The western man is going through it right now. - Self-worth crisis - Identity crisis - Mental health crisis - Masculinity crisis - Sexuality crisis - Narcissism/hedonism crisis And not enough humbleness to learn from those who have retained the knightly code/actual masculinity. The western man, as a general populace, is a pathetic amalgamation of fake virtue and useless materialism. Generally, what this eventually leads to is a civilization-wide awakening to the misgivings of one's rejected culture, heritage and weaknesses. Reevaluation is possible only after the damage is done and assessed. At the other side of this is a great renaissance of western culture, an uprising of intellectuality and gentleness, but most immediately there will be shame and embarrassment and self-deprecation. The western archetype has struggled primarily with shame and self-hatred, first quietly and now profoundly loudly - for all to see, because he has removed himself from faith-based living. The new generation has no purpose, and nowhere to take their energy that is meaningful outside of materialism and brainless money-chasing and "influencing". If there ever was any perfect enemy to the western man, it has been the quiet titan of capitalism - as it has reconfigured and reprogrammed the mind of the youth into exclusively seeking a state of dullness and material contentness. They have been tricked into pursuing a way of life that was never theirs, and forced to enter into an arena where they naturally do not excel. They are pushed out of their element, therefore, as they are forced to simulate values and behaviours that are not inherently rooted in who they are, and who their ancestors were. The idleness of the western man will be his final downfall, and his growing narcissism a direct guarantor of his eventual destruction. The western woman is, quite literally, raped. Ritually, chronically, regularly and without answer. She is the great victim of this fallout. It is a nation of weak men that point fingers and blame their sisters, mothers and daughters for having sought liberation - not from the chains of their control, mind you, but from the weakness of their ways and their inability to serve as the *spiritual and moral authority* their women require to feel a sense of containment within the boundaries they've built. The western man is incapable of taking responsibility for his own shame, and he has abandoned his feminine aspect altogether in his effort to escape himself - externalized by the abandonment of his companion, the feminine opposite. He has forgotten that he is the upholder and the guardian of the moral-knightly codes, and of the ethical - virtues their ancestors strived to build through blood and glory. Without their upkeep - civilization itself will wilt away and fade, as the first sign of a dying people is the sexual unchaining and raging of their women - as they move away from their failed brethren and seek containment elsewhere, even if it is in the arms of the enemy, or those who would seek to exploit and misguide them. The woman who lashes out only does so because she feels an immense deficit - a lack of a moral and spiritual authority who will contain her lesser, base desires and transmute them into a life of prosperity and meaning. Yet that threshold has been crossed now, there is no saving or delivering the western man from his own vanity and weakness - he must crash and burn into the darkness he himself has built and lose great parts of himself to hopefully recover his dignity. Until that virtue is found again, the spirit of the west is dead, its twitching corpse paraded on the shoulders of soulless "influencers" in humiliation. ![[66F89892-061C-47B1-AB1A-083AEC94E24C.gif]]