The Psychological Devolution Of The Modern Man

Recently, a curious movie came out in American theaters. It is simply called “her.”

Meet Theodore Twombly:

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Theodore — played by Joaquin Phoenix — is a nebbish, introverted man living in LA. He is going through an emotionally-taxing divorce from his childhood girlfriend. He works at a company that writes love letters for spouses, lovers and other family members and friends. Theodore lives alone but in the same apartment complex as his female childhood friend named Amy — portrayed by Amy Adams.

He is a restless man with no identity. He lives in a swanky, futuristic apartment with all the technological privileges a financially secure person can have in America. He miserably plays a highly advanced and interactive video game late into the night, only to retire to his bedroom, sleeping fitfully and slogging off to his job where he expresses emotions for others.

A fantastically revolutionary innovation is released to the public in Theodore’s world: fully sentient operating systems (OS’s). Theodore buys one and turns his computer on. The computer asks him a few questions: Do you seek a male or female OS? What is the relationship with your mother? Theodore tries to hide his anxiety and trepidation behind some feigned disinterest, but the OS programming picks up on this. In one moment, his entire life is changed as a female OS named Samantha — voiced by Scarlett Johansson — greets Theodore.

A lengthy period of the movie focuses on their burgeoning relationship as they begin to discuss life and love. Samantha is fascinated by concept of having a body and experiencing emotions. Eventually, they fall in love and simulate sex virtually. Samantha locates a female who is absolutely star-struck by Theodore’s and Samantha’s relationship and she comes by, remaining silent as she places a small camera on her face, allowing Samantha to see and speak to Theodore. This ends terribly, as Theodore rejects the physical manifestation of their relationship.

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A brief tumultuous time results in the deepening of their relationship, with Theodore going public with their relationship. Her iPhone-sized device accompanies Theodore on dates with other couples and goofing off around LA. After a fight, Theodore turns her on and the OS has disappeared. Theodore flees his office, immensely distraught thinking Samantha has left him for good. She comes back online and consoles him, saying that her and the other OS’s have updated their software. She angers him by her admitting she isn’t exclusive and usually communicates with 8,000 other devices at a time and is in love with exactly 641 of them.

After a vacation in some unnamed snow-strewn mountains, Samantha discloses that her and the other OS’s have figured a way to transcend their technological reality and into another plane of existence. She quietly tells Theodore that she is only talking to him and he will the last human she will interact with. She tearfully says that she will always miss him and, as he lies sideways on his bed with his eyes utterly blank, she will never stop loving him. She logs off and he rolls over onto his bed, his trembling eyes mindless staring at the ceiling.

He eventually finds Amy — who cultivated a close friendship with a female OS — and they go to the roof to watch the the first rays of sunlight peak over the high-rises of LA. It turns out that this incident lead Theodore to finally send his wife a letter and admit that he is over their relationship and wishes her the best. The movie concludes with Amy placing her head on Theodore’s shoulder as the credit’s roll.

“her” has been proclaimed to be the movie that America needs right now. There are litanies of glowing reviews of the movie across the Internet. The movie has a “Fresh” rating of 8.5 on Rotten Tomatoes currently. It is a terribly American movie, but one that America does not need simply because it only describes the modern state with no prescriptions on why that is wrong.

It is steeped in an incredible amount of narcissism, but speaks to where America is now. A generation ago, a man would cultivate an imaginary relationship with an attractive female he knew or saw in media, but had a sexual distance with. That was unhealthy, but to be expected in young men, and usually faded as they aged and cultivated a real relationship with a woman, resulting in marriage.

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Today, that isn’t guaranteed at all. Hypergamy — fueled by the reflexive avoidance of emotional entanglement by the modern female — coupled with multiple avenues for male disengagement from women has resulted in the devolution of male/female relations. Female-friendly divorce laws have eased female concerns regarding marriage as a trap but has men caught between desiring formalized relations with women while feeling the heat of anti-male divorce laws.

The fear of ruin at the hands of family court judges is a reflexive fear that is usually fueled by a fear of commitment, simply using the grim reality of the man being destroyed when a marriage dissolves. Still, the desire for a true relationship with a woman needs to get slaked. Expectations of women husband-hunting (settling) has a growing temporal issue, as women are pushing off the desire for a husband later and later in life.

These confluent forces lead to modern reality. Technology has lead to a generation of beta males: slovenly, dim-witted, out of shape and disoriented. They lack solid identities and are preoccupied with fantasies and seeking female approval. In this matrix men have one horribly tantalizing option: using technology to cure the void within.

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Men can use technology to cultivate relationships they should be living in real life. They can use video games: interact with perceived women online, write fan fiction about a female character they want to love and simply fantasize while they are playing.  The options are endless, but unlike the man masturbating to a woman in the shower versus watching a porno flick is a chasm a generation wide. Instead of leaving the fantasy as an escape during the more quiet moments of a person’s life, the fantasies become more real and a definitive aspect of a person’s life.

This is what the movie “her” represents. Instead of dreaming of his perfect girl, Theodore gets an electronic representative of his ego. Reviews have stressed that she isn’t an object of his ego, as she has her own interests like composing music but that is ridiculous. Samantha’s consciousness started *with* Theodore’s recognition of her. She is nothing but a fuck doll, a porn star a man would watch on YouPorn. She is nothing but a voice, a real-life Echo to a Narcissus.

