“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
The next few days will present us with an interesting contrast. On the one hand, Christmas is only a few days away, and that is traditionally the happiest and most joyous occasion of the year. The end of perhaps the most miserable and uncomfortable year in living...
Our good friend from Israel, Dawn Pine aka The Male Brain, is back with another excellent addition to The Didactic Agoge. This entry is all about what you can do to fight the cultural rot that threatens all of us with despair and destruction. This is more...
There is nothing like the rock of honesty and fairness. And when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then, you have a real start.– Attributed as Sen. Barry Goldwater’s advice to his young son, by...
As the world around us gets crazier by the day, every one of us is forced to make a fundamental choice in order to make sense of the madness. If we live based on lies, we will receive comfort and peace, for a time. And the plain, hard, painful fact is that we all have...
Continuing my contribution to The Agoge, I want to touch on one of the most fundamental and powerful of human emotions. The one we are sometimes scared of, taught to suppress (“don’t be a raging lunatic” or “you’re an angry bitter...
We all know that Batman, as depicted in the canonical DC comics and graphic novels, is a MASSIVE Gamma wish-fulfillment device. He is the archetypical brooding loner anti-hero, rich beyond the dreams of avarice, with a body that looks like it was sculpted from a...
Every one of us fails at some point or another. Failure is an inevitable and necessary part of life. Unless and until you experience the misery of failure, you cannot and will not enjoy the rewards of success. Pretty much all of us fear failure at some level. The...
The 2020 World’s Strongest Man contest concluded last weekend, and we now have a new title-holder. A young man named Oleksii Novikov won the title – well, he and his epic beard won – against some extremely tough competition. Four-time WSM champion...
Here is the last of three guest posts that Dawn Pine wrote for us, at my request. Our good friend over in Israel really delivered some great stuff over the past week to help us all find inner motivation and drive. Here, The Male Brain explains how to light your inner...
Today I present another great guest post from our good friend Dawn Pine. This is the second in a set of three posts that he sent over in a series directed toward masculine self-improvement. Last week, I posted up Dawn’s excellent points about the three levels of...
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