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What Is Brotherhood

What is brotherhood? Men are not meant to be isolated, Modern society either sells men on the supposed benefits to living an isolated and disconnected life, or it creates situations that require it in order to succeed or as is the case for most people,  just to get by. This goes against how man has developed and lived since the beginning of time. Men need to be part of a  tribe, men need brotherhood, we are not meant to be lone wolves. Part of why society is where it is today is because men stopped depending on each other and started depending on the Empire.

A lone man is quite easy to manage in one way or another and is rarely a threat to something as widespread as the Empire. Without a support network a man alone is nothing but the sum of his intelligence, genetics, and life experience. His wants or needs are his alone and are of little consequence to anyone else especially the Empire. This makes him easy to control and dependent on the Empire and its many systems. This is the Empire’s future, a large pool of interchangeable units of labor.

When a man finds himself in a group of men he quickly figures out how he stacks up. When this group is your brothers, that have your best interests at heart they will push you to better yourself, and help you along the way while you do the same for them. When you are alone and the men around you are strangers, they likely don’t have your best interest at heart and even if they do you can simply ignore them and live in a fantasy that you are already the best, and you will stay exactly where you are, never growing or bettering yourself. Being part of a group that you care about and care what they think makes that impossible. While a woman might say that you did your best, a brother will look you in the eyes and say you could have done better and then shows you how and If nothing else the healthy competition brotherhood provides will be the catalyst for growth.

Brotherhood used to be a part of everyday life back in the times of roaming tribes trying to survive. Other tribes were trying to kill them, nature was trying to kill them, all of life was a fight. The men of these tribes would draw a perimeter around themselves and the tribe and fight to protect it. Defending this perimeter has always been job one. Then as tribes began to settle down and become villages, and villages became towns and towns cities, the world became more “civilized.” With that “civilization” Less and less people had to fight to survive. Male only professions  then became the holdout for the last vestiges of brotherhood until the only place where men had to band together to fight for a common goal, and watch each others back was the Military, law enforcement, and the Fire service. However thanks to the degradation of these bonds and traditions of these institutions, corruption, over regulation, back stabbing colleges and toxic command staff to name a few, brotherhood in these professions as well has began to die or already has. These so called, last remaining holdouts of brotherhood are also said to have a higher purpose and are more of a calling then a job, but as many who get into them know this has become less and less true as time goes on and are now just marketing and recruiting campaigns designed to pull on those strings inside men in order to replenish the ranks.

I don’t believe I’ve ever experienced true brotherhood, looking back I was exposed to fleeting moments of something that resembled it but nothing that ever truly rose to the standard. It took me reading some books that shined a light on it and brought brotherhood and tribe into perspective, to know I was even missing it. I knew something was missing, and I knew that I was looking for it, but what it was specifically eluded me. Looking back on the goals I’ve had in life, brotherhood was major aspect in all of them and I just didn’t realize it or have the language to explain it at the time.

 Now that I knew what I was searching for, and after sometime of actively searching for it, I question if it is still attainable in today’s society. It seemed hard to attain before 2019 let alone now, after 3 years of society dividing propaganda, the damage resulting from the pandemic response, political turmoil and the destruction of societies social bonds thanks to social media over the last decade it almost seems impossible. This damage has resulted in what some would call “families” actively splitting up or exiling their own over political views, vaccination status, or any number of meaningless issues of the day that have been pushed on them by society and the Empire.

 A man without a brotherhood who  is going through hardship can overburden his wife with the weight of his problems. This will cause more stress on the relationship and family, often times much more than necessary. However even when you have no hardships, having some brotherhood in your life fulfills an evolutionary requirement for men. When this requirement is fulfilled they feel better physically as well, their mood, mental health and confidence all improve. While this is great for the men, this will also transfer over into other aspects of your life and make your family as a whole happier as well.

Some will say that your wife or girlfriend should be all the support network you need, but she doesn’t want to be your therapist, or your only problem solver, she wants to be your wife. And despite what they say, women cannot truly understand some things that men go through for one simple reason, they are not men, and because of that they will see the world in a different way.

“Your woman will never be able to fully relax into her femininity so long as you treat her like your coach, therapist or healer. She can support you, but how are you supporting yourself?”

