Insightful observations on the deplorable condition of what passes for adult manhood today. I enjoyed listening to your assessment of what has happened to our noble sex! My feeling on this is that when western countries entered the industrial revolution the father became increasingly absent in the home and therefore in his sons' lives. The poverty had already begun back then and has only increased. Poor role models, marxist social engineering, critical theory all had and have cummulative negative effects on the development of psychologically robust young men equipped with a firm sense of their masculine identity. Sexual exploits take precedence over the cultivation of virtue in men.
Agreed. I think SOME kind of Luddism is in order if men want to say men, women want to stay women and the nuclear family doesn't want to get replaced by 'the hatchery.'
The hatchery--indeed--lol!!! The hatchery is right where the marxists are taking the family.
My feeling is that some kind of return to agrarian living would help. How to do that? Some luddism? Perhaps, but doing away with technology? I don't know. Some tech stuff might need to be retained.
I know this sounds cynical but I feel the corruption has gone so deep for so long in our culture that it will take a natural disaster to act as the necessary smelling salts to rouse not only a visceral sense of God-given manhood in men but first a sense of shared humanity among all people which transcends politics and the often petty partisan disagreements which divide us...
Re-stocking the media which has degenerated into a marxist social engineering tool with regular journalists instead of propagandists would help...the same with the teaching profession from kindergarten to college. But it would take a generation to fully disabuse men of the pernicious notions our twisted up society has conditioned into them.
Initiation rituals are a big part of the answer, too. ...Very interesting topic
The gender neutrality in all corners of social life have killed the opportunity for these important initiatory rites.
Yes. Totally agree.
Insightful observations on the deplorable condition of what passes for adult manhood today. I enjoyed listening to your assessment of what has happened to our noble sex! My feeling on this is that when western countries entered the industrial revolution the father became increasingly absent in the home and therefore in his sons' lives. The poverty had already begun back then and has only increased. Poor role models, marxist social engineering, critical theory all had and have cummulative negative effects on the development of psychologically robust young men equipped with a firm sense of their masculine identity. Sexual exploits take precedence over the cultivation of virtue in men.
Agreed. I think SOME kind of Luddism is in order if men want to say men, women want to stay women and the nuclear family doesn't want to get replaced by 'the hatchery.'
The hatchery--indeed--lol!!! The hatchery is right where the marxists are taking the family.
My feeling is that some kind of return to agrarian living would help. How to do that? Some luddism? Perhaps, but doing away with technology? I don't know. Some tech stuff might need to be retained.
I know this sounds cynical but I feel the corruption has gone so deep for so long in our culture that it will take a natural disaster to act as the necessary smelling salts to rouse not only a visceral sense of God-given manhood in men but first a sense of shared humanity among all people which transcends politics and the often petty partisan disagreements which divide us...
Re-stocking the media which has degenerated into a marxist social engineering tool with regular journalists instead of propagandists would help...the same with the teaching profession from kindergarten to college. But it would take a generation to fully disabuse men of the pernicious notions our twisted up society has conditioned into them.
Initiation rituals are a big part of the answer, too. ...Very interesting topic
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