Women are ruining their children. They don't say "no" to them about anything, either out of guilt from working outside of the home or because they want to be their "best friend." A vast majority of the last two generations are a mess. The are lazy and self-indulgent and when they run into life's inevitable problems, they play the victim, turn to drugs or commit suicide. No one did any of those things when I was growing up. We were merely told "no" and "you are not special." Only the winner got the trophy or ribbon. We need to return to those days.
Superb obs. Grew up in a culture endemic with nick names. They were settled at a young age but were gradually discarded with maturity, unless employed in bonhomie, or as a 'trigger', usually a red flag for baiting or the genesis of an incipient confrontation. But that's how we cut our teeth. No big deal. As they say in NZ, take a 'chill-pill' or just take a 'concrete pill' and harden up.
I think the wave of young men into MAGA came after seeing Trump emerge strong & defiant after an assassination attempt. It was the pure Alpha Male, unlike their beta dads, profs and bosses—and they were drawn to it. Trump functions as a father figure to Musk, Vance, and those like them.
The softening of the collective male psyche is planned preparation for the upcoming wave of demographic turnover spurned by the immigration strategies deployed by the globalists. Feminized and neutered males will be victimized by the societal disruption we are just seeing the first stages of. The masculinity problem needs resolution now. Half the country is still woke and blind to what they have created.
Funny, a very nice, very intelligent and very woke 35 year old woman I work with told me something yesterday. She laughed about how our boss -- not exactly Kojak, but still bald and a pretty masculine guy-- had a phrase she admired: "the answer to your question is no." This simple phrase delighted and appealed to her as though it were exotic and novel.
Human nature hasn't changed. The fact that the so called AWFLs are so misguided shouldn't matter. So lets stop apologizing and endlessly analyzing and act as a man should.
Feminism, in contradistinction to femininity, is a cult of female superiority. Although it started as a push for equality, it has morphed into a domineering power-mongering monster reminiscent of the high school cheer, “hurrah for our side”. You remember high school, where you build your group up by putting others down. Like the cruelty seen in the playground, our modern world has amplified our flaws and sublimated our virtues. Given our current state of devolution, do we still have any virtues?
During the defence of Normandy on D Day, the Nazis had as their motto, “teile und herrsche” (divide and conquer); the Allies rallied around the phrase: “one for all; all for one”. The virtue of sacrifice and cooperation can be summed up in the meaning of the word “grace”: it is the facilitation of the beneficial other. The Allies wanted a world for everyone; the Nazis a world of their making called the Third Reich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
Virtue is it’s own reward. The people of the world are a diverse expression of infinite variability, due to the benefit of recombination from sexual reproduction, a strategy used by evolution to counter parasitism. Drawing off the life-force of others can be seen in social, as well as biological parasites. As a species, unless we can recover our internal unity, like the sanity of a person possessing both a left and right brain hemisphere, we will go the way of the dinosaurs. Then we can point fingers of blame and make others wrong, Mankind finally hoist on our own petard, full of envy and lacking grace.
Yes, feminism—its second and subsequent waves—like the civil rights and gay rights movements, started as a quest for equality and morphed into a demand for special status and power.
But where does that kind of love come from? IMHO, we must elucidate familial affection (and so much else about human sociology) through our competitors for ecosystem dominance: the wolves. Anthropomorphism aside, we can learn a lot from our primitive (or is it noble?) brothers, where the leaders of the pack bring home their kill to the nursery, regurgitating the wolfed-down meat in response to muzzle-licking from the pups. Dogs in our families still do this to us and demonstrate that unconditional love can mean laying down their lives for ours.. Ethology (animal sociology) observes that all members of the pack cherish and serve the young wolves, playing, tolerating, and instructing them on what works in the wild.
Was it instinct, example or earned affection that motivated your uncle to manifest this love? What ever the answer, it works, both for us and for many other species on this blue planet. Love is the answer to the question, “where does truth lie?”
A fascinating read about a topic I hadn't given much thought to. I'm from the US but lived in MX for 5 years. Seems nicknames are still common there. Great post. Thank you.
The ongoing cultural demolition of Anglo-European society, planned by globalists and featuring both demasculinization and defeminization, seems to have spared Latin American countries. Hence the survival of nicknames in Mexico . . . for now.
In the early 70s when I was in high school a lot of guys and some girls had nicknames given to them by classmates, coaches or teachers.
Today, being a disc golf player and fan, I have noticed that most, if not all, of the top and popular professional men and women players all have nicknames based on one of their skills, the way they dress, a physical characteristic, personality traits or where they are from.
I think you see it in other professional sports or professions to some degree as well.
I wonder if being a professional athlete, musician or car racer etc. has a different correlation to nicknames as compared to friends, family or coworkers ???
