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This post is aimed at those who don't like modern culture.  Here I suggest the four steps one needs to make to beat modern culture.  If you disagree with what I say, I would like to hear your response.  Here are my steps:

1.  Recognize that a good culture is the answer.
2.  Recognize that a good religion is the answer.
3.  Choose a good religion.
4.  Join a good religion.

Recognize that a good culture is the answer.

Many reading this will be MGTOW or PUA, so let's consider these options.  MGTOW reject modern culture and withdraw from it.  This means that they live socially isolated lives, often without sex.  So while MGTOW recognize that modern culture is hopeless, they provide no alternative and have no answers.  The MGTOW lifestyle of isolation will not provide much happiness for most men.  There are better options.

The PUA response to modern culture actually makes some sense.  This is basically hedonism, ruthlessly seeking sex for pleasure.  Of course there is nothing immoral about this since modern culture is beneath morality to begin with.  My first question to a PUA is why go through all this trouble for pleasure when you can just use opium or heroin to get the same amount of pleasure with much less trouble.  You may respond that drugs can be harmful.  But I would say that an endless pursuit of sex is just as harmful as any drug.  It destroys your soul by training you to engage in the most repulsive behavior patterns in order to attract the female scum who inhabit modern culture.  And my second point is that, just like a drug, the dopamine release from sex will decrease over time, so this lifestyle will not produce lasting satisfaction with life.  A meaningful life for most people (who aren't sociopaths) involves meaningful relationships with other people.  And modern culture cannot offer this.

Only a good culture that is an alternative to modern culture can offer you a meaningful life, so this is the only real solution.

Recognize that a good religion is the answer.

Those who recognize that a good culture is the answer may try a number of approaches to get such a culture.  Let's consider these.

One approach is to try to develop a network of friends who share values different from modern culture.  This is a network model where trust is established between pairs of people.  This model is most developed in the Chinese concept of "guanxi".  But this model is much less effective than the group/tribal model in enforcing morality to produce trust.  The problem with the network model is that the cost of violating trust isn't high enough.  If you break the trust of one friendship for personal gain in the network model, the only cost is the loss of that one friendship and possibly a few other closely related connections.  But with the tribal model, all of your connections are to members of your tribe.  If you violate one connection in an immoral way that violates the rules of the tribe, you lose all of your connections because the tribe will throw you out.  So because of this higher cost for violating trust, the tribal model is the only one that can enforce morality.  This means that the network approach can never really create a good culture.

Another approach is to go abroad and look for a better culture in other countries.  Men's first reactions to going abroad are invariably positive because the women are much friendlier.  But if you spend significant time abroad, you are likely to find that other countries have their own problems.  In particular, most of the third world consists of very low-trust societies where people will be outwardly friendly but you never know who will turn around and stab you in the back for gain.  In other words, there is a good reason why these societies are poor.  For those men who value sex over other things, going abroad is a reasonable option.  It is less harmful to your soul than PUA and produces the same benefits.  But for men who want a more meaningful life, I don't think any country in the world today really offers this.

A third approach is to try to start a good culture from scratch.  This is what we tried to do with the CoAlpha Brotherhood.  It turns out that it isn't so easy.  What we learn from history is that all successful cultures have been backed by a good religion.  It seems that religion contains the needed components to make a culture work.  Note that religion does not require belief in the supernatural.  What it does require is a clear moral framework that guides people in how to live their lives.  So attempts to start a culture not backed by religion are bound to fail, as history shows.

The key realization here is that a good culture needs a good religion to work.  You simply cannot get good culture without good religion.  And this means that a good religion is the answer.

Choose a good religion.

Once you realize that a good religion is the answer, you have to do a lot of research to figure out which religion is best.  Obviously this will vary for each person.  It is important to actively pursue a good religion and not just passively accept your life as it is.  If you have no idea where to start, you can visit local religions and read about various religions.  If you want to try to create a religion from scratch, then just go for it and create that religion and see how it works.

Join a good religion.

This is the final step.  If you join a good religion, then you are on track for beating modern culture.