Taxes, healthcare, national security. These are the issues that most people would say differentiate one political party from another, one candidate from another. But in fact, these issues are only symptomatic of what actually differentiates candidates: sex.
The 2016 presidential elections in the United States—Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump—exemplified how gender manifests in political conflict, from defining their personality types to shaping their entire ideological worldview. And the heated nature of that contest showcased the split across gender lines, exhibiting how sexual relations is threatening to tear Western society apart. We are heading for a “cultural divorce.”
The masculine versus feminine
The strong, masculine personality type projected by Donald Trump stands for an “America First” vision for the world: a more self-interested policy in which the interests of the American people are preferred, with closed borders that protect national interests and promote national identity and culture. This is contrasted with Hillary’s globalist, more inclusive vision for humanity that promotes altruistic sacrifice of self-interest, driven by the feminine characteristic of empathy and social bonding in order to unify a multicultural global community by eliminating the old order.
By studying our political strife from a social-science perspective we can better understand the inherent forces that drive social conflict. Social bonding is an incredibly important quality that enables the rise of complex human societies with shared intentionality, the cultural transmission of knowledge, and the division of labor. The feminine attributes of empathy and love are significant in connecting people into social networks that allow for mutual cooperation and exchange of ideas and trade.
A completely anti-social personality could not interact with others. However, if our social bonds become too tight, those social connections can flip from bonded to bondage, restricting the degree of freedom needed to develop individual character and take personal responsibility for our actions. Social bondage prohibits creativity, rationality, and objectivity. Hence we need to balance the feminine side of social bonding and altruism with the masculine side of rational self-interest and a greater degree of independence.
In view of how this distinction between the genders shapes our political divide, we can gain valuable insights from recent studies in neuroscience on how hormones drive our sexual differentiation and structure our brain. It is important to understand that we all begin as females in the womb, but the rise of the sex hormone, testosterone, leads to the development of male characteristics in utero. Again in puberty, the growth of sex hormones kick in to further induce development of the different genders.
The driver of civilization
In humans, as in most mammal species, it is the males that compete for social status to gain access to the females. Females act as Mother Nature’s selectors, choosing their preferred mate and thereby which men will succeed in propagating their genes into future generations.
The dominant, alpha male personality type and culture, in the context of competition between greater social groups, such as nations, secures territory and resources in order to protect and provide for their females and build a nest. The biological imperative to reproduce and procure the resources to raise our children is the underlying theme in shaping our human history and social and political traditions. These are the biological origins for the modern concept of the Western nation state with secure borders. The rule of law and order is established to promote the rise of a flourishing and civilized society.
However, if we study human history, much of it is shaped by periods of imperialist wars of aggression in which the lack of respect for definite boundaries between social groups leads to increased violence and conflict. The strong conquer the weak, uniting many cultures under great empires.
Examples of these are the Roman Empire, the Islamic Empire, or the empire created by the Mongol hoards that conquered a huge land mass across Eurasia, from China to the Middle East and Russia. In the twentieth century, both the fascist regimes of Nazi Germany and the Communists in Soviet Russia sought to conquer huge empires under their control. History teaches us that lack of secured borders leads to wars of aggression in which men fight over resources and females, leading to conquest and rape.
The modern concept of the nation state has only emerged since the Age of Enlightenment in the seventeenth century, in which European societies decided to promote peaceful coexistence by defining national borders and securing the rule of law. The cultures that developed, like the United States, promoted individual rights, and men were able to compete economically to enhance production by more efficiently utilizing natural resources, rather than battling to control and enslave each other.
In my recent book, The Testosterone Hypothesis, I make the case that it is actually the rise of the male hormone testosterone that has led to modern Western civilization in which national and personal independence and liberty are the celebrated values of free men. This masculine culture, in which men feel secure and confident under the rule of law, promotes independence and challenges centralized authority as the Founding Fathers of the United States did in their rebellious war for Independence in 1776, fighting for these Enlightenment ideals.
However as testosterone declines, men lose their drive for self-determination and their internal locus of control and become increasingly dependent and subjugated by socialist state controls and centralized forms of government that become more imperial and all encompassing, encroaching on the sovereignty of the individual.
