They give us (unmarried males in particular) intense guilt training on par with religion’s original sin. (Females get a different but equally if not more loathsome version, unpaid caregivers.)
Essentially we are trained to believe that our life has no intrinsic value, and that all our worth is achieved (“earned”) as opposed to ascribed (human rights.)
By default men are told they are parasitic children and hateful thugs with a legacy of tyranny and atrocity to feel guilty for. Surprise surprise the only social absolution is hard labor and profitability. It is this mentality that drives homeless male suicide. (And our grim silent acceptance of a 9 to 1 workplace fatality gender ratio.)
Put simply before you can get a man to break himself on a barge or oil platform or suffocate himself in a coal mine you need to convince him he’s worthless otherwise.
Every male in my family older than me got profoundly worse versions of this training. Males younger than me get a creepy new one that has a more 90s office dystopia feel.
But don’t buy it man.
Say it with me: “I’m a human being God Dammit! MY LIFE HAS VALUE!” (Network, 1976)
Some citations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U (The quote)
