America is Cursed by Millions of Hollow Men
Today in America, you will see them everywhere. Gazing in your direction with bored eyes, handing you your coffee at Starbucks, and especially, oh especially, online in forums and on social media.
They are the Hollow Men.
They have always been among us, but the modern world has made them emptier than ever, and they want to take vengeance on all of us for that.
Who are the Hollow Men?
Well, they look suspiciously like the rest of us, but they believe they are special. Destined for greatness. On the right side of history. But no one told them how to actually make that happen, and after being pampered and coddled to the point where they see disagreements as personal attacks, they grew to love comfort too much to ever really be successful. You don’t change the world by playing a video game or by sitting at home eating pizza, alone again, as usual.
Still, these Hollow Men believe they have bright, shiny futures, so why are they alone? Where are the girlfriends? Where is the acclaim? Where are the crowds following THEM around because they are such a big deal? Could it be that maybe they aren’t as special as they thought?
No, no, they just have to work harder, but Hollow Men are usually not much for work. Work isn’t fun. It isn’t comfortable. It’s also just perpetuating a broken system or helping capitalists exploit the workers or whatever… who really cares as long as it excuses you for not doing anything? The same goes for self-improvement. Trying isn’t cool. It’s also HARD.
Have you ever walked into a gym with all those “Chads” in there, looking at you like a loser because you can’t lift much weight? Hell, why would you want to lift weights anyway? That’s for meatheads. SMART PEOPLE, like the Hollow Men, would rather spend their time reading. Maybe skimming a book that makes them sound cool or manga, Reddit, text-based video games – it’s all still reading, right? Besides, what’s so great about these people that you need to learn from them? They were probably just born on third base anyway.
So, without that primo job, skills, or looks, how can a Hollow Man get ahead? Maybe by picking the group of people they want to like them and saying what they think they want to hear. Love who you think they want you to love and hate who you think they want you to hate. Repeat the things they “all” believe, spew venom at the people who don’t fall into line and try to show everyone you’re the most loyal to the cause, so you’ll finally be treated as special. At least you hope so, although it seldom seems to work out that way.
There are no lengths to which they wouldn’t go, because they really have nothing they care about other than themselves. They feel no connection to their civilization and their country. They either never went to church at all or reject it because it gives them rules that get in the way of doing what they want to do. Traditions? Who cares what some dead old people think? History? They don’t bother to read it other than what they have to for class, where they learn that America is a terrible place.
Friends? Families? Maybe even girlfriends? They have a lot of trouble fitting in because they have a chip on their shoulder. Because they view themselves as victims. Because it’s just too much work to take another person’s wants and needs into consideration when p*rn, games and “online friends” who essentially only exist when you want them around and disappear when you turn off the computer are so easy to turn to.
What about a moral code? Hollow Men don’t really have one because they live for nothing but sh*ts, giggles, and impressing the crowd. If it entertains them or makes the right people look, it’s good. If it doesn’t, then it’s bad. They don’t care about what’s true and what’s not true. Everybody is a liar just like they are anyway, right? Might as well be entertained when you’re listening to the lies.
They feel nothing when bad things happen to good people, other than, “How can I use this to get attention?” That guy died? I wonder if I could get people to look at me by making fun of it while I do a TikTok dance or by laughing into the camera while I tell everyone he deserved it? But what if people get angry? Who cares? F*** those guys. Everything they believe is stupid anyway because they’re on the other side. Celebrating anything that makes them angry might get me more attention.
Besides, isn’t life meaningless anyway? Because once you’ve watched the same movie and played the same video game enough times, doesn’t it get boring? Doesn’t it get tiresome to keep saying what everybody expects you to say and doing what everybody expects you to do - and for what? For way too few imaginary Internet likes? To impress someone online who wouldn’t notice if you were dead? To go work at some sh*t job you don’t care about to make money that will never be enough to get a mansion and a Lambo that would get those women you really want to finally look at you? What’s the point of life anyway? Who wants to spend a life doing some sh*t job you don’t like, slogging through online forums for forty years, then retiring and dying alone?
When you feel like that, how do you not hate the people who look happy? Who have a purpose? Who seem like they’re having a better life than you? They deserve to be trolled, to have you scream in their face at a “protest,” to loot their stores or maybe for you to even kill them and etch a message on the bullets that you think makes you sound badass.
You have a right to be angry, don’t you? After all, if those people weren’t around, refusing to do what you want them to do, maybe you would have a good life. Who else’s fault could it be? You’re the victim here, so it’s certainly not yours. Even if you can’t have a good life, it might at least be funny to spoil their life. After all, they deserve it, right? Even if they didn’t deserve it, who cares? It would be worth it to make their lives 1,000 times worse if it made your life 1% better, wouldn’t it?
