George Hahn

Fair.

Here's a simpler framework.

Men should add surplus value.

Give more than they take.

Leave rooms, relationships, and institutions better than they found them.

That's the whole shooting match.

Try to absorb more complaints than they levy.

De-escalate conflict and notice people's lives without needing to draw attention to their own.

Another takeaway from Thoreau's work, calm and intellect trump physicality and aggression.

The documentarian is slight, awkward, and owns the room.

His honest, unafraid queries are never mean-spirited, and when his subjects turn on him, he just takes it, see above, as he knows he's right.

I wish I'd learned earlier in life that being a man means occasionally absorbing a blow without responding to restore some fucked up sense of equilibrium to the universe.

Final Takeaway

Ideology isn't what's driving the manosphere.

The icons of this realm are grifters.

There's always a supplement, a crypto course, or a trading platform that drains boys economically in exchange for an illusory sense of self.

Their followers engage because they have a desperate need for community.

The manosphere, for all its flaws, is a community of men.

The left should take notice.

It celebrates and funds almost every special interest group, except the one that's fallen faster than any other group in the last 50 years, young men.