Before I dig in here today I want to give credit where it’s due. I was inspired to consider what I’m about to go into here by a quick-hit Tweet from Illimitable Man. I didn’t bookmark it so I apologize for not linking it here today, but the general gist of it was about the mental processes humans go through when we’re presented with environmental stimuli that demands interpretation and a behavioral response. I considered this process quite a bit while I was studying behavioral psychology – Instinct, Emotion and Reason (or rationality if you prefer) – and I’m almost embarrassed that I haven’t covered this in terms of a Red Pill perspective in over 600 essays now.
The idea is fairly simple; when we are prompted by environmental (and sometimes internal) stimuli human beings process this information using three psychological mechanisms – our primal instincts, our emotional interpretations and our rational (reason) facilities. I’m not sure these processes get their proper due in Red Pill theory today. I’ve detailed all of these processes individually for years on this blog, but generally they were outlined in the context of whatever topic I was focusing on. In this essay I’m going to elaborate on these aspects individually. Later, as part of this series, I’ll explore how they act in concert for our overall cognitive process, and then how they influence intersexual and intersocial dynamics. I think this is a useful exercise because a lot of foundational Red Pill ideas stem from these processes as well as the social conventions and interpretive priorities the Feminine Imperative relies on today.
For sake of clarity I am going to use a few behavioral psych terms like stimuli in this essay. This isn’t to throw $10 words at you, it’s just easier to elaborate on these processes with abstract terms. For example, when I use stimuli I mean any physical, environmental or cognitive prompt that our conscious or unconscious mind demands an interpretation, processing of and response to. That can be a wide variety of things so, stimuli serves as a general term.
Lastly, the following here is my interpretation of these processes. While a lot of this will align pretty well with established theories, this is my take on them and not some official, settled science of facts. If you think I’m full of shit please tell me why, this is still a work in progress for me.
Instinct
Instinct seems like the easiest of these processes to understand, but it’s really the cognitive aspect that’s most misunderstood, marginalized and often demonized. The reason for this is because our instincts reside in our subconscious (hindbrain) processing of stimuli. When I refer to men or women’s evolved mental firmware in my essays it’s our instinctual process that I’m referring to. These are the unlearned, inborn aspects of our human nature that influence the other processes and remain largely in our subconscious. Our instinctual processing is a direct result of our evolution. It evolved as a vitally necessary aspect of our cognitive processing in that it aided in our ability to survive in, and adapt to, a chaotic, primal environment when food was scarce, predators and rivals wanted us dead, and reproductive opportunities and raising a child to a survivable age were at a premium.
There are a lot of examples of our instinct level processing and each instinctual response triggers more complex processing up the cognitive chain through emotion and reason. If we were presented with a dangerous stimuli (a sabertooth tiger) our instinctual process triggers a fight or flight response physically in our bodies (adrenaline release). Needless to say this was an evolved adaptation that served our species well and was passed along genetically as part of our mental firmware. I’m going to use some simplistic examples here but, if you really want to dig into our preloaded mental firmware and how we developed it I would suggest looking into the earlier works of Dr. Steven Pinker and The Red Queen by Matt Ridley (I’ll post links in the comments).
Another example is human beings’ innate fear (reservations at least) of snakes and spiders – poisonous animals that looked easy to kill, but could kill humans without warning. That’s an example of relatively beneficial firmware, but the reason instinct gets a bad rep is due to the instincts that once were beneficial to us individually, but are less beneficial to us socially. Greed and gluttony were very practical, instinctually motivated behaviors that stemmed from a need to survive in a time when resources were scarce. Today greed is (mostly) seen as anti-social and a compulsion to overeat in a time when food is abundant is why we presently have an obesity epidemic.
Those are easily understood examples, but where things get more complex is in how our instinctual process influences the other processes (emotion and reason). Instinct gets demonized because in our ‘enlightened‘ era we like to believe that instinct is more trouble than it is beneficial. Most of that is due to a belief that our other processes are superior to (or at least should supersede) our instincts. Most of what we call sin or immoral behavior is motivated by the instinctual process. In fact, the only time our instinctual awareness and reactions are really credited with anything positive is when it gets us out of some life threatening situation or it leads to some prosocial outcome. For instance, the male instinct to protect women by putting ourselves between them and danger; that’s an instinct and resultant behavior (seemingly altruistic male self-sacrifice) that gets a lot of praise in our feminine-primary social order. However, for the most part, we tend to judge ‘baser instincts’ as a net negative.
The truth about the instinctual process is that none of our other processes function at full efficiency without it. Today, as a result of our feminine-primary acculturation, we want to relegate instinct’s influence to something “we’ve evolved beyond”. The popular consensus is we’ve raised ourselves above base instincts by either acknowledging the importance of the emotional process or that rationality and the self-control based on it immunizes us from its influence. Not only are these belief foolish and hubristic, they’re provably untrue. When it comes to concepts like the ‘selfish gene‘ and the physical differences in the evolved instinctual processes of men and women, it becomes necessary for a social order based on blank-slate equalism to demonize and marginalize the influence of, and behaviors attributed to, instinct.
The survival benefits and behaviors that make up the instinctual process were so necessary that they had to become part of our unconscious species firmware. Because the instinctual process is part of our animalistic hindbrain mental subroutines it’s something we have little or no direct control over until its effect is brought (often forced) into our conscious awareness. As such, and because we prefer to think of ourselves as emotional and rational beings, we tend to think of the influence of instinct as something we either have or need to have mastery over, and to a large extent this mastery makes sense. The truth is that instinct is an aspect of ourselves that needs to be controlled as well as embraced depending on circumstances.
