Curiously enough as I read this I realized that toxic masculinity is foreign to me in so far as my own upbringing went; while I certainly have interacted with many toxic males I just never could be comfortable around them.
Now as to your politics without politics Bruce Lee would have approved. Discussing value systems is important and oftentimes ignored unfortunately; on that note I would encourage you to carry the values discussion forward with its next natural stage of progression into discussing what way do the chosen values then transform into an accepted knowledge form. It has been one of my contentions for a very long time that the American political divide is made up of two distinct and different bodies of knowledge and that if this is not addressed then all other attempts to either mitigate, moderate, or otherwise modify the current media/information ecosystem are futile. I have previously shared with you a newsletter article that discusses the different bodies of knowledge (Epistemology: “Fixed epistemology lends itself to a totalitarian or authoritarian political system.”)
On a separate, but related note I just read the following essay this morning and it is definitely worth sharing with you and others.
“Fixed epistemology lends itself to a totalitarian or authoritarian political system.”
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“Meanwhile, Democrats are still treating political messaging like a debate competition, assuming that if they just marshal the right statistics, speak in complete sentences, and throw in a well-timed Lincoln quote, voters will suddenly see the light. They won’t. Because politics in 2025 isn’t about persuasion—it’s about control of the narrative.”
Thanks for sharing, @robert. That article sums up everything I'm trying to say. I agree with you on transforming the values into knowledge. We need to make that discussion more accessible and act on it in as many ways as we can.
Would you be willing to do a Substack LIVE interview with me to talk about this concept? I've added them for paid subscribers this year. I'd really love to bring them a good discussion on this concept, and you're the best person I know to do it.
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Curiously enough as I read this I realized that toxic masculinity is foreign to me in so far as my own upbringing went; while I certainly have interacted with many toxic males I just never could be comfortable around them.
Now as to your politics without politics Bruce Lee would have approved. Discussing value systems is important and oftentimes ignored unfortunately; on that note I would encourage you to carry the values discussion forward with its next natural stage of progression into discussing what way do the chosen values then transform into an accepted knowledge form. It has been one of my contentions for a very long time that the American political divide is made up of two distinct and different bodies of knowledge and that if this is not addressed then all other attempts to either mitigate, moderate, or otherwise modify the current media/information ecosystem are futile. I have previously shared with you a newsletter article that discusses the different bodies of knowledge (Epistemology: “Fixed epistemology lends itself to a totalitarian or authoritarian political system.”)
On a separate, but related note I just read the following essay this morning and it is definitely worth sharing with you and others.
“Fixed epistemology lends itself to a totalitarian or authoritarian political system.”
________________________________
“Meanwhile, Democrats are still treating political messaging like a debate competition, assuming that if they just marshal the right statistics, speak in complete sentences, and throw in a well-timed Lincoln quote, voters will suddenly see the light. They won’t. Because politics in 2025 isn’t about persuasion—it’s about control of the narrative.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157938986?selection=554e482a-8d09-417c-8bc0-15952e8edcc8
Thanks for sharing, @robert. That article sums up everything I'm trying to say. I agree with you on transforming the values into knowledge. We need to make that discussion more accessible and act on it in as many ways as we can.
Would you be willing to do a Substack LIVE interview with me to talk about this concept? I've added them for paid subscribers this year. I'd really love to bring them a good discussion on this concept, and you're the best person I know to do it.
I would love to. DM me and let's set it up!
https://substack.com/@johnshane1/note/c-99654016