Let me ask you a question. Why is it that donuts and cake will damage both your body and your mind, whereas liver and eggs will rejuvenate and bring health to both? What is the difference? Obviously, there are many ways in which we could break the difference down. Caloric count, macronutrients, micronutrients, and many others. But when we break it down to the simplest thing possible it goes like this.
Liver and eggs go with our body, how they were naturally designed. They work with us to maximize our potential and performance. Physically, mentally, and I’d argue even spiritually. After all, all three layers are connected at the hip. You cannot effect one without affecting the others. One is natural and in line with how we were created and how nature works, and the other is a false construct.
A man made lie designed to trick your brain into thinking it’s getting something rare and high value when instead it’s getting modified junk that will only hurt you. What we’re talking about right here is the crux of the modern world and why so many men fail to find their way and end up hopelessly lost in it.
Please understand that when I say the modern world I am not talking about technological advances, certain political or ideological beliefs, and things of that nature. When I say to be against the modern world this is what I’m talking about. Be against things that are not working with your nature and maximizing it to its potential.
Men, women, and children are often forced to operate in unnatural ways that goes against their health and wellness. Now we all must make sacrifices here and there for the good of all, that’s how a society works. But I’m talking about something much bigger than just making a sacrifice. It’s one thing to delay temporary pleasure for the long term good. It’s another thing entirely to spend day in and day out in ways that make you sicker, weaker, and more blemished physically, mentally, and spiritually each and every day.
Very different things.
The Male & Violence
Violence is part of men’s nature, for better or for worse. Like the drive for sex, the drive for violence can either be harness and directed to accomplish wonderful and amazing things. Or left to its own devices or even worse, pushed into negative paths, it can result in truly horrible things. The solution is not to deny that men have these natures. Like some false churches have done with the sex drive and modern society does with the drive for violence. Although perhaps ‘drive’ is not the right word for violence. More the necessity of violence and the natural reaction to use it.
I’ll be the first to say that violence is like fire, very dangerous and only to be used in trusted hands, it should be the last resort in most situations. However with that being said without violence evil has nothing to fear. There are certain evils, darkness, and the like that cannot be negotiated with, that cannot be bargained with or talked out of. Many problems in life can be negotiated and such, but some cannot. That is why violence is the final option.
But that’s not what this is about. In society today we try to essentially neuter males. We see the negative effects of male behavior and nature so many think, instead of directing it properly, lets eliminate it entirely. However puny man cannot change mighty nature, no matter how hard he tries. So we must direct this violence, this innate nature of it. We must direct boys to act with honor and develop violence in a controlled area.
This is why dueling was so essential, it worked to prevent higher escalations of violence and blood feuds. It didn’t always work and was not perfect but it was something. Less than one hundred years ago, boys could put on some boxing gloves and solve their differences in the ring with a guided teacher watching on to prevent/direct the violence so no one ended up seriously hurt.
Far from encouraging violence, this taught consequences for violence and that often violence was never needed. The boys duked it out, made to shake hands after and forget the thing. Both could walk away with their honor intact. But without this two things happen.
The Weak & The Weaker
I was going to call this the bullies and the weak, but since most bullies are weak I think this is a better title. When there is no direction for violence, no recourse for bad behavior we see bad things happen. Bullies go on without ever being reprimanded, they go punish free when causing trouble and mayhem for others. Assaulting all those that they find weaker. Younger or smaller boys, the elderly, women, and so on and so forth. They become predators because they were never checked.
Likewise the weak become worse and worse as well. They can become suicidal or lash out and take extreme violence into their own hands which we tragically see. Again they are not given direction, guidance, a firm hand. I’ve said before a lack of low level violence like being allowed to fight after school or take a boxing class to build ones confidence, results in much more high level violence such as stabbings, shootings, and the like.
Men need to fight, this is a drive in them that will never go away. So it needs to be taught its proper place at a young age. Saying ‘violence is never the option’ or ‘my child will never do anything involving violence’ is naive at best but more likely very dangerous. That’s like saying ‘my kids will never do anything involving taxes’ or ‘business’ or whatever a person may not like. That’s not how the world works.
And when people deny how the world works and teach their children that, they’re not only doing their children a disservice, they’re doing the community in which their children will grow up a disservice.
Find The Path
I’d recommend every man to get familiar with physical contact, even something like a boxing, BJJ, or wrestling class is enough. You don’t have to become SAS or a professional fighter, but at least try to understand these things. Communities, societies, and nations are suffering greatly because of a failure to understand basic biology and the basics of how humans work. Just like the drive for sex, the drive for violence needs to be channeled into a productive path.
Not pretended like it doesn’t exist.
Because that way lies not only madness, but suffering and destruction.
And we don’t want that.
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-Charles Sledge
