America needs a progressive alternative to toxic masculinity, which poses a real threat to democracy itself, and rural communities need leaders with solutions that truly resolve the issues of the working class, instead of pandering or focusing on contrived culture war issues. Adam Page, a world champion pro wrestler, former educator, and part of a rural farming family, could be a model to look to.
Political, Media, and Business Infrastructure that is robust, well-designed, and engages with the community is key for progressive victory.
– The key difference between the left and right from my experience as a Tea Party organization leader
– Will a local reporter know who to call for a progressive perspective on an issue?
– Will members of the community know where to go with an issue?
– Recessions are the Super Bowl of conservative organizing and when the working class starts to lose gains
– Just being active online and semi-anonymous isn’t a strategy
– Setting up proper legal documents and procedures
– What happens if something goes wrong with your main leader? You want to have a plan.
– The networks of innumerable conservative entrepreneurs across the country willing to throw money and expertise at their cause
– Organizations should be formed legally and have separate bank accounts once they bring in money
– The chaos that happens when key people leave a progressive organization
– The dangers of using Cash App, PayPal, and similar for philanthropic, social entrepreneurship, or organizing efforts.
– Conservatives being overrepresented at school board meetings
– On the ground: Does your group feel safe and a friendly place to be in?
– Media infrastructure
– Building a progressive Andrew Tate
– Embracing entrepreneurship and expertise
– Campaign and PAC bank accounts must be separate and you need legal counsel.
– Work with experts who get you – who care about your values, follow your culture, and will not overtake your agency
– Maintaining your grassroots, self-organizing structure
– The better you create your practices and infrastructure, the more freedom and success you will have
– Be ready to deal with professional stakeholders and to take in opportunities for funding as they come
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Fixing The Fixerpunk covers ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process.
– What to do when none of the “evidence-based” models for achieving your health, fitness, other goals don’t work
– Find the solutions that work with your situation
– Be flexible to adapt models to serve your needs best
– When therapy/CBT does not work
– Your “excuses” could be key to finding a solution for your goals
– Dr. America Bracho TED Talk on Non-Compliant Patients and improving healthy eating and exercise in oppressed minority populations:
– People who are dealing with bad circumstances are as much of experts as scientific experts and those who have succeeded.
– Tracking metrics and having positive feedback/coaching to encourage you
– How I dropped 16 pounds while only tracking part of the time
– Flexible dieting and strength training for fat loss
– Don’t give up just because the normal approaches don’t work
– Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
_ External feedback from family
– Economic justice, unions, and worker self-determination lead to more innovation
– Finding your own path in work and business
– Deviating from accepted norms shows intelligence and intellectual flexibility
– Employers treating workers badly hurts all of us
– My New Year’s Resolution is the Young Bucks’ motto: Killing The Business
– Getting rid of the old business models, social norms, and corporate micro-management oppression
– Diversity improves the quality of products and services, corporate rigidity and work rule rigidity screws all of us out of our full potential
– Biased medical and mental health research
– Preparing for the recession
– The system is designed to deprive the working class of its gains
– Why prepping your personal finances keeps you free and protects your power as a worker to challenge employers’ and the system’s oppression
– Shielding against impulsive spending
– When things no longer serve you
– Certificates of Deposit (CDs) – check bankrate.com
Also consider High Yield Savings Accounts!
– How interest rates affect the working class who save up money versus those with massive wealth
– Invest in self-improvement with the recession coming or not?
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– Influencers like Liver King, the Raw Egg Nationalist, and others have an approach allegedly based on “ancestral” ideas and returning masculinity to where it was centuries or decades ago. These ideas can lead to hateful ideologies and reversing achievements in civil rights in order to return to the ways of that earlier time that were more “masculine,” but also promote misinformation on fitness and often poorer results than expected.
– The fact that some, emphasis on some, of what these influencers say works leads people to trust them and hence trust their ideas on other issues, such as political and social issues, especially for those who are vulnerable due to hardship in their lives
– Progressives can gain a foothold in the fitness narrative by showing the truth and empowering young men to solve the true systemic origins of their challenges
– We can be vocal on the gaps in mental health, fitness, and physical health and how they work together
– Conservatives have very strong business and media ecosystems and their engagement in fitness is no exception
– Avoid fit-shaming: Pathologizing physique athletes and body positivity alone (though it is important) aren’t the right way to engage
– These are athletes who want to practice their sport. Let them.
– Pushing bodybuilders and people who want to work on elite-level physique development to the margins only worsens radicalization.
