The Pussification of America

I have touched on this topic from time to time in these pages, here and here, but it's time to say the quiet part out loud.  The once great American spirit has been emasculated, castrated and pussified to an unrecognizable extent. Yes, it's that bad.  Our national psyche today demands that we take no risks, go along, have a nice day, be safe.  It used to be - and still should be - live life, be discriminating, stay aware, live long and prosper.  But it's not, and the country and the culture suffers for it: We are Borg; resistance is futile.  But is it?

Kyle Rittenhouse exemplified this innate courage last year during the BLM incited Kenosha Wisconsin riots when at only 17 years old he defended himself from at least three adult armed criminals who were intend on killing him.  He shot all three before they could kill him. The score?  Two dead, one wounded. He's now on trial, and it looks at this writing as if justice and Constitutional law will prevail.

Andrew Gorlin writes of this feminization of the flower of American manhood recently in The American Thinker wherein he notes that we have sacrificed manliness and heroics on the false alter of safety.  Read the whole essay here.  Consider this:

How did we end up here? As very often happens the course happened first gradually, then suddenly. The worship of safety began long ago and now it's everywhere. Everything we buy and use, from lawn mowers to toasters to toothbrushes, undergoes the elaborate safety checks and is accompanied by instructions for safe operation. And not only is it a legal requirement, but for many people safety became the most important feature of any device. There is a commercial on TV promoting gutter guards.  A woman asks her husband: 'Do you climb ladder to clean the gutter?" "Yes." "But it's unsafe!" -- enough said, everybody needs to get the damn thing.

When has life ever been safe?  When have we ever been so obsessed with the notion of feeling personal safety?  Not just merely aware of being safe, but completely consumed by the fear of feeling unsafe?  That fear is pathological, yet it consumes the national psyche.  Here's another gem from Gorlin:

We were told that we are at war [with CoVid-19]. Very good, but doesn't fighting a war requires some bravery? Maybe it's time to abandon the survivor mentality and start living life? People who shy away from each other cannot advance civilization -- which is essentially what we, proud human beings, are on this planet for. You can celebrate that restaurants, stadiums and concert halls are finally open, and you may call this new reality a 'new normal', but there is nothing normal about performing classical music in masks, or about faceless zombies in a fine art museum staring at Renaissance masterpieces depicting the most beautiful thing in the world -- human face.

Well said.  A brash New Yorker came onto the political scene a few years ago and showed us what a real man - replete with a dash of narcissism and a heaping dose of bravado - should be: Fearless, patriotic and competent.  And just like with Rittenhouse, the media and the powers-that-be sought to bring Donald Trump down for the inexcusable sin of telling the truth.   But the left's false narrative will wither and fade when all American men become once again American men.

Man up, America.  Today is Veterans Day.  Defend your genes.  Grow some courage.  Stand up.  Take back what's yours.  Make your sons - and your fathers and grandfathers - proud. 

And do it now.