Q&A Update

Time to catch up with Q&A posts!

I have stepped away from the rhetoric of imperialism, colonialism, and all that because it’s been hopelessly sullied by the Left and can no longer be recovered for any useful purpose. These are words that need to be abandoned together with “racism, fascism, Nazism, genocide” (except in historical contexts) and anything ending in -phobia (except if you are a qualified psychiatrist).

Folks, I’m grateful but I’m way too old for this. I don’t see people on screens like that. But I do have a good real-life story on the subject. I have a friend, let’s call him Victor. A wonderful dude but he was always kind of boyish. Not really immature but he was a boy more than a man well into his thirties. And then something happened, and I saw Victor transform into this very authoritative, strong, very adult man. And so what’s really interesting is that it wasn’t getting married, having children or even battling a serious illness that made Victor grow up. It was making a friend. He became very close friends with a slightly younger dude who needed a lot of assistance because of a complicated personal situation. And helping the new friend launched Victor into maturity.

Moral of the story: men need other men. They need to get together and be men together.