H.C.Anderson famously penned and collected many european fairy tales and published them many of which became household names. One of these is the tale of the Ugly Duckling. writing by himself in 1842. There is an ugly duckling, it is bullied,treated harshly for being ugly,being different. But later on, we learn that the duckling is a swan and he grows to become beautiful "unlike" those ducks and lives happily ever after with the swans. I have a simple problem with this tale. I heard it growing up many times and I hated it all the same. And I have, now reading up a bit on the blackpill adopted a idea created from the story. "What about the ugly duckling"? That is, eventhough this particular duckling became a swan. Gene theory, dictates that there is nothing stopping an actual ugly duckling which is not a swan to be born. Indeed, such ducks are born. Not just ducks ofc. Say those bright birds that dance for female selection, peacocks and such. Isn't by the result of natural selection there will be peacocks who aren't as beautiful who wouldn't be selected? Going back to the duck, the story doesn't fundamentally crack down on the bullying and alienating, i simply proposes, that the something chance happens and the duck is free. At the end, the duck's fate isn't changed because it does x or does y, but something beyond itself, it's genetic code is what saves it. The story is trying to talk against lookism and blackpill genetic determinism but circle backs to justify it. So whenever, a normie tries to criticize the blackpill by saying x made it, or even something absurd like "a majority of y group makes it" the idea flashes in my head. That you have failed to accomodate those that do not. There must be an actual ugly duckling. Not all of us can be swans. And that is in essense the blackpill.
nah, but first thread. I'll do better next time. Thanks for the crit tho