Emotion
From an evolutionary perspective, the emotional process of interpreting stimuli is a mechanism of how our brains and biochemistry interact to affect our moods, demeanor and ’emotionality’ in response to both instinctual cues and the raw information of stimuli itself. Furthermore, the emotional process can also be influenced and/or modified by the rational process. I’m trying to be concise here, but our emotional response to information/stimuli is very much an evolved dynamic with latent purposes and practical functionalities. I’m making this distinction here because for millennia we’ve raised the effects of emotion to a mythical, metaphysical, importance.
While emotion often has immediate effects on us, emotion also has long term effect with regard to the stimuli it processes. There are dozens of definitions of emotions and there’s no way I’m going to lay them all out for you here. However, popular psychology asserts that there are as many as ten and as few as six base emotions:
- Anger.
- Disgust.
- Fear.
- Happiness.
- Sadness.
- Surprise.
Sometimes Contempt is added to this list. If these seem overly simplistic they are, again, abstracts to build more complex emotions on (some paleo-researchers insist there are only four base emotions across our evolved ethno-histories). For our purposes these base emotions will serve to show the connections between the instinctual process which prompts them and the rational process that modifies and sometimes informs them.
Each of these emotional responses is prompted by how our senses, brain and then instinctual process interprets a stimuli. Again, using our sabertooth tiger example, the instinctual process determines imminent danger and triggers a synaptic and hormonal response to that danger. As a result of that instinctual process an emotional process and response is triggered – likely fear (flight in most cases), but sometimes anger (fight).
Another example: you see an arousing woman (stimuli) at a party who is displaying behavioral cues and environmental indicators of interest (IOIs). Your instinctual process determines a high potential for a reproductive opportunity. From there the emotional process kicks in: hormones and dopamine (and not a small testosterone spike) that your instinctual process triggered flushes your system and serves as the basis for your emotional process to form an emotional response to the same stimuli. If it all passes the smell test that response (hopefully) will be happiness (and a little surprise mixed in).
There is a visceral biochemical interrelation between emotion and the stimuli/instinct relation that prompts the reaction. Adrenaline is one easy example, another is oxytocin or the “love hormone”. This is a bit of a mischaracterization of the hormone. Oxytocin induces feelings of trust and comfort and is thought to be a significant factor in human’s forming pair bonds and parental investments. There’s a lot more to oxytocin’s implications to our evolution than that, but for now lets look at how our biology influences the emotional process.
We proceed from stimuli to an instinctual response. If there is nothing mitigating that response (such as a rationally learned buffer to mitigate it) the next step in the chain is a biological reaction to that instinct – such as dumping adrenaline into our bloodstream or a post-orgasm flush of oxytocin after sex. From there the emotional process picks up the interpretation of this information as prompted by the cocktail of chemicals moving through our bloodstream and affecting our mental and physical interpretation of that stimuli. That biochemical factor prompts one, or a combination, of the base emotions listed above.
From there more complex emotions (feelings) and combinations thereof begin to form an emotional interpretation and response. This emotional response can be anything from a fast, reflexive one to a more nuanced and contemplative one. Furthermore, this emotional interpretation and response can also be modified by our rational mental process as well as our gendered capacity to process emotions. One thing to bear in mind about our emotional process is that it can imprint its interpretations into our ‘hard memory’ – sometimes so significantly that the memory of that stimuli can re-trigger that physical and emotional response.
Gender-modified interpretation of our emotion process is an important aspect to consider in Red Pill praxeology and one I’ll be elaborating on in the next part of this series. Until recently the accepted ‘science‘ about our emotional process has been based on a blank-slate equalist approach to emotion. In fact we still suffer from the outdated presumptions of academia that both men and women process emotion in the same manner, and, in theory, ought to be expected to have an equal capacity to interpret, respond and express emotion. In light of new technology and new research in a variety of interrelated disciplines we know this is old presumption is patently untrue. Men and women have different mental hardware and are born with different mental firmware. Both sexes interpret and process emotion in gender-specific manners.
I’ll be getting into the personal and social implications that the legacy of this (deliberate) misunderstanding presents in the next essay. For now it’s important to consider that human beings have an innate predisposition to elevate the emotional process above instinct and reason. Likely this is due the to the survival dependency we had on our feelings in our evolutionary past. In a time when we lacked the greater rational facilities and information we’ve developed in our more recent past, depending on and learning from emotion, and the latent purposes it serves, was a species-beneficial system. We depended on our emotions to guide our behaviors (long and short term) for us more in our prehistory when we lacked the more developed rational process we take for granted now. Emotions served latent evolutionary purposes for us in our prehistory and today are still overly emphasized – often to metaphysical attributes – as superior to reason. More on this soon.
Reason
The final piece of our interpretive process is reason, or rationality (I’ll use these interchangeably). Ironically, for all of the social preconceptions that our emotions have made us “more evolved” above instinct, it is our rational process that has evolved us above both instinct and emotion. From and evolutionary standpoint our rational process is a relatively recent development; pushing us past the limitations of instinct and emotion. The definition of rationality is the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic. It is the quality of being able to think sensibly or logically and being endowed with the capacity to reason.
