I love seeing those “weak men” posts because there is this fun lack of self awareness. Like… you do realize YOU are part of the times too right? That you hold equal responsibility to shaping the future?
Like… just because you don’t identify as a member of a current generation or consider yourself different from your peers doesn’t mean you exist outside of time.
Do you picture Genghis Khan waking up every day, scrolling through news, bitching about how everyone is too sensitive nowadays and the rulers are impotent… then clocking in to his grind and coming home to crack a beer and pat himself on the back because he worked so hard all day compared to everyone else and didn’t get offended by his coworkers jokes that he’s one of the strong ones, then repeating that for 50+ years…?
Strong, weak, from our perspective it’s pretty relative. The bar gets raised over time. In 1990 you’d be the office tech whiz most places if you could email a document or hook up a modem, stuff kids do today.
Objectively the only way we can measure strength is through action. We can say many things are or take “strength” but at the end of the day, in context to this oft repeated phrase, strength is your ability to take what you desire and make that reality into the world, and the character that what you make can endure.
So here is the spoiler. Strong men have made good times. They made good times for strong men. The richest humans enjoy wealth and luxury unprecedented in all of history. Those with the will and power to realize their desires can now literally travel to space- the heavens- long the realm of “gods” beyond reach of even the “god emperors” of the past.
YOU probably can’t go to space. YOU probably don’t have 8+ homes around the globe that are built and designed exactly as you want, and YOU probably can’t buy Twitter because you feel like it and still not be broke etc etc. because the strong are doing very well at the expense of those who do not have their strength. You might say: “I have everything I want, I don’t want all that. I’m simple!” Good for you. You might be strong too then. If strength is realizing what you want in the world and you have what you want… you’re strong. If you made what you want… those are good times for you aren’t they…? So the strong are having a great time.
The weak aren’t able to make what they desire real and will generally have a bad time unless the strong lend their power to the weak to help them have the world they want to live in.
We do not lack strong people, strong wills, strong abilities, strong values. We have those.
We find ourselves lacking the kind, the honorable, the benevolent, the gregarious, the responsible.
Wish less for strong men and more for responsible and kind men.
Like… just because you don’t identify as a member of a current generation or consider yourself different from your peers doesn’t mean you exist outside of time.
Do you picture Genghis Khan waking up every day, scrolling through news, bitching about how everyone is too sensitive nowadays and the rulers are impotent… then clocking in to his grind and coming home to crack a beer and pat himself on the back because he worked so hard all day compared to everyone else and didn’t get offended by his coworkers jokes that he’s one of the strong ones, then repeating that for 50+ years…?
Objectively the only way we can measure strength is through action. We can say many things are or take “strength” but at the end of the day, in context to this oft repeated phrase, strength is your ability to take what you desire and make that reality into the world, and the character that what you make can endure.
YOU probably can’t go to space. YOU probably don’t have 8+ homes around the globe that are built and designed exactly as you want, and YOU probably can’t buy Twitter because you feel like it and still not be broke etc etc. because the strong are doing very well at the expense of those who do not have their strength. You might say: “I have everything I want, I don’t want all that. I’m simple!” Good for you. You might be strong too then. If strength is realizing what you want in the world and you have what you want… you’re strong. If you made what you want… those are good times for you aren’t they…? So the strong are having a great time.
We do not lack strong people, strong wills, strong abilities, strong values. We have those.
We find ourselves lacking the kind, the honorable, the benevolent, the gregarious, the responsible.
Wish less for strong men and more for responsible and kind men.