One distinguishing feature of the commentators at Eivind Berge’s blog is that every single one of them has their own pet theory. Not only that, but they have a different one nearly every new day. Lately, it transpired that one of them even wants to write a book, to which the great Eivind was quick to state that he has one in the works too.
This behaviour seems unique to this little corner of the Internet. For example, it is completely absent in the incel community, it seems to me. Not only are ‘theories’ not proposed by the majority of incels, but they are quick to agree upon and adopt basic core ‘truths’ and memes.
It struck me a few days ago, that this remarkable egoism that appears to characterize our online space is related to same need to feel ‘special’ that leads to the false identification as ‘ephebophile’, or ‘MAP’, by those who simply are in posession of a normal and healthy male sexuality.
This acute egoism, the feeling that they are special and different in their sexuality, the feeling that they are the individual who uniquely ‘grasps’ what is going on with anti-sex laws, even to the point of feeling that they should write a book upon it – this is all a major reason, and perhaps the biggest reason, why we can’t build a movement, or even get to ‘first principles’. And that egoism, in most cases, likely does stem from being ‘on the spectrum’ that seems to be a pre-requisite almost of being able to see the elephant in the room.
Of course, I have my own theory – ‘sexual trade union theory’. So aren’t I the pot calling the kettle black here? Well, perhaps. But in my defence, it’s not really my theory. Plenty of others have claimed that feminism is a pussy cartel. It was obvious to even the ‘first MRA’ Ernest Belfort Bax in the Edwardian era. All I’ve done is simply promote it, make clear that it applies to the age of consent, and put it firmly in the context of technology and social change loosening the sexual market, lowering the ‘price of pussy’, and requiring a response from the feminist sexual trade union/pussy cartel.
Furthermore, I don’t want to blow my own trumpet, or make recourse to the ‘argument from authority’, but I am a highly intelligent and well-educated individual, and studied philosophy at a world-leading university. I also have devoted much of my life to researching this. I’m currently reading a book on Victorian prostitution, and have a bookshelf of books relating to the history of sex that I’m working through.
Eivind and his kin do not appear to even read books, or that is, books that are related to this subject matter. I would wager that not one of them, for example, has even read Steve Moxon’s well-researched and brilliantly argued ‘The Women Racket’, which essentially agrees with sexual trade union theory.
They expect that others will want to read their own proposed books, when they wont even read the books or even theories of people far more qualified than themselves.