Biologically it’s postulated that our larger brains allowed us to develop a capacity for reason, but that doesn’t mean other animals lack the same facility, it’s just that the rational process is less developed (some would say less environmentally necessary) in those animals by order of degree. Dogs, for example, rely primarily on the instinctual process and the mental (vestigial) firmware they’re born with to solve most of their existential/environmental problems. That doesn’t mean that they lack the ability to learn and form novel (adaptive) behaviors using a rudimentary form of logic. Animals can be taught things, but their capacity to form novel ideas and behaviors is limited to their cognitive abilities. Humans, being the apex species on the planet, had the leisure to take the time necessary to evolve a capacity for logic and as such the rational process developed in us.
Of all our interpretive processes reason is the one that takes the longest to function. Our rational process forms our interpretation of stimuli based on information dissociated from the interpretations of instinct and emotion. Reason requires (accurate) knowledge derived from learning and experience, but there is also an improvisational element to the process.
Before I get too far in the weeds here I need to make a distinction; what I’m outlining is the rational mental process we employ to interpret and interact with stimuli, not rationality, the concept of reason or rationalism. That’s important because it’s all too easy to get lost in philosophical implications of reason when we look at the process of how we come to it.
As mentioned above, the rational process modifies the instinctual and emotional processes. Example, in high school, in drivers ed class, we’re taught to turn into a skid rather than turn with the skid. When we’re driving and we find ourselves in a skid our instinctive impulse is to slam on the the breaks and/or, worse still, to turn with the skid. Our self-preservation instincts tells us to do this, but all it does is make a precarious situation worse. However, when we’re taught, and we practice, not hitting the brakes and not turning into the skid, we make this our default reaction and we avoid disaster. This is the rational process interpreting a stimuli and forming a novel behavior that modifies the interpretation of the instinctual process.
The limitation of the rational process is in its necessity to take time to interpret information and develop a new apparatus. Where instinct and emotion are intimately linked with our biological hardware and psychological firmware, the rational process is dissociated from them in the same immediacy. Instinct and emotion are processes that evolved from a survival-need for fast interpretation and reaction. The rational process requires time, repetition and the right biological structures to be effective. Human beings are remarkably fast learners (even with complex challenges), but the learning that the rational process leads to is slow in comparison to instinct and emotion – which are essentially preloaded firmware in humans.
The rational process deals with the nuts and bolts of what we can understand of our reality. From there it can modify the other processes or it can serve to interpret stimuli on its own.
In the next part of this series I’ll be exploring how these cognitive processes interact and cooperate and conflict with each other. I will also consider the gendered advantages and disadvantages these processes represent to our individual experiences as men and women and the influence they play in intersexual and intersocial dynamics.
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Deep and interesting a real page turner. The implications of trying to evolve to fast beyond instinct with social convention,causing low T and lack of initiative in todays male youth? The behaviors that are being demonized stem from male instinct,when the female follows instinct she is lauded or excused as just being a girl, even to the point of her acting out traditional male instinctive action? In the real world reason trumps both instinct and emotion, in the Fem Prime SO emotion trumps all in spades? Hence an upside down dominance hierarchy? Note that dogs even with a strong ability… Read more »
@boulder, I’m glad you made that connection. It’s a big part of the next essay
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https://oyc.yale.edu/psychology/psyc-110/lecture-10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI1wQswRVaU
http://bigthink.com/videos/robert-saplosky-your-evolved-brain-is-at-the-mercy-of-your-reptilian-impulses-and-vice-versa
Rollo, who is your audience when you write these articles? I always read your stuff but I don’t always agree with it. I think I need more material so I’m going to stop here with my critique. I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt and hoping your laying the foundation for better work in the future. Please do more research with more credible sources. I won’t post anymore till I see your completed sections on each of these 3 topics(Instinct, Emotion, and Reason).
Looking forward to your updates…
GeorgeC, go away until you can post infield vids where you have sex with hot college girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPIanlF6IwM
https://soundcloud.com/user-806952833/the-saad-truth-605-how-to-be-a-better-man-according-to-intersectional-feminism
https://soundcloud.com/user-806952833/the-saad-truth-597-my-chat-with-nassim-nicholas-taleb
Boulder: Note that dogs even with a strong ability for reason will misbehave if the dopamine rush is stronger. Rollo: @boulder, I’m glad you made that connection. It’s a big part of the next essay. What is going on here and what needs to happen for a man with his feet on the ground is integration. To integrate a guy on a low, medium or high scale of having his sexual and inter-sexual (let alone interpersonal needs) be met. He is best met at integrating his instinct, emotions, and reason. (Don’t get me started with Myers-Briggs preferences which are just… Read more »
Great topic @Rollo. @Ruby, good video with Sapolsky talking about how three brain layers (reptilian, limbic, neo cortex) interact with and affect each other. The brain is a servant of the body (nb. same with logic and rationality) and it’s great to look at it as such from the Red Pill perspective. If we think of emotions as ‘body changes/actions’ (e.g. muscle tension or release of hormones) and then feelings as ‘brain portraits/states’ of what is happening, then it’s clear that what men feel needs to be different to what women feel (overall, beyond basic components like fear or anger).… Read more »
That old cliche “the heart wants what it wants…” is a rationalisation or having poor instincts and acting on them…
@Rugby please fuck off…your endless videos and random posts offer zero value. Start your own blog.
@Rollo and @IRL:
although it can pay to be the master of your instincts and emotions, arguably a great degree of happiness depends on aligning with then. Know thyself indeed.