Life is spoiled and the world is broken, so why shouldn’t you lash out? You are entitled to a life that’s better than this, and everyone should pay because you didn’t get it.
Today in America, you will see them everywhere. Gazing in your direction with bored eyes, handing you your coffee at Starbucks, and especially, oh especially, online in forums and on social media.
They are the Hollow Men.
They have always been among us, but the modern world has made them emptier than ever, and they want to take vengeance on all of us for that.
Public schools have lead the way in raising boys to be hollow men. When I was in elementary school, we played dodgeball, baseball, football and a few different varieties of smear the Q**er. We also played a lot of tag. Boys were not suspended for fighting. After a fight, we were taken to the office to cool off then shake hands. Then there was a discussion of better ways to solve the problem. If one was obviously the instigator, that person got a week of lunch time clean-up.
When my son was in 1st grade, I got a call saying I had to come to the school because he had been playing a violent game. I get there and find out he and his friends were playing freeze tag. It was the same school I attended back in the day. I proceeded to tell the principal of all the games I played with my friends and where on the playground we played them. Of course they have taken away the two baseball diamonds, the handball wall, the dodgeball circles, and the playground equipment. I told her that boys will find something to do to run off their energy. Stop that and they will be restless in class and that is when they cause the teacher issues.
The principal was not impressed. I told my son that the teachers and principal just wanted them to not do any of the fun things. I and a few other parents got together and a couple of times a week we took a group of boys to the local park to play tag or whatever other physical game they wanted. Yep, they fell, got bruised, scraped, and everything else and they laughed about it. Fortunately, the mothers had no problems letting their boys be boys. I and another dad would always join in.
The principal was not happy that we were doing this, but hey, the parents were the ones supervising and it was not on school grounds.
When I was in high school, I ran cross-country. I live in the Central Valley of CA and the summer temperatures get above 100 and occasionally above 110. We ran no matter how hot it was. I remember one day when it was 114 when we went on a 7 mile run. We were all acclimated to the heat and did not have any problems. When we got thirsty, we drank out of a hose at the house we happened to be in front of. We sprayed each other with water and took off again. Schools were not air conditioned and we survived.
Today, if the temperature gets above 92, all practices and games are suspended or delayed until the temps drop below 92.
To this day, I still work outside in the summer. I drink lots of water and hose off now and again. My wife and I still visit the desert in spring or later and have taken hikes when temps are 100 or above. We bring extra water. We are in our 60s and have no problem taking off on a 10 mile hike when it is hot. They younger people will not venture out, they are in air conditioning playing on their cell phones complaining how the heat has ruined their vacation.
We raised our son to be a man. I told him many times hard work never killed anyone. Yep, he had to help me. I told him it was practice for the day he would be a dad.
In graduate school he met a woman. She was tired of dating the soy boys. After a few dates she told my son that he was different. He treated her the way we raised him to treat women. They eventually married and had their first child last week. My son has told me more than once that I prepared him to be a husband and dad. It is not easy, but it is very worthwhile.
He works for the USDA as a meat inspector and he loves that it is a physically demanding job. He could not sit in an air conditioned office all day.
Compare that to my 5 nephews. My brother and sister raised soy boys. Only two are working and they have no desire to better themselves. They are still working entry level jobs after going to college and earning degrees in the feel good majors that do not lead to any sort of career. One is married, but they are not going to have children (my sister is devastated). My sister's other son lives at home at the age of 40. He works in a movie theater part time and plays video games the rest of the time.
The other three nephews just have no desire to do anything other than video games. They have not even learned to drive. Driving is too scary.
I cannot believe we were raised in the same family.
My current students show a continuing downward trend for boys. The most popular sport is E-games (fancy name for video games). I give out a consequence for something, and they run out of the room. They call their mothers who then come on down to the school and want to meet with me now. How dare I tell her precious son to put away his cell phone or to not user inappropriate language in school. Back in the day, if I was reprimanded, I certainly did not want to tell my parents because they would give me even worse consequences that I got at school.
One of my chores growing up was mowing the lawn. The outside temperature did not matter. I have a slight allergy to grass a that did not matter. My mother was an RN and an asthmatic. A runny nose, watery eyes, and sneezing was nothing. I could always take an allergy pill. To this day I still mow the lawn. I know have asthma but I bring my inhaler with me and use it once or twice. I am healthier because I still get things done that have to be done in spite of how I feel.
