Order of Man - You are Meant to Live Free ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

00:00:00.000 It is your responsibility if you hope to enjoy the freedoms that you have previously enjoyed

00:00:04.680 and if you hope to sustain those freedoms for your kids and your grandkids.

00:00:08.480 The reality is, is that these freedoms aren't going to be taken away from us,

00:00:12.480 that we're not going to live in a time where we're subject to a king or anything like that.

00:00:19.360 But the reality is we might come into a situation where our children are.

00:00:23.240 Do you want that for your kids?

00:00:24.580 Do you want that for your grandkids?

00:00:26.580 Unless you wake up, it's not going to happen.

00:00:30.940 You're a man of action.

00:00:32.560 You live life to the fullest.

00:00:34.040 Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.

00:00:36.720 When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.

00:00:41.460 You are not easily deterred or defeated.

00:00:43.740 Rugged, resilient, strong.

00:00:46.500 This is your life.

00:00:47.600 This is who you are.

00:00:49.000 This is who you will become.

00:00:50.720 At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.

00:00:56.160 It is Friday, July 5th, 2024.

00:00:58.800 And if you are one of my American brothers, we are on the back of our celebration of independence, July 4th.

00:01:06.180 And if you're one of our Canadian brothers to the north, you're a few days away from your celebration of Canada Day on July 1st.

00:01:13.900 So first and foremost, happy Independence Day, happy Freedom Day, however you want to state it.

00:01:20.860 We are living in amazing times.

00:01:23.960 And I know I complain a lot.

00:01:25.500 I know I like to point out all the things that are going wrong in culture and society.

00:01:28.780 But we do live in pretty incredible times.

00:01:31.700 And we are so blessed and so fortunate to be the benefactors of those individuals who fought for our freedoms and our liberties and our pursuit of happiness.

00:01:43.560 And that's what I want to talk with you about today.

00:01:45.600 I want to talk about rights.

00:01:47.340 We, as our founding fathers have said, are bestowed with certain unalienable rights.

00:01:55.720 That is primarily the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

00:02:00.820 We've been afforded these opportunities.

00:02:04.120 These aren't opportunities that we earned ourselves.

00:02:07.080 And we live in times where people are increasingly forgetting about that.

00:02:12.580 They believe, most people, I think, believe that we are entitled to these rights.

00:02:17.800 And although our creator has bestowed upon us these unalienable rights,

00:02:24.060 there are things that we need to do to make sure that we continue to secure these rights.

00:02:28.400 That is the problem of modern times.

00:02:30.200 So many people believe that just because we can pursue happiness that we're entitled to health care

00:02:35.880 or we're entitled to, quote, unquote, livable, workable wage or we're entitled to housing.

00:02:43.760 That isn't what the founders intended.

00:02:46.320 What the founders intended is that we are able to pursue those things with equality, with a level playing field.

00:02:56.560 And America, to be fair, hasn't always lived up to that ideal.

00:03:00.240 But we are closer, I believe, than any other nation throughout all of human history to realizing and accomplishing that dream.

00:03:08.380 But it isn't anybody's responsibility to ensure that you continue to enjoy the benefits that you and I didn't earn.

00:03:17.660 I would say as you're celebrating this weekend, the Fourth of July weekend or Canada Day weekend, however it is dubbed or termed,

00:03:25.060 that we remember to spend time with our family and friends and our loved ones celebrating righteously the freedoms that we enjoy.

00:03:33.580 But what I do want to make sure that I acknowledge and share with you today is that there is an inextricable connection between the rights that we enjoy and the responsibility that we have.

00:03:45.980 Too many people have forgotten that there is an associated responsibility with the rights that we have.

00:03:51.780 They just believe because they've enjoyed their entire lives the rights that somebody else afforded them that they're just going to in perpetuity have that.

00:04:00.220 Guys, unless we as men are willing to step up and take responsibility for our livelihoods, for our well-being, for securing those rights, both foreign and domestic, those rights will slip away.

00:04:13.460 And I've had the thought as an American that there's no way that can happen.

00:04:18.340 Well, it's just ignorant.

00:04:20.860 Look at all of cultures, the greatest civilizations that the world has ever known.

00:04:25.820 And most of them, 99.9999% of them, have fallen.

00:04:32.140 And part of the reason they fall is because they have no longer been able to secure the rights that they establish for themselves.