This ties back into the “sin” interpretation of several “instincts” (demonized them, really).
So we can evaluate things like overeating, which I think we generally agree really is not conducive to happiness, but on the other hand neither is abstinence conducive to happiness (arguably even if it is “voluntary”, due to some beliefs, religious or otherwise).
I wish you’ll underscore the disparity between rationality and rationalization. Meaning — for people/genders who have the evolutinoarily newer brain systems not yet much evolved, reason is only rationalization; it is not a driving force; it is a device that produces post-fact “realities” fitting the ego’s need to believe itself driven by reason (thus fulfilling that other fundamental need of the ego: to not know the soul/ID, or emotions and instincts, that really drive the person’s behaviour). Most times for most people (unequally through genders) speech is only an illusory coat laid on nature-driven actions — and no, their conscious… Read more »
@ItalyMich
Then there’s “shame” an attempt to control emotions and instincts through the imposition of some sort of rational filter: you’re attraction to younger hotter women and acting on that defies social convention….you are bad….
Male suicide prevention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc72YAstRH0&feature=youtu.be
@SJF
“And then Rationality is just being, having wisdom, being wise in the ways of the world. In terms of Red Pill it is awareness based on having lots and lots and lots of reference experiences.”
“One thing to bear in mind about our emotional process is that it can imprint its interpretations into our ‘hard memory’ – sometimes so significantly that the memory of that stimuli can re-trigger that physical and emotional response.
Gender-modified interpretation of our emotion process….”
Great post, Rollo! And I love the picture. I sat here 10 minutes just looking at it before even starting to read the essay. Have you ever read anything on The Fourth Way? This fits in so perfectly with its teachings on man being a “three-brained” organism. The moving center corresponds with Instinct, the emotional center obviously Emotion and the intellectual center is Reason. The Fourth Way, or the “Way of the Sly Man” teaches that a person should not overuse any one particular center but learn to balance all three through sincere observation of oneself. Interestingly enough, The Fourth… Read more »
Great precis, and needed for those here not familiar with the basics of human being’s mental/neuro makeup. Sure, the Left has created a faux meta-narrative about our society by exploiting memes. They claim it’s rational but in fact, it’s no such thing. They are merely tribal impulses. and largely result the fear women innately feel in any uncertain environment. They’ve created a new Victorian style era of moral outrage and forced male supplication to the inane ideas of the Left. And hey, since women hold so many keys to male happiness, they can blackmail us into submission. They can leave… Read more »
I think that the term “instinct” serves the same function as the term “magic.” It’s a box where we put stuff that we don’t understand.
They have so many ways of using their power to hurt us where we are really vulnerable. …when we are kids…but kids have an amazing ability to recover from injury…adults should be able to deal with psychological abuse…anything else is just buffering and whining The real lie is that women are suited for the male world of work and hard core competition for resources and status. Surely, that’s a lie, but it’s also a testosterone-suppressing lie that men have to mold themselves into manginas in order to fit into society. Women who try to act like men become 2nd rate… Read more »
Let me offer another insight. As individuals, human’s will usually be wrong a lot in our thinking and “reasoning”. What the Classical Liberal social order did was create a open, civic space where ideas could be challenged and refined via real freedom of expression. Collectively, we become “less wrong” over time due to others correcting the errors in reasoning we make – you may recognize this process, it’s how our scientific communities used to operate before they were corrupted by the Left too… If you are interested in more depth on cognition and rationality, check out this site https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/LessWrong_Wiki Bunch… Read more »
” . . . we can evaluate things like overeating, which I think we generally agree really is not conducive to happiness, but on the other hand neither is abstinence conducive to happiness (arguably even if it is “voluntary”, due to some beliefs, religious or otherwise).”
If the string is tuned too tight, it will snap. If it is tuned too loose, it will not sound.
@theasdgamer Keep up those higher thoughts. Hot Girls you say? I’ll think deeply about your comments. Honestly, they mean a lot to me…
Hey Rollo,
Interesting article. I just want to point out that stimuli is the plural form of stimulus. There are a few times in the article that you use it as if it were singular noun.
and sry for the typos, ran out of time to edit…have a kickass day everyone. and live the “Platinum Rule” – do whatever the fuck you want.
You too scrib. High five.
Einstein was right: “woman’s creative center is not her brain”. It’s her uterus.
During our magical secret meetings, we often refer to our genitalia as the “other mouth” from the south.
@George
You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good. Get the hell outta here.
“Today greed is (mostly) seen as anti-social and a compulsion to overeat in a time when food is abundant is why we presently have an obesity epidemic.” Western culture is bipolar by design re: greed, obesity and other “sin”. Sin is commoditized coming and going. The food programming is everywhere, then if you overindulge, the weight loss programming is there too. If you’re the adventurous type try bariatrics. Government billboard advertising promotes food donation for the for doe eyed children. The next billboard discourages childhood obesity. Need money, ez cash is right around the corner. Bankruptcy? We have a system… Read more »
Cuz mems about “gobalism” and “multiculturalism” the Left created.
But that’s not the reason, merely the propaganda. The reason is to implement neo-anticolonialism. It’s about deliberately weakening the West, including the U.S. and Europe.
