This is Captain Yardbird, I wanted to
share with you guys some thoughts I've been tumbling about for some
time now.
Free Will is a concept our species has
been struggling with since we could. And, Basically I'm going to
ramble about a couple of areas that limit our Free Will by
predisposing us towards certain behaviours.
The
areas I will focus on are Sexual Biology, Neurology, and
Socioeconomic Environment.
From there I will segue into the
concept of Tribal Leadership, as laid out in a book by the same name,
and how we use that to better our Environment. With that said, I will
tackle a couple definitions.
I believe that Confirmation Bias is the
greatest Scourge on Humanity. Don't bother me with the Details. Fuck
You and Fuck Your Facts.
Most people seem to go through life,
more or less on Autopilot. They have a conceptual framework
governing, How they believe Reality to Be. So while on Autopilot, one
never gives this much thought. They don't question their own
Perspective.
So when presented with Observable
Evidence, Pieces of Reality, that disagree with our Perspective, we
tend to dismiss these. When they become Persistent, we tend to
respond with Hostility, we may even play an Active Role in
Suppressing these Subjects among our Peer Group.
We respond this way because We're
attached to our Perspective Emotionally. It factors into our Identity
as Individuals. So when presented with Evidence against that
Perspective, we take it as a Personal Attack against our very Being.
So I'd like to present some Further
Reading to you, which I will do often in this Presentation. Links
will be in the Description. A Transcript will be on my Blogspot.
Stardusk, the Thinking Ape posted a vid
in recent history called Say No To Pie In The Sky. He, like most of
the YouTube channels I will site today, is one of my favorite Content
Creators.
Vernaculis also put one up about the
same time called #NewCultValues. I've been very impressed with this
young man. He's well on the path of Evidentialism.
Speaking of which, a channel which has
been inactive for some years, Evid3nc3, did a series which I would
like to point Vernaculis to. Why I Am No Longer A Christian is the
series title.
It ends on the Conclusion, the Thesis
of Evidentialism, even going into the Epistemology of it. So if you
like the Nuts and Bolts of such things, Please go check it out.
Next I would like to give a broad
definition to Red Pill. For me, a Red Pill is any piece of Reality
which most find, at the very least, discomforting. The Red Pill is
about pursuit of Understanding of the Dark Places most of Humanity
seems to choose to Ignore. Consequently there's a certain loneliness
about it.
One of the most important Red Pills I
took, was when I dove into the understanding of Cluster B Personality
Disorders. I dug into that mess long before looking into the Red Pill
of Gender Relations. I did so largely out of self preservation, as,
along my Life's Journey, I have kept company with a few, truly
Predatory personalities, of quite different backgrounds.
But on to the Meat of this. Humanity,
like the rest of nature, is not inherently “good” or “bad.”
An individual is really shaped by a
number of different areas that create, mitigate, or bolster a variety
of predisposed behaviors.
Firstly, members of the MGTOW community
have done some excellent work in describing the Gynocentrism inherent
to our Species.
It is argued that we value women over
men due to our sexual dimorphism and the evolutionary process. Here
I'd like to point you to Colttaine's video
MGTOW: A Unified Theory of the Human
Condition.
Go check
it out. I could not do it justice here in simply trying to summarize.
I'd
also like to bring up an article from the Economist, Feb 7th,
2015 titled, Cads and Dads. The article discusses the finding that
Promiscuity and Fidelity are equally prevalent to eachother, and
across both genders. That is, Women and Men cheat in roughly equal
measure. It is likely that a Man may raise the child of another, even
unawares.
Next, I find highly important the
subject of Neurology. Shaped by our genetics and life experience
(childhood, lifestyle, diet, abuse, trauma, drugs), your
Neurochemical Climate in your head predisposes you to various
behaviours as well. For example, I personally have Asperger's
Syndrome, and there are many areas of Social Finesse which I just
stumble my way thru handicapped. Tho I have learned how Not to take
miscommunications arising from this personally, I take much care to
express myself precisely, and periodically I may overdo it as a
result.
