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Read the entire article @ The Family Alpha: https://thefamilyalpha.com/2016/09/20/break-the-mold/

You can't accept the truth until you accept you've been living a lie.

The majority of men I know (majority as in 95%) are living their lives inside of a mold that was forged for them by white knights, women, and our society as a whole. As much as it sucks to accept - you, my reader, are probably a part of this group as well.

This article is not only a call to action, but also a call to acceptance.

Acceptance

In order to take the actions necessary for improvement & ownership of ‘self’, it is imperative you accept that you need to improve and raise your current standard. You need to accept that you are living your life within the confines of what others have told you is acceptable. Have you ever realized that your actions up to this point can be, with great accuracy, aligned with how others wanted you to perform?

As a young boy you were told fighting was bad, aggression was bad, and winning wasn't everything. You were told you should settle down after high school, maybe find a girl in college and marry her. You were told that after marriage, you should expect a decline in sex and that the mantra of happy wife happy life is your best line of reasoning as a husband.

Sound familiar? It doesn't stop there.

You were told that after marriage it is expected and acceptable that you gain weight and lose muscle mass. You were told that you should have a child, buy a house, and that more is better. Your wife also gained weight and you were told that this is acceptable and that ‘real’ men understand women get a little more plump after children. You were told that your aggression, sex drive, and competitive nature were still negative aspects of being a man and that these traits should be repressed.

You fit the bill? Keep reading...

You were told to sit down, shut up, work a job you probably don’t like, and use the money you made to buy shit you don’t need - or more accurately to buy shit that you were supposed to buy; funny how these items are all designed to keep you numb and weak (Cars, TVs, Video Games, cell phones, cable). You were told that relationships are 50/50. You were told that men and women were equals and anyone who challenged that was a sexist pig. You were told to turn on your brothers who did not conform.

This is where it hits you in the heart.

You were told that anyone who challenged this status quo was to be excommunicated, ostracized, black balled, ignored, and targeted for physical attack in the name of ‘honor’. You were told that it was your job to fall on your sword for women and that it is better for you to sacrifice yourself at her expense than to allow a man living outside the mold to roam free.

You turned on your brothers, the ones who were there to save you.

Look at all that I’ve written, does any of it resonate with your story of how you got to where you are? At any point in my writing did you see the picture of a man who was making his own decision? Did you see a man who created his own role and followed his own path in life? The answer is a universally uncomfortable no.

Brothers, it’s time to stop doing what women, white knights, and main stream media are telling you to do.

It’s time to stop letting everyone but masculine men define what a Man is.

Before you move on, look back over what I’ve written and if you fit the mold - truly accept that. Accept your mediocre performance. Accept your failure to act like a man up to this point. Accept that you were duped by all those you trusted and let the anger, regret, disappointment, sadness, and rage flow through you.

Let your heart pound, let your head hurt, cry, puke, run, lift, whatever... you do what you must to process this – and then man up.

Make your first masculine decision, choose to break the mold.

Action

The minute you accept that you’ve been living inside a mold you’re able to see the boundaries to which you’ve been confined. Those transparent walls show themselves and once you see the walls, you can begin to break them.

Gentlemen, I do mean break them. You aren’t just climbing out of this mold, because that means there would be something for you to fall back into.

You’re going to break those mother fucking walls down and leave nothing but ash & rubble from which you will only use as a reminder of your previous ‘self’.

The beauty of masculinity is that it is completely free; masculine men know no bounds. You will not be climbing out of your ‘bluepill/plugged in’ mold and replacing it with another structure.

You will climb out of this mold and enter a world that is free of walls. You are no longer to be constrained to anything. You choose what you want to be. You create your reality.

This is where you develop your frame.

This is not a frame which holds a picture, your frame is your entire reality. It is the position which all others must exist.

In my frame my wife is fit, my children are fit, sex is crazy & frequent, there is no room for complaints, friends and family must earn my time and attention. I reject anything less, I refuse to reward failure and to be brought into the frame of another.

Your frame is for you to decide.

You need to fully immerse yourself in this aspect of reconstruction. You’ll find that you no longer know who you are, where you want to go in life, and if you’ll ever be able to forgive those who created the mold you suffered in for so many years.

This suffrage can, if allowed, be met by an equally powerful force. The limitless & irrational self confidence that all masculine men display.

Read the rest @ The Family Alpha: https://thefamilyalpha.com/2016/09/20/break-the-mold/


[–]Bread_Pilled 5 points5 points [recovered] | Copy Link

Your frame is for you to decide.

I couldn't agree with this more.

A common issue I have observed on here is that, rather than incorporating the advice on this subreddit into their own frame, many men allow MRP's advised conduct to become the personification of their frame in-of-itself.

