Ours is an age of spinelessness, the opposite of will. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
The modern world will allow you to join any of a thousand collectives, but it will punish you for standing on your own, as a self-willed entity. People who commit this crime understand that they are outlaws in the present world. And if at first they don’t understand that, the world makes sure they know.
The world as it is, then, is the enemy of will. This is nothing new, of course, governments have been at war against will since they began: How else can you get people to blindly obey you, to hand over half their income, and to thank you for it? People who possess a full and active will must be convinced to do things, and governments couldn’t function if they had to do that.
The present world is built around the restraint of will, and not just on the government level. Advertising, for example, is more or less devoted to implanting subconscious desires and subverting the will with them. In dysfunctional families, manipulating one another – whether by guilt, ridicule, being left out of Papa’s will or whatever – is the currency of the realm.
And so obedience, consumption and acquiescence have become cardinal virtues, and the avoidance of immediate pain the prime directive.
The hive dullards know how mediocre and LAME they are deep down.
Lions don’t concern themselves with the opinions of sheep that are to be shorn.
Weaklings who think words are violence are there for the amusement and they always back down when you call their bluff.
They ain’t ruff n’ tuff, they creampuff.