On Relationships
“The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.”
With the rise of social media one would think that making connections and relationships would be easier to come by but boy would you be wrong. Marriage is at an all time low and a number of social groups have sprung up in the four corners of the internet professing new virtues on male female interaction mgtow to true forced loneliness, the ideology of the “man” has been growing and he is pissed some may say rightfully so as a balancing point to modern women’s proclivities. I know this may be a shock to hear but men are scared yes scared trying to find their place in this new modern world where they have no modern measuring stick for their masculinity. As the number of women earning degrees and entering the workforce grows it is not being the financial provider, it is not the de facto protector as with recent developments in selective service something only men in the U.S. were required to sign up for in the future women may be required to as well.
Men have given up, there has never been any established rights of passage for men in western nations and that cultural misstep is rearing it’s head in the twenty-aughts. This issue isn’t relegated to just the west with birth rates falling across first world nations and the rise of “herbivore men” in Japan we find ourselves in a very precarious state. A scroll through youtube or the numerous message boards that exist paints a very detailed portrait on this sad state of affairs with no sound answer in sight. Some call this social Darwinism at work which alludes to an interesting future as positive relationships and procreation sustain a society the government can’t tax someone who doesn’t exist.
SweatPant is like Sway Calloway I ain’t got all the answers but what I can say is this. We as people have to take stock of ourselves and our interactions with society at large. We all can’t be the next snapchat celebrity or “hot felon” somebody got to bake bread and drive the buses in this world too. Philip Zimbardo brings up a great point in the video above “society consistently tells men what they can’t do but does not tell them what they can” that is conversation we should be having. Both men and women play a role in the creation and development of positive relationships and have to take responsibility in that.
SweatPant out…