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20’s Men – The Quest for Power, The Decade of Empire

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The pursuit of power is a fundamentally human drive which knows no exceptions, every
single last human craves power, we are all in competition, all conniving, plotting,
designing, participating in …

The pursuit of power is a fundamentally human drive which knows no exceptions, every
single last human craves power, we are all in competition, all conniving, plotting,
designing, participating in the competition of all competitions – survival via domination,
life, the game of who gets the rights to pass on their genetic lineage and damn well enjoy
themselves whilst they’re at it.

We all seek success, however, success comes at a cost – it comes at the cost of personal
sacrifice, it requires self-discipline, it requires zest and motivation, it requires unrelenting
selfishness, it requires a sharp effective mind but perhaps most sinister of all it requires
you have no qualms in taking power from others, as an old lecturer once said to me, a red
pill post-wall woman in her mid 30’s a little something I’ll never forget “Not everyone
can be a winner in this life, if everyone was a winner then who would clean
the streets?“

There is a finite amount of power, power is relative; power is measured in comparison to


everyone else’s. If everybody was equally smart or rich then the edge being smart or rich
gives would be almost negligible, power is about balance and thus if you become more
powerful by grabbing opportunity by the bull horns then that is an opportunity that
someone somewhere else has been deprived of acquiring, lest they directly challenge your
position.

Power is about being better than other people and the pursuit of power is fundamental to
man, absolutely fundamental, if he ever wishes to respect himself or command respect
from others, if he wants to be a leader, renowned, noteworthy or dare I say even
legendary, he must possess power. Life for a man should be about the acquisition of
power and then maintaining/defending said power once it has been acquired.

Some people say they don’t want power. They are lying, either just to you or both to you
and themselves out of delusion. Everybody wants power. Even women, although they may
like to be submissive in the presence of masculine power, they also like to influence that
power, their power is indirect, their power is to control a man’s power and have him use
his power to benefit her, “power by proxy theory” they do this by trading off on their
youth and giving men sexual access to their bodies, which is why to the bitter dismay of
feminists everywhere, female power decreases with age, women never truly attain their
own power, they’re always using someone else’s – however I digress, that topic is for
another article.

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Unlike women who should be using their youth to lock down a suitable suitor in their
early 20’s (preferably an accomplished successful man in his late 20’s or early to mid-
30’s) a young man of the same age should be doing everything he can to improve his
position in the social marketplace, not just to get laid but to utilise his own innate
potential to evolve and become better than he is. To do the stuff that your average
insecure 20 year old male needs to do to make him respect himself, feel productive and
set foot on the path to becoming a man.

Your entire 20’s as a man should be about actualisation, self-improvement, chasing the
wind, enriching yourself, improving your skill sets, you are free from commitment and the
debilitating burden of family life, you have no responsibilities, no ball and chain
(wife/girlfriend), spin plates for sex but by dear god, do not have a serious girlfriend if you
have serious considerations for power, if you are happy with the level you’re at then that’s
good for you, your personal ambition is satiated, but this article is focused on those who
want to be at the top, the mega ambitious, those who lust for the trappings of power.

Women being the liabilities that they are will bring nothing but expectation, drama and
undue stress to your life that will do nothing but hamper, impede and hold back your
efforts to improve yourself – why even set yourself up for the responsibility that is
maintaining a relationship with a woman when you’re not even the man you want to be
yet? That’s fine when you’re in your 30’s looking to start a family and already have a
power base built up from the graft, sweat and experience of your virile 20’s, but firstly you
need to build that power base so that your 30’s are enjoyable, not just another decade
along the path of a meaningless life culminating in a worthless death. A simple life is a life
unfulfilled.

How do you build power? Well I’ll start with the obvious and say that internalising red pill
philosophy is very empowering, seeing things for what they are rather than what you want
them to be is an incredible commodity in today’s society of indoctrinated unwashed
masses.

There are fundamental cornerstones which grant a man his power and these are…

Game:
This is the most important element of a man’s personal power, not just with women but
with people/existence full-stop. Game is interchangeable with “social skills.” Gaming and
building attraction doesn’t just have to mean sexually but it applies all the same non-
sexually too, think in terms of making people value you and accept you, this is the stuff
that builds your social circles, allows you access into other social circles, allows you to
network and gets you the job at the interview, it’s all about cultivating your personality
and being real, not needing to act because you don’t like who you are but actually
enriching who you are to be powerful and attractive.

Game is developed over the span of one’s life and never becomes obsolete or irrelevant, to
further subdivide game up into interchangeable elements, it consists of:

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– Machiavellianism – knowing how to perceive and play a situation to come out
victorious, knowing what’s real and what’s not, why people are doing what they’re doing,
knowing when you’re being played either as a pawn or as a theatrical fool in someone
else’s game – read more here.

