Leo D.M.J. Aurini - November 24, 2012


Being a Man


Episode Stats

Length

17 minutes

Words per Minute

127.05882

Word Count

2,268

Sentence Count

253

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

In this awful year of our lord, 2012, a question has had many requests in my inbox, and really it's the sort of question that I'd be far more comfortable if Achilles, Beowulf, or Roland were answering it. But you got me, folks. And a man does what he can. How to be a man?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight we're going to be taking a page from Aaron Clary.
00:00:04.000 Wine-tipped cigar.
00:00:08.000 Cigarello. Don't smoke these often,
00:00:12.000 but I'm a fan every once in a while.
00:00:20.000 How to be a man in this
00:00:24.000 awful year of our lord, 2012.
00:00:30.000 This question has had many requests
00:00:34.000 in my inbox, and really it's the sort of question that I'd be
00:00:38.000 far more comfortable if Achilles or Beowulf or
00:00:42.000 Roland were answering it.
00:00:46.000 But you got me, folks.
00:00:50.000 And a man does what he can.
00:00:54.000 How to be a man. What to do with yourself.
00:00:58.000 What should any of us do
00:01:02.000 when we see the rot
00:01:04.000 that sunk into the bones
00:01:06.000 of this civilization?
00:01:08.000 Other generations of men
00:01:14.000 were taught how to be men.
00:01:16.000 It was in the mother's milk.
00:01:18.000 It was in the culture.
00:01:20.000 They knew growing up what was expected of them.
00:01:22.000 And they got apprenticeships.
00:01:24.000 They were surrounded by manly men their entire lives
00:01:28.000 that showed them how to become the men that they were going to grow into.
00:01:34.000 What did we get?
00:01:36.000 Saturday morning cartoons
00:01:38.000 and our peers at school
00:01:40.000 and a Hollywood music culture
00:01:42.000 designed to
00:01:44.000 take money out of our pockets
00:01:46.000 not to educate us or better us
00:01:48.000 in any manner whatsoever.
00:01:50.000 So that's the problem.
00:01:54.000 Right off the bat, we don't know what a real man looks like.
00:01:58.000 We see cartoons of them on Hollywood movies.
00:02:02.000 The over-masculine Superman.
00:02:06.000 The Arnold Schwarzenegger.
00:02:08.000 The action movie stereotype.
00:02:10.000 But we don't see real men in our day-to-day lives.
00:02:14.000 So what is a real man?
00:02:18.000 We're going to start and end with Jack Donovan.
00:02:22.000 Any of you asking this question
00:02:24.000 need to buy that man's book.
00:02:26.000 The Way of Men.
00:02:28.000 He gets it.
00:02:30.000 He's studied it.
00:02:32.000 He knows what they are.
00:02:34.000 And if we're very lucky,
00:02:36.000 some female authoress
00:02:38.000 will put together a similar book for women.
00:02:40.000 are just as lost.
00:02:42.000 And quite frankly, none of us in the manosphere
00:02:44.000 are qualified to answer the question.
00:02:48.000 But to be a man
00:02:50.000 is to be part of the gang.
00:02:52.000 It is to be respected
00:02:54.000 by your fellow men.
00:02:56.000 It's strength. It's valor.
00:02:58.000 It's all these things we intrinsically know.
00:03:00.000 Jack Donovan nailed them for you.
00:03:02.000 So, buy that book.
00:03:04.000 But aside from that,
00:03:08.000 what do I have to say on the topic?
00:03:10.000 How do you start becoming a man?
00:03:12.000 What are the first steps?
00:03:14.000 Well, to start with,
00:03:18.000 accept the fact that
00:03:20.000 you, sir, have low testosterone.
00:03:22.000 It's actually a worldwide problem right now.
00:03:26.000 Nobody knows the cause exactly.
00:03:28.000 Easy living?
00:03:30.000 That doesn't seem to make much sense
00:03:32.000 with different societies.
00:03:34.000 Different wealth levels.
00:03:36.000 Propaganda, again.
00:03:38.000 Plastic in the environment?
00:03:40.000 Possibly.
00:03:42.000 Possibly.
00:03:44.000 The fact of the matter is that for the past 50 years,
00:03:46.000 testosterone levels have been dropping in men.
00:03:48.000 And testosterone
00:03:50.000 is an absolutely critical resource for your body.
00:03:54.000 Testosterone gives you vitality.
00:03:56.000 It's what gets you out of bed in the morning.
00:03:58.000 It's what makes you want to fuck.
00:04:00.000 And it's also what leads to teamwork.
00:04:02.000 High testosterone men are not more violent,
00:04:08.000 except when they run into a cheater.
00:04:10.000 The people that cheat,
00:04:12.000 the people that scam,
