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I gave a speech tonight on love and the concept of “settling” that I thought I’d turn into a thread to gauge my followers’ thoughts.
Disclaimer, I’m not married, & don’t intend on dating for a while, for a variety of reasons, so take this with 14 metric tons of salt.
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Disclaimer, I’m not married, & don’t intend on dating for a while, for a variety of reasons, so take this with 14 metric tons of salt.
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If you are a man who has the potential to be great, who for whatever reason has the gifts, the circumstance, and the opportunity to lead, to build, and to change the world, you have a moral obligation to not “settle.”
Settle in this case means to eschew the concepts of singularly romantic love, and to instead pursue a more pragmatic form of family formation where you work towards permanent bonds together. Usually this means lowering one’s “standards” as defined by modern society.
There are obviously deep issues with most of the metrics westerners today use to determine compatibility. From a superficial focus on interests to a discount on the important of value alignment, there’s a lot of things we get wrong.
But we cannot eschew standards all together as a tool to fix our fertility rates or whatever.
Who great men—the men who fuel the engine of civilization—love and marry is a question with deep ramifications for us all.
Who great men—the men who fuel the engine of civilization—love and marry is a question with deep ramifications for us all.
Going back to antiquity our histories & fables are filled to the brim with the stories of what great men would do to win their great loves. They would traverse continents, slay dragons, raze nations, build monuments, & assemble empires only to lay at the feet of women a crown.
In some ways this is the precursor to simping. But whereas today porn-addicted neckbeards call their favorite OnlyFans model a kahween—in our history we are replete with countless stories of men being great, to pursue and win women worth being great for.
Without the impetus of the Princess, the Great Beauty, the noble maiden to be pursued to the ends of the earth I believe the engine of civilization screeches to a halt.
It may well be that our modern decadence at least has something to do with the fact that men today simply do not feel driven to stake their sacred honor and blood on whatever it takes to win the affections of great women.
No doubt there’s a supply problem here. Modern liberalism has convinced women that the only way they can succeed is by being poor facsimiles of men. But there are still great women out there.
So I implore my fellow kings, do not settle. Wait to pursue to the ends of the earth a woman who makes you want to be great, for whom you can’t help but be great. You’ll know it in your bones when you feel it.
