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Women go further in school in the west because they are better able to keep track of and incorporate the miscellaneous social dogma one must peddle to advance i
by juniperus 2y ago
Women go further in school in the west because they are better able to keep track of and incorporate the miscellaneous social dogma one must peddle to advance in the academic world. Men are more “cocky” perhaps being the appropriate word, and are more repulsed by the idea of having to parrot certain things in order to gain social or academic capital. Hence you have literal geniuses working in blue collar jobs, maintaining farms or whatever. This, while high academia has huge amounts of people worried about something called “imposter syndrome” because they actually are imposters. This is part of the etiology of western decline in technology and innovation going back to the 80s and reaching crisis points now.
The main issue is that schools don’t serve nonconformists well, and many geniuses and high IQ people are nonconformist, or simply don’t feel rewarded to have to lie to please social norms that they disagree with. This is generally what leads to the cyclical revolution. At a certain point, the most productive and innovative members of society are disincentivized thoroughly so that the economy collapses, because this occurs alongside the incentivization of compliance and anti-risk behavior which is stagnation.
Those boys who aren’t geniuses, but just disengage from academia because they feel that there is no place for them in society also fuels this crisis because you are left with generations of young men who have no stake in the establishment. The conspiracy alarm in me suggests that the establishment is pushing this outcome by creating a system thoroughly repulsive that mobilizes the prerequisite sentiments for an anti egalitarian revolution in the future because such a system is very profitable (e.g. you can’t invade the third world and plunder their resources under the current regime, but sure can in a more “fascist” regime, and generally fascism is the penultimate phase of a socialist system that needs to coerce sufficient productivity to keep the system going before final collapse/revolution (this cycle has repeated itself countless times in the last 300 years since socialism became the primary organization of people as nations)).
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoDude, every non-conformist I knew in school was ridiculed, made fun of, and physically bullied by the "cocky" men you refer to.