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Good Times Make Weak Men

Monday, 14 November 2022, 17:45 Claudia Uncategorized 16

This was written by the man who ran my CPL class last year. Good man.

Written by Skip Coryell on November 11, 2022

One of my favorite sayings is from an apocalyptic adventure author named G Michael Hopf. It comes from his novel Those Who Remain, Book 7 in The New World series. The main character, Gordon Van Zandt, makes this statement:

‘Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times.’

According to Hopf, it’s an oversimplification of the generational theory, but I agree with the validity of the statement. I’m 65 years old, and a product of grandparents who struggled through the Great Depression and who also fought in World War 2. We refer to them as “Our Greatest Generation.” This generation achieved great things, and we have much to thank them for. These people were strong. They had to be in order to survive through poverty and defeat tyranny from Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan.

Many of our grandparents or great-grandparents fought in World War 1 and survived the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. We can keep going back in time, and we’ll always find strong men doing great things. The Civil War: Terrible but great. Life on the frontier: Dangerous and difficult, but great. All throughout American history, we find strong people working through hard times in order to create good times for their children.

But something happened after World War 2. These strong men had created so much prosperity, that their children were able to live comfortable and easy lives. Swimming pools, air conditioning, television, dishwashers, everything became automatic. And then later we added computers. Now we pick up our phone, go to Amazon and order anything we want, and it’s delivered magically to our front door.

Then I look at my parents. My father worked hard and so did my mother. They’d experienced the Great Depression as children, and they didn’t want me to have to go through the same hard times that they’d experienced. On the contrary, they wanted me to have every advantage that they couldn’t have in the poverty of their youth.

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16 Comments on Good Times Make Weak Men

  5. Too bad!
    My WWII father made me work for everything I have, and I did the same to my kids to include their college education. I must be a bad parent according to the current libtards running things! That’s why I’m such an asshole and my kids will probably turn out to be the same!

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  6. The education system, all forms of media and five decades of piss poor parenting makes weaker men.
    The generations that raised me observed one or both world wars and the depression. They eventually came to know good times.
    But they never forgot what they went through to get there and made sure I understood that too.
    We can be the greatest generation again but nobody seems to have the time or ambition. Seems we’d rather go along to get along.

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  8. ^^^^^ Doesn’t help matters that Testosterone in young males is way down. I have a friend who’s a sports med doc and she told me one time, Parent’s around here don’t need to worry about their daughters getting knocked up by a class mate, most of them have never had an erection>

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  14. @ Brad, among other things, I suspect that’s from the phytoestrogens in SOY! Also, artificial fragrance is full of estrogen mimicking compounds. Fragrance is everywhere! Too much estrogen means breast cancer for women and feminized men.

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  16. Affluence generally engenders complacency.
    Those who have more shit are less likely to risk it.

    It takes a particularly strong character to risk all, as our Founders did.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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