Natural selection. Some people are just born ignorant and without the aptitude for learning. These people end up being largely dependent upon materialistic endeavors and how the outside world views them. You also have to take into consideration one's emotional I.Q. The lower your emotional IQ (i.e.- the less you really know yourself, understand where you fit in, what you want out of life, what makes you happy) the more likely you are to front about shit. You don't have a unique enough identity of your own, so you go and fill some other stereotypical identity- whether it be that of a gangster/thug, a jock, a prep, a rocker, whatever. The thing about sub-cultures is those who are on the outside looking in are given a general formula and they just follow it and think that's who they are now.
Me personally- I don't front about shit. It gets you nowhere in life. You lie to yourself and then lie to others so you can portray an image... you're really cheating yourself in the end. Your house of cards falls down or you just keep switching sides all the time- people see you exposed and lose interest.
Although I do have a habit of playing into this preconceived notion girl's get that I'm some kind of player... sort of like a false label they put on me that I wear. I don't play girls or lie to anybody or have this mode in my head that makes me go out and try and get into every girl's panties I meet. Not that it doesn't cross my mind, but if I don't like a girl for who she is then I'm not trying to hit it no matter how fine she is. In theory it makes sense- to fuck a girl just out of physical attraction and vice/versa- but in real life the shit don't make no sense. There's too much phony socializing going on there. I'm a man of intellect, and I'm not gonna dance around a bitch throwing dollars or spitting game just because I want to see her ass bouncing up and down on me. The thing that sets me apart is I'm sincere when I come to a chick, not just saying the things I say to get some ass... but more to boost the girl's ego and let her know I'm interested. Ultimately it leads to gettin some ass, but I was keeping it real the whole time.
One of my boys dated this girl who I knew for a few years before him... they had their thing on and off for a good 3 years or so. The whole time they're dating he shares all these intimate details about their relationship with me. Now her and I are still friends, and we started hanging out here and there a couple months back. He fronts to me like this girl is just a straight hoe and he could give a fuck less about her and he's got all these other chicks on the side. But I'm kickin it with her and she's showing me these text messages like "I was gonna propose to you when I got back from L.A." and "I can't sleep, will you just talk to me?" and all this other pussy Lifetime bullshit... while at the SAME TIME I'm showing her text messages he sent to me saying "well, yeah, it was very appropriate for me to call her a whore and a slut, because that's what she is". He fucked up his game, wants to fight me right now because he was frontin' to me and her at the same time. Trying to tell her I'm the reason they can't have a healthy relationship. She just sat there like "nah. He's got nothing to do with me and you. You fucked yourself up, and you want to blame him now?" Motherfucker is like a 16 year old boy with his emotions. Moral of that story reminds me of a song...
Like the late great MC Breed said... there Aint No Future In Ya Frontin'