00:04:41.380 This is the crux of what it means to be a sovereign man.

00:04:44.820 In 2016, I wrote a book called Sovereignty for the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men.

00:04:49.840 And in it, I lay out the idea of responsibility for your own life.

00:04:54.200 Men, we have a responsibility to be protectors, to be providers, to preside, which is synonymous with leadership, over and for people that we love, people under our care, people who are unable to do it for themselves.

00:05:09.660 And unless we as men step up, we're going to see these rights dwindle slowly in some cases and drastically in others.

00:05:17.000 And don't for a second think that just because America is the powerhouse that it is, that there can't be just some moment in time that threatens that.

00:05:26.140 We saw that on 9-11.

00:05:27.760 Now, granted, that wasn't a direct threat to our democracy necessarily, but it was a warning shot across the bow that said, you are not invincible.

00:05:41.460 You have vulnerabilities.

00:05:43.980 And we ought to take that seriously.

00:05:46.400 I think we did then.

00:05:47.880 I wonder how seriously we take it now.

00:05:50.380 Guys, your job as a man is to be a protector, a provider, and a presider.

00:05:57.480 And unless you're doing what you need to be doing by becoming a sovereign man, you are not doing your family justice.

00:06:06.940 You are not doing your community justice.

00:06:09.060 You are not doing the people under your care justice.

00:06:11.800 What we need to do is we need to go out and make ourselves healthy individually.

00:06:16.060 We need to go make ourselves financially free.

00:06:20.460 We need to make ourselves strong mentally, spiritually, emotionally, physically.

00:06:27.580 We need to find out ways to serve the people under our care.

00:06:31.900 We need to lead our children in righteousness, moral clarity, and thought, and take responsibility for our own shortcomings.

00:06:41.180 That isn't fun.

00:06:42.780 It isn't enjoyable to recognize that you individually and personally have deficiencies.

00:06:47.080 It isn't always fun and enjoyable to recognize that your city or town or village or province is as good as it could be.

00:06:57.740 It isn't as good to acknowledge that maybe you don't have the close friend circle that you ought to.

00:07:04.240 But unless you're willing to acknowledge the truth that we don't have everything figured out, that we do have vulnerabilities, and we do have areas for improvement, then we will never improve.

00:07:15.520 We've spent centuries at this point resting on the laurels, the coattails, riding the coattails of other people.

00:07:23.720 And it's been wonderful.

00:07:25.760 And it will be wonderful until it isn't.

00:07:28.500 And this is a little bit like me proclaiming the sky is falling, but in this case, it is.

00:07:38.220 We see it, right?

00:07:40.360 You see it.

00:07:41.320 If you're somewhat aware, you acknowledge it.

00:07:43.860 You see this threat to our freedoms.

00:07:46.540 You see this quote-unquote free nation and the restrictions and rules and regulations.

00:07:51.540 You see the power struggle between corporations and oligarchs and lifelong political actors all vying for power and control over you.

00:08:05.860 These people don't care about your freedom.

00:08:09.260 They don't care about your well-being.

00:08:12.480 They don't care about your life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:08:15.360 They care about their own power, and they wield those phrases and the founding documents of this country, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, as a tool to amass more power.

00:08:30.360 And it's like that old adage of the boiling frog in the pot.

00:08:34.500 Now, we don't know how true it is, right?

00:08:35.800 That's been called into question.

00:08:36.960 But the adage is that if you put a frog in medium-temperature water and gradually heat it up, that he'll stay in there just long enough to cook himself to death or death by a thousand cuts, if you will.

00:08:48.480 It doesn't seem significant in the moment, but you start adding up all these little things, the Patriot Act and the way taxes are structured from the implementation of income tax to the implementation of property tax.

00:09:00.800 Even things that are taxes like registration fees and those sorts of things that aren't, quote-unquote, called taxes, but actually really are, these things add up.

00:09:12.000 And your freedoms are being taken away from you right before your eyes.

00:09:17.580 And you cheer for it.

00:09:19.960 You celebrate it because you're not a sovereign man.

00:09:22.840 So when the government comes in to pay off your student debt, you're excited about it because you're an idiot and ignorant about the fact that it really wasn't the government that did anything at all except for steal from the common man to pay somebody else.

00:09:39.340 You see it when you're taxed to death, literally.

00:09:44.100 You pay taxes when you make money.

