Comics, cartoons, anime, video games, k-pop, etc are for man children.
I used to be into the scene when I was a kid and even up to my later teenage years. I looked up to these imaginary heroes and edge lords, and I would often pretend I was one as kids often do. There's no deeper meaning to their stories though, because they're not real. It's all a fantasy where everything just clicks into place. The real world is not at all like that. It's cruel, and unforgiving. Whenever I faced a challenge in my life, I would withdraw into these escapist fantasies, and distract myself from my problems. I think this is where a lot of (gen alpha to millennials) men are right now, where instead of finding real outlets of creativity and enjoyment they turn inwards and revert back to childhood. Marie-Louise Von Franz, a psychologist that worked with Carl Jung, wrote about this in her book. She referred to them as
Puer Aeternus, or "child god" because they believed themselves to be forever young.
Before someone laments about how it's okay to "like, have fun dude", sooner or later, there'll come a time where "having fun" just isn't good enough. If you want to achieve anything of significance you have to acknowledge reality and face it like a man. If you don't, then the world will bend you to whatever shape it desires, you'll flow along with the current and one day be swept away. I remember a passage I read recently by Amor Towles, "Man must master his circumstances, or be mastered by them." I can think of no better time this could apply than today. How do you set an example for your woman, your family, or your friends if they have to stomach watching the person who's supposed to be their superior watch f*cking cartoons. This is the "man" you have to rely on when times get tough, the same one who makes some cringe pop-cultural reference and can't cook his own food, how can anyone respect someone like that?
Maybe this doesn't effect everyone the same way it did me, but I spent my whole youth playing video games, jerking off, and watching retarded cartoons, and I hadn't met another guy who wanted to hang outside until I was a junior in high school. Our parents thought they were keeping us safe, I couldn't go an hour without my mom buzzing my phone about my location. Digital media, while a remarkable resource for acquiring information, unavoidably turns into an evil form as a propaganda tool to herd sheep and keep them mindlessly engaged in mind-numbing tasks. A bit off topic, but in will Durants book, "The Complete Story of Civilization"as well as J. D Unwins study "Sex and Culture", both found that civilizations who were less sexually permissive had experienced greater technological progress and marks of "higher culture", and what had led to their eventual fall had been the loosening of standards from a stricter monogamous state to a more liberally permissive state of being until they were conquered or collapsed into nothing. What we're experiencing now was going to happen eventually, but digital media has only accelerated the decline.
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