What is everyone's opinion on those far from weak, artistic motivation, you too can become an alpha male, man's life starts at 30 videos that have propagated all over the place on YouTube? Although some of the advice is all right, and men certainly can improve themselves, they seem to just be more of the old tradcon "man up and do your part" crap that the blue pill normies push, as well as the old "you too can become an alpha male if you buy my 6 dvd set" grift. They also seem to be a subtle way to try and push men back into the dating and work market place despite them being such shit holes.
Problem is, why would any man take any risk in such a society or try and protect it? And why not become a criminal if a man "lives in the dark" and his only role is to grind? These arguments don't make sense based on past healthy societies, as healthy societies always tried to marry men off at a young age to keep them invested in society.
What say everyone? Is this some sort of grift, or coordinated attempt to push men back into society?
The problem with what the red pill commentators are selling is that they forget on crucial aspect of the equation - an individuals social circle. In your teens and twenties, you are socialising with your fellow peers. And people tend to meet their friends and partners in closed social groups offline and increasingly online. And the uncomfortable truth for those commentators, women have an easier time than men in relation to being in social groups which is why when we talk of a loneliness epidemic, it's primarily men and not women.
So what happens if you focus on education and career in your twenties? You don't form those friendships and closed social groups. If you do have any friends, they will form relationships and become more distant or even cut themselves off. Now you find yourself lonely in your thirties cut off from every other closed social group and unable to form new friends or find a partner, particularly with the absolute train wreck that is online dating today. Ironically, only a small minority use online dating (9% in the last year, 30% at any time in their life), most people who meet online meet via closed social groups (such as online gaming or chat groups) or social media. Surprised me because you'd think that online dating use would explode after "the event". But no, recent data shows the opposite.
I've seen many a millionaire, people who would be seen as peak-SMV in their thirties by commentators, appearing on dating shows back in the 90s and 00s. What they claim does not match reality.
The other thing they do is promote fitness as if it is the cure for all ills. While going to the gym is a good thing, it isn't the miracle that it is being sold as.
You also see the problem of extended adolescence, where people still live with their parents (because they can't afford to get on to the housing ladder) or rent, are not learning to drive, are not moving forward with education and career while failing to do things that would be seen as basics by potential partners in their twenties. The concept is known as "failing to launch".
So you have a low paid job, no home or at best rent, declining number of friends and little to show for it. Maybe a small apartment in a city with a decent gym body. It's no surprise we're seeing men in their forties warning younger men to not follow this path lest they want to be involuntary monks.