<h1 style="text-align: center;">The Lost Soul Of Modern Male Literary And Cultural Expression</h1>
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<p>In the male literary world there has always been a place for men writing about sex, women, <a href="https://www.loveawake.com/free-online-dating/Finland-dating-service.html?gender=male">dating with men</a>, rock and roll and drugs, etc. However the past versions of ourselves seemed to have something in this area that perhaps we lack. Soul, and in particular an ability or subconscious desire to romanticize said escapades of a Lothario or Don Juan. At some point getting girls, and trying to be god’s gift to women gets old – at the same time, this doesn’t really leave you either, men will always come back to his most primal basic desire, to pass on his genes to as many vessels as he can.</p>
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<p>There’s another problem with our current times, and our collective attention deficit disorder leads us away from literature in its purest literary form. Gone are the great books and great writers, if they are around they’re buried among the heaps of thousands upon thousands of self-published authors, status quo keeping authors hand-picked by clueless and frustrated book publishers, blog writers clogging the marketplace with millions of posts about the same thing.</p>
<h2>Why Cultural Reflection And Transcendence Are Fading</h2>
<p>It’s difficult for things to take hold on any small portion of our culture, even harder for it to last any amount of time in our consciousness. Even movies, they’re even losing staying power, new technology makes watching older movies more difficult, leaving nostalgia as the primary source of returning to movies that helped shape your artistic or internal self – there is hype over new movies, then comes the climax of watching it, and then it’s on to the next one.</p>
<p>There is little to no reflection on our society in the arts, something that makes us question our culture, push the boundaries, reveal our warts and shortcomings and/or speak to a generation(s) outside of the mainstream. Well except blogs like this and the rest of the manosphere.</p>
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<h2>The Challenge Of Constant New Material In Modern Media</h2>
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<p>For a dating blogger constant new material is a must, for an author in a former time, it could be years before you wrote another book, but the audience will find you. These days, if you take too long before you write something new, you’ll be forgotten, and left for dead. There is only new in this current generation, there is little love for what was done before, we all need the new distraction.</p>
<h2>Finding Meaning And A Way Out Of The Cultural Maze</h2>
<p>But why is this? Our society has lost its soul, it is no longer a living breathing and growing being, it is a decaying, dying thing, hanging on to anything it can to feel vibrant and alive again, each new thing devoured and stripped bare and exhausted and passed out to make room for the next thing to distract us from the very fact that we don’t have any meaning to our lives.</p>
<p>All of our distractions are necessary to avoid inner reflection and commitment to our own lives and what it might mean in the greater scope of things. If you want to really understand what I mean, when’s the last time you’ve had any sort of conversation or heard a conversation, or seen people contemplate what the meaning of life is? I’m not talking about religious zealots who preach on about the answers to life, but the philosopher in all of us, who in the rat race is actually taking the time to think about this in a serious way to make sense of the world around us?</p>
<p>Where are our great books, our great minds, our great songwriters, our great works of art that make us transcend our own world?</p>
<p>It would seem, seem, that as we take our cultural last breaths, transcendence has eluded us, and is no longer possible. But I refuse to believe that no one cares about such things. I would like to think there is a way out of this maze we’ve been trapped in for too long, and the minotaur will reveal himself long enough for us to slay him and follow the string out of the maze. Wait, was someone leaving string for us?</p>