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Comments on “Incels with Andy Nowicki and RedHawk.”
I did not listen to all of it because I found it rather distasteful
(though “99IronDuke” and “RedHawk” did see that our society is in
shambles to some extent, but defended the decadence that led to it.)
For example, both claimed that the (online) “Right” ought to stop calling
men who had several girlfriends in younger years or are “good at flirting”
(or whatever) degenerate. They also said one cannot expect men today to
live chaste for ten to fifteen years—until they are able to marry and
support a family—, so dating has to be accepted.
I disagree. “Joel Davis”, too, said in
ImperiumCast XVII (feat. Ed Dutton)
(around the 56 minute mark) that it is “very bad” for a society to allow
women to be used by men as “vehicles for masturbation” until they
eventually marry and have children.
Further, they lamented that many children nowadays grow up without their father.
However, by accepting sexual promiscuity—essentially what dating means—they are
at fault themselves, since this lifestyle leads to such outcomes. The data shows
that a divorce is more likely if one already had several “partners” in the past,
thus it only makes the situation worse and creates more broken families.
Regarding “PUAs” and “tactics” like “peacocking”, RedHawk said “don’t care,
got laid.” He later added that men lead, women follow.
I agree with the latter statement. Not only for this reason, but to be a good
example on the whole, one ought to care about one’s behaviour, since it will
ultimately influence society. Civilized societies are the result of civilized
individuals. And as a Christian, you need to point out wicked and sinful
behaviour at least sometimes.
And why would anyone pay taxes for a society which allows abortion, sexual
promiscuity, the destruction of marriage not to speak of the ever-growing list
of obscenities one has to endure nowadays?
See also
“The Grand Old Name of Gentleman (J. R. Vernon, 1869).”
Included in: Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England (Barbara Dennis, David Skilton):
The grand old name of Gentleman, Defamed by every, and soiled with all
ignoble use. In Memoriam many hues make up light, many qualities the
Gentleman. There is need that it to be defined, for the words are true
that the name, the grand old name, is nowadays more than ever defamed by
every charlatan, and soiled with all ignoble use. It may be laid down as
a first condition that the Gentleman has that just appreciation of self
which constitutes self-respect. He is company for himself; he has sympathy
with himself; he understands himself, and retires on this inner consciousness
when misunderstood by others; he is, in a sense, independent of them. The
gentleman has, therefore, to be on his guard, and to keep a vigilant watch
against the creeping over his behaviour of the least slovenliness or tarnish.
Then there are remarks that are to be expected from such people, like
“RedHawk’s” “you only live once”, which I don’t believe in, or rather,
I believe in eternity and would commit suicide if I knew life ended
with death. Dixit Hamlet: “[…] or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter. […]”
With their defence of dating and putting such men on a pedestal,
they automatically christen my father’s wicked behaviour, which I
cannot tolerate. If life itself is such a gift so that one’s
upbringing does not matter, we’d need to legalize rape and have
as many children as possible, no matter the circumstances they will
grow up in. This is certainly evil nonsense.
Eric Orwoll (“aarvoll”), too, said in a stream with Joel Davis
that in the past, you would have had to announce it if you wanted to
court a woman, which was preferable to what we have now.
That one rather ought to “date” a leftist instead of a traditional
woman, as 99IronDuke claimed, sounds like a very bad idea
(questioned by Nowicki as well.) Why would anyone take life advice
from people online whose identity is unknown (strangers, essentially),
and whose motives are anything else but noble? Who are only interested
in making a “quick buck” or who want to satisfy their narcissistic
desire to be heard and revered by others? This is indecent and obscene.
At least Andy Nowicki was honest, saying that he has no easy
answers to such problems.
Several times now did I read that PUAs are father figures for many men
who grew up without one. To which I’d reply that the damage has
already been done in this case and a father can hardly be replaced, let
alone by a synthetic one. And knowing what kind of character such
people usually are composed of, one can only hope that as few men as
possible take anything they say seriously.
Another remark: “women” is what gets young men out of bed each morning.
I find that overblown, certainly it is not the case for all of them, and it
wasn’t for me in the past. My interests are mostly of an intellectual nature.
It is of no use, and even harmful, to have relations with people who hardly
have anything in common with you, let alone having intimate relations with
them.
Why would that be a good thing? Would it have alleviated my suffering from
depression if I had had a “girlfriend” back at age nineteen/twenty when I
was on the verge of committing suicide (hanged myself at age twenty-three)?
Well, certainly not. My problems are way more complicated. Just like Andy
Nowicki, I feel “out of place”—as he wrote in
Ravages of the “Rough Beast”—,
and would neither be able to become a parent nor risk being responsible
for passing on mental illnesses.
I wouldn’t want to have me as a father. Not only do I not like myself, I also
feel rather worthless and experience myself as a laughable, ridiculous person
I couldn’t take seriously. And in fact, I am usually not taken serious by most
people.
I know Nowicki rejects eugenics, but what’s the
point of my existence? I don’t like life, my biological father had hardly
anything to do with me and was gone when I was around five to six years old.
I now suffer through life being plagued by mental illness—maybe some form
of Asperger, certainly chronically depressed and feel often times rather
suicidal—, and am a hunchback.
Hearing them complain about being called degenerate for their lifestyle
was hard to stomach anyway. They puff themselves up as “alphas” who
“know their way with women” but cannot stand the heat of men calling
them names for their behaviour—behaviour that is certainly not salutary.
Nothing to be emulated. At all.
Criticism has to be expected anyway if someone has a sizeable following
online, and being angry at people for calling you out on your horrible
life choices is ridiculous. Even more so when you want to be seen
as part of the political spectrum situated on the right.
(In their defence, I will note that they did not seem to be in any
way sophisticated, let alone intellectual people; which makes me wonder
as to why Andy Nowicki put up with them.)
Someone commented it’s the “religious purity squad” that shuns
such people, calling them degenerate.
The commenter apparently did not think about the fact that our
laws in the past did not even allow for such a behaviour, and that
in most cases pre-marital sexual intercourse would often result in
pregnancy, at which point they usually had to marry.
Technology, too, plays a large role, obviously. Without modern
forms of birth control, today’s licentious lifestyles would not
be possible.
That one had to marry immediately when pregnant or give up the child
for adoption was a view all people shared in the US in 1960, as Charles
Murray wrote in Coming Apart. No matter if you were a high school
dropout or went to college, poor or rich and so on.
I also found it a bit strange that Nowicki thinks that the pulling of a
woman’s hair or spanking her is to be considered normal. He at least
did not disagree that it is not. I see it as rather violent behaviour
that has simply been accepted by many (?) because of pornography
normalising it. Matt Fradd, in his book The Porn Myth: Exposing the
Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography, thinks it is an aggressive
practice as well.
I am certainly glad when I am dead and can leave this sorry place.
It is getting uglier by the minute.
Quoting Don Colacho again and again never becomes tiring:
Vulgarity is not a product of the people but a subproduct of bourgeois prosperity.
Civilized individuals are not products of a civilization, but its cause.
Puritanism is the attitude that befits the decent man in the world today.
Vulgarity colonized the earth.
Its weapons have been the television, the radio, the press.
Revolutions swing back and forth between puritanism and debauchery, without
touching civilized ground.
Vulgarity consists as much in disrespecting what deserves respect as in
respecting what does not deserve it.