The Masculine Journey is like climbing a mountain or building a house by starting from the foundation. Conversely, the female experience is about calibrating expectations for the options which are presented; or, said plainly, being realistic. Some women will realistically have very few options, and some women will realistically be excluded entirely.

Because the Masculine Journey requires true grit, deep effort, and sharp savvy, there will naturally be far more excluded men than women- or men who are thrilled to have caught a single fish. Such is life.

But somewhere along the line, the timeline split. We went from women being happy as protected wives and cherished mothers, and men having the tools available for their potential ascension to the heights of greatness, the Masculine Alpha Provider, to angry women, poisoned with entitlement, taking their disappointment out on the next generation of men, who are at the beginning of their Masculine Journey, by making the tools and knowledge they’d need to sharpen their skill something demonized and esoteric.

The toxification of the Masculine Journey can be seen by taking a quick look at “The Karate Kid” (1984). Scrappy teenager Daniel LaRusso moves to a new town with his single mother and swiftly gets his butt kicked by tough guy Johnny for showing interest in Johnny’s girlfriend; law of the jungle, shit happens. Since Johnny is a martial arts expert, Daniel rightfully decides to learn karate and defend himself properly.

Unfortunately, this is where the self-contained timeline splits in the movie; Daniel meets karate master Miyagi who promptly stops Daniel from learning the ancient art through the traditional methods of hard work and constant practice. Instead, Daniel’s fill-in father figure teaches Daniel karate by having him do silly household chores, and then we learn that this pseudo-methodology combined with Daniel having a special gift for karate mastery, is enough to render Daniel a karate expert.

Daniel, finding a shortcut on the Masculine Journey to mastery, is the hero in “The Karate Kid”; his talent is supposedly natural, and his mastery of karate is supposedly authentic. Conversely, movie bad guy Johnny’s karate expertise is meant to be seen as inauthentic- he goes to school for karate and practices endlessly.

So, according to “The Karate Kid,” becoming great at something because you’re inherently special = authentic and good; becoming great at something because you’ve put in the mandatory time and effort = inauthentic and bad.

This is the kind of real-world toxic social conditioning that serves to diminish and demonize the Masculine Journey.

The Masculine Journey has become a lost art. It’s incredible that something so fundamentally necessary for good men to be great, and great men to become leaders, has been abolished from the modern world in order to allow women a more prevalent place at the table of Civilization builders… because if not all women can obtain a Masculine Alpha Provider for their very own, they can certainly cut the legs off the weaker men who aren’t inherently Masculine Alpha Providers- the majority of men need guidance- and assume their place. It’s misguided, for sure, but this is what happens when we allow angry and disappointed women to set the rules of the game.

FULL BLOG: The Esoteric Masculine Journey and “Gorilla Mindset” (2015)