A good take on American men & masculinity: the drive to be self-made; the quest for improvement, knowledge, achievement, adventure, purpose; the disdain for limits on any of these imposed by class, credential, or orthodoxy; the centrality of thinking out loud.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1165280201179389952 …
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If you've ever listened to two men talk in a bar or a coffee shop, you have probably noticed that the vast majority of what each guy says is something the other guy already knows.
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Before the mid-20th century, it was a commonly understood aspirational value for American men to be in meaningful ways self-made: not simply schooled & advanced through institutions. The Revolution was made by men self-taught in war & politics & even science. Ditto Lincoln.
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The "middlebrow" American man does not, whatever the "highbrow" man tells you, mean uninterested in knowledge; quite the contrary.
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