Last spring, we were visiting our son and his wife in Montana. The teen on the end of their block was supposed to have mowed the lawn when his parents were working. He failed to do it 3 days in a row, video games were more important. Saturday morning, his parents woke him early and kicked him outside until he mowed the lawn. He sat on the sidewalk moaning about how unfair his parents are. I walked by and ys engaged him in conversation. I finally told him what my mom always told me, I could waste my time complaining and moaning about it but I still have to do the job. Or I could get right on it and then do something I want to do afterwards. It saves a lot of time. By the time I was a teen, I got my chores done early because I had other things to do. I always had a job. I had a girlfriend and a car to take care of. If it needed repairs, I bought the parts and did it myself. I wanted money so I could take my girlfriend out. The girl I dated when I was 16 became my wife and we have been married for 41 years now. She was drawn to my working and making a better life for us. She told me years later that she was looking for a man to marry that would take care of her and be a provider when the children came. She has worked during our marriage but she wanted me to step up so she could care for our son the first couple of years. She always appreciated that I put our son and her ahead of me. Well, I am a Christian and that is what God has called me to do. I have never regretted one moment. I also provided a good example for our son and now he tells me he hopes he can live up to what I did.
My wife told her brother about what women are looking for just after his girlfriend dumped him and started dating another man whom she married 6 months later.
His mother has always protected him. His father did his best to get his son to get a job and get out of the house. His wife always sabotaged his efforts. He is now 58, living at home without a job, and spends his days on social media complaining about how the right wingers have ruined his life. He believes he is entitled to government aid and free healthcare. He cannot get either because he has never worked and his mother is paying for everything. My father-in-law passed away a few years ago and in his will told his son he got nothing because he has done nothing his entire life. His share went to his only grandson because he is making a life for himself. That was not taken well. He and his mother think this was so wrong.
Now that she is almost 90, she is tired of supporting her son and has complained to us. We told her she made him what he is today so deal with it. She still hands him money so he can buy the latest tech gear or go camping with his friends.
My son's FIL thinks he is fantastic for his daughter. Two of his other daughters have married boys that still do not have jobs and play video games. These two daughters married because they loved him and are willing to work full time to take care of him. That is not going to last very long.
That shows the problem, women need to stop dating Hollow men. They need to raise their expectations like most women when I was dating. That won't happen with the current form of feminism that push for men to be nothing more than sperm donors if they decide they want a baby.
I needed to read this on this fine Saturday morning as I sit at the computer doing business work at at age 65. Thank you.
I am currently in a FB conversation with my 32 year old nephew... a super smart young man who is a vegan in the image of Jesus who is one of these hollow men... although on the cusp of breaking free as he is using the GI bill (yes, he spent 4 years in the Air Force, and even though he hated it, he did it) to achieve a Masters in some psychotherapy discipline... he is still struggling to understand... to see the light... to get it. No doubt his college education experience is making a strong current against these things.
My diagnosis of all this, other than the big picture related to that "hard times creates strong men that create good times; and good times create weak men that create hard times" principle... is that the primary missing component is work.
Come on man, the public schools have been a Karen matriarchy for centuries. Boys are harmed by it except for sports and playground time. They generally don't recover until they launch to the working world. It is there they learn how to break free from the mom's breast and become a man.
We fucked that up in five massive ways.
1. We chased globalism for the benefit of Wall Street and exported industry and manufacturing to other countries for the cheaper labor, and we drove down the supply of remaining jobs and wages, especially in the trades, with massive immigration.
2. We pushed the lie of college education and white-collar paper-pushing jobs as being higher status and cooler.
3. We flooded the job market with over-educated females that created even MORE competition for college acceptance and the remaining jobs.
4. We implemented hate crime laws... and they have been used as a weapon to punch down males even more (you cannot even banter among males without being thrown in PC jail.)
5. Title-IX.... the only outlet boys have to get out from under the Karen matriarchy at the public schools... sports... that too taken away from them, so females get even more of the pie.
And lastly all of this has ended up putting mothers as the heads of household and it has cut out the father's tough love component and thus made us a bunch of little girly-men that don't know how a real man should behave. It has also impacted the girl child not understanding real gender relationships as her mother is some evolutionary-incorrect version of female that she models.
We are blowing it because we have allowed all these things to take place, and even today half of the county, including many of these young men, are fighting against the very movement to correct it. That is what I am trying to do with my nephew. He rails against the wrong "man". He is in fact programmed by his campus experience and his media feeds to support the very master responsible for his misery, and to violently oppose that which has his best interests in mind.
Looking at this as a problem that needs a solution, it is clear that the seeds of evil that need to be eliminated is the corruption in the education industry and the media. Without fixing that, we are doomed to a looming massive explosion in violence from these hollow men.