It Used to Be Beer That Gave Us Muscles Now It’s the Internet
I am a man. I don’t mean to offend anyone with that bold declaration. It is what it is. My physical parts are all indicative of being one and my mental parts are all pretty much aligned with what it feels like to be a man; and yet, I have never been a woman or anyone else so I don’t know what those states of being “not a man” feel like.
Before I finish this little expose on “who and what I am,” I want to toss this unavoidable, and natural, fact into the mix: Testosterone tortures me relentlessly. Battling the effects of the hormone on a daily basis, the only difference between me being a fascist dummy and an enlightened person is that I recognize my problem.
It’s time we all wake up and put testosterone in its rightful place before it’s too late.
The internet makes us stupid
The “real men” out there are not going to like what I have to say next but I think the male species is handicapped by the amount of testosterone coursing through our veins. It makes us less suitable for evolution.
We live shorter lives and in most societies have less influence on children — two very key indicators of a human’s contribution to the bigger picture. Our shortcomings mean that our genetic fingerprints on tomorrow’s offspring are collectively less.
Also, in my opinion, men are potentially less intelligent. Take a look at all of the dumb shit done on a daily basis and behind it will be a member of the male species.
Granted, our desire to risk all on a whim, including our lives, to prove we are the “est” (fill in the superlative) at something is an important part of the evolutionary puzzle. Humankind can’t advance to the next level if it is paralyzed by fear or adverse to risk. Take, for example, our hero, “Joe.” He leaps and he dies as a result. The rest of us, thanks to Joe’s experience, learn not to do what he did and survive another day.
For the most part, however, those days of evolutionary experimentation are behind us, and “Joe,” instead of taking risks that propel humankind forward, is doing stuff like eating Tide pods and then making TikTok…
