The Absence of Actionable Knowledge — Part 1

Limited choices, and none are very good.

Readership: All
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill
Length: 1,000 words
Reading Time: 6 minutes

Overview

In the Exposition of this month’s theme, A Failure of Knowledge Transference was identified as one type of problem with The Red Pill.

There are six main areas of knowledge transference that have been ineffective.

1. Models are misappropriated.
2. Models are misinterpreted.
3. Models are misunderstood.
4. Models are misapplied.
5. The Practical Application is Difficult, Elusive, Insurmountable, or Unacceptable
6. The Absence of Actionable Knowledge

The next three essays will cover the sixth.

Connecting the Dots

The Red Pill spells doom for those who wish to save the gynocratic civnattery.

Readership: All
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill / A Failure of Knowledge Transference
Length: 2,200 words
Reading Time: 12 minutes

Intro

The fellows at Scored / Kotaku In Action 2 have been discussing Problems with The Red Pill — Exposition (2024/3/1) under a post entitled, The State of the Manosphere (2024/3/5).  Some of the comments are quite insightful.  I’ve copied a few here and arranged them to form a dialogue.

The contents of this dialogue represent another manifestation of a Failure of Knowledge Transference; only in this case, the knowledge that is lost is NOT Red Pill knowledge; it is…

The Dirty Secret of Maintaining Western ‘Civilization’

Info asks,

“Why has ‘Red Pill’ become a dirty word even for the attachment specialist?”

A Failure of Knowledge Transference in Practical Applications

The fear of suffering is a hindrance to the clarity of purpose.

Readership: All
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill
Length: 1,600 words
Reading Time: 9 minutes

³ …we also celebrate in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; ⁴ and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; ⁵ and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 5:3-5 (NASB)

Overview

In the Exposition of this month’s theme, A Failure of Knowledge Transference was identified as one type of problem with The Red Pill.

There are six main areas of knowledge transference that have been ineffective.

1. Models are misappropriated.
2. Models are misinterpreted.
3. Models are misunderstood.
4. Models are misapplied.
5. The Practical Application is Difficult, Elusive, Insurmountable, or Unacceptable
6. The Absence of Actionable Knowledge

This essay will cover the fifth.

The Ways of Women Around the World

Case studies of implementing Red Pill models.

Readership: All
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill / Misapplied Models
Note: Profiles are based on real people; the data and details are guesstimated.
Length: 800 words
Reading Time: 4 minutes

In this post, I’ll offer 3 case studies to lay out simplified examples of how Red Pill models are regularly used by laymen.  The purpose is for readers to consider how these models might be misapplied.

But I’m not like that!

You can’t argue with an emoticon.

Readership: All
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill / Misunderstood Models / Misapplied Models
Author’s Note: This post expands several comments I’ve made in the past, with some input from Jack.
Length: 800 words
Reading Time: 4 minutes

Why is it that every conversation eventually devolves into a discussion of what women want?

Why is it that men can never talk about what men want and need?

Misapplied Models

Purpose disintegrates in the absence of vision, and vice versa.

Readership: All
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill
Author’s Note: This post has some input from Red Pill Apostle.
Reader’s Note: I keep finding more problems with the Red Pill, so this series will continue for a while longer.
Length: 2,400 words
Reading Time: 13 minutes

Where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.

Proverbs 29:18 (ESV)

Overview

In the Exposition of this month’s theme, A Failure of Knowledge Transference was identified as one type of problem with The Red Pill.

There are six main areas of knowledge transference that have been ineffective.

1. Models are misappropriated.
2. Models are misinterpreted.
3. Models are misunderstood.
4. Models are misapplied.
5. The Practical Application is Difficult, Elusive, Insurmountable, or Unacceptable
6. The Absence of Actionable Knowledge

This essay will cover the fourth.

Rollo Tomassi’s Take on the Meet Cute Phenomenon

A Meet Cute is a great start, but a man must take the initiative to follow through.

Readership: Christian Men
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill / Misunderstood Models
Author’s Note: Soup Sandwich shared Rollo’s video with Jack on 2020/11/30.  This post was written intermittently from 2020/12/12 until the time of posting.
Reader’s Note: There’s a lot to be learned here, so it’s worth the read. You might (correctly) think this is a long post, but earlier drafts exceeded 6,000 words.  I’ve shortened it for the reader’s convenience.
Length: 4,400 words
Reading Time: 24 minutes + ~40 minutes of video (optional)

Intro

Soup Sandwich (SS) made waves with a video he made back in February 2020 about the Meet Cute phenomenon. Σ Frame and Christianity and Masculinity continued to explore and dissect the sociosexual dynamics of what SS described.

Revising Our Concepts of SMV and MMV

SMV depends on the supply.  MMV depends on the relative demand.

Readership: All
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill / Misunderstood Models
Length: 2,600 words
Reading Time: 15 minutes

Economic Theory

Supply

A supply is the amount of a resource that firms, producers, laborers, providers of financial assets, or other economic agents are willing and able to provide to the marketplace or an individual. Supply can be in produced goods, labor time, raw materials, or any other scarce or valuable object.

Drizzle Drizzle

What’s good for the goose is a joke for the gander.

Readership: All
Theme: This topic is not directly related to this month’s theme, but I couldn’t miss writing a summary of this phenomenon.
Length: 2,000 words
Reading Time: 11 minutes

The Soft Guy Era

There’s a remarkable trend recently making the rounds on the social media platform TikTok.  Men have embraced a new trend known as “The Soft Guy Era” where they humorously mimic and mock the unrealistic dating expectations placed on them by women, in videos produced by women and in IRL.

This trend is fast growing into a movement, so here I’ll quote a number of side splitting quips and break it down.

‘Drizzle Drizzle’ and ‘The Soft Guy Era’ is a response to ‘The Soft Girl Era’ of 2023.  The ‘Drizzle Drizzle’ Trend finds its roots in the ‘Sprinkle Sprinkle’ phrase popularized by Leticia Padwell AKA shur7.  Essentially, “Sprinkle Sprinkle” and “Drizzle Drizzle” means ‘support me’ from the female and male perspectives, respectively.

Paradigms of Faith

How much is one man’s view truly applicable to others?

Readership: All
Theme: Problems with The Red Pill / Misunderstood Models
Length: 1,400 words
Reading Time: 7 minutes

Intro

The previous post, How to be Happy, No, Really (2024/4/19), discussed how the secular Red Pill subtly promises men the eternal bliss of sexual humility in the arms of an endless series of paramours.

Here is another problem that is closely related to this.  It concerns the nature of a man’s role of authority over his own life, over women, and the place of humility and love in apprehending masculinity and truth.

This issue recently came to a head in a volley between Giuseppe Filotto and Adam Piggott.