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Recent book titles like The War on the West, How to Save the West, Manhood, and The Toxic War on Masculinity suggest that conservative thinkers have become increasingly preoccupied with two urgent cultural issues: the decline of Western civilization and the crisis of masculinity. I myself have written and spoken about both topics on many occasions, including here and here at the Deep Dive blog. They aren’t often discussed in tandem, however, although in fact they are inextricably linked; indeed, I would argue that reclaiming the masculine values which our culture has demonized as “toxic” is essential to pulling Western civilization out of its tailspin and restoring its greatness. But which masculine values? There are competing visions of masculinity today, and whichever one prevails will determine the future of the West.
What does it mean, exactly, for a civilization to be in decline? In the West’s case, it means the most prosperous and productive, technologically and scientifically advanced, artistically glorious and humanized civilization in history is rapidly losing its momentum, its confidence in itself, its will to live. It is being subverted from within by a metastasizing neo-Marxist virus that is sabotaging our every economic, cultural, and societal structure, and dismantling and discarding every foundation of Western traditions and values.
The capitalist engine that powered the West to unprecedented freedom and prosperity is being undermined by widespread woke corporatism and a growing sympathy among young people for “democratic socialism.” Our youth increasingly value big-government paternalism and collectivist safe spaces over individual rights, including freedom of speech. Dumbed down and disconnected from their own cultural heritage, they have come to disdain their own civilization as an historically unique perpetrator of oppression, bigotry, and exploitation of other cultures. A recent Gallup poll of Americans between the ages of 18-34 showed that only 18% say they are extremely proud of their country.
As for faith and family – two vital components of any successful civilization – our Judeo-Christian faiths and morality are giving way to a reversion to paganism, and religious communities are being marginalized and increasingly subjected to a “soft” totalitarianism. The basic cellular unit of the nuclear family has been deconstructed and redefined almost out of existence by the Sexual Revolution, a half century of radical feminism, and now the aggressive expansion of gender ideology.
These are just some of the signs that the greatest civilization in history may already have passed a critical tipping point.
As for our crisis of masculinity, the assault on the nuclear family has also succeeded in diminishing the value of, and respect for, the traditional roles of men in the West. For the first time in history, there is no clear consensus of what it even means to be a man, what a man’s familial and social responsibilities are, or how a man finds purpose – and without purpose, a man ceases to matter. When men cease to matter, civilization begins to disintegrate.
Young males now are often adrift and directionless, while the culture vilifies them that their very nature is toxic, that they perpetuate “rape culture,” that they are misogynistic oppressors of women (even as women now enjoy unprecedented access to, and success in, every field from business to science). They are told “the future is female.” A deep undercurrent of resentment and anger boils now among many disaffected young men who often either are searching for meaning in all the wrong places or have given up and retreated entirely into the virtual wasteland of online porn and gaming addictions. This crisis alone is a recipe for civilizational collapse.
In response, the internet now teems with masculinity gurus: psychologists, pundits, ex-military life coaches, and others, including Jordan Peterson – bestselling author of Twelve Rules For Life, who has inspired an army of lost young men to get their lives together – and Republican Senator Josh Hawley, whose new book Manhood urges American men to embrace their God-given calling both to lead and to serve.
Most of these gurus, however, seem to be focused on helping young men become good at being men, at reacquiring the roles and skills men have traditionally taken for granted but which the modern world has stripped from too many of them. Granted, this is a crucial aspect of reclaiming their masculinity, but unlike Peterson and Hawley, few of these guides seem to be oriented toward helping young men become good men. In other words, the focus tends to be on male mastery, not moral masculinity. Indeed, some of them, in the dark recesses of the “manosphere” (the online realm where many alienated young men hang out seeking life and relationship advice), are pernicious influences pushing strategies for rejecting the traditional path of marriage and children and instead leading solitary, self-centered, pointless lives devoted to financial success and the sexual conquest of women.
Among all these influential role models, it has become impossible to talk about the state of masculinity in the West without addressing the impact of controversial social media superstar Andrew Tate. A former kickboxing champion and shrewd self-mythologizer, Tate, 37, is seemingly ubiquitous across the internet. His name is one of the most-searched on Google. His TikTok videos have been viewed billions of times, shared through a massive network of followers. His influence among many millions of alienated young men and boys is arguably on a scale equal to that of Jordan Peterson.
