Something that’s missing from the
cultural conversation right now is the
idea of a higher masculinity. I think a
lot of men are under the false impression
that they’re being asked to bury or hide
or be ashamed of their masculinity.
But what we really need is to be in
touch with the divine masculine inside
ourselves. Which is the exact opposite
of the toxic masculine. I think the truest
definition of masculinity is the essence
of you that understands and respects
that which isn’t masculine. If you ask me,
when we talk about masculinity, it’s also
very racial, this conversation. Because the
dominant force on this planet right now is
the older straight white male. And there’s
a particular portion of them that senses
a tanning effect. They sense a feminizing
effect. They sense a nonbinary effect when
it comes to gender.
A tanning and a queering. And it’s a
fearful thing. You know, America was
“created by our Founding Fathers”—not
our Founding Mothers or our Founding
Mother and Father. Right? So this
conversation leads to side effects, like
using religion as a weapon to justify [an
attack on] women’s reproductive rights.
Insane, insane things. And I’m like,
What are you afraid of? We’re living in
the middle of the kicking and screaming.
I don’t wanna go too controversial, but
man, I just read the Declaration of
Independence the other day and my
jaw dropped. Referring to the Native
Americans as merciless savages—that’s in
the Declaration of Independence, bro. It’s
in there. Referring to men, they use the term
“mankind.” Well, what about the women?
And they talk about the transgressions
of the king at the time, and they made
reference to how he tried to stop their
foreign trade. It kind of felt like now. I don’t
know the last time you read it, but it’s really
wild, bro. I read it on NPR.
You say that you have great faith
in the younger generations. What
makes you believe that those
younger generations won’t just get
more fearful over time and cling
to the old ways? They were born on
the internet.
Why is that impactful? Because it
allows us to be connected in a way that
our species wasn’t before. This is gonna
sound really crazy, and there’s so many
things wrong with what I’m about to say,
but just because I need to say it, I’m gonna
say it: If the internet were around, the
Declaration of Independence would’ve
never read that way.
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