To become men, young boys must develop and mature through experience. They must learn skills and develop talents to reach their full potential for having a productive life. They must become something.
Men are made like steel. We must experience the fire of the forge, take a beating, and emerge stronger, harder and sharper.
“No pain, no gain” may sound like nothing more than a trite old maxim used to get people to do something they really don’t want to…but it’s especially true for boys attempting to become men.
You can only know your true self worth, if you find out what your limitations are, reach that limit and than keep striving to exceed them.
You can only become tough by getting the hell beat out of you.
Fortitude, endurance and stamina are developed by continually pushing your boundaries to see how far you can actually push yourself to achieve something.
This is where self-esteem (the real kind) and confidence come from. You’ve done it before, you can certainly do it again if you had to.
This is why most cultures around the world had some sort of test, challenge or some kind of painful endurance ceremony or test of physical and mental strength for young men.
Things have changed…and for most, not for the better.
Young men used to feel inspired by a song heard on the radio, to go and buy a guitar and attempt to learn how to play it. They wanted to be that guy up on stage, playing to an adoring crowd, and all the female attentions that come with being a famous musician.
To anyone who’s ever begun attempting to play the guitar, you know all about burning finger tips and cramping hands from fretting chords repeatedly for hours on end to master the multitude of techniques to play music.
Who needs all that practice now?
Now, you can now just turn on the liquid crystal flat screen, fire up the gaming console, sling the plastic guitar and furiously hit the five colored buttons in patterns timed to the latest pop rock music, and you too could be virtually headlining Madison Square Garden with your virtual Rock band!
Then, when the show is over, Internet porn and some lube will give you all the virtual groupie action you can handle! ROCK ON DUDE!
Who needs high school football practice in the heat, risking injury, exhaustion and pain…when you can be indoors, sitting, on the couch, gorging on snack feed and gulping carbonated corn syrup, while playing in the Superbowl in your 5th season with your favorite team in Franchise mode?
Isn’t skateboarding cool? Why bother with scabbed knees, busted shins and broken arms that comes from practicing at the neighborhood skate park, when I can rip off 720′s on a half-pipe and do hand-plants and rail slides…risk free and all without leaving the comfort of the living room!
Who needs messy, and painful experiences of life, when the virtual life is so much easier to attain success in with only a minimal amount of pain-free, comfortable effort?
Remember the old Timothy Leary quote, which became the catch phrase of the LSD sub-culture: “Turn on, tune in, drop out?”
In today’s Brave New World Order, it’s morphed into: Turn on the media, tune in to your preferred virtual experience, and drop out of real life.
Sadly, I know a number of young men who most certainly DO need to “man up” and turn off their game consoles and start finding ways to live a real life, not a virtual one.
Many folks in this corner of teh interwebz object to any calls made by anyone to “man up” as using nothing but shaming language to get men to do whatever they want for their own benefit and not for the benefit of the man or men being shamed. Not here.
This is shaming language trying to shame young men into behaving for their own benefit.
If you are a young man reading this, can you look yourself in the mirror and honestly feel good about any real life achievements you’ve obtained by overcoming adversity…or have you wasted too much of your time becoming a virtual success?
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Awesome article!
Best line: Men are made like steel. We must experience the fire of the forge, take a beating, and emerge stronger, harder and sharper.
I read the whole thing, but the underlying question was never answered:
Why?
I’m not a big video game guy, but if someone wants to live a ‘virtual’ life and is well-adjusted and happy, so what. With today’s technology, a teenager can: communicate with individuals all over the world, have many internet buddies that share his interests and further his hobbies, play group video games that involve strategy+teamwork, and educate himself on any subject imaginable far easier and faster than ever in history. Sure beats hanging out behind 7-11 smashing bottles and smoking weed with a couple degenerate IRL friends.
Sorry, all I heard was “It’s wrong when others try to shame you into becoming what they want you to be, it’s right when I try to shame you into becoming what I want you to be”
Besides, jocks are prone to cheating.
http://www.thestar.com/Life/article/188128
Galt’s critics use the supposition of free will to build their case, hence
“I choose to plug into the void of virtual reality and become nothing, of my own free will.”
yeah, right.
b-nasty wrote (about virtual life) :
Sure beats hanging out behind 7-11 smashing bottles and smoking weed with a couple degenerate IRL friends.
