Amorality: Applied Social Darwinism

I'm back from my New Year's vacation and will post something here. I have some new thoughts, although I want other people joining in, so this isn't my monologue.

I have a mental exercise for everyone here. Let's set a goal of passively making 100 a month, every month, guaranteed, and indefinitely. Let's throw ideas around for how that can be achieved, from general ideas to specific plans.

[This was in response to a post given seen on man_woman (Russian).]

Один из вас прокомментировал, что "..Нормальные мужчины себя так не ведут, а институт - это уже не детский сад. Если он симпатичный, то у него должны быть девушки. Если умный, то тоже должны быть. Если симпатичный и умный, а девушек до 5-го курса нет, то тут что-то очень странное..."

Я хочу развить это мысль, тем более, что я недавно беседовал на это тему с приятелем. Эйн Рэнд писала, что противоречий нет - а если кажется, что есть, но надо проверить предпосылки: где-то ошибка.

Итак, мысль, что "симпотный и умный парень без женщин - это странно" суть значит, что эти качества вызывают у женщин половое влечение. Я не согласен. Естественно, оговорка: для каких женщин? Я хочу рассмотреть возраст наибольшей привлекательности, 18-25.

То, что интеллект сам по себе не критерий, думаю, очевидно. Женщины это в массе своей отрицают, но факты от этого не меняются.

Дальше, физически привлекательный. Факты вроде-бы указывают на то, что физическая привлекательность - это веский критерий, хотя я, да и все мы, видели уйму исключений. Но думаю, что люди сильно зацикливаются на "качествах самца" вне контекста и тем самым упускают суть. А часто, если судить по наличию и качеству партнёров для определения уровеня привлекательности, то с одной стороны стоит взглянуть на наличие молодых, красивых женщин (универ, колледж) а с другой, на сам контекст. "Хочу пожить! Хочу переживаний! Хочу боротся за любовь, соперничать с подругами, любить и страдать!" Что если так? Тогда, предпосылки, что ум и красота - это важные критерии, ложны. И, скорее всего, умный и красивый парень просто как-бы вне конкурса - у него пара-тройка не очень весёлых друзей, он не связан с интересной тусовкой, он сам или грузит высокоумными словесами или ему еще чего-то не хватает, но в итоге, он не тот весёлый, озорной парень, который может открыть дверь в чувства и переживания, сплетни, и прочее.

Мысли?

We are free to radically change our lives. It's unreal, how much power most people have - those who lead normal, average lives, which means have enough money to act on a socially acceptable level (fed, bathed, groomed, clothed, shod, with a place to live). This is all you physically need to be ready to go do something. And then comes the mental component.

Of course, the almighty mental. Maybe I right this because I grew up around books, fought fear in myself, been around weapons, around death, seen the world and have graduated from a grad school. Maybe without these experiences, I would look forward to beer and television and porn on my computer.

But I honestly don't know what's the cause and what's the effect. So I read all my childhood, and it now helps (and hurts) me in life, so what? It doesn't take books to stubbornly sneer "fuck it," spit, and move forward. It doesn't take books to keep working out, keep finding sexual partners, keep gaining social status. I think all it takes is a healthy will to live, which in turn means growth, which encourages your mind to find ways to grow, which tells you things like, go work out, go gain status, go eat healthy (eat, period), go do this, go do that.

I left a comment earlier wherein I said we've grown too weak. We have. I read many websites where psychologists and other advisers answer questions. And how stupid, how weak and pathetic are those questions!

- I hate my job, worked for 3 years, should I quit?
- I can't force myself to do what I have to do (everyday tasks)
- I'm a sexually mature man and have been for ten years but I'm scared to talk to women
- I'm a woman, and I feel depressed because of [some trivial reason]

Every one of them benefits from this weakness: it pays to be a victim. There's no reason to discuss how - you can think of ways, or look it up elsewhere. Take my word for it that it does.

So, fine, I understand all of them. But my thesis is that Joe Schmoe, who can't make himself fix X or do Y lives in an average, grey life, still living off of the health and vibrancy of youth, but is quickly approaching 30 of 40 or 45 when youth is well over and either he has it made or he doesn't. And he doesn't. His body is weak and fat, his mind is lazy and dull, his willpower is a joke because it's not enough to do simple tasks.

He's a vegetable.

BUT! All it takes for that pathetic vegetable to become a terrific human being is willpower and a desire to do it. He gets in shape. He starts educating himself. He starts building proper social relationships with useful people - other healthy, ambitious, beautiful, wealthy and so on individuals. He aspires for greater wealth, he changes jobs, he opens a business, he finally fixes X (or sells it for a new model). And viola! That pathetic vegetable is now a Man with a capital M - he inspires emulation.

What did it take? Nothing! Willpower to say fuck it, and feel a zest for live throughout his body.

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I see you, hunters, in just such a way. I want people who want to become lean, quick, smart, rich, well-connected and well-adjusted, healthy and truly alive. I don't want a vegetable rehab but rather people who are on their way - and hopefully a good way along - to hone their skills and become what their predecessors bred them to be over many, many generations of mostly selective breeding.

Maybe off-topic, but useful.

