{"id":56320,"date":"2020-07-10T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=56320"},"modified":"2024-05-23T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:52:24","slug":"qotd-marcus-aurelius-for-the-incel-demographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/07\/10\/qotd-marcus-aurelius-for-the-incel-demographic\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Marcus Aurelius for the incel demographic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We all know that barren cat ladies of both sexes and all 57+ genders are the poz’s storm troopers. As I’ve written here probably ad nauseam<\/em>, you can’t beat Trigglypuff, because \u2014 and only<\/em> because \u2014 she has more free time than you do. You have a life, a job, a family, hobbies, interests. She doesn’t. Hell, you have to sleep<\/em> sometime. She doesn’t, because the Trigglypuffs of the world are by definition jacked up on powerful prescription psychotropics. You just can’t beat that.<\/p>\n

You just can’t beat it. But […] Our Thing has lots of potential Trigglypuffs. They’re called “incels,” I’m informed, but whatever the nomenclature, there are a lot<\/em> of young single dudes out there who while away their pointless hours with video games and porn. Those are our<\/em> potential storm troopers (it’s a metaphor, FBI goons). Why haven’t we weaponized them? (again: metaphor).<\/p>\n

It’s probably as simple as giving them a role model. It goes without saying that your “incel” (or whatever) was raised by women. Even if there was a biological male living in the house during his childhood, it’s a thousand to one he was just that: a cohabiting male. Certainly not a father<\/em>. And even if by some miracle he was, the poor guy can only do so much. You’ve got to let your sons out of the house sometime … where they’ll immediately be snapped up by the sour, shrieking cat ladies that control our educational system, our media, our professions, our culture. Both the son and his father have to be very, very hard-headed, and not a little lucky, to escape a poz infection …<\/p>\n

… and that’s the best-case scenario. For the worst, look around \u2014 you’ll find incel and his soy-enfeebled twerp of a “male” parent cowering under the bed, scrubbing their hands and faces with Lysol, while Mommy scolds and caterwauls on Facebook.<\/p>\n

There are role models out there, y’all. Stoicism in general, and Marcus Aurelius in particular, have seen a real upswing in popularity, especially on “Game” sites. This doesn’t represent a return to a Classical education; it’s that Marcus seems to be \u2014 Marcus is<\/em> \u2014 a worthwhile role model for a fatherless boy. Strip out the “credits” at the start of book one and a few of the denser, more philosophical passages, and you could subtitle Meditations<\/em> “how to drop your nuts on the carpet and act like a fucking man<\/em> for once.” Loosely translated, of course.<\/p>\n

Severian, “Be a Centurion!”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2020-04-07.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all know that barren cat ladies of both sexes and all 57+ genders are the poz’s storm troopers. As I’ve written here probably ad nauseam, you can’t beat Trigglypuff, because \u2014 and only because \u2014 she has more free time than you do. You have a life, a job, a family, hobbies, interests. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,79,7,57,53,41],"tags":[1548,375,576,139,1343,1462],"class_list":["post-56320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-education","category-history","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-marcusaurelius","tag-parents","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology","tag-romanempire","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eEo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58574,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56320\/revisions\/58574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}