“I’m 30 minutes into the most recent episode and yet besides Biblical wisdom nothing has resonated with me as much as this.
I’m just about to turn twenty and I have basically suffered from all the “young man” problems of the age, besides financial, because my family is well-off (which just hurts my sense of competence even more.)
Yet I just feel more angry at myself and more insecure by the repeated platitudes that are constantly spinning around me: this back-and-forth, repetitive, empty culture war between no masculinity and hip-hop music video masculinity. You know the names. It’s tiring. I’ve forced myself to put on a smile and reject my own common sense more times than I can count—until it became natural, though still more painful, through this repetitive indoctrination.
And more than anything, it made me have this undying hatred and envy. I felt that no matter what, the world would always be angry at me, and I’d have to halfheartedly surrender to the lesser of two evils.
But finally— two people with a solid foundation in something good (faith and family) and not just blatant selfish hedonism, who share their real experiences instead of shallow, binary ideology… who don’t need to fluster up their advice with anger or virtue symbols because they’re speaking something real.”
stewiegriffin69 via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
08/05/23