Courage in the face of adversity
Without it, no significant or even moderate obstacle can be overcome or defeated. Without the courage to face difficult and uncertain challenges, the spiritually weak and underdeveloped man will not have what is required to propel him forward into the darkness of the unknown.
There were no assurances of success or even survival for many of our ancestors. Much of life was a roll of the dice, hoping for the best and planning to take each challenge. Ruminating on the fears and possibilities of disaster, injury, death, failure or an otherwise undesirable turn of events can paralyze many into inaction and avoidance. We’ve all done it at some point in our lives, but how is it bested? Where does courage come from and how is it summoned?
Unfortunately for the contemporary modern times crowd that demands instantaneous convenient satisfaction for all problems, the answer will be a cliched and unpopular one.
Hard work, struggle and sacrifice.
This trinity of pain is what forges all men into what they are. The more they can endure, the more powerful and resilient they become. The more that they hide and avoid, the longer they stay the same. Refusing to endure hardship is akin to refusing to progress through elementary school and instead preferring to stay in 4th grade where it is easier, comfortable and familiar.
Yes, you will be comfortable and it will be easy — but you will forever remain in 4th grade, shit-posting on the internet lamenting that you’re the ultimate victim of life’s circumstances and so many others have it better than you because of ‘insert variable’.
You are where you are because of you and no one else.
If I collected silver coins each time someone moaned about ‘where are all the men’ over the years I could be fairly wealthy by now. The modern age of convenience, safety, comfort and soft edges with rounded corners made of bubble wrapped plastic has come at a tremendous cost.
Generations of not just young men but people in general have been deprived of this learning experience called hardship that gives them the tools and raw building material required to evolve to the next stage of maturity. With climate controls in our homes we don’t even have to manage the day to day swings of the weather. Any order of food or treats we would like we simply have to pick up our handheld supercomputer with access to most of the worlds known information in instant real time and demand a pizza be delivered to our bed like we are Persian kings. Transportation is so motorized and commonplace now that the idea of walking even for one hour to most of our citizens seems like an outrageous task similar to scaling the face of mount Everest. Obesity is everywhere. The slightest hint of something (or someone) that doesn’t fall within the expected and approved mass psychosis narrative is met with so much fear and hysteria it must give great earnest confidence to our enemies that the time to strike is fast approaching.
Everyone has been walked over, disrespected, condescended to by out pathetically weak and unimpressive leaders so much that its accepted as a commonplace norm. Even while our young are being slaughtered, assaulted, raped and boxed out of their own inheritance to live in poverty or worse.
Nearly everyone we speak to understands this to a small or large degree, so what’s taking so long?
Very few have the courage to involve themselves.
I suppose if the most difficult battle one has ever prevailed is something that would make an 11 year old Palestinian boy laugh, it can’t be expected that person have what it takes to be more than a child.
In fact, the enemy system is entirely dependent on this status quo remaining unchanged for its grip on power to be secure. It needs, not prefers, the average man under his rule to be self-conscious, uncertain, unconfident, depressed, isolated and perpetually kept in a state of heightened anxiety about this or that potential thing going wrong. He doesn’t even know who he is or where he comes from. The heaviest anchor he possesses in his national identity is which sports team he gets drunk and yells at the most.
This is a slave.
Men like this have been domesticated and softened by constant convenience and avoidance of difficult problems. The cost of comfort has been their own manhood.
Another man who is accustomed to pain and difficulty is familiar with it. He doesn’t enjoy it, but he doesn’t fear it enough to stop him. He’s lived through similar or worse situations before with higher pressure and higher stakes. What is a terrifying unknown that paralyzes one man into inaction is just another fence to climb to another who has done this all his life.
The secret is, both men started in the same place as a helpless defenseless child that is entirely reliant on it’s parents power and authority to keep it safe, nurtured and fed so it can grow. Some simply replace their parents with the state and quite literally never learn to be their own person. How can one challenge the perceived authority or influence of another if their confidence is so little they have a hard time speaking up ? Who are they ? They are no one and they feel this, so they remain silent.
Through a process of gradual introduction, acclimatization and familiarity with a manageable difficulty level that the subject eventually defeats and is later introduced to a slightly more difficult problem — evolution from boy to man occurs. Growing and strengthening your spirit and resolve is not any different from growing and strengthening your physical being.
I believe the two are intrinsically linked.
When training your body, though you may want to start at an elite level of fitness and strength — no one begins there. Myself I joined the military as a teenager at a sopping wet 117 pounds. If you’re imagining that must have been difficult, it certainly was. The military was designed to train men for war at that time. The infantry is a very physically robust and demanding occupation. I had never experienced anything like this level of physical, emotional and mental challenge before. It was all I had ever wanted to pursue, partially knowing that I was a weak and underdeveloped person. I crawled over the finish line, but I did.
At the time it felt like an extremely difficult and challenging experience with many days of self doubt and worry I would fail. In retrospect now as the man I am today, it would be part an irritating annoyance and part welcome structured vacation with free food and plenty of time outdoors. I have since experienced tremendously more difficult days and obstacles than those I encountered in 2003, but the feeling of being inside of a box you must fight your way out of with the pressure on and uncertain if you can succeed is the same.
It is always the same.
The act of pushing yourself beyond what you are comfortable with, through previous high water marks of pain and into unknown territory to places you will encounter things you are not prepared for is always the same.
