What Young Freemasons Want, by WB William A. Isabelle

What do young Freemasons want?

Why do young men go out of their way to become Freemasons in the first place?

Why did you become a Freemason?

A generation or so ago, there was something called “anti-establishmentarianism”. As an attitude, this notion changed the world we live in today.

Today, we have “political-correctness”: no one is a winner or a loser; everyone is now a participant with no set standard to follow, or to be held to.

Parents no longer discipline their children; “they talk about their issues”; children no longer fear consequences because they don’t have any.

Men no longer have a definable role in society.

The term “man’s work” is sexist and discriminatory; Using such phraseology is considered to be harassment.

Most of Generation X came from broken homes, from parents who got divorced because they could, unlike many of our grandparents who really believed it was “’till death do us part”.

Most young men of today who are becoming the young Freemasons of today, do so because they perceive our fraternity as a bastion, an island of social constants where your word is your bond and the prerequisite is that you must be a man, good and true.

Most young Freemasons today are starved for adequate role-models because the society of today seeks to produce an androgynous homogeny, where the consideration of one’s Manhood is a misnomer, because today we seek to achieve “Actualized Persondom”.

What most young Freemasons want is a place where they can go and be around MEN. Men who have contributed in their way to the greatness and growth of the modern world. Men who have wisdom, and are not Dr. Phil.

What young Freemasons want is to make their mark on the world, because we believe it is our right and our responsibility to do so.

What young Freemasons want is to be a part of something greater than ourselves, something that will last longer than the popularity of the latest and greatest video gaming console.

What young Freemasons want is to be good Freemasons; the problem is that we don't have enough good examples to follow, because for most of us, we’re a generation too late.

I'm a young Freemason, and I want to leave the world, my Craft and Fraternity better than I found it.

Thank you.