I steal from the best.
Edited for brevity and to stay on point, because namefags are reluctant to let it all hang out too plainly, so sometimes I have edited this to plainly say what he seems to be dancing around on, so this representation of dangerous ideas might be more slightly more dangerous than in the original. Bland discussion of other people’s bland discussion of this material as been edited out for brevity.
Sometimes he uses in-sentence digressions to back off from what he is saying mid sentence in ways that often fail to make logical, or even grammatical sense. I have edited these out to say what he would have said had the policeman inside not interrupted his word flow. Also the sentences got too long, because they were an external manifestation of internal dialog between him and the policeman inside.
Also the original was a commentary on a video David Ramsay, and I have edited it into a monologue by David Ramsey, for coherence. So this is not what Ramsey said. It is what the two of them would have said if David Ramsay was as big a fan of Star Wars as @WDW_Pro’s team said, or would have said if the policeman inside would shut up for a minute, so this is summarized version of David Ramsay said and what various people @WDW_Pro’s show said while riffing on what David Ramsay said. Or sometimes what they would have said if they had just come out and said it.
We’ve watched as Star Wars and Star Trek and so many of our myths and heroes have been stolen away. We’ve been told that the patriarchy is evil. We’ve been told that guys should not try to be excellent. And now this has reached the point where it’s having an economic impact.
For those of you who who think stories in Hollywood don’t matter pro, why do you do what you do? Whatever that is. Well, because this actually has a giant psychological impact on society.
Men have been devalued and trivialized and been the villain or the clown of everything for good 20 years. You don’t see a TV commercial where the dad is the hero. He’s an idiot. Or a sitcom where the dad is a hero. He’s an idiot. the 12-year-old is the smart one and they smart off through the whole script and they’re the brilliant one. Which is the call to narcissism for young people. You’re smart. Don’t take the hero’s journey. The world should take a journey to acquiesce to your every need because you’re precious and special and just because you breathe, you deserve a trophy and a crown, but the dad’s a doofus and the mother rolls her eyes at the doofus that she picked as a life partner. And if you do that to any segment of the economy long enough, eventually they begin to believe it.
And so we have 7.2 million men that are able-bodied, able-minded that are not engaged in the workplace right now. They’re doing nothing.
There was a concerted effort from Hollywood, places like Lucasfilm, but beyond a concerted effort to slam men at large and masculinity and to not recognize idea of chivalry and heroism and that men can be the kind of guys who protect those they love and do the right thing and self-sacrifice and go out and do hard work for those that they have determined they shall sacrifice to see them rise. And so instead, we destroy that idea. And there have been victims in this. There are real victims in the entertainment push to destroy the ideal of masculinity.
There’s an economic impact to this. This has huge ramifications at the societal level. It’s not just silly TV and silly movies anymore.
Most people are realizing even those that were pushing it hard that it’s not a good idea to belittle and move aside half of the population but through lies because then they start believing them and then they start actually enacting those lies and becoming those lies.
What is dangerous and sinister, and I mean that sinister, has been the deconstruction of the heroes. Because what that is, if you think about Luke Skywalker or you think about Han Solo and his his arc, or you think about Captain Kirk, they’re not just fantasy characters. They’re the embodiment of the values within the story. They’re the idealization of the values made manifest in the character. And when you destroy a character like Luke Skywalker, what you’re actually doing is you’re saying to the people who said in the 70s and 80s,
“I don’t have a dad, but I’m going to be like Luke cuz he takes on the sins of the father and he goes and becomes something more.”
What you actually are doing when you destroy and denigrate Luke Skywalker is you’re taking that value, that proper masculinity value, and you’re saying,
“It’s not Luke that’s a failure. It’s every one of you jokers out there who believed in that. You’re a failure, too.”
And culture that’s the monstrous notion that was dumped upon an entire generation is your heroes are failures and if you believed in them. If you if you tried to emulate them, you’re a failure. And that’s monstrous. It is. And and and look, it you had willing participants in the institutions that should have isolated it from this. Every single thing was turned into a political situation over the course of the last few years.
“Toxic Masculinity” was purposed for the woke to smash a power dynamic that they felt that existed where none should have, which is an odd way to interpret that merit would be rewarded rather than “fairness”.
Men are sitting in their single mother’s basement playing video games because the entire culture has said you’re a doofus. You’re a buffoon. You’re valueless. Manhood masculinity is toxic by its very nature and so you’re of no value.
It is destroying not only economics but the social fabric as well because we do know the data on kids, particularly daughters, the cues they take from their dad are devastatingly impactful good for even more impactful on little girls. Little boys need uh a hero. Little girls need a hero. Little girls are looking to see how their prince will act. Little boys are looking to see how they will act.
The problem is we’ve told men to stop being heroes their sons and princes to their daughters.
The easiest way to control the population is to demoralize the men and to make them think that they cannot stand up for themselves. If you can get the men to be demoralized you have an easier time to do or implement things that you want to implement. So if you’re trying to change society, I think you’d want to start by targeting the men. And also targeting the relationship between fathers and their children, demoralizing and breaking up families.
Woman are told to go try and be a man essentially and then they fail at it. Which is also also demoralizing for women.
Women are told that they are morally better than men, because inherently less violent and aggressive — but women are passive aggressive, they continually try to destroy all other women and diminish their reproductive success, while men generally don’t do that except against particular men whom they consider enemies. Women are kinder, yet in practice, men give a lot more actual help to those that need it and deserve it. A woman will sympathize with you, even if you are at fault she genuinely regrets that you are hurting, and wants you to feel better, but a man is a lot more likely to actually give you a hand when you need one.
We have made men and women enemies with these stories, by elevating women in ways that are plainly untrue and that actual women cannot perform to and would not like it if they could.
People like Bob Iger were the primary causes to massively damaged culture, setting men and women at odds, in the world in general and the United States in particular, by demonizing men.
Men and women are not having romantic relationships. They are hooking up — and a very small number of men are hooking up with a very large number of women while the rest of the men jerk off.
These stories, they structure lives. The more you love the story, the more it becomes a fabric of you. And some of the most important stories we call sacred.
Step out and take the adventure. Whether you’re a a woman or a man, take the adventure. Slay the dragons in your world and become better than you were before.