All the cultural peaks for men seem like toxic masculinity or like trying to become the next elon musk

  • erpicht
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    12 years ago

    Blindly following current trends and fixating on the prominent wealthy are not good habits for anyone to engage in.

    One should examine one’s values, morals, and thought patterns. Perhaps one might begin mindfulness practice, andor read and reflect on some notable work. There’s no dearth of literature surrounding the topic of how to live a good and fruitful life, which is the core idea underlying “being a man.” What good and fruitful mean is for the individual to decide, though books can help one figure that out.

    I have a particular fondness for the English translation of Xunzi by Eric Hutton, but it is fairly expensive. It offers a much more comprehensive way of living than do the Analects, though in typical Confucian fashion, it too ignores the existence of women nearly entirely.

    A substantially more popular reading choice for men would be Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, one of the great Stoic thinkers of the Roman Empire, but I have yet to read it.