I tend to agree with that one. My initial response to how “hard” real life is supposed to be is that maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
Sorry, all I heard was “It’s wrong when others try to shame you into becoming what they want you to be, it’s right when I try to shame you into becoming what I want you to be”
Than you have hearing problems. I could give a shit if you want to be anything other than a keyboard/joystick jockey or not. I’m merely issuing a warning to younger men, for their own benefit. Heed the warning…or not.
Who has something more likely to be proud of – a kid who spent hours and hours practicing guitar, to the point where he can now play beautiful, soul-inspiring music….or the kid who spent hours playing every song at “expert” level of Guitar Hero?
Look, I enjoy video games and online activities…obviously. But then, I’ve developed some real skills and talents IRL. I’ve done many a thing that has challenged me both mentally and physically. I know my limitations, because I’ve pushed my boundaries. My video gaming (I do love playing Madden) is an occasional entertainment choice for relaxation.
I know too many young men for whom video games and online socializing is just about the only thing they live for.
And these young men who are virtual heroes are spineless, depressed, no confidence-having young boys. I’m not just generalizing. I’m observing family members and friend’s. I have a younger brother, in-laws, nephews, cousins…all young men in their early 20′s, who do nothing but go to their dead-end, service sector jobs, than come home and plug into their online lives and that’s about it. Having a conversation with one of them that doesn’t involve talking about games, movies, TV, and pop culture is literally meaningless because they have nothing else to talk about because they’ve done nothing else with themselves.
There is a lot of righteous condemnation about the so-called self-esteem movement of the past couple of decades.
This is because while the “experts” say self-esteem is very important for people to have, the remedies they proscribe are built on building up false self esteem and entitlement mentalities.
They equate avoid making kids feel bad, and excessively praising their minor achievements to “build up their self-esteem.” This creates deluded fools who have false self-esteem and they think they are much better than they really are.
Self-esteem comes from struggle. It comes from not giving up in the face of failure, but picking yourself back up and striving harder to overcome it.
But it requires going out and engaging in an activity that is challenging and difficult to succeed in, not spending the majority of your time locked up in a virtual world of cyber-achievement.
Excellent post.
I have 2 sons, the eldest is 14 – and I was telling him this the other day.
Keep up the good work, keep telling it like it is, ignore the excuse generators and cowards, you’re making a difference and being listened to.
virtual success like being a semi-popular blogger! dynamite stuff here bro!
There’s 24 hours in a day. You can play video games and watch movies and still have time to go to work and learn how to shred on the guitar. (assuming you’re single)
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Self-esteem comes from struggle.
This. If someone doesn’t care to struggle, and can manage to get by not doing so, that’s his own business – insofar as I’m not required to pay for it or to mitigate his misfortune should his choices betray him. That’s rarely the case anymore.
Of course I love this, KG, well done.
@ Savrola
I’d rather be my own nothing instead of shamed into any role someone else has decided is better, doesn’t matter if it’s Kay Hymowitz screaming “Man up and do this” or Galt screaming “Man up and do that.”
I’d rather build my own empire of dirt then build one of gold by someone else’s orders. One I actually did, the other I just followed, to bastardize Galt’s own logic.
virtual success like being a semi-popular blogger! dynamite stuff here bro!
LOL
I don’t blog for popularity, so achieving “semi-popularity” doesn’t define my virtual success as a blogger.
There’s 24 hours in a day. You can play video games and watch movies and still have time to go to work and learn how to shred on the guitar. (assuming you’re single)
Absolutely. I enjoy video games myself.
My point is that I observe an increasing number of young men who have logged on and dropped out of doing anything else in their lives. It troubles me.
Chicks dig scars, not thumb calluses.
I’d rather be my own nothing instead of shamed into any role someone else has decided is better, doesn’t matter if it’s Kay Hymowitz screaming “Man up and do this” or Galt screaming “Man up and do that.”
Screaming?
I’m giving advice to young boys…do something productive with yourself, challenge yourself, for YOUR OWN SAKE.
Start taking a martial arts class, or pick a challenging hobby or sport that requires a lot of dedication and effort to develop a real skill. Fishing. Diving. Running. Find something difficult to do, that yields real results and personal growth in the struggle to improve and develop mastery of some skill or talent.
Real confidence can’t be faked, because it’s built on the real experiences of overcoming failure through persistence.
