Here is the contents of my first mailbag:

1.) Introduction

2.) "Why do you bother with TRP?"

3.) "I don't know what to do after college."

4.) "How do you write about the dark triad and then write about morality?"

5.) "If you could recommend 10 books for personal growth, what would they be?"

6.) "How do I use ego productively?"

7.) In Closing

I'll put the answer to "why I still bother with TRP" in this thread. If you want to know about the other stuff and don't care about this, such as the books, or narcissism, then skip this excerpt and read the full mailbag:

http://illimitablemen.com/2015/07/06/monthly-mailbag-june-2015/

"As a TRP newbie, I'm very grateful for yet surprised by the amount of energy and time you and other TRP veterans are expending to help other people for free. I'm sure you personally have enough knowledge and discipline already to basically do whatever you want to do, so why are you choosing to spend your valuable time on TRP? Is becoming just a tiny bit more knowledgeable yourself worth the time investment, is it charity, is it a hobby, is it a "perfection in all things" philosophy, something else?"

Men are in pain. If I had the knowledge I have now when I was 15 or even 18 my life would have taken a far different direction. A lot of us had to learn the hard way so that you can learn the easy way. I remember what it's like growing up clueless and without guidance. By forming my blog, I can give the guidance I never had.

When you don't have a blog, and you care about this stuff, you know, the state of boys and men, the health of masculinity - you're better off having a blog to communicate your ideas to as many people as possible. Otherwise, you have lots of 1-on-1 conversations over private message, and the impact you have is far more localised. One article that gets 10,000 views has a greater impact on the collective than 200 individual private message consultations.

I think the red pill is a very important space for boys and men, young and old. Male spaces are lacking in real life, almost everywhere you go is dominated by a strong whiff of estrogen. Being stuck in the corporate rat race is no good for a guy, frankly, in my opinion, it's emasculating. Men aren't free to be men anymore, men must tone down their nature as not to be ostracised.

Political correctness is more a natural sensibility of the feminine than it is conducive to the masculine. Men tend to prefer communicating directly, that's when they're happiest and working at their best. Sanitised language which does not overtly offend is part of the "greet you with a smile whilst stabbing your jugular" ethic quintessential of women.

If you don't do a sport in the real world, or work on a building site, you probably don't have a place to shoot the shit. You have to be politically correct and police yourself, joking around or discussing serious topics from an exclusively male viewpoint is scarcely an option.

Not all your friends are going to be red pill, or really care about discussing the things that we as a community enjoy discussing. You may want to have a deep discussion about something, but you have friends who avoid "deep talk" and are chronic fun seekers. They're not in the mood for politics, or whatever deep thing it is you want to discuss, so where do you go? An internet forum - to meet people who have the same problem as you. The community is special in the way that it provides an outlet for masculine expression (at all levels of depth) in a time and place where such expression is taboo.

Likewise, I take great joy in writing, I love to write. There isn't really anything else for me to learn from the community, all one can do is master the implementation of the knowledge taught through practice. There comes a point where discussion is redundant but is done for the sake of itself, as well as for helping the guys who weren't there for all the prior discussions. If we don't keep the torch lit, it'll go out. Watch how quickly things dilute and fall into obscurity if all the big names just decided to up and leave - it would be tragic. TRP is a community of many built on the broad backs of the few. Plenty of guys "don't get it enough" and plenty of guys who do get it "don't give enough fucks to help anybody out."

If I wanted to disappear, lift weights and drink an unhealthy amount of whiskey (fuck, I love bourbon) I could do that. But I find writing and helping men out to be a fulfilling task - so I do that. For as long as I find such things fulfilling, I will continue to do them. TRP helped me out when I was in a tough spot, and for that it has my eternal gratitude. However, one should note that TRP isn't a magical fix-all for your problems.

TRP will give you the tools necessary to help you fix yourself, but TRP can't force you to get off your ass. Reading TRP isn't going to magically fix your life for you, it's going to tell you how to fix your life so you can do the fixing. You could read TRP for eternity, but if that's all you did, you'd continue to be the loser you were before you found TRP.