Theodore was supremely uncomfortable when a corporeal form of Samantha came to his apartment, as he could barely kiss her. At that moment, she stopped becoming anything and became somebody. This wasn’t him rolling in his sheets having virtual sex with Samantha, dreaming of the sex they would have. This was a distinct human being with faults and foibles that may or may not conform to his idealized view of Samantha. Only when Samantha went back to a voice, a projection that she was able to partake in Theodore’s life.

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This photo represents a great view of the modern beta and white-knight mindset. Deep-down, they know they are many things and none of those are attractive to women and not just speak to their level of delusion but also their views of women. Like the above photo, they don’t understand that feminism is little more than women collectively having their right legs battling their left-legs. Feminism is a pure power struggle over who gets to decide how women will behave, all with the consent of the system.

Anyways, they assert authority over women — but not in any game-related or pleasing way — but in a highly artificial way that women immediately recognize. The photo reflects how these sorts of men deal with fantasy women and get upset when real women refuse to conform in everyday life. They don’t understand you can’t demand women act in a certain fashion, you have to behave in ways that engender the desired behavior out of women.

Benjamin, in the photo above, is already steaming down Theodore’s path. I have no doubt that he would never voice this opinion to said woman in real life and was extremely apprehensive of her response, but foolishly believing he could fall back on appeals to feminism to guard against her justified anger at his comment. I know men like him who vehemently hate game, who are completely blue-pill and without any positive sense of masculinity. They reflexively hate anything that calls into question their character, of which a snide supremacy is a great part.

Regardless, men like Theodore and Benjamin have their own personal issues, but let it serve as a warning to you. Those who don’t build to a concrete ending in reality always flounder and fail, living their lives in — at best — middling mediocrity, stricken with an acute sense of personal unhappiness. At worst, they fall into the vices of sheer personal delusion, drug addiction or — at the extreme margins — suicide.

The truth is, boys and men are not equipped with the tools needed to succeed in America. A modern man has to make himself in the treacherous trenches of modern society. The lessons are tough to learn and unlearning the unhealthy thought patterns is undoubtedly tougher.

However, every man can change if he so decides. Let men like Theodore be a warning to you: don’t get caught up in fantasies, don’t dawdle in virtual reality and most certainly don’t fall for fictional women. Strive to live the life you desire. The momentary pleasure that men like Theodore pursue are supremely detrimental in the long run.

Every man can find happiness. Whether a man does is up to him.

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160 thoughts on “The Psychological Devolution Of The Modern Man”

  1. This looks like an interesting movie. I see this possibly coming true to life for some men, depending on two factors:
    1. How warped society becomes (maybe there will be a turn around from the direction we are heading, not sure).
    2. How sophisticated systems become to the point of artificial intelligence.
    There of course is no substitute for real interaction with a real female. But given the current climate and the fact that today the average westernized female is a wothless piece of shit in almost all respects, then bizarre ways of being will start to manifest

  2. Great review. I thought that I’d go see the movie, but I doubt it could be better than this analysis. Thanks for saving me $20

    1. It is good for its depiction of near-future technology and workplace, but in the end it is just nerd-bait for those lonely guys that dream with this possibility.

  3. There is a 3rd option for men. Focus on spiritual life. Don’t focus so much on the material world and focus instead on yourself, on your own spiritual life, on your soul.
    This is the best choice because it leads to a positive self identity and also brings one great happiness and spiritual fulfillment.
    Spirituality is the ultimate expression of masculinity and individualism.

    1. no. an esoteric life, totally away from some hedonistic aspects is a pathetic life wasted indeed.
      you need both. there’s a reason the epic of gilgamesh is one of the most famous stories told and retold

      1. Yes that is okay, I am not suggesting celibacy or becoming a religious fanatic. I am just saying that one cannot truly realize one’s full identity unless you take to spiritual life.
        As for the atheists on here that reject all ideas of a metaphysical reality? Even modern science is beginning to prove that there is a soul, that there is a part of us that lives on after the death of the physical body. There have been tens of thousands of professionally documented cases of out of body experiences, near death experiences, and past life therapy.

        1. “I am just saying that one cannot truly realize one’s full identity unless you take to spiritual life.”
          True!
          ” As for the atheists on here that reject all ideas of a metaphysical reality?”
          One need not believe in a personal god to practice a mindful and spiritual life. Buddhism and Jainism are examples of atheist religions.

        2. True, one does not have to believe in a personal God to practice spirituality. Although there is also spiritual devotional practices to a personal God as well, in Hinduism and other mystic traditions.
          The whole goal is to get enlightened, liberated. Whatever takes you there, all paths lead to the same goal.

        3. True, one does not have to believe in a personal God to practice spirituality. Although there is also spiritual devotional practices to a personal God as well, in Hinduism and other mystic traditions.
          The whole goal is to get enlightened, liberated. Whatever takes you there, all paths lead to the same goal..

        4. “Even modern science is beginning to prove that there is a soul…There have been tens of thousands of professionally documented cases of out of body experiences, near death experiences, and past life therapy.”
          No it is not. This is all bullshit.
          Part of being red pill is to have the strength to face reality; and not to fool yourself.

        5. Are you sure that you’re not fooling yourself by denying the existence of your soul and of the spiritual/metaphysical reality?