This hormonal view of history is confirmed by recent scientific studies on the effects of testosterone on men’s political ideology. A study done in 2013 by Danish scientists found that stronger men correlate with more conservative political and economic views. The study was conducted among hundreds of men in the U.S., Denmark, and Argentina, and the researchers concluded that men’s relative physical strength is indicative of their ability to defend their families and procure resources to provide for them:
This is among the first studies to show that political views may be rational in another sense, in that they’re designed by natural selection to function in the conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history.
Our sex hormones determine the degree of independence versus bonding that takes place in how we organize our social structure. Hence, we need to further study and integrate the natural sciences—primarily biology and neuroscience—with the humanities to reach a more comprehensive level of understanding of our mind-body connection and how evolved sexual reproductive strategies drive the organization of our society, culture, and political ideologies accordingly.
Read Next: The Decline In Testosterone Is Destroying The Basis Of Masculinity
This is manifested in the drive to dominate global Kratom resources.
KRATOM FOUL
Technically dude’s plugging his book, so….
KRATOM TECHNICAL FOUL
I’ll foul YOU technically!
Title of the article is ‘Sex Is The Driver Of All Cultural And Political Conflict’, so I figured he was selling the services of street hookers.
…..for the U.N.
That’s not even… I mean… that doesn’t even… like what the fuck kind of sense… I don’t… fuck this… I give up.
Jim does not approve of this attitude https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e0abc72787f3f0f1983097635479ea78146065438409f79d5dec256a9b38065d.png :
Ah yes, a program administered by the Street Hooker Refugee Resettlement Commission.
Oh yeah? Well I heard John Wayne once swallowed Errol Flynn’s sword. How about dem apples?
Misdirection, your honor.
I plead the filth.
Been plugging that book here for a while…..
He’s not an instagram model who has just flown out to dubai to meet you, you know
technically, that doesn’t explain why he walked funny
that’s not true, he was merely staying the night because he didn’t want to pay for a hotel.
in like Flynn
ha!
I’ll foul your sister technically.
Is this a sponsored post?
An overly masculine culture is excessively aggressive toward other lands. An overly feminine culture (like present day Sweden) literally invites the conquerers in. On balance, better to be the one who fucks rather than the one being fucked.
If the U.S. wasn’t aggressive in territorial expansion after it’s founding, our borders essentially wouldn’t extend beyond the Appalachian mountains and the Georgia state border. Definitely better to have ambitions!
Here, here!
so basically you’re saying, sweden is feminist, and has it’s legs spread wide open for all comers
why do you guys keep using “feminine” and “feminist” interchangeably, when they are actually opposites?
fair point. I think the OP was pointing out that sweden had been feminized, not that feminism itself was feminine. Under feminism, women are masculinised, men however are feminised. Women trying to act masculine doesn’t create masculinity, and he is claiming that despite it’s outward character it is still ultimately passive / receptive. Pussification is a complex process
I would assume a overly feminine culture would be rather risk averse and would therefor not have such a risky migration politics.
What’s going on is UN replacement agenda covered under da humanitarian sheet as a better frame to shove it down the throats of the people.
In 2030 the word “migration background” should not exist anymore since everyone will have such a background, they said. Probably it’s a much bigger plan behind it.
This.
It is not “feminine” to want to let the barbarians in. Why would any truly feminine woman want to risk allowing herself and/or her daughters to get raped, or risk her husband being killed?
Too many people on ROK automatically assume “masculine = good, feminine = bad.” In reality, the masculine and the feminine are complementary, and one cannot exist without the other.
“It is not “feminine” to want to let the barbarians in. Why would any
truly feminine woman want to risk allowing herself and/or her daughters
to get raped, or risk her husband being killed?”
Because then they can find themselves an alpha male then. And that’s what women want after all. We have no soul after all and would gladly watch our fathers, brothers, grandparents and mothers and male sons to be slaughtered right in front of us and then become sex slaves of the ones who comitted that because muh hypergamy.
“Because then they can find themselves an alpha male then. And that’s what women want after all. We have no soul after all and would gladly watch our fathers, brothers, grandparents and mothers and male sons to be slaughtered right in front of us and then become sex slaves of the ones who comitted that because muh hypergamy.”
finally… one of you admits this.
I thought men understand sarcasm
“Because they can find themselves an alpha male then.”
