Order of Man - Inoculate Yourself Against the Doctrine of Popular Culture ｜ 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

00:00:05.000 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.

00:00:10.480 You are not easily deterred, defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is

00:00:17.080 who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:22.820 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler,

00:00:27.740 and I am the host and the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement. Welcome here and

00:00:32.740 welcome back. We're going to be talking about inoculation today, and I'm not talking about

00:00:38.140 the COVID vaccine. That's up for you to decide whether or not you want to do that, but I'm

00:00:42.680 going to talk about the real inoculation that all of us as men ought to be thinking of, considering,

00:00:49.020 and then implementing in our lives, in our family's lives, and everybody that we care

00:00:53.780 about because this is important stuff. So before I get into that, let me just make a quick

00:00:57.460 mention of our new battle planning app, gentlemen. It is an incredible program.

00:01:02.520 The guys that are using it, thousands at this point are using it, and it's going to help

00:01:06.420 you plan out your day, map out your week, and map out your quarter. And the idea is that

00:01:11.100 we'll help you accomplish more in the next 12 weeks than maybe you have all year in the

00:01:17.000 past. So if you want to check out the battle planning app, you can go to 12 Week Battle

00:01:22.320 Planner. That's the number 12. So 12WeekBattlePlanner.com, and you can download that app for both Android

00:01:28.140 and Apple devices. Again, 12WeekBattlePlanner.com. All right, guys, let's talk about inoculation.

00:01:35.080 Again, let me just reiterate, I'm not talking about the COVID vaccine. All right, there's

00:01:39.460 enough talk about that. You can decide whether or not you want to take the vaccine. That's up

00:01:43.680 for you to decide as your own man, as a leader of your family. You guys can decide that on

00:01:49.440 your own. But what I want to talk with you about today is the inoculation against the

00:01:53.460 doctrine of popular culture. Now, what is the doctrine of popular culture? The doctrine

00:01:58.320 of popular culture is what we're seeing in society that is leading all of us down a dangerous

00:02:03.720 and destructive path. The doctrine of popular culture says that they want you fat, and they

00:02:11.400 want you lazy, and they want you up to debt or up to your eyeballs in debt. They want you

00:02:17.940 subjugated. They want you to do what you're told. They don't want you to question or buck

00:02:22.360 authority. They don't want individualism. They don't want free expression. They want to control

00:02:27.640 and manipulate every facet of your life. This comes in a lot of different forms. It comes

00:02:32.180 from the government. It comes from the media. It comes from even academia. And it's dangerous.

00:02:40.160 And it's your job to protect yourself and your family against anybody or any organization or any

00:02:47.660 institution or any government that wants to control and manipulate you and have you be nothing

00:02:53.540 more than a little cog in their wheel to increase and consolidate their power and authority over you

00:02:59.940 and the people that you have a responsibility for. So we're going to talk about some strategies

00:03:06.220 that you can employ, some things you want to be considering. Now, look, I've been talking about a

00:03:11.400 lot of this stuff for the past six years. And those of you who have implemented what we've been talking

00:03:16.100 about over the past six years have bettered your life and your family's life and the lives of the

00:03:21.700 people that you care about. And those of you who have not implemented what we've been talking about

00:03:26.640 are either in the same boat that you've been, and you're still complaining about being fat

00:03:31.060 and broke and directionless and without purpose and without focus and clarity and without the

00:03:37.600 confidence in yourself. You're either in the same boat or you're worse. And it's my fear that as we

00:03:45.520 continue to see the doctrine of popular culture's ideology being played out, that we'll be in further

00:03:53.560 debt, that we'll be less healthy, less safe, more at risk, less in control of our own lives. And it's important

00:04:04.780 that we buck this trend, not even buck, that we fight this trend. Where does the fight start? It starts

00:04:11.760 with you as a man, as a sovereign man, somebody who wants to take control of your own destiny, somebody who

00:04:20.060 believes that you can do it better than some government or some organization or some institution

00:04:25.520 or another individual thinks that you can do it or coerces you into doing it. You can do it on your

00:04:32.700 own. I have faith in you. Now, whenever I say that, I have people say, well, you know, Ryan, some people,

00:04:37.600 but I don't care about some people. I care about me and I care about mine and I care about you guys.

