a very interesting idea i came across while reading my good friend @retiredPTC 's review of @bronzeagemantis book is that neoliberalism, and more distinctly the groups that thrive under its machinations, benefit and have ensured that strong and deep feelings between men and
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it is this feeling that has certainly guided men throughout the ages to create whole civilizations and any manner of advances, and it is the brotherhoods among men that could very well topple our effeminate and fallen modern world. even the idea of men socially getting together
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is undermined by some deconstructive subversion that this is "fascistic" somehow, or by its very nature it is "inegalitarian" and must be destroyed, ex. the obsession with subverting the American boyscouts; now a days, only men on the very fringes of society feel this connection.
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looks at gangs, bikers, fringo political groups, or even traveling musicians who's lifestyle is made even that more improbable by greedy record companies and the internet. i remember reading about the original fleetwood mac lineup, how when things were tough, they consoled
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one another, and on the road it was perfectly acceptable to cook and clean for each other and sleep in the same bed. to quote Dave Ellefson, the bassist for Megadeth, living in a mobile tin can with 5 other guys for years at a time "is the closest you can ever come to other guys
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without having sex with each other".this is the problem with the right in general, we don't put our money where our collective mouth is. i think in this regard, the manopshere has done more harm to young RW men then good with all the Self-help/MGTOW/PUA nonsense, and now you have
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the old guard just starting to realize their error, and now are trying to promote a mannerbund model. the problem is that to do this IRL is difficult and on the internet, while easier, is no substitute for real shared space between men, i fear there is no way around this :(
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