This implies that they can’t find themselves an alpha male within the men of
their own ethnic group/nationality.
If European men are all pussified leftists, then I guess it makes sense that Europeam women would want “alpha males” from barbarian cultures.
why do you guys keep using “feminine” and “feminist” interchangeably, when they are actually opposites.?
Men’s desires to obtain wealth, invent things, gain political office, become famous architect etc. is all stemmed in our desire for power, influence, and fame. All things which inevitably lead to an abundance of pussy. It is in fact our insatiable sex drive which fuels so much of our civilization.
Women on the other hand, can be entirely passive and good things in life will happen to them for doing nothing more than just showing up to a party and waiting for a reasonably assertive and prosperous man to approach her.
That’s not true.
Women are animals, not much more.
Men on the other hand, we can be, what we can be more, that is what drives us.
Do you really believe, if punani were the only driving force, hundreds and thousands of us could cooperate towards a greater goal?
It is fact, what you describes leads to Africa.
What I describe leads to high culture.
Rosh for example, just look at his pathetic beard.
He know’s about Neoteny and just like Marx or his ISIS idols he needs a beard.
Men in a high culture chose the opposite and grow a mustache to even shorten their chin (snout – just look at the optic difference between a wolf and highly domesticated dog, shorter snout).
Talking about the Übermensch the cucks can, but not even looking like one. 😉
So you’re suggesting that Roosh is pro-ISIS?
in case any one’s wondering wtf Neoteny is, it is “the sexual maturity of an animal while it is still in a mainly larval state, as in the axolotl.”
thanksalotl
you’re welcome
No. He just needs the same pathetic trick to achieve a male look.
Like Marx, Trotzky, ISIS or Coka Cola’s Santa Claus.
Gavin McGinnes does the same, but he acknowledges it. 😉
A behavior called ‘having balls’.
Rasputin? Grizzly Adams?
Men should opt to be the wolf not the cucked dog you “high culture” faggot. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/72a1f80a2e0d63e422734eb38f7aff257e6b8e2ecc8743f48fe9c56411e2103c.png
That’s what a man with a low IQ would say.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/02/20/world/20somalia/20somalia-videoSixteenByNine1050.jpg
On the other extreme you have the liberal white manginas who are technically high IQ , but their boobs are hanging like those of women.
You need both high IQ and high Test to get the superior Western Man , the kind of men that conquers the world and bends inferior populations to his will. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/45e21d47229d418e202bde79176322c61d119acf90cabd3eda2464839a411009.jpg
That’s what a woman would say.
You have the African and on the other end you have the liberal white manginas who are technically high IQ , but their boobs are hanging like those of women.
You need both high IQ and high Test to get the superior Western Man , the kind of men that conquers the world and bends inferior populations to his will. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4de71b782ad81212f8267ce7f36519316d59ffa3a35d44c10529bc7a6a9585f7.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4863d474644cc79e7ed381d5deaac51a06fc7ed6a6a3fb32a013b17becb27ea4.jpg
Like I wrote, you can chose to be the Untermensch.
Do you even lift faggot ?
Who the fuck is “Rosh”?
Many highly respected men of the past had beards. The “clean- shaven” thing is a recent societal change that forces men to tone down their masculinity so that they can become a cog in the corporate world.
Did whoever wrote that cartoon not speak english?
Küßchen.
but if you enjoy it so much, no biggie, fight societal decline and look like Trotzky, Marx and your favorite ‘hammed. 😉
Isn’t that the truth. That being said wisdom is almost independent of intelligence.
That can be confirmed by simply looking at all those intelligent idiots.
yeah but he does not have that, he’ll be unable to create a functional society with high levels of cooperation.
If herad a story that explains it very well. What do you need to create a pencil?
lead, wood, metal, caoutchouc, varnish. You need people who chop wood and win caoutchouc, you need a factory where it gets produced, you need to organize transport of components to your factory. You need people who organize the supply chains. You need people who service the machines in your fabric and so on.
Khal Drogo could’t not do that. He could only steal and destroy. And go stealing again when he was running out of ressources. That’s why I don’t want to live in an African or middle eastern country.
It should be balanced somehow.
Who are referring to by “he” ?
Yeah being smart and being wise are totally different things. An African for example can be wise but cannot be smart. Men like Caesar were both smart and wise.
