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How do you break a man?

>> No.2977602

Break his bones, duh.

>> No.2977601

>inb4 facebook level answers like "you can't"

>> No.2977603

>>2977591
Patiently passively waiting is enough.

>> No.2977605

Give him a social security number and force him to work 9 - 5 for 40 years.

>> No.2977638

Well, unlike this faggot >>2977601 Im gonna go out on a whim and say you can't.

The harder you push a man the harder he will push back. It may not be instantaneous, but even the most pathetic shell of a man will lash out at you when you put him in the right conditions.

You cant really 'break' a man to the point where he gives up and accepts defeat. Unless it's for a universal just cause, he will always harbor hatred and resentment towards himself, and even more so for the man that made him bow down in shame. He may even secretly plot revenge until the day he dies.

You either destroy the man, or let him be. I really dont think you can break one, though.

>> No.2977640

The harder you push a man the taller he stands.

>> No.2977645

Inflate his ego. Watch it pop.

>> No.2977648

Get him married.


Am i rite fellas? Who's with me?

>> No.2977649

Teach him to believe that he is not what he is meant to be.

Then don't tell him what he has to become. Watch him tear himself apart.

>> No.2977652

>>2977638
>longwinded rehashing of a Hemingway quote

>> No.2977653

>people answering intentionally vague and meaningless questions

why?

>> No.2977656

>>2977605
This. And commercialization.

>> No.2977670

When I picture this question done in the setting of a gathering, I am reminded of the scene from Conan, where they ask him what is best in life. In this case, the question is "How do you break a man?"

Conan would say: "I take an arm in each hand, then I pull, then he breaks."

But I can tell you what broke me. That is the feeling that the future is without hope, that it can never be better than it was in the past, and that like a man who sees his last sunset, he is filled with a longing to redo his life, but knows that he cannot. The impossibility of changing the past is what breaks a man.

>> No.2977674

Nobody can withstand torture.

>> No.2977677

>>2977674
Tens of thousands did, bro.

>> No.2977700

>But I can tell you what broke me
what, besides the dick in your ass

get the fuck out with this gaylord r9k shit

>> No.2977707

Be a woman and torture him just by existing. Breaks down everyone whether you want it or not.

>> No.2977714

All men are already broken.

>> No.2977715

>>2977677

you definition of "withstand" seems shaky, brah.

>> No.2977754

>>2977700


I can't hear you over the sound of my linkin park cds.

>> No.2977774

>>2977591

With my broad, fine caulk.

>> No.2977777

Define break.

>> No.2977789

>>2977591

What an interesting question. However, I have a follow up question before we wander into this discussion, does the man have to aware of his own "brokenness"? I mean, capitalism breaks a man by reducing him a production automaton, however, in this sense the man is not always aware he is broken.

>> No.2977800

>>2977777
dem quints

>> No.2977808

>>2977638
>>2977640
>bitches don't know about my learned helplessness

>> No.2978115

>>2977591
by finding out what he masturbates to and letting all of his friends and associates know

>> No.2978179

>>2977638

You, my man, need to read Frankl's "The Will to Meaning"..... a psychologist's recount of surviving the holocaust in a death camp. You surely can break men, as he describes.

>> No.2978181

>>2977638
No, you can break people. It takes a while, but you can absolutely break people. Like the other guy said, the Holocaust pretty well proved that out.

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>>2977777
>>2977800

I dont want to bring a /b/ attitude over here, but dayum.

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2978251

Speaking from personal experience:

The bad news is:

>you can be broken
>your spirit can be broken

The scary news is:
>some people actually get a huge thrill out of breaking other people. Beyond schaedenfreude, they get a massive, powerful high from it

The good news is:
>a broken spirit can be healed

In summary:
You can be broken, you can heal. Just be aware that repeated breakages make healing a longer process.

>> No.2978262

Date him, break up with him, date him, break up with him, over and over and over and over and over, again and again make him fall in love, over and over, again and again. That will break a man.

>> No.2978280

When they break is when they become a man.

>> No.2978287

>How do you break a man?

Take away he's addicted to.

>> No.2978291

>>2978287
*what

>> No.2978314

There are plenty of things you can do if you want to make break psychologically.

You can sneak into his house when he's not home and steal some of his toilet paper leaving only one roll left and rearrange his spice cabinet, maybe take one book out of the shelf. You could siphon off some of his gas every morning or after he refills it. You can mail him gay porn, but that may be to obvious. If you really want to go all out you can paint his house a slightly different color while he is away. You could kill portions of his lawn with fire ants King of the Hill style.

So many possibilities.

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>>2978115
My friends and family know I'm a /d/eviant.
They know part of what I fap to.
They mostly wish they didn't.
They ALL wish they don't learn about the rest of what I fap to.
I can actually use the possibility of talking about it as a threat.
My friends and family knowing my fapping habits will not and cannot break me. It can break THEM though, apparently.
>Deal with it it.jpg

>> No.2978333

Confront him with impossible jouissance; let his Symptom disappear post transference to the big Other