– Wit – this is what allows you to pass shit tests, essential if you ever want to get
anywhere in life, everyone will shit test you when they first meet you so they can
personally ascribe you value based on their impression of you, your speed of retort, the
creativity of your communication and a successful delivery style are all elements of wit,
this is the cornerstone of a strong frame and is needed for all common shit busting
strategies eg: agree and amplify. If your wit sucks I suggest watching lots and lots of
stand-up comedy. That link should serve as a starting point. You’re welcome.

– Charm – this is simple narcissism, self-confidence, self-assuredness, this is what


subtly (or not so subtly) demonstrates non-verbally that you are a high value person, it is
the sense that you are inherently superior, it is better to be grounded in reality (because
you work hard and are good at certain things) rather than be baseless, however the only
delusion I’ll ever endorse for those fresh on the journey to self-improvement: fake it until
you make it!

– Humour – another cornerstone of a strong frame, humour is often at the expense of


negativity, it produces positive energy from a negative source and communicates non-
verbally that you are capable of staring at the face of failure/negativity without becoming
unhinged by it. Humour shows who are the real tough motherfuckers and it’s the
favourite tool for men to use when they’re shit testing other men, one way men form
lasting platonic bonds with their fellow man is via humour. Those with sensibilities are
weak, sheltered, and emotionally fragile to what merely are words without any real
tangible bearing on the paradigm which is their life. If your humour has limits, eradicate
them – humour is a cornerstone of power and influence and ties in closely to charm.
Humour can be used a lot in conjunction with agree and amplify EG: “yeah I’m so
annoying and effeminate people can’t decide whether to call me Justin
Bieber or Miley Cyrus” …. “Miley Cyrus has a way more manly haircut than
Justin though, I hope hers is the nickname that sticks.”

Money:
Good game will help you get money, you need money to build connections and get into
the despot networks that hire and promote based on personal favouritism and back
scratching. Meritocracy has its limits as fundamentally we’re all humans seeking power
and a leader at any level of the hierarchy would rather have someone on their side that
they like rather than someone who’s better educated but simply fucking annoying to work
with or perceived as a threat (eg: that cliche excuse for rejection that you’re overqualified
for a job.) You can contest this thought and get into notions of meritocracy and blah blah
as you sit their stone broke until pay day with no nest egg reading this article, but when
you see that idiotic vapid dickhead drinking from champagne showers embracing an
oversized bottle of Moet between his legs as if he’s subconsciously displaying a phallic
symbol for all to admire “I’ve got a big dick girls, really!” then maybe your
idealisations of meritocracy will shatter somewhat and you’ll come join us here in reality.

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Money requires more externally than game, game is all about your cognitive wiring,
money relies on that but it also requires an external skill which others can directly benefit
from. It requires something the economy will pay for because it needs it. If you’re going to
university then choose your degree wisely. If it doesn’t pay or even have an at least 50%
chance of paying then don’t bother doing it. Sure I like philosophy as much as the next
guy and psychology is kind of cool too but if you don’t want to be working in a grocery
store for the rest of your life and want to be a competitor not a survivor then you better
fucking well study something that pays right or not bother at all. If you’re doing a degree
in creative writing you may as well just save up the loan money, live frugally and default
on the loan (if that’s possible in your country) because I can write pretty creatively and I
don’t have a degree in that shit, neither do many other writers.

Your economic skill doesn’t have to be academic, if STEM isn’t for you and you’re too
much of a bitch to get your hands dirty by building, plumbing, being an electrician or
basically becoming one of civilizations builders and maintainers of our mortar then you
could always learn to cook. Quite literally anybody can look to cook, it’s hard work and
long hours but the opportunities are numerous, people always need to eat it’s not an
industry that’s going anywhere, and it’s an art form, if you get really passionate about it
and put in the man hours you can go far, open a restaurant one day, write a cookbook –
only you limit yourself, your mind, your vision, your beliefs – don’t give up your power by
not bothering. Have a focus on a discipline of some sort that makes money and stick with
it, otherwise you’ll be saying “Do you want fries with that?” or “Can I pour you
another?” like the little economic bitch boy that you’ve allowed yourself to become.

Insults designed to motivate aside, game leads to money and money leads to better game
which leads to more and more money creating a positive feedback cycle. Poverty is
oppressive, it is the opposite of what I just described a negative feedback cycle, it’s
what keeps you from ascertaining greatness, poverty is socially accepted slavery – as in
you work for a pay cheque that doesn’t liberate you from your condition of drudgery
because it demands a high time investment in return for a low financial return. Most
people in poverty for much of their life accept their position and die miserable, trying to
anesthetise themselves with porn, cheap games and alcohol because they’ve’ given up on
themselves – don’t be that guy, be a competitor.

