Sooooooooo...........my question is simply this: Are we, as men, losing the more positive aspects of our better natures, due to societys' restraints, collective misconceptions, and brain-dead comedians?
I believe that we perch upon the edge of complete dismissal by the nation that would prefer to consider us cro-magnon. Now, don't misunderstand- I am quite aware that there is a multitude of points to put in favor of that opinion. However, what has happened to the true heroes of our gender, men who truly were above hype,pomp, and proverbial circumstance? Today, it seems that we are only to behold sports figures and C.E.O.s who in past generations would be " run outta town on a rail."
We look to the past for our finest examples. Men like baseball legend, Ted Williams, who gave his best and potentially most profitable playing years to serve his country, not for headlines or medals, but so we wouldn't have to speak German or Japanese. Men like Martin Luther King Jr., who faced mindless violence and the absurdity of racism daily and willingy, to make our world a better place to awake to. Men like the ancient Jews at Masada, who chose suicide over surrender to the Roman Empire.
All throughout history we can find numerous men who stood and would not be silent,would not be moved, would not be marginalized. Our generation has no such heroes. Is it any small wonder that we all feel as if we have been broken and made useless? Why are we surprised that our prisons overflow and our streets run red?
My son will not someday be a man-he is becoming one with every breath,with every heartbeat. What will I tell him of how this happened to us, and to this world of which we are responsible?
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