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Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 1: Status-Lust and Self-Loathing Paperback – August 11, 2017

by Andy Nowicki (Author)

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"We live in a time in which males are all adrift at how to properly 'become men.' Books are written on the subject, and seminars are frequently conducted by ostensible gurus of masculinity. But most of these books and seminars focus not on manliness per se, but on the achievement of “high status” manliness. The guys entering into this course of “study” don’t typically want to just become men; rather, they ache to transform themselves into high-rolling alpha male studmuffins—they crave, in short, to become the sort of men who are wanted by women and envied by other men. What they seek is thus not really “manhood,” but rather a certain flavor of triumphant and triumphalist masculinity, the masculinity of “winning.” They seek to attain high status. It is status, more than money or even sex, that men covet the most in other men. That is to say, they covet the fact that other men besides themselves are the ones being coveted."

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Paperback: 42 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 11, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1974469263
ISBN-13: 978-1974469260
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.1 x 9 inches
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Jay's Truth X

Status: The Third Rail of Masculinity?

February 16, 2018

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In this brief treatise Nowicki delves deep into the reality of the male status system. He takes on this subject despite it being perhaps one of the most important, but least analyzed, aspects of the modern masculine psyche.

However, Nowicki does not use academic studies in psychology or anthropology in order to break down the masculine status system and how it affects the individual. Instead, Nowicki looks inward and tries to discover how being a low-status male himself has formed his life and his habits of thought. The results of this self-analysis are painful, yet profound. They are also heart-breaking and in the best of literary tradition.

I mostly enjoyed Nowicki's comparison of himself to his father. It seems that Nowicki has seen in his father a type of male that will inevitably be high-status, and he has seen in himself the type of make that will inevitably be measured as low-status. Nowicki suggests that "status" is not written into the genetic code nor does it really depend ultimately on one's wealth, but it is a matter of personality and how others perceive you and then elevate or demote you based on that perception. Make status can also be measured in the real world by success with women.

Nowicki's "Ruminations" has forced me to reassess the strategies I have used in my own life to deal with and refute the reality of the male status system. Since I was young enough to sense that a male status hierarchy exists, I have lived with the idea that I am "X" person. I based this on Paul Fussell' book "Class" where he writes it is best to endeavor to be in the "X" class, or a social class that is indefinable to the outer world; that doesn't communicate its status at all. I even developed a revisionist history about my high school friends and our clique based on this idea, believing that we constituted sort of an "X" class ourselves as we weren't necessarily high status, but we were not low status either. Nowicki's Ruminations has forced me to reassess that history and makes me wonder how status is actually conferred on men.

Nowicki continues to be one of the only classic literary and artistic voices identified with the American Alternative Right. It may confuse some that he rarely writes about race, but he always has his eye focused on power and modernity; and like the best in western literature, he attempts to look deep into the abyss of all those petty little everyday tyrannies of human nature that utopia falsely promises to eliminate, but which continue to afflict our souls and darken our minds.

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May 14, 2018

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A helpful voice in a time of silence.

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