00:04:45.640 Now, yes, there are some individuals out there who cannot take care of themselves,

00:04:52.320 whether that's mental illness or other choices or circumstances they've made in their lives. And

00:05:01.960 I believe to a degree that we have a responsibility to take care of those individuals. But just because

00:05:07.740 another individual or a group of people can't take care of themselves or can't do what I'm about to

00:05:12.700 tell you doesn't mean that what I'm going to share with you is any less important or relevant for you

00:05:17.760 as an individual. I'm always met with that. Oh, well, right. Some people, some people don't have

00:05:23.120 dads. Some people don't have families. Some people can't afford not to have two parents working. Some

00:05:29.780 people, some people, some people. Great. What does that have to do with you? Why are you using that as

00:05:35.880 an excuse not to create the life that you want to create for yourself? Now, I pulled out a quote

00:05:42.000 here. It's one of my favorite quotes. It's by David Gilmore. And if you're curious where this

00:05:46.300 quote comes from, it comes from the book, Manhood in the Making, which I highly, highly suggest that

00:05:50.680 you read. Here it is. The real man gains renown by standing between his family and destruction,

00:05:59.020 absorbing the blows of fate with equanimity. I had to look up what equanimity meant. Calmness,

00:06:04.820 clarity, confidence, focus, control, level-headedness. This is what equanimity is.

00:06:13.480 And this is our job as men. So we can have that level of equanimity if we have things under control,

00:06:21.320 if we've addressed these issues, because if we haven't addressed the issues I'm going to share

00:06:25.440 with you, then you're not going to be calm and you're not going to be focused. You're not going

00:06:29.440 to be clear. You're not going to be level-headed. You're going to be chaotic and frantic and scared,

00:06:33.560 and you're going to be manipulated. We see this with this pipeline on the East Coast.

00:06:40.380 And I've seen videos of people literally storing fuel in big Tupperware bins and plastic bags.

00:06:49.340 Think about the toilet paper scare of 2020. These people are insane. 0.87

00:06:56.820 And they're irrational because they've allowed themselves to be controlled and manipulated and 1.00

00:07:05.240 they haven't put themselves in a good situation. And because they haven't taken care of what they

00:07:12.140 need to take care of, they're erratic at best and insane at worst. They're placing themselves and

00:07:20.420 other people at risk. And that's not what it means to be a man. In fact, that's the antithesis of what

00:07:26.520 it means to be a man. Your job is to stand between your family or your friends or your colleagues or

00:07:32.620 your coworkers, your neighbors, even people who can't do it for themselves, between them and

00:07:38.280 destruction, absorbing those blows of fate with equanimity. Here we go. Let's talk about these

00:07:43.620 strategies. Number one, health. Guys, get yourself healthy because if you're fat and you're filled

00:07:50.800 with junk food and processed sugar and food that didn't even exist, food, I'm using that word very

00:07:58.600 liberally, food that didn't exist a hundred years ago, alcohol, you're addicted, you're gluttonous.

00:08:09.360 How are you going to be in control? Take COVID for example. There's study after study after study

00:08:18.660 that suggests that the overwhelming majority of those individuals, not all. Okay. So don't come

00:08:23.600 back and tell me, well, you know, my situation. No, but the overwhelming majority of individuals

00:08:29.560 with health complications, severe and extreme health complications due to COVID were those who

00:08:37.080 had existing health conditions and or obese. So maybe the best thing that we can do to fight

00:08:48.900 against COVID is to get healthy. Physical health. Look, I'm a guy who works best under frameworks. I'll

00:08:57.640 give you a framework. Exercise for at least 30 to 45 minutes per day, at least at minimum. Exercise.

00:09:04.220 That could be going on a deliberate and intentional walk. I'm not talking about just like strolling

00:09:09.900 around. I'm talking about going on a real walk or a hike, putting on a weighted vest, picking up

00:09:16.380 the pace a little bit, going a little further than you'd like to go, or that puts you in a little

00:09:21.340 discomfort at least. Train martial arts, eat right, drop the alcohol, get yourself healthy and

00:09:34.220 going on. Pharmaceutical companies, the healthcare industry, the government. They want you sedated on

00:09:41.760 food. They want you fat because if you're fat and unhealthy, guess who you have to rely on? Daddy.

00:09:49.440 The government. And that's what they want. They want you to have to rely upon them

00:09:53.780 because you're no longer a threat. How sad is that?