Keep video games and online time as a downtime, relaxation pursuit…not your sole source of entertainment and achievement. As I commented earlier, I know of many young men for whom this is sad but true.
If you follow Hymowitz’s call to “man up” you will find yourself being the beta provider for an aging spinster with baby rabies and deciding you’re the last stop on her alpha cock ride carousel before she cuckolds you and divorce rapes you. Yeah, her “MAN UP” shaming is empty rhetoric to get men to keep feeding the current gristmill of female entitlement.
My little screed here, will not lead you to anything but your own personal development and benefit…if you heed the call.
But hey, take it or leave it. Let’s just be clear that when I say “man up” here, it is nowhere near the same sort of “man up” being made by feminist media whores, so-con white knights and femi-nazi manginas.
Chicks dig scars, not thumb calluses.
While this is undoubtedly true, it’s nowhere near the point I’m attempting to make.
It’s about becoming a Man that YOU dig looking back at you in the mirror every day.
Keoni – I agree that risking real life and obtaining real skills is better for young men but there is the question … why? Right now if you do this the current establishment will happily attach a collar to your neck and you’ll work for them (or else). There has to be a better reason to avoid the virtual world other than you can make the most of yourself so that Goldman Sachs gets rich. I work to succeed and cupcake gets more alimony and lawyer fees. What possible positive incentives is there to do anything else in today’s world when everything you have and could have if you worked very very hard will be stolen from you? Should you really put up all this effort against the 8% – 29% slavery per annum fee against your labor to be paid each year to others who do nothing other than collect and pay police to gas you if you object?
The malaise you see is the natural reaction of humans without hope. No hope in the future where the slave collar will of course be heavier, no hope in a future with a good family as the only women available are bred from birth to be morbidly obese, bitter castrating tarantulas with the full backing of a vicious police state to collect their demands and punish you forever, and no hope in religion that tells you that you are bad for objecting to any of the above. Other than practicing violence against this system (and people are tortured for merely objecting to it these days) what else is there?
Remorhaz, I’m not talking about achieving success in terms of career or making money for the man.
I’m talking about applying your time and energies into a pursuit that results in personal growth and real self confidence.
Smh October 26, 2011 at 6:39 pm
There’s 24 hours in a day.
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24 beer in a case. Coincidence?
24 beer in a case. Coincidence?
One beer an hour? That’s far too slow!
As exactly the kind of young man that Galt is trying to speak to I’ll be happy to point out to the nay-sayers that there is allot of value in being told to “man-up” when it’s appropriate. Before I discovered the alt-right blogosphere/manosphere I was fat, lazy and with no intentions to better myself, not because I had chosen to be that kind of person but I had never been challenged to be more than that. It was the example (or atleast the comments) of men like Keoni Galt that convinced me I actually wanted to be more than I was being, I started leaving my room, turning off the media and began doing things with myself. I’ve lost 50 lbs in the handful of months since I began my journey and am on the fast track to a healthy body and physique, I have better “real life” friends than I used to because I started paying attention to the kind of company I kept. I go to parties and other social events now where I used to spend my weekends in WoW binges.
There is definitely a time where being told to man up is the best thing a young man can experience, what’s important is where that’s coming from and the intentions of the people telling you. It’s one thing to be an adult and choose how and for what you live, but youth needs direction and instruction, we haven’t been alive long enough to know what we actually want and there’s nothing worse in my mind than if I had lived a life I did not want to live only because I had never really been offered insight on to the kind of life it was I did want to live.
Beautiful Rex. Guys like you are why I keep blogging.
Imua!
Sorry. I should have been more clear. I am a woman and I guess I was trying to motivate some of the naysayers. Why is something like this important to do when technology renders it unimportant? You should simply do it for yourself, but if that is not enough, then let me tell you that women are not going to be too impressed by your Madden Football achievements or WoW stuff (sorry, don’t know anything about these games). However, when you can tell us stories about how something pushed you so far, and how you over came, we have something to admire. More importantly, so do you.
the younger guys in gen-Y know that none of their efforts will amount to shit. they are aware that no matter what they do that society does not want them. and it is true. these kids got it rough. and if ever they try to achieve anything, there are just too many girls getting in the way. besides, they feel the collapse coming and so what are they to work hard at something for? it is all coming down.
