MGTOW is a blockchain of the growing public male mind. Because it is decentralized it has no leaders, no heros, no constitutions or legal representative bodies that can be dismantled. We are not MRAs, incels, or PUAs. We have no planned meetups, no agendas to pursue, no protests, no public activism. It is only the activism of the self and the freedom to GYOW.
You cannot go to the MGTOW storefront and interview it's owner and smear him and hope to bring the idea of MGTOW down. You risk bringing down one node and creating thousands of others. Men going "their own way" are far too individualistic, varied, and independent and none of us can individually can represent the societal impact of what will one day be millions of men going their own way. The smears and arguments against mgtow (which will no doubt increase) are tactically akin to understanding the beauty of an island beach by putting a single grain of sand under a microscope. MGTOW sells an idea to the individual where the product is sold without any expectations of economic, political, other loyalties. You cannot subvert an idea that starts and begins at the individual. The only weapon would be outright thought-control.
The point is, the fire has already been started and it can simmer for years, decades, or even centuries. Ultimately it does not matter how long because we who are going our own way do not care in the answer because we've already achieved victory where it matters: ourselves.
The only agenda in MGTOW is to GYOW in the way you see fit. It is the last and final public chess move.
Going MGTOW is like having a handwritten debate with an opponent that uses every dirty tactic to win... except the ink has run out and you suddenly realize you have better things to do anyway. The debate is over and you are free to leave.
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MGTOW can be suppressed but never destroyed.
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You can call it an ideology but in it's function MGTOW is more of a loose philosophy than a true ideology. MGTOW has elements of ideology but it is more like one system than the other. It is also possible to be both.
To that end, philosophy is not scared of nuance or questioning, in fact it welcomes it and seeks refinement. To the extent that this condition is not true is also the extent to which you transition from Philosophy to Ideology. In Philosophy, the goal is pure knowledge, there are no sacred cows or mechanics that can't be brought into question. Because of the open nature of philosophy you are less likely to have to deal with hidden motives, a trademark of ideology.
There is a reason we study every almost every philosophy man has committed to paper but discard most past ideologies as corrupt and goal-seeking. We discard them because ideologies are mostly rigid systems born to achieve certain short-term goals in a given environment. Ideologies tend to be inflexible and useless after their internalized goal has been achieved. You don't need to have a goal in Philosophy but the same cannot be said of Ideology.
Ideologies have the effect of becoming toxic because they are dependent on the number of people "believing" vs the quality of the idea itself. You will notice that good philosophy is good despite the number of people believing it. I would even argue that one does not even believe in Philosophy, one only understands and finds truth (or does not). One can be an adherent of multiple philosophies of a subject at any time and pick one that fits a situation better but the same is not observed in ideology.
Ideology is self-seeking and tends to only gain credibility as the ideology gains followers. In ideology the need for constant perpetuation is often so high that the ideology cannot self-destruct gracefully (feminism). If an ideology was truly that good in explaining reality it would naturally ascend into philosophical realms. Philosophy can perpetuate across time gracefully on it's own merits, on it's own time, in the moments in which it is called upon. There is no specific concrete end-goal beyond the usefulness of the philosophy itself. Philosophies usefulness is its ability to provide and extract meaningful insights from reality. Practically applied you can use an insight to make a better decision where most people wouldn't (hence mgtow). Philosophies tends to stick around because we have only one reality (that I know of).
If we move to a world where mgtow has no more merit because women no longer exist or because dynamics change such that relationships are longer physically possible then mgtow will logically be discarded. The same philosophy may be called upon again in another future. For me mgtow is also a field of male philosophy informed largely by present reality that screams for a logical explanation.
Where philosophy enlightens the seekers of knowledge, ideology compels the captivated believers.
You are free to be a MGTOW and you are free to not. All mgtow is doing is giving you additional knowledge.
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