So back to Red Pills and Cluster B
Personalities, a Gross percentage of the cluster, are Socially
Predatory creatures. I find their Existance blows massive holes in
many Ideologies out there. Any In-Group you can come up with
regardless of the Creed, Ethnicity, Race, anything else, status as
Trans or Otherkin, whatever the fuck. Any such In-Group will have a
percentage of Cluster B Predators.
I would imagine that the Victim Economy
is largely dominated by such individuals. They are equally at home as
Preachers as they are as Pimps. I believe Mark Twain said “Religion
is the last refuge of the Scoundrel.”
So this area of Psychology by itself
really nullifies, In-Group Preference, shows it to be a Farce, a
Mal-Adaptive behaviour to be Scrapped. The Idea that, if you Identify
with my chosen Demographic, then, You're the Good Guy, and some one
else, outside the group, is Not. These Interpersonal Predators are
always the Bad Guy, and they are in Every Demographic.
I find that strict Voluntaryist
Liberarianism, Intersectional Feminism and Social Justice, and
NeoConservatism are but a few of the Ideologies, what I like to call
Postmodern Religions, which are equally guilty of Confirmation Bias,
and equally guilty of ignoring the impact of Cluster B Personalities
on their various In-Groups.
For Further Reading:
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha
Stout is a fantastic introduction to this topic.
I would also point you toward Kati
Morton's channel for general psychology info. She's a licensed
Therapist and an active YouTuber.
Spetsnaz is another channel, focused
more specifically on the issues of abuse, trauma, and isolation, from
the male perspective in Western culture.
so Now I'd like to move on to
Environment. I think our behaviour, how we treat eachother, is
ridiculously subject to the Environment we find ourselves in.
To illustrate, Racism, the dictionary
rather than the intersectional definition, really Breeds strongest in
Poverty. When you have a population that is unable to produce
self-reliance and subsistance... Squalor creates shitty people. We
treat eachother like Shit when we have nothing better to do.
So when you grow up around shitty
people, and you are exposed to multiple demographics, other
ethnicities, religions and what not. When your life experience of
people in these other groups is limited to the worst, It is very easy
to come to the conclusion that All Members of that Group must be
Shit. This is essentially where Racism stems from.
Affluence, Cultural Assimilation,
Cross-Pollination, these are the things that really breakdown and
destroy Racism and related Prejudice, albeit in a slow process. And
Here I would point you to the Angry Foreigner's Video “Immigrant
rape statistics in Sweden”
On Misogynist Cultures and
Gynocentrism. In the Apocalyptic Landscape, in Societal Collapse,
places such as the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. In cultures such
as this, Gynocentrism rears its head in a strange way, in that, among
such people, Men are Disposable Tools for your In-Group, or Threats
to it. Your In-Group has Soldiers, Working-Stiffs, Human-Doings in
its Men, and Valuable Property in its Women, as they are Reproductive
Vessels. Such an Arrangement serves the continuation of the Species.
Gynocentrism, as Colttaine's video
describes it, and as CS MGTOW's video “Gender in post government
societies” illustrates, is made for such a Landscape. A collapse
mimics the Iron Age and the Neolithic. This is the old stomping
ground of Gynocentrism. In truly Hunter-Gatherer Societies, war and
murder are rampant.
In the Economist article Noble or
Savage? I quote “usually around 25-30% of adult males die from
homicide.”
It goes On “Not so many women as men
die in warfare … because they are often the object of the fighting”
Now that I've brought you to that Dark
Place, I want to relate to you a concept that Describes how our
Species manipulates and betters our Social, Political, and Economic
Environment. Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, & Halee
Fischer-Wright describes a series of Stages of Tribal Culture, each
characterised by the language we use and the Interpersonal
Relationships we build within each Stage.
Here I will point you to 2 Ted X talks
by Dave Logan, in the Low Bar. I hope you will find them
intoxicating.
