An Introduction to Archetypes and Masculine Archetypes

Tiago Bele
The Masculine Soul
Published in
7 min readDec 14, 2022

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True masculinity is more important now than never

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Many people do not understand, or vehemently disagree, that we are imbued with ancient psychological characteristics. Those might have come from even before language was created.

The lack of comprehension comes from mainly one thing: the perpetuity of the idea that the human mind is a blank slate and that we are nothing more than social constructs programmed by our society and what else.

This idea is wrong.

It’s a shame that this type of rhetoric fits like a glove for modern society. Feminists say that “It is the patriarchy’s fault.”, while failling to recognize that real men are working, building railways and electricity poles. They are in water and sewers, getting the trash out of the streets, and building houses day and night.

The attack on masculinity comes from ignorance and forgetfulness. Ignorance, when only seeing that masculine values don’t englobe love, gentleness, and empathy. Forgetfulness, when not acknowledging the importance of true masculinity values to our modern civilization. Better put by Moore and Gillette:

“…patriarchy is not the expression of deep and rooted masculinity, for truly deep and rooted…

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Tiago Bele
The Masculine Soul

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