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Chapter 1: How is true masculinity revealed during times of crisis?
So we honestly very clearly see the spirit of real masculinity when devastation hits, when war hits, when the world falls apart. It's not the influencers who are streaming eight hours a day who save the day. It's the men with chainsaws and the linemen, the truckers, the soldiers, the guys in the ATVs who know how to navigate the mud.
It's these real men who care about people and have a job to do, and they get it done because they feel useful. And that's a huge piece for men. They want to feel useful. So go out and become that man. Develop some sort of excellent skill, trade, craft, and be useful to your family, to your kids, to your wife, to your community, to your religious community, to your sports teams, whatever it is.
That's what we do. But we see the spirit of masculinity, the real true spirit of masculinity when devastation hits.
Chapter 2: What roles do real men play in society?
And so it's actually disgusting remark when people say specifically women say that we don't need men and the world will be fine without them. It certainly would not be. And I think that's another cause of the issue there is the division between men and women. We need to bring the alliance back together. Scott Galloway talks about the alliance between men and women.
That's what we need to bring back because real true masculinity helps everyone. It makes the society better. That's the key that we need to get here. These men had the status earned, right? We talked about two ways to get status, which is competence and respect or power and domination. When the world starts to fall apart, the men who have status, who earned it, right?
When they take care of shit when they need to, this was hard earned. This was the hard road. They didn't need to shout about being an alpha. They just took care of shit. They walk with their heads high because they were useful, because they have a skill and they use that skill to earn competence and respect. They didn't walk into every room saying, I'm a badass. I'm an alpha. That's fucking gay.
That's lame.
Chapter 3: Why is feeling useful important for men?
That's not what real, true men do. That's the battle we're in right now. It's not men versus women. It never has been and never should be. The alliance between men and women is the most important alliance we have. The battle is between performative masculinity, which only benefits the grifters, versus genuine masculinity, which benefits everyone. Right. That is the battle.
Performative masculinity, which only benefits the grifters versus genuine masculinity, which benefits everyone. It's the strength to be competitive and strong, but also the strength to be vulnerable and helpful. That is literally the definition of being a warrior poet. At the end of the day, right, this is what matters most to me.
At the end of the day, my son, who is eight months old, doesn't know anything about the culture wars or the manosphere or any of that other bullshit. What he does know is that he just sees me, what his dad does, on a regular day-to-day basis. And I am obligated, morally obligated to model that behavior for him.
And so this whole episode, everything I've shared with you is just a reminder and a lesson to me about what I want to instill in my son. So this is a constant reminder to me about who I wanna be and how I wanna be it. Because the most important thing, as I stated,
is that I want to live this, use this value as a filter for all of my actions, and I want to teach this to my son most importantly, is that as a real man, we leave the world better than we found it. Whether that's your community, the world, your family, your kids, we leave things better than what we found them. That's what real men do. And so maybe this is the blueprint we've been looking for.
The idea right now would be to get off the phone, get into the real world, and be useful. That's the pathway forward and understanding the battles between performative masculinity and real masculinity. And we have to know what it looks like, real masculinity, to know that that's what we're attracted to and that's how we build men back up. Because we might be struggling, but we're not broken.
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