Old Post on r/AskMen

T0000009 · 2016-04-01T03:37:09+00:00

Just to be clear, you can't be the biggest jackass on the planet, THAT is my job...

Otherwise.. carry the fuck on mate..

thrownaway_MGTOW · 2016-04-01T04:30:27+00:00

I got a kick out of this:

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

And then even more of a kick out of THIS response (seems like something *I* would have written -- though of course my version would have been much longer and more meandering, LOL):

If you were actually able to find a "martial arts monastery" in China that would be willing to take care of you, and get a requisite visa from the Chinese government, then you’d be living a subsistence lifestyle supplemented by alms from tourists.

If your family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers, the only meaningful work you could do to "get revenge" would be to dedicate yourself to political lobbying and hope to make such business increasingly less tenable. This would take decades of effort that was not immediately rewarded in any tangible personal way.

If you were diagnosed with an incurable and deadly disease, there would be a million more reasonable ways to spend your little remaining and obviously soon to be immobile time than to be an annoying vigilante. If an incurable disease is killing you, you are going to go out with a whimper and not a bang.

There is no such thing as "the baddest motherfucker in the world". The concept is an infantile and risible masculine fantasy. Exigent circumstances may propel people to commit admirable, dazzling feats of bravery and competence. Pretty much without exception, those who have been commended for having risked their lives are happy to point out that dumb luck kept them alive.

People are only ever powerful because they recruit people to fight alongside them and to support them. Everybody has to sleep. Everybody is as vulnerable as an infant while they sleep.

That last of course is technically only true IF you are living WITH others, sleeping somewhere that other people by definition have access to, or where they could readily gain entry... without making so much noise as to wake you up.

And while that seems a trivial point, I think it reveals the inherent fallacy of the powerful as stated here, to wit: "powerful because they have people to ... support [guard] them" -- the swords of the Praetorian guard can point EITHER direction; and more than one "Caesar" has been offed by the trusted members of his inner circle.

By contrast, the man who lives alone on a high mountaintop, or in some other similar place of relatively remoteness & obscurity -- while vulnerable in other ways by being alone -- can nevertheless sleep soundly with no fear of betrayal while he rests.

I'll take the latter over the former any day.

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. -- Eccl 4:6

FanofLemmy · 2016-04-01T03:12:06+00:00

Glad you're feeling better! Sorry you had to go through that, though. Hope it didn't completely drain you.

csehszlovakze · 2016-04-01T06:37:16+00:00

> mobile link

REEEEEEEEEEEEE (I know you're on mobile but it's still annoying)

BoxHandler · 2016-04-01T12:43:02+00:00

Good for you brotha! I'm a member of the divorce club as well. While I'm not taking up crime fighting, it still feels awesome to have a blank slate to work with.

Title	Old Post on r/AskMen
Author	BoxHandler
Upvotes	19
Comments	17
Date	March 31, 2016 11:50 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MGTOW
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