by PF

For the cogniscenti of Citizen Renegade.

I personally think that Game is beta, here’s why:

1. Loss of life

What behavior is more submissive and slavish than spending a fair portion of your life analyzing women’s behaviors with a view to having sex with them?

One fundamental sociobiological constant is this: the day has 24 hours. I field-tested the bonkers out of that last part so don’t even question it.

People who don’t practice Game might be mislead into not realizing how time-consuming it is. What is time-consuming? Talking to tons of random girls; getting their numbers; phoning them back; arranging stupid dates with them so you can proceed along some imaginary time-line towards sex, which will justify the entire enterprise and turn it into a fount of wisdom to be disclosed to other guys on the internet.

Game is a very imperfect model of social dynamics which might give something like a 20% explanation of the things it purports to explain. This means it will always be extremely hit-and-miss. Where true believers might grow disaffected with this reality model is when you realize that you have success without it, and ruin lots of things with it. But the point is that Game is always/often expounded as a system that reliably produces results, but the guys who test it are testing it against the null hypothesis of either never going out, not being sociable, or not being ‘romantically engaging’ to women at all. Game triumphs because the opposite of it is nothing. It fills the void where before there was no social attempts, only Call of Duty raids and other video-game triumphs. Or Game triumphs because it discloses this profound truth: “You have to risk rejection and ask for a phone number.”

All subsequent elaboration and systemic analysis is piggy-backing off of this fundamental success of Game. It allows people who have determined to make a life-style out of trying to bed women - and as I said above, the amount of time investment required makes Game more of a lifestyle than even a hobby - it turns these people into paragons of wisdom who are leading groups of male followers to the holy grail of ‘abundance with women’. Something our evolved sociobiology really exists to prevent: one man accumulating massive hordes of a precious resource.

So the first realization is that there is a loss of life - you must actually forgo doing stuff. This means if its more than a phase you have to look back on some chunk of your life that was eaten by Game.

“You need to collect a lot of numbers. No-calling one chick means there is a 99% chance you will never bang her. No-calling 100 chicks means the chance you will bang any one individual chick just tripled. There seems to be a mysterious “law of large numbers” that takes effect when you are no-juggling lots of girls — opportunities begin to present themselves with little effort on your part.”

In other words, roll up your sleeves - approaching strange women is your life now.

2. Programmed Inauthenticity

Keeping directions on how to behave in certain situations is inauthentic - you are not doing what you want. I know there are lots of rationalizations for this but I don’t believe them. The training wheels metaphor - really? Does this abstract calculus of how-to-get-into-her-pants ever get streamlined enough to be downloaded to the viscera?

How come this goofy loserish nonsense is still all over all these people’s blogs:

“You need to have ice running through your veins. When that no-called chick runs into you with desire in her eyes she is likely going to shit test the hell out of you for not calling her. Steady on, governor. You’ll need to remain as aloof in her company as when you were not calling her. Hint: act like she is the one with the problem.”

Oh wait, I’ll store that in the empty space I keep available for how to deal with chicks (1) with desire in their eyes (2) whom I haven’t called. I’ll index that next to the other information about how to deal with chicks (1) with curiosity in their eyes (2) whom I haven’t texted recently.

Needless to say it is impossible to act like a man when your mental hardware is full of complex instructions on how to manipulate different classes of people. It’s hard enough remembering how to get dressed in the morning.

What I’m saying here is that in addition to time, a man’s resources are constrained: he has limited mental resources and limited social chances at self-expression. Using one’s brain as a storage space for Game strategies means that your head fills up with this stuff, inevitably to the exclusion of other more interesting things. Your social life also comes to increasingly consist of these attempted manipulations of classes of person. We are losing daylight, brain space, and opportunity to be real with people. What will we not sacrifice to the female sexual organs?

3. Unnatural disposition towards sex

Game capitalizes on a newfound tendency in post-religious man, which is the swing of the pendulum from sex-repression to sex-craziness. There is no way that guys who are into this stuff have a natural disposition towards sex or their own bodies. In place of this there is porn, “I-am-a-machine-programmed-to-get-sex” understandings justified from evopsych, and the constant hunt that is justified by this.

Why do men like sex and for what purposes do they use it? For me its clear, mentation-stuck persons use sex to momentarily inhabit a reality that is larger than the purely mental. This is to have an increased experience of self which other people might get through metaphysical pursuits. In other words, they are meditating. Romance junkies are using bonding hormones to achieve the same thing - a moment where reality feels more real. People do not have many means of escaping from the mental - and usually they achieve this by jacking another system into overdrive so they can experience that system (emotion, viscera, sexual) along with mentation.