These individuals typically quickly digest the reading, and take immediate action rather than going slow and internalizing whether particular conduct is in line with the men they would like to become.

The sudden changes lead to the RedPill Rambo effect. Instead of deciding how to handle an issue based on their own frame, the focus becomes centered on what is the appropriate MRP response to this?

Generally, MRP provides well informed and solid guidance. However, it is not one size fits all. Men should take into consideration whether the advice given in here is appropriate in their own frame (or the frame they are trying to develop to become the men they are aspiring to be) before implementing it.

[–]2ndal0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

This is great advice. The way I've talked about it is: MRP is helpful for turning the armada in open seas, but you've got to rely on your own instincts to navigate the canals of your own life and marriage.

[–]Jeffsmith777774 points5 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

I agree and sorta disagree with some points in this article.

Yes you make money to buy shit you dont need. I know i do it. I love watches and clothes, but why not treat myself. You live once.

What i disagree with is the point of getting married, getting fat , lose muscles have kids.

I am probably in better shape now than before i was married. I don't want kids and neither does the wife.

I want to keep in shape cuz I feel like a fat shit if I dont. Some people lose sight and focus after they marry which i fail to comprehend.

Don't get me wrong, my marriage isn't perfect and neither am I. My parents never taught me that, my mother or father. I was heavy growing up and my mom and dad told me i should lose weight in my teens

I did it for me cuz I felt like a fat shit. Im better now at 36 then I was at 21.

In all honesty i think MRP is great to help yourself. But i sometimes wonder what fat losers come to this thread and where did it all go wrong.

People lose sight and focus on themselves because of family, the wife, work etc. You are your own person, it is you that made you that way. Not society, not women, not your parents. You soley.

It's calles free will

[–]redearththeory1 point2 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

You need to accept that you are living your life within the confines of what others have told you is acceptable. Have you ever realized that your actions up to this point can be, with great accuracy, aligned with how others wanted you to perform?

Its all the same thing: shit tests from a woman, do the right thing, happy wife happy life, morality that was never questioned, be grateful for what your work gives you, consumerism. Its all me letting other people make decisions for me about whether my behavior is acceptable. Its all beta.

Your frame is for you to decide.

Yes, my frame is me deciding and not NGAF what other people think because I categorically reject their right to make any decisions for me.

[–]enfier1 point2 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Mini-FR:

I hung out with my sister for the first time in years. She's coming back from another country and probably divorcing her husband but in the meantime I've changed a lot. It's an interesting opportunity to watch the old, highly BP world come crashing against the rocks of new RP me.

The pressure to fall in line is just intense. She was busy railing against me keeping up with my hobbies after recently having a son which just rubbed me the wrong way. Like I'm supposed to just give up everything I enjoy and stay home once I have a kid - which was the essence of my reply to her. Nevermind that I didn't ask her opinion, or that her own marriage is a failure, but apparently I'm an asshole for taking a week off to do my own thing. Then there's the constant "She let you do that?" questions from society which I still haven't found a good response to. Usually I just say "Well I didn't ask" or avoid the question.

Even outside the box, it's incredible how much people that are in no way affected by your actions want you to follow the script. It's fun to watch them come to a bewildered halt when ask them what will happen if you don't do it or just make it clear that you are going to do it anyways.

I'm still trying to sort it all out mentally. It's amazing how upset she can get when she runs the gamut of emotional manipulation and comes up dry. It's also incredible how she can be so incredibly resistant to other people writing her script and then not see the irony when trying to question my decisions. I also realize that she'd make a horrible FO.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (9 children) | Copy Link

Best example. Buying a house to Commute to work. People are stupid, going with the flow gives guaranteed misery. Had I listened to others, I'd pay an extra grand a month to save five hundred on a mortgage.

Bit tangent, but went to ikea today. Nothing breaks my frame more than being around a zombie mass of soccer mom's and beta dad's...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (8 children) | Copy Link

Oh please, what bullshit. You think we are stupid? Tell us all about your frame sonny boy. Soccer moms? Yeah right. You know as well as we do that you were just sweating about your ability to successfully complete some 72 step assembly instructions with that little allen wrench they give you. lol

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (7 children) | Copy Link

Assembly is nothing, I have better tools at home. Securing them into the sleight too small hatch back with secure bowline and clove hitches is easy too. Not super heavy. Hate traffic, masses of bobble heads. But at ikea, the idea of getting a mass of people behind you, while you drag a screaming child behind you, only to stop at an intersection for no reason...

I was praying for a zombie outbreak. I wouldn't make it out, but it would be worth it.

The men there, they have the thousand yard stare... Guys I know have come back from Afghanistan with more life in their eyes. The dad bods, the success with their turkey arms.

