 What he represents is patriarchy. We're here to do work as men, as patriarchs. There's nothing more natural than being a father. Welcome back to the 21 convention in Orlando, Florida. 2019 Patriarch's edition. Our next speaker has been around since the inception of this organization. From the very beginning, he's been here. Every speech, a multiple keynote speaker. From the very beginning of Anthony Johnson's building what it is that we're seeing today. Socrates. A man who you can find him on YouTube at Manning Up Smart. A man who's an architect, a brilliant mind. Again, a multiple keynote speaker. Someone who's been here and seen the entire evolution of what it is that we're doing today. You don't accidentally become an architect. He didn't accidentally become a patriarch. He's written the book The Map. He's had discussions on all things man. From the pickup to being a father. And he's one of the few men that I will ever say has made me a better father. Because of what it is that he's done and the conversations we've had. And I don't say that lightly. And I hope he passes that on to you as well. So welcome to the stage. Socrates. Thank you. I'm Socrates. And prior to today, I used to announce myself that I used to help people navigate today's challenging sexual marketplace. But today, I actually get to do something more. I actually get to give a full-throated roar in support of masculinity, fatherhood, and the parental governing system we call patriarchy. I do this because I believe men and women should be met together. The genders are meant for each other. I believe we are compatible and complementary to each other. But society, culture, our sheer ignorance to our human condition has taken us seriously, seriously awry. I wanted to do something about that. And I have been. It has been a challenge to get to this point. And I'm terribly grateful for the opportunity to speak to you today. I believe that the challenges we face today are not environmental. They're not survival-based. They're elements of our own construction. They're man-made. They're social and cultural in origin. And because of this, we have the opportunity to amend that readily or simply discard it. If feminism isn't working for you, if it isn't keeping women and children safer, if it isn't building more robust and vibrant, healthy communities, discard it. Ultimately, I believe we have a prime objective based on Darwinian standards, scientific standards to survive and to procreate to the extent that our children have children of their own. Texas DOM talks about the importance of grandchildren and how immediately unimportant your children become when they enter your life. I think that is a testament to this ongoing natural system. It is appropriate. When we look at these institutions, we need them to survive. Any philosophy that does not put relationships, marriage, and child-rearing first among social orders is objectively wrong. Wrong to our human nature, wrong that it is continuously anti-thriving, and wrong if it was persistently applied, it is self-extinguishing. I objectively stand opposed to those ideals that don't support relationships, family, child-rearing. That is the bulwark of civilization, and anything that demises that is a saboteur to our species. Ultimately, knowledge should be utilized to your gain, to your thriving and success, where it doesn't, it fails you. Ultimately, nature just doesn't care. It doesn't care about your fears, your concerns, your failed marriage, failed relationships. It doesn't care. It doesn't care about the challenges that you have to overcome to meet and exceed a woman's hypergabist demands. It doesn't care about hypergamy. It doesn't care about your thousands of YouTube subscriber rates. It doesn't care about your marches and your smartly knit concaps. It simply doesn't care. Furthermore, nature doesn't care about the fact that how much money you may have saved by switching to MGTOW and going your own way. It simply doesn't care. Nature is a ruthless, ruthless system that demands results. Either you will meet our prime objective of surviving and having children of your own, or you won't. It's as simple as that. Nature doesn't care. Hypergamy doesn't care. Hypogamy doesn't care. Ultimately, it is going to have to be a choice, a choice you make. And that's going to be a tough decision. Whether you do or you don't, that burden rests on you. I also want to sit down and stipulate that you're an evolutionary success. Your result of over three billion years of evolutionary history. The living, breathing end of that legacy. Here's a graph. This is 14 million years showcasing hominid evolution. That's a considerable increase. It's a remarkable graphic setting. As an evolutionary success, you are at the living end of over 150,000 years of human development. That's over a quarter million generations before you. I'm going to tell you, you have everything you need to succeed right now. Your challenges will not be biological. They're going to be social. Let's take a look at this really quick. As we look in perspective, when we look at this 14 million year track line, we're looking at millions of years on the bottom, 14 million, and brain volume is the indication of intelligence as a baseline. When we start looking at the very far end, we see primate development coming up and through, and about halfway across, we actually separate out from the chimpanzees. Chimpanzees go their own way, we can say biflecia. She goes off on their way. We have gorillas next, then orangutans, and we come up to africanus. Interestingly enough, we're progressing slowly. Not