00:10:00.760 How sad is it that you might not be viewed as a threat?

00:10:07.600 I think somebody who, and this goes into what Jordan Peterson has said,

00:10:11.500 something along the lines of a harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a dangerous man who

00:10:16.740 has it under voluntary control. I want somebody to acknowledge that Ryan might be a threat.

00:10:24.660 Now, not that I am because I want to be helpful. I want to be a good asset to my family and my

00:10:31.900 community. I want to have that, of course, under voluntary control, but you better not get on my

00:10:36.340 bad side. That's what I want people to know. That's how I want to be perceived. Because if I'm

00:10:42.200 not perceived as a threat or strong or tough or capable, what good am I to have around?

00:10:52.880 So the powers that be, they want you sedated. They want you fat. They want you weak. This is 0.77

00:10:56.600 the doctrine of popular culture. It's not serving you. It's not serving anybody else. So get your

00:11:00.200 health in check. 30 to 45 minutes per day of deliberate and intentional exercise. Minimum.

00:11:07.240 Let's talk about mental health and emotional health. Get your mind right. Some of you guys are

00:11:19.020 so erratic and so emotional and charged by every little thing and tripped up by the most minor

00:11:25.660 inconveniences because your mind's not right. You're not thinking correctly. You have no context or

00:11:33.020 framework for what is hard and what isn't. You know, the worst part of your day is some 16-year-old

00:11:38.520 punk kid gets your order wrong at McDonald's or somebody cuts you off on the road. That's the worst

00:11:45.040 part of your day. I mean, even in the worst of worst days, you get laid off. You go through a divorce.

00:11:51.800 Going through a rough time in your relationship. Even that's manageable. It's not fun. It's not ideal,

00:11:57.700 but it's manageable. And if you don't have, have, have no perspective on what is hard and what isn't.

00:12:06.800 If you're overly emotional, if you've never learned how to control your emotions or how to channel them

00:12:11.200 or how to understand them, how are you going to be an asset? How are you going to fight against

00:12:17.920 organizations and people that want to see you as nothing more than a subjugated cog in the wheel?

00:12:25.720 Get your mind right. How do you do that? Go do hard things. I talked about the physical component

00:12:32.220 of it, but go stand up in public and present. Do something challenging. Do something that scares

00:12:40.460 you. This morning or this afternoon, as you're listening to this podcast or watching this podcast

00:12:45.400 on YouTube, when you get done, do the hardest thing on your list. Hopefully you have a list.

00:12:51.760 I've got a running list in my battle planner every single day of things I need to get done. Do the

00:12:55.500 hardest thing first, immediately, right? When you get done with this, just go do the hardest thing

00:12:59.860 because that's going to set the precedent for the rest of your day. If you crank that out first,

00:13:05.360 man, everything's going to get easier from there. This podcast, for example, I'm recording it just

00:13:10.600 after 7 a.m. Just got back from a morning hunt with my son. I'm cranking this out. I want to get

00:13:17.580 this done. This is important to me. So I get this done. This is the most important task and everything

00:13:21.600 else is easier from here. Not that this is difficult doing this podcast, but this is the

00:13:27.240 most demanding task. I do that first. It's important you do that. And then there's another component of

00:13:31.880 health, which is your spiritual health. Not all of us are religious, but your spiritual health is

00:13:41.240 important. There's got to be something greater and bigger than yourself. So many men,

00:13:46.640 and I get questions about this every day. What's my purpose? What's the reason we're here? How do I

00:13:52.380 find direction and clarity and focus in my life? Perspective, the grand scheme of things, not your

00:13:59.540 small, insignificant existence in this life, but what's the greater picture? What's the greater play?

00:14:07.660 There's a great line in Gladiator where I believe that either, I think it's Maximus says,

00:14:14.600 what we do echoes in eternity. I believe that's true.

00:14:20.940 And that eternal perspective gives me calmness. It allows me to make better decisions

00:14:28.820 in the wake of temptation and potential distraction, poor choices. I have an eternal perspective.

00:14:38.940 perspective. And so I may miss out on a few more dollars here and there because I held my principles.

00:14:47.500 I may not have as much excitement in my life as the next guy. I might not be as drunk and high as

00:14:55.540 somebody else, but I have an eternal perspective, the longest of long games.

