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  • The Menu

  • Life Without the Opposite Sex
  • By: Aaron Clarey
  • Narrated by: Jack Napier
  • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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The Menu

By: Aaron Clarey
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Summary

For all of human history, men and women came together to form families. It may have been common, it may have been routine, but that is what they did. Generation after generation, for all of human history, men and women formed families.

That is until now.

Because with advances in technology, incredible economic growth, a generous welfare state, and the political movement of feminism, men and women no longer need each other in order to survive. And as much as we'd like to deny it, when given the choice, men and women are empirically and increasingly choosing to be alone. By 2030, 45 percent of marriage-age women are forecasted to be single, rendering the same percent of men equally so. 70 percent of both men and women are overweight, indicating little serious interest in attracting a mate. Marriage ranks fifth place on women's priority list. And one in three marrying-age men live with their parents. And all that with crippling college debt that makes having a family a luxury most will never afford.

But the solution is not to reverse or somehow undo the forces that got us here. Those political, economic, and sociological forces are simply unstoppable. Marriage is not coming back, certainly not in your lifetime. The solution is to give up hope. The solution is to stoically accept this fate. Because whether you'd like to admit it or not, only one in every two of you are going to get married (and only one in eight of you who do will be happy!). And thus the real risk you face is not “never getting married” or “never having a family”, but wasting your one and preciously short life pursuing something that is statistically unlikely to happen.

Unfortunately, this dark reality leaves half the population in an existential lurch. Without family, marriage, love, or a loving spouse, what do people have to live for in life? You are here, after all, and you have to do something with your 80 years of consciousness on this planet. So unless you're going to kill yourself, your existence forces you to find a purpose and reason to live. You cannot merely “exist”. And so, most people today and into the future are faced with the arduous task of finding purpose and meaning in life, absent the opposite sex.

Thus, The Menu.

Though humanity has never been to the point where women and men abandoned one another before, that doesn't mean there is not a limitless number of things life offers that gives it value. Whether it's hobbies, vice, philosophy, religion, your career, or your friends, the world offers a limitless menu for you to choose from. A never-ending buffet of things you can do, pursue, enjoy, and become during your 80 year visit here. And while it may not be what two million years of genetics are screaming at you to want, it's superior to falling in love and having a family, simply because it's possible. It's at least on The Menu. And so you face a very simple question. Do you want to spend yet another night at home, playing video games, jerking off to porn, and downing some Mountain Dew? Do you want to drink another bottle...or two...of wine while you watch yet another Hallmark movie? Or do you want to put on your big girl panties, cowboy up, acknowledge there is no one out there for you, and make this life count as much as you possibly can?

You're going to die. There's no doubt about that. The question is if you're going to live. Order something from The Menu.

©2022 Aaron Clarey (P)2022 Aaron Clarey
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A must-read book for Men

loved the book , this a map for men to progress and be aware of what is coming in the future. I have listened to it 5x times so far.
please, men, listen to this book several times and until it sinks in your mind and takes action. the world will take advantage of man who lacks knowledge.

Please read it several times

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Delivers

As alway Aaron delivers, the best type of book to keep you going black pill, read the Menu

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the honesty of ot

a must read for manhood and for men seeking to make the most of what life the have to live. buy it at your own benefit

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A bit like panning for gold..

There's the odd fleck of gold in here, but you have to sift through a lot of fluff to find each one, however, this is made harder, bordering on rage inducing, due to the narrator.

I couldn't decide if the narrator was just AI text to speech generated or a human raised by a couple of different robots that had conflicting accents programmed into them as his robotic tone (yet conflicting stochastic delivery) coupled with unusual pronunciation of some words is on par with a large bag of mixed musical instruments falling down a long flight of stairs, in that it was linguistic jazz and it made the book a very hard listen for me.

In summary, the book could have been put together better as it feels like random disparate musings smushed together buried in a superfluous couple of hours of (hard to listen to) filler content, however, there were some valuable, pivotal and thought provoking points.

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Disappointing

Been a fan of Aaron's work for some time, I enjoy how he blends his background in economics with social observations between men and women.

I think I've read all his books, besides Poor Richard Retirement, and I think that's why I found this disappointing.

The Menu seems to be an amalgamation of all his previous works, really nothing new, no new insights or any authentic hard hitting home truths as he has become known for.

Hopefully Aaron's next release will be more different and have some original concepts, as apposed to rehashed takes from BPE and TBoN.

Also, Jack Napier is a very good narrator.

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