Keep Right – Column by Ralph K. Ginorio
Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.”
Horatius, The Lays of Ancient Rome, Thomas Babington Macaulay
Disclaimer: Because our language and sensibilities have been under protracted assault, my straightforward use of words might seem shocking. Speaking plainly expresses precise ideas, recognizably. It does not deny exceptions or alternatives.
Men make civilization possible. As guardian protectors, men secure the safety of others. The law and order necessary for the existence of civilian life is only possible when men put themselves at risk to achieve it. Without this sacrifice, anarchy consumes all.
Males end civilizations. In a state of savagery, males destroy order, despoil innocence, and plunder productivity. The greatest danger to civilian men, women, and children and anything they can build together is the thug who predates upon them all.
Not all males are men. Becoming and remaining a man is a product of choice, not birth. Men are creatures of duty, always serving something greater than themselves. Any special strength, aggression, energy, and endurance possessed by a man exists to help him to ably protect something of value.
Men choose to confront this world’s monsters before they can harm or destroy their loved ones. It is in his decision to endure hardship and risk his personal all that a man affirms his reason for existence. He must always make this decision alone.
A man’s supreme characteristic is courage. At some point, the man must have learned a few transcendent truths:
- There are things that are worth dying for.
- There are some prices too high to pay for one’s own survival.
- There are fates worse than death.
Men are relatively expendable. Male bodies are built for combat, in the way that female bodies are built to give birth.
There is nothing wrong with this. We human beings are not merely ends unto ourselves. We each can elect to be a means to greater ends. Traditional societies call this acceptance of responsibility adulthood.
Every culture or civilization must master a method for inviting males into manhood. The alternative to raising boys right is a slide into anarchic chaos. “Horatius” used to be universally taught throughout the English speaking world. In a stoical and matter-of-fact fashion, Horatius invites those males around him to be men in that terrible moment by stepping out from safety and into danger.
Boys should be introduced to stories that prepare them to become men. As the Christian writer G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “Fairy tales do not tell children dragons exist. Children already know the dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
The irrepressible energy that boys have must be channeled into competitions and war games that teach individual self-discipline and effective teamwork. They must be introduced to honor, and shown ways that they personally can earn it. Most of all, they must be taught to hope that, by being brave, their lives can be worth living.
How much of this is being done today? How many boys are being readied for manhood?
In schools, boys are consistently treated like dysfunctional girls. Young men are having their development willfully vandalized by feminist and homosexual activists who despise men and want to erase them from the future.
These decadent groomers believe that we have developed past the need for hairy-scary-alpha men. They forget that inevitably law and order will break down, money will fail, the power will go out, water will not flow, and the food trucks will not come.
Roving gangs of ill-raised predatory males will then take everything from everyone else and return nothing but pain. This chaos has already begun to spread throughout much of Democrat-controlled America.
Not if, but when, such problems plague us, I pray that we will know real men who are both willing and able to step up and defend all that is good in life.
Even without doomsday, men are needed each and every day as guardians, providers, husbands, fathers, citizens, neighbors, and so much more. For all of our sakes, the war on men must stop!
