i love this guy.
i discovered him on rollo’s blog. i don’t know much about him, except that his comments are kinda funny.
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King A
November 26th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Blogging is like jerking off on a web cam. How these guys can mentally masturbate into the ether, consistently, and for years after years … it baffles me. I’m already tired of saying the same stuff over and over. The idea of saving wave after wave of incipient d-bags like Numm (above) from themselves makes me queasy. Get down with your bad self. The fuck do I care? I’m a tough-love kind of dude who believes that gravity is the best teacher. Godspeed, coolguy.
There is a huge difference between a lecturer and a mentor. I had the opportunity to make a living as the former (and rejected it), and only found satisfaction with the latter: one-on-one rather than in front of a hall of freshmen. I am a conversationalist, a rhetorician, a dialectician. There has to be give and take. Visible progress. Socratic thesis and synthesis. I would be part of a gang blog. The monotone of even the best solo blogs tends to grate and bore before long.
I agree that a paradigm shift must be forced, but I’m not sure blogging is the way to precipitate the change. One indication it’s not my medium: hearing the word “manosphere” makes me want to punch a baby in the neck.
http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/kill-the-beta-2/#comment-1515
If blogging is like jerking off on a webcam, then reading and commenting on other people’s blogs must be like watching someone jerk off on webcam and telling them what to do next via instant messenger.
That’s what “King A” is doing.
His ideas are worth thinking over. He is full of himself, but still.
@nummm
insulting people on the internet is kinda funny. what’s the point? i started reading the thread between you and king A, and he did in fact make some good points, but his writing was so dense and pretentious and ANGRY, i almost couldn’t take him seriously.
and that’s the lesson. the true alpha is never angry. or jealous. or bitter.
a real alpha man is loving life, and celebrating life, and enjoying every moment.
and, a REAL real alpha man, well he wants to help others. look at yohami. this dude obviously knows what he is doing, and yet he seeks to understand, and to help.
from rollo’s “kill the beta” thread, it was easy to see that you were a nice guy, a good guy, and you were just sick and tired of being on the short end of the stick, and you wanted to kill off your sensitive side, and just fuck girls, and have fun, and be a stud, and stop caring about girls emotionally.
dude, that is EXACTLY me.
but anyone with any insight knows that that type of guy IS a good guy, a caring guy, a guy with heart.
the REAL assholes, the scary, sociopathic dudes, are the ones that DON’T write about wanting to kill off their sensitive side, CAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ONE. never have and never will.
and yet king A goes off on YOU, telling YOU that you are a jerk — writing REALLY LONG replies — and then finishes off by saying that blogging is for suckers.
johnny said it right. if blogging is for suckers, then wtf are LONG comments replying to email questions for blog readers.
AND YET
and yet, having said all that, he did make some kind of interesting points.
so there you go.
that’s the internet for you.
@johnny
hilarious!
A metaphor works when you limit it to one similarity. Blogging is like jerking off because you are discharging your pent-up brain-wad alone, sending it out there on the web for everyone to see, like on a webcam. Extending the metaphor doesn’t work. “[R]eading and commenting on other people’s blogs” requires the engagement of another human being, which is by definition not onanistic. There is a difference between thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Teaching and learning have been considered a function of eros (longing) since ancient Athens. The pack dynamic (from which you derive the idea of alpha) requires a pack. Y’know? Without others against which we might define our status, all of this behavior mimicry is just posing without purpose.
I have no anger for Numm, only pity. I do have righteous anger for Rollo, who is sloppy and giving game a worse name than it needs to have. I’d admire his attempt to expand game where it needs to go, if only he weren’t so reckless and ignorant about it. In neither case do my incidental emotions control me. You mistake the length of expression which a difficult idea requires for the volume of passion.
“the true alpha is never angry. or jealous. or bitter.”
I don’t hold myself out as an “alpha.” There is something weird and mildly queer about announcing how manly one is; it’s the equivalent of giving oneself a nickname and insisting everyone use it. You and Frank TJ Mackey and the rest of those huckster-PUA.com-seminar-poseurs can back-slap yourselves all day, congratulating each other how Alphantastic you all are in the virtual showers at the AMOG Bathhouse. Not my scene.
Jealousy? Bitterness? Pure reader projection. How do you get envy out of my contempt for Numm’s sophomoric narcissism posing as manliness? It’s sad and unnecessary and transparent and pathetic.
My interest in this sector of the internet is all about sounding out the depth of the challenge ahead of me. I am entering the age of political maturity, i.e., the youngest effective age of being a full citizen. I was heartened at first to find men with the courage to speak the forbidden, dark truths because a familiarity with such things will be required. I am further encouraged by the possibility of brotherhood for the challenges ahead.
Yet I am disappointed to find so few men with the intellectual chops to ground their accidentally righteous behavior into a lasting program (cf. David D’Angelo’s spectacular circus sell-out of a wedding). A couple commenters and rogue bloggers seem to get it, even as the major voices like Roosh and Roissy and MRA fruitcakes and public conservatives are all poised to implode on their various, peculiar, hubristic flaws. This is the world I’m going to have to live in. I am not docile when it comes to idiot saboteurs and vandals squatting on my birthright like OWS brats. Yes, wrath can be holy.
These posts are practice. An amateur hones his technique in grimy backstreet boxing rings and black-top basketball halfcourts before he begins the journey to pro. Here you find out what the quality of competition is face-to-face. And then you blow up. Color me unimpressed with the man-children of my generation. I’d be happier if someone else stepped into the role the era demands, but in my couple months’ survey, I’m not seeing it. Every man in this sector is navel-gazing and libertine and solipsistic. You’re all masturbating into the ether, to coin a phrase.
Unfortunately, seeing the desperate need and being able (much less desiring) to fill that need are all different prospects.