01/10/2025
I can’t help but notice that when the military was a size that reflected our importance as a nation the patriotic feeling in the nations people was just seen as normal and loving.
Many of us grew up going to parades, we all had a family member in the service or knew of someone who was and we saw the flags of our nations up all over the place, now the military is a fraction of what it once was the decline in national pride is there to see.
Those men who would have stood up and done a stint once then became peddlers of greed and perpetual adolescence and in this looked inward to become this rapacious me me me men, in essence boys.
All great civilisations started with their boys becoming men. Be it Sparta, Rome or even the British Empire where the boys becoming men was an important factor in growth boy soldiers becoming officers, boys serving in the navy and so on. They’ve been replaced with men who want to dress like children, men who play with LEGO, men who get excited for the latest kids film at the cinema.
The former men built, created and maintained the vast world that they themselves created, the latter men retreat, hide, cower from adventure or even a basic childhood fight, they build nothing yet expect everything. A reminder that when Rome fell one of the reasons it was so brutal a collapse is that the Romans didn’t want to fight anymore, they paid mercenaries and therefore lost a skill that was once mastered at the age of 7…the art of violence.
To any ladies reading stop giving in to these man children, stay single if you have to. But for gods sake demand more from the men in your lives, somebody has to tell them to grow up.