Thursday, November 6, 2014

Where Have The Manly Men Gone?

Manly men hunt and fish. At the lake, all they want to do is drive around in their pontoons.

About 40 men and one woman work at the courier service. Only two of us are going deer hunting (that I know of). I am 60 and the other fellow, an avid deer and pheasant hunter in southern Minnesota, is about 55, maybe 60.

Two men out of 40? Do these men stand for anything? Do they believe in anything? Do they do anything?

Some are retired. Many are pure urban and have no hunting tradition. Some are poor and work two jobs. Many are young and have alternative priorities.

These are good, decent hardworking Americans, but they are pale grandsons when matched against their burly urban forefathers in Minneapolis that deer hunted at far greater rates than 5% in the 50s and 60s.

If young men are to individuate, and carry on the patriarchal magnificence of the American Way into the 2090s, they need to be manly men that serve in the army, that fish, that hunt, that marry young and have children, that are do-it-yourselfers. Manly men make first-rate warriors of God, and sturdy maverizers.

The NRA and other gun clubs have to get young suburban and urban men(and girls too) using guns, fishing and hunting so they get out into nature and off the texters for a bit.

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