“Young men used to feel inspired by a song heard on the radio, to go and buy a guitar and attempt to learn how to play it. They wanted to be that guy up on stage, playing to an adoring crowd, and all the female attentions that come with being a famous musician.”
yeah, then they made rock uncool and they couldn’t quite emulate rap as well. what do you want them to do? it is of course easier to blame the victim rather than go after the industry.
Just a thought on why virtual worlds are so appealing: no remaining frontiers in the real world.
@V10
Come on real man, we have all of space and the deep fucking sea. But the barriers to participate in both of these endeavors are high. And well there’s always science, but but the mountains of red tape to get involved in that are also quite encumbering..
@Stingray
So what have you accomplished lately?
@Kaz
Exactly. Fuck NASA and the space program. How can we justify spending a few paltry million when there are strong independent single moms who need welfare?
Shredding on guitar? Badass-nu metal made things shitty where people stopped playing leads. It’s coming back slowly but surely….
Mastodon has some good shit. Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth-they’ve ben going for 30 years now……
Nothing wrong with video games, can be a part of a full life, there are actually some benefits….
http://stonerwithaboner.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/in-defense-of-video-games/
We’re all equal now.
Why bother trying?
I guess that’s what did the Soviets in, too.
Brilliant. You described the blue pill existence perfectly. Perhaps the real meaning of the Matrix movie was the subculture of “gamers.”
These are basically males who have “dropped out” from being men, and being citizens. They are cowards who have fled the battlefield of reality. Which is largely why America is getting race-replaced (for now).
I quit mass media when I was 15, about 25 years ago, because I despised it. I was one of the frogs that “jumped out of the pot,” when mass media became very liberal and anti-white and for that matter misandrist. I despised the sitcoms and the laugh tracks. When I happened to be somewhere where a television was on playing a sitcom, I would hear the similar conversational patterns and the laugh track. It was more like a bad spoken broadway musical with a laugh track as a conductor, than a piece of theater. So when I would happen to hear a sitcom, it would make me think of my classmates at school. They would imitate the same speech patterns and dynamics, the same highs and lows and accents and jokes as sitcoms, and they would even laugh in unison like a laugh track.
I felt like we were all “experiments” we were all Psychological Lab Rats. The TV/video games is this grand experiment on humanity.
People who are socialized into television raise their children to be television socialized.
My kid is one of the few in the area who is not TV socialized. Pop culture only has a passing influence on her, and she is very engaged in the real world. All her teachers noticed that she had a very good attention span, and some would figure out that she didn’t watch TV. Teachers can see the difference in TV socialized kids and those who aren’t. It’s very stark.
The best way to raise your kids without mass media is not to consume it yourself. Sure I watch a movie or two a week with the wife, but that’s the sum of my mass media consumption. But most of the time we are engaged in the real world, and when my daughter was younger, we took her on all sorts of real world activities — hiking, bicycling, to the beach, community activities. She is not shy about talking to adults like so many kids, because from an early age we just assumed she could engage the world, and she went and did it. My mother takes her out to dinner with her friends, and my kid was arguing politics with 60 year old ladies when she was 8. A lady asked her if she like Bush or Kerry and she said “Nader,” and explained why.
So I guess we could call this “reality socializing,” as opposed to TV socializing.
The big problem with our world is that so many are “TV socialized” and thus have dropped out. I bet the ruling elites are psyched to have us in this condition. They are desperate to keep the status quo going, because if they can no longer maintain “the automatic earth” of supermarkets and such, the TV socialized will be forced to engage the world. A whole world of people will be forced to “grow up” all at once. This would probably end the mass media grip on people. They fear this outcome. I believe it’s inevitable. Red pill, or die.
I for one think we’re better off with the proles home. Its not like skateboarding until your 30s is anything but annoying.
We live in a police state dudes, wtf do you expect? Most manly achievements involve fucking someone else. Those ‘passing of age’ rituals that tribes have involve going to the neighbouring village to hunt heads and rape women.
We don’t need more douchebags playing guitar or football. We need to stop girls from digging that prole shit.
I agree with the author. However, guys are not going to ‘man up’ in significant numbers until circumstances require such. No animal species, on a population basis, is ever any better than it needs to be. According to an acquaintance of mine who raises tigers for a living, nine out of ten of them lose the hunting drive in just a generation in captivity. Furthermore, the ‘difficult ones’ who don’t take well to captivity normally don’t breed or aren’t bred.
