'Strong Men? Masculinity in the Modern World'
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- What are the challenges facing men today? Former US Army Ranger and philosopher Michael Robillard looks at the growing sense of alienation felt by men and how to find a sense of belonging.
Journalist and founder of the new men's movement Rebel Wisdom, David Fuller, describes how a deep personal story of reconciliation with his dying father led to him dedicating his life to men's work and personal growth.
And Nathan Roberts, the head of the inspirational Band of Brothers network, will explain how they transform the lives of young men involved in the criminal justice system, and what their work shows about the crisis of young men in today's society.
Panel discussion afterwards with philosopher Jules Evans.
This was a joint event between the London Philosophy Club and Rebel Wisdom.
For more videos, and events, see: rebelwisdom.co.uk/
I genuinely shed a tear at the story of your dad. Father Son stuff really gets me in general, and this story is unbearably beautiful to me despite its tragedy. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Thank you gentlemen for sharing your stories. I found this talk to be extremely useful, moving, and relevant. Your discussion falls into the category of "things I knew but didn't know I knew". I instantly found myself relating to the situations and relationships you discussed, and it brought tears to my eyes to hear others sharing similar experiences and feelings. Many of the questions posed by the audience were in turn my own questions - it gives me hope knowing that there are other men out there like me who are concerned about these topics, and are struggling to make a better, more meaningful life for themselves, and by extension, their loved ones and peers. My only regret is that I don't know any other men in my personal life who feel this same way or are interested in having these discussions - seeing the activity of groups like yours is wonderful and encouraging, though I continue to feel saddened when I look at my immediate personal life as I am alone among my family and friends in feeling this way.
There's hope brother, some times where you least expect it.
Fatherless homes are the number one issue to be addressed today. The education and criminal and familyl court system need to be looked at very closely.
Thanks guys. I've started homeschool with my 14yo son and I'm finding rebel resonates well . We'll be incorporating some of your productions into the process. Using the academy model ala Plato et al with a world of education outlook in the moment , building the value of lifelong learning, mutable, malleable, incontravertable, lateral and visceral, I hope that makes sense.
It's a joy to discover like-minded others, on reflection it does seem like fourty years in the wilderness is long enough, knowledge being it's own reward. Hopefully, a little wisdom.
Again, thanks and all the best.
Your speech was really useful David. It mirrored aspects of my relation to my own Dad. It's got me properly thinking about what I should have already said to him now he's getting on in years. So thank you for making it clearer.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience, may your Father rest in peace
It's always kind of weird hearing someone of my generation talking about their grandparents going through WWII because that was my actual parents' experience, being 20 years older than most of my generation's parents. Mine never talked about it. They had tough lives but never really passed their experience onto us as children - I never had an adult conversation with them and they've been gone now for 20 years. I find myself in quite a zone of disconnectedness - neither in one camp nor the other. The system I grew up in did not match my parents' expectations of us as kids/young adults. Their thoughts were that boys/men were breadwinners, girls/women got married and had children, they did not go to work and so did not require education. Having left school at 14 (as did my older siblings), my parents did not understand the need to take exams or further education. My younger brother followed this trend, ran his own business (not academic). I was the only one interested in education, but this was frowned upon.
Another commenter here says his father was ganged up on by his mother and brothers/himself. My experience was more one in which the parents ganged up on the children. I think they could not cope with the change that was taking place in society where the family dynamic was shifting from the way they had always known it to one where the individual became important, everyone was expected to work and raise the family/keep the home, and children learned that they had rights.
I read the book tribe & had the same thoughts on 21st century society, although I never served, I just had that as a younger man.
Well done. Good work. Very interesting.
Very moving, superb - some positive light!
Fantastic. Shows me what I'm missing.
Good work
didnt get the first speaker, the second was slow to make his points; did get better.
What's with white michael jackson and kkk-casper?
+1 if you ffwd over Nathan's cringey SJW speeches, too.
kahwigulum Agreed; no man needs to apologize for another man's poor behavior.
How about you listen to both sides, you normally only really learn from listening to those whom you disagree with. Or at the very least make an intelligent counter-argument, rather than just quoting a very over used contemporary phrase. It literally makes you exactly the same as the people who you criticise..
+1 to Marc for that excellent post-partisan perspective.
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1806-1873)
Marc Piechowicz I have listened to this kind of rhetoric before and that's how I know what it sounds like. always happy to consider a point of view but at some point we need to make up our minds if it's worth the time going through it all again.
Films For Action exactly! Great quote. Cheers
This was all pretty touchy feely beta crap.
“After all these years I still get scared when I see a group of boys at the bus stop.” 26:00 😂
Alpha up boys.
This felt like an All Beta male conference to me. Stop with the apologies and references to the #metoo movement.