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True. Culture war is largely algorithmic. It's more like a lack of trust in institutions. Certain progressives policies, like for example immigration, where implemented without broad consent from the populace. That creates a sense that politics is opaque and not working in your interests, and is a bipartisan feeling in my opinion, but probably stronger among many conservatives. The appeal of authoritarianism is that it gives voters a sense of agency. When MAGA sees protesters getting shot by ICE it's like the other shoe dropping for them. Note that Trump and his voters aren't truly conservative by definition because he's undermining institutions and democracy as a whole. They are in fact revolutionary. By definition the opposite of conservative. Reactionaries are probably also largely algorithmic in nature, but radical feminists have existed from the very start.

Yes, but it needs to be more structural than just money. Just money is compensating for structural disincentives.

@Leo Gura What do you recommend?

How do you guys approach the sentence completion exercises in Six Pillars of Self-esteem, as in, do you do all the exercises in the chapters or just the program at the end of book? Or is it better to do all the exercises in the chapters first then the program afterwards. That would easily take up to a year lol

In my experience it's because they can come off as weird and they typically can't follow the subtleties of conversation. That's not necessarily bad thing, but having to meet certain people half way can be uninteresting and/or grating to a lot of people. You have to appreciate that non-conformity can be scary to people-and off-putting if it comes off as uncontrolled. Nonsense. There doesn't exist a better time to be alive to be non-typical. People have never before been more tolerant and aware of neurodivergence and stuff. Free love hippies are just trends. It's just partying with a veneer of spirituality. Eventually survival demands something more stable than constant partying.

I agree that people broadly should be more understanding, but I also think it is worth empathizing with people not knowing or not having the patience to deal with certain degrees of retardation, to put it bluntly.

He he he. To be fair, I do think it can work, but it would be exceedingly expensive for the state, and it doesn't do anything to change the factors that got us here in the first place, like the dissolvement of communal bonds, public depoliticization, the affordability crisis, etc. It's probably why no country wants to do it even though it would probably be popular with voters. It's like solving the problem of paddling up river by buying better paddles and paddling even harder. Politicians might propose it as a kind last resort before some kind of socio-political crash relative to population numbers.

@CredI agree that NTs can produce high quality work if given the right accommodations, which I presume is what you are pushing for in general sense. I'm not so confident in your political conclusions, or any of your conclusions that are of a radical kind, and I think your language risks alienating people.

Basically that what constitutes the "masculinity crisis" isn't unique to men but are rather just general trends in society, like the depreciating worth of higher education or lack of dating, and are present in both men and women. In some instances it's actually worse for women, like mental health (though that could be biased by women generally being more open about their feelings). On men attending college less specifically, men tend to be much more driven by money and have more options to get a higher paying job than women without a degree. Degrees that are likely to pay still see men attending to a high degree (no pun intended), and men still form the majority of entrepreneurs. A lot of the culture war discourse online is essentially algorithmic, IE. engagement/rage bait. It's a tragedy when people buy into these narratives uncritically because it implies a degree to which one signs off their own agency. It's a kind of memetic victim mentality. I will say though that there's too much "deconstructing of masculinity" going on of an unconstructive kind in my opinion, which basically amounts to shitting on guys for being guys. There needs to be more dialogue about the unresolved hatred for men within feminist circles since the suffragetes. It's iliberal in nature and needs to be constructively criticized as delusional and informed by trauma.

What do you propose as a final solution for the NTs then? It's not like it is ridiculous to hate an entire people and blame them for all your woes, let alone the majority of the human population.

Me too. My question to the haters is, are you mad that I went to Epstein Island, or are you mad that you didn't?

This comes of as a 20th century manifesto. Just replace "neurodivergent" with "aryan" and "neurotypical" with "jew" and it even sounds like one.

Matriarchies, as in women dominating a society in an exclusionary manner, has never existed. There have been matrilineal societies, which makes sense in nomadic tribes. Mothers always know who their children are, but it's less clear for fathers. There's in general more of a communal approach to raising children and there's no inheritance, so there's no incentive patrilineality to the same degree as post-agricultural revolution societies. It goes hand in hand with the theory that humans are adapted for gang bangs, with how much longer it takes for women to orgasm and how loud they can moan during sex (mating call) as well as how penises are plunger shaped (removing competing sperm). Gangbangs would introduce greater reproductive fitness into mating.

If your on Steam you only get 2 hours to change your mind, which isn't nearly enough for big AAA games in my opinion.

Ooh, I've been burned by doing that before. My standards are too high to pay full price for something I'm not sure about.