In a culture dominated by feminism, young men are starved for icons of masculinity. Young men crave heroes to imitate, but a neutered, castrated, effeminate society produces precious few, if any—and many of the heroes of history are hidden away and forgotten.
Ever prescient, the author C.S. Lewis warned of the dangers of such a society—dangers that young men in particular now face. “Where men are forbidden to honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison,” Lewis wrote. Young men of the 21st century have been denied the “food” they so crave and have thus begun to “gobble poison.”
In recent years, a particular movement—called the Red Pill—has emerged, presenting itself as the antidote to the…
