It's hardly any secret to anyone who's even vaguely aware of social issues that our Society is failing men on a massive scale. There are a few men online who are trying to do something: teach and support men, as well as fighting for the Rights of men within a culture which openly despises masculinity. There is, sadly, a faction which has become substantially a cult that preys on vulnerable men (usually for a hefty fee). We're talking of course about the Red Pills. The cult of the Red Pill essentially teaches men to feel empowered---without actually being so---by embracing all of the negative Feminist stereotypes and behaving like cads, bullies, and punks and pretending that such attitudes make them manly Alpha leaders. Just like Feminism, the Red Pill is an anti-male, anti-masculinity philosophy; because---again exactly like the Feminists---they teach that a man's identity is defined by society.
So one of the new ringleaders of the Red Pilled Cult is a character named Andrew Tate. On Christmas Day, he sent this message to men via Twitter:
There, in all its glory, is the man who fancies himself a Manly Alpha Leader's opinion of other men. He has nothing better to do on Christmas Day than sit upon his high perch and contemplate his own superiority over his Brothers. Never mind that Tate was born into a fairly well-connected family and most of his 'importance' was gained through media promoters: his website assures us that for $49.95/month the rest of us can be just like him. And as a bonus, you can be feared by other men instead of respected; and have women who are your obedient slaves instead of being with you because they actually like you.
If one actually thinks about it, King Charles fits Tate's definition of a manly Alpha leader. Charles is rich; he's important; other men are afraid of him; and the last woman who disagreed with him ended up dead in a suspicious car accident. I'm certain that Charles, too, would be depressed if he had to endure a year of productive work and actually earn anybody's love or respect.
But the broader question here is: how are statements like these in any way empowering to men? He's really not saying anything different than what Mainstream society says: a man is either a superman (according to our definition) or he's nothing. The fact that Tate would juxtapose this self-glorification of himself while depreciating other men on Christmas is probably intentional as well. It was likely intended as marketing gimmick offering disillusioned men a sort of a fake salvation.
This is nothing new to Red Pill leaders and generally what makes them a cult. Nearly all of them preach contempt for religion and/or the traditional values it holds; meanwhile they introduce quasi-religious formulas and beliefs centered around fake concepts of masculinity. They're basically the male antipode of Lesbian Separatist Feminism. The semi-isolation which they encourage makes it easier to indoctrinate neophytes and shut out adverse evidence and argument, a tactic that Red Pill leaders share with other cultists.
As for Tate, he doesn't have to do much self-isolating. Like many other Red Pill leaders, he's been run out of every community he's settled in. Currently, he's living in Dubai---a country whose record on human rights and treatment of women best suits an 'Alpha' temperament. He decided to leave the Anglosphere for Eastern Europe after many of the financial schemes he promoted on his website started getting the attention of the authorities. He was then chased out of Romania after an incident that's never been quite satisfactorily explained; but after which the police gave him to understand that he was an undesirable alien. It never seems to occur to many Red Pill followers to question why so many of these manly Alpha leaders---whom everyone is supposed to envy and fear---so often end up getting thrown in jail or thrown out of their respective neighborhoods.
Masculinity is not defined by the size of one's bank account or the numbers of followers one has on social media. Dr. Emiliano Mira, now a dead White male but once a prominent academic figure stated that a man's highest goal is to become "nothing less than a complete man; i.e., a reasonable, free, serene, fair, magnanimous, and productive human being." In other words, everything that Andrew Tate and Red Pills like him are not.
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UPDATE: a few hours after this was posted, this story hit the news:
Ha! A timely post, indeed. Well said.
ReplyDeleteThese red pill social media influencers are a bit like pornographers or prostitutes, they are exploiting a weakness in men and trying to sell them a pocket full of mumbles, a throne of lies.