than someone expected to carry on a long family/ethnic tradition.