The prevalence of online misogyny puzzled me for a long time. I think it mostly boils down to embarrassingly obvious "mommy issues" so I don't take it personally. Squares up with the growing lack of Dads in families etc. Hope they can work through that, of course, but... I'm not a dude, and have no idea how that would happen. Encouraging to see people trying to work it out.
YES YES YES! I was a Scoutmaster for 15 years, providing a healthy dose of risk and adventure for boys with single moms and limp wristed dads. Any boy that couldn’t build a fire went hungry. If you forgot your jacket you were cold. Most of the boys thrived on throwing tomahawks and climbing rocks. One boy did over a thousand sit-ups and broke the troop record.
There were six other dads involved in the troop but very few could start a fire with a car battery or were willing to sleep in the snow cave.
Unfortunately, Scouting has been integrated with boys and girls and the requirements have been watered down so that sissies become Eagle Scouts.
Instead of podcasts we need more red blooded Scoutmasters. And we need programs like Scouting was in the 70s.
May I recommend Wendell Berry for our tumbling young men? He is a lifelong farmer and has been contoured by a constant “synergy” with a piece of soil left to him by his father.
I know I’m a bugman, three generations in the coils of the Algorithm, but I can admire a man who has fought his way free.
These young men need to enlist at age 18 and use their military benefits to work through college and learn some discipline. The military will take care of mentoring and maturing and desire for risk and adventure.
Agreed with every word, the worst part though is that Walsh and others like him will go on ignoring and sneering at the youths of the world who will continue to search for meaning.
We must either show them better figures in art and real life or watch as they turn towards those like Tate.
Perfectly said brother. I wrote about this on one of my books, Christian Vitality. What’s very interesting to me is that Christianity, properly understood, should fuel this vitalism in men, and direct their energy towards the most productive endeavors possible, as opposed to those selfish desires that some vitalists may promote. I find it incredibly sad how feminized the Christian faith has become, and I believe this feminization is the reason why so many men are leaving the Church or rejecting Christianity from outside. I can’t say I understand them. But I’ve seen a resurgence of a more masculine Christianity, that is not only vital but also aligned with the other virtues of our faith: humility, service, charity, etc.
"You cannot turn their gaze from a Bugatti by offering them a minivan." A great line from a great piece. Look forward to reading your book.
Thanks brother. I look forward to hearing your thoughts
Excellent insights. This is why CMASC was started by Tim Gordon @timotheeology and Will Knowland @beherleader
They are literally the only gentlemen I see offering direct counter examples of Christian masculinity to the Tates/online pagan-bros
Christian masculinity is an oxymoron.
https://open.substack.com/pub/texasjohnslaughter/p/the-sword-and-the-cross?r=1pazbp&utm_medium=ios
Okay.
That meant absolutely nothing.
That’s what I think about your original comment
Hopefully you didn't stay up all night thinking that one up.
I was sleepless with concentration
Sounds about right.
The prevalence of online misogyny puzzled me for a long time. I think it mostly boils down to embarrassingly obvious "mommy issues" so I don't take it personally. Squares up with the growing lack of Dads in families etc. Hope they can work through that, of course, but... I'm not a dude, and have no idea how that would happen. Encouraging to see people trying to work it out.
It is easily fixable, with the proper role models.
There’s a lot of data that shows that the presence of a positive male role model has a similar effect to the father being in the home.
So I think it’s a matter of giving young man something to strive for and being an example of that
Godspeed, then, and may the work prosper!
YES YES YES! I was a Scoutmaster for 15 years, providing a healthy dose of risk and adventure for boys with single moms and limp wristed dads. Any boy that couldn’t build a fire went hungry. If you forgot your jacket you were cold. Most of the boys thrived on throwing tomahawks and climbing rocks. One boy did over a thousand sit-ups and broke the troop record.
There were six other dads involved in the troop but very few could start a fire with a car battery or were willing to sleep in the snow cave.
Unfortunately, Scouting has been integrated with boys and girls and the requirements have been watered down so that sissies become Eagle Scouts.
Instead of podcasts we need more red blooded Scoutmasters. And we need programs like Scouting was in the 70s.
For they banished nature but HE has returned.
For they banished nature but HE has returned…
May I recommend Wendell Berry for our tumbling young men? He is a lifelong farmer and has been contoured by a constant “synergy” with a piece of soil left to him by his father.
I know I’m a bugman, three generations in the coils of the Algorithm, but I can admire a man who has fought his way free.
Dead on. I am one of these men. Orthodox Christianity was my Teddy Roosevelt
These young men need to enlist at age 18 and use their military benefits to work through college and learn some discipline. The military will take care of mentoring and maturing and desire for risk and adventure.
Masculinity is not a young man falling away in this morals of consumerism
Agreed with every word, the worst part though is that Walsh and others like him will go on ignoring and sneering at the youths of the world who will continue to search for meaning.
We must either show them better figures in art and real life or watch as they turn towards those like Tate.
Excellent article mon bon homme.
Say
I like your commentary
But,in my humble,(is that weak opinion you are so off base that you have already crashed!
A Bugatti instead of a minivan-I get it-had a 911 Porsche
Too much to sat but don't be a follower of Joel Osteen get Christ!
Perfectly said brother. I wrote about this on one of my books, Christian Vitality. What’s very interesting to me is that Christianity, properly understood, should fuel this vitalism in men, and direct their energy towards the most productive endeavors possible, as opposed to those selfish desires that some vitalists may promote. I find it incredibly sad how feminized the Christian faith has become, and I believe this feminization is the reason why so many men are leaving the Church or rejecting Christianity from outside. I can’t say I understand them. But I’ve seen a resurgence of a more masculine Christianity, that is not only vital but also aligned with the other virtues of our faith: humility, service, charity, etc.
Great piece 👊🏻👊🏻
The dividing line IMO is whether the end goal is to make them capitulate to liberalism/ZOG.