Is The Red Pill Too Red?
How The Red Pill Movement Could Lead To A Widespread Embrace Of Marxism
When the pendulum of change swings from one side of the ideological spectrum to the other, more often than not the societal and/or cultural changes born from this shift are not ones that would be considered proportional.
The fight for women’s rights is a perfect example of this in that what was once a movement about equality and fairness, has instead blossomed into a movement centered around the inherent evils of masculinity, and the demonization of traditional gender roles. But be this as it may, after nearly a century of swinging in favor of women’s rights, and more specifically progressive feminism, it appears that this cultural pendulum has finally reversed course, and with this reversal, men are now the ones fighting for change.
According to Rollo Tomassi, who is commonly regarded as the “Godfather of the Red Pill movement,” the Manosphere began as a quotidian collection of bloggers who simply sought to teach other men how to raise their value in the modern sexual marketplace. Well, what started as a forum for men seeking to improve their social standing has now exploded into a full-fledged political movement.
Of course, just like the feminist movement quickly spiraled out of the realm of sanity, many people in America are now worried that the reaction to this ideology, the Manosphere, will go too far the other way; and there is some credence to this fear. After all, it is in no way irrational to be concerned that, much like fighting fire with fire only results in, well, more fire, a men’s version of feminism will only exacerbate the already fragile nuclear family.
These fears aside, though, based upon research conducted in 2013, as well as a thorough analysis of masculinity in non-Western countries, it appears that there could be a far more sinister side effect of this new “Red Pill” movement that is flying by, for the most part, under the radar. This is to say that according to our own evolutionary biology, it is not unreasonable to believe that the Manosphere could incidentally end up laying the groundwork for a widespread embrace of Marxist ideology within the US.
To explain, in 2013 social sciences researchers by the names of Petersen, M. B., Sznycer, D., Sell, A., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. published an academic article that, among other things, sought to test how upper-body strength and socioeconomic class impact views on welfare. What these scientists found was that “among men of lower socioeconomic status (SES), strength predicted increased support for redistribution,” while at the same time “among men of higher SES, strength predicted increased opposition to redistribution.”
In other words, if a man has high levels of upper body strength and a low income, they will be favorable towards welfare/redistribution and will adopt a sort of “welfare mindset.” However, if that same individual sees an increase in their income, their views on welfare/redistribution will become negative.
In addition to this study, during that same year researchers by the names of Aarøe, L., & Petersen, M. B. also published an article focused on what influences our views on welfare. In this study, the researchers ended up using what is known as blood glucose monitoring to determine what relationship, if any, exists between hunger and support for redistribution/welfare, and the results were fascinating.
In essence, Aarøe & Petersen found that, as the participants of their study got hungrier, so too did they become more supportive of redistribution policies. In other words, when the participants of this hunger study were content, they did not want welfare; however, when they were not content, they did want welfare.
Now what does all of this have to do with the Manosphere and Communism?
Put plainly, the ethos of most influencers in the Manosphere is that in order to have success in the modern sexual marketplace you need to be a “high value” individual who is in the top 1-10% of men, both in terms of fitness, as well as income. Well, here is the problem with that. You see, even if every man in the United States somehow turned themselves into a top 1-10% man tomorrow, unfortunately, that would just mean that a new 1-10% would be created.
Furthermore, even if this process repeated a second time, or even a third, the majority of men, though wealthier and/or more physically attractive at that point, would still not be in that ideal category because, at the end of the day, there will always be a top 1-10% of men, even if the “average” man’s value has increased significantly. Ergo, the idea that men, en masse can achieve “high value” status is, essentially, a statistical impossibility.
What all of this means is that as the red pill movement grows, so too will the amount of “Alphas.” But the problem with this is that, unlike a wave of Alphas who are dedicated to uplifting the nuclear family and/or improving the country, these Alphas will instead be focused on the goals of the Manosphere. In other words, they will not be improving their worth so that they can be better men, fathers, husbands, and/or citizens, but rather so that they can dominate the modern sexual marketplace.
Now here is where this all connects to Marxism.
As the two aforementioned articles show, strong men, or “Alphas,” when they are not satiated and/or content, have a tendency to adopt a welfare mindset. This is to say that strong men who feel like they deserve more than they already have are also, typically, far more favorable towards “mandatory sharing,” which is just another way of saying Marxism.
Anyway, with this in mind, it is reasonable to presume that, if the Manosphere continues to grow and does not change its focus to something more substantive, like raising up the nuclear family, very shortly what this country will be left with is a vast population of men striving to be in the top 1-10% and failing (because, again, this is a statistical impossibility for most men). This failure, which will leave these new Alphas uncontented, will, at least according to the research, increase the chances that those men will adopt a “welfare mindset.”
Of course, this may be a very large leap, and there are certainly many other factors at play in this game of ideologies; however, given the unprecedented rise in Communist/Marxist ideologies in the US of late, it appears that this is something worth worrying about.
This is to say that, perhaps instead of selling men on a false promise, getting into the top 1-10%, maybe Manosphere influencers would be better off simply inspiring men to be Alpha fathers, Alpha husbands, and Alpha Americans who do not need to be in the top 1-10% to be happy. That, or they can keep making them strong, miserable, and lonely until, maybe, just maybe they become Marxists.
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Mr. Oakes, I truly appreciate your journalistic skills and look forward to reading more of your work. I just finished reading “The Ostrich Factor” by Garrett Hardin, 1998 Oxford University Press. I mention this work not because of the stated subject of the work (Our Population Myopia), but because of his ability to parse the vast complexities mankind has created via his technological extensions and semantic and rhetorical sophistry.
Tip 'O the Cap sir.