Reticent Man
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Happiness, Passion, and Evolution
Men did not evolve to be happy all the time. When man is mostly happy he does not accomplish new things because he has no motivation. Men who evolved to be unhappy most of the time would inevitably innovate and thus conquer men who evolved to be happy.
Two of the accomplishments that are correlated most with unhappiness, music and political power, are also correlated very highly with attracting women. The other accomplishment that is most correlated with attracting women, sporting, is still correlated somewhat with unhappiness e.g. Michael Jordon, but not as much. The accomplishment correlated least with unhappiness, efficient wealth generation, as also the least attractive to women (though still some). These facts correlate themselves with the evidence that women are attracted as much to passion as to success. I have to think further about why that is.
Of course I was born with as much passion as anyone. Competitive to the bone, and with some (IQ) but not all (discipline, organization) of the tools to succeed. But as I know well, my passion caused much unhappiness, and I consciously purged it to leave a passionless but happy lump. Able to succeed enough just by natural talent, but never to succeed at the highest levels.
I also know that I was civilized outside of my control. Civilized in a feminist way. Is this feminization correlated with my loss of passion? Perpendicular to it? I've thought that the unfeminized me was so raw that he could not survive in this culture. Perhaps the feminization started first, going from age 5 to age 11. And my feminized state clashed with my passion for male success. At 12 I achieved my nadir of happiness and dumped my passion.
So what for the future? I can't just regain the passion without dumping the feminism, that's a recipe for extreme unhappiness. I am slowly but surely ripping away the feminism, and I think the best path is to continue and reinforce that process and let it proceed gradually. Whereby I will then have the tools to achieve whatever level of success I have passion for. And I can let the passion level regulate itself.
Two of the accomplishments that are correlated most with unhappiness, music and political power, are also correlated very highly with attracting women. The other accomplishment that is most correlated with attracting women, sporting, is still correlated somewhat with unhappiness e.g. Michael Jordon, but not as much. The accomplishment correlated least with unhappiness, efficient wealth generation, as also the least attractive to women (though still some). These facts correlate themselves with the evidence that women are attracted as much to passion as to success. I have to think further about why that is.
Of course I was born with as much passion as anyone. Competitive to the bone, and with some (IQ) but not all (discipline, organization) of the tools to succeed. But as I know well, my passion caused much unhappiness, and I consciously purged it to leave a passionless but happy lump. Able to succeed enough just by natural talent, but never to succeed at the highest levels.
I also know that I was civilized outside of my control. Civilized in a feminist way. Is this feminization correlated with my loss of passion? Perpendicular to it? I've thought that the unfeminized me was so raw that he could not survive in this culture. Perhaps the feminization started first, going from age 5 to age 11. And my feminized state clashed with my passion for male success. At 12 I achieved my nadir of happiness and dumped my passion.
So what for the future? I can't just regain the passion without dumping the feminism, that's a recipe for extreme unhappiness. I am slowly but surely ripping away the feminism, and I think the best path is to continue and reinforce that process and let it proceed gradually. Whereby I will then have the tools to achieve whatever level of success I have passion for. And I can let the passion level regulate itself.
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