00:04:14.000 high testosterone men
00:04:16.000 are more likely to deal with them.
00:04:18.000 But they're not more violent in general.
00:04:20.000 In fact, they are better
00:04:22.000 at working in teams
00:04:24.000 and being peaceable individuals.
00:04:28.000 So how do we go about
00:04:30.000 raising our testosterone levels?
00:04:32.000 I'm going to leave a few resources down below.
00:04:34.000 Blogs you should check out.
00:04:36.000 It's not something the medical community
00:04:38.000 likes to talk about,
00:04:39.000 because we all know that men and testosterone are evil.
00:04:44.000 Number one thing?
00:04:46.000 Start eating better.
00:04:47.000 Go paleo.
00:04:49.000 Get a diet
00:04:51.000 with high protein,
00:04:52.000 high fat,
00:04:53.000 and stay away from the grains.
00:04:54.000 Stay away from the sugar.
00:04:55.000 Don't eat junk food all the time.
00:04:59.000 Eat your veggies.
00:05:01.000 They're actually good
00:05:02.000 if you know how to cook them.
00:05:03.000 You know, stay away from the salads.
00:05:05.000 Those are...
00:05:07.000 Unless there's chicken on them,
00:05:08.000 they're pretty lame.
00:05:11.000 But most of all,
00:05:12.000 stay away from the junk food.
00:05:13.000 Stay away from the excessive grains.
00:05:15.000 Do not listen to your doctor
00:05:16.000 when they give you diet advice.
00:05:20.000 Next,
00:05:21.000 start working out.
00:05:23.000 These bodies were meant to be used.
00:05:25.000 And if you're not working out,
00:05:27.000 if you're just sitting on the couch,
00:05:28.000 sitting in your office chair,
00:05:29.000 sitting in your classroom,
00:05:30.000 not doing anything,
00:05:32.000 and then pounding 12 beers down on the weekend,
00:05:36.000 you're destroying your body.
00:05:38.000 You're destroying the machine that supports your mind,
00:05:40.000 that supports you.
00:05:42.000 Keep your body healthy.
00:05:44.000 And thirdly,
00:05:46.000 there is actually medical treatment for this
00:05:50.000 in the forms of injections and creams.
00:05:52.000 Again, look into this yourself.
00:05:57.000 This is...
00:05:58.000 If you want to improve yourself,
00:05:59.000 you need to do the research.
00:06:00.000 But this is where you start looking.
00:06:04.000 Fix your testosterone problem.
00:06:09.000 Next.
00:06:12.000 Learn game.
00:06:13.000 You don't just learn game to pick up women.
00:06:19.000 You can use game to pick up women.
00:06:21.000 You can go out to the club,
00:06:23.000 or go out to the bar on Friday, Saturday night,
00:06:25.000 and pick up women using game.
00:06:27.000 If that's all you have to do with your time,
00:06:29.000 then all the power to you.
00:06:31.000 But that's not why you learn game.
00:06:33.000 Why you really learn to understand what women are,
00:06:37.000 and how they work.
00:06:39.000 The real reason you do this
00:06:41.000 is because as a man,
00:06:43.000 leadership is your responsibility.
00:06:45.000 You are supposed to be the one
00:06:47.000 offering guidance.
00:06:48.000 Offering a path forward.
00:06:49.000 Offering control.
00:06:53.000 And any woman who
00:06:55.000 is honest enough to admit it,
00:06:57.000 they all want to find a man
00:06:59.000 worthy
00:07:01.000 of being their leader.
00:07:04.000 They don't want to follow just any man.
00:07:06.000 And your typical feminist bitching
00:07:08.000 is about how they don't want to be
00:07:11.000 a wife to a husband
00:07:13.000 that does not deserve them.
00:07:15.000 They don't want to be led by loser males
00:07:17.000 that are just there because they have a dick,
00:07:19.000 which is about 95% historical fantasy,
00:07:23.000 5% truth.
00:07:26.000 But they all want a leader
00:07:29.000 they can respect.
00:07:30.000 Somebody they can trust to protect them.
00:07:32.000 Somebody that isn't a craven,
00:07:35.000 they've been crying on their lap every night.
00:07:38.000 They want a husband,
00:07:39.000 not a son.
00:07:44.000 That's the ultimate reason you learn game.
00:07:46.000 It's because it is your responsibility as a man,
00:07:49.000 be it straight, gay, whatever,
00:07:52.000 it is your responsibility to be a leader of women,
00:07:55.000 and to be a leader of other men.
00:07:57.000 And the fact that you can now pick up women
00:08:02.000 and because you understand what's going on
00:08:05.000 the back of their head so well
00:08:07.000 that you can give them mind-blowing orgasms,
00:08:09.000 those are just fringe benefits.
