Achieving Escape Velocity
Lessons in escaping "the matrix"
What’s up man.
Welcome back to The Dream Lounge.
When I first discovered the early manosphere in 2005, I had little idea what actually drove me to find it. On the surface I lacked the social and sexual skills to bang hot girls. This was frustrating because I wanted to have sex with them, and they were not interested in participating.
In fact I ended up something of a real estate tycoon, rich in friend zone properties.
I was not happy about that, so I set out to improve myself and fix that problem. At least this much was obvious even then as a motivating factor.
It took me many years - and even becoming an organizing cult leader guru in the manosphere - to wake up to the deeper facts about what had drove me to discover this odd little community of men. It would be fair to say I had a heavy normalcy bias for my own childhood and family life growing up. Plenty of rationalizations and minimalizations to go along with it, reinforced by the family I grew up wi…