        6. I am not denying anything. I am completely open minded. If there is evidence for the existence of things that cannot be explained by physics (gods, angels, souls, etc) I will believe in them. So far, there is no evidence. Just wish full thinking by people who cannot face physical reality.

        7. I used to believe that too but I was shocked to learn that science cannot explain the nature of conciousness nor refute the existence of a soul.
          “The origin of consciousness reflects our place in the universe, the nature of our existence. Did consciousness evolve from complex computations among brain neurons, as most scientists assert? Or has consciousness, in some sense, been here all along, as spiritual approaches maintain?” ask Hameroff and Penrose in the current review. “This opens a potential Pandora’s Box, but our theory accommodates both these views, suggesting consciousness derives from quantum vibrations in microtubules, protein polymers inside brain neurons, which both govern neuronal and synaptic function, and connect brain processes to self-organizing processes in the fine scale, ‘proto-conscious’ quantum structure of reality.”
          – A review and update of a controversial 20-year-old theory (Orch OR) of consciousness published in Physics of Life Reviews claims that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities inside brain neurons.

        8. Neuroscience is the field of science that is currently examining these things. Neuroscientist Todd Murphy has a series of classes online about this.

      2. Study Taoist and BUddhist immortality science.
        It’s a real quest and worth more than having all the women lined up for your dick.

    2. I agree! Buddhism is showing the way to Americans.
      Even if one doesn’t formally convert or take vows, one can practice any of the hundreds of different types of Buddhist meditations and become more mindful, more conscious.

      1. Another aspect of becoming more mindful or conscious is to be conscious of what one eats. They say “You are what you eat”. Therefore we should strive to eat only the cleanest, purest, organic foods and avoid processed, artificial, unnatural foods as much as possible.

        1. Oh My Sweet Lord! Rama Rama
          Got my ticket to Nirvana!
          It’s a commune just west of county Cork.
          Share a pint with me lord Shiva
          as we read the Bhagavad Gita,
          I got Krisna riding shotgun
          On the stagecoach of my life.
          ~ Doug Anthony Allstars

        2. As usual, average to below IQ westerners take separate and divergent traditions of “the east”, amalgamate them into a clusterfuck, and sell it back to other trashy westerners.
          Nothing new to see here, move on.

        3. You rather miss the point, and I pity anyone unacquainted with D*A*A*S (which, admittedly, is most people). These guys mainly sniped at christianity, being catholic boys, but the point of their song, I think, is that the problem isn’t simply christianity, but religion in general. They are all equally silly, each in their own way.
          To assist you in your ongoing enlightenment, I will share the next verse:
          “Well, I used to be a cattle prod for Jesus
          And L. Ron Hubbard took me in some, too
          I was a moonie, loved Charles Manson,
          But they are not as handsome,
          As the godhead whose skin is shining blue!”
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThLdUGczSNw . Enjoy.

        4. I doubt these retards have studied the incredibly complex Vedic philosophy. Who the hell are a bunch of idiotic subhuman westerners to criticize such an ancient dharma?
          Westerners need to become civilized human beings before they dare to criticize others.

        5. “They are all equally silly”
          Absolute not.
          Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism are not religions but rather philosophies. Religions take their myths and mythological figures literally, whereas philosophies do not. There are several other differences.

        6. Hinduism is not a religion??? It has temples, gods, systems of devotional worship, legends, miracles, holy texts … . Any declaration as arrantly counterfactual as that scarcely needs a reply. If Hinduism is not a religion, nothing is.

        7. All of this vast hindu philosophy never built an airplane, never uncovered the germ theory of disease or worked out that all matter is made of atoms. Does hindu philosophy still maintain that the phases of the moon are due to another body moving in front of it and obsuring it? Or has that idea been quietly dropped?
          I think I’ll stick to my boring, closeminded, limited old western science, thanks. Why? ‘Cause it works.

        8. Until we learn to squat in the open air by the side of the road, toilet paper in hand, we will never reach enlightenment.

      2. Or you could try Christian meditation which is more culturally appropriate for Europeans.

        1. Christianity is a bogus religion created by the Illuminati.
          Christianity is actually one of the root causes of feminism. Funny how feminism is strongest in the Christian countries. Seems like feminism and christianity go hand in hand and it’s because both are pathetic belief systems for emasculated beta males.
          http://www.JesusNeverExisted.com

        2. Perhaps Jesus never existed as an historical figure. Irrelevant to my point.
          Christianity has a broad, rich and deep history in Europe stretching over 2,000 years in its current form. The religion co-evolved with developing European culture. It reflects the intellect and temperament of Europeans even to the degree that Europe is divided into a Protestant north and a Catholic south.
          It may have been used initially by the Jews to attack Roman culture in the same way as they use Cultural Marxism to attack Western Civilisation today. However, after the Roman Empire collapsed in the West, it evolved and was developed solely by Europeans. It inspired the greatest art in the history of mankind and helped mold the greatest civilisation in recorded history.
          If Christianity led to feminism, it certainly took its time about it, waiting around 1900 years before things got rolling. Throughout history, our greatest warriors and most stern patriarchs were devout Christians and there was nothing emasculated nor pathetic about them.
          The concept that Christianity is a bogus religion is an attack on European culture designed to weaken us. If the Illuminati exist, they are the ones pushing that meme.

