I should say first that I am new to the the Red Pill, having recently removed myself from an LTR about a month ago during which I was doing most of the giving and was receiving very little. I lurked for a while, and submitted an article, and have read regularly on this site, along with cheateau heartiste, roosh V, the rational male, etc. These are three Red Pill principles that I try to live by - please add or comment where you think is appropriate:

(1) Follow your mission - This is the fundamental issue for most Blue Pill individuals - they can't or won't do this - yet this is what attracts women to you in a real and deep sense, that they respect your mission and want to be along with you as you achieve it. Many comments focus on those Blue Pill individuals who allow themselves to have their focus misdirected in any number of ways - accommodations in an LTR and unequal sacrifice, excessive focus on game and PUA, altering standards or even values in an attempt to appeal to women, either in reality or as a front, or indeed not having any mission at all. Without a real purpose, you will let a woman manipulate you through withholding sex, and will become her plaything, and the split second this happens, she has no respect for you and will move on. YOU must decide what is most important to you, what will be your mission, and then eventually a woman will come along for the ride. Your focus can never be women, a particular woman, or even influenced by any woman. It is quite easy to find men who are objectively speaking, losers - involved in a low level in gangs, unemployed, dead end so-called musicians, pot heads, local thugs, etc. who have no shortage of attractive girls, mainly b/c they do not give a fuck about the girls and have as their main life purpose some form of temporary pleasure and experience - parties, illicit money, crime, skirting danger, etc. They are, relatively speaking, Alpha males, not in an objective sense of course, but b/c they have priorities and recognize the place of women as distractions and drains of time and energy, and have developed ways of minimizing the investment needed to get the sex they want.

I should add that it is theoretically impossible for all men to be Alphas, but a vast majority of American men can overcome their feminine imperative conditioning, stand up for themselves and for their own interests, and not put up with cock teases, schemers and users, and at least make the work of a bitch or a gold digger more difficult. The important issue with being Alpha is not your mission itself, but that you respect it; in turn, then, women will respect you, but no woman, college educated or not, respects someone who lets a woman walk all over them, and arguably, even influence them when it comes to their mission. Stories are legion about how when a man who formerly partied hard "settles down" out of "love" all of a sudden the woman loses interests and leaves him. Your mission must be real, lifelong, and a passion, and only you can decide what this is. The Red Pill is more than lifting weights, reading books on PUA, gaming girls and learning lines and body motions, it is about autonomy and channeling your precious elan vital into a worthy purpose more than anything else. To a great extent, it is not even about women, it is about self-identity and emancipating yourself from the feminist cultural browbeating bullshit loudspeakers that encourage you daily and relentlessly to fall on your sword and fail in your most important duty as a man: to yourself.

(2) Accept that the fundamental principle through which women behave is hypergamy, and the decision making tool that they use to do so is the clitoris. This is commonly referred to as the "Alpha fux, beta bux" phenomenon, and while this has always been true, women in the post-1970 world, and especially post-2010, have little to no need of men for provision and protection. It is important to accept this, and to do so without a hint of depression, anger, reactionary thinking, or vindictiveness, and determine the best course of action in a society where the arbitrary and capricious blood-filled and engorged clitoris makes the major life decisions of slightly over 1/2 of the population.

What then can we conclude from this? One-itis was never right, and was always a strategy for desperate betas, to curry favor and perhaps guilt trip a woman through self-annihilating sacrifice to pretty-please spend time with them, walk all over them, and accept to make the most important decisions of their lives together, over resources and time, forever. In the 1970s, it was rightly considered foolish and ridiculed; by the 2010s, in the era of smart phones and Facebook and Instagram and twitter and immediate gratification, it is overtly suicidal. So, the important thing to conclude is that women will ALWAYS be looking for what they perceive to be the best DNA, and in our clitoris-dominated era, even experience, definitely while dating, but even during marriage, save perhaps slightly less during pregnancy and when the children are very young, due to mother-child bonding. It is important to accept this, and to remember that to forget about Rule #1 is to commit relationship suicide. This does not mean to be a self-absorbed jerk, but always for both of you to know that your priority is your mission, and that you entertain and tolerate her, in exchange for her support and sacrifice in your quest.

The second conclusion is that those who are best able to manipulate the clitoris in our era of social breakdown will be the winners, genetically, culturally, and in relationships. This is a science and a passion, and I mean figuratively as well as literally, and there is always more that all of us can learn, myself especially, but when you meet, date, and even enter an LTR with a woman, your focus should always be on the real decision maker for her in the relationship. Men are often accused of thinking with their penis, but the penis does have two important functions: excretion of liquid waste material, and insemination, two important purposes in life and its maintenance. By contrast, the clitoris has only one: pure, overwhelming pleasure in the body surrounding it; when this fact is grasped deeply, much of the modernist cant surrounding relationships, including especially the fallacy of female rationality and empathy, can finally be put to rest. Read Schopenhauer for more specifics.

The refusal to accept rule #2 is the cause for many abuses of the Red Pill - female bashing and misogyny, behaving in a mirror image way to women that degrades them, men going their own way excesses, etc. It is also the principle reason for Blue Pill addiction: until the Blue Pill addict recognizes the true decision maker with their idealized and pristine honey on a pedestal, they will continue in their misery.

Finally, a word of hope: the Cultural Marxist and feminist excesses have caused enormous damage in both society and relationships, but as the fundamental drive of all women at all times is still hypergamy and the clitoris, new markets of women are open to American men that would not have been possible 30, 20, or even 10 years ago - working class girls from patriarchal cultures looking to marry up, incredibly hot women from other countries that unlimited immigration has pulled in, and female economic migrants from the countryside desperate to prove that they are not provincial and that they are independent of their daddy and their family traditions. Accepting difficult changes and adjusting well is the mark of a successful Red Pill man and a successful man in general. Take advantage of these new markets, but recognize that you are valued as a man not for provision and protection, as in society 150+ years ago, but for the facilitation of hypergamy and her relative status increase with family members and former peers for being attached to you.

(3) Embrace masculinity - this is a very important one, and increases in importance as the relationship goes on in time. By this I mean not so-called "masculine" hobbies, which are often time wasters and distractions, but real masculinity - forming deep and lasting relationships with peers, working in teams toward worthy goals, maintaining physical fitness, providing for those less fortunate, not getting distracted by propaganda, and serving and helping family. At all costs, it is important to avoid acceding to various forms of the feminine imperative - your woman is there b/c she likes participating in your mission; your train stops regularly, and at every stop she debates getting off or staying on, and this is within marriage as well as before it; the split second you take your eyes off the road and place them on her, like the victims of Medusa, you turn to stone, crash, destroy yourself and your train, and she goes off whining about how put upon she is, how there are no good men, and how her nails were damaged in the rubble, and how she only managed to get 70% of the valuables before the train crashed, while you literally are a piece of rubble.

Anyways, these are my thoughts. Perhaps this post is too long, feel free to be critical. The three principles in my mind are clear, but the explanations quite long, and perhaps could have been clearer, and new corollaries added.