“They are They are men who commonly have an extraordinary aptitude for the game but beyond this men who have become drunk on it, men lost in the subtle, abstract liquors of variation, pattern and victory, men who live for the game, who want it and need it as other men might want gold, or others power and women, or others the rolled, narcotic strings of toxic kanda.”
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When a person gets so involved in one aspect of Gorean life, to the point to where they are no longer a living Gorean? The quote shows a man can be overly obsessed with others powers or women, but can they also be consumed to the search for power or women that are not necessarily someone else’, but certainly not their own?
If the fictional Goreans can offset balance in their lives to detrimental results, how much more could someone on Earth living out of balance become essentially of no earthly good?
Any obsession in anyone, no matter how they live their life, can destroy their life.
her cousin has three children who hate him, a wife who walked out, and he works just enough to afford an apartment and cheap food, after his mother kicked him out (she let him move back, but set 6 months as the maximum). He’s late 40s and pathetic, his life revolving around playing video games in a room with blackout curtains.
her brother is much the same, just a decade younger, childless (thank goodness!), perpetually single (no wonder!), lived off her grandmother’s largesse for almost a decade as an adult, and is obsessed with anime and manga instead of video games.
Both are pathetic excuses for humans, let alone men.
Players are tolerated because everyone on Gor loves the game. They are still obsessive, and to her they don’t fit into what she views as a Gorean Man: One who chooses His own path (yes) and masters Himself (no). Someone who obsesses over anything to the point that the rest of their life suffers and possibly falls apart is not a benefit to society, and they certainly aren’t mastering themself.