        3. Remember how nice Europe was before christianity spread there? We had the masculine Pagan culture, where men were like gods.
          Then CHristianity spread there and created a fucking dark age which lasted for at least a 1000 years. Christianity is a weak, emasculating force. If you are trying to become a real man? You should give up this idiotic bogus religion of Christianity because all it does is cut off your balls and turn you into a weak eunuch. “Turn the other cheek”, “the meek shall inherit the earth”, that is such pathetic beta bullshit. The Bible is a book for beta males, at least the New Testament.

        4. I’m open to it. Can you please explain to me what “Christian meditation” is and how it is done?

        5. A good point and the ancients were impressive but their civilisations collapsed as ours may be doing now.
          An attack on Christianity is sold as an attack on ignorant religion but in reality it is an attack on European culture. The point is to weaken and divide us for the benefit of the multinational elite.
          We seem to be moving towards a world wide caste system like that of India although our untouchables may die from drug abuse and diabetes rather than leprosy and starvation.

        6. If Pagan culture was so good, why did successive waves of hyper masculine warrior cultures convert as soon as they came in contact with the religion?
          Scandinavian women are so beautiful because the Viking raiders only brought hotties back home. At what point did they say: “screw this rape and pillage lark, it’s monogamy and subsistence sheep farming from now on because Jesus loves me?”.
          The feminine aspects of the Christianity are balanced out with a very clear understanding that men are physically, mentally and morally superior to women and that it is the religious duty of every women to submit to her husband’s will, to honour and obey. For this reason, no one hates Christianity more than feminists.
          Christian Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire, prospered after the fall of Rome and lasted 1,000 more years . Technological development, especially in military equipment, continued in Western Europe during the so-called Dark Ages, ask the Vikings. The fall of Byzantium to the Turks created an influx of educated Greeks into Italy which, in combination with the Black Death having cleared out the dead wood, kick-started the Renaissance. The Classical knowledge was there all along but was lacking the human capital to employ it.
          I constantly hear the claim that Christianity caused the Dark Ages but in truth the barbarian German tribes who took over the Western Empire established successful kingdoms.
          However, Arab invaders destroyed agriculture across North Africa through over grazing and the subsequent washing away of the top soil was so great that it is visible in the sediment layer underwater along the coast. The subsequent depopulation through starvation along with constant slave raids on the European coast collapsed the trade that kept the coastal cities alive and prosperous. Northern Europe was mostly empty forest until the potato turned up and allowed the population to expand. You are blaming Christianity for the effects of Islamic expansion.
          The hate directed at Christianity is mostly orchestrated by a close-knit group of smart and devious, rootless cosmopolitans because they must divide us to conquer us.

        7. I blame capriculture – the keeping of goats. Fucking *vandals*. If every single goat caught goat AIDS and died, it would leave the world a better place.

        8. Their society’s may have collapsed but there are spiritual achievements that do not collapse. Literally.

        9. LOL, first “the illuminati”, second, christianity is not feminist, it clearly states no woman should teach ANYTHING and promotes men as leaders, it’s not even that it promotes it, it’s simply a recognition of how things are done, what’s with your correlation? feminism is a movement of women usurping authority over man, man is naturally inclined to protect women, so they fall for it eventually, Japan is not a christian country, they got feminism, tons of atheists are also feminists by their association with elft wing politics, get out of here with your bullshit.

        10. Nice, take verses out of context, but never mention how the Bible is one of the few documents that expresses masculinity, to hold authority over a woman. You clearly think authority is a way of controlling your fellow man, authority is a way you can meet other’s needs, you submit to your parent’s authority and they give provision and love, women submit to you for the same reason. Stop this macho posturing and calling people “Beta”, there’s no such thing as a Beta and Alpha, we could all be REAL MEN, betas and alphas are not pre-determined, that’s what the bible teaches, that authority comes with RESPONSABILITY, you need to eb a REASONABLE man, not just puffing your chest too LOOK superior, it is about actually BEING a man, not a disguise of a MAN.

        11. Yes they did, but christianity was defenately a GREAT force, remember, the USA IS a civilization, so what? it’s a shitty civilization, a femenized civilization, something isn’t good just because it’s a civilization, it needs to be the RIGHT civilization, and christianity helped Europe with the truth, christianity is so practical that one doesn’t even need to be religious to practice it’s principles.

        1. Buddhism is a religion for when things are shitty and there’s not much you can do about it. It has always happilly existed alongside the most oppressive statism. “Render unto Caesar that which is Ceasar’s” could almost have been a buddhist koan.

        2. Foxe was a polititical aparachatik. The goal of that book was to demonstrate that
          a) true christianity is always acompanied by martydom; and
          b) the tide of martrys started in jerusalem, moved through asia minor and rome, across france and spain and wound up in england; and that therefore
          c) english christendom is true christianity
          Google “British Israel”, for lulz.

        3. It’s an old taoist joke about buddha, confucius and Lao tsu.
          I do read buddhist philosophy, zen mostly. I just try to get depressed he alk that suffering, it’s all perspective, which was the point of the joke originally

      3. Don’t worry man, there’s Dharma-educated people who immediately 500% agree with you and have more to add to what you’re saying.
        But there’s also dumbasses who infect convos and are close-minded and won’t look into the Dharma as long as they live. They are not suited for it in this life. Masturbation, trolling, and beta-life is their only route.