00:15:00.760 What does your spiritual component look like? I'm not telling you I need to be a Christian or

00:15:13.860 Catholic or Hindu or Buddhism or Muslim. You can decide that yourself,

00:15:19.940 but there needs to be some spiritual component of your life.

00:15:26.720 And if there isn't, I'm willing to bet that you feel like there's some sort of hole in your life

00:15:32.420 that is hard to fill. I would say impossible to fill. Point number one, health. Guys, get yourself

00:15:40.600 healthy. That's the first way to inoculate yourself against the doctrine of popular culture. Because if

00:15:45.380 you're healthy, you can't be controlled. You can't be manipulated. You can't be bought.

00:15:51.580 You're free. You're sovereign. You're independent. All right. Number two, work on your provisions.

00:15:56.620 I've talked about this for a while. And a lot of people are talking about it now, right?

00:16:02.760 Especially over the past year, 15 months, 14 months, whatever it's been, people are talking

00:16:07.200 about that a lot now. Okay. We've been talking about it for a long time and people have been talking

00:16:10.820 about it longer than I have, of course. But guys, get everything in order. Get your fares in

00:16:15.240 order. Get out of debt, gentlemen. Stop buying shit. There's a skit I watched years and years ago.

00:16:24.680 I think it was by Steve Martin and it may have been on Saturday Night Live. And I think the skit was

00:16:30.740 called, Don't Buy Things You Can't Afford. I'll try to link it up, but just go watch it. It's funny.

00:16:40.060 It's comical. It's a joke, but it's not actually a joke because so many people can't seem to wrap

00:16:46.140 their heads around it. I'm going to buy the new toys and the boat and the four-wheeler and the

00:16:52.880 snowmobile. And I'm going to put all my stuff on credit. And guys, guess who controls you if you're

00:17:02.280 in debt? You're creditors. They control you. They control every facet of your life. Why?

00:17:08.540 Because it's always up here in your mind that you're under the thumb of some other institution.

00:17:14.360 Oh, how am I going to make my mortgage payment? How am I going to make the car payment? I have

00:17:18.000 guys that want to join the Iron Council, but they can't afford $67 a month. And I don't judge that.

00:17:26.880 I've been there. I've been in those situations. But damn, if you can't get yourself out of that

00:17:31.120 situation, it shouldn't be like that forever. It was like that for me for a very long time, 0.99

00:17:37.640 but it wasn't forever because I learned principles of making sound financial decisions. And it was

00:17:45.520 important to me. So I studied it. I researched it. I applied it. I showed and exercised some restraint

00:17:52.920 when there was things that I wanted to purchase. Or I saw my buddy buy the new boat or the

00:17:56.860 new truck. And I thought, man, I'd really like to have that. And even now where I could go out and

00:18:00.640 I could pay cash for just about any truck out there. I don't. Up until two years ago, I was

00:18:07.460 driving a 99 Toyota Tacoma. I still have it. I'm not getting rid of it. And then I bought a 2015 GMC.

00:18:14.040 I'll run that thing into the ground before I buy another one. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't

00:18:17.760 spend your money. My friend, Sean Whalen, he just bought a Lamborghini. I'm not going to tell him not

00:18:24.120 to buy a Lamborghini or Andy Frisillo, who has just an incredible fleet of high-performance vehicles

00:18:29.860 and cars. I'm not going to tell him that he shouldn't have cars. That's their thing. It's

00:18:33.720 not my thing. That's their thing. But they can afford it. Some of us can't. And so we shouldn't

00:18:39.180 pretend that we can. We shouldn't put ourselves voluntarily under the thumb of creditors and

00:18:47.740 banks and financial institutions. They love it. They love dumb people. They love ignorance.

00:18:52.900 They love turning 20 or 30 or 40 or 50,000 into 80, 100, 120, $200,000 because so many dumb people 0.99

00:19:02.320 keep buying things that they can't afford. And then when you pay it off, that truck, let's take

00:19:10.560 that 40 or 50 or $60,000 truck. You pay that thing off. What do you do? You trade it in for a new one

00:19:17.440 because they got you. They know you. They understand you. They've got your number.

00:19:24.000 You want to inoculate yourself against that? Show some restraint. Show some discipline.

00:19:29.860 Get educated about how finances work. And also get your other provisions in order.

