>> *“A man will not fight for a system that devalues and denigrates him.”* – Quintus Curtius That sums up the situation at present. I doubt men will fight this until it comes for them, but I don't want to come off making this seem like I think the future is one without hope. >> *“To inspire a man to fight for something, he must feel that it matters to him, and that the issues affect him directly.”* – Quintus Curtius Give people something worth fighting for and if they see value in it they will. It's clear that much of what exists now isn't appealing to people. Marriage failure. Explosion in single unwed/divorced female headed households. Homosexuality. Sexual deviancy. Rampant mental illness. A near total lack of trust in much of our societies various institutions and so on. It's just crazy out there. >> *“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”* – Richard Buckminster Fuller I once thought poorly of people who engaged in defrauding social welfare programs, but as I matured into adulthood, I stopped. I understood I didn't pay taxes to be apart of civilization, but that I did so to prevent the government from kicking in my door and sending me to jail. After making that realization, I always encourage my peers to take full advantage of this social justice insanity to their benefit. And I won't lie, I'm doing my part to milk the cow too. Better to get what I can from it join the bandwagon and break the cart under my weight. However, there is immense amounts of information available for people, families, communities to create a new model of living that is more appealing than the current one. And here's the great part. So many people have been so thoroughly mis-educated that simply recreating a classical education option would appeal to many. I guess what I'm saying is, we're in no position to see ourselves as an army. We should instead work to build libraries to preserve our knowledge and culture. I think [VoxDay shared an excellent metaphor to that end here.](https://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/02/metaphor.html) It's a short read. Worthwhile in my opinion, for what its worth.