Tate’s notoriety stems from two things: his flaunting of an extravagant lifestyle (expensive cigars, suits, and watches, and a fleet of flashy supercars) and a reputation for outrageously misogynistic statements and behavior. The latter have gotten him kicked off a reality TV show and banned from virtually every social media platform. But as he sees it, any publicity is good publicity.
Tate himself proudly admits that he grew wealthy from his lucrative pornographic webcam business and related pyramid schemes which he ran out of Romania, a country he said he moved to because the government there is more corrupt and sexual assault allegations are taken less seriously. He and his equally unscrupulous brother Tristan made millions by romancing dozens of young women and then manipulating them emotionally to participate in a business model he has readily admitted was “a total scam” – not only of the female employees he admits he cheated but the lonely suckers his webcam girls sponged, sometimes for their life savings. Tate went on to launch “Hustler’s University,” a $50-a-month online program designed to teach young men essentially how to imitate his own success exploiting women. He even offered a “PHD Program” (“Pimpin’ Hoes Degree”) which is just what it sounds like.
Some on the political right nevertheless admire the glib, charismatic Tate for a few reasons: he has made valid conservative observations condemning the decadence of the modern West; he repudiates feminism and promotes a strong, unapologetic vision of masculinity; and he calls for men to embrace more traditional relationship roles like protector and provider. In a two-and-a-half-hour interview, media maverick Tucker Carlson treated Tate with almost giddy admiration and seemed to take everything he said at face value, which is a serious mistake where Tate is concerned. Shortly thereafter, another prominent conservative commentator, The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens, released her own, three-hour videotaped interview with Tate from his home in Romania, where he was only just recently released from house arrest while the Romanian authorities continue to build a case to indict him for human trafficking along with his brother and two female alleged accomplices.
Owens challenged Tate marginally more in her interview than Tucker did in his, but this conservative impulse to latch onto the celebrity Tate as a political ally must stop, because he is an execrable role model. His legion of male fans, who are justifiably fed up with a feminized culture that batters them for their “toxic” nature, sees Tate as someone who has it all: he’s a former champion athlete who advocates for men to improve themselves through self-discipline and fitness training; he’s “living large” surrounded by the kind of expensive toys that appeal to young men; and he lives on his own terms and doesn’t cower before feminist outrage or cancel culture. He represents to them a peak virility which flies in the face of a culture that celebrates gender-bending celebrities like singer/actor Harry Styles, who poses in dresses on the cover of Vogue.
But the showy facade of Tate’s lifestyle conceals a spiritual and moral abyss. Even a cursory investigation into Andrew Tate turns up abundant, damning video evidence of his own statements exposing him as a master manipulator (or in his own words, “ice-cold hustler”), a ruthless exploiter of women and the young men he claims to be inspiring, and a morally repugnant egotist.
As if this weren’t concerning enough in terms of the kind of masculinity he promotes, a revealing twist in the Tate saga is his recent conversion from Eastern Orthodox Christianity to Islam. “Islam is the last true religion on the planet,” he had declared even before his conversion. “Christianity has no power left,” he said, because Christians do not defend their own God, whom they allow to be mocked and disrespected in the culture.
“Muslims are the only people who defend their religion – they defend their beliefs, they refuse to be mocked,” Tate says in another video. “People don’t openly stand up and disrespect Islam – because they’re afraid.” In his mind, Islam is the true religion simply because it will likely be the last one standing. It’s irrelevant to him that the reason people are afraid to mock Islam is not because it is true or worthy of respect, but because its fundamentalist adherents have been known to respond to disrespect with murder and mayhem. What attracts Tate to Islam is not principles, truth or spirituality but the fact that it projects a fearsome, hypermasculine strength.
In fact, as he stated passionately in yet another video clip (now deleted but preserved by the watchdogs at MEMRI) Tate admits that the Muslims he truly respects are the terrorist savages of Islamic State (ISIS):
ISIS are the real Muslims because ISIS do exactly what the book [the Quran] says. Kill everyone who’s not a Muslim and chop people’s heads off and set them on fire and be fucking raging lunatics. But all the other Muslims go, “They’re not real Muslims because I read the book and ignore those parts.” Well then, you’re not fucking Muslim, because you’re ignoring the fucking book.
Anyone who holds up ISIS as an example of admirable religious conviction needs a morality check. Regardless, he believes Islam is the future of the West. “This is why I’m Muslim,” he wrote on social media after his conversion. “Any Christian who believes in good and understands the true battle against evil must convert.”