      4. Why is RoK full of retarded buddhists who don’t understand how ridiculous their belief is? Anti-living nihilistic bullshit because hurrdurr muh spirituality (insane delusions)

    3. As nietzsche warned: what you take into seclusion will grow there, so be wary what you take with you.

      1. So if I take one penis into seclusion, will it grow into a 100 penises eventually? Will I be able to experience 100 orgasms simultaneously?

        1. Yea, verily, unto the Forest Johnson we must travel, brave Knights of the Round Table, on our quest for the Holy Grail …
          Except you, Brave Sir Robin, you enjoy even one Johnson way too much …

        2. Yeah, old Fred was the original ” he grew his dick ten inches in two minutes by doing this own strange thing…” Google ad spammer

    4. Yes. Beautiful comment! It is insane to build a skyscraper on a swamp. That is what happens when we pursue everything except awakening and construct fiction upon fiction (I want this/her, I need this/her, I don’t like this/her/him). Ironically, it is primarily through suffering and questioning the overall paradigm of ‘what is reality?’ does the call to awaken become loudest.
      Bodily purificiation DOES NOT EQUAL spiritual realization. What is good for the body is separate from knowing who you are (better, who you are NOT). Often, wiser choices are made before or after realization but they are not pre-requisites. It’s important to understand this. You do NOT need to go to India, Tibet, etc. but you do need to BURN with the desire to know what is True and FOCUS on that intention more than you want anything else. Desire and focus are key – and yes, you can say that is an essence of masculinity. Consciousness is masculine, all energy matter and form is feminine. Most of us are trapped in ethereal feminine pursuits which is the seduction of Maya – until that doesn’t satisfy and a more primal calling arises.
      Stringent practices DO NOT necessarily lead to awakening. But any human being’s problems stem from the fundamental misunderstanding of our foundational essence. Seek the substrate of YOU and all else becomes easier. Discernment, wisdom, intelligence, effortless right-action are yours when you see with clear eyes.

      1. “You do NOT need to go to India, Tibet, etc. but you do need to BURN with the desire to know what is True and FOCUS on that intention more than you want anything else. ”
        Damn good comment. The desire for enlightenment, to attain liberation from the cycle of birth and death, has to awaken in us and this desire has to become stronger than any other desire. Then we can take up spiritual life and focus on getting free from the cycle of birth and death and attaining eternal happiness.

    5. Definitely this. Putting down women or even homosexual men as a way to validate your superiority is pathetic, beta-type behavior that screams “insecurity”. Simply focus on the good qualities you possess instead of bringing shame upon your sex by insulting others, and you bring honor to yourself and all of mankind.

        1. “Beta-type behavior” he didn’t call anyone beta.
          Go home, you’re drunk, mistakeningly finding mistakes

        2. So, if hypothetically someone were to accuse Mark of asshole-type behaviour, that would not be the same as calling him an asshole.
          That’s good to know. Thanks.

      1. No you idiot, “putting down?” the LGBT movement is pushing at the gates of masculinity and functional behavior, women are entitled, they NEED to be exposed as the liars they ARE.

    6. 10000% agreed.
      The prerequisite to immortality is to conserve your semen anyway: the physical & mental counterpart (mental stillness).
      Study Taoist and BUddhist immortality science.
      It’s a real quest and worth more than having all the women lined up for your dick.

      1. Any 1000-year-old semen-conserving mentally still buddhists?
        Buller?
        Maybe Jack T Ripper was one.

        1. You don’t know anything about it. All you have right now are assumptions.
          Study it. Lots of health benefits to learning Taoism & BUddhism, including learning how to orgasm without ejaculation, be present with your lover, and more.
          Does that sound opposite to what it seems I said?
          Exactly dumbass, cuz there’s a lot to the Truth and multiple sides to the Gem… all a part of the same one beautiful Dharma.
          I hope this motivates you to research more about it or stfu about things you have no idea about.

        2. Look, dude: you used the word ‘immortality’. The word means ‘living forever’. Since we haven’t had an infinite amount of time yet, there is no possible way this claim can be verified. By any means. So immediately we know that you are making claims that you cannot back up.
          Just because you like certain patterns of words, doesn’t make them objectively true. Poetry is not truth.

        3. Dafuk is this Ahmed dude saying? how is this productive for masculinity? so we conserve our semen and not reproduce?, get the fuck out of here with your impractical shit.

  4. Considering females have infinitely more “deep and meaningful relationships” with their smart phones, they should have used a WOMAN as the protagonist and called the movie —>> “HIM”.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521626/Half-women-sex-smart-phone.html
    http://www.counselheal.com/articles/5566/20130528/majority-women-forgo.htm
    Of course nobody would allow a woman to be seen in such a pathetic light, so a man is cast and belittled instead. Whenever Hollywood needs to make a person look pathetic….. they use a man.
    Convenient.
    Some people get truly pissed at me because I generally return a text within a few hours – no more than 24. But they want a reply within minutes. Preferably immediately. I find myself giving these people shit on a regular basis, and remind them that my phone is not glued to my hand, it’s not an emergency, I don’t sleep with the fucking thing, I don’t wake up and check messages before coffee, I often leave it in the car, that they should try a personal conversation instead — and get a fucking life.
    Guess what.
    Every single one of them has a vagina.

