You had no choice. You were born male. But being born male does not qualify you as a "man" and not all men are warriors either. What makes a man a warrior is his willingness to place himself between what he loves and anything that threatens his loves.But what if the threat has already landed?This enemy is as subtle as the air we breathe. It is called decadence. Its goal is to soften and weaken us through excessive indulgence and luxury. By the standards of most of the people who have ever lived on this planet, we live like kings. We drive in climate controlled "chariots". We live in climate-controlled houses. We carry cell phones which answer our questions within seconds. Fresh water and abundance of food are the norm. We do not hunt for our food nor do most of us farm our own lands. Most of us are seldom in any remote danger. Most of us can go days, weeks, or even years without having to exert ourselves physically. This enemy has taken the fight right out of us. Lulled us to sleep. Our souls have shriveled.To make things worse, countless men do not know who they are or what role they are meant to play. They had no one to show them the way. The virtues set before you are lessons learned through trial and error. They are tried and tested. They are designed as an ethos of sorts. A path toward noble manhood. These virtues are a resounding call to those who would choose the "hard path". Embrace them. Take up your mantle. It's time to get in the game.

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10th Anniversary Hardcover Edition with new Afterword and additional notes by the author. This edition features classic essays related to the text, including Violence is Golden and No Man's Land.

The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious equivalent. Far from seeking a return to an earlier romantic valorizing of myth, these essays show how the true interest of early twentieth-century myth-making lies in the consciousness, affirmative as well as tragic, of living in a human world which, in so far as it must embody value, can have no ultimate grounding. Although myth may initially appear to be the archaic counterterm to modernity, it is thus also the paradigm on which modernity has repeatedly reconstructed, or come to understand, its own life forms. The very term myth, by combining, in its modern usage, the rival meanings of a grounding narrative and a falsehood, encapsulates a central problem of modernity: how to live, given what we know.