The Bible says “Judge not,” and “Judge them by their fruits.” Popular, PUA and self-help culture are similarly confused. Are we to possess sound judgment, yet not exercise it? Such schizophrenia is not feasible – it is not even coherent.
Rather than throw out tested, time-honored tradition like a filthy liberal, let us correct our theory to reflect the facts. There are multiple levels of judgments, not one. Spiritual judgment occupies the highest moral valence. Intellectual judgment concerns probabilities and analysis. Monkey judgment is affect based and subcommunicated.
The danger of possessing a righteous spirit and a keenly discerning intellect is that one’s monkey judgment will become chronically stimulated, thus destroying one’s morale and charisma. The more sincere one’s spiritual commitment, the greater the tendency and danger.
The solution is two-fold. First, one must recognize monkey judgment as a separate level. Otherwise one risks calibrating monkey judgment at the cost of miscalibrating higher and more essential levels.
Secondly, one must establish a flexible method of controlling monkey judgment. It must be flexible, because there is no one single adaptive amplitude of monkey judgment. Neither happy hippy nor crusty curmudgeon get anywhere. E.g., the well-notched PUA flexes his degree of monkey judgment to the girl’s, crunching through exterior to get to the juicy middle.
It’s no different than an iris, which must constrict or open its aperture to accommodate the appropriate amount of light.
Most people do not need deliberate control over their Monkey Judgment Iris (MJI) because their spiritual and moral values are broadly in line with society. Thus their natural behavior will be accepted, expected and adaptive.
However, a second-generation Christian reactionary, or indeed anyone who is several standard deviations removed from the acceptable range of herd morality, will find he must exercise the strictest control to avoid being crippled.
This insight brought to you by the koanic process under PUA stress testing.