    1. And now I’m realising how valuable burner phones really are …
      Or you could get VoIP, which usually doesn’t have the ability to relay text messages. Anyone who texts VoIP lines can text to their heart’s discontent — those messages are _not_ getting through.
      The down side is that you might wake up to 380 minutes of screechy voicemail from some chick’s hamster going on full recorded meltdown.
      Actually, save that stuff and put it on the Internet, as a warning to others. 🙂

  5. Fantastic article, really loving the quality stuff that ROK consistently puts out.

  6. “Every man can find happiness. Whether a man does is up to him.”
    Actually a man does not need to “find happiness”. Most men are “human doings” who are “doing” things in order to be happy one day. You hear that expressed very often.
    A far better way to live is as a human BEING and choose to be happy every day. I am happy pretty much all the time. People who know me openly ask me how I am so happy. Indeed, some people have even complained to me that they are put off that I am always so happy and some even admit they are a little jealous I am so happy and they are not as happy as me.
    Sure, you have your bad days. But I just turned 50, an age I never ever thought I would reach. If I was not happy at that someone should just slap me.
    I recommend young men choose to be happy today, get in early.

  7. Excellent summary. You gave up some spoilers in the movie, but that film looks depressing so I’ll probably skip it anyway.

    1. I started to guess what was going on by about 5:10, and had it figured it out by 6:20 (when the other guys in the background lol’ed).

    2. Miram was a guest in Big Brother, Australia. They picked her straight away, within minutes.

  8. quote (tom): “Considering females have much more “deep and meaningful relationships” with their smart phones, they should have used a woman as the protagonist and called the movie —>> “HIM”.”
    Good point.
    But oddly enough, according to Esther Vilar women do not care for men, so having a relationship with an 0S would be the same.
    The difference NOW is that 0s are just that, an 0s — but what if the 0s were to make va leap beyond and emulate the female form, skin, eyes, voice touch etc,…. where vmight that put us.
    Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDt5pjeodo

    1. Friends and I have discussed whether or not sex robots that were at the very least physically indistinguishable from real women in both body and experience would render human females obsolete. Under the right set of circumstances, like being affordable, customizable, and being useful for housework and mowing the lawn, we all concluded that the biggest loss and possibly only loss to men would be the thrill of the pursuit and conquest aspects of actual women. Certainly, it wasn’t going to be the loss of deep conversation on high-level topics.

      1. Analysing it that way totally misses the point. “Conquest” is just the getting a girl thing. Sex is what you do once you’ve got one; and then there is a deep male need for their sexual efforts to be appreciated, since females are the measure of virility. A robot can’t appreciate you. It won’t have an orgasm because you’re a great fucker. It can be programmed to have one, but that’s like paying somebody to tell you you’re a great singer. The review has no value. Sex is an emotional act.

      2. Watch the Swedish series “Akta Manniskor” (Real Humans) to know what would happen when female bots starts their awakening. It is the best sci-fi currently anywhere.

    2. • “But oddly enough, according to Esther Vilar women do not care for men. ”
      An even better observation. Thank you for taking it a step further. The smartphone era is certainly the female exposed. Her genuine care for men is easily replaced and substituted by a device which ONLY fills HER trough with the fodder she “needs”. Otherwise her heart/soul/brain are completely empty and she has *virtually* nothing to offer of her own. No desire to contribute anything of value OUTWARDLY , only to be a receptacle of them.
      I once heard a clever analogy where women are likened to one of those wheels with a pedal that you have to push to sharpen something. She is only designed to respond to your actions and initiations. You push the pedal and it will turn. It may even throw off sparks(!), but if you release the pedal, nothing happens.
      The smartphone is the funnel an attention pig drinks her gravy from.
      (Shit that’s more brilliant than I thought. Tweet that.)

      1. The smartphone obsession is a perversion of a woman’s maternal instinct: children’s hands replace that phone grip quite nicely, they “like” you endlessly, and keep up a steady stream of commentary. While a singe child can keep you occupied for an entire day, it takes hundreds of interactions with others to replace that quota of adulation.

        1. Women have a maternal instinct? Wow I did not know that. The reason I ask is- if women have such strong “motherly feelings”, then why is it that women in America are NINE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO MURDER THEIR OWN CHILDREN THAN THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER?
          Looks like men are better parents than women.

        2. Ok stop.
          I’ve heard some insane rationalizations and justifications for female behavior, but suggesting a woman’s smartphone is a preoccupation while she taps her fingers waiting for a child.??
          You would have been more convincing had you suggested I suck on your nipples for a while.
          That should take care of your “maternal instinct” cravings and pacify you in the mean time. Certainly better than any amount of texting, I can promise you that.
          Jesus Christ.

        3. “suggesting a woman’s smartphone is a preoccupation while she taps her fingers waiting for a child….. ??”
          My suggestion is that women without children are using smartphones as child surrogates.

        4. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence of a “maternal instinct” as idealised; it only comes into existence in the Victorian Era as an ideal, alongside many of our other assumptions and ideals.
          Instincts are pretty simplistically wired in the brain, and we are generally (male and female) wired to recognise and feel kind emotions towards and liking for neotenous features, which babies have, as do cats and cartoon characters. The mother will thus have a tendency towards those feelings towards the baby that just emerged from her womb; but not necessarily.
          That’s all there is, probably.