– Lessons from skateboarding
– More than 1 in 3 high school students expressed interest in strength training as a sport option. – Aspen Institute Project Play report
– Progressives’ leadership in drug legalization can extend to harm reduction for PEDs
– The right is controlling fitness science even though most scientists are on the left
– There is a need for fitness experts who combine inclusion with good fitness science to help those who are left behind by overly simplistic or non-inclusive fitness “experts”
– 59% of Americans have a chronic illness and often primary doctors do not provide good diet and fitness advice
– Combining strong exemplars that culturally align with the target audience, vulnerability, and practical approaches is the way forward
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– Liver King was found out to be using performance enhancing drugs while claiming not to use them and his results being from his diet of raw organ meat
– Naturalistic bias
– Far-right activists claiming “modernity,” including social inclusion and progressive political ideals, are the enemy
– Men feel like they have to become weak or emasculated to be part of the left
– Struggles of young men and how progressive ideas can actually help
– Liver King wasn’t explicitly political, but his ideas lead people to insular political ideas opposing inclusion
– Totalizing conservative institutions
– His 9 Ancestral Tenets and why there is some truth in bad ideas
– Self-help and fitness leads people to the right because some of their approaches work a little bit
– Pseudo-science and food poisoning
– The “secret science” and “alternative facts” strategy extremist leaders use to keep people hooked
– Right-wing business ecosystems
– Too Broke To Be Ripped
– How economic justice can improve fitness outcomes
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Welcome to anyone coming from Street Fight Radio! Fixing The Fixerpunk covers ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process.
– Brief election update
– Autistic Burnout
– DIY Ethos
– The recession and spending on personal development and mental health
– Wasting a lot of time, but not knowing on what
– Personal tasks wind up feeling like a full time job
– Therapist bios are way too ambiguous, don’t tell you their full background
– Considering grad school
– Bad public transit and overspending on Uber
– Therapists are underpaid
– The economy is going to suck soon, so let’s just party!
– Inflation and the coming attack on workers
– Recession discussion and financial advice doesn’t care about marginalized people
– Knowing about budgeting, but cannot execute
– Fitness update
– Cognitive load of weightlifting and effects of autism on training
– Bulking season
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AEW is a social movement in the sport of pro wrestling, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, and Adam Page are its main founders. CM Punk came in and changes started to happen, some of which seemed to be outside of the core values of the movement, and an old personal dispute popped up again out of nowhere in response to an attempt by Page to re-center the movement in its values. CM Punk relied on a style of business that is very conventional and old-school, that which he hated, but got into him subconsciously. Adam Page avoided this and created his own path through having the education and the confidence to develop and test new theories, which Punk sees as lacking intelligence, but is really the epitome of how new knowledge is created. Our big lesson is that social movements need leaders that can develop and champion new models, consciously choosing what expertise from the past to integrate and rejecting what doesn’t work or is simply no longer needed, and avoiding interpersonal disputes that can poison the success and mission of a movement.
My analyses on this topic on ProWrestlingMusings.com:
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Fixing The Fixerpunk covers ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process.
Insights from this episode:
– The Struggle to Find Adult Autism Doctors and Therapists
– You have to talk about systemic issues to work on personal development effectively!
– Resources matter and drive success in personal development, whether that is mental health, physical health, fitness, etc.
– When the resources needed for a specific community are not accessible, then you have a problem
– Capitalism often keeps the resources from those who most need it, when those who need it less can get it easier
– Why funders must listen to the communities their programs serve before investing in resources
– The need for truly specialized, accessible mental health care
– Why more mental health treatment, especially from the existing publicly funded systems or Medicaid providers, is NOT the answer for homelessness, and may not even help their specific mental health issues
– Publicly run and managed care systems use inexperienced mental health providers. You don’t hand someone with severe physical trauma to a physician assistant, you shouldn’t do the same with mental health.
– Binge eating with Autism, ADHD, and post-concussion syndrome
– Difficulty sticking to a diet with Autism and impulse control issues
I explain how the CM Punk and Adam Page feud as well as Punk’s heel turn are driven by differences in ethical approaches as it comes to leadership as well as the lessons from this story for cultural and social movement leaders. Adam Page sticks by his values and the true culture of his movement, not by the culture of the good old boy’s club or how things have always been done, does what is right regardless of allegiances, and he is not afraid to call out people who have let “the world get into” them. CM Punk is a legacy leader who may have forgotten his punk values along the climb to success and may be letting the past get in the way of his ethical thinking. This may be as true in kayfabe as outside of it.