00:19:35.040 Get your food storage in order. Get your gas in order. So when there's a gas shortage,

00:19:39.860 you're not having to go out to the gas station. And hopefully they have enough for you. And you have

00:19:43.680 to fill it up in plastic grocery bags like this gal did in this video I saw yesterday. 1.00

00:19:50.120 Get that shit in line right now. It's easy to overlook it when the sun is shining, but guys, 0.99

00:19:57.380 it's going to rain. It's going to get cloudy. We know it is. I don't know when. I don't know what

00:20:04.600 the storm is exactly going to look like, but it's coming. It always comes. And some people weather it

00:20:11.540 manage it well because they knew it would be coming and others don't. Not because they didn't

00:20:17.420 know it was coming, but because they didn't plan and prepare for it. You know. Get your food storage

00:20:22.920 in check. Get your fuel where it needs to be. Get your heating sources taken care of. Get backup power.

00:20:30.360 That way, if the power goes down, you still have power. Get your guns. Get your ammo. Get everything in

00:20:36.800 check now. Organize it now. And stay on top of it so that when the storm comes, you'll be the one to

00:20:45.080 weather it. That was point number two, finances and provisions. Point number three, guys, principles.

00:20:50.820 What are your principles? You know, it's easy to say that you have principles when things are going well,

00:20:58.120 but at the slightest sign of, of, of fear or danger or convenience or inconvenience.

00:21:11.400 So many of you abandoned your so-called quote unquote principles. Well, they're only principles

00:21:17.440 if they stand in the test of, of something hard. Cause if, if, if you're living the type of life that

00:21:25.300 you want to live, when things are easy, those, those aren't necessarily principles. Now your

00:21:29.540 principles may have got you there, but if your principles aren't being challenged, that's fine.

00:21:35.080 Nothing wrong with that. But I want to know that when the going gets tough or I'm tempted to do

00:21:41.820 something that I don't want to do or shouldn't be doing, or have deemed inappropriate, let's say

00:21:47.320 that my principles are steadfast and resolute. And I'm not going to be tempted to step out on my wife

00:21:54.840 or to cheat somebody out of money or to do any of the number, any other number of things that I

00:22:00.480 could do on a daily basis, that I don't do those things because I have principles.

00:22:08.420 And, you know, we're going to lose out on some, some short-term results. You know, you're probably

00:22:14.920 not going to make as much as you could. If you decide, I'm not going to cheat people out of their

00:22:18.900 money. You're not going to have as many exciting adventures and escapades and sexual partners.

00:22:26.940 Maybe even if you decide that I'm not going to allow myself to be tempted to indulge in things

00:22:34.680 that aren't going to serve me over the long haul. And that's the challenge is that so many of us

00:22:40.440 are so willing to settle and trade, because this is what we're doing, trading in our long-term

00:22:49.320 satisfaction, our long-term goals and fulfillment for temporary satisfaction. What a horrible trade.

00:23:04.100 What a horrible trade. You want to talk about financial principles? Think about that from a

00:23:08.080 financial perspective. Are you willing to trade your long-term wealth, your ability to make

00:23:16.660 millions, tens, hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of your lifetime for a little bit

00:23:24.160 right now? I hope you say no. Most of us would say no, but our actions speak otherwise. What are your

00:23:32.220 principles? What are they? Have you written them down? Have you thought about them? Do you ponder on them?

00:23:36.360 Do you exercise them? Do you flex them? Because if you're not exercising them, you're not using

00:23:44.840 them in your day-to-day life, then it's going to be infinitely harder when the going does get tough.

00:23:52.140 Get a notepad out right now. What are my principles? Honor, integrity, truthfulness.

00:23:58.300 What's the hill you're willing to die on? What are the battles you're willing to fight? And by the way,

00:24:05.440 what are the ones you're not? That's okay to acknowledge that. Hey, that's not important to me.

00:24:11.620 You better get this stuff dialed in right now because you're going to be asked and you're not

00:24:15.600 going to be asked. You're going to be presented a situation in which you can jeopardize your so-called

00:24:20.120 principles. And when that day comes, will they stand? I don't know. You don't know. But you

00:24:27.800 better do everything you can to make sure that they do. It's number three. No, excuse me. Yes,

00:24:32.680 number three. Number four, the exploration of ideas and free thinking. Now, this is interesting

00:24:40.840 because we're talking about inoculating ourselves against the doctrine of popular culture. And we would

00:24:44.680 think, and I think the old mentality is that we should shut down any dissenting voices, that we

00:24:51.380 should not talk about these ideas and these concepts. I think in many ways, it might even go

00:24:58.060 against what I just said, which is principles, or at least people think it does. But look, just because

00:25:02.300 you're exploring ideas and concepts doesn't mean that you need to embrace them. What's the quote?