“Raniere, trying to shift the blame to Mack, said DOS was a private “sorority” and he had zero role in it.” lol. if you want to play guru, you’re playing with emotions. that’s all well and good in the hot wet sticky moment, but… then, your girls aren’t in the moment anymore. instead, they’re in a lawyer’s office, having all kinds of rational sounding statutory legalese pumped into their heads. and their instinct kicks in to shirk responsibility at all cost, so emotion is the weakest in the end, when you gotta settle the tab. great for getting the juices… Read more »
I won’t pretend that I understand biology and psychology. In my non-PC college my physics teachers used to openly mock psychologist and the biologist that tried to call their disciplines “science”, so I never really took any classes in those areas. One question I have had from reading TRM for awhile is how can our genders have separate instincts? How are these instincts transmitted to the next generation through the chemicals that make up our origin of life (i.e egg and sperm)? Our initial conception is that of an asexual mass of flesh that is transformed by hormones into a… Read more »
Plutchik an incel? Where is the spline for lust, attraction, towards “instinct” of arousal? Emotion is the only truth to women. What they feel is real. In the moment. wala – That old cliche “the heart wants what it wants…” is a rationalisation or having poor instincts and acting on them… hehe. This is a favorite line of mine, especially when explaining the “but you’re married” thing… and it works great because women GET IT. They do what they want based on how they feel… No judgment and Bob’s your uncle… you are nearly there. Now doing hwat you want… Read more »
Wala Then there’s “shame” an attempt to control emotions and instincts through the imposition of some sort of rational filter: you’re attraction to younger hotter women and acting on that defies social convention….you are bad…. And you will do the shaming? How about a guy named Shamed? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/us/missouri-greitens-house-impeachment-inquiry.html He blindfolded and bound a woman to exercise equipment, spanked her, and tried to kiss her without her consent. Those are among the scandalous allegations against Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri that were released in a legislative report on Wednesday that has put the first-term Republican governor’s political future in deep trouble.… Read more »
Wala – “And you will do the shaming?”
Type WHO would do the shaming… Damn Scray, he was assigned all my proofreading work…
“I won’t pretend that I understand biology and psychology.” same here. the idea that women basically inherit the nervous system of their mother, whereas men don’t because of the changes that take place becoming male is pretty wild so they got the mitochondria and the nevrous system going all the way back to big momma once you reach the level of fucking where you see her go animal, you see bio awalt that moment fucks with a lot of guys i think. it don’t matter how much you think she’s into you. in that moment, she will fuck ANYTHING. the… Read more »
@Sentient
“Where is the spline for lust, attraction, towards “instinct” of arousal?”
Lust does not properly belong to the emotions. It belongs to the sexual center which is a part of instinct.
The Honorable Eric Greitens, Governator.
http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kcur/files/styles/medium/public/201611/greitensfromyoutube.png
“Shamed by Shamed Dogan” i love this world “what does his “Saturday Night” sex look like maybe?” no. no. please no. i’m starting to think that everybody complaining about everybody else is really just secretly deep down fucking pissed that they aren’t fucking hot chicks. could it really be that simple? if this guy was emptying into his pieces of choice, we wouldn’t be hearing a peep all problems caused, and ultimately poorly solved, by betas? are we really trapped in a problem reaction solution downward spiral? beta = believing reason applies to women the same way it applies to… Read more »
“I found the sex spline on Plutchnik’s chart… it’s the purple one, pointing to Beta Sex.”
purple = anger + disgust = contempt = beta
green = trust + fear = submission = alpha
and as a supplement, i would go for awe over love
admiration + terror + amazement = alpha
Pinelero
One question I have had from reading TRM for awhile is how can our genders have separate instincts?
Genders? The two sexes have a different distribution of instincts / reaction, due to different brain structures and different brain wiring induced by T vs. E.
How are these instincts transmitted to the next generation through the chemicals that make up our origin of life (i.e egg and sperm)?
Genes. Youve heard of them?
The blank slate is junk thought.
Fleezer all problems caused, and ultimately poorly solved, by betas? I think you are on to something… https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2018/01/11/eric-greitens-is-in-the-hot-seat-but-were-wrong-to-let-a-spurned-ex-drive-this-story In a transcript of the very tape he’d later release to KMOV, the man begins to rant about how Greitens’ actions with his wife don’t match his public image. He’s just gotten confirmation of the sexual interaction he’s long suspected, and he’s livid. “This motherfucker is running for governor,” he says at one point. “… He comes off as this motherfucking manly hero and it’s all about resilience and honor and all that.” “I knew you would obsess,” the woman tells her… Read more »
@Sentient great chart post. this class is better than just about any a guy could pay for anywhere interesting that “interest” is basically opposite from the wet pussy zone you never want to hear a girl respond to something you’ve said with, “that’s interesting”. dry pussy zone maybe IOIs are to be totally ignored because they reside closer to aggression and that’s what she’s doing when she’s putting out ioi’s is making a move and it’s way better to seduce her according to your plan, which has almost nothing to do with iois or her intent maybe better to go… Read more »
@Anon Rdr- Gonna have to study more biology before the next TRM installment comes out.
