The sub5 urge to hyper-obsess over your narrative

[Prøphet]

As a sub5 there is an implicit expectation placed on you to “clean up after yourself”

What I mean is, you are expected to control everyone’s perceptions of you, while normies are given understanding and the freedom to truly express themselves

God forbid you come across as something undesirable. No, its your responsibility to carefully manufacture a perfect image.

For example, if others happen to perceive you some time as a sexual being with sexual desires, you are socially punished and basically forced to deny your being to them

A lack of denial is construed in the worst possible way for a sub5.

It’s why you see so many sub5s act like cucks. It’s not just virtue signaling or white knighting. It’s mainly messaging to say “I’m not a threat, I’m not a creep, and anyone who sees me as one is wrong!”. It’s self preservation.

This heavy burden is placed on a sub5, while a Chad is granted the freedom to truly live authentically, without constant attacks and bad faith tests.

 

[Prøphet]

Thus why the advice “work on your personality”is so popular. Because they’re actually not wrong. Your personality includes your image, and your image is determined by your skull. Therefore, looksmaxxing is a form of improving your personality, according to the biosociological inequalities and disparities in place.

You’ll know you are seen as a human being, when you don’t have to explain away everything about yourself to try and helplessly fit in a system which hates you.

 

[Prøphet]

In other words. The meaning of your silence and self-confidence is dependent on your outward appearance. If actions speak louder than words, your face speaks even louder than actions.

 

[Foreverbrad]

Yeah as soon as you stop making effort even a tiny bit, they tear you apart.

 

[valentine]

highest iq user

 

[Prøphet]

Yeah as soon as you stop making effort even a tiny bit, they tear you apart.

Exactly. That’s why I genuinely believe the closest thing we have to a cure for ND now (or at least the social repercussions, which are usually the biggest issue) is looksmaxxing.

There is no way to set up a life for yourself that supports free thought and an independence (“divergence”) from expectations nearly as effectively, as having a face that satisfies people does. If your appearance is good enough, that replaces the effort you would normally have to make manually, to some degree, allowing you to allocate your brain to what it’s naturally drawn to, and thrive.

 

[Foreverbrad]

Exactly. That’s why I genuinely believe the closest thing we have to a cure for ND now (or at least the social repercussions, which are usually the biggest issue) is looksmaxxing.

There is no way to set up a life for yourself that supports free thought and an independence (“divergence”) from expectations nearly as effectively, as having a face that satisfies people does. If your appearance is good enough, that replaces the effort you would normally have to make manually, to some degree, allowing you to allocate your brain to what it’s naturally drawn to, and thrive.

I agree in principle. Whether or not it’s realistically possible for many of us is another question. But it certainly seems more sensible than just trying to read self-help books and turning up the social dissimulation to 110% at tremendous energy cost to oneself for every interaction.