There’s a great article in the Art of Manliness blog on how suburban life can destroy your manliness. In it the author argues:
“The danger that living in the suburbs is simply that there is no danger…it’s completely safe. Constant and complete control is a silent, but deadly killer.”
and:
“maybe the truest calling of man lies in [...]
I love this story in Steve Biddulph’s Manhood:
“Our system has one outstanding way of holding men in place – it’s called a mortgage. When you go for that vital interview at the bank you walk out with a a hundred thousand dollars. It’s a miracle, but something else happens, something they don’t tell you about. [...]
I’ve often cone across literature that suggests men don’t truly become men until they’re 35. In fact I read a lovely quote from Cezanne the other day who said, “Until the age of forty I lived a bohemian: I wasted my life. It was only later that I developed a taste for work.”
I find this [...]