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| If You Don't Like Andrew Tate, Maybe You're Not His Audience |
| 2023-07-16 |
| [Federalist] Andrew Tate is public enemy No. 1, and not because of the seriously flawed human trafficking charges he’s facing in Romania. Tate is hated because he speaks to disaffected men, and not just any disaffected men — he speaks to young disaffected men. Despite his moral pitfalls, which I have already identified and rebuked, Tate has a unique ability to comprehensively explain the stakes behind the West’s war against masculinity in a highly engaging manner to middle- and high-school boys. For adolescent males in 2023, life has never been more dissatisfying and confusing. As Tucker Carlson put it in his viral interview with Tate this week, our culture’s message to young boys today is: "Stop being yourself. Sit still. Stop joking. Suppress your aggression. Share your feelings. Obey. Female qualities are virtuous, masculine qualities are oppressive." Tate speaks to young boys. He helps them pinpoint all their frustrations in our hyper-feminized society and gives them concrete ways to resist "the matrix" and embrace their masculinity. Tate might not be a perfect figure, but his larger argument that our elite’s version of masculinity is poisonous is something boys desperately need to hear. MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TOUGHNESS One example of something people have found wildly offensive is Tate’s insistence that "depression isn’t real." Tate explains that most cases of "depression" are natural human emotions irresponsibly treated with prescription drugs. "I don’t believe in depression, I believe in feeling depressed," said Tate. "If you have to install software, in your own mind ... why not adopt a mindset that makes me as competent and as fearsome as possible?" "If you feel a degree of uncomfortableness inside of your mind, I think it’s just your mind telling you that something about your life needs to change," Tate told Carlson, emphasizing mental toughness and conditioning your mind to train, study, and go to work, even when you’re feeling unhappy. "I was in a Romanian jail cell, with cockroaches crawling all over me as I slept," said Tate. "I never missed a day of training. I wouldn’t say I was particularly happy, but push-ups must be done, so they got done." Carlson interview found here. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Yes, I watched some of his Tucker interview and did not see anything adverse. Neither did I find anything that captivated me. I guess I will need to see how his situation plays out. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-16 12:09 |
| #3 I think the truth is true regardless of the messenger. Looking for absolute purity instead of for every useful source of information is an error nobody can afford in the Age of Liesâ„¢ |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-16 09:59 |
| #2 /\ In that great ocean of ideas, not all the fish are edible but we continue to cast the nets. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-07-16 09:12 |
| #1 He is definitely not the muse for me. The adage about not drinking even the finest Chardonnay with but a teaspoon of feces applies for me in his case. I probably agree with him in many cases. I will get my conservative or libertarian views elsewhere. Neither will I criticize him or his views in my ignorance of him. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-16 08:40 |