What Is Brotherhood

What is brotherhood? Men are not meant to be isolated, Modern society either sells men on the supposed benefits to living an isolated and disconnected life, or it creates situations that require it in order to succeed or as is the case for most people,  just to get by. This goes against how man has developed and lived since the beginning of time. Men need to be part of a  tribe, men need brotherhood, we are not meant to be lone wolves. Part of why society is where it is today is because men stopped depending on each other and started depending on the Empire.

A lone man is quite easy to manage in one way or another and is rarely a threat to something as widespread as the Empire. Without a support network a man alone is nothing but the sum of his intelligence, genetics, and life experience. His wants or needs are his alone and are of little consequence to anyone else especially the Empire. This makes him easy to control and dependent on the Empire and its many systems. This is the Empire's future, a large pool of interchangeable units of labor.

When a man finds himself in a group of men he quickly figures out how he stacks up. When this group is your brothers, that have your best interests at heart they will push you to better yourself, and help you along the way while you do the same for them. When you are alone and the men around you are strangers, they likely don’t have your best interest at heart and even if they do you can simply ignore them and live in a fantasy that you are already the best, and you will stay exactly where you are, never growing or bettering yourself. Being part of a group that you care about and care what they think makes that impossible. While a woman might say that you did your best, a brother will look you in the eyes and say you could have done better and then shows you how and If nothing else the healthy competition brotherhood provides will be the catalyst for growth.

Brotherhood used to be a part of everyday life back in the times of roaming tribes trying to survive. Other tribes were trying to kill them, nature was trying to kill them, all of life was a fight. The men of these tribes would draw a perimeter around themselves and the tribe and fight to protect it. Defending this perimeter has always been job one. Then as tribes began to settle down and become villages, and villages became towns and towns cities, the world became more “civilized.” With that “civilization” Less and less people had to fight to survive. Male only professions  then became the holdout for the last vestiges of brotherhood until the only place where men had to band together to fight for a common goal, and watch each others back was the Military, law enforcement, and the Fire service. However thanks to the degradation of these bonds and traditions of these institutions, corruption, over regulation, back stabbing colleges and toxic command staff to name a few, brotherhood in these professions as well has began to die or already has. These so called, last remaining holdouts of brotherhood are also said to have a higher purpose and are more of a calling then a job, but as many who get into them know this has become less and less true as time goes on and are now just marketing and recruiting campaigns designed to pull on those strings inside men in order to replenish the ranks.