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[Debate] Is inhibition a rational brain protection mechanism

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I found this post by @GeneticFilth interesting.

Yes, I actually had it right at the start and thought people just hated me because I was ugly, but nope, I had to go online and read all this cope about immersion therapy and I tried emulating people better looking than me and it just made my situation 10x worse. My anxiety and nervousness was my brain protecting me all along.

This aligns with most (but not all) of my personal experience. The psychologist profession is usually critical of inhibition, but in some cases inhibition can actually protect you from damage, not merely psychological but also social and possibly physical. Being punished for stepping out of line can happen. Being publicly humiliated can happen. In my teenage years I tried to act cool despite looking like a subhuman freak and got punished quite a few times for my lack of self-awareness.

On the other hand, there are definitely cases in which inhibition is unwarranted and low inhibition is actually more socially rewarded. The older you get, the more inhibition is unwarranted.
 
Inhibition does serve as a natural protective mechanism. In your little rebuttal there you talked about how there are some cases where it is most certainly better to be lower inhibition but that isn't a good argument because no protective mechanism is perfect. Pain serves as a protective mechanism so you know we don't kill ourselves by accident, but at the same time it is the biggest weakness in physical confrontations and we would fare off way better by not feeling pain in inevitable fights. It is not perfect, but it is good and rational. I feel certain my inhibition is there for good reason.
 
Taken from user Master Yoda on youtube:
Here's a crash course on what the word confidence truly means:

”Confidence is a self assured feeling (free of self doubt), that one will achieve a positive outcome, based on previous performance accomplishment”

You can only as be as confident with a woman, as she allows you to be, this means that if you are interacting with a woman, and she is giving you negative, combative body language (eg. the silent treatment), dirty looks, one word answers etc, your confidence (or self assured feeling), will plummet, because you know you're being rejected. On the other hand, if a woman is giving you warm, inviting body language (e.g. she moves in on your personal space), she constantly smiles at you, touches you etc, then your self assured feeling will rise, because you know that there's a good chance you are going to get laid. When women say they are attracted to confidence, what they are really saying is that they are attracted to tall handsome men who have the confidence to approach us after we have them the green light to do so.

Telling an ugly man to just have confidence, is like pouring syrup on shit, and calling it pancakes.

The bottom line is this is, confidence is the byproduct of success, not the cause of it.
What I think of myself as a person (whether positive or negative), is fucking irrelevant, as it is women who are the choosers, and as such they play judge, jury and executioner with regards to gauging your true sexual market value. And if you had any idea how male-female sexual relationships work, you would know that women PRESELECT the men they want based on his looks and race.

The basic take-away here is that confidence without prior success is delusion and also that you can't be confident in matters that are beyond your control. I can never be confident in courting women because my SMV is low and can't be improved. I can never be confident in literature either since I have no grasp of metaphor. Now I do think it is imperative for us to minimize inhibition as much as possible by gaining as much mastery as possible over things that can assist us in our will to power.
 
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