The Problem with Our Society Is That It’s One of Men Without Chests

Via Gen Z Conservative

men without chests

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” —C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

There are various afflictions plaguing the modern West. We can’t win wars. Our economies are growing sluggishly, if they grow at all. The heartlands of once-great nations are vanishing and being replaced with drug-ridden slums. Huge proportions of the population in many nations is obese. Sexual degeneracy is on the rise and rape, one of the worst and most violating of crimes, is a major issue. Cities once known for their beauty and culture are now derided as locals infested with crime, homelessness, and ugly architecture. What passes for “culture” is generally anti-Western, anti-civilization trash that’s a far cry from Bach and Wagner.

In situation after situation, we see decay.

Patriotism is present in some communities but has all but vanished in others.

Nations once known for their martial prowess are now unable (or perhaps unwilling, more on that later) to field even the most basic of militaries; look at Germany and the UK if you need an example.

The average citizen is also hardly a spitting image of his ancestors. Whether he’s out of shape, unadventurous, denigrates liberty, or bitter and sniveling (or, more likely, some combination of all those ignoble qualities), he’s not exactly the famous British sailor, Prussian infantryman, or French Curaissier that the best of his ancestors hoped to become. Whereas Churchill spent his youth adventuring in the Hindu Kush, Cuba, and British Africa, the most prized occupation for modern man is a career of dubious societal worth in “finance.”

There are (somewhat) benign reasons for those changes, of course.

Society has grown more peaceful, on a general scale, since the great powers created nuclear weapons with the power to end civilization, or at least what’s left of it.

The economies of Western nations have financialized, so working in investment banking is more lucrative and a seemingly smarter decision than running a small business or being somewhat adventurous.

Even obesity might not be the result of a lack of willpower, but rather because of chemicals like PFAS and lithium in our food and water. With those factors in mind, along with the many other general trends that don’t relate to character, it’s no real surprise that the typical person whose career path is most praised by society is the overweight and uncurious banker or consultant rather than fit, interesting soldier, titan of industry, or renaissance man that we remember those who lived in the Victorian Age as.

Churchill, Rockefeller, and Edison have been replaced by McChrystal and Klaus Schwab and when you look at societal trends, that’s hardly surprising if still disappointing.

But there’s more to it than general trends. The economy has financialized, but why? The military is no longer what it once was, but why? People are less interesting than they once were, but why? It can’t just be that Reagan deregulated the financial sector, that the Fed is printing money faster than we can imagine, and that wars changed with World War I. There’s something else there.

That “something” is that we’ve created a society of men without chests.

From the earliest age, boys are taught to not be boys. They’re told that fighting is wrong, that they should question the virtues that our society is premised on but not their leftist teachers, that being disagreeable is the greatest of sins (other than when dealing with conservatives, of course), and that the best thing they can strive to be is yet another brick in the wall, preferably of the Wall St. wall.

They’re not taught virtue, are told to value money over character, and aren’t enterprising. Everything is about money and conformity rather than character, foresight, and principles.

As Ayn Rand put it in two parts of Atlas Shrugged:

“They told us that this plan would achieve a noble ideal. Well, how were we to know otherwise? Hadn’t we heard it all our lives—from our parents and our schoolteachers and our ministers, and in every newspaper we ever read and every movie and every public speech?”

“From the first catch-phrases flung at a child to the last, it is like a series of shocks to freeze his motor, to undercut the power of his consciousness. ‘Don’t ask so many questions, children should be seen and not heard!’–’Who are you to think? It’s so, because I say so!’–’Don’t argue, obey!’–’Don’t try to understand, believe!’–’Don’t rebel, adjust!–’Don’t stand out, belong!’–’Don’t struggle, compromise!’–’Your heart is more important than your mind!’–’Who are you to know? Your parents know best!’–’Who are you to know? Society knows best!’–’Who are you to know? The bureaucrats know best!’–’Who are you to object? All values are relative!’–’Who are you to want to escape a thug’s bullet? That’s only a personal prejudice!’”

We’ve created a society of men without chests and are reaping the whirlwind.

And what is that whirlwind? One of societal decay. It’s replaced what was once golden with pervasive gray nothingness.

Gone are the adventurers, that spirit was lectured out of them by the feminazis and teachers that took advantage of their labile minds.

Gone are the industrial titans, they’re busy with “ESG consulting” and selling junk bonds to unwitting consumers.

