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Robert

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Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

The mess exists.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

As Jordan Peterson would say, make your bed.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

When was the last time you made your bed, Robert Evans?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

I built a bed once.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Okay.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

That wasn't the question.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

It wasn't a good bed.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

So once you have these categories, once you've come up with, you've decided these are the categories all people fit into, you have to have an explanation for why these categories exist in the first place, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

It kind of begs the question.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

So the incels start posting pictures of themselves and of each other, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And they start posting pictures of people that they think are chads and alphas to try and suss out the rules behind who is attractive enough to find love.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And they come across...

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

a real term in mathematics and in art called the golden ratio.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

I'm sure most people know what the golden ratio is, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

It's a term that explains this particular set of proportions we see over and over again in natural objects like snail shells, but also people seem to find this basic visual harmony that is created by the golden ratio pleasant.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And so you see evidence of the golden ratio all across human art, in great architecture, in fine art like the Mona Lisa,

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

The golden ratio is all over the fucking place.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

It's a real observed phenomenon, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And all it means is that for whatever reason, we find certain kind of proportions more attractive and pleasing to our eyes, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

What incels take from this is that