It is worth noting that the self-proclaimed misogynist Tate seems drawn to Islam also because, in its most fundamentalist incarnations around the world, it enforces a strict and even brutal sexism against women. In one video, Tate openly expresses his desire to find an “Islamic-ass” wife, alongside whom he would keep a pile of rocks “in case she gets fresh,” referring to the sharia practice of stoning women to death. I don’t think this is what Tate’s conservative fans have in mind when they think he advocates for traditional male-female relationships.
But his point that other believers under attack do not sufficiently defend their faith is a sobering and valid one. Where are the Christian communities, for example, rising up to stamp out the infiltration of unbiblical gender ideologues who literally stand at the pulpit and proclaim that God is gay or transgender? Tate’s high-profile rejection of Christianity for Islam signals to his fans that the latter is manly and strong and true, while the former is effeminate, diluted by modernism and by a tolerance of secular trends, and ultimately false.
Here is an example of how this perception plays out in the real world: a report from Egypt several years ago noted that Muslim men there were stickering their cars with shark symbols in an aggressive response to the Christian “fish” sticker pasted on the cars of some members of the Coptic minority. When asked about it, one young Muslim laughed: “The Christians had the fish so we responded with the shark. If they want to portray themselves as weak fishes, OK. We are the strongest.”
It is this supremacist perception that emboldens the persecution and genocide of Christians and Jews in the Middle East, that leads to attacks on churches throughout Europe and America and calls for global war against Jews and synagogues, that leads to priests being beheaded at church altars and to surging antisemitism. How much are we supposed to tolerate? The Christian command to turn the other cheek should not be misconstrued to mean that we surrender meekly to slaughter and extermination at the hands of our enemies. And yet too few Christians and Jews even bother to take to the streets in protest, much less fight back.
Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world, even as the true believers in Christianity and Judaism are in decline. This is largely to do with the higher Muslim birthrate, but how much of Christianity’s decline, for example, is because in its current anemic state it has little with which to attract young men looking for a faith that will empower them to fulfill their nature and their purpose, especially when the influential Andrew Tate offers such a seductive alternative?
This is not a call for persecuted people of faith to return revenge for violence. It is a call, however, for believers – especially men, whose natural duty is to protect and defend – to put on the full armor of God, as it says in the Book of Ephesians, and take a righteous stance for their God against evil, whether flesh-and-blood or spiritual. That stance can take many forms, all of which require a deepened commitment to one’s faith and a spirit of sacrifice and service. There is no room for sacrifice and service in Andrew Tate’s self-aggrandizing vision of manhood. Men must find the courage to defend and preserve the True, the Good, and the Beautiful in a culture waging open war against those values that made the West great. The civilization once known as Christendom cannot be rescued without a reinvigoration and manly defense of the faith that nurtured it.
An emasculated culture is a doomed culture. A civilization whose men feel it has no use for them, where their natural drives of competitiveness, adventurousness, and even aggression (all of which are condemned today as toxic) are not valued, encouraged, and properly channeled, will stagnate and die. A civilization whose men will not or cannot defend its women and children, its borders, and its faith and values is a civilization ripe for conquest, whether from without or within.
The future of Western civilization will depend on whatever vision of masculinity prevails. It will depend on whatever faith – be it Islam, Christianity, Judaism, paganism, social justice fanaticism, or any other – gives today’s morally adrift young men a code that speaks to their scorned nature and sets them on the path to becoming men of purpose and integrity and righteous strength.
If we as a society make the right choice, everything else will begin to fall into place: the healing of our broken families, our divided communities, our decadent culture, our waning civilization. And then there will be what poet T.S. Eliot called “right order in the soul and right order in the commonwealth.”
Originally published at Doc Emet Productions.
Follow Mark Tapson at Culture Warrior.
I saw the Andrew Tate /Tucker Carlson interview and came away with a very positive impression. I saw no evidence that he exploited women. Actually, I saw no evidence of anything – only his words. But this is also true of Tapson’s article. More no evidence – just words. Summing it up Tapson seems to be saying “Tate is a terrible, terrible – no – REALLY terrible person. But shows nothing to illustrate this. Frankly I trust Carlson more.
But Tapson has quoted Tate. Your comment makes no sense unless you endorse exploiting women in sex web cams and stoning them to death as well as the Islamization (& destruction) of western civilization.