Gone are the men of talent, industry, and virtue, they’ve been replaced with the metrosexual soy boys and the “I’m with Her” professional class.

Why has the martial class disappeared? Why can European states once known for their prowess on the waves and on the battlefield no longer field an army worth a damn?

Because, like the Romans before them, they’ve grown soft in their prosperity and their chests have disappeared.

Even those who would join and fight don’t, especially in America, because the militaries themselves have gone soft and would now rather indoctrinate than fight. Unless present conditions change, we won’t have another Patton, another Admiral Nelson, or another von Moltke because such men will have either been too disgusted to join the military or so martial and nationalistic that they were drummed out of the service for being “right-wing radicals.”

And even in this society of pervasive vice, we’ve somehow done away with the manly vices!

Churchill once said of Labour politician Stafford Cripps, “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” Does that not remind you of the men without chests of this sad modern era?

Gone are the cigar-puffing cavalrymen, the whisky-swilling frontiersmen, the martini drinking “Mad Men,” and the unpleasant but brilliant academics and inventors. They’ve been replaced with a gray mush that’s pleasant enough when allowed to sip their chai latte in peace but is unassertive, uninteresting, and hasn’t ever lifted a weight.

The only vice we’ve retained is the path of Cassanova, but the hookup culture of today hardly compares to the bright light of romance in those better times.

If our society is to escape its death throes and miraculously recover, that will only happen because we’ve brought back men with chests. Pride, honor, dignity, strength (both of muscle and character), and adventurousness must be taught in our schools. Boys must be encouraged to fight rather than “talk it out.” Their fathers should teach them to be flirtatious without being cads, to be physically dominant without being bullies, to be heroes that stay on the solar path. Otherwise, we’ll be stuck with men without chests and society will continue sinking into that peaceful and wealthy but uninteresting and unappetizing gray that it is rapidly becoming.

Boris Yeltsin once said “A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

That’s the mentality we must recover. Yes, it’s the dangerous path. Yes, it’s less pleasant. But it’s the path of glory. It’s the path of men with chests.

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Quiet Mike

As I look back I believe while the US had been in decline since 1965, we’d been ratcheting down slowly, step by step. But when Bill Clinton came along in ’92 with his “moral relativity” (cute sociopathic phrase), it’s like the brake gave way and we began to plunge into the depths with speed.

falconflight
falconflight

You mean ‘it depends on what is is?’

MathMan
MathMan

Is it possible that virtuous women beget men with chests? For which the former no longer exists.

Old School Counselor

Our white women and banging black guys with chests.

Mike
Mike

I’ll use the Covid scamdemic as an example of why I agree. When the scam first started I watched with disgust at friends as they completely crumbled under the psyop. These were men who I though were strong and who I thought would resist and fight it with all they had. You probably know the type I’m talking about. These gun toting, flag waving, constitution loving super patriot types. I watched them fold like cheap suits when they started this Covid crap. I watched them slap that compliance muzzle on their face and quarantine in their homes. I’ll admit it was pretty disheartening.

Men without chests. Sadly there are way too many.

Stucky

Men without chests + women with actual testicles = Joe and Da Ho.

BL
BL

Oh, let’see….. who could have f’d up western culture? Who controls the usury? The money supply? The sex filled movies/tv? who controls the media, period?

And WHO sold the pulpits to the cabal? The men without chests are to blame, but not completely. Pastors have let the flocks wander in the wilderness and really didn’t care.

So, git you a baby daddy and some tats and a section 8 free ride to hell.

falconflight
falconflight

Christians are wretchedly weak and actually invited others to destroy them. Wow, Matthew warned of this.

Ken31
Ken31

What did Matthew warn us about?

falconflight
falconflight

Accepting evil, even when it’s a family member.

Red River D
Red River D

Phineas would know what to do!!!

very old white guy
very old white guy

and they allowed the government to close their churches because of a flu.

Old School Counselor

Right.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Even if men had “chests”, at most you’d get a bustling and rowdy collapse instead of a pathetic whimper, because those men would aggressively defend their own interests instead of letting everyone walk over them like doormats.

The societal collapse is not just a question of individual moral character, but it’s a societal issue as is. Society is a group, a community, an organization, and people cooperate under the premise of mutual benefit. But what does this modern society have to offer to its men? Why would men cooperate with no fault divorces, feminism, family courts and women’s “rights”? Why would white men cooperate with a society that exploits their competence and robs them of the fruits of their labor to give to the inept and the inadequate who live at their expense?