On the subject of justice as viewed by the two sexes, (per an LJ discussion earlier today), it's been said that men see justice in a more global, general, and more rational way, whereas women concern themselves with effect on social relationships. Both can be understandable from a premise that men build societies (cities, what have you) whereas women populate them and work within their framework, and therefore concern themselves with social relationships. Still, it's useful to keep this in mind, because [conclusion:] your appeals to justice directed at men and at women will bring about different results.

Obviously, this is a matter of generalization and probability, but I've seen this in real life time and again. It might be useful to keep this in mind.

Smart people say that a fool and his money are soon parted.

I begin with a premise that intelligence can translate into power (here, by power I mean an ability to project your will, to 'make it so').

Observations: There are a lot of nearsighted, unintelligent people around. Maybe not stupid - they can function, they can do their chosen or assigned jobs proficiently - but they don't think critically, don't reflect, don't analyze deeply, and often think in pre-made templates. I notice this every time I post something unpopular or provocative (to many) on LJ forums.

That's not why I do it; I genuinely want to know what I'm asking or mean what I comment on. But, sure as clockwork, most of these vultures descent on my post and start pecking. My posts seem to draw higher attendance than most others (within a day). Everyone wants to say that I'm any number of evil things.

Conclusion: Which makes me think, if there are so many stupid people around, and intelligence & rationality can be power, isn't it then true that it's easy for smart people to make a buck, so to speak - and quick? Isn't it true that it's easy to appeal to any one of the popular interests and get money (and thus power) on a large scale?

Can I, sitting here by my laptop, reach out to 10,000 people and offer them something worth X dollars apiece? By my reasoning here, it seems to be so. Is that true? Is my reasoning flawed?

I was working out the other day when this thought came to mind. We have a glassed-off aerobics room and they have a faux-kickboxing class (for girls). They jump around doing jab-cross-hook-uppercut and doing various kicks and what not. As far as kickboxing, most of them had very bad form, their punches were weak, crooked and half-hearted, their stance was bad, they kicked poorly, and so on. So, they didn't learn any KB. As far as exercise, it's also pretty crappy. Serious athletes who want muscles lift free weights and those who want endurance swim or run. So, they didn't really do any meaningful exercise, either.

I think most of these girls go for the process, so as to think, "see, I exercised, I worked up a good sweat." They don't go for results: those girls who want results are working out alongside the guys and (often) have the bodies to show for it.

So, bottom line: The KB girls may think and say they want results: to lose fat and get toned. But their "wish" is irrelevant! Because they don't do it! So if I ran the aerobics part of the gym and you ran the free weights part of the gym, I would get all of their business, because I look at what they do, whereas you look at what they want. Are your free weights objectively better to shape up? Of course! But you chased a red herring and I ended up with 30 more customers.

You can apply this to other things, of course, like the infamous nice guy/jerk discussion or any number of other things.

This is why this community is called Amorality.

Our goal is to think through, individually or collectively, efficient methods of achieving some goal. Whatever your individual goals are; doesn't matter. Your analysis must be objective and dispassionate. What does that mean?

It means that you must work only with facts and leave wishing, feeling and moralizing alone. These are not objective and have no place in an objective analysis.

So, e.g., for goal X,

First: solidify, define your goal

Second: analyze it objectively and dispassionately, look for evidence, think about it, try to reach conclusions, and eventually

Third: come up with a method of achieving it that works and (for most goals) is capable of replication (proof it works)

Only then can you decide whether to do it or moralize about it. But the primary goal is to think of a working method, or methods.

At first, I wanted to write about a quick exercise in inspiration. I used to drive around wealthy suburbs, look at people's houses, and then stop by a cafe and just listen to the conversations, listening to the different types of people, thoughts, concerns, issues, and so on. Just to see who lived on the hill or at least who hung out with them. I went to a dealership and test-drove several expensive (for me) cars I liked. I went to other places and tried out other things that I wanted.

But here's the catch for many people: they don't truly want a stellar life. Many people inwardly believe that they're not worth it (whatever the "it" is; in this example it's wealth) or that wealth is somehow pre-determined and pre-allotted and they don't have a realistic chance at it or the like. If this is your actual, core belief, you will sabotage your own progress along the way.

Whatever your goal - and I want this community to discuss any goals, large and small, because our only common goal is learning and honing a methodical and dispassionately analytical approach - I want you to first of all check yourself that you don't believe your goal is unattainable for some reason. If you believe that, you're unlikely to get it.

I wasn't sure how to properly name this community. I'd considered various permutations of relevant terms. In the end, I think you'll agree it doesn't really matter. What matters is the knowledge you and I will gain from this community. Which brings us to..

Amorality (the community, not the concept) is about coolly and efficiently getting results. It's old news (for some) that there are methods, with causes and effects, that are well-suited to achieving any set goal. I believe that people of above average intelligence, ambition and cunning, aided by the vast amounts of knowledge from the entire world at their fingertips (through the internet and books, mostly) can figure out ways to achieve very, very many things if they are willing to set emotion aside and think about it in a rational, objective way.

This group is for people who want to adopt that mindset. It's for people who want results and not the process.

I think it self-evident but I'll state it for the record: the group is not about living an emotionless life. It is about being able to set emotion and ego aside to get something done that you want done.