Thursday, February 25, 2010

Tucker Max's Reading List: The Canon of 21st Century Bioliberterianism

Christian democracy is socially conservative and economically liberal. There is a trade-off in using the term liberal. In the USA liberal means leftwing. Libertarians complain about this. In most of the world the left is social democratic. It is true that US liberals are neither libertarian nor social democratic. And yet they are far more close to the classical liberal tradition than they are to social democracy. Liberterians would strongly disagree with me, but I think a comparative study of the historical evolution of the US Democratic Party and the European social democratic parties would bear me out on this.

The model Christian Democratic party is German. The CDU established a social market economy, that preserved socially conservative patriarchy with the single-male breadwinner by using welfare state policies to ensure that a household only needed one laborer. The Social Democrats in the Nordic states actively encouraged women to enter the market using welfare policies. The US has what could be called a night watchmen welfare state. So by the very absence of welfare benefits, the US libertarian system achieves a similar result to the Nordic feminist policies, since it pushes women into the market. However since the 1980s, Neoliberalism has swept the globe and we have seen a return to 19th century American style capitalism everywhere. So understanding Tucker Max’s social liberalism, and economic conservatism is useful to understanding the entire world.

And yet his worldview is both socially liberal and conservative. Milton Friedman’s minarchist liberterianism generally encourages social liberalism. But Max also relies on traditionalists like Homer, Thucydides, Paul Johnson, and Thomas Sowell. He also favors the economic theory of law. And yet from his sociobiological sources from Matt Ridley, Dawkins, Sperm Wars, Pinker, Wright, Greene etc. he favors a rather conservative social order. I suppose his belief is that in a minarchist social darwinist liberterian state, the survival of the fittest will naturally create a conservative order in line with Herbert Spencer. From the 18th century with Hobbes vs Locke, the strong Leviathan state was traditionally associated with a pessimistic view of human nature, while the liberal state was associated with optimistic blank slatism. This has been reversed since the 1960s, with cruel human nature used to justify the night watchmen state. This is the marriage of libertarianism and sociobiology.

Max draws on positivist Chicago School economics as opposed to natural law Austrian school.

So on the surface Tucker Max is just a hard-partying frat boy PUA. But as his reading list shows there is an entire political program behind it. I suppose you could call it bioliberterianism. While not specifically mentioned, this marriage of darwinism and masculinity, is very much in line with Nietzche’s Superman. His master morality where strength is power. Nietzsche said that Napoleon was proof of women’s inferiority, since no woman could ever dream of reaching that level of greatness. The 20th century descendant of Nietzsche is Heidegger, and in their Fight Club existentialism, there is a desire to find some sort of real experience and existence through caveman masculinity.

Make no mistake about it, as of 2010, Bioliberterianism is the official ideaology of the USA, and through globalization of the world. Most Americans whatever their status in society have embraced Bioliberterianism. This includes both the NPR liberal left and the Fox News Christian Right. Few speak in as explicit terms as Roissy, Halfsigma, and Tucker Max, but ideas don’t have to be held on the sleeve.

Is Bioliberterianism the legitimate heir to Renaissance humanism, Protestant individualism, Enlightenment rationalism, civic republicanism, and classical philosophy?

Philosophy has broken down in the 21st century since we have reached the Roissyite Utopia. Continental philosophy has descended into post-modernism, post-structuralism, and deconstructionism. Anglo-American philosophy is entirely logical positivist, linguistic, analytic. Both essentially reduce philosophy to linguistics and the analysis of language. This is more clear in the Analytic tradition derived from Wittgenstein and Russell. But the hermeneutic textual readings of the Continentals is also basically based on questions of language.

One can also see Freud as the founder of the school that everything is REALLY about sex. People are to distracted by his Oedpial conflict literary theory, to see that he is the direct precursor of Roissyite bio-reductionism. Freud’s theory of human nature is entirely based on his reading of Darwin’s sexual selection. Watson and BF Skinner’s Radical Empiricism represented a revolt against Freudian psychology based on Pavlovian conditioning. Pinker’s sharp attack on blank slatism represents a sort of Neo-Freudianist theory of human nature. Freud was similar to Roissy in being Janus-faced about sexual liberation. On the one hand he considered it unhealthy to deny caveman sexuality, on the other hand he realized that all the achievements of civilization were based on suppressing this.
Alphas/Id, Betas/Ego, Omega/Superego.

