Idle hands are the devil’s playground, as most of our readers are probably aware, and because of this I want to stress the importance to our young men on the importance of staying busy.
Not having things to occupy your time can lead down a very dangerous path of nihilism, which can cause very real consequences, not only to your psyche, but your physical being as well. The placebo effect is a very powerful effect and if that placebo happens to be a negative one, it will have a negative result for you. As such, it’s important that you, as a man, maintain something with your time, most preferably, something the helps you grow or serves as an outlet.
One question I often get asked is how I can remain so calm, level-headed, and positive about things on a day-to-day basis. The secret is I do things that either help develop myself or serve as an outlet for negative emotions. No, that does not mean drinking or excessive partying. A key thing I’ve always had, regardless of employment, is a hobby. Men used to have hobbies, especially around other men. It was a place of retreat and sanctuary from regular life that allowed men to be men, generally around other men.
This brotherhood bonding is important for a healthy mental consciousness. Whether the activity of choice is fishing at the lake and then bragging to all your friends at the bar about that massive bass you caught, or building a race car in the garage over some beers with friends to go racing. The point is men need to do men stuff. Men need to have activities that specifically don’t involve women because, as men, we know a lot of women either tend to ruin things we enjoy, can’t keep up, want to control what we are doing, or do not offer the same presence as one of our buddies will.
Having time with the guys is an age old ritual of manliness that is up to us to bring back. See, feminism has done much to destroy the bonds we share and it has been done by design to atomize men so they can be destroyed. Strong men who are healthy, in both mind and body, do not question their manliness, the thought of whether or not they are gay does not cross their mind. The healthy man does not need to compare sexual exploits because the healthy man has other things that are greater or more important to talk about.
If I am not doing something to better myself, be that reading a book about a historical event/person or learning something new, I am doing something which serves to allow me to vent my emotions in a positive manner as a man. Be this turning a wrench on my own truck, going to the shooting range to shoot some targets, racing, or any other plethora of things I do, the point is I’ve always had an outlet and you need one as well.
One of the other things the modern world has done to destroy pride in ourselves, our uniqueness, capabilities, and our manliness is to demonize all the things a man likes to do. Constantly, you see it in the “modern” world. If you like to shoot guns you get called a coward, if you jacked up your truck to go mudding with your buds on the weekend, you clearly have a small penis. If you enjoy the company of women, you’re a wannabe or actual predator. It’s a neverending assault on traditional masculinity. The best thing to do is ignore them, just like the only people you should get advice on how to be a man should be another man (preferably a mentor), and not a woman. You must do the same thing when it comes to healthy ways to express yourself as a man.
The fact is the more time you spend sitting around doing nothing, the more you’re harming yourself. Here at Identity Dixie we want nothing more from you than to do better for yourself, your family, your people, and, most importantly, God. Strengthen your mind, harden your body, engage in networking and help your community, form your brotherhood, protect and serve your family and humble yourself before God. Always move forward.
We ask not for you to vote for some candidate or call your senator over the latest vaping ban. All we hope to see is that you are able to do better for yourself and those who matter in your life. By doing so, you make us all stronger, just as we do by reaching a helping hand out to pick you up off the floor. We are in this together.
And, if no one told you today, I’m proud of you bro, let’s kick some ass.
God bless you and God bless Dixie.
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Spot on. Traditional male bonding outlets, like sports have been completely overtaken by liberal ideology, which as someone else on this site pointed out in an article, football sucks, yes even SEC football. I have known that for decades and I watched tailgating at an LSU game in my home town of Baton Rouge turn from an amazing and fun bonding experience with other Southerners, into a very stale, police state, McActivity. It was the same in High School and the level of control they demand over your personal life off of the field is a non-starter form me, I aint no serf. If you want to have fun and play ball then it will be with the people they say you can, you will say and think what they want you to and you will be PC in your opinions or you do not get to play. Long ago it may have seemed a good idea, with intentions of instilling character, but that was obviously always going to be subverted and turned into a way to turn free young men into compliant order followers. Thats excatly the purpose of sports now, its not even hidden. They own games, you cant play unless they like you and you do, say and think what you are told to, the end. So I (and apparently every other boy) took to video games, especially ones that afforded you the thing we craved most, freedom. Its precisely why “open world” exsist and have such strong appeal, so much so that the lazy west coast communists that make them now rely so heavily on “modders”, people who take the time out of their own lives to make the generic low energy games they make good. It is the power of getting lost in a free world that made us love them so. The next step came when I played a game called Leauge of Legends. For the first time, I was on a team of boys with a common goal and it was a life changing experience. I guess I dont have to explain why that feeling is so good to other guys, so I won’t. But all of that has changed now. If you dont know about “Gamergate” then go look into it. Basically, the same forces that have ruined traditional sports, lead by a (((female activist))) set about ruining electronic sports, along with the open world games we loved as well, and the next generation will not even have that. They follow us wherever we gather. They hunt yoing men partaking in the feeling you are talking about because they know the power that those bonds instill in young men and they hope to destroy them. Sports, electronic or otherwise are a major front on the culture war. As for those other activities that you are talking about bare in mind that those types of activities are out of reach for most people. We do not have the resources or time. But almost everyone can get online. We need to set up video games and our own voice servers, just for us. Just for Southerners to bond on. That would have a major impact on keeping us bonded and intact. I know it would be hard, but we have to start networking and bonding, we all cant afford or have time to go kayaking or whatever, but we can at least meet each other in battles online. We can build a shared understanding and way of doing things and talking that gets consumed in the broader online gaming communities. Its not the Alpha and Omega of ideas for sure, but its one well worth thinking about getting started. After all, (((they))) did not attack it so vigorously if it was unimportant, a fact that bares remembering.