All,
God does not need our protection…we need His.
Excuse me but Jesus Christ was a celibate, voluntary life-long virgin. A self-denying, self-abnegating, self-immolating, ascetic. He never had romantic, loving, erotic, sex with any woman. He never had children. He never married. He willingly allowed himself to be altruistically sacrificed, crucified to death, for worthless, evil, sinners. He rejected this life on earth as vastly inferior to some supernatural Kingdom in a supernatural dimension. Jesus was not interested in this life on earth because this life on earth, according to Christianity, is simply a punishment for Original Sin.
Jesus proclaimed “Love your enemy”. “Turn the other cheek”, “Love your neighbor as yourself”, “You are your brother’s keeper”. “The meek shall inherit the earth”.
If we define masculinity as the desire to live a fulfilling life on earth as a complete man, if we define masculinity as the complete love and acceptance of male biology, falling in love with a woman, having loving, romantic, erotic, sex with the woman you love, and having children you love with the woman you love, NEITHER Jesus Christ, NOR, Mohammed is the example to emulate!
Jesus of Nazareth was a celibate, self-sacrificing, ascetic, Shmoo. Mohammed was a repugnant, repulsive, evil thug.
Who should a REAL man who wants to be a complete REAL man emulate? Mohammed or Jesus of Nazareth? Should a real man emulate a brutish thug or a self-sacrificing, ascetic, Shmoo?
NEITHER.
Both Islam and Christianity offer a supernatural false dichotomy which have no relation to the reality of real men, their real nature, and their real lives on real earth.
There are multiple good points in this article. For instance:
“the nuclear family has been deconstructed and redefined almost out of existence by the Sexual Revolution, a half century of radical feminism, and now the aggressive expansion of gender ideology… As for our crisis of masculinity, the assault on the nuclear family has also succeeded in diminishing the value of, and respect for, the traditional roles of men in the West. For the first time in history, there is no clear consensus of what it even means to be a man, what a man’s familial and social responsibilities are, or how a man finds purpose – and without purpose, a man ceases to matter. When men cease to matter, civilization begins to disintegrate.”
Is there a better way weaken a country than to destroy the protectors of a nation? It’s as if our country has been attacked from within. The crisis of masculinity is a real crisis.
I appreciate men like Jordan Peterson and Sen. Josh Hawley, “whose new book Manhood urges American men to embrace their God-given calling both to lead and to serve.”
The feminists are wrong. There is no form of masculinity which is toxic. It’s bad behavior that’s toxic. Both men and women can do things wrong, but there is no such thing as “toxic masculinity” nor is there “toxic femininity.” Femininity and masculinity are both good.
Well said. The destruction of faith and family are the two primary tenants of Marxism. Then there’s all the other leftist indoctrination such as “toxic masculinity” and teaching boys and girls that they can grow up to be any pronoun they want; except for a man or a woman which is negatively now called “cisgender”. And let’s not forget CRT that teaches that if you are white, then you should cower and be ashamed and if you are black you can’t succeed because of “systemic racism” and you have the right to be a perpetual victim. Is it any wonder that kids are confused, alienated, depressed, abusing drugs and committing suicide at record levels? It’s all horribly disgusting and people need to recognize that it’s all part of a bigger plan to turn us into a secular Socialist, totalitarian state ruled by Democrats in perpetuity. But now it’s gone beyond politics and left vs. right. It has truly become a struggle against evil incarnate and a battle for the very survival of western civilization.
“because this life on earth, according to Christianity, is simply a punishment for Original Sin.”
You don’t have that correct. There are consequences for sin, including death, but punishment for sin is not this life on earth.
Your definition of masculinity could be things that are part of it, but that’s not all nor are all those things necessary. It is possible for a man to be masculine and single.
Self-sacrificing is necessary and it’s not easy. Have you ever tried to “Love your enemy” or turning the other cheek after you’ve been wronged? It takes a certain kind of strength to do those things. Jesus was a real man, a carpenter, who worked with his hands and who loved people and did extraordinary feats of strength including carrying a heavy cross after being beaten and fasting for forty days in the desert. He spoke powerful messages and dared to confront the religious hypocrites of his day. He was both fully man and fully God.
Jesus started a movement, Christianity, that has influenced humanity for the last 2100 years.
What have you done besides embrace a movement that basically disappeared when Rand mercifully passed.
