If you’ve ever seen the movie Shawshank Redemption then you probably remember the old librarian (Brooks) who is set free after spending 50 years of his life behind bars. I won’t rehash the entire scene, but basically he is released into a world that is so foreign to him that it might as well be another planet. At one point he says, “I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere.” This translates to the same path that is walked by the man who has been plugged in from birth. This ‘man’ - from his very first fucking breath - has been shoved into a prison of the mind. This prison was created by those who support the female imperative; I’ve said it before and I will say it again, it isn’t women who caused this mess – it’s the white knight weaksauce fucks looking to gain favor…but I digress, this post isn’t about blame – it’s about understanding.

Each brick in the wall that contains this man is an example of repressed masculinity. A brick was placed when he was taught that women and children are the ones who should be saved. A brick was laid when he was told that being active, competitive, and aggressive were inherently wrong. A brick was laid when he repressed his urge to say that men were stronger than women when he was in health class through school. A brick was laid when he was told women loved him the way he loved them and that they were somehow pure creatures while he was a dirty sexual barbarian, etc.

Brick by brick this man was contained until there was no longer a man, but a creature that depended on the walls. Someone who adapted to the prison and accepted the prison as his home. He finds himself safe in their – comfortable with what is given to him and never breaking the rules for fear of being ‘punished’.

This picture paints the life and death of the ‘plugged in’ man. It captures the emasculated individual who has no idea that he may never reach his full potential nor obtain a quality of life that is full of the joy that comes with expressed masculinity. This man doesn’t even realize he’s imprisoned -- and this is where you will run into an issue if you present the truth.

The example of Brooks applies again when thinking of plugged in men who are exposed to the harsh truth of reality (i.e The Red Pill) whether this is through another man, the betrayal of a woman, or an event that leads to a level of introspection never before attained.

Brooks, when discovering that his parole was approved and he was being released from the prison (truth was exposed) he almost kills another inmate (who was a friend) in an attempt to stay inside the comfort and safety of the walls.

Plugged in men will lash out at the world, especially at those who are threatening to remove them from the system they have come to rely on.

These men are institutionalized, they need the institution for safety, support, and that welcome pat on the back saying – everything is fine and reality is the way you want it to be.

As a masculine man – you are the guy that a plugged in dude is going to kill in order to stay inside. Why do you think white knights exist? They try to gain favor with the guards (women) in order to achieve status ‘in the prison’ – to get preferential treatment from the guards (drip feed sex, status of being a ‘nice guy’, being liked by the masses). These guys don’t even recognize that the fear they experience when facing reality and finding an out of the prison should be used as fuel, not as an anchor towards achieving freedom.

Escaping the prison is swallowing the pill; it is choosing red over blue and embracing the brutality of reality vice the comfort of the lie. Masculine men find comfort in the discomfort and embrace the challenge which they have been presented.

Unfortunately, a majority of those who leave the prison, discover the truth, end up taking the path that Brooks chose (Suicide). They find they are too afraid and are too weak to live in the ‘real world’ so they take their own life. In the movie, Brooks hangs himself because he simply can’t find a reason to go on; the truth kills him, reality wins.

This is the reason so many men are killing themselves, suicide seems more enticing and ‘easier’ than accepting their years of weak behavior, their missed opportunities, the biological programming of women that they refused to recognize and applying it all towards improving and succeeding as a masculine male. Too many men are angry at the world for lying to them and they cannot find a way to take that anger and channel it towards driving the ‘self’ to thriving in this ‘new’ world.

Gentlemen, I’m telling you, it is only when you break out of the cookie cut mold (prison) you’ve been forced into that you are going to find the joy that comes from living life as a masculine male in a weaksauce society. The anger dissipates when you accept that people are who they are and that women are just doing what they are programmed to do. If you’re angry, let it be at the white knights and even then, use that disgust as a reminder of whom you were and why you broke free. You don’t control them, you control you – so make yourself be the best ‘self’ you can.

You are armed with the knowledge - now you need to take it and apply it to your life. Don’t spend all of your time looking at the examples that confirm your ‘RP’ truths – you don’t sit around dropping shit on the floor proving gravity is still in effect do you? Instead, take your knowledge and use it to advance yourself. You can achieve the greatest of heights if you are willing to get over being slighted and just get to work.

Remember you need to find joy in the moment and through the process of living, if you don’t let go of the past and don’t let go of your anger at reality – it will kill you.

Next I will write about the men who KNOW they have a lifeline or Why Morgan Freeman lives.