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.

Black Lives Matter?

If this is what they call a Karen, Im not on board with that. Seems to me theyre trying to shame people from reporting wrong-doing...seems equivalent to calling people racist for stating facts.