Choose your telos.

Or the culture will choose it for you.

And the proof is in the pudding:

• 📉 Testosterone levels have dropped over 17% per decade since the late 1980s (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism).

• 🧬 Young men today have lower testosterone than their grandfathers did at 60 (University of Michigan, 2020).

• 🥴 Sperm counts have plummeted over 50% in the past 40 years (Human Reproduction Update, 2017).

• 💊 Antidepressant use in men has skyrocketed.

• 🛋️ Obesity and sedentary lifestyles are now normalized.

• 📱 Dopamine is hijacked by porn, sugar, screens, and fake validation.

• 🌱 Plastics, seed oils, and endocrine disruptors flood the food and environment.

• 🧠 Masculine traits like risk-taking, leadership, and aggression are now labeled “toxic.”

• 🤝 Brotherhood is replaced with isolation and algorithmic “community.”

• 💤 Purpose is traded for comfort.

• 📦 Strength is traded for safety.

• 🧢 Fatherhood is traded for extended adolescence.

This isn’t accidental.

It’s systemic.

You were made to build.

Made to protect.

Made to sacrifice.

And if you don’t wake up to that fact, the culture will keep handing you sedation wrapped in convenience. Until you forget you were ever dangerous.