Actually, I very much like BB's posts. They're so exactly what the Typical American Woman (AKA 13-year-old girl) would relish, yet so deliciously contrary to the experiences of adult men.
Case in point:
I don't want to live on this planet anymore. It's BB's famous thread about a ghetto thug who plots revenge sex. BB's conclusion? We should all go out and try to fvck whenever the opportunities present themselves. It's suspicious enough that BB forgets screening, protecting the heart, and not acting rashly out of neediness (which other posters reminded him about -- a ghetto thug has little in common with the self-improvement, gentlemanly core of DJism). BB is married and not at all desperate, and is usually quite circumspect about the silly "beta" behaviors he sees around him. To me, a young man asking every woman he sees for her number is a circus clown desperation parody of what "real men" do. Mike32ct has various takes on the issue in his custom signature. Hunting for big cat trophies is going sniper after one target at a time -- not chasing 50 with a shotgun.
Far worse though, BB is supposed to be a successful racetrack gambler. He should live and die by certain statistical realities of game theory; he should have fully internalized them -- integrated them into every aspect of his character and personality. So I responded that
You know better than to bet every horse race. In most races, the contestants have no value to the player. It's unthinkable that a horse player would even be able to put that axiom out of his mind. I went to excruciating detail to show how the analogy to horse betting is applicable. But the part that's really unthinkable is this: how to hell could the circumstance ever arise where a master of game theory would have to be reminded of basics by the new guy?
This may be "The Mature Man" forum, but a 30-year-old is only just beginning to be fully mature. BB may have reached a level of proficiency that few men will ever reach, and in more than one area of expertise, but he doesn't have the years of practice, reflection, self-criticism, and corrective practice to have an easy mastery of the whole. Whether you started out as a naturally gifted child prodigy, or made prodigious effort, it's frustrating as hell to not be able to hold all the reins. I'd like to be able to be supportive of BB, but it's only too easy for me to see how he's corrupted by a perceived advantage from liberalism. No doubt, he thinks the same of me regarding conservatism. Even if that were true about
me, it wouldn't relieve
him of the responsibility to improve by purging himself of corruption.
BB's posts make for some wonderful opportunities to collect my thoughts. Only when a man can explain something to others in simple terms -- does he really understand it himself. Whatever BB's big stories reveal about himself, I find them useful for my purposes.