What happens when you are bored to death with yourself and your life and use sex as a means of escape? You have to keep running. You need bigger and bigger highs, more and more. Porn is already a treadmill on which guys can run themselves to near-craziness with visual stimulation.

So Game for me is an elaborate form of drug addiction: one is simply addicted to an endogenously-generated set of chemicals that come from the high of pursuit, physical contact and ultimately intercourse. There is actually an in-house coup going on with an older generation of drug addicts who liked to get high off of the bonding chemicals and dopamine that would be released in moments of romantic fantasy. These are the true older Betas who the make-believe Alphas view themselves as replacing.

What is actually a generational conflict between different types of codependent persons - Beta (romance/fantasy addict) and Alpha (pure sex addict) - is construed instead as a fundamental sociobiological dichotomy which takes place across time. All human status struggles throughout history are retroactively fitted to reflect this divide in the newly-unleashed “Alpha’s” analysis. Many “Alphas” who are blogging will have begun as “Betas” or had phases where they were into romantic ideas or where they idealized women. The “Alpha” is a former “Beta” who has stripped away the fantasizing and analyzed out Sex!!!!!!! as the primary Factor which is to extracted from a woman. He thinks this is a heroic leap forward in getting what he wants and a major gain in honesty - and is partially right.

The “Betas” have a genesis which I will explain. They harken back to a period where porn was not so super-abundant and guys could be confused enough to blend society’s remaining idealism with their love of their mothers and spin out a romantic fantasy in their minds based on a beautiful woman they had seen. This is the true romantic - and his behaviors (around the deified woman) would clearly mark him as a “Beta”. These behaviors make forming a relationship with the desired woman near impossible, because they strangle authentic relationship with fantasies, images, and the whole nervousness that attaches to the enterprise of courting someone who has now become a goddess (in one’s mind). At the same time, listen to the popular music of the last 40 years and you will find in something like 50% of songs, an implicit recommendation of some form of co-dependency. This cultural trend is what brought “Betas” to life - post-Christian scientific western society, and the only suggested way to escape your mind was to experience something wonderful with someone of the opposite sex - the deification of love. This is socially-acceptable endogenous drug addiction for well-socialized middle class guys. 

Its this type of person, much more than European feudal serfs or second-tier hunter gatherer tribesman, who form the archetype of the “Beta”. These people are now disillusioned and their frustrations have been vented in the cultural creations of men for the last 20 years or so. The “alpha” is more aggressive and knows what he wants: to reenact what he sees in porno. Game is the only thing that promises to turn your life into a porno movie. Its actually the next natural step in the progression from a childhood that included watching porno movies.

4. Relationships without emotion

Game is marketed to emotionally dead males because only those who are emotionally dead can ever view sexual relationships as being so simple as scoring with a series of random, semi-anonymous chicks who one doesn’t like or respect. Every initiate into Game is invited to accept or reject tentatively this radical hypothesis: that sex can become a meaningless safari of hook-ups whose only residual effect is to raise one’s status within ‘the Game’ and thus credentialize one’s ability to write blog posts. I should also mention that one shores up increasing Alpha-status with each lay and therefore protects against the much feared onset of ‘Beta-ness’.

Its obvious that this emotional problem is what lies between many initiates and having a normal, monogamous relationship with a woman in their age group. It’s a reason that Game appeals to people who are severely self-estranged and guys who are so fucked up that they can’t have relationships with anyone. I’m not obliquely calling out the Roissy readership, since I believe that given the internet, all types of people end up everywhere. I’m making a generalization based on a knowledge of the originators of Project Hollywood and the first people to develop the methods of Game. By dint of a personal investigative interest, I know way more about the originators of this social sport than anyone should know - and the result is that every long-termer was in some way psychically unhealthy or just autistically retarded. You have to investigate this for yourself though because its gossip and thus, boring.

The cold reality with which the happy fantasy of Game must collide head-first is this: female reproductive scarcity. Unfortunately its a reality not amenable to a few cleverly-placed ‘hacks’. Women really have evolved very good pair-bonding mechanisms, and women who do not pair bond are broken. Yet the women that are broken are the ones on heavy rotation - and thus the natural audience of Game consists and always did consist of low quality chicks.

A man sitting by himself with a knowledge of what tricks the Game paradigm suggests, must inevitably reach the conclusion that it is aimed at stupid, shallow people. Some of the techniques might as well be used to screen out intelligent, self-aware women. Those techniques related to emotional manipulation screen very effectively *for* chicks from broken homes and those who have had an abusive family life. What else could be the meaning of being super aloof as a prelude to physical intimacy? Besides the fact that the Gamer is scared to share anything about himself.

