Order of Man - America： Land of the Weak, Home of the Afraid？｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart

00:00:04.980 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.

00:00:10.420 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who

00:00:17.220 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:22.780 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler,

00:00:27.680 and I am the host and the founder of this podcast and the Order of Man movement.

00:00:32.220 I want to welcome you to the premier portal for all things masculinity. I don't care whether you're 1.00

00:00:41.120 trying to improve your relationship, trying to improve your physical fitness, advancing your

00:00:46.320 career, be a better father, husband, business owner, community leader, whatever. Whatever your thing is

00:00:51.180 and whatever you're all about, I'm glad you're here. We're giving you the conversations and tools

00:00:55.060 and resources that you need to become more capable as a man. I got to admit and give you a little bit

00:01:01.320 of a fair warning here on this one that it's going to be a bit of a rant today. Now, normally I'm very

00:01:05.700 collected in my thoughts. I've got some notes. I've got a framework, some steps that I would

00:01:12.980 encourage you to consider on your improvement and your road to becoming, like I said, more capable.

00:01:19.220 But today I want to rant. I want to go off on a little bit of a tangent because I think it's very,

00:01:25.360 very important that we address some things in our society, in our culture, the things that we're

00:01:33.020 dealing with right now as a direct fallout of coronavirus. And I titled this one, America,

00:01:40.860 land of the weak and home of the afraid. Now you'll notice I also put a question mark in there and I put a

00:01:48.140 question mark on the end because I actually want to hear from you. I want to hear if you think this

00:01:52.340 is the case as well. Now, I don't think it has to be. I think that the weak and the afraid represent

00:01:59.740 the slim minority of individuals in this country who have allowed this COVID-19 catastrophe. And it's

00:02:11.340 a catastrophe for a different reason than I think a lot of people believe, but they've allowed this

00:02:16.020 catastrophe to completely dictate every facet of their life and in the process have relinquished

00:02:23.520 significantly too much control to those who would like to keep us in the dark, keep us in confusion,

00:02:35.180 keep us bickering with each other and against each other. Because when, when people are confused

00:02:42.220 and frustrated and scared, we make irrational decisions. And when irrational decisions are

00:02:50.440 made, the results are typically, we'll call them less than favorable. And when you have less than

00:02:57.980 favorable results, it's very easy to open yourself up to the opportunity or the idea that maybe somebody

00:03:06.300 out there, or in this case, some organization like these governing bodies that would govern us

00:03:11.760 for them to step in and rescue us as if they have all the answers, if they have all the solutions.

00:03:19.280 And if we put all of our trust and faith in these individuals, that all of our problems will be solved.

00:03:25.320 Now, this is very interesting because I think to a large degree, the problems the government is

00:03:30.300 attempting to solve have been created by, you guessed it, the government. So talk about the, the,

00:03:38.880 the fox guarding the hen house. I mean, this is exactly what is happening. Now, let me be very,

00:03:43.520 be very clear on this. I believe that coronavirus is, is a real thing. I believe that we ought to be

00:03:50.760 aware of it. I think we're beginning to see that it is not as deadly as we were once led to believe.

00:03:57.660 And, and I'm even willing to admit that maybe it wasn't some sort of devious plan necessarily,

00:04:05.980 but that it was an opportunity that once these governing agencies and the would-be emperors and

00:04:14.620 rulers that are, are elected officials began, began to see the opportunities that they had

00:04:20.920 started to seize upon those opportunities. So not that it was some grand design plan, but that it was

00:04:27.300 just an opportunistic moment. What is the saying? Never let a good opportunity or excuse me, a good

00:04:33.580 crisis go to waste. And I think that's what we're beginning to see right now. So I would ask you,

00:04:39.040 is this still America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, or has it become America,

00:04:45.820 the land of the weak and the home of the afraid guys? We've got to be very, very careful in the

00:04:52.520 precedent that's being set in this country right now. The precedent that some governing agency or

00:04:59.400 body knows more than us. I mean, look at what's happening. I've got a police officer who's coming

00:05:05.220 on the show who was fired from the police force because he was exercising his first amendment rights.

