There is a common consensus amoung a bunch of the red pill channels on youtube that social media has somehow changed the world. Usually its something along the lines of "social media runined women and lead them astray" some variation anyway. There is this unsaid idea that if only social media would "stop" everything would be ok and women would go back to being "normal'.
The issue is that social media is still just people. Its just human nature with a megaphone. It did not create anything new, just put everyone in a bigger room together. Then mixed in capitalism and competition.
The red pill community is benefitting from social media the same way that they are pointing the finger and claiming it has ruined the world (or at least the bit they don't like) it has allowed them to group toether and imagine they are a pattern.
Hypergamy is a real thing. Attention seeking is a real thing. Shitty lives is a real thing. Being able to see over the next hill is now a real thing. Knowing (or thinking ) that the grass is greener has always beena real thing. These are just human nature that has always been with us. There are also lots of little quirks of human nature that social media is allowing to bloom that previously were probably too small and too isolated for anyone to even start to identify. Social media has shone a 1000w spotlight on them and humans are still figuring out how to live with these new ideas.
One of the pervasive ideas is that 'back in the day" people's choices where constrained to a geographical region, they found their mates in that region and got on with life.
There are stories and social memes from generations ago about women in
small towns having their heads turned by a "tall dark stranger".
(Usually with a maserati... as the story goes) and running away with them. Why would such a story exist if it did not speak to human nature (and mens fears of external competition) The exciting traveller who will sweep in and woo the town's virgins. This stirs something primal and threatening in all "hard working men".
The island effect is real. Is it possible that the whole of western
civilisation is actually just a side effect of isolation and limited
choice? Given complete freedom, will society just decay back to tribes of monkeys with one alpha and a hareem of women?
The truths are that the majority of men are not winners. They are not needed for the species to continue. They are needed for the machinery of society to keep chugging along. They are consumed in the process...
The converse is also true. The majority of women are not winners. They are also filler matieral for society. They are also consumed in the process...
This is the true horror that social media is revealing, its just that most people are too busy to notice or even consider it. They cannot see the forest for the trees. Thankfully for most people do not yet have a strategy to deal with this kind of big life question.
Social media has let loose the emergent behaviour of the mob in ways that the mob is not ready for. Society has turned out to be a collective figment of their imagination... and quite a few are now imagining different things.
There are interesting glimses of this realisation starting to spring up in all sorts of corners. "Quiet quitting", MGTOW, "laying flat" etc are all ways of trying to check out of the game. "Self deletion" is another but more tragic. An interesting one that is not obvious is the whole "bushcrafting" and back to nature themes that pop up. Early retirement, van life, travel and backpacking... the more you look the more you can find. These are all ways of "escaping" the ratrace. Passport bros is an interesting half step... but its still a step off the path.
The core theme is that for the past few thousand years is that people comming together into bigger and bigger piles (urbanisation) was beneficial. Collectivly they benefitted, but the social structures had to evolve to make towns and then cities function. Law and custom emerged as they best tools. The convention of marriage, trade, ecconomy and industry were interesting side effects. The fact that the ecconomy has grown into this massive abstract game that has a life all of its own is endlessly fascinating... but is still essentially a side effect of urbanisation and the trade that was required to make that work.
What happens when urbanisation is no longer pulling in the crowds? What happens when urbanisation is no longer self-sustaining and only mass migration can be used to jam enough people into one place to keep the game going? What happens when social media unpicks the island effect and people start acting like monkeys again?
Its interesting that there are all solved problems. Its also interesting that we are living in a moment of change and its so disconcerting, because "change is hard". Watching politicians unpick society for their own self-interests is a kind of karmic balancing that takes a kind of crazy to appreciate.
Finally we circle around to politics... or otherwise know as "human nature" at scale.
Politics is just one of the emergent behaviours that urbanisation has created. There are no politcians when everyone is working to feed themselves. Politics and trade need each other.
The fun fact to realise is that without trade, politics stops. Without trade and politics, law iis irrelevant. That older darker aspects of human nature manifest... those survival traits and strategies start to come back into focus.
On that theme, we get to homelessness and "illegal" migration. These are manifestations of the simpler human strategy. The one that says 'move toward opportunity".
What if the opportunity is no longer in big urban piles? How much of a percentage change would it take before the urban environment was no longer 'oppertune" for the "average" person? With the way the ecconomy machine has managed to mine all the inefficiency and profit out of "modern western life" there is nothing left on the bone for your "average" people. They are all starting to look for where the grass is greener.
The girls are looking for some rich chad somewhere and the boys are looking for some foreign girl in a distant land... thats broken. Not to mention the middle class "the average folk" do not see a future for their kids in the cities. Every institution looks like it has cultural change sweeping through it and its being over taken by ideologies. Nothing unusual here, this is the eternal fight that has raged in every city as new ideas take over and transform old. The only problem with this one is that the new lifestyles are now completely childless. The machine cannot self-sustain except by constant migration for replacement parts.
What more can the machine do? Where is the new resources to mine? Where is the profit? The machine has canibalised all the players in the game and extracted value from every single aspect of their lives... about the only thing left is to sell debit to the migrants before they even arrive. How about sell debit to the countries that the migrants are comming from so that the countries actually force the migrants to leave for the ubran machine so that the machine can keep chugging along?
One of the interesting side effects of this change has been the complete collapse of the millitary. The mechanisms that previously worked to convince people (mainly men) to sacrifice themselves for "the greater good".... are just gone. Previously the whole of society was geared toward producing a functional military... with no end of problems... but anyway the point is valid. What happens when the emergent behaviour that created a functional military gets disturbed? THe only possible result is a non-functional military.
why did the roman empire fall? Because its leadership did not understand or were unable to effect the emergent behaviour of its population to keep it going. It took hundreds of years and thousands of threads getting cut before the consequences became inevitable. was there ever a point in time where anyone could have seen enough of the issues to have changed the outcome? Perhaps. Was there ever a person who was able to stand against the tide of eveyrone elses self interest and change the course of an empire? A few, but the rest of them just went with the flow and society fell apart and reformed itno the next day. Change happened.
A fun question is 'do you think anyone in the roman empire was aware of it falling"? Did they perceive it as falling or just changing? Did they see the forest or the trees?
Keep in mind that society is an illusion that is shared but not the same shared illusion. Everyone is playing their own game at all times.
So what is the trueth that the red-pill community does not want to speak?
"Change is hard"!
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