00:25:09.500 I believe it's by Epictetus or another Stoic philosopher. The mark of an educated mind is to

00:25:14.940 be able to, and I'm paraphrasing and I'm going to butcher this, but the mark of an educated mind is to

00:25:20.780 be able to consider or contemplate ideas, conflicting ideas without embracing them. Something along those

00:25:28.080 lines. I butchered that. You guys know what I'm saying? It's okay to explore ideas. It's okay to talk

00:25:33.820 about fringe concepts and different things. And I don't think that we should be shutting down those

00:25:39.140 ideas. Regardless of what side of the political aisle you sit on or what side of the spectrum

00:25:44.700 you're on with regards to these conversations and debates and topics that we've been debating for

00:25:51.220 forever. You should entertain other ideas. You should be doing that. You shouldn't be shutting people

00:26:02.520 down and doxing them and canceling them. You should be listening. Again, it doesn't mean you need to

00:26:08.840 embrace it. Just because I hear something that might conflict with my current perspective doesn't

00:26:13.760 mean that I have to ultimately implement it in my life. No, I'm going to look at it and weigh it

00:26:20.160 against other things that I believe. And then I'm going to make my decisions. This is one of the things

00:26:24.680 that my wife and I and our children do around the dinner table. We talk about ideas. We talk about

00:26:30.080 concepts. I ask them as humans. Hey, what do you think about this? Is this a good idea? Is this a

00:26:37.080 bad idea? Why would you say, how would you deal with this situation? How would you handle this

00:26:41.120 encounter? How would you come up with a solution to this problem? We're talking about these things.

00:26:47.140 The exploration of ideas I think has done more to advance civilizations in society than just about

00:26:52.920 anything else. Free expression, the freedom of speech. And yet we see it even now it's being

00:26:58.260 threatened. Why? Why would it be threatened? Why would anybody or any person or any institution

00:27:03.660 or government be threatened by people talking? Why would that be a threat? I want you to think

00:27:09.160 about that. Why would they be threatened about that? You think it's because it's in your best

00:27:15.120 interest? You think they care about you? No, they don't care about you. They care about them.

00:27:21.480 They don't want you talking. They don't want you expressing yourself. They do as long as it goes

00:27:27.820 with their ideology, but they don't want you bucking the system because they don't want you

00:27:33.720 enlisting other people into ideas that might threaten their own consolidation of power.

00:27:39.700 That's why this medium of podcasting and social media is so important that we protect it. Even if we

00:27:49.080 don't always agree with what people are saying, there's plenty of people that I hear from on a daily

00:27:54.020 basis that I don't agree with. There's plenty of things that I say that you personally probably

00:27:59.660 don't agree with. That's not a reason to shut it down. It's a reason to listen, to ponder, to consider.

00:28:08.300 Is he right? Is there any validity to the things that he's saying? And you might come to the conclusion

00:28:15.340 that there isn't on some topics and that there is on others and that's right and that's good and

00:28:24.700 that's valuable. So you don't have to agree with everything everybody says, but you should

00:28:31.940 have a desire to protect that right. Again, whether it's politics or spirituality or any number of these

00:28:38.580 things that seem to be so polarizing, stand up for that. Engage in it, honor it, participate in it.

00:28:50.360 It's a beautiful thing that you get to express yourself, your agreement, your disagreement,

00:28:57.260 your content, your discontent. You should be able to do that. And anything less than that is pure evil

00:29:03.120 and it's manipulation and it's coercion and it's attempt to shut you down so that others can

00:29:10.960 consolidate power. I want people talking. That's why I've made a living off of talking because I

00:29:17.320 think it's important we have these discussions in agreement and in disagreement. And then the last

00:29:23.360 one here, guys, that I want to share with you today, and then we'll call it quits, is you need to

00:29:28.960 join a tribe. Now, one of the challenges with a tribe is that you can create an echo chamber,

00:29:38.040 which goes at direct odds with what I just said, which is to explore concepts and ideas and think

00:29:45.120 about conflicting thoughts. But you can also do that in a tribe if you build that culture.

