A magazine I usually pick up and consult for style tips had an interesting article in the back end of it this month. A.O.Scott laments the final decline of Don Draper in Mad Men, and contrasts him to the power figure of Tony Soprano. Somewhere in amongst all of this, he comes down to the point that with the death of Don Draper, Pop television has essentially "killed the Patriarchy." Champagne rains from the heavens while feminists dance naked in the streets draping their BB victims in bras and handbags.

It was most interesting to read that by killing the patriarchy, the author asserts that pop tv has killed the ability to grow up. Not just men, but both genders. Statistics are on the rise of people in their 30's and 40's read Young Adult Fiction, older folks picking up the skateboard or dropping their careers to dabble in hobbies. The alpha male at the front of the family fending off those who would wish to harm them is an outdated image, replaced by the beer drinking bro-gamer sitting in his parent's basement at 40 cranking one into his sock and working at McDonalds.

I would like to contrast this lamentation with the Red Pill, and what this really means for us now. We go to the gym to lift, motivate ourselves towards accumulation of skills, careers, wealth and social status as a way to navigate the post-man world. I call it that because we are at an all time high for disposability.

And yeah it sucks a donkey's left nut. But the manosphere has become a light in the darkness. A new source for teaching men how to "grow up" psychologically in a world devoid of male role-models. This place started as a desire to build a sexual strategy around the real woman, but with this article it becomes clear we are becoming an ever more important resource in the world. For example, yesterday I found a thread on here about financial advice. TRP has swelled into an all-encompassing way of life.

Pop television no longer provides suitable role models - and it's debatable that it ever did - so generations will turn to the internet in frustration/boredom. It is our responsibility to turn this into a place of high quality content so that when we experience the next big swelling of our ranks, we can be prepared. We could be on the verge of something great or terrible, but either way it'll be wild.

EDIT: It's not available online, but the Australian Magazine "Men's Style - Summer 2014" has the article in it.