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1 min readMay 25, 2023

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The problem here is that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

There are already more resources available than most people realize to begin the work. Resources are literally all over the place.

It doesn't matter how many you add or how accessible you make them. In the end, most of these guys just don't want to use them.

They like that rage far too much. They like that feeling of being on the edge, as Jordan Peterson said, "to be a man, you have to be a barely contained (rage) beast".

You're not going to be able to treat these guys like this is a disease or a mental illness or something and bring them back into the fold. They don't want to be here.

They want to be dogging the outskirts like a pack of heckling slavering and slobbering hyenas. This is a choice, not an illness.

And they want you to admire them for it.

Maybe it's time to realize that this is a prodigal son moment. Let them go. Don't give them admiration or attention they crave. Turn your backs to them. Knowing a lot of them will continue down that path to it's inevitable end. We all know what those end are.

Let them go.

When the ones who smarten up and get their heads out of their asses enough to survive and retuen to sense, welcome them back without censure. But not a moment before.

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