The fact is that we won’t know what the modern white man is capable of until he is in extremis in large numbers. Many of us think that the genes (blood will tell) will enable large numbers to rise to the challange, but we just can’t know.
Kaz,
Nice neg, man.
I had three kids in three years, birthed them all naturally. I stay home and care for my home and my family. We homeschool so the kids education falls squarely on my shoulders. I know my limits of pain very well and continue to learn the limits of what I can accomplish for my family. I am turning my yard into a garden and am learning to can and freeze what I produce. I have, over the years, learned to protect my family to the best of my strength and ability as well.
Here’s the point. Some of you keep saying “What’s the point. Society doesn’t care, or so and so doesn’t care.” The point is, it is for you and you alone. YOU should care, for yourself. F*%k everybody else. If you don’t care about what you can accomplish. No one else is going to care, either.
Spandrell,
If you think playing football and guitar is “prole shit,” then do something else. there are infinite things that need to be done in the world besides guitar and football, and many of them will impress girls.
The point is to do stuff, rather than not do stuff. Keoni used guitar and football as examples. The stupidest “prole shit” that takes place in 3D reality, like say, Boy Scouts or town league soccer or Pop Warner football or Little League or a community garden or . . . . or . . . or et cetera is infinitely superior to consuming mass media.
By the way, I think writing on the Internet is the one good use of the medium. I have learned so much from people, and have implemented many positive things based on stuff I learned off the Net.
“YOU should care, for yourself. F*%k everybody else”
Yeah! YOU should care! March to -others- orders for -yourself-! YOU should do what Stingray & Galt say YOU should! THEY know better!
@Kievsky
“These are basically males who have “dropped out” from being men, and being citizens. They are cowards who have fled the battlefield of reality. Which is largely why America is getting race-replaced (for now).”
Dead wrong Kievsky. They have been betrayed by previous generations of cowards and now the beast is insurmountable. Those with alleged leadership skills won’t do anything except ‘game’ and yapping aobut how cool they are. What are they to do. What did the previous cowards and the ‘game’ coolboys do to stop race-replacement. perhaps crying about what losers these kids are (while not acknowledging who, what, when, why….ever) and fucking will get us out of this. Just like those previous cowards who said to put your head down and work hard. yeah, that stopped a lot from happening.
I appreciate video games…because they turned me off of the idiot messages on TV. Then when I experienced most of what video games had to offer, I went back to reading. Then when books offered diminishing returns, I went online and kicked around on discussion boards until I became a better writer/poster.
It’s important to realize that those who now obsess over their games, Internet and E-cred were once those stat-nerds who would argue endlessly over the stats of their favorite football players. Or the guys who would argue endlessly over the ‘message’ in a song or moon endlessly over lost loves. The alphas in a particular field would beta-fy their followers as soon as the game reached a certain level where tactics mattered less than genetics.
I don’t hate video games. I hate the fake online social networks that replace real ones (so I guess I do hate World of Warcraft.) I hate the fact that videogames, possibly the greatest tool available for simulating things that would have been expensive to simlulate otherwise, get fagged up in short order by demands for security over freedom. I hate the fact that the educational possibilities of videogames are being almost entirely overlooked, downplayed, underfunded, or crushed by the current credentialed rent-seekers in education. (I hate the fact that the often genuinely educational and efficient games from MECC never really got their due or got developed as meaningful educational tools; Number Munchers is still one of the most startlingly and universally good ways of teaching multiples and factors I’ve ever seen.)
I hate the fact that educators never saw themselves as artists and artists sneered at using their talents for education instead of political and corporate propaganda.
The measure of how far we have fallen is the fact that football and guitar were the videogames of yesteryear. Stuff to do in between fixing cars, doing real physical work, making real art, seeking out the real nature of reality through mysticism or scientific experiment rather than just empty-quoting articles, discussing ideas without being weighed down by the popularly flippant memes of the day, and occasionally sending people into space.
Things will not improve by moving one’s leisure activities up by one level of abstraction. Things will improve when your goals are abstract perfections like Truth, Justice, and The American Way, and the things you do are done in pursuit of that or as ends in themselves.
Anon’s Mouse,
Your reading comprehension is stellar.
As is your own, Singray. You & Galt can’t wrap your heads around how what you are doing makes you into a very familiar beast, armed with different rhetoric.