Now Roissyism supposedly represents both the ideology of sexual liberation and an attack on it. It is primarily an advocate of sexuality, the conservative attack is just moonshine. It is part of individualism, which always claims outsider status even when it is on the throne. That is the nature of pluralism. Those in power, will always be the loudest critics.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Hello Kitty: Fashion Icon

Who doesn’t love Hello Kitty? That adorable Japanese cat with the red bow? Hello Kitty has invaded US territoryHello Kitty Dress- Lady Gaga in the form of fashion accessories such as purses, T-shirts, lunchboxes, bags, jewelry, wallets, stickers, posters.   Even celebrities like Lady Gaga and Paris Hilton pay tribute to this famous kitty.  This proves there is no age limit to being a Hello Kitty fan.  And you can’t forget the many television, movies, and video games that have found their ways into homes everywhere. It’s almost Hello Kitty- Paris Hiltonunimaginable that a character with no mouth can speak loudly to so many American kids, teenagers and adults alike. With anime becoming more and more popular in recent years, Hello Kitty has become one of the most recognizable Japanese characters. Hello Kitty even has her own theme park, restaurants and is even on the side of an Airbus A330-200 airplane!!! Even with Japan getting hit hard with recent Toyota issues, at least they will always have Hello Kitty to pull them through those tough times.

And don’t forget about her twin sister, Mimmy. She’s cute too.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

a different sort of post

i can’t bear to do a negative, thinspo-loaded post today, so i won’t. welcome my brain’s positive ish:

^ for some reason i’m really enjoying this picture. maybe it’s the camel. i mean, i prefer llamas but i consider myself a camel-fan… and i’m LOVING that little crocheted thins on his nose.

anyway, i found it on this blog:

http://agirlnamedbong.blogspot.com

it’s been my source of entertainment for the last couple of days, along with Heroes, which i’ve been watching via netflix.com

i’m on season 2 and i’m hooked! i here it gets worse but now apparently there’s a new writer so it’s better…?

i don’t know. but i’ll keep watching regardless because of milo. he’s why i started watching in the first place. you see, i disliked him on gilmore girls because i found jess annoying. like, really?!? stop doing bad things! but i hadn’t hit puberty yet, and i think that’s necessary to get the full effect, because it wasn’t until i re-watched gilmore girls a couple of months ago that i realized how stunning he is. i mean, really! i’ve seen and/ or known plenty of men who are good-looking or cute or hot, but only two who are really– well– beautiful, and he’s one of them. and i don’t mean just the face, but the whole being.

he’s the kind of person who artists dream about. a muse…

so, yeah– um, heroes. good show. haha ;)

erm… ok! so i think next year i’m going to go vegan. i just feel like it’s the right thing to do– like vegetarianism isn’t enough. i can do more and i WANT to do more. i’ve been feeling increasing bad about eating animal products and i wouldn’t if my parents would stop practically force-feeding me and complaining about how i’m so hard to cook for. (not that i ever ask to be cooked for. i can fend for myself)

i’ve been taking a lot of pictures, too. mostly of the snow. i wanted to get a good one of the flakes falling, but my camera’s new, so i couldn’t figure out which setting to use. i’m enjoying experimenting with it most of the time, but sometimes i REALLY want a shot, and then it’s frustrating.

sorry… i’m kind of new at this whole positivity thing. if i decided to try this more i promise to get better at it!

but before i end the post i have a really random question: if you could go anywhere in the world for a couple of days (no time-traveling or anything like that), where would you go?

i was thinking ireland or france. maybe germany.

where would you go?

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Boredom: the desire for desires - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Boredom: the desire for desires – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Is this all just boredom? You have freed yourself from all desires. That’s a good thing right? Except if there is no pleasure you seek, then the best you can hope for is a 0 state of neither pleasure nor pain. Which is no better or worse than nonexistence. Anything else would just be more pain than pleasure, and worse than nonexistence.
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I mean for a while this was all sublated by ambition. This was all necessary sacrifice for a worthy goal. Out of ambition I acted very much like a teenage Ayn Rand sycophant would, calculating advantage, and making a point of never sacrificing self-interest when I was in direct competition. Of course this was all done out of the noblest motives, in the belief that I was best qualified to use power in a utilitarian way. In this way anything that stood in the way of my interest, stood in the way of the salvation of humanity.

