Every Man Is A Warrior

The term warrior is an ancient term that is archetypal. 

It is the foundation of what it is to be a man, to be fully present and fully alive. 

Men believed it was his choice not to become a warrior and to pursue a different idea of a man. 

It was an uncommitted path, a dabbling of manhood and masculinity, where they felt it was safe to do so and actively encouraged by an equally lost society.  

I understand why. 

Society has told men there is no place for the warrior in modern times. 

They are an inconvenience and a threat to the half men who want stolen power on the back of lies and deceit . 

A society of leaders that continually virtue signal, whilst they explore their own dark fantasies within what is often the depths of the grotesque. 

Steven Bartlett who runs the excellent podcast Diary Of A CEO, recently highlighted about the mental health crisis in young men and how they are falling behind in so many aspects of life. 

This is a vital subject to discuss and I’m pleased to see it raised by someone like Steven.

How can we look upon young men's mental health with any serious concern and solution, when they have been actively encouraged to be fragile, criticised and condemned by the same society that now portrays concern? 

It still continues within entertainment, education and politics. 

Are we going to attempt to fit them in or adjust them to an often false and misguided society?

I speak to these young men enough to know they are not fools and I believe what we are experiencing is the rejection of the choices they are offered, yet they are crying out for guidance, for something that makes them feel worthy and alive.  

Many men want to blame women on this subject but the fault is mainly with men. 

Too few men actually want to mentor their children now and would rather pass this responsibility onto others. 

They are frequently absent and they themselves often lack the capability and knowledge to show their boys the way of the warrior. 

We also have a generation of men that never grew up, attempting to raise their own children. 

It is a man's responsibility to turn a boy into a man, not a woman’s. 

As author Frederick Douglass wrote:

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

Every man can trace his past back to the warrior, born not just out of necessity but an expression of who he really is. 

The only real choice he made was to turn away form his past and the reality of who he is and the whole world fell with him. 

I am certain we can reverse this and I am totally committed to doing so but the question remains are we really going to address it, or flirt with the idea within structures of society that do not want warriors in their midst? 

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