How to bear the weight of masculine workmanship & competence

In the past, most men had no choice but to exercise dominion. If they weren’t productive, they died. But today, we are so wealthy, and our governments are so eager to pass around that wealth to those who will not earn it, that this problem barely exists. It is not only easy to be soft in the West, but our world is designed to actively make you soft, to make you a sluggard, to keep you living in the moment, putting off for tomorrow the hard things you could be doing today. You can literally live a life where every day you are fatter, poorer, and more dependent.

This naturally exacerbates our fatherlessness problem, and results in many men simply failing to start. It also makes correcting course much more difficult—there is not the pressing need of survival to force us to action. Being under the crushing weight of the curse, of God’s law, has natural outworkings. The futility of labor turns dominion from something purely joyful into something that can be a real chore. We work all the day…