I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.
There really isn't an accelerationist case to be made. South Africa is the proof: there is no "inevitable" pendulum swing. A society does not operate according to the principles of fixed momentum. Things can just get worse and worse and worse.
I assume you asked genuinely, so I’ll answer genuinely.
I live in the country, but I’m certainly part of the demographic that you might see as “boring” like this.
Here’s my Friday:
I wake to the shouts and giggles of two little boys. Get some hugs and some coffee, now it’s time to make money. At about 1pm my sons busted into my office and asked me if I’d take them to play golf. I said yes because I’ve built a life in which I can.
When we get home, I finish work. Later, we have dinner as a family (chicken fried chicken and mashed potatoes, it was 🔥). My sons ranked their days on a scale from 1-10 like we do and they said today was a “10.” Whatever high yall city folk get from “going out,” I got it from that.
Then I played basketball with my sons. We watched a little TV on the couch together. Now it’s bath time, bed time, Bible and prayers. As my oldest closed his eyes, he told me how he makes his friends pray before they eat lunch. I felt that “high” again.
Kids are asleep. So now it’s time for mom and dad to do some fun things that married people do.
This is my Friday night. And I’ll be absolutely WIPED by 10pm - it was a full day. And while it might sound insane to you right now, I wouldn’t trade places with any person on Earth.
I have what men search for all their lives; what men would sacrifice everything to have. Some have lost it chasing the things you’re suggesting I’m missing out on.
I mean this with all the love in the world. I’m not defensive. But I know with certainty, what you find rewarding will change the instant you are holding your first child in your arms. And I’m so excited for you to experience it one day. Good luck out there.
Sincerely,
A boring dad
Impossible to overstate how significant it is that a presidential administration would even pursue this, much less be successful in it.
This is why despite my objections to the Iran War, I am not going to launch into despair over Trump or attack him over anything and everything.
He is doing objectively good things that would have never happened otherwise in his absence. Yes, I am in disappointed in many ways, but no amount of disappointment would ever result in me saying "Guess I have to vote for Gavin Newsom now."
@MurrayHillGuy1 You forgot church on Sunday. But yeah, there’s a secret component. It’s loving your spouse and kids and wanting to spend time with them. After a decade of clubbing and Sunday brunches, it was fun to move on to the next phase of life. Perpetual adolescence is just sad.
last time I was in Mumbai, I dared walk beyond the walls of the Four Seasons just to see the… sights. concierge almost physically tried to stop me: “saar! saar! no walking around here!”
two dead bodies, just laying forgotten in the street within a few blocks. in the oven-hot air, I couldn’t tell whether they’d been there an hour or a week. open sewers in all directions. 3-feet-tall people living in tragic hovels, regarded by the upper classes as almost no different than rodents.
sure, it’s nice inside the Four Seasons. and it’s nice in the tony exclusive neighborhoods of old Bombay, the capital area of Delhi, in Chennai or Bangalore, and in (very Portuguese) Goa. Chandigarh’s capital complex, designed by a very European architect, is incredible. otherwise, India is an absolute shithole, a dogpile of immense human suffering, of hideous filth and inequality, of preening awful moralizing prideful spiteful rich people who treat their servants like garbage, and a middle class whose best option is to become scammers. it’s a place that breeds parsimonious, stingy, ugly souls who derive more satisfaction believing they’ve ripped someone off in any transaction, large or small, than from building durable, fruitful connections.
there are, indeed, many beautiful things in India, but all were built by people long, long ago from an altogether different civilization. unfortunately, they have all been buried in the literal and figurative shit.
I hope everyone sees what's happening here. There is a concerted effort not only to smuggle Islam into the right, but to muddy the very real right-left divide – to convince you that anti-white race communists are your friends simply because they don't like Israel. Insanity.
Ilhan Omar being exposed for her immigration fraud by the Republic of Somalialand due to clan rivalries and having them call for her extradition is exactly the sort of content I come to X for!
The point of wealth is to leave it to your children. That is its only value, it has no other value, but it has many forms of anti-value, like leaving it to a charity.
Lynch was a good man. He understood the assignment.