The broken American male Book

This book was awful. Holy shit it was terrible. The author took an important topic and just butchered it. Between his criticizing me for liking sex and talking about everything that G-d wanted me to do I just couldn't finish it. Got halfway through it and gave up.

Oh and his criticism of capitalism was awful. I hate this guy. He's ignorant and radiates this gross superiority veiled in false humility. What a jackass.

By the way, I picked up this book because of Ryan Holiday's reading list. His books are really good. Just stay away from anything he recommends on the social sphere. Wow, those books suck.


Quotes:

"Stripped of their humanity, a lot of men are becoming very angry. They feel unloved, disenfranchised, alienated, and rejected. They don't have a place to call home. They are frustrated at the injustice of being judged for their grades, or by the kind of girl that will talk to them at a party, or by the kind of job they can get after they graduate."

"I wasn't reading about someone else's success but about my own failure."

"It is not normal for young teens to be so uninterested in their parents. And it is not normal for young teens to be so uninterested in their parents that they can only be kept at home through threats, bribery, and guilt."

"A husband who was convinced that his wife would never be attracted to a loser like him...Why would his wife be interested in him if he wasn't interested in himself?"

"A man who cannot accept the love his wife gives him because he is so worthless in his own eyes that he views the affection as patronizing at best and contemptuous at worst."

"The reason they have stopped communicating with their dad is that when they try to speak with him, forget listening, he doesn't even hear them. He's far, far away. And they find his mental absence both insulting and infuriating. So they stop talking. Why bother?"

"Because only when men are working do they feel good about themselves. It gives them purpose and definition...They don't know what to do with themselves when at rest. They don't know how to rest. They get restless when they rest."

"And we wonder why the drink and take drugs?"

"But when a dad comes home broken and bitter, and when a mom seems permanently on pins and needles, the kids see their home a cold and lifeless. The home becomes a prison, filled with rules and bereft of inspiration. Of course they want out. Every day I receive e-mails from parents around the world asking for advice on how to deal with teenagers who have little interest in being around them or communicating with them. They argue that these kids seem to have no concept of family. But how hypocritical of us parents to blame our children for losing interest in home and family. ere they the ones who made their parents workaholic? Were they the ones who brought the money-is-everything-and-love-is-secondary credo into the home? What are they supposed to do? Sit at home and hang out with the nonfamily."

"Once ambition was something that went before a man, showing him visions of his own potential grandeur and beckoning him to follow. Today, ambition lies not in front of man, as if it were a rope pulling him up, but behind him, like a cattle prod pushing him from behind."