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  • I agree with you, but I’d call “circumstances” socio-economic status instead. A few remarks for everything else:

    He didn’t “decide” to use drugs. By definition, addiction is the compulsive use of substance a despite knowing they are harming you. As in: You want to stop, but you can’t. You can’t “choose”, your way out addiction.

    Being young and having money make it easier to be happy, but are not requirements beyond your basic needs. I agree with you 100% there. But to me this shows the issues in society go beyond money and basic needs.

    These dudes don’t kill themselves because their circumstances make them miserable, they kill themselves because DESPITE having “everything” they are still miserable.

    Precisely because everyone is sold in the idea that the reason you’re miserable is not the oppressive, violent system you live in and the lack of opportunities for free development and growth, but instead it’s just that you haven’t purchased enough stuff and don’t go to the gym often enough.

    When that doesn’t work, boom: Addiction or death.











  • This is an actualized response…

    I agree with you 100%, but I’d say it’s easier than it seems. It does require practice, for sure, but I’d argue that talking like an incel also requires practice. (Lee’s assume the fictional guy in the Green text got his practice on 4Chan).

    I think the thing is that bro is making a choice; whether that choice is to consciously talk about the things he dislikes in low value females, instead of just himself or what he likes (as you would do in date), or to spend his day on 4Chan, unconsciously practicing and learning how to be more like Andrew Tate.

    Either way, the problem is not lack of skill, it’s the choice to do nothing or even dig in harder into poor communication skills.

    Then comes the lack of appropriate feedback, without judgement, to help them realize that it is them who are turning themselves into “low-value men” if there were to judge themselves by the same measure.