 But mine is basically going to be on the myth of the alpha male and um How we put this pressure on this image, right? And the only way we can have a myth is when we don't know something, you know and when Look at look at the myths of society or if we look at greek mythology or religion or you know If you go to like let's say the amazon jungle myth or whatever is happening there And people in our society judge that but that myth is just to have a relationship with what they don't understand The problem is is in our society. We understand all this shit except ourselves If you take those people who are making myths and smaller societies They actually they tend to I mean I can't speak for them But whenever I've traveled and you know done the the backpacking thing and really gotten down in deep I tend to notice that Many people in the world have an identity and a clear vision of who they are What their history is their passions are and their purpose and to the point where they don't even need to define it But here in our society there's this Abstraction and then we go for this icon and we go for this image that is fueled and in almost dependent upon never finding it It's it's just such an interesting thing Um, if I want to be the healthiest person when I don't know how to do that when I'm coming out of my pain out of my Let's say shame or or anger or resentment I have to be the image of what it's supposed to be because it's an interesting thing this this concept of an alpha male and and you're talking about it as a mythology and which is essentially an archetype which is like a the The collective input of of let's say western society Modern western society up to this point, which is defined that an alpha male is this sort of thing And I think that I mean that exists in all cultures throughout time but previously What I think what's missing is that the archetype of the alpha male which they wouldn't have I guess it wouldn't have been referred to as the alpha male in any way But like say the warrior or the king or one of these kind of powerful male archetypes They were based on on a relationship with with nature With each other with your adversaries with your internal and external adversaries and that and I think they were much more kind of deep and well-rounded archetypes of what a what a man is and to go and there was a There was a clear Script of what you went through to go from manhood into initiation boyhood initiation manhood and then elder or wise man or king or whatever later on And the thing that we have in modern western society is that we've kind of got this plastic version of You know tough guy muscles gets the girls money Rolex Big you know all these like little pastiche of the external aspects of what what people are trying to sell you is the alpha male And it's and it has no core. It has no substance And it's and it's based on the around the idea of men not actually being in touch with their emotions being tough all the time Being what successful in materialistic sense all the time You know all those things which are pretty shallow and almost impossible to achieve And even if you do achieve them, they're only fleeting victories anyway And so we have this crisis of masculinity in the modern world So we're men are trying to you know fit into this archetype which is which is not actually deep Which it's not not one based on you know a collective consciousness or or powerful Connection to source. So where do you think that that comes from? Which well the the whole need for the image. Where do you think that the current modern archetype of the alpha male comes from? I think it's I don't think it's like some people think it's kind of a conspiracy dictated by certain people Um I don't I think it's more a reactionary thing like sure. Yeah For example, you know, it comes post posts during the first first and second world war You you create archetypes of of warriors that have to you know are all essentially, you know captain america or all all You know perfect in kind of their morality versus good versus evil kind of stuff And then that comes part of society's culture Then you also have the sexual revolution and you know the 60s where you're having You know the dynamic of the sexes is changing of race relations of You know people's relationship to their to their past with You know rejecting their their parent society and so a new myth arises then then you have a reaction coming from the you know during the 80s when Materialism and money and cocaine becomes the gods and all of these things. So I think it's um The the mythologies that create what a man should be and what a woman should be are a bunch are a bunch of a mixture of political doctrine Advertising music, you know what people are trying to sell you what people are trying to make you afraid of in order to You know send you to wars and all the other crazy stuff that goes into it And as a result The concept of of true masculinity or femininity gets totally bastardized and lost