{"id":31032,"date":"2024-09-01T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/?p=31032"},"modified":"2024-09-18T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:09:15","slug":"what-does-mdi-fight-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/what-does-mdi-fight-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does MDI Fight For?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>James Anthony Ellis<br>Legacy Magazine Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state of the union for MDI &#8211; such a broad theme, covering such a wide landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, the question climbs higher than a weekly circle-up of men looking for fun, camaraderie and support &#8230; and elevates towards a world view &#8211; a humanity level &#8211; benchmarks we can use for addressing our work here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I question what we are fighting for and what we are up against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there are needs for fun activities and a chance to get away with our teammates to focus on our successful lives and the barriers between us and getting there. And yet there is more &#8230; and there has been more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as the MDI President Chris Christopher has noted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/5-questions-for-the-new-mdi-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article <\/a>about the &#8220;state of the union,&#8221; a focus on the MDI&#8217;s Mission Statement could net us such results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We cause greatness in all areas of our lives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We mentor men to live with excellence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We develop men into mature masculine leaders.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For all, we enjoy successful families, careers and communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That is mighty indeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In days of yore &#8211; when men like dinosaur legend Rick Russell roamed the planet &#8211; the push was for a men&#8217;s team on every corner. There was talk about saving men&#8217;s lives, saving marriages for the sake of the offspring, keeping our balls intact and battling a foe we couldn&#8217;t even see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, there was a definite warning echoed loud and clear: the &#8220;feminization of men&#8221; will ultimately lead to the dismantling of our society&#8217;s backbone, with consequences more dire than we could imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bottom line: we were rescuing masculinity for the sake of future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is no small endeavor. That was a mission and purpose that could barely be topped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a purpose created a sense of urgency. Into the late 1990s, our men&#8217;s circles fought to hold high standards, embrace our outrageous unreasonable nature, and fill Sterling Weekend initiation events. The tasks put before us at team meetings and initiation-into-manhood events were fueled by a concern of a crumbling community and a desire to serve humanity at the highest level. Maybe that sounds dramatic and possibly out of reach, but haven&#8217;t we also been guided to reach for the wildly important goals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a higher purpose spurred on behaviors such as truly challenging a man contemplating divorce, stepping right into someone&#8217;s face who wasn&#8217;t pulling his weight at team meetings, committing to division meetings and events, and getting punched in the arm if any &#8220;team&#8221; player ever used the dreaded &#8220;G word&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;group&#8221; if I may.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We did not gather in &#8220;groups&#8221; where men would easily miss opportunities to gather as one. We were &#8220;teams&#8221; of men, and teams were to serve all men in their lives and relationships, as well as rescue masculinity from the tempting forces of femininity that could weaken, dampen and destroy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of these themes and strategies are alive within MDI men&#8217;s circles. At the same time, I believe we&#8217;ve lost the aim, on some level, of securing the fragile hold on masculinity. Not in all arenas, not on all teams or regions. But as a whole. We have lost a sense of urgency to save lives and rescue this thing we call &#8220;manhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it is ironic this would be the case given the fact the battle has become bigger than ever. Must anyone point out the obvious:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Superior male role models are few and far between. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hollywood and theater reflect the weakling male in leading roles. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fathering in the form of making life more challenging is defunct; participation trophies are now the norm. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Young men are being given puberty blockers and worse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The adjective for masculinity is often &#8220;toxic.&#8221; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fathers are being thrown away &#8211; in divorce courts and elsewhere &#8211; replaced in families by video games, gangs and hollow echoes down the hall. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And within the eyes of the boys &#8230; you will see if you look: emptiness, hopelessness, meaninglessness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, MDI makes countless moves to restore a mature masculine leader to support a return to a healthy masculinity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the urgency, the stated purpose, the mission out front &#8230; it has been watered down, weakened by perhaps the same forces that are tearing down men and the very fabric of our society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presently, it could be true that our men are more insular with a main focus on their own personal success rather than a bigger picture. 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