The Company Man vs. The Comprehensive Man!

The Last Refuge of the Disappearing Man Every age invents a ritual for offering men to the fire. Once it was the hunt, the spear, the plow. Now it is the spreadsheet, the mortgage, the quiet suffocation of a smile that hides the tremor in the jaw. We baptize boys in slogans—be a man, man up, take one for the team—until language itself becomes a weaponized lullaby.