YouTube’s manly soothsayers trade their ideas on the free market, and someone always ends up in snake oil, writes Konstig
I’m always curious about new ideas, and I continued to follow the path set by YouTube’s algorithms.
Youtube also teaches the difference between an alpha male and a sigma male. (Sigma is like a hidden alpha, and every beta probably secretly wishes they were a sigma.)
Then video compilations of men who don’t condescend to *suck* are offered. Simping is when a man degrades himself in front of a woman, usually under the delusion that this will make her like him.
At this point, we are sometimes already in genuinely misogynistic territory. It seems as if a bitter grudge motivated these serial hunters to take revenge on the female sex by killing it.
How many fathers, grandfathers, guardians, godfathers or guardians today bother to verbalize to their sons what it means to be a man? Growing into a man is done, too, largely by the power of example, by teaching by example. But you can find live talk on Youtube. About an hour of talk.
Before, everything depended very unequally on who happened to have a mentor or a teacher who encouraged the boy to get his life in order, or who happened to be privy to the womanizing teachings of a natural gamer.
Like a market economy in general, it mostly enriches everyone, but not always. In addition to herring and strawberries, the market also sells persimmons and snake oil. Some go cheap and buy a pig in a sack. But that’s the price of freedom. After all, we also sell alcohol, even though we know that some people always fall for it.
Algorithms have the power to change people’s lives. In practice, they conduct various human experiments at us. Someone finds meaning in their life from the video – developing themselves in a way that improves them and makes them a desirable and useful member of society. The other is engrossed in the teachings of the alpha male guru and tries to turn himself into an imitation of the American bum.
Even technology cannot replace natural selection.
*Joonas Konstig*
*The author is a writer from Espoo who takes cold showers and knows which 7 qualities make a man irresistible.*
*The column can be discussed on 16.3. until 23:00.*