With a culture and governmental structure biased against men and favoring women, you’d think western men would do everything possible to minimize our disadvantages. Strangely, there’s at least one way even a lot of red pill men (or at least red pill candidates) are working against themselves.

There seems to be plenty of self-help info out in the manosphere, ranging from physical fitness to psychological coaching and even wardrobe advice–all aimed at fostering self-improvement.

What I’m about to share comes from statistics, which means I’ll be speaking in generalities. If you’re an exception, then that’s great.

The disadvantage has been there for quite a while, but it’s become much worse over the last 20-25 years.

To put it simply: men watch TV instead of reading.

Forget about the socio-sexual hierarchy for a moment; I’m going to introduce a whole different use for prefixes like “alpha” and “beta.” These describe two different states your brain can be in. In the beta mode, your mind is active–you generate ideas; you analyze critically; you solve problems; your imagination exercises. The theta mode takes over your brain during REM sleep or, with some people, meditation, and only your subconscious is active. During the delta phase your brain rests, and your body heals.

Then there is the alpha phase, in which your mind is most receptive to outside influence, “optimal for programming” according to scientists. In other words: at your most vulnerable to suggestion. It is literally a trance state–a necessary segue into hypnosis which hypnotherapists are trained to induce. And audio-visual stimulus can get most people there in a matter of seconds.

I used the phrase “audio-visual stimulus” to include movies, videos, and anything you can watch on television. Hours of Facebook, Twitter and other types of internet surfing can get you there, too, but not as quickly.

Reading, however, puts your brain in the beta mode. Your mind stays sharp; critical reasoning is often strengthened; imagination gets exercise.

While America is dumbed-down to greater and greater degrees across all demographics, women are still much more likely to read voluntarily, after high school, than men. This has a lot to do with the indocrination industry educational component of our feminized culture. Public schools are designed to teach girls, and boys don’t learn the same ways. The less a boy gets out of the female-biased teaching methods, the worse a student he is and the more the system tries to force him to learn like a girl. Reading seems like just another form of torture to him and by the time he graduates, he’ll avoid it if at all possible.

If you want to hide something from the average public-educated male, put it in a book.

Have you noticed how many white nights and manginas there are in the male population? Not just among the couch potatoes and geeks, but even among alpha dogs at the top of their chosen fields in business, sports or the military, etc. And political persuasion makes little difference! There seem to be just as many feminista males on the right as the left.

Joe Blow was a poor student, so public schools may not have been able to feminize him to the degree they wanted to. But he came home every day and sat in front of the idiot box, and with his guard down in the Entertain Me mode (alpha/trance) the thought cops went to work on him.

Joe Blow may have had differing levels of resistance to different types of conditioning, which is why there are plenty of white knight manginas who lean “conservative” (whatever that means) and notice catch the media in some of its deception. But it’s going to be nearly impossible to make him swallow the red pill when it comes to the female of the species. You can’t compete with three-to-five hours a day of conditioning during a trance state (plus what his mother likely taught him). That conditioning hasn’t been challenged in his entire life.

Was it hard for you to get over your one-itus or other cultural programming? Is some of it still difficult? Like uprooting a tree that’s been carefully nurtured over the course of years or decades?

Is your critical reasoning not as sharp as you wish it were? Does problem solving not come as easily as you think it should? Do you have a lack of imagination impairing you from advancing at your job?

The way you’ve been choosing to inform and entertain yourself could have a lot to do with it.