The technique of the shame-artist: Look at how people are, denounce them as they do not fit your mold of what they should be, and try to shame them into following your marching orders.
Hymowitz: You suck, quit playing Xbox and marry a baby-rabies spinster. My sisterhood demands it.
Galt: You suck, swap some Xbox time for a guitar. My inability to connect with my nephews and cousins demands it.
Stingary: You suck, swap your Xbox for a self-improvement regiment. I demand it. “The point is, it is for you and you alone”, that -I- am handing out marching-orders.
“Should” and “If” are by no means marching order, simply advice. Take it or don’t. I literally couldn’t care less as you are some anonymous dude over the interwebz.
Shaming-language? Bah. If you or anyone else here feels shame reading this it’s not because I am using words that make you feel it. I have no power to do that to you. Something doesn’t sit right with you and all I did was remind you of it.
If attempting to accomplish something extremely difficult doesn’t do it for you, then don’t. If sitting around playing video games brings you all the confidence in the world, good for you. Well done.
Galt: You suck, swap some Xbox time for a guitar. My inability to connect with my nephews and cousins demands it.
LMAO
Don’t let me keep you from your xbox. This piece is not a demand for stubborn dumbshits to do what I want them to do.
It’s advice from a guy who’s been there and done that. I used to be the young kid that only wanted to smoke weed and zone out in my room munching out and listen to music. I had an older friend who basically pushed me to “man up” and influenced me into doing a whole bunch of different activities (hunting, spearfishing, weight lifting and martial arts) and a learned a hell of a lot of skills, developed real strength, stamina, endurance and mental toughness. Along with all that, came real confidence and real self esteem.
Take this advice or leave it, I don’t care. For every obtuse, stubborn dumbshit whining and bitching like you, guys like Rex make changes in their life for the better, which makes it all worth it.
The measure of how far we have fallen is the fact that football and guitar were the videogames of yesteryear. Stuff to do in between fixing cars, doing real physical work, making real art…
Come now….learning to play guitar, or ANY musical instrument IS making real art.
Keoni,
What kind of martial arts do you do? I’m in the boondocks of Southern New England and wish I could study JKD or Wing chun. the closest such schools are an hour away. I bet there are very good martial arts schools in Hawaii.
Have you tried Spanish guitar/classical guitar? You should get classical guitar lessons for your son when he’s a bit older. How’s the Paleo diet going, by the way?
Thank you for your comment Remorhaz.
You are correct.
Kievsky, I train Hawaiian Kempo & Kali Escrima – Filipino stick & knife fighting.
The Paleo lifestyle is going fine. Never been better.
Great post and I agree with most of it even though, as a lanky introvert, I’ve been more inclined to intellectual pursuits (books) and solitary hiking. The downside to that is that I have never held more than one or two ‘real’ friends (transcending mere drinking buddies) at a time during my life . I feel very detached from people when I socialize but grow fond of them when I am not in their company . It’s probably some kind of psychological defect.
We shouldn’t neglect the male-bonding aspect of video gaming– especially old school multiplayer games on n64 and even Xbox. There was a period in the 90s , before the spread of Broadband connections, when multiplayer gaming was central to maintaining my friendships . I missed that connection with others when online gaming became popular. There aren’t too many solid 2-4 player games on the current gen consoles . ( At least, I think this is so ; I haven’t done any gaming in years )
Great piece, and great commentary, it’s stuff like this that keeps me coming back to In Mala Fide.
This is good stuff. I can personally relate: while I’m in my mid-thirties now I lament all the time and energy wasted on the black hole of video games in my teens and twenties. With what little free time I have now and a shoestring budget I work on and ride vintage motorcycles. It’s eminently more rewarding and the fruits of my labor are also much more impressive to the rest of the world than gaming skills. Nobody other than my friends themselves ever cared a rip that I could waste everyone else at Doom (yeah buddy!).
So, go do/learn something.
Just knowing how to play an (any!) instrument proficiently, etc. raises your perceived IQ. I saw a classic example of this watching Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” when he went to Louisiana. Bourdain is an arrogant over-imporTant who can’t help but include a reference to a porn somehow in every single episode and it was hilarious to watch the expression on his face when he learned that not only were these bayou redneck simpletons amazing musicians, but also that the instrument they all happened to be playing at that moment wasn’t the one they were best at.
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