Reclaiming The Red Pill | Renegade Life

I don’t like talking about Twitter / online gossip. I also don’t particularly like talking about ‘the red pill’, since the term has become so tainted by various associations over the past few years. However, it seems to me that recent events indicate the manosphere is experiencing difficulties, and that the choice for men is starker today than it ever has been:

• Are you an adherent of the ‘red pill’ as it was originally prescribed – that is, as a harsh but necessary schooling in the biological realities of male-female relations?
• Or would you prefer to imbibe the version that is increasingly served up these days, watered down with corn-fed, barbecue-dad faux-wisdom, right-wing politics and other ephemera?

The fact is that the ‘red pill’ school of thought originally grew out of the ‘PUA’ movement. So-called ‘pickup artists’ ventured out into the trenches to meet girls, documenting their successes and failures on forums dedicated to helping other men do the same.

The more philosophical findings that came out of this, which reached an apex in the writings of Rollo Tomassi of Rational Male and Pook (of Book of Pook) and others, was characterised by its attempt to fuse basic concepts of evolutionary biology with the real-life data being obtained by players in bars, clubs, streets and coffee shops worldwide.

So far, so good. But difficulties started to arise when others – for reasons known only to themselves, and which remain opaque – decided to bring politics into the equation. Originally, this tended to happen in comments sections, where (predominantly right-wing) anons would argue that ‘now you see the truth about women, consider the truth about immigration / welfare / economics / x-other political issue)’.

And of course, this climaxed in 2016 with throughout Donald Trump’s election campaign, and into his presidency.

While Trump is undoubtedly an interesting man, the unfortunate side-effect of this sustained manosphere interest in him was to encourage all manner of cranks, cucks, freaks and dullards from the sidelines.

Suddenly, the parameters of the red pill were being expanded. No longer – according to the anons and their sycophants –  did it solely concern inter-gender relations. Now, it could equally be about parenting, or finding the right girl to get married with. Or how to raise children. Or Jesus.

The red pill had been successfully co-opted by various splintered but often interrelated groups, creating a confusing mess of often contradictory messaging and advice.

Instead of helping lead men to ‘the right path’ (whatever any given content creator thought that meant), this disordered state of affairs proved a huge disservice to men who, in many cases, were simply interested in finding out how to improve their dating skills, rather than about batshit crazy conspiracy theories regarding the new US president and his detractors.

Of course, this combustible state of affairs could not continue for long without things going wrong. And right now the consequences are being writ large for all to see.

Which is precisely why those of us who have always tended towards rationality must now take it upon ourselves to reclaim the red pill.

The RP is at base a calculus which equips men with a robust understanding of the sexual marketplace and the way that men and women operate within it.

It is a means of removing the scales from the eyes of the naive, allowing them to see life as it is, rather than as they would wish it to be.

From a new summit of understanding, the enlightened red pill convert can now work out how best to operate within the sexual marketplace within the parameters of his new understanding.

A lot of the time (although not all the time) this will mean spinning plates or operating so-called ‘dread game’ within a previously-formed LTR or marriage. It will almost always mean learning the rudiments of game.

Everything else – including lifting, Trump, Hilary, Jesus, Mueller, Brexit, how to be a good dad and so on – is peripheral at best and irrelevant at worst.

If people want to discuss those things then of course they are welcome. But no-one should be under any illusion that they have anything to do with the red pill.

The worst offenders are of course the so-called trad cons, who, with a reframing exercise that Orwell could only marvel at, have managed to convince a great many gullible young men that the ‘red pill’ is some kind of moral crusade in favour of monogamy, marriage, family and Christianity.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The red pill is amoral. And understanding that is the first step towards properly taking the medication.

Which is why it’s time to reclaim the red pill before its message is entirely subsumed by irrelevancies from the mouths of shysters, mediocrities and hypocrites.

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