00:05:12.540 He shared a video that he was not going to enforce these unconstitutional orders. He talked a lot about

00:05:23.300 how, uh, within the chain of command that there's no right or precedent for anybody within the chain

00:05:31.380 of command to do something other than what the constitution dictates can be done. He was, I don't

00:05:40.360 know if it was politely asked, but he was asked to remove the video to take it down from social media,

00:05:44.460 which had been viewed millions and millions of times. And he said, no, and he was fired. He was

00:05:48.240 fired from the police force. And I got to admit, I don't know the entire story. That's why I want to

00:05:52.480 have him on the podcast, but I got to, I got to admit if you are in law enforcement and you're

00:05:58.620 upholding and executing some of these orders that you know are unconstitutional and will shame on you,

00:06:05.600 shame on you for doing that. And I realized that you've got a job to do. Uh, I realized that you've

00:06:13.320 got a family to feed and take care of, but you better start questioning whether what you're doing

00:06:19.680 is the right thing to be doing because this, this precedent is very, very dangerous. Another great

00:06:26.920 example is this woman who decided that she was going to, uh, open her salon and a judge suggested to

00:06:35.480 her that she couldn't open her salon. And if she didn't apologize and bow down to this judge by

00:06:44.360 acknowledging her indiscretion, that she would be fined thousands of dollars and thrown in jail.

00:06:51.000 And she said, I'm not shutting the doors, keeping these things open. And sure enough, she was fined

00:06:56.420 and thrown into jail. I think, uh, one of their, uh, politicians in Texas did end up, uh, paying her 0.70

00:07:04.880 fines and volunteered to serve and carry out her sentence. But she was released earlier, uh, than,

00:07:11.600 than the sentence demanded. But you have people who are, are being fined and arrested for walking

00:07:18.860 on the beach by themselves, or at least social distancing from other individuals. They're out

00:07:23.740 camping. We're talking about tracking individuals and contract, excuse me, contact tracing. This is

00:07:31.320 absolutely ridiculous. And I think it's very important that we stop what's happening right 0.85

00:07:37.320 now, because if we don't, this crisis that we're dealing with is only going to get worse. And it's

00:07:43.900 only going to expand the powers and the perceived authority of those who would govern us. So here's

00:07:51.720 what I would suggest. I think we need to be aware. I think we can be respectful. I think the

00:07:59.540 overwhelming majority of us can be responsible. But what I would say is that you have an obligation

00:08:06.820 to live your life the way that you best see fit, which means that if you feel like you want to open

00:08:13.740 your business doors, then you should, you should open your business doors. Oh, but Ryan, we don't

00:08:18.500 have permission and the orders haven't been lifted. And I see all these comments going around on social

00:08:22.960 media saying, Hey, when will the government let us do X, Y, and Z? They don't have that authority.

00:08:27.640 They don't have that right. And if you're waiting for the government to take down those orders,

00:08:37.640 the stay at home and the sheltering and the social distancing orders, well, you might be waiting a

00:08:43.240 very long time. I just saw that LA wants to extend their stay at home orders for the next, if I remember

00:08:49.140 correctly, the next three months. Well, that's, that's a fine notion, but I'm not sure the data

00:08:55.720 supports any of that. In fact, we're seeing other States like Florida and Georgia open up and we

00:09:01.900 haven't seen the numbers of COVID-19 cases spike. Like so many prognosticators had suggested they would

00:09:10.540 now, maybe it'll happen down the road, but look, we've got to consider why were these stay at home

00:09:15.260 orders issued in the first place? Ask yourself that. Why were these stay at home orders issued

00:09:19.960 in the first place? And if you're truthful, and if you understand what really happened when it

00:09:24.520 happened, it was to, and I quote, flatten the curve. It was never to eradicate COVID-19 because

00:09:32.560 you're not going to eradicate it just by being away from each other. At some point, people are going to

00:09:36.920 come in contact with each other. But the reason these stay at home orders were issued was to keep

00:09:42.300 from overwhelming the system. Well, the system is not overwhelmed in, in, in most, in the majority

00:09:49.860 of cases. And I think probably all the cases that maybe even New York with the hardest hit, uh,

00:09:55.760 epicenter of, of this in the United States. Anyways, even their hospitals and medical system were not

00:10:01.680 overrun. The amount of ventilators that were used were, or, or, or requested were not even remotely

00:10:08.140 used. Um, hospitals are laying off people because they don't have the demand. This is a pretty