Rollo When I refer to men or women’s evolved mental firmware in my essays it’s our instinctual process that I’m referring to. These are the unlearned, inborn aspects of our human nature that influence the other processes and remain largely in our subconscious. This is a great article, it will take time to process, I can’t do justice to any reply in a short time. All that said, there’s some comments to add. The amygdala, anterior cingular cortex, hindbrain, etc. are all wired up to recognize patterns very quickly, therefore these are not rational processes. The pattern recognizer that sees… Read more »
I think that the term “instinct” serves the same function as the term “magic.” It’s a box where we put stuff that we don’t understand. On magic… instinct, emotion and reason… Game. Game as language, the female language of seduction http://komandala.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/The-Structure-of-Magic-Vol-I-by-Richard-Bandler-and-John-Grinder.pdf Down through the ages the power and wonder of practitioners of magic have been recorded in song and story. The presence of wizards, witches, sorcerers, shamen, and gurus has always been intriguing and awe inspiring to the average person. These people of power, wrapped in a cloak of secrecy, presented a striking contradiction to the common ways of dealing… Read more »
” . . . how can our genders have separate instincts?” The sexes can, indeed must, have different instincts because they live in two related, but differing, environments. One sex impregnates, the other gets impregnated and therefore must gestate and nurse. Two entirely different life histories inherent in that simple fact of biology, requiring two different approaches to that life. There’s nothing weird about this at all. It’s the prediction. It happens all the time. Male bird has the instinct to build a nest, female bird has the instinct to check it out and see if it suits her. Male… Read more »
” But then he took out his penis….”
Lmao.
Just to clear a few things up here, this essay was the necessary basis for understanding the interplay between these aspects of our cognition. If these processes sound a bit like Freud’s Id, Ego and Superego, it was intentional, but I think they deserve to be reconsidered in the light of the advances we’ve made and info we have in the sciences Freud (and Jung) had never dreamed of when he was forming his ideas.
Rollo, thanks for that clarifying remark. Freudianism did a lot of damage in the 2nd half of the 20th century, Jungianism not so much but still “problematic” as the kids say. Please let’s stay away from those failed schools of thought, if nothing else neuroplasticity tends to falsify some of it. Not to mention the fact that “mind” at the instinctual / innate level may well be distributed not just in the brain but into other body organs. Only Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy has held up in the years since WW 2.0, and if you squint hard his work looks a… Read more »
kfg to Pinolero The sexes can, indeed must, have different instincts because they live in two related, but differing, environments. Let me push this to the elemental human level: Men from tribe A raid the vilage of tribe B. The men of tribe B are the entities that stand at the edge of the village and fight the men of A. The women of tribe B are the entities that at the end of the day are on the ground screaming “Don’t kill me! I can make babies!” to the winners, whoever they are. Everything flows from this. Upper body… Read more »
This series of essays strikes me as the core of Red Pill. I’ve tried to share with my buddies, in small tidbits, Red Pill things that I’ve digested and that line up with my personal experience. I’m still surprised at how much push back I get. It really speaks to the feminine-primary conditioning most of us have received. It also speaks to how ineffective it may be to share conclusions I’ve drawn (with much help from RM) without sharing the ideas that support these conclusions. If I can take away a more basic explanation of the differences in our cognition,… Read more »
“Men from tribe A raid the village of Tribe B” indeed is a TL:DR summary of the Mongol invasion of the west. The victorious Mongols did not kill the women of the various Tribe B villages, they were kept as spoils to generate Les Sprogs and Sproglettes. Even when the Mongols, true to their nasty habit/custom, would slaughter the existing children along with the defeated men in Tribe B just because. Nevertheless the women got to live to make more. And learned to forget their prior lives, husbands, families, so that they could fulfill their genetic legacy regardless. War Brides… Read more »
“It really speaks to the feminine-primary conditioning most of us have received.” the kind of conditioning that would make this kind of shit possible: “Won’t tribute w/out “getting something in return”? How about -The sense of self-worth you get -The pleasure knowing your $ is in far better hands -The feeling of elation when you press send -The pleasure She will receive See; it doesn’t have to be about you & your dick” lol. theory: a woman will lose her shit if she is denied her prostitution experience it is deep in her roots to fuck as an emotionless transaction… Read more »
Status confirmed
“maybe it would be better just to explain a little about the differences in our cognition and motivations”
See “magic” upthread.
“feminized men who have been trained that “tend and befriend” is the “correct” way to react to a fizzing or angry woman will have to consciously and deliberately do the exact opposite” lol. “tend and befriend” sounds like the beta seduction playbook i am consistently amazed just how much time guys are willing to invest in this method that shows zero return, initially, ongoing or ever. there is no pot of juicy gold at the end of that rainbow instinct: does our instinct deal with delayed gratification? very very long delayed gratification? emotion: do guys get the rewards of good… Read more »
red pilled legit shrinks hook up with red pill coaches like Rollo insurance billing is the income stream puas can only dream of red pill can’t get it directly, but if a legit shrink drops hints about private red pill coaching during therapy and then gets a referral percentage, that could open the stream, in a way, to the red pill coaches it’s not a pep rally weekend pitch. not a time share presentation. a joint effort between legit mental health professionals and red pilled “dating” coaches because sex life is a real concern for people because it effects health… Read more »
@Sentient
Love how in this story The Gov is appealing to Reason and Emotion pointing out his achievements and then reframing it as a witch hunt.
The whole thing smacks of a set up…
As for WHO does the shaming it is usually a beta, white knight or omega incel who projects his own failure onto someone more successful. Looking at those photos of the Gov I’d vote for him …on instinct alone. He looks like he has his shit together.
