The roots of a lot of neomasculinity can all be loosely tied back to the ethos espoused in Neil Strauss' attempt at investigative journalism, "The Game". The book's success amongst disillusioned/dejected men lead to a sequel ("The Rules of the Game"), and a manifesto published by one of the book's central figures ("The Mystery Method"); these books undoubtably cleared the way for Roosh V, founder of Return of Kings and author of the "Bang" series of pick-up guides, to make his way onto the scene and coin the term "red pill" for the accepting of his neomasculine ideology.

Now Strauss is publishing a second direct follow up to The Game, dubbed "The Truth", in which he apparently recants the whole lifestyle he had previously lived and championed.

I haven't read Strauss' new book, but I do follow Marc Maron's podcast "WTF", where Strauss recently had this to say:

"[Alpha and Beta] are nonsense concepts... here's what I think - I always have these discussions, is monogomy natural [etc]... if you're basing your behavior on a scientific theory, then you're an idiot. I think we use [evolution] to justify stuff... it's such a slippery argument, you can use it to justify anything, it's so open ended. I talked to a geneticist... he said 'there's no behaviour that's purely genetic.'" (source)

Thoughts? Discussion?