Individually, we are members of
multiple tribes, each with its own culture, sometimes multiple stages
of culture. So we are always engaging across different stages.
A Tribe is defined as a group of people
numbering 20 to 150. The members of your tribe are people in your
phone, people you stop and say hello to on the street. The tribes you
are part of form through fimilial ties, the workplace, and,
increasingly, the Internet.
The 5 Stages, again, are defined by
their Language and their Behavior.
Stage 1 is summed up in the phrase
“Life Sucks.” People experiencing this stage are Alienated from
Others. Tribes in this Stage respond to the world with Despairing
Hostility. This is the culture of Prison Gangs, and Societal
Collapse. The book estimates that some 2% of American Professionals
operate here.
Stage 2 declares “My Life Sucks.”
The member recognizes that Others' Lives don't suck. These are
Apathetic Victims who engage in very Cynical Humor. They are hourly
associates at Walmart, They are characters in Office Space. Some 25%
of American Professionals experience their work this way.
Stage 3 says “I'm Great” with the
background whisper “and you're not.” 49% of worplace
professionals operate in this Stage. Members are OverCompetitive,
expressing their pride thru a Veil of Humor, and always Striving for
Dominance. They form Dyadic relationships, that is one on one,
controlling information as if they were the center of a wheel, and
their peers the Spokes. In Stage 3, one feels that they can't depend
on any of their peers to execute tasks correctly.
Stage 4 is characterised as “We're
Great” and “they're not”
22% of American Professionals are
members of such Tribes. They take on the further characteristic of
holding dear to the Tribe's Identity, Core Values and a Noble Cause,
which I'll explore more later in this vid.
Stage 5 states that “Life is Great.”
It operates similarly to Stage 4 but, it has no enemy in competitor
tribes. This Stage is typically shortlived, as it seems to require an
Universally Valuable work or task which would benefit mankind.
So now that that Summary is out the
way, I want to point out that it is Very Harmful to label someone as
Stage 2 or 3 or whatever. This is counterproductive. We all
experience different Stages at different times. The best way to helpe
someone better themselves thru this lens is to teach them the Concept
in Whole. Give them the fuckin Book!
So, Let me discuss the dynamic between
Stage 2 and Stage 3 Tribes. The relationship between the two is one
of Inherent Conflict but a definite Codependancy. Members of Stage 3
tribes tend to hire underlings who exhibit Stage 2 culture. Of course
then the Stage 2 employee begins to say “My Life Sucks because my
Boss is a Dick.”
I remember a time when I worked for
walmart, and whenever I asked questions, suggested we could do things
better a different way, Superiors would look at me like I was a
fucking monkey. They were Awesome, I was Not, and my job was to shut
up and do what they told me.
I'd like to point out here that
Gamergate essentially arose as a Stage 2 culture. My Life Sucks
because the Gaming Press … are corrupt, stifle conversation, tell
me I suck, declare that my identity is dead … etc., fill in the
blank … This is why it had the life it did.
I think it's easy to look at a lot of
the internal Gamergate controversy, the infighting, as cases of
individual personalities growing into Stage 3 culture, and sometimes
attempting to lift their peers with them. But the rest of the greater
Tribe, in their Cynicism, found it easy to rebel against this.
Tho a shining example of Stage 4
behaviour developed out of one of these bouts of Infighting. Sargon
of Akkad's #GamerGate Teatime Stream, in November of 2014, strove to
mend Personality Clashes which had been brewing for some time. The
organizers reminded all involved “we shouldn't be bickering amongst
ourselves... We Have an Enemy in Common for Fuck's Sake!”
The book terms such an event, an Oil
Change. They describe it as a process for the tribe to work thru 3
Questions. What is Working Well? What is Not Working Well? What can
the Tribe do to Make Those Things Work?
The authors caution that, Stage 2
dominated Tribes will voice greivances with no real desire to fix the
problems. Groups at Stage 3 will find that oil changes degenerate
into, well, witch hunts.
