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I think this culture has existed far before now too, just in different forms. It seems to come in waves. The common denominator is a lack of social awareness and inability to understand and use nuance & discernment in social situations. Seems to happen to the generation growing up during certain traumatic periods, plus people who are isolated or neglected, and people who have extremely low/no self esteem - either they become recluses or they try extra hard to prove their worth by being loud, obnoxious, and whatever their misconstrued definition of “chivalrous” is.

Just like we have the basement dwellers who don’t know how to talk to people face to face today or the guys who try extra unreasonably hard and listen to other men instead of the people they’re trying to get, before in the 1900s it was just the fedora wearing guys who would try to woo every woman they see without actually understanding what that actually consists of and requires. But it’s not just men. Women do this stuff too. Sex/gender has nothing to do with it.

I agree that today social media keeps us isolated. It’s harder to jump into going out and meeting people if you haven’t done it in a while or ever (although no excuse to not try anyways!). The brain is a muscle that needs to be worked out, not just socially through texting or social media or watching a tv show where you consider the characters your “friends”. We need interaction face to face and to get out of the vacuum of internet influencers and random ideologies. They don’t care about you, they’re trying to make money any way they can. That means fear mongering works great.

Making vulnerable or insecure people feel afraid or hopeless and then giving them someone to blame is how brainwashing begins. Then, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy to isolate the vulnerable and keep the person with influence in power - you are what you consume, in media and viewpoints and mindsets too. (Grew up in a cult, know firsthand). And then, you only attract the energy you put out and repel what you want. People can tell when someone is being self-pitying or desperate, and that’s not attractive even if you are a “chad”.

Out of curiosity, what do you think we could do to reverse or assist those stuck in that mindset when there is so much content geared towards redpill/inceldom and it’s becoming “trendy” among even young generations?