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A Call for a New Strenuous Age
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June 25, 2021
WOW! What to say about this book? It was a quick read, but potent. It started as an article on the Art of Manliness website.
Do you have one or more of the following: acute restlessness, anxiousness, depression, a malaise of apathy and fatigue? Are you interested in sustaining a stoical cast of mind amid the evasive banality of modern culture? Do you feel like culture and society are programming you rather than you taking action and taking charge of your life?
Joining The Strenuous Life means joining a countercultural movement which aims to reassert the will, “revolt against the enervating banality of the age,” protest against excess softness, stultifying complacency, and bureaucratic boredom. Its purpose is to revive a race of decisive, stoic, men who are strong in body, mind, and soul. Men who love struggle more than comfort. Who desire boldness over blandness, who hold a “fascination with a world beyond the boundaries of modern safety and routine.” Men who wish to choose initiative over self-indulgent passivity, independence over dependence, becoming over being, and the “elevation of strenuous effort over self-absorbed thought.” Men who relish obstacles and eschew lopsided development in favor of cultivating the whole man.
The Strenuous Life is for me!
Do you have one or more of the following: acute restlessness, anxiousness, depression, a malaise of apathy and fatigue? Are you interested in sustaining a stoical cast of mind amid the evasive banality of modern culture? Do you feel like culture and society are programming you rather than you taking action and taking charge of your life?
Joining The Strenuous Life means joining a countercultural movement which aims to reassert the will, “revolt against the enervating banality of the age,” protest against excess softness, stultifying complacency, and bureaucratic boredom. Its purpose is to revive a race of decisive, stoic, men who are strong in body, mind, and soul. Men who love struggle more than comfort. Who desire boldness over blandness, who hold a “fascination with a world beyond the boundaries of modern safety and routine.” Men who wish to choose initiative over self-indulgent passivity, independence over dependence, becoming over being, and the “elevation of strenuous effort over self-absorbed thought.” Men who relish obstacles and eschew lopsided development in favor of cultivating the whole man.
The Strenuous Life is for me!
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