Archive for October, 2009
Recently, I went on a walk around Portland with Mr. Blake, and we visited the bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt in the park blocks across from the Portland Art Museum. This inscription below the statue reads… “He was found faithful over a few things and he was made ruler over many. He cut his own [...]
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Appelata est enim a viro virtus: viri autem propria maxime est fortitudo. “The term virtue is from the word that signifies man; a man’s chief quality is fortitude” Cicero, “Tuscul.”, I, xi, 18. Very bushido. h/t ex cathedra
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My new piece, “Writing About Men is Important” is up at The Spearhead today. “Real men don’t read books about masculinity or sit around talking about manhood.” I’ve heard it more than a few times. Masculinity is associated with action, so men who simply write about men’s issues are sometimes taunted with accusations of defective [...]
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Anthropologist finds proof. From this finding that ancients and even men of the not-too-distant past were so much more robust than we are now, one could make an argument that industrialization, service sector jobs, the avoidance of violent conflict and the general feminization of our society are actually making us weaker and more vulnerable as [...]
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It is often the case that, when a society has successfully aligned its masculine ideal with its moral or religious ideals, men will say that an immoral man is not a man. This confuses the definition of manhood and gives rise to myths about masculinity being completely culturally specific or relativistic. This confusion leads people [...]
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Novaseeker just posted a really concise explanation of cultural Marxism, with an interesting twist about men that I’ll have to think about, to The Spearhead. For more, read Pat Buchanan’s Death of the West. “it’s impossible to understand what has really happened in the West since 1960 without understanding the underlying cultural Marxist basis.” The [...]
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I’ve been writing and thinking a lot recently about men and violence. A few months ago, my good friend Mr. Blake presented me with this great little paperback book from 1947. It has a passage in it about both male violence and blood-brotherhood–the subject of my most recent book. Since I have yet to finish [...]
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A scene from the recent film Rocknrolla really struck me as being particularly authentic and well-handled, so I wrote about it for Mark Adnum’s Outrate site. FYI, the ads tend to be a bit racy, so it’s NSFW. There’s Something About Bob Hetero/Homo Camraderie in Guy Ritchie’s Rocknrolla BTW, If you’re new to my work [...]
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A few years ago, a wise friend pointed out to me the significance of this speech, especially in the context of the rest of the film, and in the context of what is happening to the Western world and various traditions. Many wonder if the Men of the West are failing, if they have fallen [...]
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“It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women.” – Alexis De Toqueville h/t Elusive Wapiti
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