Khal Drogo or any man that fits to that kind of male archetype.
long beards are disgusting. I just associate them with homelessness, lack of body care, lices and leftover food that hides in there and don’t want my lips near there, neither the lips in my face nor the ones between my legs because beards are very hurtful there.
Have you ever thought of that women also want to see the face of the man they live with? Men with thick beards are just like wearing a man-burka they never take off, not even at home.
Ancient Romans did not have beards between.
I don’t know this Khal Drogo guy , but judging by his name he must have been no Western man. I brought up Caesar as an example of a high IQ + high T man. A great soldier and a great politician. The kind of man that builds and maintains civilisations.
The modern society is a scam. The Western men , the backbone of the economy and our civilisation , are robbed the government through heavy taxes , which they use to fund artificial work places for women and welfare programs for single mums and low IQ minorities. All of these while denying these very Western men their basics natural needs , like having a woman at home who cooks , cleans and takes care of their children. Also we are denied the possibility to live like free proud masculine men. We must not be proud of our race and culture.
It’s a scam the would collapse if shit hits the fan , like a war or big natural disasters. Than the natural order of things will be restored.
“I don’t know this Khal Drogo guy”
So you lived under a stone for the last couple of years. That’s sad 🙁
Watch Game of Thrones a fantasy series over a fight for the throne which lots of different types of males and females and dynamics, cultures and action. You could also read the books, even better.
“I brought up Caesar as an example of a high IQ + high T man.”
I like him too.
“We must not be proud of our race and culture.”
Why not? At least of culture?
And if you are not “race aware” to a certain degree, your folk will die, it will disappear. If you are from Balkan you’ll probably have a very small folk anyway.
If you want to keep diversity of races and cultures, you should not interbreed too much. Has not necissarily to do with racism.
I for example would never pick a black man, even thoug I find them sometimes attractive from a esthetically point of view and know some quite smart men, so I don’t reject them because I think they are inferior to me or something. But I still think a mixed race child has more risks of having identitdy- or other issues. And I also know tht black men have a higher rate of leaving their child.
Well, I believe in the ability of man to form his life above determinism.
Of course one’s nature is part of the self and as such a certain approach to life can be self-destructive.
However it could hardly be considered self-destructive if an African would be smart and would do the things that come with it.
Unless of course you are saying that there isn’t one African who is smart or could be smart which would be statistically wrong.
This is idealistic admittedly, but I believe in the power of will and this comes with it.
Then why did he end up knifed in the street? I believe a wise man would have set his life in such a way that that was not its outcome.
“I don’t know this khal drogo guy,…”
Good for you. Whatever like this you are doing or not doing keep it up.
“Women are animals, not much more.”
So you like to fuck animals, then? Or are you gay?
Just because you don’t have any good women in your life (your mother, sisters, and every woman you’ve ever dated are probably dirty whores) doesn’t give you the right to call my wife, mother, and female family members “animals.”
“All things which inevitably lead to an abundance of pussy. It is in fact
our insatiable sex drive which fuels so much of our civilization.”
You could also kill other men and steal their daughters. Than you don’t have civilisation but still sex.
Romans did that and they had civilisation. Possibly the greatest civilisation this World has known. Mankind prospers when it follows nature’s rules and crumbles when it goes against them , like today.
Romans had superior warfare and technology compared to the others and they did not necissarily kill other tribes. Many tribes adapted some of the roman ways because they actually saw an advantage in them for themselves. It was just Rome became too big. Arab countries also did some colonising and it did not turned out too well in most cases for the colonized countries.
I am quite familiar with Rome’s ways. After each succesful campaign , the legionaries were given 2-3 days permission by their superiors to rob the locals of everything they could and take as many of them as slaves as possible. If they didn’t do this , the men would have no motivation to show up to fight at all. And this was well after Rome had become civilised. In the beggining of the Republican era , they would just burn the entire city to the ground , kill all the men and take all the women away.
Their superior technology you talk about , came as a result of the Romans’ rational ways of dealing with war and governing.
“If they didn’t do this , the men would have no motivation to show up to fight at all.”
Of course. Soldiers were promised a nice peace of land for their own use when they have done their active duty. That’s also a motivation
Women seek power and control as much as men. That’s a fault with many men to think women are not a part of the competition.
