What is a Proper Savage?

In an age when society has largely lost sight of what is proper and has no first hand experience with what is savage, men wander around looking for purpose, adventure, and meaning in a world that no longer seems to believe that it even needs men. 

The proper savage has no concern for what confusing state society is in. He knows who he is and he knows what his purpose is. He is the all around man. The man who can carry on an intellectual conversation with the snooty elites, go toe to toe in the ring with a brute, write a lover letter to his wife, and reach out a compassionate hand to a peer who has fallen on hard times.

Masculinity has been broadly and wrongly labeled as toxic masculinity. Toxic masculinity is real, but it is merely a facade of masculinity. It is the little boy's imagination of what msculinity is. True masculinity is far from being toxic. On the contrary it is life giving. It breathes life, hope, energy, confidence, and security into the lives of all of those it interacts with. True masculinity vulnerably participates in empathy. True masculinity admits error and humbly apologizes for wrongs. True masculinity doesn't look for fights, but it sure know how to finsih them when necessary. True masculinity ruthlessly crushes evil when it finds innocence being taken advantage of.

The capacity for gentleness and the capacity for absolute ruthless savagery, each when appropriate; along with the wisdom to choose the appropriate action in each case, are the defining characteristics of the Proper Savage.