Matt Walsh

I mean, the British Empire no longer exists.

The entire country has been emasculated.

And the point is not that the British Empire collapsed because sailors stopped getting hammered every day.

I'm not alleging a direct causal connection here, although it's not crazy to think there might be some kind of connection to some degree.

That's not the point, though.

The point is that today you have men claiming they cannot function for a week after sipping a glass of wine with their Sunday dinner.

Not that long ago, men were literally conquering the world while drinking whiskey-like water and having in every way what the modern podcaster would call suboptimal health habits.

There is, again, an unmistakable fragility and neediness in all of this.

And the hysterical claims about a sip of beer or a trip to McDonald's destroying you physically are revealed as absurd against a historical backdrop where men did much worse than that to their bodies and yet also achieved much more than you or I ever will.

And that's your ancestral story, no matter where your family comes from.

We are descendants of men who slept for four hours on a bed of straw, woke up, drank wine, and stormed castles.

And we are losing that vitality completely.

We're focusing on the wrong kind of longevity, the longevity of lifespan rather than legacy and bloodline.

And it's not that we have to choose between the two necessarily, but the latter should be much more a priority than the former.

There aren't many examples of great men who achieved great things and lived perfectly healthy and optimized lifestyles.

In fact, I can't think of any examples.

I'm not saying there aren't any, but I can't.

Can you off the top of your head?

It seems that greatness usually requires a certain looseness, a certain lack of care for your physical health, not recklessness, not like being suicidal and certainly not being a glutton.

but just an openness to risk that terrifies the health optimizers with their little bracelets.