Comeuppance Is A Dish Best Served Hot

Written by Rollo Tomassi on January 29, 2024. Posted in Current News

Lex Talionis is a Latin term that refers to the law of retribution, in which a penalty is meted out per the nature and severity of the offense. ”Lex” refers to a set of rules or regulations. Talionis translates as ”of such a nature. ”

The Latin lex talionis notion originated in early Babylonian law. It was incorporated into biblical and ancient Roman law that offenders must be punished for the same hurts and losses done to their innocent. ”An eye for an eye” is a rule in the Book of Exodus that embodies the notion of proportional justice.

A desire for revenge is something innate to the human experience. Most higher-order animals have some rudimentary sense of what’s fair. Even dogs have a sense of fairness and can experience some rudimentary form of jealousy.

The study of altruism in animals, to say nothing of humans, is a complex affair. However, somewhere along the evolutionary path, some species had a better chance of survival (and replication) if they cooperated and had some investment in promoting the survival of their kin.

That leads to an instinctual understanding of fairness and injustice. Humans add ethics and morality to this equation, but the root is the same – on some level of consciousness, we compare and evaluate what is equitable according to our interests.

It serves a species’ survival interests to evolve pattern recognition and make reasoned judgments about those patterns. One of the strengths of humans is our exceptional aptitude for pattern recognition.

Those of a collectivist mind will argue this dynamic is proof of a need for an idealized egalitarianism. They’ll advocate for promoting the greater good, while selfish gene individualists argue that an innate grasp of fairness is evidence of unconditioned self-concern for one’s survival.

Either way, nothing motivates humans to act like the emotional response to a perceived injustice. So much so that we raise those feelings to metaphysical significance. Our gods rage over injustice.

Revenge is mine, sayeth the Lord. A tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye might make the whole world blind, but it’s the foundation of our evolved sense of fairness. And man, does retribution feel good – even if it’s by proxy.

Why is fairness so essential for us? The biochemical element to the feels we get when justice is done is enough to explain it. Our fiction is rife with it. We love stories that resolve with a villain getting their just desserts.

Our lizard brains associate that imbalance of justice with a threat to our survival, well-being, and reproductive efforts. The human condition is defined by disconnect and envy. Our limbic system detects some unfairness – usually via our peripheral awareness – and we get a squirt of some hormonal cocktail into our system.

Now, we can’t shake this feeling of jealousy or suspicion of someone or some circumstance where we’re getting the short end of the stick. We are wired (and piped) for making judgment calls. Even when those judgment calls prove unfounded and may be detrimental to us, we err on one side or the other because innate judgmentalism served our ancestors well.

It’s easy to consider this pattern evaluating, judgmental nature in terms of simplistic right or wrong choices. Right is whatever benefits the individual in equal measure to another, and Wrong is whatever thoughts or behaviors conceal the interests of individual self-concern.

The Seven Deadly Sins are all fundamentally about this evolved fairness equation. Greed might benefit the individual – and their kin by association – but to our limbic evaluation, it’s unfair to the greater, necessitous good of society.

Ergo, greed becomes a sin, and social conventions like do unto others as you would have done unto you become a counterbalance to the unfairness. The “golden rule” is just an extension of the Lex Talionis that Jesus Christ preached against.

However, most of the choices we make in life are not simple right vs. wrong equations. Some of the greatest stories ever told by humans are about right vs. right and wrong vs. wrong (or maybe less wrong) choices.

Humans rarely have a problem identifying choices of right and wrong. It’s right for the individual versus right for the collective, and wrong for me versus wrong for your choices that define our character.

While dogs may feel jealousy, and chimps may give a banana to another who didn’t get one, they’re rarely confronted with the nuances of justice humans must consider.

Why We Love Revenge

Things get dicey when we attach this innate sense of fairness to biological imperatives. The purview of my work is intersexual dynamics, so I’ll focus on that imperative here.

But remember that concepts like fairness, jealousy, revenge, rivalry, the indignation accompanying these, and more are not just limited to solving one’s reproductive problem. That said, human beings love revenge.

We fantasize about it. We write epics about revenge. Some people invest their lives in creating fiction as a catharsis for an injustice they’ll never resolve. Humans enjoy the chemical cocktail and emotions stemming from a desire for revenge.

To be clear, I’m not talking about some ephemeral sense of justice. This is a root-level squirt of adrenaline desire to balance a perceived or actual wrong that threatens the individual’s (or associated group) survival or propagation.

I’ve written extensively about women’s innate need for Indignation and the associated chemical-emotional response they derive from it. This need stems from how women (neurologically) prioritize and process emotion, but it also confirms their Hypergamous filtering.

No indignation is more satisfying for women than the feelings they get from thwarting the ruses of a false Alpha male. The Bachelor is in its 28^th season because this indignation is so enjoyable.

This response, and the good feelings that reinforce it, serve to aid (sometimes trick) women’s sexual selection imperatives and avoid their existential fear. Ultimately, what’s fair for women is whatever serves the Sisterhood’s Hypergamous best interests.

For men, and particularly the young men of this new order generation, revenge fantasies hold a similar, indignant appeal. As we’ve feminized the sensibilities of men for four generations, we’ve also conditioned them to prioritize the same emotional responses we would expect in women.

