The Rise of Fake Masculine Gurus - How Charisma Misleads the Masses

[shree]

Leo, could you do a deep dive into how modern "masculine gurus" attract young men with charisma and confidence, yet often lack real wisdom or self-awareness? 

 

Many of them promote shallow, ego-driven masculinity while ignoring deeper self-reflection, even when using psychedelics. 

 

Why do so many fall for these figures, and how can true seekers avoid being misled?

 

 

[The Renaissance Man]

@shree While I know this is a video request, I'll try to reply to your questions.

What I observed is that there's a lack of ground from which to make judgments about people. A maturity ground, a morality ground, and an epistemology ground.

This ground helps you discern between mature and immature, good and bad, true and false.

Without this ground you justify discrimination and misogyny, you justify racism, you believe in conspiracy theories, you take immature people as role-models. The process is simple:

1. A charismatic influencer talks straight to your pain points. For once, you feel like your pain is not wrong, it's actually normal, and someone is acknowledging it.
2. This creates an incredible level of trust into the person, because he demonstrated he gets you. He becomes an authority figure.
3. And it's done. At that point almost anything that person says, especially if good and bad advice is mixed, is taken as truth.