00:10:18.660 fascinating thing. So if the, if the orders were issued to keep from overwhelming the medical system,

00:10:27.080 well, I would say mission accomplished. Now, what a lot of people will say is they'll say, well,

00:10:32.320 Ryan, if we open back up, then we might run the risk of, of, uh, of overwhelming the, the medical

00:10:38.680 community, the medical system again. Yeah. I would think that would be true. If we didn't see this

00:10:44.520 start to play out in other areas that are beginning to opening up and they aren't seeing everything

00:10:50.900 been overrun. We're, we're just not seeing it. So what I would suggest is that we consider opening

00:11:00.060 the economy that we consider opening our businesses, that we consider going against maybe even some of

00:11:05.640 these unconstitutional orders that we no longer wait for permission to do these things. And people

00:11:09.900 will say, well, Ryan, you're, you're being a very irresponsible with your audience. You have,

00:11:13.640 you have a, you have a big audience and you're being irresponsible with what you're communicating

00:11:17.440 to these individuals. No, I actually think I'm being very responsible with it. I would hate to think

00:11:23.380 and look back in 10, 20, 30, 40 years from now and see where this trend is going and think that I

00:11:32.280 maybe could have said or done something about it and not done it. Then actually share some of my

00:11:38.340 thoughts and ideas because I didn't want to be irresponsible. I think irresponsible is to not look

00:11:44.600 at the entire picture to assume that just because somebody's suggesting that we open the economy up,

00:11:49.260 that they want other people to die. That's not the case at all. In fact, if anything accusing somebody

00:11:55.740 that is irresponsible because who wants people to die? Nobody wants everybody to die, right? This is a

00:12:02.720 false dichotomy. You either want to keep the economy shut down forever and definitely, or you want

00:12:07.700 everybody to die. Well, you know, there's some other choices somewhere along that spectrum of

00:12:13.540 potential outcomes that may arise from this. One might be that we see death rates that are worse,

00:12:22.880 marginally worse than the flu, which I think is what we're seeing. We're seeing that the death rates are

00:12:27.360 in fact worse than the flu, but they're not the three, the four, the 5% that we once were led to

00:12:32.600 believe they are. In fact, in many cases and many studies I've seen, they're under that 1%, 0.2, 0.6,

00:12:39.640 but they're certainly not that three to four to 5%. Okay. So we've flattened the curve. And I think

00:12:45.860 now at this point, we're, we're seeing that what was once thought to be hugely catastrophic is not

00:12:55.380 nearly what it was before. And now it's our opportunity to open things back up in a systematic

00:13:00.780 process, doing it as safely as we possibly can. And what we need to consider as well is that not all

00:13:08.800 demographics are affected the same way. Young people are largely unaffected by COVID-19. Now,

00:13:17.760 if you're 65 or older, okay, well you have a greater risk of contracting this illness and it being

00:13:24.160 deadly. Those people in rest homes, nursing homes, long, long-term care treatment facilities. Yes,

00:13:32.840 we ought to worry about protecting those individuals, but there's no reason that we can't begin to put our

00:13:38.020 young people back to work, allow them to, uh, be productive, allow them to feed their families,

00:13:45.700 allow them to contribute to society. And actually I've heard a couple of stories where some of these

00:13:51.420 individuals aren't even interested now in going back to work because the government handouts that

00:13:56.180 they're receiving are significantly larger than what they're receiving in contribution or, or, uh,

00:14:01.380 income when they are at work. Well, that's hugely dangerous. We're talking about trillions and

00:14:07.260 trillions of dollars being spent to fund other people's income that doesn't need to be funded.

00:14:15.120 These are able-bodied people who clearly can go out into the workforce and not be affected to the

00:14:22.460 degree that we've been led to believe by COVID-19. And instead of allowing them to go do that,

00:14:26.820 to be productive members of the society, we'd rather them be dependent on government handouts.