00:29:51.060 If the culture of your tribe is to explore and consider and pontificate on these different ideas

00:29:57.460 and concepts and you're going to entertain them and you're going to debate them and you're going

00:30:01.040 to discuss them. This is what ancient philosophers used to do. They used to take ideas and break them

00:30:07.840 down and isolate elements of it, discuss these points and debate back and forth why it was good

00:30:15.460 and why it was bad and why it was wrong and why it was right and did it serve and did it not serve.

00:30:20.140 And if you create a tribe around the exploration of ideas and concepts to better yourself, then it

00:30:26.800 doesn't go at odds with that at all. In fact, it encourages it, it honors it, it fosters it.

00:30:32.780 But you also need to have a tribe to keep you not safe, isn't the word, but I do like the word 0.99

00:30:42.140 inoculated against dangerous ideology, dangerous ideas. And not only that, there's strength in numbers.

00:30:49.300 You know, one man alone is one man alone and he could be very easy to be swayed. I just heard

00:30:56.620 about a study. Jocko talked about the study. I'll have to look it up because I don't want to talk

00:31:01.300 about it from a secondhand perspective, but it was interesting. He was talking about this study that

00:31:07.260 these researchers had gotten a group of people together and they were trying to see how easy it

00:31:14.020 was to influence and manipulate other people. And they had seven or eight people that would

00:31:19.620 give a wrong answer to either a math problem or an image or something like that. And they would see

00:31:27.860 how that those seven or eight people who would say that the wrong answer, how that would impact the

00:31:35.520 eighth person, the person who wasn't part of the study. And if I remember correctly, that if

00:31:41.760 the seven or eight people who gave the answer incorrectly, deliberately, because they were

00:31:49.080 part of the study, the other individual was not part of the study, gave the wrong answer to go in

00:31:54.940 line with the other people 35% of the time, even though afterwards that individual acknowledged

00:32:00.680 that they knew it was the wrong answer. 35% of the time. And if just one of those people,

00:32:11.300 the seven or eight beforehand, if just one of them gave the right answer, then it dropped that

00:32:18.220 participants' incorrect guesses from 35% down to less than 5%. If just one person

00:32:29.120 gave the right answer deliberately instead of the wrong answer deliberately, 35% down to less than

00:32:38.400 five, that means that even if you have one person who agrees with you, who's in your corner, who's by

00:32:46.280 your side, who's standing with you, it drastically reduces your influence to outside pressure.

00:32:59.120 And so if you don't have that in your corner, you don't have strong and good men in your corner,

00:33:07.900 how much easier is it going to be for you to cheat yourself?

00:33:13.720 For you not to go to the workout or not, not to go train jujitsu this evening or to, or potentially

00:33:20.080 step out on your wife, cheat on her, cheat other people. But if you have good and capable men in your

00:33:30.300 corner, who you know, you're accountable to, who are holding you accountable based on the results of the

00:33:38.660 study. And I think just inherently, we understand that we work best in tribes. How much better are you going

00:33:44.100 to be? You know, I'm so sick of the guys who were like, I don't need anybody in my car. I don't need

00:33:49.820 anybody to tell me how to be a man. I don't need any of this. Really? Because human psychology says

00:33:58.920 different. You're easily influenced. You are easily manipulated as am I. So I better put systems in

00:34:09.840 place to inoculate myself against the influence that's going to hinder and stunt my growth and my

00:34:15.580 progress and my goals and objectives. And instead put people in place in my life to ensure that I

00:34:22.820 stay on the right track. It's not a guarantee, but it certainly improves my odds. Who are the men in

00:34:31.300 your corner? Yeah. You've got your wife and you've got your kids and you've got your colleagues and your

00:34:35.020 coworkers and maybe some clergy or a pastor or something like that. Sure. I'm talking about

00:34:41.000 being a little bit more deliberate about building out your band of brothers. And it shouldn't just be

00:34:47.260 your neighbor or your coworker by default. It could be, but just by default, no, no, no. I'm talking about

00:34:52.760 intentionally building up a powerful group or tribe or gang, however you want to phrase it, of men

00:34:59.800 who are the best of the best. That you're inspired by, you're edified by, you're uplifted by,

00:35:08.720 you're accountable to. Guys, these are the things that we need in place to inoculate ourselves.

