All right, team, welcome back to the Man Talk Show. Today, we are going to be talking about

virtuous masculinity or mature masculinity through the lens of Aragon from Lord of the Rings. I've

been wanting to make this video for a long time. I will probably be doing

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The hands of the king are the hands of the healer. The hands of the king are the hands of a healer,

and so shall the rightful king be known. Now this one sentence is incredibly impactful. It might be

everything that kind of sums up the true archetype of the king.

And the king is the archetypal representation of the pinnacle of masculinity.

It is the ascension of masculinity that one can aim for.

And the archetype of the king is always, almost always, misunderstood,

misrepresented, hated, feared, disliked. But in mythology and in archetypal conversation,

the king, the true king is the embodiment of the healer, is the embodiment of the bringer together.

It's the embodiment of being able to bring order to the chaos.

So this line sort of sums up why Aragon isn't just one of the greatest leaders in fiction.

He's one of the greatest examples of masculinity that you will likely ever see,

especially in the context of fiction. And sometimes in order to understand our own psychology,

in order to understand what's happening culturally, we actually need to look to fiction or to myth to understand the larger and

broader cultural conversation. Because right now, if you look out at the culture and society,

you'll see that masculinity is pretty much on fire, you know, and not in a good way. The conversation

is largely poison. Half of the voices out there are

screaming for you to be hyper aggressive and get rich at all costs and, you know, don't care

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