Does anyone know how legit the “plastic water bottles kill testosterone” thing is?
legit enough for the leftards to make a pun out of alex jones and gay frogs.
I don’t know about the chemistry stuff but I’ve heard if like john wayne you stick one up your arse it makes you gay
not only plastic also the pee of women who take the pill. Estrogene can hardly be outfiltered.
Drink that urine raw
legit. the more acidic the liquid(soda, juice even worse) the more it allows the BPA to leech out of the plastic
Gandhi already covered this.
Excellent article.
according to research on the internet modern men can pretty much count their sperm on both hands. At least they typically can after they’ve been doing research on the internet
“Mother Nature”
Nature is masculine – not feminine – masculine. Trees, mountains, streams, are masculine. In the ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean cultures, all vegetation – flowers, grass, wheat, grapes, lettuce – were imagined to be masculine. Each year the sprouted wheat stalk shoves above the earth; it swells and unfurls and hardens and releases its seed – then shrivels to nothing, just like your pee pee.
Nature is masculine.
You sure enjoy writing about ejaculation in a rather poetic manner.
I disagree. Nature is more rather feminine due to her unpredictable, volatile and unforgiving behaviour just like a scorned woman.
Nature is not unpredictable. If it was people and animals would have never been able to adapt to it. Yes, it rages with storms and earthquakes sometimes but most of the time it’s just there and rather generous – that’s a masculine trait.
When a woman is angry and furious she’s manipulative and guileful. If she rages like a man it is because the man in front of her has too much woman in him, so the roles get reversed.
“In my recent book, The Testosterone Hypothesis, I make the case that it is actually the rise of the male hormone testosterone that has led to modern Western civilization in which national and personal independence and liberty are the celebrated values of free men. ”
I’m very interested to see how you reached to that conclusions because recent recent research has indicated that decreased levels of testosterone might have played a major role for humanity’s transition from hunters and gatherers to farmers and eventually civilization.
Modern civilization started as men became more feminine
New research suggests a decrease of testosterone was pivotal for the advance of human civilization. After measuring more than 1,400 human skulls, the changing shape of the male features show a drastic drop of male testosterone levels.
“This masculine culture, in which men feel secure and confident under the rule of law”
And sorry but this does not make sense. Sense of security and law does not promote higher testosterone level, just on the contrary, which is most evident in urban area where people congregate for that sense of security.
You need balance. Hunter-gatherer loses some test , becomes civilised man. Civilised man loses even more test , third world savages come , rape his women and burn his neighborhood.
…dinosaurs eat man, woman inherets the earth.
And then they fight and wimp out like on survivor.
“Everything is sex”
-Robert California (Ghandi)
In Berlin the Senate now criticizes there are no urinals for women. Because it’s unfair. Every public toilet shoud have that they claim. Not a joke.
In Kreuzberg, Berlin, no new street signs may be named after men until such point as there is equality within the street signs. It is preferred by some if streets are names after lesbians.
i don’t want to live on this planet anymore
I have a more liberal approach to healthcare. In the leading medical sciences it’s not right to deny life to those that can’t. Healthy men do have greater virtues and higher testosterone.
If women didn’t gold dig and marriage rape lot of that money could been going into scientific and mechanical development instead to gay fashion designers, Vogue, and other useless vanity things like purse, shoes and make up companies. I just can’t understand how every nation can’t see how much money is funneled to women so they could purchase useless things
Isn’t it amazing? My take on your point is this: for what is worth, we are all going to pay for sex at one point, whether we realize it or not. Now, when I was engaged, whenever I got into a spat with my ex, she would cry, I would go into dopey beta mode, go to the nearest Coach outlet, buy her a discount $150 purse, she would be happy with me again, and I would get laid. And yet she would get deeply offended if I ever called her a slut, which I did a few times out of anger. But see, I realize this. At least a more bona fide slut would take money for sex, which at least she could invest in something useful, like a business or school. But what’s a fucking Coach purse worth? In the long run, nothing. In fact, I got to see these supposedly high quality purses rip all the time, although in all fairness, my ex was too lazy (or just waiting for me to open my wallet) to take them to a seamstress to see if could be stitched back together. And at least with jewelry, if it’s quality jewelry
I actually thought this article would be quite interesting, but you lost me when you characterized Trump vs. Hillary as “the masculine vs. the feminine.”