We all champion the heroism of men like Cortez when they burn their ships so there is no place to retreat to, and only victory can save them. But if you are defeated the burning of bridges comes to be the greatest of blunders. Had I been successful the same facts could be rewritten under different paradigms. My childhood and teen years, would be the story of a determined hero with his eyes fixed on the prize. With complete faith in his star.

SO now I’m stuck with a profound sense of ennui. I just don’t care. The world goes on its stupid way destroying itself. And I’ve just lost touch with humanity. I don’t believe in individualism, so I don’t think there is anything I can do to make things better. So it goes beyond the evils of the world. IT is the mediocrity of the world. The shallow caprice.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

Is that true? I mean on the one hand it is philosophy that has led me to such misery. But on the other hand, intelligence as the ability to be a rational calculator, need not lead anyone to misery. It is only when one feels, that life becomes misery.

I don’t think that it is being over-educated that has ruined me. In my adolescence I had a narrow but deep education of very specific military subjects. But that broadened into wider political thought. By the time I self-taught myself a broad philosophical education in college, it was too late to make any real difference in my interactions with the world. A general philosophical education at a young age would have helped me put the world in perspective. And be more stoic and determinist about the evils of the world. To see myself more as an actor rather than writer of history.

Well what about Rodney Stark’s rational choice theory of religion? That even the craziest New Agey religions that people believe are actually logical calculations about the benefits such religion conveys. In that sense Destiny was my religion. I derived far more pleasure from it then I would have from Gossip Girl. It is true that the promise lay in the future, but I borrowed on that future promissory note. Schopenhauer says that all the pleasure we gain from expectation is deducted when the actual pleasure arrives. But since the Future never came, it turned out I was living off pleasure that didn’t exist. Does that mean that the happiness I experiance in youth was not actual happiness?

So is it about evil or ennui? Well there is nothing less boring than the noble crusade against evil. So if there are so many dragons to slay, why is the world so horrible? PErhaps there is no hope for total victory. But you are not so base, that you can’t score individual triumphs?

Well what if you worked a “normal” 9-5 job, but from Hegel’s philosophy of right, you were able to see even burger-flipping as a noble realization of human history and rationality. And then after work you had your Indiana Jones adventures with all the pluralist sects that populate diversity USA. Ok lets not romanticize it. I mean these would just be discussion groups in people’s houses. But you know full well that your not capable of swinging from vines, and escaping death-traps. I mean you have the ability to work out to the point where you may look good, and have a brute kind of strength, but you will never have the fineness of useful strength or athleticism. In that sense you are better suited to be an Indiana Jones of American diversity.

Unless of course adventure was never really what you wanted? You just wanted stability and a hierarchy to climb? Pretty much any workplace offers that. I mean you like both flat and vertical hierarchies. A flat hierarchy is democratic, while a vertical one is a ladder to climb. Does adventure have to be geographical? I mean if you want to meet Satanists, vampires, cults, mystics, wizards, ghost hunters, paranormal, through the internet you can meet them right here in USA.

So is that so different from your “grand ambition”? You find a hierarchy that you try to climb, and you also have adventures.

As for utopia, that will be one of your scenes. Isn’t the struggle for utopia, utopia itself? And while it maybe difficult to join a hippie commune right now, if that becomes a longterm goal, then you probably can do it eventually. And so you can live out your days after a lifetime of adventure, in the society you would have won had it all worked out.

How much did you ever believe in utopia? Earlier it served as a distant goal, to justify your life of adventure. And after the fall it served as a ritualistic duty without any hope of victory.

Well is that a life you could live? Work during the day, Indiana Jones at night? I mean yeah its not as exciting as temples of doom, but you tried that road and know its not for you. You may not be able to duel a Voodoo priest, but you can learn from him the intellectual consciousness behind his thought.

Utopia means stability and harmony. Yes it is true the job market is chaotic now. But if you ever did get a public sector job, you would enjoy the relative stability of utopia. You always turned down the prospect of being a public teacher. So its not stability your after. Utopia is your Kantian Kingdom of Ends. It is the divine goal, that is supposed to motivate all your actions. Its nothing you should lament, that you don’t live in it.

And what of Tucker Max? Well if this is all an elaborate mask for your Nietzsche herd resentment , then this is purely an instrumental problem. You need to learn the skills to achieve the particular goal of being Tucker Max. And if its white-knighting genuinely, then be content that women lead more fulfilling lives now than they ever have in history. A women is far better off in the Roissyverse than she was in your beloved Athens. IF women issues are the primary bane of your existence, then Athens horrific treatment of them should far outweigh their beautiful democracy. Rome itself was founded in a Tucker Max manner, they invited over the neighboring town, and then raped all the Sabine women. Don’t get me started on Genghis Khan.

So if thats what your really concerned with, than you’d have to admit that all your beloved civic republic were even worse.

And you were so afraid of being a beta male, who bought pretty flowers, long before you had heard of the term beta or PUA. So if girls really have it so horrible, then why don’t you become a beta, and try to make it a little better for them? Is it so horrible to be taken advantage of, by a girl, if you know she faces a pack of wolves at every corner who wish to hurt, humiliate, degrade, debase her out of sheer sadism? Isn’t being a beta nice-guy the LEAST you can do?

Even from a hedonist point of view, if sexual success is what you wanted and you always claimed it wasn’t, but if it was, then you would have done a lot better playing the nice guy beta, than you did playing the omega jerk. I mean your justification is that beautiful girls, get treated too nice by the world, just because of their looks, and your being egalitarian by being rude to them. But if they really do live in a tragic world besieged by Roissys and Tucker Maxes, then their beauty is a curse that gives alphas a right to hurt them. In which case you must come to the opposite conclusion, that you should be especially nice to them.

I mean can’t you just say outright “yes, I know that you are biologically programmed by your cavegirl greatgranny who got hit with a club and made a rapeslave, to submit to the alpha with the biggest club, but I don’t care about that. I’m who I’m, and I’m not going to change my moral values for you. Either accept me as a nice guy or get out. I’m not going to be a man I hate, just to please you. Your not worth that price to me, I don’t value you that highly.I insist on being a white knight torpedoes be damned!”

If any of those so-called recovering AFCs had every been “nice guys” and not Tucker Maxes in slow-motion thats what they would have said.

How can you be so certain that nice guys finish last? Just because everyone says so. The nice guys who COMPLAIN are NOT nice-guys they just pursue a conservative strategy.
They are a testament to the glory of Mises’ sexual free-market, because men much more immoral than you are forced to behave far kinder than you. I mean you consider yourself a nice guy deep down inside. But you have consciously made sure that you NEVER do anything nice for a girl, and you never have because you don’t face the pressure of the sexual free market. The sexual market forces those so-called white knights to behave more morally than they actually are. And that is what all their complaining and resentment is about.

I have seen no empirical evidence from middle, high school or college, that nice guys finish last. I’ve heard a lot of complaints online, and it is what pop culture pushes but I haven’t seen it with my own eyes. It may or may not have existed in frat college. But that was NOT what you were looking for. You condemned hedonism not Roissyism. Yes the jerks were doing well, but afaik the nice guys were as well. Anyway there are very few men in the world who would meet my standard for nice guy white knight. So maybe the problem is not that girls go for jerks, but that there are only jerks. Take your pick aggressive or conservative jerks. Conservative jerks AKA beta nice guys, would LIKE to live the Tucker Max life, long before Roissy “open their eyes”, the sexual free-market disciplines them.

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

r/K selection theory in the age of Tucker Max

r-K Scale

Some Life-History Differences
Between r-Strategists and K-Strategists r-Strategist K-Strategist Family characteristics Large litter size Small litter size Short birth spacing Long birth spacing Many offspring Few offspring High infant mortality Low infant mortality Little parental care Much parental care Individual characteristics Rapid maturation Slow Maturation Early sexual reproduction Delayed sexual reproduction Short life Long life High reproductive effort Low reproductive effort High energy utilization Efficient energy utilization Smaller brains Larger brains Population characteristics Opportunistic exploiters Consistent exploiters Dispersing colonizers Stable occupiers Variable population size Stable population size Weak competition Strong competition Social system characteristics Low social organization Higher social organization Low Altruism High Altruism


PUAs actually take a rather traditionalist, dare I say Beta, view towards culture. Roissy himself has stated that he believes western civilization was the most favorable to betas and thus evolved towards the highest. I think there is too much confusion in PUA between alpha-beta and r/K selection.

For the most part nearly all the traits associated with alphas can also be called r tactics. Alpha becomes a pretty meaningless term when you have such large levels of civilization, and anomie. We don’t really have tribal families anymore. So I think the TERMS alpha and beta are meaningless but you can replace it with r/K selection theory and still have all the traits in-tact. For example you can have an entire K community, yet there could still be the alpha of said community. Alphaness, and I use the term loosely, is about power. While Roissy refers to the state as a replacement beta, in fact the Hobbesian Leviathan is the ONLY alpha alive today. Now I myself may use the term beta just because its popular but what I and PUAs both mean really is r/K selection theory.

R is the natural Rate of reproduction while K is Kare invested.

So morality and ethics as such is an attempt to encourage K traits. Hegel’s Philosophy of History is in some-sense the story of evolution from R as barbaric slave to nature, to K as free man consciously changing nature. Darwin saw life-history as the story of the draining of testosterone, and looked forward to the day in which the feminine traits of altruism and empathy would extent to the world. Larry Arnhart even hurls the charge of utopianism at Darwin.

That is also what the master slave dialectic is. The master is the alpha. He has all the fun in life, wine women and song. And his slave beta just works in the fields feeding Tucker. The alpha has more courage than the beta. He was willing to fight and die, the beta preferred life in chains to death. But ultimately it is the slave who is interaction with nature, who creates, and who builds. And so the world is the beta’s.

Now Roissy and Co. might actually agree with a lot of what I wrote above, but would insist the party is over and that feminism has ruined everything. Roissy calls himself a libertine capitalist. Feminism is the daughter of capitalism. The market had to quite naturally extend into the family sphere. And once women were pushed out of agriculture the discipline of the market would not let them sit on their hands. It is from capitalism, that women achieved the economic independence, that made male-female relations voluntary to a degree they had not been in the past. Precisely because American capitalism is so libertarian, women are pushed into the labor market far more strongly than they are in Christian Democratic Europe.   In that sense I should feel a lot more sorry for myself than for any of Tucker Max’s conquests. I don’t just face pop cultural pressure to have a market relation with a boss, if I don’t do it I’ll starve!

Dawkins points out that the next stage in the selfish gene is Memetics. In that sense I was not really anti-survival. It is true I had very little concern whether my selfish-gene survived. But I wasn’t content to leave this world as though I had never existed. I was determined that my selfish-meme would replicate and rule the world. Even if my selfish-meme was not directly tied to me, and my name and legacy disappeared from the world, my memetic information which is just as real as genetic information would survive.

If the selfish gene is nothing but information code, then memetics is actually a more efficient way to replicate, since there is less corruption of the source code.

So my morality does not necessarily have to be in conflict with this harsh Darwinian world. It is perfectly compatible with the selfish meme.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Albums By Actors Who Should've Stuck To Acting

The only thing worse than bad music, is bad music done by people who think they’re good at it.  Listen to their albums is like watching a car crash in slow motion or watching one-legged man hobble across the cross walk or a dog licking peanut from the roof of his mouth. Although it’s frustrating, its somehow funny. Sadly, a lot of actors decide the next obvious step in their career is cutting the worst album known to man.  Just ask Steven Segal and his album Mojo Priest!

Think you know who’re the best of the worst?  Check out the gallery after the jump!

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Monday, February 1, 2010

And They Said It Wouldn't Last

Laguna Lovers

Poug is still going strong as we begin the second month of 2010.  The relationship had lots of signs of potential disaster, but they’ve weathered the storm.

Last week, January 28, the happy couple partied together peacefully at Voyeur Nightclub. Paris looked cute in this black and white dress which she accessorized with a nice necklace.

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