Hard Times Create Strong Men

Sorry, but you aren't those strong men

My schedule got a little screwy today and I ended up with time on my hands that I normally don’t have, so I went for a run. While on my run I was thinking about all of the things that have been going on in the country over the past several years and how it all seems like it could be coming to a head. It got me thinking about a quote that has been popping up a lot over that same timeframe:

• Hard times create strong men.

• Strong men create good times.

• Good times create weak men.

• Weak men create hard times.

We’ve all seen/heard/read the quote. We’ve all seen the memes. We’re all seeing what’s happening to our society as the whole thing seems to be crumbling around us. And I’m here to tell you, you are NOT the strong men who are going to create good times.

Sorry, that’s a stone cold fact. Actually, if we’re really REALLY being honest, you’re part of the weak men who are still in the process of creating the hard times. See, we all think that the “weak men” are the lunatics you see in the meme above…but they’re not even men at all. Those are abominations to nature. Those things don’t even begin to scratch the qualifications of being called “men.” The real weak men are the ones who have allowed those abominations to become commonplace.

For some reason there’s this idea that these cycles happen with each generation. That the World Wars of the early 20th century were the hard times, which led to the strong men of the “Greatest Generation” and the Boomers bringing about good times, which then in turn led to the good times creating the weak men of Generation X and the Millennials, who then created the hard times we’ve seen over the past 20 years, which now means we get to rise up and make ourselves in to strong men and carry this country back to the good times. Fist bumps all around! Hoorah! Yeah, go sit down. You ARE the weak men, and it’s too late for you to become anything more than that. Again, sorry!

The bitter white bill in all of this is that there’s still hope. We’re figuring it out late. We’re becoming radicalized to the hard times just a little too far in to it to change course. But there’s a generation coming up behind us that lived through the COVID hysteria and everything that’s followed that as they were coming in to their pre-teens/early teenage years. They’ve been radicalized since they got the first hair on their balls. And they’re getting progressively more and more fed up with the hard times that are being passed off to them by weak men like you and me.

Yes, and me! I am a weak man. For all of the same reasons you are. See, we thought it was our duty during our formative years to whore ourselves out to women we didn’t care about and chase careers that didn’t mean anything to the furtherment of the human race. We got our degrees, we banged hot chicks, we made lots of money, and we rocked! ‘Murica, fuck yeah! Yeah… we were so busy chasing stupidity that we didn’t bother to put up a fight when everything progressivism has pushed down the throat of society became more and more the commonplace. We didn’t fight to put feminism in its place (which should be literally anywhere other than a decision making capacity for anything at all). We allowed everything weak and cowardly to become the norm. We could have been building healthy relationships and useful skills and fighting to make this world one worth living in…but that would have taken work and goals and we went with what was fun and easy instead.

We realized we had created hard times just a little too late to really do anything about it. And while many of us (myself included) may have some dreams and aspirations of becoming the strong men who fix it and create the good times, it’s not particularly likely that will be the case. It will probably take 10-20 years for all of these hard times to play all the way out, and by then we’ll be too old to do all of the heavy lifting necessary to bring us through to the other side. The thing we can do is give guidance and direction to that younger generation who have already realized it and have become radicalized to it.

Guidance is how we contribute to the good times. These young men who are mad at what the world has become are looking for an outlet to fight back against progressivism. Action without intent isn’t much better than inaction. If they aren’t doing things that move society toward good times, they’re just extending the hard times. So show them the way to fight back and make it meaningful. Give them goals and objectives that go beyond the “vengeful sons” intent on tearing down weakness to also being men who create something good.

Finally, I think it’s important to note that the “hard times” aren’t something new that’s just begun to creep in to society. This has been happening for the better part of the last two hundred years. We always think the “Greatest Generation” were the strong men, but when you look at what was really going on with the two World Wars of the early 20th century, you start to realize that the winners weren’t necessarily on the side of good in all respects. It can’t be over emphasized that “weak men” at the highest positions are often also objectively evil; and they will do whatever is necessary to maintain their control over society. While the legitimately “strong men” just want to be nice, good people and try to do what’s right. Weakness has been ruling with an iron fist to maintain its power for centuries; while strength has given way to just getting along. In order to fight back against what’s wrong with the world, this next generation needs to understand in ways those that preceded them didn’t that you have to win. You have to defeat weakness. You have to root out evil. We need to give them not just purpose, but the resolve to do what we were too weak to do. To win!