really remarkable, nothing really special, and for the most part, it encompasses physical side dimorphisms, meaning that as you physically get larger, your brain kind of gets larger. We're not talking a remarkable increase in intelligence here. There is, but it's not significantly something we're going to notice, but something interesting happens about four million years ago. It starts up tick, and we went from scavenging and foraging to a little more meat consumption. That changed things. Nutrition matters, and nutrition spurned growth and development in ways in which we can see reflected in the fossil record. We can see it in our own evolution. Interestingly enough, as you cut with about two and a half million years where it starts to really start to arc up, there's a major behavioral shift. This is an indication. We're honest to God, meat eating started becoming a major staple of our focus. It wasn't just small little game, little rodents, ants, insects, small fish. They started becoming bigger creatures. It became more predatory rather than prey. Interestingly enough, where it really starts to tick up is when we start discovering that animals savaged by predators, we could go over and use tools, stones, to crush the bones to extract fresh bone marrow, which was incredibly fat and nutrition and protein-dense resource. That spurned other evolutionary strategies. Once you start utilizing tools, start implementing those structures, you start seeing a big uptick, and what that's truly indicative of is now we're going after bigger and more consistent prey, animals larger than us. We're making our mark on the predatory scene. To the extent we're now also doing it collaboratively, we're hunting in packs, and if you've ever seen the videos of hyenas attacking a lion, how it's consistently done, I can guarantee you we were doing similar type things. We're still primarily on all fours. We had the ability to raise up. We moved out of the branch and tree area. We're now crossing grasslands and savannas, and we're primary meat eater. Ultimately, what ended up happening is we got good enough in our skill that we started using specialized tools, and those tools allowed us to actually get a considerable amount of meat. You are the man when you do that. You are bringing home quite literally bacon in surplus, which allows you to even grow your families larger, even still. In many cases, you actually can lift your head up, throw your shoulders back, take pride in what you're doing, and do your strut, right? You are homo erectus. Take a look at that. Look at that. You see that? Bipedal. Two feet. We're now standing on two feet. That starts happening here, and it is a remarkable exchange. This continuation upward, diet plays a role, obviously. Technology plays a role. It helps us even more. We have more refined tool points. We now have spears. We have other hunting, implementing clothing, things that make life easier, things that make survival easier. But that line going almost vertical like that, that's not the only thing that happened here. The remarkable thing that happened here was the degree in investment in childcare and parenting skills. Previously, we were a primate. Previously, we'd usually maintain infant care until about two, three, four years old, which would explain our mammalian reflex for serial monogamy. And the serial monogamy typically would rotate during the birthing seasons, every five to seven years, so that you have to maintain a child. Once a child is able to actually maintain itself, integrate into the pack or the family storage group, it's kind of fending for itself and in a sense an operational adult at five or six. This is starting to change here dramatically. Gestation development is extending much further out. It's been eight, nine, 10 years where we start to see Homo sapiens Neanderthals take place, the Neanderthal, who was a thinking, breathing, relodars that had many of the attributes that we recognize today as human. But ultimately, we're at the top because of the things that make us human. Much of that, a tremendous amount of that, is going to be culture, societies, how we organize and structure our lives in families. One of the defining characteristics. And there we sit. It's a great story. The only problem with that story, it's not complete. We're not Homo sapiens. We're Homo sapiens sapiens. That's us. And that's fucking embarrassing. It's actually, if you really look at it, not only have our brain sizes shrunk, and that's a 15 to 20% reduction in size, our brains, and this is a humiliating part, are smaller than the fucking Geico commercial caveman. Smaller than the Neanderthal. I don't feel particularly smart right now. What are you going to do? Interesting enough, we actually coincided with that species, subspecies. We roomed the Earth while they were there. So let's take a look at what that comparison would be, eye to eye. That's Neanderthal on the left, and that's us. And that is a beast. If this was an MMA fight, Game Over, dude, has got us considerably. Larger, more robust, stronger. Larger brain capacity. Toolmaking. It's incredible. This is a language capable, toolmaking, fully developed hominid that lived in clusters of family packs. They didn't operate alone. You're not going to come across one, like an ally not in the wild. You're going to come across a group of them. What makes this even worse is we didn't evolve parallel to each other. We evolved separately, and we migrated into their lands and territories. We're the interlover. We're going into their territories. How well do you think we were received?