We know that leftist rabbits prefer taking down the successful to striving themselves. However nowhere is this trait more striking than within the feminist demands on the gaming industry.
Men want games in which their avatars are optimized to be muscular, good looking, and suave. No guy, no matter how fat or genetically deformed, says, “Why doesn’t this game let me be a fat guy, or a retard with a limp and a speech impediment, or gay guy, or a transvestite?” Even if those characters were available, guys would only choose to play them for the comical novelty of seeing such a character engaging in manly pursuits as if they were normal.
Feminists, by contrast, want fat, ugly, freakish loser characters, which they admit they feel would best represent them. They don’t want to strive for greatness, to the point they don’t even want to pretend to embody it for a moment in a video game. Rather, they simply want to see the landscape around them uglied up, so they can feel prettier and less defective by comparison, without expending any effort.
There is a deeper insight here. Men do not define themselves by their failures, or their shortcomings. A fat man knows, with some dieting and exercise, he can become lean and muscular. He sees himself as a malleable entity, capable of being anything he has the motivation to pursue.
As a result, a businessman knows that losing everything doesn’t define him. Donald Trump once laughed in an interview, at how while walking with Ivana he saw a bum and joked with her that the bum was better off than he was, because the bum had a net worth of zero, while Trump was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. But that setback didn’t begin to define Trump in his mind. He didn’t spend the rest of his life railing at the wealthy or bemoaning how unfair everything was. Rather, Trump focused on his own life, and within a few years of wheeling and dealing Trump overcame the debt and reestablished everything he had before. To a man, the optimized avatar is merely the person the guy would be if he didn’t have work and family, or other responsibilities occupying his time.
To an SJW however, things are different. Their freakishness and loser-dom defines them. It is so integral to their life experience and being, that they can’t even temporarily inhabit a normal person’s body in a videogame without experiencing overwhelming bitterness and envy. It is as if they are having their nose rubbed in a victory that they know nature will always cruelly deny them. The only way they can avoid feeling that anger and envy is if the game is designed in such a way as to glorify their specific state of freakishness and loser-dom, thus allowing them to avoid having to confront their abnormality.
This is the difference in psychologies identified by Carol Dweck in her examinations of children (read the first quote at the link, under the heading “Mindset”). One group of Children saw success as a process they could achieve, and believed failures and defeats were an integral part of the process of succeeding. The other group of children saw defeats as defining their worth, and would work to avoid them at all costs.
Imagine being so thoroughly permeated by such rabid and permanent insecurity and self-contempt. Imagine feeling so born into failure that you don’t even want to imagine your own success – the clash with the reality you feel doomed to would just be too painful. Imagine how much more irking it would be to see the seemingly effortless real-life success of others around you. Imagine all of that, and then you can begin to fathom the plight of the SJW, their bitterness at anything which doesn’t suffer from pathological freakishness, their inability to leave the happy amongst us alone, and their desire to tear down all that is beautiful and good around them, from video games to the technological marvels of modern industry.
To the SJW, they are a mentally retarded and physically deformed Sampson. Condemned to a life of misery, they are striking one last blow for justice by knocking down the entire temple full of beauty and success around them. Put an army of such mental midgets together, let each’s castigation of the greatness in the world resound amongst the others, and you can see how you end up with such a rabidly hateful and psychotically enraged group of monsters.
The irony is, in an r-selected world, where nobody is culled, they suffer no disadvantage. Until resources snap back and groups begin, out of necessity for survival, to self-select for those who want to promote success of the group, the battle against SJWs will rage on.
[…] Rabbits Lack Optimism and Motivation […]
Every leftist I’ve known has been hostile and a hater who blames their problems on others.
My Texas born-and-bred brother, who has lived in the UK for 40 years, says the difference between people here and there is that in the US, someone gets a fancy new car and the neighbors share in the excitement/fun, believing that they, too, could get one. In the UK, the neighbors are resentful and want to put the car owner back “in his place,” down at their level.
Yeah that’s because Europeans are not as materialstic as you Americans, nobody gives a shit here if you get a new car it doesn’t make you more special than others
Interesting. Someone gets a new car, I think, “Boy they are enjoying life!” Others think, “That sumbitch thinks he’s special!” Not far from there to “I’ll show him!”
Is there any demographic breakdown of Dwreck’s work by gender and ethnicity?
Not that I am aware of, but it is an excellent question. My guess is Dweck is smart enough to know that is a third rail of research.
I’d like to see it broken down by resource availability, but we’ll both have to wait.
Really? Donald trump? That is your example of perseverance? My guess is he didn’t exactly pull himself up from his bootstraps.
Trump definitely has skills. Yes he inherited a boatload of money, but he also hung himself out there, got burned, and was crushed economically. He managed to secure enough funding, including even a loan from his brother, leveraged his position with the banks to his best advantage, went back in, and did built it back up. That was never guaranteed, and I will bet was pretty complicated.
One thing I’m learning – we live in a world which plays by different rules. Nothing is about quality or merit. It is about how socially dominant you can become and how well known you can make your name. Personally, I don’t like these rules, but I also recognize that if you want to win, you really have to play by them. I have even learned a grudging respect for the people who have seen the reality, adapted to it, and been able to win at the game as it exists.
Even now as I unravel the mechanism, I find that things I would never have considered before when viewing things emotionally, suddenly become much more palatable when viewed mechanistically.
Plus Trump hates Rosie O’Donnell, so I kind of have to like him.