00:35:14.380 Because I'm telling you, the doctrine of popular culture is very alluring.

00:35:18.880 Eat whatever you want, sleep with whoever you want, take whatever drugs and sedation methods you want,

00:35:24.740 no consequences. If anything goes wrong, well, you were just a victim of your upbringing or race 0.75

00:35:31.220 relations or this or that. And so there's no personal accountability, no personal responsibility.

00:35:37.780 If you get into trouble, somebody will come in and save you. And guess what? There's no free rides.

00:35:43.360 All right. So if the government is coming in and saying, Hey, you know, we'll give you this and give

00:35:46.920 you that. Yeah. They're going to want something in return. And frankly, what it is, is a little bit of

00:35:50.900 your soul. That's what they want. They want your soul. They want your mind. They want your back and

00:35:58.380 hands and they want your soul. So while everybody's talking about Pfizer and Moderna or whatever it's

00:36:07.160 called and all these and Johnson and Johnson vaccines. And again, you can decide whether or not

00:36:11.920 you want to take that. And so while everybody's talking about, Hey, let's inoculate ourselves against,

00:36:17.960 you know, this, this, this COVID thing, I'd have you consider the greater danger. The greater threat

00:36:24.540 is that you're not protecting yourself against the powers who would love to have control over you. 0.99

00:36:34.560 And they will do some devious shit 0.98

00:36:37.680 to make sure they have it. Inoculate yourselves, inoculate your families, 1.00

00:36:46.040 protect yourself, do what's right. Have some principles, make yourself strong and healthy in

00:36:55.580 all ways be capable, discuss and explore ideas. Don't shut them down, build up your band of brothers.

00:37:05.260 This is the way that we not only protect ourself because that's defense, but this is the way that

00:37:11.280 we thrive and that's offense, but you can't play offense until you got that defensive stuff short

00:37:17.200 of. I'll leave you with that quote again, because it's a very powerful quote. If you just

00:37:23.640 think on it for a little while, the real man gains renown by standing between his family and destruction,

00:37:30.300 absorbing the blows of fate with equanimity.

00:37:32.760 Does that describe you? It should. And if it doesn't, you've got some work to do.

00:37:43.060 As do I, we all have work to do. Make yourself better, make yourself more capable, make yourself

00:37:49.520 into a man, get other men in your corner to help you do it. It's crucial. All right, guys,

00:37:55.300 I gave you some marching orders. I gave you some things to think about this weekend. So

00:37:59.540 ponder on them, think on them, and then write them down. What are you going to do? How are you

00:38:05.120 going to take this information and implement it in your life? Share it with me. Most active on

00:38:09.300 Instagram. So connect with me there at Ryan Michler. Share it with me. Let me know what you

00:38:13.680 think. Tell me what you're doing. Share this episode. More people need to hear this. You want

00:38:17.560 to build a band of brothers. You want to make this thing go global, which it should. Look, my goal is

00:38:23.100 to make this message of reclaiming, restoring masculinity is to make it mainstream.

00:38:29.540 It's not right now. It's kind of dancing around on the fringes a little bit. It was kind of in the

00:38:34.420 corners. We've done a good job over the past six years of getting into the fringes. Now we want it

00:38:38.840 mainstream. So help me do that. Share. Tell people what you're listening to. Listen to the podcast like

00:38:47.520 you're doing now or read the book Sovereignty, The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men.

00:38:51.860 This is what we need, guys. We can do it. A lot of people ask me if we could turn the tide of

00:38:57.180 culture or if it's too late. No, we can turn it. It's not too late. We can turn it.

00:39:02.040 It's going to take work and it's going to take effort and it's going to take millions and millions

00:39:04.820 of us to do it, but it's possible. But we can't just sit idly by and say, oh, you know, wait,

00:39:11.120 just wait until it gets back. Wait until the silent majority wakes up. Now, this is it. This is our

00:39:16.160 moment right now. This might be our only moment. So let's get after it. All right, guys. I'll be back

00:39:21.960 next week. Until then, go out there, take action, and become the man you are meant to be.

00:39:26.760 Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast. If you're ready to take charge of your

00:39:30.960 life and be more of the man you were meant to be, we invite you to join the order at orderofman.com.

Order of Man - May 14, 2021

Inoculate Yourself Against the Doctrine of Popular Culture ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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