5. Unwillingness to screen

The whole Game paradigm means you dedicate a significant portion of your life to pursuing sex-as-a-goal. It follows by definition that you are pretty much up for it when a decent woman is around and wants you. In other words, you don’t really screen the women in your life - except for superficial things like her resemblance to your favorite porn actors. Remember that the whole endeavor has already been so framed - the woman’s place already drawn up in such a way - that there is going to be very little depth and consonance to the relationship. In fact, there is very little that will actually resemble a relationship - it will be more like a hazily described progression of pretend dates leading up to a lay. Game isn’t big on ‘connection’ - but it scores a big win by leaving a space open as if you would implement all its paradigms and still decide to be a sweetheart: so of course you can play the ‘connection’ game, should you be so foolish to still believe in that thing. Again, Game can piggyback off the residual emotional health of its practitioners and score another win in allowing lays to blossom into relationships.

Some schools of Game make a big deal about “qualifying the girl” - which is basically making her jump through verbal hoops while you pretend that you have standards beyond the physical. In reality, Gamers are usually male whores - meaning anything above a certain hotness threshold gets invited into their lives. I don’t say this because the “moral dimension” (don’t believe in it) of guy’s mating behavior is interesting to me - I say it for reasons of strategy and authenticity. Building a relationship requires a pretty cunning screening procedure, the development of a felt touch for what irks or potentially will irk you. Also the ability to read women and understand the differences in their characters and how it relates to your character.

There is no way to develop this touch and instinct while you are whoring it up with a bunch of wierdos. The disconnect is even bigger for guys who allow themselves all sorts of disrespectful thinking about the girls they are chasing. These people use Game as a way to keep relationships in a state similar to musical chairs, where they can never attain the depth or meaning that they would otherwise have.

At the same time many guys who are driven to embrace Game are smart guys, who simply had a few bad turns here and there in life’s rich pageant. Here is a point I wish to underline: Many guys who are into Game are guys who will have to screen, in order to find women of commensurate intelligence with themselves. Crafting clever theories and then implementing them in a dare-devil style social adventure means you are awake to life’s possibilities, whatever damage also comes with this. Not teaching these guys to screen for the 1-5% of women who can match their conversations, is setting them up for a life of disastrous mesalliances. Yet Game not only does not teach them to approach the non-slutty girl in the library, it even creates a paradigm where this treasured creature cannot be hunted because she cannot be seen. The woman of substance is theorized simply not to exist.

This is the only real point of contention I have with Game that would merit a dissection in a blog post: that, instead of setting men up where they are in a place to mature into an understanding of what relationships are - and thus grow out of their porn-sex fantasy coccoon - instead of this, it points them in almost the exact opposite direction. It sets them on a collision course with the most vapid, uninteresting, sexually permissive segment of the female population and then confirms them in this practice. Game urges you to continually rediscover a female demographic which you should categorically shun: the un-pre-screened, provocatively dressed masses.

It also offers you a false freedom from the demands of more respectable women, who have higher standards in relationships. These are precisely the demands that you want to mature into a man who is able to fulfill, though. You do not want to skimp out on them because they are ‘more than women deserve’ or because sluttish women don’t demand so much. It is catastrophically bad relationship training, unless of course the alternative was World of Warcraft.

6. Alpha as Sex-and-Status-Slave

Just listen to what defines Alpha-ness among these cohorts and you will soon enough learn how superficial an understanding of man underpins this sexual safari. Man is defined by how much of a splash he can make in the world of impressions. A lower-IQ demographic might think this means bling, but at the level of white “Gamesmanship” (cringe) we are looking at, it usually means going on adventures. Having a successful career or a nice car. Having traveled the world, swum in the Amazon, defused a ticking Tiger, and learned all sorts of sophisticated dances or having mastered arcane nonsense. Basically anything to grease the wheels of one’s whorish, other-oriented conversations, which are after all just a means to an end.

This Alpha male who grimaces (because he’s tough!), and then smiles (because he’s lovable!), and then jumps down a fire-escape (because he’s not risk-adverse!), before dancing the tango with you - reflects the wildly proliferating imaginational world of men who are sculpting themselves into some kind of amazing Character for the admiration of a future chick. It’s more inauthenticity, in essence it’s wimperingly supplicative behavior in the same way as the classic “Beta” would fawn with his nice-guyism. But it’s forgivable, and to each his own with this type of nonsense.