00:08:11.000 That's God smiling upon the just.
00:08:14.000 Fix your testosterone problem.
00:08:23.000 Learn game.
00:08:24.000 Now you need to find a project.
00:08:29.000 There's nothing sadder than how much productive energy
00:08:33.000 is wasted on video games and pointless endeavors nowadays.
00:08:38.000 Let's go back to Fight Club once more.
00:08:41.000 You are not your IKEA sofa.
00:08:44.000 You are not your coffee table.
00:08:46.000 You are what you've accomplished in life.
00:08:49.000 And buying a coffee table is not an accomplishment.
00:08:52.000 Playing into that Skinner box that the video games offer,
00:09:00.000 getting all the medals or rewards or tokens
00:09:03.000 when you collect 500 turnips,
00:09:06.000 that's not an accomplishment.
00:09:08.000 Go accomplish something real.
00:09:12.000 Which inevitably leads to the question,
00:09:15.000 what the hell should I accomplish?
00:09:17.000 What's worthy of accomplishment nowadays?
00:09:20.000 Joining the factory and rising up the ranks until your manager?
00:09:25.000 We all know that's not going to happen in this world.
00:09:30.000 And ultimately what do you get for being a manager
00:09:33.000 in most of these companies nowadays?
00:09:35.000 You get to mind your P's and Q's.
00:09:37.000 You get to administer diversity training courses.
00:09:40.000 You get to bend over for the higher-ups
00:09:42.000 that got there through nepotism.
00:09:45.000 That's not how a man lives.
00:09:47.000 So what should you do?
00:09:50.000 Well, we already mentioned the body.
00:09:53.000 Building your muscle.
00:09:56.000 Eating healthier.
00:09:58.000 Working out.
00:09:59.000 Treat your body as a project.
00:10:02.000 You should be getting stronger and fitter all the time.
00:10:07.000 Your body is getting older.
00:10:10.000 And if you don't do this,
00:10:12.000 you will pay the consequences sooner than you think.
00:10:15.000 So treat your body like the machine that it is.
00:10:20.000 Make that a project.
00:10:23.000 If that's all you can come up with,
00:10:24.000 there's a hell of a lot worse things to do with your time.
00:10:27.000 Another thing you should do is learn history.
00:10:31.000 Not through university courses.
00:10:34.000 They're complete jokes nowadays.
00:10:36.000 You're going to be surrounded by a bunch of retards
00:10:40.000 with no interest in the subject matter
00:10:42.000 that just want to vomit up the professor's opinions
00:10:44.000 and basically have a professor read bedtime stories to them.
00:10:48.000 That's not history.
00:10:50.000 Okay?
00:10:51.000 That's not professional history.
00:10:52.000 But if you're just going to dabble in it,
00:10:55.000 check out Khan Academy.
00:10:59.000 It is free.
00:11:01.000 And the lectures,
00:11:02.000 you're unfortunate enough to watch them with me.
00:11:04.000 I pause the videos every five minutes
00:11:06.000 to explain why everything he just said is wrong.
00:11:10.000 But they are a very good starting point.
00:11:14.000 They are superior to most university lectures
00:11:18.000 that you will find out there.
00:11:20.000 And they will give you the bare bones of history.
00:11:23.000 That way you at least have a grasp
00:11:25.000 of where we are today
00:11:26.000 and where we came from
00:11:28.000 and where we might be going.
00:11:33.000 Khan Academy.
00:11:35.000 Learn some basic history.
00:11:40.000 And beyond that,
00:11:41.000 there's any number of fields
00:11:43.000 that are worth studying.
00:11:45.000 Certainly, economics.
00:11:48.000 As I've pointed out before,
00:11:50.000 Vox Day has links to excellent books on his blog
00:11:52.000 about economics.
00:11:54.000 Murray Rothbard, in particular,
00:11:56.000 is a great place to start.
00:11:58.000 Don't stay away from the mainstream sources,
00:12:02.000 the macro-microeconomic garbage.
00:12:05.000 Start with Murray Rothbard on that.
00:12:08.000 Mathematics.
00:12:09.000 If you have a talent there, study mathematics.
00:12:12.000 If you're interested, learn a musical instrument.
00:12:16.000 You don't have to play a guitar very well to impress girls.
00:12:18.000 You just have to play it adequately.
00:12:20.000 And live music is always better than canned.
00:12:24.000 Aside from that, just look at what are you good at?
00:12:29.000 What do you like doing?
00:12:31.000 Build on those skills.
00:12:34.000 There's no excuse nowadays.
00:12:38.000 You've got Wikipedia.
00:12:40.000 When I'm slow at work,