~Brandan Schmidt

WHAT IS BROTHERHOOD

Summed up in a few words, from an online meme, “Friends help you move, brothers help you move bodies.” Brotherhood is more than just having a male friend, or even a few of them. It is about having men in your life that care about each other and are willing to have each others back. Who you are willing to put before your self if the need arises. Much of what I understand brotherhood to be now occurred to me after reading The Way of Men by Jack Donovan as well as some of the fleeting moments of pesudo-brotherhood I experienced from my time in the Fire Service.

Being part of a brotherhood is a commitment and in some ways a skill.  It requires that you show up, and put in work with or to help the men in your group. It requires this consistently to maintain that relationship, like a skill it is something that you will get better at as time goes on and it will improve other aspects of your life. Showing up and putting in work is what is required to run any business, organization or your family, Brotherhood nurtures this in men making them more prepared for the real world.

Brotherhood also requires honor, but how do you know what is honorable? How do you know if you or your brothers are honorable? Cultures change, society changes, what is acceptable, changes and are subjective to the individual or group of individuals, this is where the honor code comes in and in short, you and your brothers will have to figure out what honor means to you, what your code is and what constitutes fallowing it? This code should be one part of the set of rules that govern your brotherhood, following them is honorable, the more you follow the more honorable you are and if you break them you dishonor the group And there needs to be consequences. This is partially how the group is held accountable. This through history has been tied to chivalry, and manners, loyalty etc. For instance The marines motto is “Semper fidelis, or Semper Fi. This means always faithful, practically this translates to never let a fellow marine fight alone or having each others back. This one aspect alone when instilled properly, is why the few veterans I hear talking about still having that brotherhood even once they are off active duty, are those coming out of the Marine Corps.

Brotherhood begins as an alliance between men against all external forces. This oath be it formal or informal spoken or unspoken is the most sacred aspect of the brotherhood. The oath of brotherhood creates a voluntary kinship a sense of collective identity a foundation of trust. The oath of brotherhood is what holds everything together and without it or when it has been irreparable corrupted by conniving and betrayal the brotherhood will inevitably fall apart.

~ Jack Donovan

Brotherhood requires commitment, you will need to know that the men beside you are going to have your back and are not going to turn and run, they also need to know the same about you. You will need to be able to count on them in times of crisis. In order to be successful you will want the other men to prove they are committed to the team. This is one aspect that is looked for in special operations selections. Also beyond proving ability this is why police and fire departments have probationary periods, also the reason motorcycle gangs have prospects, and street gangs have jumping ins. All these groups have tests to judge how committed the individual is to the team.

 The men that want to join have to also care about what the members think, if they don’t care what they think there is no reason for them to work to grow and improve. Men who don’t care about what the other men think of them aren’t dependable.

Brothers should push each other and hold each other to a standard.  Men need someone to push them, and call them on their bullshit when the going gets tough in order to become what they are truly capable of. Where a woman might pat you  tell you you did your best, your brother should look you in the eyes and say “do  better.”

As an attempt in recent years to get back some shred brotherhood men’s groups, masterminds, and men’s support groups started popping up and becoming more popular. While being well intentioned, they are usually built around nothing more than getting together and talking with no other goal, purpose, or activity. This alone cannot foster brotherhood, there needs to be an over arching common goal, some kind of battle to fight. They need to go to war in some way whether that is against them selves (Self improvement with a stated goal), another team (sports league) or in the business world.

“Men need accountability, challenge and to be confronted by the truth. These things are not found easily in modern life, but they are found in brotherhood.”

~Brandan Schmidt

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The Empires Masculinity

 Masculinity is mainly about what men want from each other, its is about being a man within a group of men. Women believe they can improve men, they think they can change eons of men’s evolution by redefining masculinity to make it about what women think they want from men. Men want women to want them, this is obvious, but this approval isn’t the only approval men look for.

One of the secrets to being a man is never allowing the fiercest part of you to be tamed

When men behave savagely only men will understand

~ Michael Kurchina

Men compete against each other within a group for status and as a way to seek each others approval. This is part of the the crucible that all boys must under go to become a man. This crucible must be undergone whether a boy likes it or not. Unfortunately with the death of tribes, and brotherhoods, boys have few if any guides or traditions to explain this to them.

