Dear Matt Walsh, Chest your cards
Dear Matthew Vincent Walsh,
There is no other person I agree with less that I also respect more. While this may seem like an odd insult, I mean it is a sincere compliment. Where most test the winds of collective applause, you deliver.
From the incomplete way one can know a public figure, there is no other single person I would prefer to inform our shared world about what it means to be a man.
With that being said… Matt, you and most of the manosphere are missing something, something big, something fundamental, something at the core of who men are and who God is. It is so fundamental that when I say what it is, your ego and innate reaction may be to go on the defensive, for deep down, every man knows that being called out here is deeply shameful.
Men are Warriors. Not keyboard warriors, not podcast warriors. Warriors in a physical and practical way. Men physically keep evil in terrible fear of goodness. Good men should steward their ability to be violent alongside the other important character traits you so often champion. After goodness, or whatever word one would prefer to use, being dangerous is the highest calling of a man.
Every man who has abandoned being excellent at violence lives with an elusive hollowness. Such men are living out the confusion and delusion of the Prince of the Age, who didn’t leave heaven willingly after his coup but was violently thrown out by one who knew warfare. The I AM has three who are closest, who are entrusted above all the rest. We honor and glorify the Worshiper. We revere and seek to mimic or even be the Messenger. We look at the Warrior as the side show, someone else's responsibility, another man's calling. Generations have stayed at home during the season when Kings go to war, and it shows. Being a Warrior is Every Good Man’s Calling.
Those under the brightest spotlights hardly mention this highest axiom, and when they do, they do so with fat fingers and fumbled clarity. There is no way around this ancient truth and eternal calling. It is who we always have been, who we are, and who we always will be.
Matt, like many, you have fallen into the hyper-feminized trap that believes being a fully capable warrior is for daddy government. It is objectively pathetic.* Every man and their core friend group is the cavalry. We are the special operators. We are the minute men who Make Ready. It is immoral for men not to diligently steward their ability to be dangerous.
*Please don’t give me excuses like the rest. You are more of a man than that. If it were already who you are, it would be who you are.
Every man should have a pistol that they carry with them every day, a rifle they are competent with, and the requisite gear to operate with their fellow citizen soldiers. A heroic founder, upon signing the Declaration of Independence, said, “We have this day restored the sovereign.” What is a King without an army? What is a man if he isn’t a warrior? He is one who must watch another man have his way with his wife and kids. Yes, it’s that bad.
Without this foundational pillar of what it means to be a man, all the advice in the world is a mere bluff against a royal flush. You have an audience of young men and women who don't know what's missing in their attraction to the opposite sex. ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, IT IS THE WARRIOR THAT IS MISSING! Women don’t see warriors, so they go for the cheap counterfeits. Men are not warriors, causing them to look up to the cheap counterfeits all around them. Every day, we lose more to that fraudulent version who stands in the middle of the battlefield, cursing goodness, while no one answers the call… some pretend not to hear, others have no idea what to do.
Only those who have fought to protect the flock will rout the invading army. Only warriors, mighty men, can march the anointed to the throne in the face of bureaucrats and men with fancy titles who seek to steal everything.
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. - Thucydides
We are those cowards, we are those fools.
The land is ripe for the taking.
Matt, it is time to Stand in the Breach, look out into the Vast Unknown, give a Good Report, and Lead the Charge.
Men will follow you.
Respectfully,
Samuel S. Adams
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