The Ghost Dogs are founded on the masculine virtues of ethics, strength, honor, courage, integrity, and mastery to provide men with mutual support through brotherhood to reach our full potential. We’re based on an ancient, natural, primal set of ideals that stretches back throughout human history. Long ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors relied on these virtues to provide and protect for their tribe. Each of us comes from a long, unbroken chain of forefathers who have passed those virtues to us.
These virtues are found in every society, culture, and civilization throughout our rich history. We’ve spent two decades studying the nature of masculinity. This intensive research has included many civilizations, societies, cultures, groups, and individuals.
Some of the great warrior cultures of the past and present have provided a framework for the nature of Brotherhood, including what it is and why it is so critically important. , and these virtues can be found in each and every one. These cultures include the Spartans, Vikings, Athenians, Christian Crusaders, Japanese Samurai, Celtic Warriors, Persian Immortals, Apache Warriors, Carthaginian Army, French Foreign Legion, Zulu Warriors, Russian Spetsnaz, Israeli IDF, Roman Praetorian Guard, Ottoman Janissaries, Medieval Knights Templar, Maori Warriors, Swiss Guard, British SAS, Roman Gladiators, Teutonic Knights, Persian Achaemenid Army, French Musketeers, Persian Achaemenid Army, Spanish Conquistadors, Polish Hussars, and the U.S. Marine Corps. Each and every one of these groups exhibited the masculine virtues that create great men.
These same virtues we find in these groups are also be found in great men. We’ve studied the biographies of these great men found throughout the history of mankind, taken the qualities that made them great, and distilled those qualities down to the principles we embrace.
This list of men is equally long, and includes JFK, Ernest Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, Muhammad Ali, George Washington, Shaka Zulu, Galileo Galilei, Neil Armstrong, Hunter S. Thompson, Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, Wyatt Earp, Ragnar Lothbrok, Leonidas I, John Locke, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Mark Twain, Edmund Hillary, Aristotle, Alexander Hamilton, William Wallace, Christopher Columbus, Ernest Shackleton, T.E. Lawrence, Henry Ford, Martin Luther King Jr., James Cook, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jacques Cousteau, Elliot Ness, Cesar Chavez, George Patton, Isaac Newton, Alan Turing, Winston Churchill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Pershing, Ferdinand Magellan, John Glenn, Sun Tzu, Sir Robert Peel, Robert E. Lee, Jackie Robinson, Davy Crockett, Charles Darwin, Wild Bill Hickok, Douglas MacArthur, Michael Murphy, Louis Pasteur, John Muir, Lewis and Clark, Plato, Mahatma Gandhi, Alvin York, Dwight Eisenhower, Billy the Kid, Stonewall Jackson, Audie Murphy, and Benjamin Franklin.
The qualities found in these warrior cultures and in these great men aren’t a secret; they’re the same masculine virtues we find our our most beloved fictional characters in literature, TV, and movies. Characters like Indiana Jones, Rocky Balboa, Tony Stark, James Bond, Don Draper, Ron Swanson, Walter White, Jack Bauer, Jax Teller, Rick Grimes, Michael Corleone, Harvey Specter, Dexter Morgan, John Rambo, Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Atticus Finch, Aragorn, Sherlock Holmes, Superman, Gandalf, Captain America, Odysseus, Jon Snow, King Arthur, Batman,, Professor Dumbledore, Beowulf, Ned Stark, Rhett Butler, Frodo Baggins, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Tarzan, Jack Ryan, The Lone Ranger, Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, Huckleberry Finn, Legolas, Spartacus, Superman (and Clark Kent), Jay Gatsby, Randle McMurphy, Holden Caulfield, and Thor all possess these same masculine virtues.
In times of chaos and turmoil, these ancient masculine virtues flourished and allowed our species to survive, these groups to prosper, and these individuals to thrive. Masculinity is synonymous with an ancient, powerful, natural drive that has allowed our species to survive war, famine, and disaster. It has allowed men to tame the wilderness and make civilization possible.
In times of abundance and prosperity, these ancient masculine virtues have been vilified and pushed to the periphery of society, only to return when the once-prosperous society begins to crumble. Unfortunately, our safe, modern, technology-driven world has left us in a place where the timeless, ancient masculine virtues aren't needed. However, it is a grave mistake to confuse "modern" with "better" or "permanent." If the last few years has taught us anything, it's that modernity is far more fragile than any of us thought.
The desire to provide and protect is inextricably part of who we are as men, even when we're living in a time where that desire isn't required for our survival. As Ghost Dogs, we’re proud of our masculine heritage, and we unapologetically tap into this ancient warrior and guardian ethos to forge lives worth living.
The Ghost Dogs as we exist today are the product of two decades of research and development into our history and psychology to rediscover what has been mostly lost in our modern soft society. We understand the way of men, and we know the kind of men we want as Brothers to become the men we need to become. The group was founded because no such independent brotherhood exists today.
Our complex history, and the methods we've derived from this history, can be distilled down to six masculine virtues:
The Six Virtues of The Ghost Dogs
***
No comments:
Post a Comment