Often times it goes forgotten or rejected completely. Essentially forfeiting their place as men and accepting defeat before they even get started. They remain in a state of perpetual boyhood that is becoming increasingly obvious as you look around society.

Some will reward and encourage this forfeiture. Playkating the boys as being courageous for doing so, these people are weak. They despise masculinity and anyone who demonstrates it. They are usually men who failed or forfeited their crucible or are manipulators working behind the curtain who prefer men to be passive to further their own agendas.

Many these days argue that masculinity is no longer or never was necessary. These people are really saying that your masculinity is not necessary, to THEM. That your masculinity is an inconvenience or threatens them or their agendas in some way. They are saying that you should make an effort to limit your own potential so that they can realize their potential instead.

The Empire and our so called leaders have created a world in spite of men. A world that refuses to accept who men are despite their war cries of inclusiveness and acceptance of everyone. They push men to change “for the better”  by abandoning their “antiquated” ways. They push them to conform to the new ways put forth by The Empire and offer nothing in return.

All Empire has to offer is rampant materialism with nothing of any substance or value. Nothing Spiritual, less and less freedom, nothing that nurtures the soul and by all margins, far less than our fathers and men of past generations was offered.

If you give your consent and confine yourself to this spiritual prison willingly, you deserve the tiny, wasted life of dishonor and servitude that your new owners will assign you.

This end of men, this decline of males this new bonobo masturbation society of peace and plenty-this no mans land- is not inevitable. It will require the tacit or expressed consent of billions of men. Like every civilization, it must be built on the backs of men, and most of them must agree to abide by and enforce its laws. You cant have prisons without prison guards and you cant have security without some kind of police. Men will have to get up in the morning and go to their clerking jobs and smile and consume and continue to amuse themselves according to regulation. Civilization requires a social contract and men have to keep up their end of the bargin for it to work. This future can only happen if men help create it.

~Jack Donovan The Way of Men

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WHAT IS A TRIBE?

Robert Frost famously wrote that home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. The word “tribe” is far harder to define, but a start might be the people who you feel compelled to share the last of your food with.

~Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger is referring to a time that he was back packing in the United States and was approached by a stranger as he sat on the side of an overpass. The wan was a fill in worker at the local coal mine that lived in a broken down car. On this day he was not needed so he didn’t need the lunch that he had packed. Junger remembers the man saying “I saw you from town and just wanted to make sure you were okay” As he offered him the lunch that he probably got from the local church and Junger now felt obligated to take. Junger later states that he thinks of this man often to this day. “He’d been generous, yes, but lots of people are generous; what made him different was the fact that he’d taken responsibility for me. He’d spotted me from town and walked half a mile out a highway to make sure I was okay. For reasons I’ll never know, the man in Gillette decided to treat me like a member of his tribe.”

ISOLATION

Humans are not meant to be isolated, individually or even as a family. We were not meant to stick to our selves, work, pay taxes and die. Modern society sells us on the supposed benefits to living an isolated and physically disconnected life, or it creates situations that require it in order to succeed or in the case of most, just to get by. Our species is now the most digitally connected that it has ever been but we have grown apart physically. This goes against how humans have developed and lived since the beginning of time. They need to be part of  a tribe, in person and real, not digitally in some computer generated universe or via a phone on some social media platform that barely mimics human interaction. People often talk about the nuclear family and the single family unit, but this is not enough, A support network of 10 is better than a support network of two.

Today, for most people tribe has become a superficial synonym for “loyal customer.” The Empire in one way or another has watered it down to a trendy marketing buzzword, and removed any substantial meaning it once had, taking any example of surviving tribalism and portraying them as barbaric or uncivilized, labeling them a cult, gang or terrorist organization and calling them extremists. While true in some instances, it is in appropriate to apply the label to all groups, especially from a society that champions so called “equality and acceptance”.

BARBARIANS OF OLD

 Groups considered barbarians throughout history were not necessarily people that had no moral codes, criminals, cannibals or savages as they are often portrayed today. They were simply groups separate of the empire of the time. Maybe their morals or codes or culture did not completely align with that of the current empire or maybe they did and they just wanted to live separately, this on its own didn’t make them evil, or criminal it just made them different and separate. They took care of their own, and cared little for anything or anyone else, and wanted to be left alone. This behavior or the desire for it today makes you extreme. These depictions were perpetrated for the same reason that it is today for people who go against the narrative. Its an attempt to keep the Empires citizens from deserting the Empire or what ever cause it is pushing at the moment.

