The world is on fire. Everything you know—or thought you knew—is being destroyed before your eyes. Culture is perverted, nations are subverted, and reality itself is being warped through nonstop gaslighting. In a world where you can't trust governments, the police, or even your own countrymen to take your side, you are the only man you can rely upon. But how do you carve your own path when you've been trained from birth to be an observer, a consumer, a swine eating the slop poured out for you?

Remember the man of power Bob Denard. He was a merc and adventurer who took over the Comoros Islands several times in the 20th Century. France had to send special forces to dislodge him, or he surely would have become worshipped as a god by the natives. Yet he was never ambitious, never a kissass. In his youth, he got kicked out of the French military for burning a bar in Vietnam, and then was a hooligan in Africa. He became a man of power and international mercenary. The paradox: if you don’t feel like a faggot compared to Denard, you are, in fact, a faggot. Denard said the ambitious are pretenders and worthless: a real man does what he must and is driven by great and single-minded passion.

Friendship is our path out of this modern disaster. Brotherhoods and friendships of strong, brave men will be able to change our condition. Make yourself strong and worthy of a good friend

Gentleness and easy living is too frequent in our age; true manliness is rare. Pursue manliness and be uncompromisingly brave, because at least it’s rare. It’s not good to be too spread out in too many directions. A man must be one-minded and have purity of purpose. T

Sisyphus is a former king sentenced to an eternity of punishment within Tartarus for attempting to cheat death. He succeeded twice, each time only temporarily before the consequences caught up with him. His punishment is to roll a boulder up a steep hill; the boulder, however, always rolls back down the hill before he reaches the top, despite his best efforts. 

Greeks worshiped Achilles. He chose death! He could have chosen a long and comfortable life. Greeks had a word for this kind of life: “by his mother’s side.” It was almost poetic formula. It’s said of Jason, leader of the Argonauts and his crew, and of what they chose against. But Jason and his crew chose instead a great voyage into the unknown and great fame. Achilles chose a short life of war, and he chose death to avenge his friend. He thereby won eternal fame among men.

To become a real man is a spiritual path. The path to eternity begins with manliness. This path lies hidden, but there are many keys, many doors.

Men may roll their eyes at this declaration and pretend to be above it all, but the other side is always plotting new ways to attack, destroy, and demoralize. They want you to give up and ease into the sleepy security of consumer hedonism. They want you enslaved and too distracted, tired, and weak to object.

Do not blame your father. Do not blame your mother. This is your life. The choice to understand the man you are and are capable of becoming is yours.

The easier path, the path of least resistance, is a coward’s way to travel through life. What is man’s journey but a struggle against the physical and spiritual obstacles of this world? You will need to study and train. You will need to govern and harness your emotions. And you will need to be judicious with your speech and in the selection of your friends. Do not deny the need to see the problems at hand, the problems at large, and the problems of the future. Develop your mind and body, find other good men, and have the courage to lead when you can. Develop your will, drive, and the ability to follow through. Do not complain like a child or a peasant, but act like the men who came before you, who struck out to conquer and build.

It is not simply age, because you can see this in men in their twenties. The banter they had with friends and family is subdued now. Forget the roaring laughter they had filled a room with; you can’t even get them angry. But we all know an older man who still wields a sharp tongue, still has passion for his pursuits, and still laughs with gusto. Nor is it domestication. There are plenty of men with wives and children that will still introduce you to a new drink, tell you about an author they have discovered, or show you the motorcycle they are restoring. When a man’s fire has gone out, it is because he did no

Do not be an intellectual, but be a man that studies and learns. An intellectual in our era is a man who assumes an identity and pays attention to the proper fashions for that role. The intellectual with horn-rimmed glasses will tell you any fool knows the Earth revolves around the sun but does not know why. That intellectual has spent more time selecting his glasses, his haircut, and maintaining proper orientation to the zeitgeist than he has looking into why the Earth orbits the sun. He does not know. An hour of study could reveal the gravitational tug of war between everything in the solar system that comes to balance at the center of gravity. The horn-rimmed glasses fellow would pick up his phone and locate an article on Wikipedia, but it would fail him. He would need to actually look into this.

The human body is not meant to be overinflated skin filled with fat. Those who encourage this want you sluggish and slow. They want you sick and limping through life.

The self-esteem peddled today is about feeling good regardless of achievements. This is because society does not understand the difference between earning self-respect through one’s actions and earning approval of an outside authority. Self-esteem through accomplishment, even just moving more weight, is a powerful factor in an individual’s mental health.

iron will and iron physique. Like iron, your training is born of study, fire, and hammering. You pound and beat your body to mold it into the proper form to strike at a decadent world.