While I had trouble with Red Pill Rage as a younger man, Captain, I was fortunate enough to go through that stage in the 80s when our society and it’s mores weren’t as horrific as they are now. Like you, I’m also a combat vet, have received counseling for PSTD, and saw shipmates and squadmates over nearly three decades utterly destroyed by the women in their lives.
As a young man I was not only full of rage, I was also verbally aggressive regarding not only what was then called the “battle of the sexes” but many other issues too. Several semesters on the debate team and classes in rhetoric allowed my to talk rings around most people. I could reduce people to tears, often got into physical fights because of my mouth, and was quickly becoming someone even my extended family wasn’t eager to see. A couple personal failures and a long deployment gave me the impetus and opportunity to begin cooling down some. Later, a bachelor uncle who I know realize was MGTOW gave me a copy of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations.
It was Stoicism along with active duty in the military which started me towards true adulthood. I look back on the young man I was and, while I understand why I behaved the way I did, I still cringe.
Getting back to your question, all I can say is there are no magic bullets. You’re going to have to work on first controlling your rage and then letting it go. Fortunately, as a vet, you’re no stranger to hard work or the success which comes from it.
Let me introduce the concept of Time, Distance, and Shielding now. You’ve most likely heard of it before with regards to radiation exposure. In order to limit your exposure, you reduce the time you’re near the source, increase your distance from the source, and/or place shielding between you and the source. If you apply this concept towards those things which induce rage in you, you can begin to control and eventually let go of your rage.
Limit your time dealing with women, manginas, simps, and the like.
Distance yourself from media featuring the same.
Shield yourself be developing mental habits which buttress yourself from the tumult around you.
Time and distance are the easiest to achieve. You need to ditch Facebook and internet newsfeeds, drop Blue Pill friends and acquaintances, avoid mass media, kill your TV, and all the other things we routinely talk about here.
Shielding will be tougher because shielding requires you to make changes within yourself. You’re already aware of certain techniques thanks to the PTSD counseling you mentioned. There are others which may or may not work for you. The same holds true regarding philosophy; you may find it helpful or you may not. Just how you build your “shielding” doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you try.
Finally, I’m very certain aging helped me let got of my rage. Telling to you wait for the years to pass while you’re living in pain isn’t the best advice, but things will get better.
Good luck, Captain. We’re all here if you need to vent and we’re all pulling for you.
Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.
Crazy Canuck 3 years, 9 months ago.