The Empire continues to defame and disgrace tribal societies even in this supposedly all inclusive, all beliefs are welcome time period we are supposed to be living in because the existence of tribes is inconvenient to the Empire. Specifically the aspects of it that require everyone to fit into one of a few different boxes that it uses in its systems as well as it’s demand that we are supposed to put everyone else above ourselves and our own people.  The future The Empires is pushing us into doesn’t require the re-imagining of tribe it ultimately demands the end of tribe. According to the Empire we are not supposed to have any beliefs, relationships or anything more important to us than that which it decides is important.

tribe

WHAT IS TRIBE

Until I read Tribe by Sebastian Junger I didn’t even know that it was something I was missing. I knew I was missing something, and that I was looking for it, but reading Junger’s book gave it a name, or at least part of it a name. Now after reading it and a host of other books I have started to form a picture of what I would consider a tribe.

A tribe can take on many shapes and sizes depending on their circumstances and your own personal views on the subject. You could already be part of one and did not consider it that, or you may have to build it from scratch. A tribe could be your family friends and relatives depending on how close you are or this could be a team your part of along with your  families such as a police department, military unit, or a sports team. It will all depend on how bonded the group is, whether you feel responsible for each other and whether it meats your image or definition of a tribe as well as some factors that you should consider.

HOW BIG IS IT?

Researchers state the human brain can only maintain meaningful relationships with about 150-250 people at any given time. Now depending on what standard you put on meaningful relationship, as well as how the rest of your time is spent this number is going to fluctuate either higher or lower, most likely lower. This means that you can’t possibly know more people than that well enough to trust them even remotely. This limitation would have developed out of generations upon generations of humans living on this planet and caps the general size of what you should consider for your tribe. Now most people these days probably won’t anything near this limit if they really consider the people that would be close enough to be your tribe. This means that most of those 1000 Facebook friends some of you might have are not going to make the cut.

LOYALTY AND CULTURE

Now that we have an idea about size, Sebastian Junger’s story above  sheds some more light on what tribe is, People that care enough about you and you them to take responsibility and care for each other, or  “share the last of your food with them,” this means people that you can depend on and they you. In other words a certain level of loyalty not usually seen these days, which will likely make this the most difficult part of this endeavor. Finding loyalty is hard these days because it generally speaking is not rewarded in most instances. Loyalty these days typically is only spoken of in terms of frequent buyer programs. Spend more of your hard earned dollars with this one store only and we will reward you with a minuscule cash back reward or a discount coupon for further purchases. Loyalty among each other is not rewarded by any aspect of the Empire because it is against its interests and most people rarely think to reward it themselves.

In addition, a tribe is going to a have a culture all to their own, this doesn’t mean that the culture is going to be completely different from other tribes or even from society but it will likely have something unique to themselves. Whether, their rituals, customs, language or slang they will have to have some form of collective identity that makes them unique. This could the organization that you are a part of that brought them together such as the Special Forces for its team members and their families, or the rituals that their close relatives have  such as how they pray before eating, or maybe they get together for a cigar every Saturday, or a BBQ once a month.

LONE WOLVES

Humans are social beings, the loner who actually likes to be alone, is an anomaly no matter how romantic the story of the wandering lone wolf hero may sound.  Odds are in the majority of people after a certain amount of time being isolated is going to take its tole, all you need is to look at is statistics of mental health and suicides over the past few years to see the evidence of that.

  Human beings who have no collective identity, no strong alliances, sense of belonging, or people they can depend on become drifters dependent on the larger system of The Empire that rules from the top down. Some people fill this need of collective identity and belonging with sports teams, religious brand fixations or their country. However as The Empire slowly crawls toward its goal of universalist identities and and as brands continue to disappoint their customers,  if they are not getting it from their tribe, people will begin to loose what little sense of belonging and collective Identity they have left in their lives. This is one reason that you see people join gangs, cults, frat houses, or ideological movements, it gives them that sense of belonging.

