The Manly Virtues, Part Ii

...Loyalty, of all of them, is the most lacking in our time. But there’s untold importance in staying true to those you find who are sincere, honorable, also true friends and family, we build islands of refuge in a sea of insanity. Man’s great rock of stability in the swirling dance of wrong, loyalties, it is fair to say are civilization’s bonds. Finally, there is Aggression, the hardest one to control, but a good man who can fight hard is more precious than even gold. Some say we should abolish it, that it does nothing but destroy, forgetting that sometimes evil is not something we can avoid. And when evil seeks a victim, it’s this virtue that it must meet, were it not for male aggression not a single soul would live free. People who would dismiss these things, who would lie and call them ‘toxic,’ strike me as people that inside are frightened, broken, or sick. To banish the traits that make us, that built a world from sticks and stones, comes off as mindless sophistry from minds that are not yet grown. And though they’ll never admit this, I feel it must always be said, were it not for the manly virtues, we’d be concubines, slaves, or dead.