Many young men today fantasize about rising from obscurity through violent...

Many young men today fantasize about rising from obscurity through violent revolution. We see it echoed in memes, threads, and angry online rhetoric: “What happens when the bottom 50% of men decide they have had enough?” This sentiment is rooted in real pain, economic stagnation, social alienation, emotional suppression, and the absence of fatherhood and male mentorship.

And that pain is valid. There is a crisis among young men. They are falling behind in education, employment, relationships, and mental health. They feel unseen, unwanted, and irrelevant. And when no roadmap for male excellence is available, fantasy replaces responsibility. I understand why some men retreat into the dream of war and revenge.

But here is the brutal truth: If you are among the bottom 50% of men by economic standing, by organizational skill, by discipline, health, intelligence, or agency, a revolution will not save you. It will destroy you. You are not the hero in that story. You are cannon fodder. And worse, those who whisper revolution in your ear often sit in safety, offering you up to fate while they watch from a distance. This is not solidarity. It is sacrifice by proxy.

Revolutions are not led by the incapable. Historically, they are led by disaffected elites or disciplined cadres who possess strategic intelligence, coordination, resources, and vision. The French Revolution was led by lawyers and radicals; the Russian Revolution by a tightly organized political class; the American Revolution by wealthy landed legalists. Not unemployed, addicted, atomized men. Not those with no plan, no organization, no logistics, no legitimacy.

If you cannot succeed in peacetime, when risk is distributed and feedback is constant, you will not succeed in conflict, where risk is concentrated and failure is lethal.

And let us be even clearer: If you remain in the disposable tier of society, a revolution will not elevate you. It will use you. The strong will flee or rise. The weak will die or be discarded. That is the law of power. Until you have escaped disposability through self-development, reciprocal cooperation, and earned value, war is not your tool, it is your tomb.

That does not mean there is never a time to fight. Some problems can only be solved through force, and there may come a time when a man must defend those he loves and the values he stands for. But that time comes to men who have something to protect, men who have built, bonded, and believed. A man without roots, without responsibility, without anything to lose, rarely stands firm when it counts. He is not invested enough in life to risk it in the service of others. Violence belongs to the capable and the committed, not the restless and resentful.

Fantasies of revolution are not just dangerous, they are also distractions. Entertaining grand illusions of taking power often prevents men from acting on the small, real opportunities in front of them. It is easier to imagine overthrowing a system than it is to wake up early, train, build a skill, or repair broken habits. But this is the trap: the more you feed the fantasy, the more you delay the actual work of becoming capable. And the longer you delay, the less prepared you are, until fantasy becomes your only refuge.

So how should a man act when the world offers no ready answers?

What, then, is the path?

Develop yourself. Not for approval, not for access to women, not to join a fantasy chase for power, but for you. Because your life is worth living right.

Cultivate agency. Train your body, discipline your mind, regulate your emotions, master your craft, build your network. Become dangerous even in peace.

Federate with other men. Not for grievance, but for production. Build alliances, share knowledge, exchange labor, support each other’s rise. Male excellence is exponential when cooperative.

No, this will not always bring you joy. You will struggle. You may still be alone at times. You will feel anger. You will want to lash out. But you will also grow. And as you grow, so does your influence. So does your reach. And eventually, if enough men take this path, so does the world.

Every great society is a consequence of the men who compose it, your change is the seed of our future.

Just about every discussion on the state of the world today and the challenges facing young men focuses on what has gone wrong. That is because most of the people talking about it have no solutions, they are just complaining. But complaining does not solve problems. Only action does. And only the right action.

You cannot solve every problem in society. But you can solve the problems facing you. You can take ownership of your life. You can become your own master. You can reach out to other young men around you and encourage them to do the same. And when enough young men do that, change begins to happen at the collective level. Incentives shift. New options emerge. What was impossible yesterday becomes obvious tomorrow.

I want you to take power. I want you to take as much power as you are able to responsibly handle. But the first power you must claim is power over yourself. Sovereignty begins there. When you master your habits, your time, your health, your voice, and your values, you become eligible for greater power. Not granted by others, but earned through capability and demonstrated responsibility.

I want the so-called “bottom 50%” of our men to become extraordinary. Because we all live in the same world, and a society is only as strong as its weakest tier. We are all held back by what we fail to elevate. So I want you to rise, not so you can dominate, but so you can contribute. So you can lead. So you can build a life of meaning, and leave a world better than you found it.

Do not trade your life for someone else’s fantasy. Do not burn down what you have not yet learned to build. Build the bridge. Do not leap into the void. Be the man who earns the right to speak, to lead, to change.

If you want help doing that, I can help you. But only if you are willing to put in the work. No one can save you but you. And no one who truly values you will ask you to die for a lie.