There is nothing feminine whatsoever about Hillary Clinton and the political positions she advocates.
This is something I have seen all too much of on ROK. “Masculine = good. Feminine = bad.”
That is, you guys take all the traits of modern feminists (slutty, bitchy attitude, no loyalty to her man, etc.) and characterize those traits as “feminine” (when in reality, any one of those traits would have gotten a woman branded as “unmarriageable” 150 years ago).
In reality, the masculine cannot exist without the (true) feminine , and vice-versa. One cannot be better than the other, as they are complementary.
As Davis Aurini likes to say, the men and women of any given community deserve each other. In other words, if the men of a society are weak, the women will become undesirable, and vice-versa (if the women are ugly slutty, the men will become unmotivated and weak). On the other hand, if the men of a society are strong, they will be able to keep their women in line, and make sure they don’t become fat feminist sluts. Conversely, if the women of a society are “strong” (i.e. feminine, chaste, loyal to their men, etc.), they will inspire the men to be strong as well.
So no, Trump vs. Hillary was not “the masculine vs. the feminine.” That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever read on this site.
Maybe you meant to say “masculine vs. FEMINIST.” There is nothing feminine about feminists. In fact, feminists are pretty much the opposite of true femininity.
Agree and well said.
I was going to argue but you are right. It can Never be Masculine “VS” Feminine we as masculine men want feminine and certainly don’t want to oppose it. Feminist is the problem if Hilalry was Feminine she would be following Bill around not trying to subvert him…
As far as ROK and “Feminine = bad” its just a miscommunication and miswording. what you are saying is what is meant, I believe.
I agree with you but I will defend this brief essay.
The writer is using the Trump/Killary comparison as an example to demonstrate his point. M/FM
‘….exemplified how gender manifests in political conflict, from defining their personality types to shaping their entire ideological worldview. And the heated nature of that contest showcased the split across gender lines….’
This is justified by voting patterns.
‘Genders divided in the US – if only men voted, Donald Trump would win by a landslide’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/12/genders-divided-over-trump-in-the-us—if-only-men-voted-donald/
You are making a more sophisticated point that modern idears about ‘succesful women’ are poisonous and actually obliterate real femininity.
Totally agree, nut the writers use of this exemplar (Trump/Killary) is justified, if unsophisticated.
To the author of this article: I agree with your assertion, but perhaps you might try telling us something we don’t already know.
We begin as males
Historically it has been said the man is the original sex, the complete, developed = masculine.
It is feminists who promote things like this to negate reality and science.
e.g. http://www.sciencevsfeminism.com/the-myth-of-equality/female-is-not-the-default-sex/
(ROK Articles with bad research)
Specifically, I hypothesize civilization itself can probably be seen as a branch of sexual selection. Men produce great works of art, industry, and science primarily as a way of attracting females, or at least that’s the biological root of it. It might also be why men occupy both the lower and higher ends of the IQ bell curve.
Make women worthless and the men withdraw. Video games and porn await.
I don’t know, I think this idea of “all energy is sexual” goes back to Freud and that fact alone makes it suspect in my eyes. Certainly we do a lot of stuff in order to gain social status and therefore sex, but even children, devoid of sexual drive, also want to achieve things. At least I did (even more so than now)…
Nice (((piece))) we’ve got there.
Just joking, I haven’t read it, the presentation was enough. #ourgreatestally
‘ Hence, we need to further study and integrate the natural sciences—primarily biology and neuroscience—with the humanities to reach a more comprehensive level of understanding of our mind-body connection and how evolved sexual reproductive strategies drive the organization of our society, culture, and political ideologies accordingly.’
Agreed.
‘We’ do need to do this, however, it will never happen.
This is because the current dispensation is wholly in favour of one party; females.
Thus, any healthy and logical development of sex relations in the West will necessarily reduce the advantages currently enjoyed by females.
This they will never accept regardless of the consequences of not doing so (extinction of western civilisation).
So all I have to do is donate Kratom to my country men and Hallelujah? Pakistan becomes a superpower? Seems a bit too far-fetched and simple in my opinion.