00:12:42.000 that's what I'm doing.
00:12:43.000 It's just looking up whatever catches my fancy
00:12:46.000 on Wikipedia.
00:12:48.000 And finally.
00:12:52.000 And finally.
00:12:54.000 I said finally.
00:12:55.000 Next.
00:12:56.000 So you've got a project.
00:12:58.000 You're working on your body.
00:13:00.000 You're learning game.
00:13:02.000 Walking with some bloody self-respect
00:13:05.000 because you have high testosterone now
00:13:07.000 and you're working out.
00:13:08.000 What next?
00:13:12.000 Long-term project.
00:13:14.000 Men need to live for a cause.
00:13:20.000 We don't live day to day.
00:13:22.000 And women have a lot of trouble understanding this.
00:13:26.000 This is one of the saddest things about the Feminized Workplace
00:13:29.000 is that a woman feels satisfied and satiated
00:13:35.000 when she's part of a team.
00:13:37.000 And the modern workplace just poisons women,
00:13:41.000 giving them this artificial feeling like they're part of the tribe.
00:13:45.000 They're part of the community.
00:13:47.000 They're gathering while the men are out hunting.
00:13:49.000 And look.
00:13:50.000 They have this nice little corporate office environment
00:13:52.000 with parties paid for and so on and so forth.
00:13:54.000 But the corporation is not a real tribe.
00:14:00.000 A real tribe for a woman is the family.
00:14:02.000 It's the community.
00:14:03.000 And the corporation is completely gone
00:14:06.000 five years later when she switches jobs.
00:14:09.000 Or when she retires.
00:14:11.000 There's nothing left.
00:14:12.000 There's no community from that.
00:14:18.000 But see, it's designed to satisfy the woman.
00:14:20.000 And it doesn't satisfy us because we need a longer-term goal.
00:14:23.000 That goal can be your family.
00:14:28.000 If you're lucky enough to find a wife worthy of marriage.
00:14:34.000 Or it can be anything else.
00:14:36.000 It could be restoring an old car.
00:14:38.000 It can be writing a novel.
00:14:41.000 It can be putting together a great video game.
00:14:46.000 You need a long-term goal with your life.
00:14:51.000 You cannot live day to day.
00:14:54.000 We are hunters.
00:14:57.000 Men need a mammoth to chase after.
00:15:03.000 And this one's all up to you, folks.
00:15:06.000 I can't tell you what your mammoth is.
00:15:08.000 But it's going to be based upon the stuff you're already good at.
00:15:10.000 And that you like doing.
00:15:16.000 Next.
00:15:22.000 Study violence.
00:15:24.000 Because the way of men is the way of violence.
00:15:26.000 A man that has no understanding of violence is not a real man.
00:15:32.000 He's a craven.
00:15:33.000 He's a hanger-on.
00:15:34.000 A dependent.
00:15:36.000 He's not a real man.
00:15:40.000 Read the Art of Warfare.
00:15:42.000 The Book of Five Rings.
00:15:44.000 The Hagakure.
00:15:46.000 Study some basic martial arts.
00:15:51.000 Learn how to shoot a gun.
00:15:53.000 And buy a gun.
00:15:58.000 If you have the finances for it.
00:16:00.000 And if it makes sense.
00:16:02.000 Canada doesn't make much sense because you can't carry the damn things.
00:16:04.000 But a real man needs to know how violence works.
00:16:11.000 How it operates.
00:16:13.000 Because the day may come.
00:16:15.000 When it's going to be your soft, fragile bodies.
00:16:19.000 Between the horrors of war.
00:16:21.000 And the warmth of hearth and home.
00:16:24.000 And if you don't know how to use violence, then hearth and home are gone.
00:16:30.000 Study it and learn to understand it.
00:16:35.000 And learn to understand it.
00:16:40.000 And finally, when you've done this.
00:16:44.000 And we're going to go back to Jack Donovan again.
00:16:46.000 When you've become something worthy of being.
00:16:51.000 Find other men like yourselves.
00:16:56.000 Start a gang.
00:16:59.000 Start an organization of brothers that you can trust.
00:17:03.000 Where only the men meet for the policy decisions.
00:17:11.000 You take care of the girlfriends and sisters and wives and daughters.
00:17:17.000 But the gang of men is the way of the future.
00:17:22.000 All links down below, of course.
00:17:25.000 Keep the faith, brothers.
00:17:26.000 Irene out.
00:17:28.000 slice of our awareness and hook up to the sides of the pudding
00:17:30.000 altogether, unless you
00:17:34.000 know good of course.
00:17:36.000 Keep the faith, brothers.
00:17:38.000 Irene out.
00:17:42.000 Come, come.
00:17:45.000 Just stop, have a rot
00:17:50.000 propreente�ave.