Escape from Compulsive Escapism

Red_Swords · 2015-09-15T14:49:25+00:00

How do you boil a frog?

If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, he'll jump out of it immediately - a rational course of action for self-preservation.

If you place the frog into a pot of water at room temperature, and slowly begin to heat it, then the frog will continually adjust to the change in his environment, rather than leaving the situation outright. By the time the frog is able to grasp his perilous situation, it's too late to escape the pot.

I don't remember where I first heard this analogy, but I think it rings true for a lot of people that become depressed, restless, or otherwise unhappy with their lives.

I think this type of escapism has become extremely common in recent years, with young people failing to leave nest, a general lack economic/professional opportunities, and the lamentable state of the social world in modern, western democracies.

The first step in prevention and correction is to simply be aware of how insidious damaging compulsive escapism can be - if you can at least be mindful of that fact, you're probably way better off than most of the population (at least in terms of time management).

The second step is recognizing when a situation isn't leaving you satisfied, and either changing the situation, or leaving it. Hate your job? Find a new one. Hate your roommates? Move out. Have a problem with someone? Cut them out of your life.

A frog will allow himself to boiled alive, if he's made comfortable before his death.

A clean amputation is less of a threat than a festering infection.

Often, it's the small problems which are left unaddressed, that become our eventual undoing. The weaker enemy enemy is a much greater threat than the stronger, if you've foolishly made the mistake of underestimating him.

RXRob · 2015-09-15T11:48:16+00:00

If I can add another thing to the list, my walk to work became much more enjoyable when I ditched the headphones

BobBobCan · 2015-09-15T15:59:53+00:00

"All of man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still, alone in a room" —Blaise Pascal

DeputyDelicious · 2015-09-15T12:32:46+00:00

Alright this has kind of post has been doing it's floating around the community for a while now.

The basic premise being that the MGTOWs are all a bunch of cowardly guys that need to just get into the game regardless of whether they see a point to it or not.

With all due respect, go fuck yourself.

If your best argument is "you're depressed and unfulfilled, I know because I was like you" then I don't agree. Not everyone is like you. You said it yourself.

Here on trp we deal with reality as it comes, good or bad.

We deal with it. One thing that made this community great was that we all dealt with it in different ways. Everyone agreed on the foundation, the theory, and the reality and we all disagreed on how to deal with it. The PUAs decided to just slay and alpha widow the shit of out girls until they died. The MGTOWs decided to do whatever the fuck the wanted whether it be camping or traveling the world, or jacking their dick while playing video games. The Married or want to be Married Redpill guys talked about what strategies to implement to kill the hypergamy in a woman. But slowly some have been pushing an agenda to make the community conform to one standard of dealing with reality. That is honestly pure bullshit and just like there are many ways to get to a point where you're putting up two plates on the squat rack. There are plenty of ways to deal with the degradation of society.

So how about we kill this whole "If you don't get inshape and get a killer salary and marry a high quality woman to keep your genetic line alive you're a cowardly piece of shit" thing. Because I don't call you a woman supplicating faggot for wanting to find a redpill relationship and tolerate the incessant emotional moans and groans of your own pet cum dumpster. WHICH BTW comes with a delicious need to keep track of menstration cycles, calorie count, workout plan.

If you want to go through all that then by all means have at it bud, I'll just keep sitting here playing Frisbee with my adorable labrodoodle.

FrankWG · 2015-09-15T10:22:08+00:00

In time you will get efficient at doing the stuff you need to do (business, honing skills, lifting, reading, approaching, etc) and you get a lot of free time. That's when you can play videogames.

martypete · 2015-09-15T11:49:29+00:00

I think you could've spent more time crafting this theory/post. this just seems lazy

Redasshole · 2015-09-15T15:52:53+00:00

This is a very important subject and you treated it in a shallow way. No offense bro, but your post litteraly says "porn, tv, internet and gaming are distructions one uses to escape from our shitty lives. Quit doing those things and change your real life instead of fleeing it".

Anyway. I've been doing that for my whole life so I know where this road leads:

the three big areas of everyones life which are health, wealth and love(more like social and sexual life) will suffer a lot from it. You will become poor, ill, alone and sexually frustrated. This is no exaggeration, if you keep compulsing like that, this is what's going to happen.
Those things will never be enough because you can't flee reality. By trying to escape it, you only add problems to it. You can not escape reality completely. If you don't like it, you can change it or change your perception of it though.
In the end, escaping makes you more sad than facing your life, fighting and failing miserably.

Everything I said was field-tested.

moosevice_dot_com · 2015-09-15T21:44:16+00:00

Great post.

Meditation is key. Reading is a form of meditation if you think about it...

ExclusiveAlias · 2015-09-15T10:58:28+00:00

You can never escape "reality". You can only modulate/manipulate your perception of it.

I've attempted to escape reality via pornography, gaming, psychoactive drug use, and paracosm for roughly 8 years and my hypothesis before most of this was correct. I never escaped reality, only attempted to diminish some psychological issues I never wanted to admit to and learn/get help.

whisky1111 · 2015-09-15T17:33:57+00:00

Notice how all activities that are not tied to money, work, "love", sex, physical strengthening, and social acceptance are spun as being "frivolous time wasters"?

Hmmmm....

As Roosh pointed out this week in his latest article, if you are living in a civilized society away from nature, then you are always living under some else's frame. You just don't realize it.

Now go make yourselves useful!

TerryTravis · 2015-09-15T10:40:32+00:00

Exactly, and why do people want to escape? Here are the reasons if you ask me:

Boredom: Bluepillers get bored with the monotomy of their every day life and feel the need for some easy excitement and variety. Tv & Games gives them this.

Fear & avoidance: Bluepillers are afraid to face their fears, so they get comfortable in their escapism habbits.

Easiness: It has never been easier than today to indulge in escapism. We have unprecedented access to all forms of distraction at our fingertips. And the most favored escape is entertainment.

de_schanel · 2015-09-15T18:08:15+00:00

they are not life

Like there was a set of non-arbitrarily chosen activities in life which would objectively be the LIFE (r)(Tm) compared to other which would be not. Yeah, fuck off.

Title	Escape from Compulsive Escapism
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Date	September 15, 2015 10:18 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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