New York state crime wave to be stopped real soon.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/police-arrest-winter-new-york/
Fleez guys using “tend and befriend” are acting against their natural instincts, punishing themselves emotionally and behaving ironically with regards to the facts. maybe they were neglected or abused as infants. lots of terrible mothers out there. lots. See “magic” upthread… or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiMFs2SIFk Wala Looking at those photos of the Gov I’d vote for him …on instinct alone. He looks like he has his shit together. He is following the Trump Method… Instinct. Instinct informs you that a guy who is laying attractive chicks has something going on… It’s leadership on display, at a primal level. This is why… Read more »
” New York state crime wave to be stopped real soon.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/police-arrest-winter-new-york/”
This is no laughing matter. I got a yard to seed and top and patch, and I can’t do it with snow cover.
It was 67 degrees at my house today, but still no sunshine. I think I saw the sun for a few hours last week.
85 in Puerto Rico today. My house has electricity and the town is back to normal. Round trip tickets to Aguadilla less than 300 bucks. One more 28 degree night in fucking April, and it’s road/air trip time.
Some folks I know with relatives in Puerto Rico say they still don’t have their electricity back.
@Sentient
The other part of this equation is “Authenticity”—vs “Incongruency”
Is he who he claims to be? Ok, let’s give him some benefit of the doubt?
Did he mislead us into thinking he was someone else? SHAME!!!!!
“It was 67 degrees at my house today” Barely cracked 50 here, but at least that’s warm enough that it’s pissing down and not snowing like it was a couple days ago. ” . . . sunshine . . .” I’ve heard tell of that stuff, but I think it’s just a myth. I’ve seen colder winters and snowier winters, but this one takes the cake for coming in early with the coldest weather of the year, the snow never letting up and instead of a spring flood we had two winter floods that had to be fought in below… Read more »
@Rollo
Open hypergamy/cuckoldry is here!!! Women can’t hide it anymore.
https://twitter.com/canond1mk4/status/983260293999529985?s=20
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/6020819/mary-crumpton-44-explains-how-life-works-with-4-lovers-aged-from-43-to-73/
Yeah, the grid is made of popsicle sicks and bailing wire.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/power-outage-in-puerto-rico-leaves-people-without-electricity/
I’m on the western side of the island, and it’s pretty much back to normal in the airport and surrounding towns. got a 4 grand Generac and have it literally bolted to the ground. It will be a very, very long time until the entire island is back to even semi normal.
@Mr. Roboto
LOL. Losers can’t be choosers.
@AR
Fight,Flight,Freeze and you can add Faint,or shutdown. Shutdown is a reaction to trauma, our ancestors when mauled by a Griz, or other large predator would pass out and survive.
@ Domo oregato
Witch one is Mary?
OK
Scratching out THE RATIONAL MALE and writing over it THE INSTINCTIVE EMOTIONAL RATIONAL MALE.
Nice essay, btw, Rollo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbnkU5Sk6Q
https://iai.tv/video/the-reality-of-feeling
@Rugby What part of fuck off do you not understand?
We’ve tried to be patient. You just keep trolling and posting large videos with no respect for the thread or commentary.
You just keep spamming and spamming and it’s turning away commenters and lowering the value of this blog as a discussion forum.
Can someone please moderate his posts so we can get some decent commentary. I can’t follow the thread with his YouTube feed cut and pasted here.
Walawala
Are you on Mobile? I could use bitly or something but their is a lot of good stuff on the links
@Rugby. Stop posting. Stop trolling. Start your own blog. Please just go away.
Can we please moderate this guy?
For example
https://bit.ly/2EHog2g
https://bit.ly/2Hw9QVP
https://bit.ly/2JFYC1w
Does that appear on your feed more decently?
@Rugby. You’re off topic. You’re posting randomly without context or care for anyone else here.
It used to be a mild annoyance now it’s a major distraction.
Please stop posting. Please go away. Get off your keyboard and get help. No one cares what you post here but it’s getting in the way of following and maintaining discussions which then deteriorate into random posts rather than coherent discussion.
Can we please moderate his comments and posts!!!!
@Wala man – yeah, it’s a bit frustrating especially on mobile, but he’s trying (there was an actual text post about what he was up to that day or something a couple of weeks ago – no links), and this is an important avenue of communication for him.
Rugby man – can you post something for us that’s only text? Like maybe one line explaining why you post so many videos? Or even what you have planned for the weekend..basically anything that’s not a link and is from you.
PS – I saw the post with the bitly links just now. Rugby – that solves the problem of videos breaking the flow on the comments page, yes, but we’d all appreciate it if you posted your own content more and if you post links you explain what they are and why they are relevant to this discussion (instead of just posting them with no context)
@Culum don’t enable him. We’re not here as a playground. There are a lot of guys who are serious about he blog and rely on it for inspiration. No other blog would give a troll like this the latitude he’s been given. YaReally was threatened with moderation for his constant posting of RSD videos and he respected that. Rugby needs to be moderated until he learns the expectations of participating in forums like this. I’ve had enough of this. I read interesting posts by sentient and then can’t find the references because of Rugby’s YouTube feel clogging up the feed…Sacing… Read more »
The thing that would help rugby most right now…..is to help him get off the internet……so like banning him is one way to do that
Sentient- how do I find the magic upthread? (My blog navigation skills are novice, at best.)
Thanks.
Ctrl – F [magic]
Rugby’s worn out his welcome by being noncontributory and alienating others into indifference or worse, loatheful contempt.
Passive aggressive too.
But mostly his videos are analgous to FB updates…what he’s flitting to and from in his mind.
I’m used to the fucked up, jumping page loading now.
Whatever.
