lunedì 19 marzo 2018

INTRO.........DA FINIRE

Introduction
Note:I figli ti tolgono cose. Ti tolgono: tempo, sonno, dignità, serenità, denaroI figli ti mettono a nudo: ti strappano le carni lascianditi solo l'anima...Cos'è la virilità: è ciò che interviene nell'eccezionalità, quando la routine s'interrompe, quando le regole saltano e siamo circondati dal rischio. Lo slancio prima della rassegnazione...Purtroppo la virilità ha un lato oscuro: può degenerare in violenza e arroganza. Bullismo e mascolinità spesso fanno comunella...La parte buona della virilità è l'essere "cavalieri". Dimostrare eroismo in pubblico sacrificandosi, andando contro i propri interessi coltivando l'onore, favorendo il più debole, l'innocente. Ecco che la virilità si trasforma nell'essenza della paternità...La paternità distrugge la ns vita x consegnarla al figlio...Il declino della virilità nel mondo contemporaneo si riflette anche nell'abbandono della famiglia, nel rifuggire dal matrimonio, nei figli nati fuori dal matrimonio... INTRO@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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DIGNITY IS a delicate fortification.
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Then I became a father.
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The dismantling of my dignity
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they take things from you. It begins with sleep, time, and dignity
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sanity, serenity, and a great deal of money.
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children are like the aging process itself:
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what remains is your most elemental core. Your soul.
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Way of the Cross.
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But there is much to be gained,
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manliness—and even men themselves—as obsolete, or unnecessary,
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Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Herland
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feminizing culture,
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complaining about child custody
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and bad divorce settlements.
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You probably know about Solzhenitsyn,
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He was fighting for the soul of his people by articulating a vision of what it meant to be Russian. That’s manliness.
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“Manliness brings change or restores order at moments when routine is not enough, when the plan fails, when the whole idea of rational control by modern science develops leaks,” explains the political philosopher Harvey Mansfield.
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“Manliness is the next-to-last resort, before resignation and prayer.”
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manliness has a dark side.
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vainly boastful,”
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drive quarrels and conflicts for small reasons,
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Thugs and bullies
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a source of troubles,
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fifty-fifty good
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what you find is a familiar impulse: chivalry.
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from the knight, to the samurai, to the soldier.
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prove itself and do so before an audience.
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an act of sacrifice against one’s interest,
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honor and shame rather than money and calculation.”
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seek honor by protecting the weak
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What you have just described, then, is the essence of fatherhood.
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Fatherhood isn’t just manliness. It’s the purest form of the good side of manliness,
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risk their lives in order to save their lives.”
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We destroy our lives so that life will continue anew,
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through our DNA. But also in the transcendent way,
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is to
Note:DA FINIRE

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abandon their families:
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born out of wed-lock—that