Real men? I would never take lessons on masculinity from an emasculated weakling like you. Remember it was you who said:
*I don’t recognize any such absurdity as service to my country. I recognize a moral responsibility to my freedom and liberty and the freedom and liberty of those I love.*
The fems really did a number on you. You are the essence of the weak TV Dad of the ’70s.
THX 1138 – When Jesus became flesh and dwelt amongst us,
he was as human as anybody else. Meaning, for example, he
could feel physical pain. Being the son of God, he could also
perform startling miracles – changing water into wine, feeding
multitudes with a couple of loaves and fishes, restoring the
severed ear of a Roman guard and so on.
He preached for us to turn the other cheek and to love one
another when you feel wronged. He did not rely on his
miraculous abilities but remained fully human when he was
“wronged” by the Pharisees and Romans – and was whipped,
tortured and crucified for it. Hideous suffering to endure but
he faced it and endured it – as an example – to the rest of us.
His message: I am the son of God but have taken human form
to show you that I understand your suffering – when injustice
beats you down and you must remain a loving person in spite
of it. That you must be able to love one another and that –
no matter what – God sees and loves each one of you. Even
in your despair when you feel He has forsakened you. I die
for all the sins you have committed – by your surrender to
evil instead of trying to be good – to show you the way and
the truth and the life back to God.
THX, how you see the human man Jesus Christ – who fully
faced and endured what the Romans did to him – as not an
exceptionally courageous man but as a self-sacrificing, ascetic
shmoo defies belief. And puts your stunted, short-sighted
appraisal of Christianity on display as never before.
So do they want all Boys to grow up to be Ballet Dancers and Herb Gardener’s so they want all men to be total cowards and hide behind the women wear pink and hug trees? So we have any better reason to take our nation back from the Untra Liberals Pansies
Hello again, THX – and all – the issue of headship is a very important one, according to the Inspired Scriptures – after all Genesis tells us that the tragedy we are presently living in began when our first parents decided they did not want to accept their Creator’s standards of good and bad, and decided to set their own.
But I am sad that you say “this life on earth, according to Christianity, is simply a punishment for Original Sin..”. No, truly, that is not and never has been Christian teaching. The hope that Christianity holds out is that we can live forever on this lovely planet, and that there is more happiness ahead for us, right here on the earth, than we can now imagine. Didn’t Jesus famously say that the meek would inherit “the earth”?
If he had meant heaven, wouldn’t he have said so?
The pansies are a front and the least of our worries. It’s the people behind the pansies–oligarchs and their inner party Marxist lickspittles–that we have to worry about: they are NOT pansies, but brute totalitarians who can and will a. fight and b. use any degree of brutality and murder to achieve their aims. They differ only slightly from the Bolsheviks and Nazi’s who killed so many millions.
Peace, prosperity and the political empowerment of women leads to languid decadence .. it’s the suicide of nations
Candace Owens gave Andrew Tate an absolute softball interview.
She did herself and her audience no favors. She appeared to be applying for work at CNN.
While the phrase “moral masculinity” seems to have been lost on many, it wasn’t on me. As church attendance reaches an all-time low in the states, it should come as no surprise that we’ve landed here in 2023 not knowing how to define a man or letting the godless left define it for us.
The Bible is God’s users manual to mankind. From the garden of Eden until the end to time, we’re provided with instruction as to who God is, our sinful nature, what we must do to be saved from it, how to have purpose in life, how to serve God better and to know what lies beyond the grave.
I grew up with a morally masculine father who, until I was old enough to know better and differentiate the two, was God to me. I was taught from an early age the morally masculine arts of love, discipline, respect, work ethics, fatherly provision, parental love for one another, never backing down from a righteous cause and the one true God to whom he served. Yes, I count myself blessed.
I mourn for those who have never and those who will never experience that, for it was a blessing that I will take with me when I go and one I tried my best to pass on to my son….but it all started with the Book and it’s not too late. The first step is understanding who we are and who God is. Then, stand strong in your faith and don’t let the godless intellect of man dissuade you from it.
2 Timothy 1:12 “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I’ve committed unto him against that day.”
May I say, it is a pure pleasure to read your comments. They are filled with such insight and truth.
God’s blessings to you and yours.