00:09:45.980 And on that money you made, you pay another whatever percent of sales tax.

00:09:51.340 And on all of that money that's left over, you pay registration fees and fines and this and that.

00:09:56.720 And then on top of that, when you die, you're taxed again.

00:09:58.960 So your beneficiaries don't receive the money that you worked for your whole life.

00:10:04.320 This isn't sustainable.

00:10:07.700 And as much as I would like to just reap the benefits of somebody else's effort, we don't get to do that for very long.

00:10:14.420 As I said earlier, there is an inextricable connection between the rights that we enjoy and the responsibilities that we have.

00:10:21.780 And so I would ask yourself, if you're an honest, righteous, moral man, where are you failing to take responsibility for yourself, for your family, for your community, for your neighbors, for your country?

00:10:38.700 It's easy to say, oh, somebody else will do it.

00:10:40.940 It's easy to say, that's not my responsibility.

00:10:42.880 Well, you know what?

00:10:44.220 It is your responsibility if you hope to enjoy the freedoms that you have previously enjoyed and if you hope to sustain those freedoms for your kids and your grandkids.

00:10:55.180 The reality is, is that if you're roughly my age, I'm 43 years old, that these freedoms aren't going to be taken away from us, that we're not going to live in a time where we're subject to a king or anything like that.

00:11:09.620 But the reality is, we might come into a situation where our children are.

00:11:14.040 Do you want that for your kids?

00:11:15.440 Do you want that for your grandkids?

00:11:17.380 Unless you wake up, it's not going to happen.

00:11:20.480 We are so selfish.

00:11:23.320 Look at Social Security.

00:11:25.620 Look at Medicare and Medicaid.

00:11:27.220 We are so selfish.

00:11:29.260 These systems are broken.

00:11:30.760 And our only response is, well, I paid into it for all these years, so I'm going to get mine out of it.

00:11:36.900 Now, that might be true.

00:11:38.460 You may have.

00:11:40.260 You may have paid into it for years.

00:11:42.040 And you may want yours.

00:11:43.040 You may be entitled even to yours.

00:11:45.020 Or you could do the right thing and say, you know what?

00:11:47.020 I'm more worried about our future generations.

00:11:50.000 And so maybe I'm going to start saving money myself.

00:11:53.700 Maybe I'm going to worry about retirement.

00:11:55.560 Maybe I'm not going to go to school, college, for example, and let other people pay my way.

00:12:02.480 Maybe I'm not going to take the handouts that the government so readily wants to give you,

00:12:06.240 thinking they're free.

00:12:07.080 They're not free.

00:12:07.700 They come with strings attached.

00:12:08.880 Whether you pay for it or future generations do, somebody's going to pay the piper on that one.

00:12:14.320 And that's your fault.

00:12:15.920 And that's my fault.

00:12:17.100 If I'm unwilling to do anything about it.

00:12:19.460 So, guys, as we eat our hot dogs and wolf down those hamburgers and drink a few beers here and there this weekend,

00:12:28.040 man, don't just let it go to waste.

00:12:31.500 Think about what you're going to do about your life.

00:12:36.480 Get in shape.

00:12:38.500 Get out of debt.

00:12:40.600 Learn marketable skills so you can make more money.

00:12:44.720 Give back to your neighborhood.

00:12:46.560 Mow your neighbor's yard.

00:12:47.660 Reach out to a widow in your community who doesn't have anybody around. 1.00

00:12:53.460 Go coach a sports team so a young man who doesn't have a father in his life can learn from a man like you

00:12:58.840 what it means through the game of baseball or football or basketball or lacrosse or whatever it might be.

00:13:06.280 Serve in your community.

00:13:08.080 Sit on city council.

00:13:09.660 Sit on the school board.

00:13:11.420 Run for mayor.

00:13:13.520 Run for city council.

00:13:15.640 You may have already said that one.

00:13:16.520 But get involved in the way that you know how and stop letting yourselves be corrupted

00:13:21.640 by other people who are corrupt and they're bad actors.

00:13:25.340 They're either bad actors, evil or ignorant.

00:13:28.740 We cannot tolerate that anymore.

00:13:31.980 We've got a president in office right now who would love nothing more than to amass power for himself and his family.

00:13:37.980 We cannot tolerate that.

00:13:39.720 We cannot allow that to happen.

00:13:43.020 Many of us have elected representatives who are no longer serving the people.

