So, in the last few months, we’ve witnessed the rise of “The Liver King”.
He’s this jacked dude that promotes “the 9 ancestral tenets”, ideas that are supposed to make you live a better life.
He has a bunch of “trademarks”:
He eats raw food all the time (especially liver);
99% of the time, he’s shirtless;
And…well, he looks like this:
Apparently, some people believed that this dude, in his 40s, could get this jacked in a natural way. Turns out, you can’t.
Personally, I don’t care.
Being a full-time learner is a matter of trying to understand what can I learn from whomever I have in front of me and, to be honest, I liked some of his things.
Not the whole “eat raw deer testicles because they’re a great source of protein” (I’ll stick with my protein shakes, thank you) but everything else is actually great advice on how to get in a better shape and connect more with nature and the people around us.
However, recently some emails were leaked and people discovered that he was, indeed, using steroids. Faced with the harsh reality of being discovered, Bryan (the real name of Liver King) made an apology video.
Now, you may wonder what does this has to do with a Modern Golden Age or even Métis?
So, for the last few months, I’ve been talking about this topic with a lot of different people, on Twitter, through new friendships, and, of course, in my podcast.
And yet, when recently I started to talk about this with my oldest friends, it just didn’t resonate. I talked about some different things that I consider tenets of an MGA: vulnerability, self-worth, being truthful, and how important conversations were as a vehicle for progress and transformation.
I wasn’t able to provide examples or ideas that could actually help people to realize what I was trying to share.
Today, when I opened my YouTube, I realized Andrew Schultz, a comedian I really enjoy, had an interview with him. To my amazement, after some comedy and roasting, the conversation got actually pretty deep and they talked about self-worth, being true and being vulnerable.
They talked about purpose and the inner struggles that come from progress. In fact, they were able to make him share some deep, personal stuff about his own story. All because of their willingness to have a deep conversation (skip to minute 37:00).
Suddenly, I won an ally. An icon in pop culture, actually undergoing the kind of transformation I think is needed to bring an MGA.
For people on “this corner of the internet” is easier to adopt this new vision of the world. But if we want to break the chasm and actually create a larger-scale change we need people from the outside to be on the same wavelength as us. And that’s only possible by using examples that other people know and projecting a deeper layer of meaning into it.
Wisdom is better when shared so let’s find the common ground amongst us and become wiser, together.