Our generation wasn’t failing; we were set up to fail. Housing costs 7-10x salary instead of 3x. Rent takes 30-50% of paychecks. We were never taught how to build wealth. Compound interest at 20 beats it at 30, but how do you save when you’re surviving paycheck to paycheck? Fix the cost of living. Teach finance young. It starts with the parents and the government, and we’re next up in line.
Robert E. Lee might be one of the greatest generals in history—and that’s not really a hot take if you look at the record.
He took over the Army of Northern Virginia in ‘62 when it was a mess, and within months pulled off the Seven Days, Second Manassas, and Chancellorsville—the last one against a larger force he split and still won. The resource gap was embarrassing. The Union had double the men, the factories, and the railroads. The South was an agrarian economy being blockaded into the ground. Lee ran a knife fight against a guy with a gun and nearly broke Northern public will. The whole Union strategy had to keep adapting around him. Freeman put him alongside Napoleon and Wellington, and it’s not a stretch.
He wasn’t flawless—Gettysburg was a gamble that didn’t pay, his aggressive style burned through men the South couldn’t replace, and he was maybe too Virginia-focused while the western theater collapsed. Grant eventually ground him down.
But if you judge generals on what they did with what they had, against whom they faced, Lee’s case is serious. Lost Cause mythology aside, the military record stands on its own.
Drugs tap into that craving. They borrow the body’s own chemistry for a quick hit of “transcendence.” But it’s a counterfeit—a shortcut that skips the relationship. The Bible shows the real deal: at Pentecost, the disciples weren’t on some ancient drug; they were filled with the Holy Spirit. The saints who experienced deep spiritual highs got there by surrendering to God in prayer through the highs and lows of real faith, not breathwork or pills.
At the end of the day, chasing that feeling through chemicals traps rather than frees you. Addiction steals your freedom. But Jesus came so we could have life to the full—and real freedom. The body is amazing and can feel incredible things, but the deepest joy comes when we offer it back to God, not hijack it.
The real “secret” isn’t a molecule or a technique. It’s the cross. That’s where the restless heart finally finds home—not in a high that fades, but in the unchanging love of a God who came down to us.
Drugs and the addiction to them have always fascinated me. They are like reaches for the Infinite. Yoga says the body, with the glands, nerves and breath, can be as psychoactive as any drug. And drugs might only work because our body can produce their effects itself.