People have stopped making sense, the emperor has no clothes everywhere you go, and it seems to anyone with half a brain left that we're living in an Idiocracy. It's scary how prescient movies like that and, say, Wall-e are starting to seem. Critical thinking and personal responsibility aren't only discouraged, they're flat-out vilified. But WHY? Johnny Elsasser from The Art Of Masculinity podcast joins me to piece together how we got to this point, especially with regard to how men and women relate nowadays. Doesn't everyone instinctively know when something is stupid--possibly even those proffering the stupidity themselves? Do they really believe their own narrative, or do they just hope YOU will? Do people trust truth over facts? ...Or is that more like facts over truth? And what's up with all the childish intolerance? I mean, even the anti-bullying movement bullies those who disagree with them. How did we get programmed to politicize virtually everything nowadays? What is it about fear that makes us so stupid...and so easily manipulated? Was there one specific event that dumbed us all down? Or has society been conditioned since LONG before that? Meanwhile, you have bots arguing with each other on Twitter, foxes guarding hen houses and idiots running the asylum. Are we living in The Simulation, or is that yet another dumb idea? How are terms like 'conspiracy theory', 'toxic masculinity' and 'dog whistle' weaponized against our intelligence? And above all, how are men and women supposed to relate to each other? We're in the #MeToo world, yet the media cares little about Ghislaine Maxwell? What other ways has stupidity infiltrated relationships? And how has masculinity itself been spun into ridiculousness? One bona-fide sane thing you can do in the midst of it all is head over to https://mountaintoppodcast.com === HELP US SEND THE MESSAGE TO GREAT MEN EVERYWHERE === We'll keep the solid, actionable content coming...all for free. If you love what you hear, please give us a 'thumbs up' by rating the show (takes one second) and leaving us a review. As we say here in Texas, we appreciate you!

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