To be mentally healthy, we all need the following:
1. We need to belong to a community
2. We need to have something that we contribute to that community
3. We need a place that is ours, where we belong. (This place is more spiritual, than physical. For some men this has been mobile such as behind the wheel of a big truck)
When we lack the above, we are vulnerable to being mentally ill.
Our culture pays little attention to this, as this is spiritual. If you use evolutionary language "ecological". The networks, and interconnected nature of society has been severely neglected. In a village, everyone knew each other, and had a place. They had something they did that contributed to the village. They had shared rituals (going to church on Christmas eve) and ways of understanding the world. The rituals by which children became adults gave a sense of identity and belonging. All of this has been lost, because we did not know how important it was.
Recovering this is going to be difficult, but we have to do it.
Most males raised without a father do not make good employees. Male college graduates who studied the social sciences do not make good employees.
Lazy fat guys who play video games all day do not make good employees. Guys who have been told since birth that all of life's problems they will encounter are because of their skin color do not make good employees. Guys who love getting high do not make good employees.
To be mentally healthy, we all need the following:
1. We need to belong to a community
2. We need to have something that we contribute to that community
3. We need a place that is ours, where we belong. (This place is more spiritual, than physical. For some men this has been mobile such as behind the wheel of a big truck)
When we lack the above, we are vulnerable to being mentally ill.
Our culture pays little attention to this, as this is spiritual. If you use evolutionary language "ecological". The networks, and interconnected nature of society has been severely neglected. In a village, everyone knew each other, and had a place. They had something they did that contributed to the village. They had shared rituals (going to church on Christmas eve) and ways of understanding the world. The rituals by which children became adults gave a sense of identity and belonging. All of this has been lost, because we did not know how important it was.
Recovering this is going to be difficult, but we have to do it.
Ex-felons do not make good employees.
Most males raised without a father do not make good employees. Male college graduates who studied the social sciences do not make good employees.
Lazy fat guys who play video games all day do not make good employees. Guys who have been told since birth that all of life's problems they will encounter are because of their skin color do not make good employees. Guys who love getting high do not make good employees.
Weak men, do not make good employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opinion/men-fiction-novels.html