Wife Raid Mindset

Michael Perilloux advocates a "wife raid mindset" in the article How To Catch A Wife, published on Social Matter. 

To replace naïve romanticism, we need the fundamental masculine skill of life in the real world: the will and confidence to take a problem seriously and deliberately figure out how to solve it. You can sit down and think this problem through, come to an understanding, make plans, and reason things out. This is the only way anything real ever gets done. 

In throwing out naïve romanticism, which is a fundamentally passive strategy, it is useful to have a much more active and high-agency model to work from.

A hallmark of Western Civilization is the emphasis on individual agency, as opposed to fatalistic subservience and passivity.

Scholars of comparative linguistics and mythology have reconstructed the conception of 'undying fame' in Proto-Indo-European poetic diction as '*ḱlewos n̥dʰgʷʰitom', by applying discovered laws of language change to Sanskrit and Homeric Greek.

The same veneration for the pursuit of glory is reproduced in perhaps the most famous passage of Hávamál, originally written in Old Norse:

Cattle die, | and kinsmen die,
And so one dies one's self;
One thing now | that never dies,
The fame of a dead man's deeds.

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Excerpt from Anthony's The Horse, the Wheel and Language (p. 364) on the early dispersal of the Indo-Europeans. It has been proposed that the practice of cattle raiding, a ubiquitous theme in Indo-European mythology with a clear archaeological basis, was related to matrimonial success among the early Aryans.