“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”
― Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
A couple of months ago I was suffering permanent headaches. It was like a constant dull throb on both sides of my head above the neck. I didn’t know if it was related to a residual flu, overtight muscles or some sort of malignant cancer eating away at me. I put up with the pain for for three months before I decided to go to the doctor.
The doctor gave me a kindly smile and said, ‘It’s probably just stress, don’t worry about it.’
I had in fact started a new job which did stress me from multiple angles: I took a pay cut, the job was physically demanding, and I wanted to prove myself. But with those simple words of diagnoses, the pain left me. Quite literally the next day the pain was alleviated and hasn’t returned. Something as simple as talking about the problem with an expert made it go away. It was entirely psychosomatic.
We are our own worst enemy. That is a phrase that is truer than true.
Humans are very good at lying, and even better at lying to themselves. We also have a tendency to get inside our own heads and to overthink what is happening to us. As I have said before, this is a feminine trait, but very common among both sexes these days. On top of that, we are pattern recognition machines, which is to say that sometimes we find patterns that are simply not there.
In the past these modes were crucial to survival. In modern society, these traits have negative consequences.
Earlier in the year of our Lord 2022, the term ‘groomer’ blew up. Various American figureheads of the Right were uncovering prog FREAKS as groomers. Our detractors said that the word ‘grooming’ in the sense used by the Right is not correct, that it should be used in specific cases, ‘real’ cases. Basically only when actual sex acts are performed. When we say grooming we mean of the mind. We mean the ideas are implanted slowly, so that physical acts are almost an after-thought. When we say grooming it is metaphorical, and there is no stopping metaphor. Especially not on the internet.
Metaphors are inherent to the internet. The internet is a goddamn metaphor. In The Internet is Not What You Think, the author shows us how the web was conceived through earlier technologies, and how the metaphor of the ‘web’ itself has a long history. Metaphors, you should know, break down boundaries. Metaphors are pattern recognition. Metaphors are noble lies. Metaphors are reading into things a bit too much. Grooming is a powerful metaphor.
Now, like it or not, grooming is a part of human nature. It is how society has formed over centuries and millennia. You don’t believe me? Trust your own metaphors. What do you think apprenticeships are? The master passes on his knowledge to an apprentice through actively grooming a young mind in the ways of the ancestors. Recently I read an interesting study about the master/apprentice relationship which you can peruse here.
From the abstract:
The argument is advanced that the apprenticeship is designed to simultaneously train novices in specific craft or trade skills while socializing them to join the social and cultural elite represented by master craftsmen.
Note the word ‘socializing’. That is precisely what the RW means when we discuss ‘groomers’. What was once a healthy relationship and method of information transfer has been perverted by modern society into a sick, psychosexual process of subversion.
For a more concrete understanding, consider the trooner.
If you look at the linked study (titled, funnily enough, ‘First you Must Master Pain’) it provides a detailed breakdown of the apprenticeship pathway. I will relay here it simply and relate it directly to the steps to Troonerism.
It begins with the ‘play stage’ where experimentation is encouraged. First, society prompts the young mind, telling them there is no difference between the sexes and that ‘gender’ is ‘fluid’. All children are taught this stage, but then only some are chosen as troonprentices. Once on the internet, particularly susceptible teens will find a trooner discord or group chat, thereby moving into the master’s house. A hierarchy is set up immediately, with the fully-trooned acting as a guidelight for the newcomers. Initially a teen will do menial work, perhaps dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex. Tasks are laid out ahead of them as rungs on a ladder. Here it may be best to think of the fact that master-troons will suggest increasing doses of drugs or larger and larger dildos, or more benignly, various levels of breast-binding and cock-caging. The young will not be directed so much as they will observe, with the fully-trooned posting lots of pictures and videos of themselves (there is an element of narcissism here). The image of the harsh master beating his young apprentice is a vital part of the new Master-Slave Dilation, as sadomasochism is a necessary part for these sick freaks. Originality is of course looked down on, as it is better to copy as closely as possible. Along the way secrets are revealed and after an arduous process of hormone replacement therapy the young slave may finally destroy all vestiges of their sex in order to proclaim themselves as the new master. From simple play to horrific placation of the senses, the Master-Slave Dilation relationship is clearly the Devil’s Apprenticeship.
How do we allow this to happen? In the past an apprenticeship led to work and meaning, so the process made sense. Now it leads to complete degradation, and there are cultish elements within it. We are strange loops.
That, I think, is the crux of it. We create an environment that allows impressionable minds to lie to themselves (‘gender is fluid’), to overthink problems (‘am I not manly/feminine enough?’) and to find patterns that aren’t there (‘maybe I act this way because I’m actually a woman/man’). These loop around themselves over and over, becoming a new reality. If someone comes along who encourages these thoughts, we gladly fall into their thrall. What is needed is a circuit-breaker. Much like how the doctor I saw inserted an idea to stop me creating my own pain, someone on the Master-Slave Dilation path needs to be taken out of their own head.