u/Baboony_bee

statistically girls are more affected by comparing themselves to others. Perfectionism and beauty tied to social media. For decades this hasn’t been the case for boys but suddenly because of figuers like clavicylar we now have looksmaxxing(though the culture has existed in fringe incel forms before). However the diffference is girls are more focused on fitting in(communion) while looksmaxxing is ultimately hyper individualist and focused on agency. Thoigh initially beauty perfection for girls and looksmaxxing seem similar they are very different. this really highlights phycological difference between boys and girls, while the origin is debatable between essentialists and more modern progressive takes, corporations don’t really care. which brings me to my next point, who benefits? The reason why female perfectionist “glow ups” exists is ultimately due to image based platforms forms optimizing for this exact purpose. Even though one could argue that the trend was started by mass
sociological causes, the actual tools that amplified the culture is on the social media companies. But who benefits from looksmaxxing? Figures like Clavicular are actively censored, highlighted by his ban from Youtube. Initially. The incel(though the term “incel” self denied by many proponents of looksmaxxing) looksmaxxing culture was associated with the manosphere. In a way, the culture is very similar to the manosphere, both exploiting the fears of young men and focusing on vigorous self improvement. However the difference is instead on focusing on hating women, the focus is now on pseudo scientific claims. The culture comes from instead of the social media companies, the collective toxic ideology created by insecure men. If you watch the Michael Knowles Clavicular interview you can tell he truly believes you have to smash your jaw with a hammer just to date. But obviously this isn’t the case! This is a case of Bourdie’s(I probably butchered the name)Habitus. As these young men project their social surroundings as the absolute of everyone’s experience and create a toxic ideology. However now these corporations are changing their tactic, they now accept this culture of men. For example youtube unbanned popular manosphere youtuber SNAEKO(however, his status as a red pilled manosphere figure is a little more shaky as he’s recently denounced Andre Tate, I would niw personally call him a theocratic conservative figure). So these cultures are again, are revealed to be very different, not inly phycologically but in origin.

Current american politics is a elitist struggle between the liberal elites and Republican elites. The difference is Republicans prop up a mask of America first while only serving their interests, co-opting actual populist movements like Trumpism to serve pedophille elites. While Liberals are anti populist and ironically more conservative to their approach as they resit massive change to keep power, being less pragmatic which is why in recent years Republicanism is winning. An advantage Liberal democrats have is their utter control of the Cathedral, which basically prevents people from being individuals. But even though I use dark enlightenment terminology, I think Neo-Reactionaries are also dumb because they just want endless bureaucracy which is stagnant, instead of reducing bureaucracy like what Max Weber said.