YOUR TWO OPTIONS

Now the way I see it your tribe is going to fall into one of two categories based on how I see it rolling out for other people, and that will slightly change how you go about finding or building it. Your tribe is either going to be or at least start as basically a club or maybe a brotherhood or mens group type organization. You might be able to find en established one, or you might have to build one. This could be as easy as just adding some formality to your already close friend group if you have one. Nothing else about your life really changes other than you are looking for a group of close friends or maybe relatives that you want to be around more often and be closer with than just face book likes and half assed comments on each others pictures.

Your second option is going to look like something more closely resembling what a Tribe has resembled for most of history. These typically go by “Intentional communities” and have been popular for years in certain groups of people and are no becoming more and more popular in the both the freedom community and just everyday life as poeple seek to recapture some form of community in their life or simply check out of the rat race. These groups usually have a large property or grouping of properties. The members live close to each other, work for common goals, they might have their own education programs for kids, or business they run such as farms or gardens. They may have dietary restrictions or other exclusivity based on faith or politics. They can also be “family compounds” where many generations of relatives live on the same land. This can easily grow out of the first option if your group decides to or you can try and go straight to this if it sounds good to you, As Jack Donovan put it,

What ever your us is and whatever your tribe is its just an idea in your head until you have a group of truly interdependent people who share the same fate. That’s what a tribe is. that’s what a community is and that is the future of identity in America.

~ Jack Donovan

 

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Who is your family? Who is your tribe?

How do you define family? Have you ever actually thought about it? How about friend?

I have become very careful in my word use over the years because It is very important to understand the words you use. If you don’t, you not only don’t truly know what you are saying and that can lead to problems, but words have meaning. Beyond the obvious definition and understanding of communication, words effect you and your brain on the subconscious level. For example if you call someone a friend or call them family and they are abusing you or mistreating you, this causes a disconnect in your brain and view/understanding of the world even if you don’t consciously realize it.

Now most people, who care about anything other than themselves, subscribe to the thought that family is the highest possible level relationship and they typically define family one of two ways…

1. A: the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children (Nuclear Family)

2. A: a group of persons of common ancestry (Your blood Relatives)

This is in my opinion both too restrictive and too forcefully inclusive. Some of your biggest detractors and saboteurs will come from people in these definitions, more so from the blood relatives. To that end I would have to say I use a definition closer to this….

1. A: a group of people united by certain convictions or a common affiliation

This how ever while being closer is not specific enough, just because we believe the same things or belong to the same large group or have similar affiliations doesn’t make you family. That is no better than lumping in all your blood relatives, it still lacks something key, Loyalty. Now I have always been a subscriber to the theory of quality over quantity when it comes to relationships but in recent years that has grown to a new level and I have come to the following conclusion.

People in your life fall into 1 of 6 categories

On a scale from worse to best, Enemies, strangers, acquaintances, blood relatives, friends, and family. Let me elaborate.

ENEMIES: People who don’t like you and would seek out to hurt you if they got the opportunity. This could physically, financially, emotionally or any other way they could hurt you.

STRANGERS: The majority of the world will fall in this category, these people are neutral for the most part, in the sense that they don’t care one way or the other about you. They simply just don’t know you. If something happened they might help you on the street they might not there is no way to tell and they cannot be counted on to do so. They might and that would be a lottery win for you but thats about it.

ACQUAINTANCES: Less then friends, and by my standards people that most people consider friends fall into this category. Your coworkers probably fall into this category 99% of the time. They dont seek out to hurt you necessarily, but they can’t be counted on to help you either if it was inconvenient to them or if there was a benefit to them not to help you. This in common in corporate environments because if you screw up your coworkers typically look better for promotions. They could also be people you have met once or twice or Your relationship is one of convenience, such as school, where you are forced into proximity for periods of time but you dont see each other out side of that. Maybe you or they are too busy for more than that or maybe you or they have no interest in more. If you have to qualify their friendship such as “work friend” or “gym friend” then these people are acquaintances. These relationships may seem empty or one sided. These could also be people that are friends of friends, friends of family, or depending on your tribes size, family members of tribe members that you don’t have a familiarity with yet. The closer the relation ship of these people get to you or your tribe the more they should be considered to be loyal to you or your tribe and help you if necessary and you help them if necessary. Next to Blood Relatives, a lot of your detractors and saboteurs will come from this group and the people that most people consider friends.

