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I'm starting another series this week that I'm calling the Red Pill Playbook. The idea is to present "Red Pill" truths about sexuality, social dynamics, and psychology etc. and offer my take on how to best handle these (often painful) realities. I'm doing this because I'm not satisfied with most of the conclusions I've found presented by other content creators. We'll kick things off at a high level here that lays the foundation for a lot of my future takes Red Pill Truth: We have base instincts that are at odds with our best interests, morality, and higher desires. Men have a base drive to indiscriminately sleep with with lots of women, women have a base drive to use men for their resources, people generally want salty, fatty a sugary food, we all want social and sexual validation etc. These are fundamantal aspects of our psychology and we cannot make them disappear due to wishful thinking, religious scorn, or white knuckle repression. Bad Play: Submit to your instincts because "this is who you are." There is a growing trend today that says the way to deal with these instinctual drives is to simply satisfy them as directly as possible. As a man, you're encouraged to gain the status and competence with women that would allow you to sleep around to your heart's content (much of the "red-pill" movement is based on this concept). Women are encouraged to weaponize their sexuality and manipulate men to their benefit under the guise of female empowerment. The resulting philosophies extracted from such takes is that you are nothing more than your basest drives and fulfillment is found through hedonistically gratifying these drives. Reductionistic takes such as this view humans as mindless hormone driven meat-robots, and I'm confident that we are all capable of MUCH more than that. My Play: Sacrifice the base expression of the instinct that works against your ideals so you can tap into an elevated (and more satisfying) expression of the instinct that works WITH your ideals. We've all experienced this in our upbringing, it is the natural process of maturation: A child is taught to sacrifice the immediate gratification of hitting someone or throwing a temper tantrum when they don't get their way, and this gives them access to higher level problem solving and social interaction that will ultimately serve them much better Our primal drives hold an ENORMOUS amount of energy, and if cultivated properly act as the keys to unlocking our most radiant and evolved human potential. The trick is figuring out the right way to go about this, which is the purpose to this series. More coming soon. UYAP, Mark Queppet