The “succulent Chinese meal” dude is the closest we have to a living breathing realisation of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch. A man who has transcended morality and resentment and survey the affairs of mere men with a haughty detachment and much laughing.
Psychology says some people avoid socializing not because they hate people, but because they can read them too well. They walk into a room and immediately sense the fake laughs, the hidden agendas, the performances. Their nervous system doesn't misread the signal, it just refuses to ignore it. Small talk feels like a tax they didn't agree to pay. Forced smiles cost them energy that takes hours to recover. They're not broken. They're calibrated differently. They don't avoid people. They avoid emotional labor that leads nowhere. When they do connect, it's deep, intentional, real. No masks. No games. Fewer friends doesn't mean loneliness. It means higher standards. That's not antisocial behavior. That's emotional intelligence.
If I told you at the start of the season, the Habs were going to end the season with 106 points, Suzuki 100+ pts, Caufield 51 goals and push Tampa bay to 7 games with a chance to move on in the playoffs 2nd round, can we say this season was a big success regardless of gm7 result?
When the world shut down over a 99.9999% survivable virus, I had to tell a few dozen rig hands they were out of a job.
Then I had to tell even more frac hands. Then snubbing hands.
Then I went home to wait for my layoff.
Then I spent 6 months applying for jobs with no interviews because corporate America had banned White men in honor of Saint George Floyd, Patron Saint of Fentanyl.
A great Twitter friend who I am indebted to forever got me a job with a 25% pay cut, and I had to work physically harder than I had in a decade.
Anyway. Nobody in news media ever reached out for my story. And it wasn’t a unique story, I was one of a couple hundred thousand guys going through this.
Wow, found the stats
- They sold everything and said goodbye, to go to an unknown land
- They paid for transport and supplies, then staked their claim on condition they prove their worth
- They risked everything
And almost half lost it all
This is the foundation of the West
No matter what anyone says about Brendan Gallagher, it should never be forgotten that this who he's always been for the Montreal Canadiens.
It's who he still is, and he shows that every day.