Like weight training for example. Early on I struggled to bench 150 pounds. Eventually, I got within range of pushing 185 but I had never attempted this weight before. Only because I had recently gotten comfortable in the 150-155lb range did I feel like increasing the difficulty, but I was still unsure and nervous about how I would perform. Last week I pushed 315 pounds as it’s fairly routine — but if I were challenged to push something significantly heavier, the same feelings would be there as they were many years ago looking down at a single plate and change on a bench-press wondering if it was something I would be able to handle.
The level you strengthen yourself to opens up bigger and greater challenges for you to attempt as you now have ‘levelled up’ the required amount to be within striking distance of this next obstacle — but the feeling of the struggle is always the same.
I learned this — but an entire generation of men especially are walking around right now that have never successfully navigated this mental exercise even once. They’ll find excuses to avoid the difficulty and forever remain in fourth grade. We created a society that when our young people said “I don’t like this” we respond with “That’s okay, you don’t have to” teaching our people that avoiding difficult situations is the way to resolve it.
What was meant to be a softer, kinder, gentler approach to love our children and people more than our previous generations did by showering them with conveniences and comfort has instead been a catastrophic disaster that has deprived generations of the crucial fundamental skillset in overcoming difficult situations.
Weakness is not love.
Building up your children, your brethren and your people to be as strong, resilient and capable as possible is much more difficult. Embracing that difficulty for their sake — that is love.
This internal reservoir of confidence and an increasing ability to tackle higher and higher levels of fear can be built in exactly the same manner as our bodies — by repeated, extended exposure to stress and difficulty but is within your ability to defeat. Repeating this process is like building your body.
One or two days in a gym is not going to produce any results worth mentioning. Several years of dedicated, disciplined intentions however can produce an entirely different looking human being.
The same is true for your soul and your mind.
When David Goggins began his journey to the Navy SEALs and later renowned world champion of doing incredibly difficult things — he was nearly or over three hundred pounds, obese, addicted to ice cream and television. He recognized his own weakness, was disgusted by it and dedicated himself to evolving on the inside. The outside followed close behind.
”Why do physical training? What are these active clubs even doing? Who cares about doing some pushups.”
That’s where you’re wrong, internet incel fatso.
A single man with courage can inspire others — and he has to — because no man can accomplish much on his own. The real true strength lies in the unification and collective effort of many working under a shared vision and spirit. The camaraderie and fraternal unspoken brotherhood we used to enjoy from Vancouver to Newfoundland has been taken for granted and now mostly scattered into the wind. On top of that, the average man is so unsure of himself and lacking self esteem he doesn’t dare make a noise above the level of a mouse lest someone notice and ‘cancel’ him.
The process of re-establishing these local community bonds with the very real and equally alone men around you is the first step into progressing beyond fourth grade. What was emasculated, degraded, shattered and scattered can be rebuilt and it must be rebuilt. We have no other choice.
The enemy’s success relies on us remaining isolated and individually focused on ourselves — atomized to one tiny helpless economic unit instead of being a small piece of a much greater, more powerful and terrifying whole.
I’ve often reminded myself of this scene from Terminator 2 and of course Robert Patrick’s excellent portrayal as an evil killing machine notwithstanding - the metaphor is sound.
Observing that our people have been shattered and scattered across the land and any brotherly bonds of nationalistic sentiment dulled and neutralized, the enemy is very disturbed to observe that not only are these frozen pockets here and there rapidly beginning to thaw and melt — they are actually joining together in greater and greater pieces in a pattern of construction.
A pattern of life, of nature relentlessly defending itself from attack. Responding like the white blood cells of our immune system when a threat has been recognized.
Those who mock us simply don’t recognize or appreciate the significance of what is happening or the abject panic and hysteria inside the system to find ways to stop T-1000 from rebuilding himself.
Unconfident men can be joined together and through the strength of the group, mutually shared struggles and obstacles and mutually shared victories and success breeds confidence and vigor. A group of bonded, physically and mentally strong men can accomplish far beyond what any one man is capable of.
I know this because I have seen it transpire in my own life many times. This is what the army did for me and my colleagues who I remain close with to this day.
Of all the mad and wild things we did in war and my time in the army — the true lions share of the reservoir of confidence didn’t come internally from myself. No, that was only the initial burst of courage I had built for myself that enabled me to step onto the bus.
What kept me on it and moving forward in the years ahead, in the smoke and smells of combat operations and the dark and heartbreaking days after was this massive, endless pool of strength and confidence that we all shared together as a group.
Our strength is in our numbers and our unity as a people just the same as it is for soldiers on a battlefield.
The size and strength of our opposition makes it impossible for any individual man to succeed and survive. It demands we re-invigorate our ancient tribal spirit of fraternity. The amount of resources by the enemy to prevent this from happening is indicative of it’s fear that this will lead to greater success.
Overcoming fear is what life is all about. Living in fear is a prison of missed opportunities, would haves, could haves and should haves.
Our ancestors didn’t cross the Atlantic into the unknown to a wild continent on fishing rafts of individuals. Imagine if they had? Everything great we have ever achieved has been the result of an enormous group effort, spearheaded by those few, courageous, audacious men.
Do the things that scare you until they don’t.
Through each other — we can become invincible.
Life is a team sport.
I love my team.
- JM
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I’m terrified of this, but I’m doing it anyway! ;)
Very well said , every bit of it. glad that I have you and everyone as a family and the few people around me that understand these things. It is very hard to draw people in, they are all comfortable but miserable in their own lies and lives.
individual ingenuity. collective genius. indigenous sovereignty with global attentiveness.