The Boys Are Not Okay (seriously though)

•Join Members:    / @itsbertsimon   •Wanna Join The Discord?   / brittanysimon   •https://www.brittanysimon.com/ •Podcast On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hBjFvz... •Tiktok: / thebrittanysimon •Insta: / thebertsimon •https://bsky.app/profile/brittanysimo... creator of "The Levels" a philosophical framework (a work in progress)    • The Levels by Brittany Simon (An Observati...   There’s a quiet crisis happening right now and a lot of people don’t want to look at it too closely. Boys are growing up in a world where meaning feels hollow, connection feels transactional, and identity is being outsourced to aesthetics and algorithms. You see it in the rise of looksmaxxing culture, in the endless loops of redpill content, and in the way philosophy is being flattened into quick-hit answers instead of lived experience. It’s not that boys are “failing” it’s that many of them are starving for purpose and being handed performance instead. Even spaces like anime, especially stories like Vinland Saga, are resonating so deeply because they offer something real a confrontation with violence, growth, and the long painful road to meaning. When young men don’t have a framework for purpose, they build one out of whatever is available status, control, appearance. The problem isn’t that they’re searching. It’s that no one is helping them ask better questions. #BrittanySimon #philosophy #mensmentalhealth #meaningcrisis #modernmen #redpill #looksmaxxing #animeanalysis #vinlandsaga #masculinity #identity #selfgrowth #culturalcommentary #youngmen #purpose #bertsimon