Delusion Damage

Bringing the Manosphere Closer to You

by Delusion Damage 12.06.2011
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What exactly is the “manosphere?” We all know the stock answer: it’s “a loosely connected web of blogs dealing with men’s issues”… but that failed to satisfy me, so in an effort to find a more scientific answer to this question, I just spent something like four hours plowing through some 200 or more blogs [...]

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Criminalizing Maleness is a Bad Idea

by Delusion Damage 05.19.2011

Whenever a news story gets out about some high-profile honcho’s career being destroyed over some shady sex crime accusation with no proof that the media and public nevertheless treat as if the mere fact of being accused proves guilt beyond reasonable doubt, I can’t help but wonder…how many of his friends and colleagues have just [...]

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Four Stories

by Delusion Damage 04.20.2011

The characters and events depicted in this story are all loosely based on people you know and their real lives. Any similarity between such semi-fictitious persons or events and actual persons living or dead or actual events is wholly deliberate. Names, places and other details have been changed to preserve your anonymity, and that of [...]

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The Hardest Thing in the World

by Delusion Damage 04.05.2011

What remains after we rid ourselves of the delusions? What else besides nihilism?  Why not suicide?  Once we’ve come to terms with our mortality and the utter pointlessness of it all–the fact that, in the long run, no one cares and nothing matters–then what? I’ve been in the process of untangling the lies for the [...]

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You Are Now in the Church of Alpha

by Delusion Damage 03.31.2011

“I reject your reality and substitute my own.” – Paul Bradford, The Dungeonmaster (1985); popularized by Adam Savage This article will focus particularly on Game and the beta-to-alpha path since much of the audience is interested in that, but quite a bit of the same thinking applies to any long-term conscious effort to change your [...]

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Why Game?

by Delusion Damage 03.29.2011
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Let’s get something dead straight before we start: I hate wasted effort. I hate it more than you do and I always have. Really, I do. I hunt and destroy outbreaks of it in my life and many if not most of my web articles are dedicated to eliminating it. Why, then, do I choose [...]

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The Things You Own End Up Owning You

by Delusion Damage 03.23.2011
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“The things you own end up owning you.” -  from “Fight Club” (1999) Inseparable from awakening to the truth that you are in control of your life and embarking upon the path of self-improvement, it seems, is awakening to a new perspective on the acquisition of material wealth and creature comforts, or as they’re commonly [...]

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The Herd Giveth and the Herd Taketh Away

by Delusion Damage 03.18.2011
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“…want you to make me feel like I’m the only girl in the world like I’m the only one that you’ll ever love like I’m the only one who knows your heart only girl in the world like I’m the only one that’s in command ’cause I’m the only one who understands how to make [...]

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Men Without Direction

by Delusion Damage 03.10.2011

I look around, I see the smartest generation of men who ever lived pumping gas, waiting tables. This is hardly news to anybody at this point. Men today are heavily lacking something in their lives. Something that used to come to America by the boatload from Europe in the days of Ellis Island and Titanic, [...]

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