The Skald is Up Early
So you should benefit from some Oregonian wisdom. Head over to Skalduggery and read about men without chests, cowardice, and virtues. A bit from the Skald:
Our culture progresses into idiocy for lack of that central organ in man, the chest, which is atrophied by the very cowards who cut their own hearts out. Lewis reminds us that “the head rules the belly through the chest.” The head representing our reason, the belly our appetites, and the chest – “The Chest-Magnanimity-Sentiment—these are the indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man. It may even be said that it is by this middle element that man is man: for by his intellect he is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal” (Lewis, 1943).
From another author I respect on the subject of manhood:
We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.
-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
For the 700th time this year, I’ll recommend Throwaway Dads. Not only does it explain why children need fathers, it explains how the United States has allowed the banner of equality, not to be confused with actual equality, to overrun a man’s default state and teach him he’s wrong for being who he is.
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