Roosh Valizadeh

Daryush "Roosh" Valizadeh created ROK in October 2012. You can visit his blog at RooshV.com or follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

A society which most values intelligence will create men of knowledge.

A society which most values money will create scoundrels.

A society which most values entertainment will create celebrities.

A society which most values equality will create helplessness.

A society which most values aesthetics will create beauty and art.

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A society which most values war will create death.

A society which most values women will create weak men.

What does your society value?

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48 Responses

  2. sway

    My society values duck face pictures and Kim Kardashian. What will it create?

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      • sway

        I feel guilty by saying this, but I like some of those cat videos. Cats are retarded.

        • Ozzo

          Cats are the shit. You just gotta treat ’em like women and they’ll love you. I ignored my cat and the bastard jumped into my lap.

        • sway

          They are actually a pretty good model for how girls act. The dancing string theory.

        • Markus

          Lots of “manly men” have disdain for cats. It’s interesting how much the attitude changes when you’re talking to a group of farmers.

          To farmers, cats are a farm’s security force. Their keen ears can swivel like satellite dishes to locate, via echo-detection, chirps from mice and rats that are too high-pitched for human ears to detect. Cats guard grain stores and go out on patrol in crop fields to keep the vermin population in check.

          And it’s fun to watch a cat deftly climb a tree and totally ruin a bird’s shit, purely for sport. Cats don’t even like eating birds; too many feathers and beaks.

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  3. Loc

    Might be fun to turn the positive ones into negative ones and the other way around. After all, every type of society has its ups and downs.

    A society which most values intelligence will not create a society with strong leaders.
    A society which most values money will be consumed by materialism.
    A society which most values entertainment will create stagnation.
    A society which most values equality will create stagnation.
    A society which most values aesthetics will create, yes, stagnation.
    A society which most values war will create strength and perseverance.
    A society which most values women will… Okay, I’m stuck on this one.

    • Richard W1

      A society that values wealth will create comfort

      A society that values a wealthy image will create materialism and discomfort

  4. I tried

    A society which most values the hamster will create mass “hamsteria”

    Quite hamsterical indeed.

  6. Mark

    A society which values delusions will create Hollywood.
    A society which values feeling-based logic will create Oprah.

    • Mark

      Currently on Showtime in the U.S.:
      “SEXY BABY
      An ex-adult film star, a 12 year old girl and a 22 year old who yearns for “normal” private parts are chronicled in this thought provoking documentary about how pornography, social media and pop culture affect women and girls.”


      sho.com/sho/reality-docs/titles/3364049/sexy-baby#/index

      They blame the internet, and everything but the effects of feminism.

      • P Ray

        If you’ve seen this in full (and I have), they blame men too.
        Problem is, they are parading for the attention of the top 10% men … but since they don’t know who they are or how to get introduced to them, show themselves off to other guys, then say “Men are all alike”.
        No honey, just the ones you like …
        they fail to realise that a man with options … also has the options to leave them.
        And a regular guy, can now do his own thing or pay for it (Men are always paying for it).
        P.S. The porn star says that “pornography is bad”. While managing an adult entertainment business. Sheer hilarity and hypocrisy!

  7. Rael

    If I was in a cynical mood, I’d say money.
    Since I’m not: what my society values most is freedom.

    • Psychonaut

      A society which most values dignity will create freedom.

      “In the peace talks the government delegates have confessed that they have studied in order to learn about dignity and that they have been unable to understand it. They ask the Zapatista delegates to explain what is dignity. The Zapatistas laugh, after months of pain they laugh. Their laughter echoes and escapes unto the high wall behind which arrogance hides its fear. The Zapatista delegates laugh even when the dialogue ends, and they are giving their report. Everyone who hears them laughs, and the laughter re-arranges faces which have been hardened by hunger and betrayal. The Zapatistas laugh in the mountains of the Mexican southeast and the sky cannot avoid infection by that laughter and the peals of laughter emerge. The laughter is so great that tears arise and it begins to rain as though the laughter were a gift for the dry land…

    • Ruxman

      I’m not in a cynical mood either, I say expression. That comes in the form of meaningful art that was been developed through hard work and time, but with valuing expression and denigrating it also comes tawdry tumblr accounts and intsagram with posing pics.

  8. Natalia

    A society which most values family will create ethical and moral

    A society which most values family will create healthy children and good birth rate

    A society which most values family will create education

    A society which most values family will create better woman and better man

    A society which most values family will create low divorce rates, no abortion, no feminism society

    A society which most values family will create better human beings on average than this crazy society we live

    A society which most values family will create real happiness

    A society which most values family simply doesn’t exist anymore

    I really don’t understand many things about politics, economics or whatever. I just saw my grandparents today (53 years married, many children/grandchildren) and I saw real happiness on them. But in their time, they had values, people knew who they are… What we have today!? Anyway, I don’t know why I’m complaining about that in a man blog… I don’t know the real point of this blog, but some posts here makes me think about it. Makes me remember that I miss something that I will never have/had in this new world I’m living.

    (sooorry bad english, not my mother tongue :/)

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    • Peter Nolan

      Natalia,
      women killed the family. Get over it. I was the most family of family men and I was so abused in divorce I was driven to the edge of suicide. I tell all young western men NEVER get married. NEVER have children. I tell them if they really want such to leave the west and settle in Germany or places further east. But that is likely only an interim measure.

      When you have men who were so family oriented as me openly, publicly, in my own name, prepared to give such advice in books to young men? You know just how badly men are treated in divorce. Here, you can read my second book. This is what I am telling young men. It has had about 5,000 downloads now.

