At the risk of agreeing with feminists:
We men are privileged.
We’re not privileged how they think we are. No, the patriarchy isn’t real, the wage gap doesn’t exist and society doesn’t cater to us.
If anything, the opposite of those is true.
But men are, in fact, blessed with power – power like strength, resilience, discipline, pragmatic wisdom and ambition.
You see the problem and you work to solve it, even when it’s hard, filthy and thankless work.
That’s nothing you’re born with. In fact, you have to cultivate it. That’s never been easy or simple – the road to manhood has always been a complicated one.
Your challenge these days is a lack of role models, a culture that won’t appreciate you and even a muddying of what it means to be a man.
The Enemy of Civilisation sees masculinity as one of its greatest threats. A mature, masculine society is hard to break or manipulate.
That’s why it fights so hard to erase and condemn masculinity.
It’s also why the Enemy loses. Masculinity is your birthright. The Enemy might confound thousands of men, maybe even millions of them, but it can’t trick all of us – especially as it becomes clearer. A couple of generations of weak men have broken society. Only masculine men are even trying to glue it back together.
This is your masculine birthright – the privilege to repair and protect something rare, precious and beautiful: Western civilisation. The cradle of science, progress, democracy and freedom is under attack.
You have the power to see the dangers.
And the duty to defend what’s beautiful.
This is no ordinary war, though. There are no barbarians at the gate, no stampeding herds of beasts.
Ours is a spiritual war.
It’s fought in the mind, in the culture, in the boardroom, courtroom and living room.
This is a war where TV is a weapon, social media is both a battlefied and a trap, and literally everything is at stake.
Lose this and your children won’t avenge you. No, lose this and your children will be willing slaves.
That’s why I want to train your creativity.
It’s a martial art in the new warfare.
You’re already good at it – it’s time to learn how.
And then how to get even better.
That begins with reading Every Creative Way – your guide to the styles of creativity you can pracitce and master: