Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared Podcast.
I'm your host Austin Creed.
My friends, I have a question for you today on the show.
The question is this, do you believe that not wanting marriage makes a man a coward?
You might ask, well, why would I ask a question like that?
My friends, can you imagine having a conversation with one of your oldest friends?
And I won't put people's names out here because I don't think it's necessary, but he's around the same age as me.
He's married, he actually has kids, which is fantastic.
But you know, we had a very interesting conversation and the conversation evolved around the man-a-sphere space and whatnot.
And you know, normally I don't like to talk about a ton of politics or religion or, you know, the side of the internet with people who I classify as a little more normie,
just because I don't see the point in bringing it up.
What was interesting is he brought it up, not me, and to top it all off, we got into a very fascinating conversation because he's a little more traditionalist than me.
I personally think that, gentlemen, we have this philosophy on this little portion of the internet, you know, this space about creating your own personal philosophy.
My friends, can you imagine being called like, outward if you don't want to roll the dice on marriage, if you don't want to throw your future to the proverbial wolves to the wind?
Because let's be honest, a lot of times women's emotions are like the wind.
They change directions, you don't know where they're coming from all the time.
It could be sometimes really hard to walk through when it's pushing you right back, but that's what we have to deal with, right?
And it was really interesting to hear what he had to say because normally, normally I have people who are adamantly against it or are adamantly for it,
but when we have this conversation, I really want to know what you think about this because everyone's life is different and everybody has different things they want out of this life.
But when somebody comes to me and they say that it's outwardly if you don't want to get married, if you don't want to roll the dice with the marriage laws,
and the solution revolves around just throwing yourself into church, into religion, and really getting devout with it.
You know, part of me says that can be a solution, but the problem is this.
Number one, I know where he comes from, he's a good guy, but it's not just about my friend.
It's a broader conversation when you realize that yes, you listening to the show, if you identify with any of these,
with any of the content creators on the side of the internet, myself included,
you have the philosophy of kind of going your own way, maybe even you're a monk, or maybe you're just not sure that this dating marketplace is for you and you're a little on the outskirts.
You are being attacked from both sides.
Some of us who have been in the space for a long time or were consumers of this content, we know of this,
but it's really tough when you're reminded that you're being assaulted from both sides.
From the lefties, we know that the feminists, the rainbow riders, we know that we know that they don't like us.
The mainstream media, the legacy media, they don't like us. We know that the normies, we know that.
But when you see guys like Matt Walsh, guys like Ben Shapiro, guys like, what is his name? Andrew Clavin, I think that's his name.
When you see these guys, and a lot of people who identify with the more traditional, like, Treadcon people,
when you realize that they're not actual, they're just as much your adversaries as the leftists, you gotta realize something.
A lot of times the Treadcons, you know, and I'm a little more conservative than you might expect,
but when you see that these people are very much aligned with the left, with how they approach relationships, with telling you,
if you're a migtau, you, if you consider yourself red pill or red pill aware, or whatever you want to classify yourself,
there's multiple different labels. If you believe that you're on this side of the internet, or you believe in this philosophy,
whether it's a content creator or you've carved out your own, but you realize that you have mutual enemies on both sides of the political spectrum,
you don't have to ask yourself, wait a minute, are we the true centrists? Are we the true libertarians? Are we the true centered?
Because when you realize you're being attacked from both sides, you have to ask yourself, wait, I'm being called a coward on one end,
and being called a deplorable and a toxic man on the other side, you gotta realize that when you're being attacked from all sides,
you have to ask yourself, does that kind of validate my position? Does that say, wait a minute, if both sides who say they're against each other are both against you,
does that make you right? Or does that make you think that you might be on the right track a little closer to the truth than you might have realized?
Because this side of the internet has gotten enormous, whether it's people making videos about reacting to women who are acting completely clueless,
or you have guys like CGA who are trying to educate not only men about the current society, but where the society is going,
when you have all different flavors of the same ideology, and you have dudes making mad money on this type of content,
you have to ask yourself, do you think that maybe we're closer to the truth, closer to the heartbeat of society than the so-called Tragcons,
or even the liberal, you know, socialist commies, if you want to call them that, which wouldn't be completely out of line for saying that.
But when you see that both sides are kind of converging on the middle, which is you, you have to ask yourself,
are we really the cowards, or are we the front line, are we like the last bastion of sanity in the society?
Because when you see through everything, you have the most enemies, you have the most conflict that's going to come your way.
And my friends, I want you to truly grapple with the realities of what we're talking about today.