“Only when the tribe is aligned on
core values and a noble cause does it have a basis to assess its
behavior, find shortcomings, and restore its focus on its
principles.” pg 179
But back to questions of Stages 2 and
3. Niko Choski is one of my absolute favourite Content Creators, and
in his Mental Prison videos, and indeed many of his videos, and in
his conversations with Dark Knight, and Spetsnaz, he seeks to Elevate
men out of the squalor of Stage 1 and really Stage 2, and into Stage
3, out of “My Life Sucks” and into “I'm Great,” which is
really the realm of Self Actualization.
Stage 3 is where you learn to master
your work, your craft, your art. It's where you turn Pro. Niko, as
set apart from many MGTOW community channels, isn't simply focused on
My Life Sucks, he wants his viewers to not only protect themselves
from risks, but to really find themselves and do Well. I think for
this he caught enough shit that he needed a vacation. I'm very glad
that he's back, with or without the label.
I believe CS took a hiatus at that time
for essentially the same reason. He dares to have a greater
conversation beyond “My Life Sucks,” and not everyone's ears are
open to that, unfortunately. Here I remind you of my description of
Confirmation Bias and Red Pills....
Now as one develops up into Stage 3,
and really own it as Sargon and Milo Yiannopoulis have, There comes
what the authors call a Tribal Leadership Epiphany. And here a person
experiences a number of internal statements and realizations which
may come all at once or they may stretch out over the course of a
career, but they are described as follows:
Nothing That Matters is Personal.
Stage 3 has No Legacy
Stage 3 winnings are Small
Have I been a Leader up til now? Or
just a Manipulator?
I'm Tired (of the Stage 3 game)
During this epiphany, the subject
begins to see Others Perspectives on Themselves, and they don't Like
it.
This is how one graduates to Stage 4
thinking. One learns to trust others, and recognize their strengths.
So here one learns the value of the Triad.
Maggie, Richard, and Boceephus are a
Triadic relationship. They value maintaining honesty with eachother.
Furthermore, each member takes a personal responsibility in helping
maintain the opposite leg of the Triad. That is, Bo helps ensure that
Maggie and Dick's relationship remains healthy. Maggie puts the same
effort into Bo and Dick's relationship. Dick is responsible for Bo
and Maggie.
This is the building block that the
most effective Tribes are made of.
Another important hallmark of Stage 4
and 5 Tribes is they have what the authors call Core Values and a
Noble Cause. These things only work if they're Universal, that is the
Values and Cause must be of benefit to all Humankind, to be Core and
Noble.
Dave Rubin illustrates this in the
majority of his interviews, where he seeks at some point to establish
with is Guest that they hold Liberal Values in common. The Noble
Cause appears to be to better establish and ensure an Environment
friendly to Free Speech, that the societal conversation may not self
censor, so the conversation can be of the utmost Quality and Honesty.
The Stage 4 mentality of his Show
become especially obvious to me when Dave had on Kelly Carlin, and
they discussed her House Parties in which she essentially brokers
Triadic relationships with her guests.
Dave Rubin also consistently identifies
the Regressive Left as the common enemy in his Interviews, as they
stomp on Free Speech so hard, and vilify those who don't help shore
up their chosen Narrative.
So I don't have a lot to say about
Stage 5, as I have not experienced that even tangentially, tho it is
on my bucket list. You should read the book.
I will Digress for a moment on Rogue
Tribes. The book describes these as having Non Core Values, and an
Ignoble Cause, that is that the Cause and Values do not hold
Universal benefit for all Humankind. I will argue that Collectivist
viewpoints inherently beget Rogue Tribes, as they would trample on
the individual for the “well being” of the group. Here we find
Intersectional Feminism, and the other Postmodern Religions,
Conspiracy Cultures, Al Qaeda, and Hitler. Such Values and Causes
justify Criminal or atleast AntiSocial Behaviours. There's a reason
the term Feminazi was coined.
With that I would Bid you Good Night
