You Wouldn’t Last 10 Minutes…

If you were thrown 200 years into the past, you’d be dead weight.
No skills. No toughness. No value.
And deep down, you know it.

Modern men are soft because we’re no longer required to know how to build, fix, protect, and create.
We know how to consume.
We know how to scroll.
We know how to complain.
But build something real? Protect what’s ours? Fix what’s broken? Most of us wouldn’t even know where to start.

Tim Allen told a story recently on Mike Rowe’s podcast that cuts right to the bone:
He talked about how his washing machine broke.
Back in the day, you could crack it open, fix the belt, solder a wire, and be back in business.
Today?
The circuit boards are designed so you can’t even reach the broken part.
You’re not supposed to fix it.
You’re supposed to throw it away and buy a new one.

It’s the perfect metaphor for the modern man.
You’re not built to endure, to commit, to last, you’re built to break and beg for a replacement.

If you went back to 1825 and tried to survive, what would you bring to the table?
Could you forge iron? Fell a tree? Build a shelter? Stitch a wound? Defend your home?
Or would you just stand there like a useless child waiting for someone to save you?

Our ancestors would look at most of us and be dissapointed.
They built legacies.
We build Instagram stories.

And we wonder why men feel lost, anxious, and depressed.
We were meant to struggle, to create, to fix, to protect.
Instead, we spend our days consuming junk made to break…

living lives made to be replaced.

This isn’t about a broken washing machine…
It’s about a broken generation of men who forgot that their value isn’t in what they can buy.
It’s in what they can build with their bare hands.

You weren’t born to consume.
You were born to BUILD.

Get off your ass.
Learn to fix something.
Build something.
Protect something.
Become a man your ancestors would recognize.

Or stay soft, useless, and pray the world doesn’t ask anything real from you.

Adam Niall ⚔️