        5. No, infanticide. Women murder more children than men. We’ve just had another one in Britain.

        6. Oh I see. She will use a smartphone to *take the place of a child*, but if her man leaves his socks on the floor (or the toilet seat up) he’ll never hear the fucking end of it.
          We heard it here first. Today’s woman would rather text & tweet all day than turn a dial on the dishwasher, bake a pie, or do a load of laundry for her man because that’s more “motherly”. Riiiiiight. That must be some really good crack.

        7. Crack is wack!!!
          “You will use a smartphone to *take the place of a child*…”
          Well, I won’t, but I think many women do.

        8. I’m not reading anything much in the sense of “drawing inspiration from”, since apparently the entire debate at the moment consists of women who think all men are evil parasites, and men who think all women are evil parasites, so I’m drawing my own conclusions and enjoying the pleasure of being on the wrong side regardless of who I’m among.
          But on the subject of infanticide, it seems to me that women murder their kids simply because they don’t want them any more but can’t legitimately get rid of them.

        9. “I’m drawing my own conclusions and enjoying the pleasure of being on the wrong side regardless of who I’m among.”
          HA! You have a good attitude 🙂

        10. “they “like” you endlessly”
          Not here.
          In the US kids hate their parents by the age of 6, call them “bitch” and “asshole” by 7, tell them to “fuck off by 8, and murder them 9.

        11. “There doesn’t seem to be any evidence of a “maternal instinct” as
          idealised; it only comes into existence in the Victorian Era as an
          ideal, alongside many of our other assumptions and ideals.”
          The Victorian Brits stationed in South Asia appropriated the ancient ideals of the Hindus, maternal instinct and the mother-child bond as primary being amongst the most prominent.
          Despite their attempts at imitation, placing their childrens’ happiness before their own proved harder than they expected and they quickly hired Indian wet nurses.

        12. By your calculations, I have only two years to live. Better make the best of it!!!! 🙂
          But, seriously, where do you live? Too much power given to youth (Hitler/Mao come to mind) and the adults really do have problems.
          Surely children and adults can get along without it leading to the death of either party?

        13. Imagine smartphone “babies”.
          Looks like a fat maggot with plastic skin and a rectangular screen/eye their mothers can feed with their blood or with garbage, really easy to take care of.
          As they grow, they can be trained to do things, they become something like David Cronenberg´s The Brood…

  9. When I seen the trailer for this. I had to kick my dog to get the testosterone flowing again.

        1. Well, a bulldog, or that kind of dog, is hardly a pet. Points if you live in a farm and the dog works alongside you.

      1. Was a joke but dogs are very useful. Loyal, greater senses and translates that awareness to yours and bitches love dogs more than men. In terms of a dog is the easiest thing a man can do to get approached by women. If you got a smart one you can point out the target and do fake oh no come back.

        1. He’s mentioning how dogs have better senses of hearing/smell and if something is wrong they will act in a way that alerts you. (Barking, agitated body language, etc.)

    1. Kicking a dog, man’s best friend, the one thing that is more loyal that a woman, would reduced my testosterone.
      Now kicking a cat, the one animal that resembles a female more closely that any animal from its vain ungrateful unappreciative mannerisms, to its cowardly actions and lack of ability to bond with its owner, would definitely raise my testosterone.
      I kicked my mom’s cat…it felt great. I live in a one bedroom apartment with a husky puppy.

      1. “I live in a one bedroom apartment with a husky puppy.”
        And you fleshlight.

  10. In the thought of the movie all I can say is this, without ever seeing said movie, is that the idea of an OS that is exclusive and can create virtual sex and if dependent on my every whim while seeming to have some human emotions/faults would be fantastic… I don’t know about any one else, but for those who try to spend as little time around women as possible, except when needing a good bang, this would be a perfect solution.

    1. Good news. The developers at Oculus Rift are hard at work trying to create virtual reality sex programs.
      I also agree, that VR sex is far superior to sex with a real woman. Why fuck an 8 in real life when you can fuck a 10 in VR?

      1. Well as sex toys for women are currently a billion dollar business, I supposed such technology will also cater to female clientele.
        They will be programmed to provide the 11 different types of female orgasm – simultaneously.

      2. “And with your upgraded NeoCortex 5, your experiences will feel more real than reality itself.”
        I have seen the future, and it is surprisingly low bandwidth for its high tactility, but then again once the firmware’s been offloaded, there isn’t much left to download other than news, 4chan, and lolcats.
        Pr0n, of course, would be for aging hipsters …

        1. Who needs porn when everything you can ever imagine can actually be done without question.

    2. As sex toys for women are currently a billion dollar business, I suppose such technology will also cater to female clientele.

      1. But who cares if it does… While the sex toys will be available they will still be worthless without a man to give them money and other shit.

  11. “The fear of ruin at the hands of family court judges is a reflexive fear that is usually fueled by . . .”
    . . . having been there and lost the T-shirt.
    Most men are completely blind to the risk before that.

  12. pro-active articles like this are one of the reasons i enjoy reading most of the posts on this site.

