A letter to the dude on the margins.
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I normally write break downs of field reports based on the Praxeology that we call the Red Pill. You normally read those break downs and hopefully do one of three things: You either read about the mistakes you also make but did not know you were; then correct, you read about other people making mistakes and gain some confidence in that you’re action plan is much smoother, or you just love reading about this stuff like a rubbernecker slowing down traffic on the highway. For the guys who actually benefit, you’re a dude on the margins.
What’s a dude on the margins? A man who would have been far better off in a different place or time, with a different world view, or perhaps just a little more luck. If you have found your way here through the work of my peers, both good and bad or clout clowns and serious people, you are familiar with charts, graphs, statistics, and bullshit. You’ll see the same charts, no one knows who did the original study, if the study was any good, or if the chart measures the conclusions the guy feeding it to you claims they do. You’ll see these charts and not realize that someone is manipulating you with Science™.
You see Jesus used to be great for this. Tell people what Jesus would do and they just do it. Nowadays most people don’t believe in Jesus, and of those who do, they don’t want to be very Christ-like. They are happier with the merch than anything. Science™ filled that gap by acting as an authority. Nevermind science is a method and not a truth. Nevermind that science doesn’t prove anything, but disproves things. Nevermind that most people do really shitty science and since no one checks it never gets corrected. All charts and statistics are misleading at best, and manipulative at worst.
Having said all that, the purpose is to show you my illustrative chart that describes who the dude on the margins is, and that you are hopefully him. I say illustrative and not descriptive because you’re not meant to take it literally, you’re meant to take it seriously and understand the idea it’s presenting. So picture a mans sexlife, relationships, basically anything that has to do with women, fucking, and the human condition. It plots like any human quality, on a bell curve. Most people are one standard deviation and form a big bell in the middle. On either side are second and third standard deviations, which are smaller percentages, outliers.
The graph represents a great sexlife, happy marriage, good relationship, or whatever intersexual outcome you are aiming for. On the extremes of one side are the people who would do well no matter where you put them. If you were in Stalinist Russia they would be slaying it in Stalinist Russia. If you were in the Amazon, you would be crushing Wonder Woman ass and having Amazonian babies. This new environment of technological automation and food abundance doesn’t phase you.
If that’s you, you don’t need this Praxeology. If that’s you, you probably see it as silly. You know how this stuff works intuitively, almost to the point that you don’t think it even exists. I’m happy for you. The problem is you don’t really understand the system you are thriving in, the same way that fish can’t describe water. That sucks because anything you want to say to illuminate men on the human condition is coincidentally associated with your skills, they aren’t the core fundamentals. It’s like a woman who thinks she likes nerdy guys, when what she actually likes are hot guys with glasses and doesn’t know any actual nerdy guys.
On the other side are the losers. They will never amount to anything and their only purpose is to enter the meat grinder in some war, or shoot up a school, or complain until they die of diabetes or something. The problem is these guys have a lot of time on their hands and they love to waste as much of it and yours as possible. If that’s you, thank you for Subscribing but you don’t adhere to Rule Zero: for male sexual strategy and positive male identity, so outside of a subscription (thank you) there’s not much you can offer either.
The middle bell curve guys do OK, not bad enough to want help but not good enough not to need it. Now our current environment has shifted the bell curve, just a bit. Guys who would have been the first group are now struggling like the average man. Guys who would have been the average man are now hopeless. Those two slivers are the only men that this Praxeology can help. It’s a small niche, which is why I laugh when brand influencer's think this is their path to wealth and fame.
You’d be better off selling tampons to fat lesbians.
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So, for the dude on the margins, you get here similar to the way everyone else gets here. I know people think they get here from very big and outspoken marketing from podcast dudes yelling at women, but they don’t. It’s quiet, subtle, private. A wife that’s been sexually stunted for a long time. A church that abandoned a man in favor of a woman who was acting very un-Christ-like. A dude who is so desperate he finds a breadcrumb from one of my peers: a field report with similar misery to his own, or an essay encapsulating a collection of field reports into a cohesive narrative and a solution, or one of those shrill chicks online who love to bitch about the first two.
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