I’ve published another new essay at Masculine Geek on the concept of living, not merely existing.

An excerpt:

If you’ve bought into this prepackaged narrative, every word, thought, and deed of yours is determined, censored, filtered, and restrained by the fear that somehow, in some way, it might negatively affect your advancement. You adopt a mindset in which you shut out any view or opinion worthwhile on anything. You stick to politically innocuous pastimes that are neither too exotic nor so peculiar as to risk social status.

Eventually, you become a lukewarm, tepid soul.

Read the whole thing here.