It is ridiculous to see loudmouth political “pundits” that are effectively doing nothing and contribute nothing criticizing men for not being this or not being that. Society is not entitled to good men, to their cooperation or their contributions, it must be worthy of them as much as those men are worthy themselves. But these political pundits that engage in this type of pep talk never talk about that and of course, they never talk about themselves in that picture.

The solution is always the same, eerily similar to that of the elites but in your own self-righteous way: “you men must become part of the meat-grinder and solve the problem for me and for everyone else, like a good slave”. I don’t think so.

realestatepup
realestatepup

“at most you’d get a bustling and rowdy collapse instead of a pathetic whimper, because those men would aggressively defend their own interests instead of letting everyone walk over them like doormats”
The solution is not just “men with chests” but women. Real Women. Not womyn, or womxn, or zhe, or menstruating persons.
Women have historically been the gatekeepers of polite society and family. We are supposed to be the balance. The counterpoint to the men left unchecked.
Women softened the hardness of the men, made sure they came back to a clean and sane home, with well-brought up children.
They made sure food was on the table.
But more than that, they made sure the wild men participated in church, and civic duties, and charities. Most men, left completely feral and unattended by a real female presence, will devolve into a messy, unshaven, rutting beast with towels for curtains and sketchy blobs of something in the shower drain and take out boxes in the fridge.
The love between a real man and a real woman made the family unit cohesive, so that a man could love his children, provide for and protect them and their mother, his wife.
A ‘baby mama’ does not have this power. Sure, the courts will try and force the wild man into coughing up some weekly dough for his spawn, but he does not live with them full time, does not love their mother, and has a much more limited interest in what happens to them as they may have other siblings that are not his, and his baby mama probably is not having sex with him exclusively anyway, so short of a DNA test he may doubt they are even his. She may screech, and rail, and publicly shame the man, her only goal to get more and more money from him, claiming this is “support”. Support of what exactly? Her tittoos and cigarettes?
So the blame lies on both sides of the aisle. Women have given up all our moral authority for something else, which is labeled as “freedom” but turns out to be anything but that. Women, get out there and sleep around just like a man! It’s ok, there will be zero consequences anyway, right?
Yeah, well life doesn’t work like that no matter how much we may wish it to be so.
Turns out, human females with all our hormones, and uterus, and eggs, tend to want to be moms even if a bunch of dried up harpies from 50 years ago tell us we don’t.
Turns out the same mating strategy for a man has a vastly different impact on the psyche and body of a woman.
Why are teenage girls so vulnerable to the trans message? Because they cannot accept their own biology and drive, and so assume they must be ‘trapped in a woman’s body’. They think if they just change the skin they’re in, all of that angst and anger will go away. It will not.
Governments worldwide even tell them it’s wrong and selfish to want to be a stay at home wife and mother. Hell, the words wife and mother are now BAD.
If you cannot be the thing you were biologically born as, then what the hell CAN you be?
It’s far past time to stop pointing the finger at just the men, and for women to step up and reclaim what was ours this entire time.

Old School Counselor

Of course, but you fail to mention the obvious. Insidious anti-white forces have used psychological, cultural, economic, and legal warfare to emasculate white men. If you put two birds of prey in a cage and tie the talons of one, drug it with chemicals, over-feed it, and mute its ability to use its battle cry, the other raptor will easily dispense with him. He might even just ignore the emasculated bird because it is no threat to him. Colonizing forces have done this to our boys and men, while men from other groups are encouraged. The answer is to encourage and rally the white men of western civilization instead of emasculating them.

Anon x 10
Anon x 10

Rally the White men to purge this country of the mud races. It’s the only way this nation can be like it was in the 1890s-1920s, 1950s to 1972, after which all wage growth stagnated.

Anon x 10
Anon x 10

The only foreign wars I can think of that were even WORTH fighting were the war in the South Pacific against the Japanese (won) Korea and Vietnam, which were both “managed” and inconclusive, probably because the PTB worried about a wider war with China. Everything else gets the Smedley Butler treatment.
Modern wars aren’t meant to be won, they’re meant to be CONTINUOUS. Afghan War Part Deux, coming up.

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