Do you often think that you might be the last seers, like when you start seeing things for how they actually are,
anybody who suffers from any kind of delusion, and you know, it's really funny,
it was Karl Marx and Frédéric Engels who called religion the opium of the masses,
and then when you kind of pull your, if you're a religious person, or you were raised religious or whatever,
and even if you are religious, but you can kind of pull yourself out and get a bird's eye view of what's going on,
realize why he would say that. Because a lot of times people see it as this type of painkiller.
I was actually at a church, a very fundamentalist Baptist church last Sunday,
and the pastor was talking about a very traditionalist view, which you know, I understood what he was talking about,
but the problem is you realize why the founding fathers put this distinction between the church and state,
because historically the church and the state have been one and the same.
You look in ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, you could go down the list.
A lot of these people mixed the gods and the men together to try to control both sides of the coin.
But then we have in this country in America this distinction between church and state,
which in some cases is good and other times I'd argue it's bad.
But when you see that a lot of people can't pull the two apart and think for themselves all too clearly,
you realize why Karl Marx would say that.
Now again, I do not agree with Karl Marx and I don't quote him as if I lured him, I don't.
I think he was a despicable human being quite frankly and has done a lot of damage to the world.
But when you, not every, a broken clock is right twice a day, and on this side I can see what he's talking about.
And so when you realize that both of the religious side and the secular side are both kind of converging on the middle,
which is you, if you're listening to this show, you identify with any of the philosophy of a biblical bachelor,
if you've read my book, if you haven't, you could pick up the audiobook on Audible or you can get the hard copy at your local bookstore
by just asking for it, they'll order it for you or you can order it on Amazon.
But if you identify with either my biblical bachelor philosophy or maybe it's someone like Rollo Tomasi, CGA, we got,
we got multiple content creators out here in the space, okay? Press your favorite podcasts out there, shout out to those guys.
There are multiple guys out here who talk this talk and walk this walk every day.
And when you see that both sides are kind of converging on them, you have to ask yourself, wait a minute, if they're converging on us,
us being people who identify with this side of the internet, you have to ask yourself, are we closer to the truth than them?
Considering that both sides are converging on the middle, which would be us, what do you think about that?
I think it's a very interesting topic to discuss because you find yourself, can you imagine that both sides are kind of gaslighting you
and you're thinking you're the problem? And more someone tries to gaslight you, lie, and try to call you names,
you realize that they're not coming at this from an angle of logic, they're coming at it more,
they're not using their ethos or logos to try to convince you, they're using their ethos to appeal to you.
Ethos comes from the Greek meaning pathetic. And unless you want to be pathetic, I wouldn't use your emotional
or moral or moral side to really distinguish between what is right and what is wrong in my opinion.
But hey, this is your life and you what you want. And call me fair, foul, somewhere in the middle, this is your life we're talking about.
And you could decide what you want. That's the beauty of life. A lot of people don't have the courage and they're swayed by these people,
which is why I think it's important we talk about it. And I'll continue to talk about it in the days, months, and years to come,
but I really wanted to present this today because I think that we might be closer to the truth than you might realize.
I'm not saying that you're erratical because if you're not erratical, if both sides of the spectrum are converging in on you,
let's just think about that for a second. Walking away is not an extreme reaction, but yet for some reason,
walking away has become one of the most toxic things to most people today. If you walk away from relationships,
you walk away from the church which is imploding, you walk away from the politicians which are paid liars,
if you walk away from these people, you walk away from society, they call you the issue,
not the fact that if you had a stake in society and something that actually gained by contributing to it, you would do it.
But most people, a lot of us are catching on to the lie of society and relationships benefiting us.
They say that we are privileged, but yet we're the ones that ask the bill and pay for everything,
and a lot of men are catching on to this, and that's why we're checking out. That's why you've probably checked out.
But what about my friends? Let me know what you think about this. I think this is a very important discussion we need to have,
and I look forward to having it. If you want to type your story or you want to say your piece and you do it in the comments,
you can do it on my X page, sheep gets sheared, whether you want to DM me directly or respond to the thousands of posts I have on there,
and you want to say your piece, you're welcome to do it, I invite you to do it. I don't care if you agree with me or not,
you're more than welcome to say your piece. Well, my friends, in the meantime, I encourage you to really think about this topic and question everything
because at the end of the day, that's the only way to truly think for yourself is to engage your brain and not just accept or reject things that are told to you.
Process it, really analyze it and see if you want to accept it or not.
My friends, until next time, I look forward to hearing from you and I'll catch y'all next time. I'm out. Peace.