Met Kumu (Dean's friend) on the way home from NUS just now. Somewhere along the conversation I felt like saying that "the modern man is becoming increasingly emasculated". Perhaps I know too little to say that for all modern males, but it appears to be the case for many Singaporean males. Maybe it's because we've grown up in such comfort, we haven't had the flames of troubles to toughen us up.

So, what makes a man? Looking around me, it seems that a good model would be Jesus, who knew what he stood for, but was yet caring. He was strong, yet gentle. He was secure in his identity, and did not let others shake him from his convictions. He was not nice all the time, but he was good.

Anyway, the Existentialists claim that rationality and reason are what the human mind needs, to hide from the fact that the world essentially contains no order, no rules, and that everything is essentially random. If this is the case, even the study of "what it means to be a true man" can be thrown away. Perhaps there are no rules to this, and it's all purely random.