The Tragedy of Our Society

There’s a saying: strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times. Bad times create strong men. Strong men create good times. And the cycle continues.

This trend can be tracked throughout history. If you look back to the roaring 20s, we had a period of prosperity that led to the creation of a morally bankrupt, gilded society, which led to the Great Depression, which led to World War II.

Living through the events of World War II forged a generation of strong men. The Greatest Generation we called them. And they came home and created a world economy. Built highways. Ushered in a golden age of culture in Hollywood, broke the sound barrier, and landed a crew of men safely on the moon not once, but several times.

And then the baby boomer generation came into power and we backslid. And now, finally, we are reaching the end of their cycle. Now we have war. We have division. We have a lack of integrity in our leadership. We have a power vacuum in the world. And it is up to us now to become strong men and rebuild the world again.

Women have a pivotal role to play as well. The voices of women need to be heard and accounted for. We need their leadership to work alongside us.

But men are the ones who need to stand up. Who need to achieve. Who need to lead. Its part of who we are and always will be.

Right now we live in a divided society. We don’t know what our values are. We don’t know what we stand for. We are weak. And the problem is, there are countries across the world that know who exactly who they are.

China is not fuzzy on what their values are. Russia is not confused on where they stand on certain issues. Iran is not in a bind about what they believe. And beyond their clarity, these countries are places where the tyranny of evil men take advantage of the weak. Where the monopoly on violence is used to promote the power of the few. Where the common liberties we take for granted in this country are devoid and empty.

We have come to a point in the United States where you cannot have an opinion. Where the tyranny of group think would have us believe that everyone has the right not to be offended. Where everyone has to be responsible for everyone else’s internal condition.

And it’s no way to run a society. Its a society created by men born of good times, who grew up to be weak, valueless, vacuous leaders. And now its manifesting in the most horrific of ways.

We openly accept that our elected leaders are corrupt. We are numb to the consistent, violent deaths of children in this country due to gun violence. We allow our leaders to create chaos and divide us down party lines all while the so called “free press” feeds the flames of outrage.

Its such a broken society that can only be repaired by strong men who will have to walk through the crucible the generation before us has created. And what’s worse, its never been easier to be a weak man.

In an age with unlimited pornography and video games, its never been easier to become a slave to your own programming. Every time you watch a porn video, you are programming yourself to see a woman you’d like to have sex with, have her back blown out by a man who isn’t you.

You are literally allowing yourself to watch a rival man have sex with a woman you’d want to have sex with, all while binding yourself to the experience by releasing dopamine in the form of orgasm, effectively turning yourself into a Pavlovian Dog who is conditioned to sit on the sidelines and watch other men take what they want while you watch.

Porn is perhaps the most harmful thing to happen to young men in the last 50 years. It is as harmful to men as social media is harmful to women. Both are cancers on society and need to be addressed.

And then there’s video games. Men are conditioned to achieve. To be competitive. To win. And what better way to scratch all these itches than video games. Ultra stimulating, ultra engrossing, it provides the feeling of achievement without ever having to leave your couch. On Xbox they are literally called achievements. Your progress is tracked and measured against other men the world over on leader boards.

The only issue is, none of it is real. None of it matters. None of it builds anything of substance. And no one cares about it. Women aren’t impressed by it. It won’t help you climb the corporate ladder. And it doesn’t even garner you respect among your fellow men. If you are worse than the others, you suck and you're a loser. If you are better than others, you have no life and need to get some sun. Playing video games is literally a lose lose situation and yet our generation of men continue to do it.

These two habits, among many others, are debilitating this generation of men. And this generation of men is the one that needs to be strong for civilization to be able to function properly. We need a generation of strong men. We need a generation of leaders, right now.

We need to reaffirm a hetero-normative society. Now this call is not at all a call to dismiss or disrespect those who identify as LGBTQ. Those who don’t identify as straight in some capacity deserve to have their choices and identities respected and affirmed by society as a whole. For too long they have been treated as outsiders, when they are some of the most important among us. They deserve to be integrated into our society and loved and respected as the valuable, contributing members that they are.

But nature demands a polarity. A family consisting of a man and a woman who choose to come together to create life, and raise that life to give it the best possible chance at success and survival.

This is the most effective way to run a society. These are the values we need to get back to. Divorce rates are so high because people are marrying for all the wrong reasons. And it all comes back to men. Men have to be strong enough to create relationships. To create space for their wives and children to inhabit and bring life to. To provide and protect.

And right now, men are allowing women to try to do everything. To try to provide. To lead the house hold. And while some step into this role with gusto and grace, many women find themselves overwhelmed with the responsibilities of trying to be both the woman and the man in the relationship. By trying to provide for their families while being soft and nurturing to their kids.

Men need to come back to the roots of their masculinity. Reason, purpose, self esteem, integrity, respect and honor. These are the values we need to come back to.

And its not just men. We live in an epidemic of low value women. If pussy was a stock it would be plummeting. The market is flooded with women who have no self esteem, who thrive off emotional manipulation, and therefore will be attracted and will sleep with the man who understands her programming and treats her as she treats herself: with disrespect. Why would you treat her any other way? If what you want is sex, then any other method is simply the definition of insanity.

But through men returning to their core values of masculinity, those listed above, our women will be able to find freedom from their lack mindset. Women, when they are in their feminine energy, are a reflection of us as men. If we are rock solid in our foundation and our beliefs, and what we want, they feel safe to surrender into their femininity. To express. To simply be. Because they trust us to take care of the day to day. The nitty gritty. The shit they’d rather not deal with. The finances, the pumping gas, the fixing the house, the rational decisions.

But right now, women can’t trust us to do that because they can do it better than we can. So they are in an identify crisis right now. Do I want to be a housewife and let my husband take care of me? Can I trust him to do so? The answer right now is no, and so the average woman would rather make her own money and create her own future. Make sure she takes care of herself, since she can’t rely on a man to take care of her. And good on her.

Life was too easy for us in this country. All our basic needs were taken care of and then some. The average American today lives better than a Pharaoh did in ancient Egypt with all the resources of an entire nation. But if we’re not careful, this way of life will come to an end.

The tricky thing about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is the higher up on it you get, the easier it is to fall off, and the more esoteric your needs get. See at the bottom, things are pretty simple. Don’t die. I need shelter, I need food, I need a safe place to sleep.

But the higher up you go things get more complicated. I need friends, but I also know I am the average of the five people I hang around with, so I need good friends. I need sex but I also know that women who give out cheap sex could give me debilitating diseases. I’d like sexual intimacy, but I need to make sure I’m investing myself into the right woman. I need to find my purpose but this will involve a winding road of introspection, failure, introspection, failure and redirection.

These are not easy problems to overcome and most men simply give up. Most men die at 27 and aren’t actually buried until 75. We need men to come back to a place where they’re willing to struggle for what’s worth it.

In the words of John F. Kennedy, metaphorically, we as men in this generation need to choose to go to the moon. We need to choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. Because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

We’ve gone soft in the times of plenty that came before us. The world I was born into and the world I inhabit now are drastically different, and not in a good way. I’ve watched a lack of leadership eat up this country. I watched earlier this week as England, a former world hegemon, become engulfed by scandal, their PM being forced to resign. And we think nothing of it. Its white noise compared to the rest of the shit going on in the world right now.

We all need to step up. We are the pivotal generation in history. We can choose to become great men, to guide our civilization into a new age of reason and justice for all inhabitants.

And how do we do this? We need challenges. We need to achieve. We need to put aside the artificial artifices of video games and porn and work together in achievement of common goals.

The good news is we have no shortage of challenges to tackle. The bad news is, we are currently lacking men strong enough to do it. So the question you have to ask yourself is who are you? Who do you want to be? How do you spend your time? What habits do you continue to perpetuate?

We come up with excuses. It must not be for me. No you're just soft. No you’re just lazy. Get back on the bike. Learn why you failed and make sure you are stronger for having the lesson. And when you succeed. Celebrate. Celebrate with everyone you hold dear. And then tackle an even more ambitious challenge.

Respect all those who occupy this world with you, whether they be straight, gay, trans, a different race than you, or a different political party than you. Always treat people with the respect they inherently deserve as human beings. But never shy away from speaking your truth.

We need strong men to rebuild this country, and I expect you to be on the front lines with me. I’m counting on you.