Women are ruining their children. They don't say "no" to them about anything, either out of guilt from working outside of the home or because they want to be their "best friend." A vast majority of the last two generations are a mess. The are lazy and self-indulgent and when they run into life's inevitable problems, they play the victim, turn to drugs or commit suicide. No one did any of those things when I was growing up. We were merely told "no" and "you are not special." Only the winner got the trophy or ribbon. We need to return to those days.
No more participation trophies.
Superb obs. Grew up in a culture endemic with nick names. They were settled at a young age but were gradually discarded with maturity, unless employed in bonhomie, or as a 'trigger', usually a red flag for baiting or the genesis of an incipient confrontation. But that's how we cut our teeth. No big deal. As they say in NZ, take a 'chill-pill' or just take a 'concrete pill' and harden up.
I think the wave of young men into MAGA came after seeing Trump emerge strong & defiant after an assassination attempt. It was the pure Alpha Male, unlike their beta dads, profs and bosses—and they were drawn to it. Trump functions as a father figure to Musk, Vance, and those like them.
The softening of the collective male psyche is planned preparation for the upcoming wave of demographic turnover spurned by the immigration strategies deployed by the globalists. Feminized and neutered males will be victimized by the societal disruption we are just seeing the first stages of. The masculinity problem needs resolution now. Half the country is still woke and blind to what they have created.
Funny, a very nice, very intelligent and very woke 35 year old woman I work with told me something yesterday. She laughed about how our boss -- not exactly Kojak, but still bald and a pretty masculine guy-- had a phrase she admired: "the answer to your question is no." This simple phrase delighted and appealed to her as though it were exotic and novel.
Human nature hasn't changed. The fact that the so called AWFLs are so misguided shouldn't matter. So lets stop apologizing and endlessly analyzing and act as a man should.
Feminism, in contradistinction to femininity, is a cult of female superiority. Although it started as a push for equality, it has morphed into a domineering power-mongering monster reminiscent of the high school cheer, “hurrah for our side”. You remember high school, where you build your group up by putting others down. Like the cruelty seen in the playground, our modern world has amplified our flaws and sublimated our virtues. Given our current state of devolution, do we still have any virtues?
During the defence of Normandy on D Day, the Nazis had as their motto, “teile und herrsche” (divide and conquer); the Allies rallied around the phrase: “one for all; all for one”. The virtue of sacrifice and cooperation can be summed up in the meaning of the word “grace”: it is the facilitation of the beneficial other. The Allies wanted a world for everyone; the Nazis a world of their making called the Third Reich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
Virtue is it’s own reward. The people of the world are a diverse expression of infinite variability, due to the benefit of recombination from sexual reproduction, a strategy used by evolution to counter parasitism. Drawing off the life-force of others can be seen in social, as well as biological parasites. As a species, unless we can recover our internal unity, like the sanity of a person possessing both a left and right brain hemisphere, we will go the way of the dinosaurs. Then we can point fingers of blame and make others wrong, Mankind finally hoist on our own petard, full of envy and lacking grace.
Yes, feminism—its second and subsequent waves—like the civil rights and gay rights movements, started as a quest for equality and morphed into a demand for special status and power.
Uncle Steve sounds like a gem. A real “avuncular” uncle; I’m sure a synonym for aunts exists, but I can’t find it in common usage, except here: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/09/in-a-word-can-an-aunt-be-avuncular/
But where does that kind of love come from? IMHO, we must elucidate familial affection (and so much else about human sociology) through our competitors for ecosystem dominance: the wolves. Anthropomorphism aside, we can learn a lot from our primitive (or is it noble?) brothers, where the leaders of the pack bring home their kill to the nursery, regurgitating the wolfed-down meat in response to muzzle-licking from the pups. Dogs in our families still do this to us and demonstrate that unconditional love can mean laying down their lives for ours.. Ethology (animal sociology) observes that all members of the pack cherish and serve the young wolves, playing, tolerating, and instructing them on what works in the wild.
Was it instinct, example or earned affection that motivated your uncle to manifest this love? What ever the answer, it works, both for us and for many other species on this blue planet. Love is the answer to the question, “where does truth lie?”
A fascinating read about a topic I hadn't given much thought to. I'm from the US but lived in MX for 5 years. Seems nicknames are still common there. Great post. Thank you.
The ongoing cultural demolition of Anglo-European society, planned by globalists and featuring both demasculinization and defeminization, seems to have spared Latin American countries. Hence the survival of nicknames in Mexico . . . for now.
There is someone driving around in my town with the personalised plate 'MOISTY'.
Never thought of this subject before.
In the early 70s when I was in high school a lot of guys and some girls had nicknames given to them by classmates, coaches or teachers.
Today, being a disc golf player and fan, I have noticed that most, if not all, of the top and popular professional men and women players all have nicknames based on one of their skills, the way they dress, a physical characteristic, personality traits or where they are from.
I think you see it in other professional sports or professions to some degree as well.
I wonder if being a professional athlete, musician or car racer etc. has a different correlation to nicknames as compared to friends, family or coworkers ???