BLOOD RELATIVES: These People are related to you by blood and ancestry, and could be considered by marriage as they are the blood of your spouse, that is it. This is what most people consider family and they typically put this group above all else no matter how toxic a relationship it might be. This is unsafe and unhealthy to privatize a relationship simply because your DNA is similar. Some of your biggest detractors and saboteurs will come from this group whether well intentioned or not. Even if this wasn’t the case, you likely have better relationships with people unrelated to you, than you do with some of your blood relatives. You may not even know any of your blood relatives and because of this they are closer to acquaintances generally than anything else.

FRIENDS: These are people that you have active relationships with. You make a point to reach out and talk to each other, you probably started as an acquaintance, its just how these things work. You may or may not have some shared history, you may or may not have know each other for along time. Regardless, you have each others best interest in mind, and you would help each other if you can if something came up. This is a higher standard than most people place on their friends and because of that, by my definition these people will be supportive, they won’t try to sabotage you, or your goals whether accidental or on purpose. This is where most of the people you should consider your tribe will be and where you will find your brothers, and depending on your situation where these people will most likley stay.

FAMILY: The cream of the crop, your inner circle. These people may be blood related, but they dont have to be. Blood relation doesn’t get you into this group loyalty does. These may be people you served with in the military, they may be friends you have known for years. You definitely share history and most likley some life changing events hopefully good but likely some bad too. You dot have to question if they have your best interest at heart and you wouldn’t think about crossing or back stabing them in any way. These are the people that will drop what they are doing to help you if you need it and vice versa. These are going to be the hardest people to find but are a invaluable part to your life. This is where your brotherhood should fall. the tightest circle of your tribe. Your brothers should feel like family, thats why they are your brothers.

Obviously people cannot become blood related and then loose it but as a whole people in your life will likely rise and fall through this scale.

Typically if you trying to build a tribe or brotherhood you would want to start looking in as a high a category as you can. Start with who you consider family already and you will likely find some people, if you don’t then look at your friends, if not or you want more look at your blood relatives and or acquaintances and see who might have potential and work raising your relationship with them.

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What kind of barbarian are you?

You have to know yourself, know your beliefs, what you are going to stand for, die for, and what you are willing to let slide. If you do not know these things and have your lines drawn in the sand then you will get forced and manipulated into doing things that you don’t want to do. You will forever be at the mercy of the Empire, it’s systems and whatever way public opinion is flowing. You won’t be a barbarian you will be a slave to whatever the hip new fad or opinion is and effectively become a low tier character in your own story rather than the main character you are meant to be.

“You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.
~Tyler Durden

The process

 

Figuring this out will take some time. I know it’s, I have been at it a better part of a couple of years and I am still at it, but you can figure out the basics. You are going to go back and forth on some things and realize the world is not black and white and some things just have no good answers or solutions.

Ideally in order to accomplish this you would spend a week or more cut off from the rest of the world, no technology, no internet, no substances, coffee, weed, drugs etc. Cutting your self off from all the things that alter your mind, program you subconscious and effect your judgment. Because if someone is constantly telling you what you are or who you are or how you are supposed to act you will never be able to get a clear enough head to figure out for your self who you truly are.

Now if you have the ability, there are many retreats out there for this sort of thing, but if you can’t, at least get a notebook and over a weekend turn your phone off, turn off your internet, TV, etc. Just try to be alone and start thinking about who you are. Write down what ever comes.

Here are some prompts to get you thinking

              (First write down the answers to these question)
1.    What is your favorite part of each day?
2.    What are  the three most important things in your everyday life?
3.    Where would  your ideal vacation destination be?
4.    What is your favorite hobby? Can you do more of it?
5.    Where do you get your daily news stories and current affairs updates from?
6.    Do they enhance or damage your daily productivity?
7.    What do you still invest time in that no longer benefits you?
8.    What is your personal definition of success?
9.    How will you know when you have achieved success?
10.    Write down what you want to have achieved in the next 3 months, 6 months and 12 months.
11.    What does love mean to you?
12.    Do you have any religious/spiritual beliefs? What are they?
13.    Why Do you have these beliefs?