More money means more opportunity, more opportunity means more growth. Money is
the single most powerful non-sentient object in existence; it is a decimalised
measurement of objective power which each and every life needs to continue to exist. Get
money, lots and lots of fucking money. Philosophically it means little, as a measurement
of power it means everything. For those who have none it is everything, for those who
have plenty it is nothing (because they’re already enjoying the lifestyle, have excess and
thus perceive and spend less personally, again, another topic – I’m a serial digresser)

Aesthetics/Beauty:
This is way more important for a woman than it is a man but don’t think because you’re a
man your looks are irrelevant, beauty privilege is a real thing, good looking people get
perks ugly people don’t. Sure you can get one night lays and be an ugly motherfucker in

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the right situations but we’re talking about power here, not simply getting laid on one
random night where logistics are right and you demonstrate high enough value in other
areas.

Why neglect one cornerstone of power when you can be even more powerful by giving this
area its due attention? It goes without saying, go down the gym, not only does it increase
your strength physically but it improves how you look. It gives you a body you feel you can
look at and respect. It increases your testosterone and your drive, mentally invigorating
you as you get stronger and stronger.

Maintain your hair, facial and head hair, a badly groomed man makes an ugly man. Dress
well, a poorly dressed man communicates low status in the sense that he is either poor,
stupid or both – people judge us very much so on our superficialities so be sure to
overcome everything you have control over. If you’re a midget, your cocks small or you
have some chronic non-treatable condition or deformity then you’re going have to deal
with it, that’s life, compensate in other ways, these things will stop you from achieving a
perfectionist ideal of power because their drawbacks are significant, however, they will
not stop you from being powerful if you’ve got your mind right so don’t use that shit as an
excuse to cop out and give up. If you give up on yourself then enjoy being
powerless because nobody else gives a fuck.

Practical skill sets:


While you’re young you learn at your quickest, the older you get the harder it is to learn
and the slower you learn specifically useful skills (EG: foreign languages) so get it out of
the way right now, A.S.A.P, treat your learning like a woman’s biological clock running out
of eggs, get it done and get it done whilst the conditions are at their best, it’s never too late
but why make life any harder than it needs to be?

Examples of skill sets which boost your social market value significantly are:

– Having an understanding of any discipline – e.g.: cooking, building, plumbing, DIY, car
mechanics, etc.

– Dancing, basically it’s a human mating call – choose a style that suits your personality.

– Speaking multiple languages – shows intelligence, sophistication and opens up social


circles which would otherwise be closed to you due to language barrier, e.g. “my Spanish
crew” “my Arab boys” etc. Contrary to popular ignorant Anglo sphere belief there’s a lot of
likeable people who could enrich your life that don’t know English and of course an entire
ocean of pussy.

– The application and demonstration of physical strength – martial arts, although it is a


physical discipline it is psychologically different from the other disciplines listed, knowing
how to kick the shit out of people does a lot for a man’s sense of confidence and thus his
attractiveness to everyone around him, you can protect you and yours, anybody who
messes with you or your friends will face a force to be reckoned with. If there’s ever a
zombie apocalypse you can go down snapping some heads off, there’s no reason to neglect
this it’s something every man can work on and acquire.

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It goes without saying that all these goals are easier to accomplish without a serious long-
term girlfriend monopolising your precious neurons with her phatic unimportant babble
and irrational emotionally cacophonous small-minded concerns.

You’re looking at the bigger picture, your average 20’s girl is thinking about getting dicked
by an alpha, what she should wear, why did she feel that way earlier and how will she feel
if she does “such and such”, what do her friends think of her? Blah-de-fucking-blah. Fuck
that noise, spin them as plates but don’t give away significant commitment until you hit
your 30’s, that way you can clean up on the hot young twenty somethings and have your
pick of the litter because your SMV will be sky high.

It’s tough to be a man, you have to work for it, you don’t bust out into the world with a low
cut top at 18 being the object of desire for 50% of the population, it takes a lot of blood,
sweat and tears as well as years upon years of both economic and personal graft. This is
why your twenties isn’t “your time to have fun because you’re young” but it’s
your time to “build your life and become the man that you want to be”, if you’re
not going to do it now when you’re at your most malleable and most energetic, when the
fuck are you going to do it? In your 30’s? Your 40’s? Forever a teenager condemned to
playing Xbox and masturbating to porn streams? You can do that, plenty do and what
they get to enjoy is a limited existence, you’ll never get powerful being that guy although
you may find joy in the acceptance of your comfortable monotony, your rut.

To sum up, it goes without saying: Use your 20’s to become the man you want to be, to
acquire power of all and any kind, in your 30’s enjoy the power you’ve accrued and enjoy
being the man you’ve built, supplementing and maintaining what you have built so that
you can enjoy it way into your 40’s. The quest for power is never truly over, but a 20’s
man has a long way to go before he becomes powerful enough to be in the top 5% (aim
high fuckers!)

Your elders, especially the accomplished ones, may fear you out of self-preservation but
play your cards right and they will mentor you with experience and resources, seeing a
younger version of them, within you. Godspeed my brothers!

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