Never have I hated my fellow man, until you put them around cardboard furniture. Broken people, broken lives. That same dgaf appearance.

Yeah, I lose frame. I turn into an angry teenager every time I walk in there.

[–]enfier1 point2 points  (2 children) | Copy Link

Why go? I refuse to step into an IKEA.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

Tired of shoes and clothes on the floor. She failed at organizing, so bought it and she has the week to do it before I throw them out..

Necessary evil

[–]enfier0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

Just make it more work for the shoes to be on the floor than it is to put them away. Go put them in a box on the other side of the house or something.

I think at IKEA if you know what you want already you can skip all the human cattle migration and go straight to the end to pick up your standard issue furniture.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child) | Copy Link

That's funny as shit. Too bad Wes Craven is dead he could have done zombies at Ikea justice. Guess you didn't hang around for some kottbular and lingonberry. Mighta should, it could have taken the edge off. LOL

[–]UEMcGillMarried- MRP MODERATOR1 point2 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

The zombie apocalypse already started. It was caused by Swedish meatballs.

[–]SorcererKingMRP SAGE - MRP MODERATOR0 points1 point  (1 child) | Copy Link

Fuck. Drink a beer. Shake it off.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

One down, one today with the CIO, and will look into the shake

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children) | Copy Link

dunno. I was TOLD that the man should be the head of the family, as Christ heads the Church. Man, there is some serious MAN stuff there in the New Testament, especially the writings of St. Paul.

But I wanted to please my wife, and there was a lot of disney in the culture, and hey, I already "won", right? She's SAID YES. Things will get easy from here on out now that I have my own special snowflake to validate me ...

In other words, I'm a little harder on myself. I had options to become a man. My dad forced me to change the oil on the car with him, to cut wood for the wood stove. He was a MAN who LED his family.

ME? I didn't pay attention. I did the minimums and went back to my video games. I wanted my childhood to extend, and it did ... all the way to my late 30's, when I hit the descent.

Thank God for that. If I had only happened fifteen or twenty years earlier...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child) | Copy Link

The point I'm making is that you were TOLD to do these things, by everyone but masculine men.

Our society has everyone but men, say what a Man should be.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

fair enough. I'm lucky I had a few masculine men in my life.

[–]Griever1140 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

Great article.

[–]Seoul_Brother0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

Holy shit this was good.

[–]begintobeginagain0 points1 point  (3 children) | Copy Link

New to MRP. Thank you for this, I really needed it. Your blog is full of great advice for a father of two boys.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children) | Copy Link

How old?

My boyo is 7 & little lady is 4.

[–]begintobeginagain0 points1 point  (1 child) | Copy Link

First one turns 2 in January and the second is about five months old.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

Awesome man.

It's great that you've discovered the Manosphere early in their life.

If you choose to internalize the message & act accordingly, you'll set these boys up for success and never needing a 'TRP' in their life.

[–]ofthehighdesert0 points1 point  (1 child) | Copy Link

Great post.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

Thank you

[–]rpnow0 points1 point  (1 child) | Copy Link

Great post. Something that really sticks with me is drawing a line that you will NEVER cross again.

I draw a lot of temporary lines, like I'll diet for now and then go to town on some buffet once I am in good shape, or I'll be alpha for a while and then one day people will apologize to me and love me for my beta self.

I needed this as a reminder that I need to have permanent changes that I can start today.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

Keep on keeping on brother.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

Listening to Rollo lately. His post about his friend who basically never lived on his own, jumping from a maternal bond to LTR after LTR. Always living according to how other people told him to.

I think a good mindset to get yourself into when you consider a decision on what to do tonight, whether to flirt with that hot girl, or how your actions will affect the wife is to ask yourself "if I was single, what would I do right now?"

Should I stop off at the running store and delay getting home to check out new running shoes for myself? What would I do if I was single right now? Should I go out with friends tonight? What would I do if I was single right now?Should I head to a bar after soccer tonight instead of going right home? What would I do if I was single right now?

 

It takes a lot of the focus off what she or society would want, and puts it squarely back on "what do I want to do...for ME."

[–]screechhaterMRP APPROVED-1 points0 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

Yep, man up cause you are the only one that can do this

"You were told to sit down, shut up, work a job you probably don’t like, and use the money you made to buy shit you don’t need - or more accurately to buy shit that you were supposed to buy; funny how these items are all designed to keep you numb and weak (Cars, TVs, Video Games, cell phones, cable)"

Funny, how I fucking hate TV, gave away the youngest kids WI the other day and told the college kid he had 24 hours to get the fucking x box out of my sight and younger brothers hands or I would end its existence. Amazingly books are being read, practice for music and homework and bed time all so fucking easy

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

It's funny how when a standard is finally set the standard is finally met.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

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