We Hyper-Scaled Hypocrisy

From Andrew Tate to Barack Obama and back again.

Last Saturday morning, I went to get a haircut and my friend Jamie had sent me a very, very, very long Substack article about manhood, using a comparison between Andrew Tate and Jason Aldean to make various points. I read it before the haircut started — it was a long read — and while it made good points and was generally worth the read, it was also confusing and pivoted in 160 different places. I am sure half the articles I write are similar, so I became frustrated with myself, then got a nice beard trim.

I saved it in my “Writing Inspiration” folder.

This morning, I got to it and re-read it. As noted, a big chunk of it is this Tucker Carlson-Andrew Tate interview from his new Twitter platform, which has garnered about 95 million views, thus boosting the egos of both men to new heights:

That’s a 2-hour, 30-minute interview and by no means would I say watch even a part of it. It is hyper-masculinity to the max. It is a more brash form of the stuff Josh Hawley is pushing: men are…