Have you been programmed?

14. Do you have an emotional response and don’t know why
15.Are you angry at a person or about a topic but you can’t articulate why or can’t speak intelligently about it?
(If you answered yes to either of those then you don’t have a belief, You have been programmed)

Your personal relationships

Now take look at your personal relationships and figure out which ones you would help if they needed it, which you would lone money too, which you would fight for, now how about who you would die for. Now look at it the other way and be honest with yourself. Who mistreats you, who treats you well. What relationships do you have that both benefit you and the other person, who do you trust and who don’t you? This could be family, friends, co workers, bosses, any relationship in your life.

If you can’t look at this in an unbiased manner, and most people can’t, find a few people whose opinion you trust and ask them about the other people in your life. However make sure you do this one at a time and separately, then compare notes from each person by your self. Doing this will allow you to sift through any personal bias on their side. If you talk to 5 close friends and they all tell you someone is bad for you then you might want to look at that relationship. Now if Tom says Jimmy is a horrible person and Jimmy says Tom is a horrible person but no one else has a judgment then those two might not like each other but that doesn’t mean that either of them are toxic. Use YOUR best judgment.

Testing these relationships

You can also ask the people in your life for help with something, do they help you, or blow you off? You will need to do this multiple times to make sure it really wasn’t something that they couldn’t help with or that timing was really bad on their end whatever the excuse may have been. You can also simply drop of the map for a few days, Don’t text, call, or Facebook anyone and see who checks in on you. Keep in mind this test can really be an eye opener so if you are not ready for the answers on this one don’t ask the question. If through these process you find the people do check in on you, they do drop what they are doing to help you out, focus more of your time on those relationships.

A truly unbiased assessment of your personal relationships may be quite depressing. Many men if they are honest with themselves have few if any people in their life that they could actually depend on in a bad situation or even simply borrow a small amount of cash. Some have none at all and are entirely dependent the government programs, systems and corporations of the Empire. This is the way the Empire works and they like it that way.

This process however is only the beginning

From now on look at any situation that presents itself to you and find out how YOU feel about them. Not how the media or your wife or your parents tell you to think about it. If something interests you research it, if something doesn’t sound right, research it. If you have an opinion about any topic and you haven’t researched it thoroughly and looked at both sides, then you nothing more than a useful idiot for one side of the argument. If you do not know the definition of that term I recommend you look it up.

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This is the Modern Barbarian

Mainly seen in the times of the Greek and Roman empires the term barbarian was used in a derogatory manner to describe a member of any of the various peoples living outside the dominant Empire of the region or not fully integrated into their civilization or society. To the citizens of the empire these people who were typically considered uncivilized or culturally inferior. 

Looking around so called civilization today we here at the Modern Barbarian dawn this label proudly and thus, The Modern Barbarian is a place for like minded people to join us

This Began a few years ago as a journey of discovery for my self after I found my self resigning from a short career in law enforcement and having to deal with an 18 month battle in the so called health care system that I was ultimately ignored and cast aside by. After a few months of not knowing what to do and feeling like my compass was spinning I and my family began researching to find answers to my health issues.  As I started to find answers and I also started to widen my gaze and began to see everything else that was wrong around me. This started with Food and nutrition and natural next step from health, then branched out into politics the same old story of Left vs Right, Red vs Blue. Which led to history and on it went. As time went on, some of the few people around me that saw what I saw began down the same road I did and now this journey is one of my growing (all be it slowly) tribe.

So follow along with our journey as we cover all the topics I ended up going down and more as I find new ones so you too can become a barbarian.

Topics such as……

  • Self Reliance

  • Masculine Philosophy

  • Brotherhood

  • Tribe

  • The System
  • Freedom
  • Fitness

  • Nutrition

  • Traditional/ancestral Living
  • Entrepreneurship

  • Wealth generation

  • Spirituality
  • Dogs
  • Lifestyle Design

“When society starts to go crazy, becomes something that you no longer recognize and begins to go against your morals or personal code, it forces you to choose. Throw out your code and go crazy your self to say an insider of the society of the Empire or maintain your code, be able to live with your self, and become a barbarian”

~ M. Barbarian