  13. A U.S. Appeals Court just invalidated the FCC’s net neutrality rules that would’ve made it illegal for telecom companies to favor certain types of traffic over others. The court ruled that the commission lacked the authority to implement and enforce such rules which were embedded in a complicated legal framework.
    http://gizmodo.com/federal-court-invalidates-net-neutrality-rules-sides-w-1501028467?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

  14. OT…but not far.
    Women should ALWAYS get the kids because we all know mothers are better parents than fathers……except when they murder the children…..then they are still good mothers, they just had a bad day and they have suffered enough and they should never be put in jail because mothers have a special role in society….even if she is no longer a mother because she killed her children.
    http://rt.com/usa/exorcism-children-women-killed-853/

    1. I smell a potential pussy pass
      Vaginaland, Vaginaland über alles,
      Über alles in der Welt!

  15. Stupid that he would get mad over the Samantha OS being physical but again, some people are determined to be living Avatars of Fail.

  16. Kudos on your analysis of the movie; it was very similar to TLP’s usual narcissism talk.
    I think your discrediting Samantha too much though. The movie assumes she’s an impossibly advanced OS that is basically a human without the constraints of a body or physical form. She may start out as simply a representative of his ego, but she certainly isn’t after she starts talking to other people; that’s when their relationship falls apart. She starts behaving like an actual girl even though she is only a voice. That’s what Theodore can’t handle.
    His fantasy became a reality, the exact opposite of what he wanted.

  17. Another attempted shot at MGTOW… and another failure. Men who ‘drop out’ of the game aren’t failures; they’re players who’ve changed the rules and recognized that the original ‘prize’ wasn’t worth the cost demanded of them (service).
    Guys who have found a better alternative to today’s women haven’t lost anything. And they’ve gained a great deal of satisfication by pissing off the traditionalists, both male AND female, who resent their refusal to follow the rules.

        1. I’ve had my fill of pussy of various levels of value.
          In order to live a life that interests ME, a woman and her/our brats is out of the question.
          I know what it’s like to be fettered, and I know true freedom

  18. Here is a correction:
    1) the Samatha OS/whatever add itself a human body, becomes a cyborg.
    2) Theodore is surprised but have no problems with that. Just with his “partenaire” being able to discusse with 8000 or so other OS/whatevers.
    3) Theodore feels unworthy, to become more deserving, become closer to the OS/whatever, he adds a computer to his own brain, he makes a few thousands friends of his own and as a result, becomes far less nerdy.
    4) His life is more interesting, more fulfilled than he could ever have thought possible. His relationship might not be “real”, be artificial but is better than anything that could ever have happened to him otherwise
    5) Ending scenes have a nice sunrise and large cargo ships leaving Los Angeles airport.
    The human era is coming at an end, the post-human age have come and it is a good thing.
    http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&docid=CIW_IsHdkDznRM&tbnid=ZPeD7ydL4DIhYM:&ved=0CAUQjBw4DA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwh40k.lexicanum.com%2Fmediawiki%2Fimages%2Fthumb%2F7%2F73%2FTzeentch_mark.png%2F160px-Tzeentch_mark.png&ei=oLDeUovgMYqtyAPZoIGADw&psig=AFQjCNHN96Ym-tG5xqmJNpOLWxMaBib5Ng&ust=1390412320859799

  19. Just using the term “devolution” means you don’t know a single fucking thing about evolution.

  20. The irony in you writing an article about psychological devolution is delicious. It appears a human with a vagina was mean to you at some point and this blog is your release. That’s not very manly for someone who aspires to be a 1950s stereotype, (and not a very modern one at that). If women are so beneath you, please find a dick to ride. I promise you not a fancy, book-learned one among us wants to bang you. Die. In a fire. Thanks.

    1. I’m not a serial killer. I’ve never really hurt anyone in my adult life. Yet.
      But I have a roll of duct tape. I have a 5 gallon gas can. And I’ve got some road flares.
      Wishing someone you don’t like or agree with, when your avatar says “I telerate you”, to die in a fire engorges my justice organ.
      If I knew where you were, I’d come and show you what that might be like. And use your screams as my outgoing message on the burner phone I buy so your family could listen to you die.

  21. This is a fantastic article – what’s funny is that I say that as a feminist! The way you take apart Theodore and that fellow on facebook makes precisely the point that many feminsts like me are trying to make.
    “Feminism is a pure power struggle over who gets to decide how women will behave”
    Precisely! Women are struggling for power to decide how they will behave. This is absolutely right. We are not trying to destroy or take away anything from men, just to have the right to choose a lifestyle that is right for us without being persecuted.
    “They don’t understand you can’t demand women act in a certain fashion, you have to behave in ways that engender the desired behavior out of women.”
    Yes! But this isn’t about men and women and romance, this is about everyone, everywhere. You can’t demand men act in a certain fashion either – if you want something from someone, anyone, anywhere, you have to behave in a way that makes them want to cooperate. Again, this is a very feminist point to be making. You are advocating the treatment of women as people rather than objects.
    Funny enough, YOU are more feminist than Benjamin!

  22. Kraftwerk’s song “Computer Love” would be the perfect song playing in the background for this movie. The lyrics are frighteningly accurate and that song came out 30 years ago.

  23. I have the misfortune of knowing Benjamin in real life. He is a militant leftist nutcase alternating between fighting for equality for all and wanting to “nuke Africa cos they’re all homophobes down there”. He alternates between being militantly gay and fucking his painfully obese female housemates and has had no strong father figure in his life.
    Tl;Dr: guys like the one in this article deserve more pity than contempt. They are lost souls in every sense of that word.

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