My Anger

I’ve been battling with depression since I was a teenager. and it hasn’t gone away, even well into my 30s. I would drink heavily to try to subdue it, but it is only temporary and seems to make things worse. I usually ruminate over the same angry thoughts day and night. I’ve tried working out, but it is also another temporary fix (albeit more healthy than drinking). So i decided to write this post as a way to clear my head. I also feel this will be helpful to anyone out there who is going through what I’m going through.

Being a man in this city comes with an almost certain level of anger. You are not as cared about anymore, you are expected to be strong, and your problems are not taken as seriously. I see it on the streets, men who are on the corner drinking or doing whatever drugs. Doubting what the right decisions are to make. I’m starting to believe you, as a man, need to look out for yourself first. Making sure your finances, your health, and peace of mind are put before everything else.

As I get older, dating seems like a waste of time. Women look to take but give very little in return, leaving you bitter. Society will quickly imprison you, but slowly help when needed. I have contemplated suicide, but I don’t have the will to do it. I guess I gotta stay strong and roll with the punches because, seriously, this modern age isn’t making it easy.

I lift weights because even though I’m not mentally strong, maybe at least I can be physically strong. Life becomes a metaphor for prison, working out and reading books, because they can do everything materially from but a least you’ll have your mind and body.

A rant on our gender and masculinity

A few years back, I had the pleasure of reading “The Rational Male” by Rollo Tomasi. This book essentially changed my life(that’s saying a lot because I have read hundreds of books in my life). The book is essentially a user guide to female nature and is considered a bible among the red-pilled community. One point that I took to heart while reading the book was how solipsistic women were by nature. Now, many would view this to be the sexiest, downright even misogynistic, but in evolutionary terms, this made perfect sense. For a lot of people, they just can’t make peace with biological facts and political correctness. Men and Women have fundamental differences that are the result of eons of evolution. That women would, by nature, be solipsistic, thinking of only themselves, makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Women( as still the case today) bear the brunt of rearing children. As well as the risky situation where they go through almost a year of gestation. This would lead to women generally being more egotistical and prioritizing themselves and their children above everything else. This is perfectly fine from an evolutionary as well as a historical standpoint. But this mode of being runs into many problems in our modern times.

Men, almost universally(with exceptions, of course), have been in a position of power. And with great power comes great responsibility (as the famous comic book quote stated). So in this scenario, I believe it made sense for certain things to be deferred to women with children since they were in a vulnerable position. But in the 21st century were the support and protection that men once provided aren’t as much needed as they once were. As certain old traditions just go out of whack. The idea that men are supposed to be providers made sense when muscles were what was needed to bring protein to the table or fight off other men, but these are not as relevant, at least not in the developed world. So why should we still hold on to these ideas? That I, as a man, should be financially supporting my partner when they are as capable or are already financially better off than I am doesn’t seem to make as much sense to men anymore.

This may explain why marriage has been in decline, and why people would even consider getting married. The historical foundation of marriage, i.e, to pass down lineage, doesn’t fit well in our modern world, where patriarchy doesn’t exist as it once did, at least in the developed world. I believe, particularly for men, we need to revisit what is truly expected of us in the modern world, or just be left with our current crisis of masculine identity, especially among young men