00:14:33.560 So those individuals who are paying taxes, who are contributing to that tax base are now

00:14:38.420 funding, not only their lifestyle, now they're funding other individuals' lifestyles. And this

00:14:43.880 is only going to get worse. This is not going to get better. So we need to stop it in its tracks right

00:14:49.720 now. Guys, we need to become more vocal about what we're seeing. We need to share our platforms and

00:14:56.560 talk about these things. We need to take to task the politicians who are going against the will of 0.65

00:15:03.360 the people. And this is still the will of the people. And we need to forget about asking for

00:15:08.260 permission from people who do not have the authority to grant us permission. In fact, they didn't have the

00:15:14.340 authority to take these rights away from us in the first place. This is a pivotal moment, I believe,

00:15:20.620 for this country and the direction that we're going. It's a pivotal moment for our children and our

00:15:28.360 grandchildren. And I want to be able to look my kids in the eye and my grandchildren in the eye and

00:15:32.800 say, I did something about that. I was willing to stand up against the tyrannical government that would

00:15:39.120 begin to control every element and aspect of our lives in the name of safety. And I get it. It's a fearful

00:15:45.620 time. A lot of people are scared. And that's why I titled this America land of the week and home of

00:15:50.340 the afraid. Everybody's afraid, but the fearful are more easily controlled and manipulated. So ask

00:15:57.260 yourself, is this, does this feel right to you? Does what's happening just anecdotally, does what's

00:16:04.240 happening around you feel right to you? Or does it feel like something's a little bit off? I want to

00:16:12.240 know where, and granted, maybe I'm not giving as much credit to those politicians who are doing

00:16:18.880 right by us, who are trying to lift these unconstitutional restrictions because they're

00:16:23.880 there and they're available. And there's people who are stepping up, opening their businesses,

00:16:28.320 despite what their governors tell them. There's police officers who are pushing back sheriff

00:16:34.000 departments who say, and have gone on record to say that they are not going to be enforcing these

00:16:39.120 unconstitutional orders. They're out there, but I just fear that it's not enough. We need to ramp

00:16:46.680 this up. Okay. And to those of you who say that, well, Ryan, you're just, you're being irresponsible.

00:16:53.040 I would say that questioning this authority, that really trying to get to the root of what's

00:16:57.380 happening, that trying to open this economy up in a, in a, in a, a good, intelligent way is not

00:17:04.420 irresponsible. In fact, if anything, it's completely responsible. It's the responsible thing to do as

00:17:09.980 American citizens who are free and independent and have the opportunity and obligation to pursue

00:17:16.840 life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But we're seeing anything but that in this time. And I

00:17:22.880 don't want it to get worse. And it will, unless we as strong, free men are willing to do something

00:17:27.980 about it, willing to stand up, to make a stand, to put ourselves into these elected positions so that

00:17:34.920 these other politicians are ousted from control because they're obviously not doing what is in

00:17:41.480 our best interest. I think there's a way to do this smart. I think there's a way to have some

00:17:46.380 intelligent discourse about this. Um, I don't think anybody who wants to open the economy up is

00:17:53.280 interested in other people dying. Uh, I think we need to protect our elderly. I think we also need

00:17:59.860 to protect those who have compromised immune systems and health issues that they're dealing

00:18:03.920 with. But I also think that we will see some very catastrophic results come from keeping the economy

00:18:13.380 and keeping the country shut down. So I'm calling upon you men to do what is in your heart,

00:18:19.420 to do what is right, to live a life of conviction, to start sharing this message I'm sharing with you

00:18:25.920 and start delivering your own message of freedom and independence and liberty. And although there are

00:18:31.560 risks to opening the country back up, there's risk to everything. There's no strategy. There's no

00:18:38.680 tactic. There's no plan that can completely eliminate risk at all. It's always there. And it's always

00:18:44.980 present. We've got to be willing to ask ourselves, what risk are we willing to live with?

00:18:49.420 And I'm not willing to live with the risk of allowing our government to get out of control

00:18:55.860 and turn into this behemoth monster that we can no longer stop or control or dictate.

00:19:02.140 Our politicians work for us, not the other way around. They are to do our bidding as the citizens

00:19:09.200 of this country. It's not their bidding. It's not what's in their best interest. And I think we ought

00:19:14.700 to take note of who, which politicians are thriving in times like this, who's politician,

00:19:20.640 what politicians accounts are growing, who's consolidating more power and ask ourselves,

00:19:28.140 why is that the case? And I'm not willing to vote for any individual who is benefiting in some way from

00:19:36.640 tragic and horrific situations for other people. And that's exactly what we're beginning to see.