Thank you so much, AuntiE. I appreciate that. I began commenting here a few weeks ago, primarily in rebuttal to one person who has let his human intellect get the better of him. Sadly, it’s not the first time I’ve seen this. The devil likes to blow brimstone smoke into people’s ears and, while most of us recognize it for what it is, the “haughty”, as the Bible calls them, takes these whispers as their own highly intellectual thoughts. Nothing could be further from the Truth. Thanks again!
Proverbs 18:12 “Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.”
I don’t know much about Mr. Tate but I think our media, especially the entertainment media and commercials, do more damage to masculinity than his podcasts ever could. They are absolutely relentless in promoting the “girl boss” and, depicting males, and especially white males, as dumb, weak, silly and ineffectual, if they are ever even there at all (especially in commercials). This is, as the Marxist say, no accident. The goal is obviously the destruction of Western Civilization. I doubt those who are working to bring that about will, if they are successful, much enjoy what follows.
Feminist killed feminine values first before all the while smearing masculinity as toxic. Masculine values to provide and protect require women who are looking for a man to provide and protect. Instead, abortion was pursued, strong, independent woman who doesn’t need a man.
Masculine men cannot exist without feminine women, and the only role models for women now are badass, strong, independent women who don’t particularly need men for anything.
I think it is probably true that civilizations rise and fall with birth rates, and bite rates are dependent on men being masculine, and girls being feminine.
Marxism by the way is a feminized value system. It is distributive, like a woman’s traditional role of delivering food to her family.
Masculinity is reduced to cruelty in such a system, and it is cruelty that is the bigger appeal to feminized men like Tate. I would say that the kind of male that Tate appeals to are wannabes. The only masculine males in this society are called Dad, and they are as likely playing teatime with their little girls but never get rich off of cam girls. That is a descent into cruelty. It protects no one
His brother has better hair, and a better chin.
The thing about being a man – if you need lessons, it is pretty much hopeless.
The sodomites have been on a political losing streak since Sodom. Will they prevail in their war on America? Get real. Is Popeye a punk?
Camille Paglia, bless her heart, wrote several years ago that civilization cannot survive without (masculine) men. Feminists can hate masculinity all they want, but at the end of the day it’s the real men who do the heavy lifting of all sorts. Tate is hardly a good example of the masculinity society needs. I cannot understand the fascination people have with this guy.
One thing that will come of feminism is this: in 30-50 years, there will be zero non-orthodox Jews outside of Israel. Just desserts.
Harry Styles is not a man. He is a fairy.
Thanks, Mark. Until our Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Christian hierarches and their underlings embrace the anger and manliness of Christ in the Temple and loudly condemn the sins of the West, who is to stop our descent?
Seems like andrew tate and hitler would have quite a lot in common.
Most beta males are probably good men.
If Tate is a “real man” then are you saying that to be real men you must commit crimes, run ponzi schemes, hustle porn? That’s too emotionally underdeveloped for me to consider him any kind of man. I think narcisistic boy would be more accurate. Then again, Islam needs such people…
An enduring civilization will not ignore nature. To ignore natural manliness and womenliness is to invite destruction of civilization. It is amazing how the left ignores many thousands of years of human history for an utterly social construct that flies in the face of reality. To ignore natural selection is to invite failure. Mother Nature is a mean and unforgiving chick. Ignore Her and remove yourself from the human gene pool; end of story.
It’s not amazing at all. The Left’s goal is the destruction of civilization.
You come across as a jealous, small minded, totally out of touch with reality beta male and I’m a woman.
My nephew is in Tate’s University and he just turned 14. you know what he wanted for his birthday? To apply for a job at Publix. To start working.
He takes Jujitsu.
He’s a gifted artist.
He is looking at how to create a t-shirt company because of being in Tate’s University.
He tells his friends, hey let’s go workout, or play tennis, or do sports, and not video games.
He’s a grade ahead of his peers. He loves to spend time with his father without his sister or mother involved.
He eats at steak houses with my brother.
He doesn’t want to bother with girls right now because they will post your private business on social.
He’s an awesome kid.
As I read the article, it occurred to me that this Tate, whom I never heard of before, would be the model for some character in an episode of Law and Order, either as the perpetrator or victim. His whole organization would be diligently investigated by the detectives and prosecutors of the cast. I would say that this sort of person is a second generation Epstein or one of the people who exploit young women for people like former prince Andrew, Bill Gates or many other people who are willing to risk it all. Or perhaps a bad guy in a Danielle Steel novel. I think he is driving toward a cliff and is likely to eventually go over the edge to his great regret.