IN an age of influencers accessible anywhere, I’m not surprised at the rise of Andrew Tate, but when the facts come to light there has to be justified reaction.
I’ve not watched many Tate videos or clips, but I always concluded he was just an angry, narcissistic sociopath hellbent on making money from the idiotic and the naïve, frequently both, in an age where young men are entirely lacking leadership and role models.
The reason he was recently locked up in Romania related to charges of sex trafficking and revolved around him being a coercive manipulative pimp, ensnaring women to work on sex webcam shows.
If that’s not enough to turn someone off from his wafflings on the web (or his ‘Master’ Chess programme), then I’m not sure what could be. Murder?
The fact so many young men see Andrew Tate as some sort of cultural hero is an utterly devastating blow to parents across the globe and their total negation of parental duties, that is, to teach and raise a child or children to have some basic groundings in morality and the good and bad characters that exist.
I’ve seen plenty of people whining about the fact Tate is influencing people.
The responsibility is entirely on parents to ensure their kids are not sucked into a narcissistic web of bullshit, and they’re the same parents not being parents, who are complaining that this generation is being corrupted by online personalities.
The majority of parents in this era, are not fit to be one, not that any era has had some sort of golden age of parenting.
Ultimately, the rise of Tate has been completely enabled by piss poor parents worldwide. The same goes for any negative and damaging social or cultural phenomenon.
Funny isn’t it? it’s never the parents’ fault.
And on some level I can’t blame leaderless people for falling into the cult of Tate and his ilk.
They have no real life role models.
Then when it became clear that Tate is a turd of the smelliest most-flushable variety, lots of people who bought into his mindset were left with an existential crisis, because it seems that nearly every week some person with a gram of fame is guilty of any number of heinous inhuman crimes.
Blindly supporting someone or an ideology is not uncommon – hello religion – even when it becomes clear that what they stand for is hypocritical and unjust at best.
So before people start whining about Andrew Tate and others like him, if you’re a parent, and your kid is a big fan of his, you might want to be a parent for once in your damned life, take a moment out of your busy busy schedule and teach them something of relevance about life and people.
On a final note, the same people vilifying and demonising Jordan Peterson for reasons that are entirely illogical and irrational considering he is one of the most genuine and knowledgeable people in the field of psychology pertaining to living by some principles, are somehow fairly silent on Andrew Tate, who is essentially the anti-hero to Peterson in terms of ethics and the message they’re delivering.
Funny old world…
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