EhIntellect
I don’t see myself as passive aggressive. Will put more context in when i share what I’m noticing as to be contributing. When have i alienated other’s.
walawala
words find just words… will use bitly for links to not mess up your feed. Sometimes i find thing’s i think could help someone.
Culum Struan
Words on page it is.
Sentient- I gotcha, I found your post. That’s some reading- I’ll get to it and thank you.
Status confirmed. The video might be an easier intro.
“Sometimes i find thing’s i think could help someone.” You’ve become TRM’s own direct mail marketer, huh? No, ruby11. This isn’t about you selflessly, altruisticly donating your precious time to other hurting lurking souls. It’s about using your mouse as a lurch at external validation. You don’t internalize anything from TRM obviously. People ’round here expect a little more good faith from you. Tolerating your pool of masochism isn’t fortitude and again we’ve moved on loooong ago from excusing your thumb sucking of childhood hurt. Why not just post a joke of the day? You’d get the same or more… Read more »
Two things. First, the story of the sexual encounter with that governor strikes me as off somehow for a dominant guy. I’ve gone very rough with women while fucking them, but if they aren’t having mind-blowing orgasms you are doing it wrong and they will object. I’ve miscalibrated sometimes and it really blows shit up. You also need to do this with a truly submissive woman, and you can tell when a woman is submitting to you. Like you don’t just have them over and tie them up and see how it goes. While I’d never recommend Fleezer’s ongoing assaults… Read more »
Eh
Spanking of…
EhIntellect First off No not a mail marketer People ’round here expect a little more good faith from you. Or more so. Being a lot better than i am. (What’s the truest form of rejection? Masturbating and your hand falls asleep.) Lots change in that been hitting the gym and starting my own Business beyond research. It’s good to have this brought up at me so thank you. How does this read as a solution? – Don’t spam (IE don’t ASK every day) Wont post video links just bitly in case you may find it interesting. – Be respectful (Other’s… Read more »
Scribbs
Good reminders.
The backstory is a bit more complex on Fifty Shades of Greitens though. Affair was old, her husband caught her, had her confess while secretely taping, then leaked that during the Govs campaign, hoping to shiv his election. Enter mass media scrutinity amd politiks. Absent that I think.. She cuts hair and blows alphas quietly.
Greiten’s wife still sharing his bed in the Guv’s mansion btw. Lesson there as well.
Rugby,
This kid’s story stuck with me over the years. Put your story against his.
He’d be 40 y.o. today.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article24437893.html
Second, instinct isn’t magic. It’s just another neurological impulse that happens in very knowable ways biologically, neurologically and even behaviorally. Example. I was out rockclimbing with my sister, bro in law and daughter. Bro was on the top rope climbing and I’m on belay. Bro has a little mishap and knocks some rocks loose which come down on us. Now this isn’t a big deal usually. Counterintuitively, you get very close to the wall because the debris will always bounce out away from the wall as it falls down. But that’s not perfect. So when this happens, my “instinct” is… Read more »
@Sentient – Ah, thanks. Makes more sense now. So she was loving it but now that it’s public, she has to shame it, of course. Another point for guys wanting to physically dominant like this? It’s their “dirty secret”. They might tell a GF who’s also a slut, but in general they never want their depraved, cock-craving little slut natures to be known publicly. I get girls to “be the slut they always wanted to be” with me, lol. I tell them that. The woman with the 5 min clenching orgasm, well I literally told her what a filthy whore… Read more »
“Either you succumb to evil, or you conquer it, but you have to deal with it.”
Adult matured male in the the face of the mirror. Meet with this guys farther at a writing meetup.
https://bit.ly/2HoNjNb
The courage it takes to confront that dosn’t compare to where i am in my life. Getting out of that and moving forward with a family and accepting it is what moving on in life is all about.
But their is someone like Jeremy who confronts this and transform all of it into something good and decent
https://bit.ly/2GUNG2t
I vote that Rugby be banned until further notice.
Your pathetic attempt to rationalise your inappropriate spamming by saying it might help someone is the kind of virtue signalling the Red Pill demoslishes.
You offer nothing and take: space, attention, screen time.
You steal other material from YouTube and repost.
You ignore our various attempts to reason with you and the offer something that works for you without considering the reason why so many of us here want you gone.
Rugby get help. Get off the Internet. Meet real people. Please fuck off…
Scribbs Not just shame it… Now she is a victim… lol And digging for some gold… He ruined her life… lolzlolzlolz… She didn’t have anything to do with a multi month sexual affair… http://liberalmissourian.weebly.com/uploads/8/2/9/8/82985618/eric-mistress-tweet-2_orig.png http://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/jenee-osterheldt/article208682549.html Does that sound like a fun first date to you? This is not consent. Consent is given freely. Consent isn’t given out of fear or force. She didn’t give consent to Eric Greitens. She didn’t give consent to her ex-husband who shared the ordeal with the media and forced her into the position of testifying. What happened to this woman is wrong. Period. Just because… Read more »
Gamma of the Year Award “He put real effort into this,” Sheena Greitens writes in the letter, detailing the ex-husband’s alleged stalking conducted prior to revelations about Gov. Greitens’ extramarital affair and the allegations of sexual misconduct that followed. “When I didn’t respond to his anonymous emails, he sent me a letter,” Sheena Greitens said. “When a letter to me didn’t produce the desired response, he contacted my parents. When letters didn’t satisfy him, he made his accusations public on Twitter. And finally, when targeting our family on social media didn’t fulfill his agenda, he secretly recorded his wife admitting… Read more »