I don't want to become one of those red-pilled masculinity obsessed dudes, but it would be wrong to say that they never make any good point whatsoever. Modern institutions neuter independence, aliveness and freedom. It starts with schooling with its 8 hours a day of compulsive sitting and listening to some inane instructions from a bored (and boring) teacher whose personal life is probably a mess, telling you what you need to care about and spend your time on. Instead of following your own internal compass to direct your time and energy and learn from your own mistakes, children spend most of their time in a fake environment which provides them with janky models of reality and incentivizes them to please the teacher rather than truly learn anything important.
In a way this is a good preparation for what follows, because office "work" is also about sitting all day, repressing your aliveness, freedom and initiative, following some bored and boring manager who has done nothing notable in their life whatsoever, and the game also devolves from producing something of value to meeting the demands of whoever is above you.
School and the office stifle people's freedom, aliveness and embodiment—conscious connection to our body—which means that they are terrible for both men and women, but in practice men tend to suffer more from them than women, as evidenced by the fact that girls tend to do better in schools than boys. Put simply, school and the office cuck your initiative, which is insufferable if you are a man with any sense of personal ambition.
Women have an easier time adapting to the office environment 1 because they get their small talk and sense of safety from the income they get, whereas men go insane from the constant bullshit conversations, their repressed ambitions, and the dull monotony which goes on, and on, and on, and on.
The worst thing I've experienced in the office are probably those "team-building" activities which are run once every year. Not only is it infantilizing to have a day which literally consists in enforced "fun" with people you don't care much about, but in most of the ones I have done, we weren't allowed to pick the activity because someone higher up decided for our team instead. So not only are you neutered by your environment, but you can't even decide the type of "play" you get in your zoo cage! Amazing, truly.
Another thing which happened, but thankfully only once, is a mandatory introduction of yourself to the rest of the teams, which was not only incredibly dull and fake, but it really highlighted the oversocialized nature of corporate environments.
By oversocialization, I don't mean "having too many friends" or "spending too much time around people". I mean an orientation towards life where value itself is dictated by how people relate to others in their network—the usage of that term is itself telling, rather than meaningful relationships you just have a "network" of discrete entities. In an oversocialized environment, it doesn't matter who is productive, competent, intelligent, clear-minded and focused on the right things, what matters is whether you say things in the right tone, with the right language and that you remain within the acceptable limits.
Working class jobs on the other hand cannot be oversocialized, because if a plumber or an electrician messes up, the consequences are immediate and there is no authority to blame. If their repair goes wrong, they have to take responsibility, and it is very clear who is skilled at what they do and who isn't. It is also unlikely that a working class person gets canceled for something that they say, because their contribution is irreplaceable, whereas it is common for office workers, especially the ones working in dubiously productive departments like HR and marketing, to be fired on such grounds.
In an oversocialized environment, you better believe that small talk has an impact on your reputation, because it shows that you are like "one of us", and if you remove yourself from gossip to do other things, people will notice it and talk about it behind your back. In fact, most of the "conversations" at the office are really only about saying one and one thing: I am normal, I am just like the rest of you, you don't have to be afraid of me, I am a weak, cowardly person who won't cause problems and I will deviate from my principles if the company asks me to do so.
Covid was a particularly revealing incident when it comes to the sheer cowardice of our times and how important integrity is. It very much was the case that you had to choose between standing by your own principles as a sovereign individual, or be a cuck to a company or institution so that daddy and mommy may not get mad at you.
Neutering environments replace competent individuals who can think for themselves for a mass of spineless and impotent people, because those can be trusted to do as they are told. The irony is that the latter see themselves as victims of the system, just as much as those outside it, but they are the ones who ultimately carry out the demands of the tyrannical system they are a part of. This is how bureaucracies crush freedom and any conscious quality whatsoever, with a sorry look and a bunch of justifications that they were merely doing their job.
Neutering environments also lead to people who do not know how to resolve conflicts like adults, which is to say directly and impersonally. A mature adult will tell you about a problem as soon as they see it, so that it may get resolved immediately. An immature person will not say anything, because they are too afraid of conflict and taking initiative, and when they are confronted with a problem, they will take it personally and try to shift the blame onto another person as quickly as possible, never take it impersonally or take responsibility for it.
It's not a coincidence then that the modern world, one made up almost exclusively of neutering environments, is also packed full of immature people, man-children who spend all their free time watching pornography and playing video games, who dare not stand by themselves and pursue what they want.
In fact, one of the defining traits of modern cowards is that they do not even know what wanting feels like, all of their wants have been programmed in them from the outside, because they do not even want to take responsibility for their own life, and pursuing things they might fail at. They want to live life at a safe distance, which is why they prefer pornography over actual sex, and the potential rejection it might entail.
The red-pilled dudes are no role models, but even the most dreadful worldviews have a nugget of truth in them. The reason why we should mourn the death of masculinity isn't because power-obsessed men dominating other people is a great reality that we should bring back, it isn't. The main reason is that the human spirit cannot flourish in an environment without freedom, and the only ones who will dare fight against tyranny are men who are in touch with something greater than themselves.
Nowadays we find that both sides of masculinity, the primal power, self-mastery and thirst for independence on one side, and the fatherly love, devotion to something greater than yourself, the end of the hero's journey, on the other, are utterly unnecessary in the modern world. Men are shaped to be cogs in a giant social machine, which not only neuters all of their strength and vitality, but is also a giant death-cult for the simple reason that the machine has no greater purpose than maintaining itself.
This is why the office is such a dreadful place for men who wish to live their life with purpose. They are not comfortable with an endless bureaucracy in service of an absurd social order, because masculinity puts self-overcoming above mere comfort. Our world is the "best of them" in the sense that it is the most comfortable zoo, but as anyone who has seen the depressing sights that zoo animals offer, there is a lot more to life than mere comfort.
1 In many ways this is false, because conscious women couldn't care less about the asbtract work of the office, they want love and community. In fact I would say that femininity suffers more under the modern world than masculinity, which includes the office, but it's quite a long and nuanced discussion. But I do think that my point that women compromise more easily than men stands true, which doesn't make it good of course, our world should be aligned to both men and women.
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