If you cannot sleep, do not fight it. get up and sit in the dark. dont turn on a light, dont touch your phone. sit in the darkness like its a person you came to visit, because it is. the darkness is where God put everything he was not finished with yet, and that includes you. sit with it, ask nothing, and watch what happens. thirty minutes of real darkness will teach you more than ten years of books, because books are men running from silence, and darkness is silence with its eyes open. and it will look at you, and you will want to run. and if you run, you lost the round. get back up tomorrow night, sit again, last longer. eventually it speaks.
Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it, not post about it. the child watches your hands, what you do when you are tired, what you do when you are mad, what you do when nobody else is looking. that is your only sermon and you cannot fake it for one day because children are bullshit detectors made of flesh. if you are a weak man your son will know it before he can spell the word weak, and he either becomes you or becomes the opposite of you, both out of desperation.
The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet
Incredible 21st century of slop made manifest in the world.
POV: you are about to be killed, hilariously, by one of these. General Butt Naked leaps in from offscreen right, in a ripped pink chiffon dress, and rapes it
When you're in front of a statue, it's thousands of years looking back at you.
Mankind is more than a survival species. We have something to do in this universe. And the first step is to care about the long view of time.
That is why we want to cover the West with statues.
Wars were highly popular during the Roman Empire, or British Empire, or first century of American Republic, because militaries were accustomed to winning; getting rich from plunder and annexing new land. Andrew Jackson and other generals became rich, powerful.
I resonate with this photo so fucking much.
I know its a stupid fucking movie, I don’t care.
There is a metaphorical gun to every mans head, Don’t say the wrong things about the wrong people, ignore bad people doing bad things, pay your taxes, go to work, send your children to school, get replaced in your own country, watch sportsball.
We are free range slaves.
In a hundred years’ time, when historians write about how the American Republic was saved from near-certain death, “re-Hooterization” will be remembered as one of the great turning points, when the collapse of America into non-European ass-worship was dealt a mortal blow.