00:19:42.040 So guys, here's what I'm asking. I want you to share this podcast and I want you to share this

00:19:46.880 message. This has been a message of reclaiming and restoring masculinity. This has been a message

00:19:51.100 of sovereignty over the past five years. This has been a message of living by your convictions and

00:19:57.260 making bold stands for what you believe in. And if you've got a business and you feel so inclined to

00:20:02.400 open it and you feel like that's what's in your, your, your heart, then you ought to consider opening it.

00:20:06.480 That we can do this in a respectful way that you run for office as you feel necessary and

00:20:13.540 appropriate. That you talk with your politicians and you take the right channels that you peacefully

00:20:20.660 assemble where appropriate to fight against the corruption and the overreach that we've begun to

00:20:28.140 see from the government. This is what free men would do. This is what brave individuals would do.

00:20:36.480 But I fear that we have become, and we will be continue to become weaker and more afraid,

00:20:44.100 which is exactly where some people and some organizations would love to have us.

00:20:50.100 So let me know what you think guys share again, this episode, share your comments and your thoughts

00:20:54.840 and your ideas on what I'm talking with you about today. Uh, let me know how you plan on approaching,

00:20:59.940 uh, the government overreach. Cause it is certainly there. We see it. And I'm going to have

00:21:06.180 some guests on the podcast in the next coming weeks that are going to help open our eyes to what's

00:21:12.180 going on. Um, I ask that you have an open mind and an open heart to what's being shared and then

00:21:17.340 really ask yourself against what you're going to hear my guests share with you as to whether or not

00:21:21.920 you believe it, what you believe, and then be willing to stand by what you believe. Question it

00:21:26.220 first, whatever you believe, question it. You believe like I do question it. If you don't believe

00:21:31.020 like I do question that so that you can come to your own conclusions and your own answers based

00:21:36.140 on all the information that you have available. But I want you to search right now and really ask

00:21:40.180 yourself if this feels right. Cause frankly, it doesn't, it feels off. And, uh, we're going to

00:21:46.180 have some, some people on the podcast to talk about why that is to back up with and support, uh, with

00:21:52.500 data and information and facts, uh, so that we can get to the real root of what's happening here so

00:21:58.160 that we can address it effectively. But I want to return to a time where the overwhelming majority

00:22:05.660 of, of, of citizens in this country. And I still think we're there. I do think we're there. I just

00:22:09.980 don't want to trend the wrong way that we are, that we are brave, that we are free, that we're willing

00:22:15.160 to fight for those freedoms and the rights and response, uh, responsibilities that, that we have

00:22:20.800 as citizens. Okay. So that's my message for you today. Again, I know, uh, kind of a bit of a rant,

00:22:25.900 a little bit of a, uh, offshoot from what I've done in the past, but I think we've got an

00:22:30.500 opportunity here to really share an important message with millions of people who will tune

00:22:34.940 into the podcast. Uh, and I feel like it's my responsibility to have us question what is

00:22:39.460 happening and then us to come up with our best course of action based on the fact that we are

00:22:45.020 free men. All right, guys, that's all I've got for you today. Let's continue the discussion on

00:22:49.440 Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and everywhere. We're doing the social media thing, because these

00:22:53.640 are the important conversations that need to be had. And, uh, let me know what you think.

00:22:57.860 And we'll be back, uh, with our guests. Uh, I've got some good ones lined up for you. You're not

00:23:02.900 going to want to miss them. So make sure you subscribe, you leave a rating and review so we

00:23:06.240 can really share this message of reclaiming and restoring masculinity. And also I would suggest

00:23:10.640 reclaiming and restoring the freedoms and liberties that we have enjoyed up to this point.

00:23:16.720 Uh, and that we want to continue to secure for ourselves and for our families. All right, guys,

00:23:22.800 go out there, take action and become the man you are meant to be. Thank you for listening to the

00:23:27.640 Order of Man podcast. You're ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you were meant

00:23:32.660 to be. We invite you to join the order at orderofman.com.

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Order of Man - May 15, 2020

America： Land of the Weak, Home of the Afraid？｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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Order of Man - May 15, 2020

America： Land of the Weak, Home of the Afraid？ ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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America： Land of the Weak, Home of the Afraid？｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES