On Blackpilled Men

I’m going to revisit a ‘current thing’ to highlight a pervasive thing. Below is a post that went viral last week. I left the out poster’s name intentionally.

Even discounting bots, a lot of people engaged with a headline from an outdated women’s magazine.

I understand why women don’t want to have a mere boyfriend for 10 years. The sentiment isn’t anti-man, it’s anti-adolescent. Most girls would prefer to be married than have a boyfriend forever, so I don’t get what all the fuss is about.

Regardless, that post isn’t the point. People weren’t engaging with the headline, they were engaging with the way it was framed.

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I can’t comprehend the impulse to twist topics in order to make people believe “it’s over.” A headline from a women’s magazine shouldn’t be enough to take a man down.

It takes 2 seconds to put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no legs, a parent who just lost their child, or someone who had to walk alone into the cold with a spear to hunt wild animals for sustenance. Words make you think it’s over? Brother, civilization isn’t cooked. YOU are cooked.

That post is just one example of men spreading demoralization propaganda online. Have you seen Andrew Tate’s account lately? Such is the fate of many washed up men.

And to be fair, you don’t need to spend a lot of time online to be concerned about the state of civilization. But it’s not impossible to thrive regardless of what blackpillers tell you. Bad news will always come. The question for men isn’t whether the world is good or bad, it’s how you’re going to handle it.

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Trying to depress people is fundamentally cowardly and unmanly. I’m sympathetic to men having a rough time, but I have absolutely zero respect for men who try to blackpill people.

What explains this behavior? Perhaps their sense of honor is so vanquished that rather than find the will to improve their lives, they’d rather drag other men down with them. Misery indeed loves company.

I’m not big on moralizing, but I believe men have a responsibility to elevate themselves and the people they care about as much as possible.

Why are modern men so easily depressed? Is it a testosterone issue? Is it a symptom of a culture in decline? Or perhaps they’re just weak? Could you picture your grandfather talking in such a way? What about his grandfather?

Is depression an inevitable byproduct of spending too much time online? Do modern men not have enough real world experience to recognize bullshit when they hear it?

If you learn about life online, your human instincts die, then reality makes you pay the price.

What explains the rise of blackpilled men?