Praxeology, Volume 1: Frame: On self actualization for the modern man

by Rian Stone

You used to go to Sunday school, have sports after class, do the Boy Scouts on weekends, have summer camp, confess your problems to your priest, talk to your dad when things were bothering you, even the bartender used to let you vent while he poured you a few wets. Hundreds of institutions, small and large were around to help men. In the modern world they have all failed in that task. Feminism took over the Western world and women spent three generations raising men in this new paradigm.

The church shifted from a place of emotional solace for all to a place where on Mother’s Day men are told to venerate women and on Father’s Day chastised for having insufficiently venerated them.

Since feminism has taken over the soul of our societies, it’s had three generations to prove it could guide men into a positive masculine identity that serves men’s best interests, but they have failed miserably at this job, so to that we now say, “Thanks but no thanks,” and take it from here.

Good judgment comes from experience while experience comes from bad judgment.

Women are granted an intrinsic worth, the benefits of owning the baby maker and having less testosterone and less sexual desire. For a woman to gain self-confidence she only has to believe in her intrinsic worth. She does have the plumbing to make babies after all. As a man, you gain self-confidence the way you gain identity, by doing.

Since when has the right path been the comfortable one?

If your believing the moon is made out of cheese gets you to the gym three days a week, then the moon is Brie.

Ask yourself what you would do with your life if everyone who depended on you died tomorrow? Now go do that. Aspire to be that. You were not put on this earth to light yourself on fire to keep others warm, nor will anyone reward you for your sacrifice. They won’t even acknowledge it was a sacrifice at all. It was simply what they expected of you. And If you think being the best plow horse for a lifetime will get you that nice, warm stable as a reward in the end, you’re in for a rude awakening. Horses that no longer plow are sent to the glue factory.

Men will put up with all manner of crap if you just cater to their most basic needs.