      By the way? I disowned my former children. Their children will never see their grand father. They will never witness what you saw today. Why? Because one greedy selfish woman wanted to steal from a good man and EVERYONE helped her do it.

      You seem to have no idea of the backlash coming the way of young women. It is going to be very bad.

      http://www.mensbusinessassociation.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=hNKVd0Hr7bU%3d&tabid=753&mid=1703

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      • Natalia

        Hello Peter!

        I confess that I’m quite lost and insecure to answer you. You are a man with far more experiences, while I’m a girl of 90s generation. We live in different countries (I’m from South America and you from somewhere in North, I guess). But I still want to tell you what you made me think…

        I mean, the presence of my father was (and is) really important to me and my brother. He and my mother had many problems during their marriage too, but even though my mom resisted to divorce, because in deep she knew that my father between me and my brother is more important than any privilege she could get from a divorce. My country valued more the family in the time my mom was raised and educated though.

        Anyway, these bad changes in modern world and woman is not just bad for good man. Women like your ex, are destroying good men that good women want to marry. I still hope to build a family one day and raise my kids with their father around. Could be hard to fight for this, because our modern society doesn’t give many changes for girl who has dreams like mine, or family men like you. We just can’t know who is bad or who is good, cause these people are lost between so many people like your ex…

        Peter, I wish you best! I will read your book and see your point

        (again, forgive my poor english…)

    • Ovid

      Very perceptive observations, Natalia. Unfortunately, a variety of factors have conspired to kill respect for the family in Western societies today. Now, these societies only value individual pleasure and whims. The results of this destructive selfishness are clear when we see the shallow and vapid materialism which surrounds us today.

      • Natalia

        Thanks for increase important stataments which I didn’t think about it Ovid!

        Well, I just don’t really get for what these factors are working for. What I have in my mind is that it was the societies which valued family, built progress. Now I just see many countries are developing (like mine) others not (some in Europe), but all them has a population getting more empty and degenerate.

    • Richard W1

      A society that values selfishness will create poverty.

      A society that values government will create inefficiency.

  10. M_C_Hammer

    Fidelity. Which is pretty damning given all the stuff I’ve taken in from your sites. Not that your wrong.

  11. CMLiu

    Money. It does create quite a few scoundrels, but it also creates the richest and most livable places outside the Western world.

  12. J DOE

    A short, simple post but incredibly wise. This is why I read Roosh’s stuff

  13. Markus

    Let’s play a game, lads: Match each statement to an example, past or present:

    A society which most values intelligence will create men of knowledge (Ancient Greece).

    A society which most values money will create scoundrels (Hanseatic League?).

    A society which most values entertainment will create celebrities (United States / United Kingdom).

    A society which most values equality will create helplessness (USSR).

    A society which most values aesthetics will create beauty and art (Italy).

    A society which most values war will create death (Sparta).

    A society which most values women will create weak men (UNKNOWN; no such society has survived).

    *I matched the US with valuing “entertainment” instead of valuing “women” because female-centric magazines and websites are about entertaining women more than anything else, and also because I find modern feminism both misandrist and misogynist.

  14. Cyrus

    Just look at where all the money and fame goes to will determine what society values most. Verbal compliments and politically correct sound bites don’t mean a fucking thing. Oh yes doctors are highly “respected” or do-gooders get enough smoke blown up their asses on asinine shows and presentations like CNN. It’s all where the money, fame and bow-down respect goes to. Currently in the States it’s all about our celebrities, athletes, and violent, prison ridden assholes. And unfortunately, it’s the said celebrities, athletes and prison thugs that chicks want to fuck.

  15. bwidas

    ummmm…isnt that a ganymede vase in the illustration? pretty much sums up the problem with not valuing women

    • Stuki

      And sufficiently virtuous to defend it against those who’d restrict it, at that!

    • Phinn

      You have it backwards — freedom helps create more virtuous people.

      A closed, bureaucratic, stifled society allows corrupt, jealous, back-biting cowards to flourish.

      In a freer society, there’s an omnipresent threat of failure and ostracism, which promotes virtues like honesty, cooperation, industry, and weeds out the vice-ridden scumbags.

  17. Whitehall

    A society that values the New York Times creates the Internet.

    • Stuki

      With resources, both intellectual and capital, accumulated back when the NYT was paper enough to have Henry Hazlitt as it’s economics editor….

  18. Stuki

    And a society which values the babble of anyone presented as an “expert” on TV and in state funded indoctrination institutions, will create a progressive Dystopia.

    Which is something “my” society values destroying every piece, sliver and supporter of. The sooner and more completely, the better.

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  19. JS

    Plato argued that a society that values justice will be just, but a society that values military strength will create poverty, a society that values money will create inequality, a society that values equality will create tyranny.

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  20. dead american soldiers

    my society values the jews as the chosen people of god, it values israel as its most important ally and strategic partner, thus my society enters into proxy wars and sends our soldiers to die for israel, and we are hated amongst many nations for it.

  21. james

    A society that most values war will indeed produce death. But also an aesthetic ideal of beauty. Strangely enough the two go together.

  22. Sam Spade

    I’m an individual with my own values; fuck “society.”

  23. Bill Cruice

    OUCH.
    Short, to the point, accurate, and as a result… PAINFUL for the US.

  24. Daniel Sharkey

    American society certainly does NOT value its warriors. They treated us like shit when I was in the Marine Corps. The scum of Hollywood continue to trash American Sniper. This country makes me sick to my stomach.

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