Men Need to Learn from the Wisdom of the Past HOW to Become Better
Medium | 27.01.2026 23:25
Men Need to Learn from the Wisdom of the Past HOW to Become Better
How a civilization that stopped building a future is starving men of love, courage, and wisdom
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But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
— Galatians 5:15 (KJV)
Men want to be better.
Who do they follow to get there in time? Inside reality? Who?
What arrangement do men have with the past that was supposed to teach men how to become the future?
We want to be loving.
We want to be courageous.
We want to be wise.
Not in theory.
In our bodies. In our minds. In our souls.
In our actions, we want to become men.
Historically, many generations of men have learned through conflict the power of love, courage, and wisdom through the bonds of brotherhood forged in war.
Combat with the “Other.”
The enemy of the moment.
The trivial justifications the future can never quite understand when it looks back and asks: