The first rule of the status game, according to Pinsof, is to pretend that one is not playing for status. For example if Chris Hansen had overtly indicated he was seeking status by putting all those other people down, he would just be gross and no hero to the normies despite upholding their ostensible “morality.”
Another key insight is that much of the time status games are played in a negative sense, to avoid losing status. The people who cancelled me from career prospects in software development were not doing it to gain status. They were very much playing the status game, but their actions were all about fear of taking a hit to their present status (which is also why it did not go beyond that into a human sacrifice ritual such as the “predator hunters” are conducting). Negative emotions are more powerful than positive ones and so it gets all that more frenetic when there is a perceived danger that one may get cancelled oneself, for example because of association with a known witch or “predator” or “pedo” as they are called now.
Another key insight is that much of the time when playing status games, people believe their own lies and there is even a selection effect bringing the best self-deceivers to the top because they are thereby better at deceiving others too. Witchcraft and predatorhood and pedophilia are prime candidates for believing your own lies because there is no immediate feedback from reality as long as you go on playing as a good normie. Why should you care that there is no validity to these concepts as long as you are not accused yourself? You fit better in by believing the lie, and even when accused yourself the best (or at least most common) strategy is typically to affirm the hysteria and double down on it. We see this constantly now in the Epstein panic where the current targets of the witch-hunt, such as Mette-Marit, squirm and scream to the effect that “Epstein was such a horrible witch that he out-witched me and made me a victim too even though I appeared to associate, so can you all please stop this witch-hunt against me and target the next best witch!”
Another insight I have reached on my own is that the so-called “female sexual trade union” (STU) which is such a popular villain in the other faction of the MRA movement led by the Antifeminist becomes an even more tenuous concept in light of status games. I used to call myself an antifeminist too but it made increasingly less sense as feminism just became synonymous with the Zeitgeist and at this point I do not care that feminism delivered the premises of the so-called “sexual abuse”-contrivance that society is currently witch-hunting because it is not about that anymore in any real sense, which is all status games. Status games are in fact most forcefully played by men and I can feel this fully myself as a public target where most of the hate (or just refusal to associate) I get is from men. This is a much darker reality than merely being up against feminism rather than all of society as is the case, but also a cause for optimism because another key insight is how unstable the status game is. The actual content of the status game is supplied by something I have no better word for than cultural drift since it varies so wildly between cultures and times. There is no external referee standing outside the game getting to decide what we are fighting for and against, such as the mythical “STU” would have to be if the Antifeminist’s rhetorics matched reality. And when men are told there is a STU behind the persecution of our sexuality, their honest response would anyway be “I don’t care about the STU, I care about status, and right now nothing could be more detrimental to my status than rising up against the STU.”
In light of everything this professional evolutionary biologist is saying about the status game, I can easily envision the next kind of witch being a sort of feminist old hag who believes in sexual abuse rather than the current practice of taking her at her word and hunting the “sexual abusers.” Because the overarching insight is that words can be arbitrary vehicles for the status game, especially when they denote a supposed extreme villain or hero. We do not need to take anybody at their word because everyone will always be claiming they are doing the “right thing” anyway and no matter how currently righteous and virtuous in the current configuration you can be the next target.
Of course, I myself am not exempt from playing the status game either. I would love to get status as a MAP activist. But with that so unlikely to happen in my lifetime I can with some credibility claim I am mostly playing the long game of getting at what is morally right regardless of how it is perceived in the moment.
Another key insight is that much of the time status games are played in a negative sense, to avoid losing status. The people who cancelled me from career prospects in software development were not doing it to gain status. They were very much playing the status game, but their actions were all about fear of taking a hit to their present status (which is also why it did not go beyond that into a human sacrifice ritual such as the “predator hunters” are conducting). Negative emotions are more powerful than positive ones and so it gets all that more frenetic when there is a perceived danger that one may get cancelled oneself, for example because of association with a known witch or “predator” or “pedo” as they are called now.
Another key insight is that much of the time when playing status games, people believe their own lies and there is even a selection effect bringing the best self-deceivers to the top because they are thereby better at deceiving others too. Witchcraft and predatorhood and pedophilia are prime candidates for believing your own lies because there is no immediate feedback from reality as long as you go on playing as a good normie. Why should you care that there is no validity to these concepts as long as you are not accused yourself? You fit better in by believing the lie, and even when accused yourself the best (or at least most common) strategy is typically to affirm the hysteria and double down on it. We see this constantly now in the Epstein panic where the current targets of the witch-hunt, such as Mette-Marit, squirm and scream to the effect that “Epstein was such a horrible witch that he out-witched me and made me a victim too even though I appeared to associate, so can you all please stop this witch-hunt against me and target the next best witch!”
Another insight I have reached on my own is that the so-called “female sexual trade union” (STU) which is such a popular villain in the other faction of the MRA movement led by the Antifeminist becomes an even more tenuous concept in light of status games. I used to call myself an antifeminist too but it made increasingly less sense as feminism just became synonymous with the Zeitgeist and at this point I do not care that feminism delivered the premises of the so-called “sexual abuse”-contrivance that society is currently witch-hunting because it is not about that anymore in any real sense, which is all status games. Status games are in fact most forcefully played by men and I can feel this fully myself as a public target where most of the hate (or just refusal to associate) I get is from men. This is a much darker reality than merely being up against feminism rather than all of society as is the case, but also a cause for optimism because another key insight is how unstable the status game is. The actual content of the status game is supplied by something I have no better word for than cultural drift since it varies so wildly between cultures and times. There is no external referee standing outside the game getting to decide what we are fighting for and against, such as the mythical “STU” would have to be if the Antifeminist’s rhetorics matched reality. And when men are told there is a STU behind the persecution of our sexuality, their honest response would anyway be “I don’t care about the STU, I care about status, and right now nothing could be more detrimental to my status than rising up against the STU.”
In light of everything this professional evolutionary biologist is saying about the status game, I can easily envision the next kind of witch being a sort of feminist old hag who believes in sexual abuse rather than the current practice of taking her at her word and hunting the “sexual abusers.” Because the overarching insight is that words can be arbitrary vehicles for the status game, especially when they denote a supposed extreme villain or hero. We do not need to take anybody at their word because everyone will always be claiming they are doing the “right thing” anyway and no matter how currently righteous and virtuous in the current configuration you can be the next target.
Of course, I myself am not exempt from playing the status game either. I would love to get status as a MAP activist. But with that so unlikely to happen in my lifetime I can with some credibility claim I am mostly playing the long game of getting at what is morally right regardless of how it is perceived in the moment.