We raise boys as defective girls who mature into men who are defective women. This conditioning trains young men to identify with the female experience. But they also become a part of that experience.

In a gynocentric social order, the female experience is always the “correct” experience. As such, this generation of men has internalized the prioritization of emotion (Feels before Reals) as a peak experience.

A common lament of women and feminized men is that if men could be more expressive in their feelings (the emotions women are comfortable with), then the world would be a better place.

Thinking and feeling like a woman makes for a better “man, “right? That’s today’s gynocentric logic.

But indignation (the result of inherent unfairness) based on reproductive imperatives works very differently in men. Men’s evolved existential fear is based on ensuring their paternity. Determining that a child is a man’s genetic progeny has been an imperative evolution embedded in men’s mental firmware.

Until DNA testing arrived, men had relatively no empirical way to determine if he was a cuckold (a female mating strategy), and his parental investment and evolutionary imperative had been wasted.

Thus, indignation prompted men to create social conventions to ensure socially enforced parental certainty. The deal is that if a man is to invest his reproductive potential in a woman and their children, she should be bound by social expectations that the child is his genetic progeny. It’s only fair.

But life’s not fair. Although they have a common purpose, men’s and women’s reproductive strategies are inherently adversarial. What constitutes justice in the sexual marketplace is often defined by the gender with the most social power at the time. In every age before the Sexual Revolution, that was men. Today, it’s women.

Men innately process emotion, particularly negative emotion, differently than women. Again, this is how evolution wired men, but the social dictates of this time go to great lengths to condition men to believe that the way they process emotion is “incorrect.”

Gyonocentrism gaslights men to believe that their masculine experience of the world is insane. To be human is to be female. Men’s natural proclivities make them imperfect humans when their innate way of being emotional conflicts with the “correct” female way of experiencing emotion they were taught.

This conflict results in generations of men seeking the same indignation rush women have an innate attraction to. However, these young men get their endorphin rush from revenge scenarios that align with their innate imperatives – exposing paternity fraud, cuckoldry, and the duplicity of women’s innate mating strategies.

When critics of “those red pill guys” draw attention to a podcast where they “shit all over these poor, dumb bimbos,” this revenge scenario is likely what they think is taking place.

They think the resentment is schadenfreude leveled at women by “loser Incels,” but it’s really a conflict of sexual strategies and balancing injustice in the context of a “correct” female experience.

Comeuppance

Revenge is an expanding topic of interest for average, frustrated young men. Closing in on almost a million subscribers, the Reddit sub-forum r/prorevenge is one of the fastest-growing topics on the platform.

The Pro Revenge concept is simple; guys in the forum relate stories about how ‘deserving’ people got their comeuppance. Justice or Karma is served to cheaters, scammers, liars, thieves, and other attempts to offend our innately human sense of fairness.

All Pro Revenge topics are not about cheating or duplicitous women – there are loads of stories about bad employers, plagiarists, and Success Porn gurus – but real-world revenge stories about women’s duplicity being thwarted by an intelligent Red Pill guy or just blind circumstance are the most popular themes.

The popularity of young men experiencing revenge either in fantasy or vicariously through others is becoming a very lucrative profit model for agile YouTube channel hosts and Lifestyle Coaches.

When I consider the ceaseless hunger for Red Meat topics in the Black Pill, MGTOW, or just the Manosphere in general, the source of that hunger always comes back to the emotional rush attendant to indignation.

When a woman “gets hers” because her mating or empowerment strategy was foiled, men get a sense of righteous indignation, particularly guys who enjoy commiserating in their shared sense of powerlessness.

That commiseration has never been easier or more organized than in our new-order, technology-connected world. Pro Revenge is one of many innovations that cater to men’s desire to see things put straight and experience the endorphin rush that comes with it. It feels good to see “justice” served.

Of course, women turned the revenge fantasy into various art forms long ago. Carrie Underwood sings openly about vandalizing and destroying a cheating (now ex) lover’s expensive four-wheel-drive truck, and countless commiserating women (even today) can recite the lyrics verbatim.

In a gynocentric social order, destruction of personal property is entirely acceptable if the perpetrator is a woman who discovered her duplicitous lover was not the man her Hypergamous instincts believed him to be.

Women’s existential fear meets justice in revenge fantasy worlds like The Handmaiden’s Tale. It’s a terrifying alternate reality that feels oh-so-true! Women and feminine-sympathetic men all nod in agreement.

Pro Revenge has been a thing for women for ages. Courtesy of centuries of bastardized Chivalry and the romantic ideal, we accept it more because Beta men reinforce it as a form of Game.

Thus, we have women manufacturing their indignation in popular fiction and daytime talk shows that expose an incorrigible pickup artist getting his comeuppance and confirm women’s Hypergamous intuitions.

This openly embraced double standard only fuels the pro-revenge instincts of more young men, and the circle completes itself.

For all the hopelessness and despondency the information age has brought to men and women, it’s also revealed the evolved motives beneath our desire for what we think is justice.

The Doom Pill is becoming the logical extension of this nihilism, and the Clout Economy players perfect new ways to profit from it.

Exploiting the Gender War for fun and profit has never been easier.

This new generation of men and women enjoy the indignation derived from it so much that they become oblivious to their exploitation.

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