god it’s exhausting reading this man talk in circles. here, let’s read him say the same thing seven times:

We have taught an entire generation of young men how to analyze their emotions, but not what to do with their lives.

… offer what mainstream culture increasingly withholds: direction, standards, and permission to pursue ambition without apology.

Institutions that once offered direction, from schools to workplaces to families, now speak in softer, more hesitant language. Expectations are blurred, standards are hedged, and authority is treated as something to apologize for rather than exercise.

What they are less often given is a clear sense of what adulthood actually asks of them: responsibility, competence, discipline, and something worth aiming at. The result is a generation that often knows how to monitor itself better than how to direct itself.

offers something closer to permission: the freedom to pursue goals without endless self-qualification, to value discipline without shame, and to move forward without first turning every impulse into a diagnosis.

Young men are asking a basic question: What should I aim for? If mainstream culture refuses to answer it, the loudest and most extreme voices online will.

Show ambition and risk being labeled toxic. Hold back and risk becoming invisible. Assertiveness is suspect, but passivity is miserable.

that last one is a real treat. fraiche platitudes, bro. in the article, a litany of assertions are made without any basis: the opening argument is “young men lack direction,” the closing argument is “young men lack direction,” the supporting evidence is “young men lack direction…”

so in short, this article is trash. the topic is vapid. the author sounds like a fuckwit trying to sell a book. i wonder if his book is just going to be a hundred pages of him repeating “YOUNG MEN LACK DIRECTION.”