00:13:47.620 They're serving themselves.

00:13:48.760 And so those people need to be voted out of office.

00:13:52.280 Those people need to be replaced.

00:13:54.220 Those people need to be revolted against in the mediums that are available to us as citizens with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:14:05.040 And anybody that stands in our way of doing that ought to be acknowledged and ought to be dealt with.

00:14:10.840 Guys, it's very, very important that we continue to maintain our rights.

00:14:17.680 It's not enough that somebody 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 250 years ago, believed enough to pay the ultimate sacrifice for acknowledging and restoring these rights to us, the American citizen.

00:14:34.920 We actually have to do something about it.

00:14:36.740 So, enough talking on social media about how amazing this country is.

00:14:44.380 I get tired of seeing what I would call patriot porn where everybody's putting up their flags and shooting their guns and their fireworks.

00:14:51.720 And that's all fine and great.

00:14:52.640 I have no problem with that.

00:14:53.660 But without any substance or weight behind it, it's meaningless.

00:14:58.560 I don't really care about the flag.

00:15:00.440 The flag is a piece of cloth.

00:15:01.760 It's what it actually means, what it represents, and what we as people are willing to do about it.

00:15:07.980 I don't care about the fireworks and the celebrations if it means nothing because we're not doing what we're celebrating in the first place.

00:15:18.660 Take responsibility, guys.

00:15:21.500 And know, again, as I said earlier, there's an inextricable connection between the rights that our founders acknowledged and that God has bestowed upon us and our responsibility to uphold them.

00:15:31.760 And when we find the correlation between the two and we do something about it, then we can look our children in the eye and say, we helped secure those rights for you.

00:15:43.000 You aren't entitled to them.

00:15:45.480 Yes, we call them rights, meaning God has given those to us, but we are not entitled to them.

00:15:51.100 People at every turn will attempt to take those rights from you for their own selfish pursuits and desires.

00:16:01.000 You cannot allow that to happen.

00:16:03.280 Let's become sovereign men.

00:16:04.480 That is the work that we've been doing here for the past almost decade now, teaching you to become sovereign, to not rely on big daddy government, to not rely on the financial institutions,

00:16:14.860 to not rely on formalized education or academia or big pharma or corporations in general, but to rely upon yourself and your neighbor and your community members and your brothers and sisters and the people who are close to you,

00:16:29.640 that we can lock arms, shoulder to shoulder, step by step, reclaim the freedoms that this country once enjoyed.

00:16:38.500 It isn't easy.

00:16:39.340 It isn't comfortable.

00:16:40.120 It's hard work.

00:16:40.620 It's not going to be figured out by this podcast or by posting some cool or clever phrase or funny meme about 4th of July on Instagram.

00:16:49.580 Enough with the bread and circuses. 0.91

00:16:51.480 Let's actually do something about it.

00:16:52.940 Not only on the 4th of July and the 4th of July weekend, but every single day.

00:16:59.100 What can you do to acknowledge the American dream and restore the American dream for yourself and for future generations?

00:17:08.440 Guys, we've got a lot of work to do.

00:17:11.680 And I would encourage you to share this episode with another man or woman you think might need to hear it.

00:17:17.480 I would encourage you to share this with the world.

00:17:20.420 Let people know what you stand for.

00:17:23.040 That you believe that there's a connection between rights and responsibilities.

00:17:26.000 That you believe it's our moral obligation to be righteous, to do good work, and to make ourselves free.

00:17:32.820 Not just hope that we are.

00:17:35.280 All right, guys.

00:17:36.860 With that said, enjoy the weekend.

00:17:40.160 Enjoy the freedoms that you now enjoy.

00:17:41.760 But remember, they're not here forever unless we're willing to do something about it.

00:17:45.860 That's all I've got for you this weekend.

00:17:47.660 Enjoy the weekend.

00:17:48.560 Enjoy your freedom.

00:17:49.820 Let's keep fighting for it.

00:17:51.760 We'll be back next week.

00:17:52.680 Until then, go out there, take action, and become the man you are meant to be.

00:17:56.600 Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast.

00:18:03.440 If you're ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you are meant to be,

00:18:07.460 we invite you to join the Order at orderofman.com.

00:18:10.600 You are meant to be, you are meant to be.

Order of Man - July 05, 2024

You are Meant to Live Free ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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