I like all 3, but xirtman on Twitter made a profound observation: "What we have here is a secular priesthood preaching gospel to a generation of men hungry for guidance, yet incapable of fulfilling the most basic biological or civilizational imperative: the creation of a family.
Tim Ferriss: the productivity hacker turned self-experimenting monk. Andrew Huberman: the neuroscience demigod whose dopamine maps rarely intersect with intimacy or fatherhood. Lex Fridman: the emotionless black-clad pod-priest who flirts with sentimentality but recoils at generativity. These aren’t men with families — they’re cult leaders of sterile optimization. Their mantra: hack your life — not live your life.
You want to know what they’re really selling? Surrogate masculinity. Masculinity unmoored from duty, generational continuity, or even real-world consequences. What they offer is a hollow, anesthetized masculinity: dopamine schedules, journaling routines, five-hour morning rituals — but no sons, no daughters, no wives, no lineage. This is not wisdom. It’s a simulation.
And millions of young men, starved of fathers, swallow it whole.
Where are the podcasts about building families, holding down difficult relationships, sacrificing for children, standing up for tradition? The algorithm doesn’t reward those. It rewards slick, postmodern celibacy dressed as enlightenment.
Ferriss, Huberman, and Fridman are not countercultural sages. They are the ideal products of a dying civilization: libidinally spent, spiritually castrated, generationally irrelevant.
And what does it say about us — that we’ve enthroned them as our guides?
I would call this the ultimate psyop: a priesthood of hyper-individualist eunuchs preaching salvation through narcissistic self-improvement, leading us away from real, rooted life into the infinite loop of personal branding, quantified selfhood, and “high performance” — but not legacy.
Let that sink in.
Do you want to follow men who optimize their testosterone — or men who use it to build a future?"
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