#34 “What’s the matter with you?… Never tell anyone outside the Family what you are thinking again. Go on.” Don Corleone - The Godfather 1972
As men, our greatest challenge is protecting the family. Providing for the family, and setting the example to our children. If we weren't so concerned with outside influences would our family face the battlegrounds of competition with the world? If history is to say that we engage in political struggles for power, just how political are the struggles within your family?
Is competition a good thing or a bad thing? What concepts of life do you imitate, which ones do you follow?
There is a concept of dominant ideology. It is where the culture sets a certain pattern for ideas in which the world operates as a group. If family is a group, how do we seek to gain or keep the power of the hierarchy? What do we do to make our family look good? As we work to maintain our appearance and dominance in society as the strong, the brave, and the resilient; do we ultimately understand the we have to control those we maintain to conquer other groups?
If power is dominance, and the relationship is powerful, how do we gain the willing consent of the family in which we protect?
The standards we follow, and the rules we seek compels a man to think; if it has to be this way, is it normal? We can't be a victim of the economic influences, but we can discover that setting a margin of boundaries within the family can keep the group thriving. The minute we start offering choices the less normal it becomes to thrive. We don't want to be equals, we want to focus on inequality. We rather be stronger.
If everyone made the same money, and had the same pull in power... we wouldn't have the drive to be better.
Its time to recognize that control and wealth are concentrated in few hands in life; the minute we take our role as a man to gain that control, provide wealth to our families, and show society that as a group we are powerful, the higher we become influential in the stack rankings. So, my question to you..... what's the matter with you?
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