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By: Aeroguy

Aeroguy — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:02:30 +0000

@Zerg and Steve Johnson
Technology has divorced childbearing from a woman’s hypergamous instincts, instead it follows social cues. Sex and mating used to be one and the same, hypergamous instincts still control sex, but other cues determine if sex is allowed to become mating. The first half of hypergamy, demand for security, has been provided for through either welfare, alimony/betabux, or expanded career options, depending on the taste and preference of the woman (thus why providing security to modern women is a sucker’s game). Having chldren is a winning security strategy for women going the welfare and alimony routes, however for career oriented women children are a liability, thus a women entirely invested in this strategy will have her hypergamous instincts working against her remaining native instincts to have children. If she doesn’t perceive increased status from having children, all the more reason not to have them. It’s no wonder China is trying to discourage career women, but so long as intelligent women are free to pursue careers and derive perceived status from success in those careers they won’t stop.

The other half of a woman’s hypergamy is all about bedding the sexiest man possible and is the subject of countless blogs in the manosphere. These men don’t necessary provide security and due to the sexiness of caddishness, thus cultivating dread and the perception of easily losing a man’s interest is a proven and very potent aphrodisiac. Due to the inherent insecurity this strategy entails it works best on career oriented women in the long term provided of course that you don’t give them too much anxiety. I’m a big fan of Rollo’s principle of building genuine desire rather than transactional reciprocation, and the above Roissy inspired strategy works quite well in doing that for me.

By: Wade McKenzie

Wade McKenzie — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:59:00 +0000

“How do you distinguish between pretending to be a druid and pretending to be, say, a Catholic priest? Wasn’t there a “cleric” class in D & D?”

Ha ha! Very clever…

“His agenda is basically to overthrow the Enlightenment cult and put a new pagan priesthood in charge — what could be more reactionary than that?”

The problem is that role-playing–be it of the “Grand Archdruid” sort or the transsexual variety, etc.–is one of the primary inheritances of the Enlightenment. Men who are so immersed in the Enlightenment way of life that they don’t even realize it aren’t likely to lead us to the promised land.

Having said that, I was having a bit of serious fun at Mr. Greer’s expense. He probably does have some interesting things to say, in spite of what Lesser Bull terms his “grotesque affectations”.

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:01:14 +0000

Greer isn’t being offered as a model to emulate. He’s being offered as a thinker who has gone so far outside the box that he has hit on some serious truths. Which I think he has. Pointing out that his affectations are grotesque doesn’t really change that.

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:59:05 +0000

Hey, more realistic than a eunuch with lipstick and a wig demanding to be called a woman.

Far far less deluded than a man who isn’t even a eunuch with lipstick and a wig demanding to be called a woman.

By: an inanimate aluminum tube

an inanimate aluminum tube — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 03:35:16 +0000

One could make the case that a fundamentally serious person would associate druids with something like The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar, rather than Dungeons and Dragons.

That said, it is difficult for writers who ignore HBD to really conjure up a suitably depressing future. Collapse of industrial civilization + mass die off? Optimistic compared the Kevin C. future.

By: Baron Ludwig von Nichts

Baron Ludwig von Nichts — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:43:09 +0000

Maybe you should take more than a quick look around? What’s unserious about paganism and druidry exactly? How do you distinguish between pretending to be a druid and pretending to be, say, a Catholic priest? Wasn’t there a “cleric” class in D & D?

I think you’ve misread the guy. The Archdruid rarely talks about global warming and he’s no Wiccan. I’d guess he’s read more pre-20th century Western philosophy and history than anyone here. His agenda is basically to overthrow the Enlightenment cult and put a new pagan priesthood in charge — what could be more reactionary than that?

By: Wade McKenzie

Wade McKenzie — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:51:30 +0000

Look, we have a grown man–Mr. Greer–who is pretending to be a high-level member of a D & D character class. Surely that ought to influence the reception we accord his thought. After all, if I had a blog to which you had been commended and the first thing you notice upon arriving there is that I style myself (in all seriousness) “The Grandfather of Assassins” of the Assassins’ Guild of America, or perhaps “The Grand Master of Flowers” of the Ancient Order of Monks, wouldn’t that give you pause and tempt you to think that you were dealing with a bit of a kook?

I thought the whole point of something like “neoreaction” was to “react” against the deeply unserious basket case that is modern liberal democratic Western society. Pretending to be a druid, let alone an “archdruid”, is in no way to depart from contemporary inanity but rather to further it. Perhaps you disagree with me that neopaganism and environmentalism are among the surest signs of Western decadence and intellectual irrelevance, but surely that’s an honest disagreement and not a squabble over mere semantics.

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:13:01 +0000

The way we handle nuclear waste and nuclear power is one of the clearest signs that our society is insane.

By: fotrkd

fotrkd — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:04:21 +0000

I’m just getting too old to be treating drag queens and wiccans with anything other than contempt.

Is it equally possible you’re just too hung up on the seriousness of nouns..?