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[J @_0mniman]

Happy Birthday, Jenny.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I've been trying to share a particular message for a couple of years now, and I can never quite find the words. I doubt I will tonight, but I have to try again because I watched my great friend get murdered over it today.

We have a choice: catharsis or civilization.

There's no other choice for us. We can have a civilization, where people are civilized enough to live, work, and trade with one another in a productive way, a safe way, a trustworthy enough way, or we can abandon it for the pursuit of letting the negative emotions of the past years, decade, or decades consume us.

There's no other choice.

If we choose catharsis, we let our emotions, our Pathos, get the better of us. We turn to our anger and look to give it more justifications. We turn to our frustration and seek an orgiastic release through whatever deeds vents it. We turn to our oppression, our rage, our despair, our fear, and we let it flow through us until the Pathos pours out and covers the land in what will eventually be fire and blood.

Catharsis is tempting, and stepping into it will be libidinous, orgiastic, elevating, and divine, until we realize that it's the feast of demons upon everything we could have built and everything we could have passed on to our children and our posterity.

Civilization is harder. It's bitter, in fact, in comparison to catharsis. It means swallowing hard and taking all those negative emotions and sublimating them into something productive, something that builds rather than makes us feel better. Civilization feels like injustice, in fact, even though it is the only basis for justice outside of Heaven and Hell, if they exist.

If we choose civilization, we're allowed to be mad, but we must temper our anger into right action that builds something to leave a better world, which will dissolve it, of course. We're also allowed to be frustrated, but we must sublimate our frustration into the dedicated search for real and lasting solutions to our problems in a civilization worth living in and passing to our children. We are not allowed to despair, though, and we cannot persist in fear. We must have faith that swallowing and metabolizing all of our negativity to turn it into a flourishing society is possible and worth it, and faith will drive out fear and is the mortal enemy of despair.

Civilization is not available on the wide path. It is the narrow path, at least so far as worldly life goes. Veer too far to one side or the other, or even for too long a moment forget your purpose or principles, and you lose the path, lose civilization, and lose everything worth having.

Without civilization, though, we will find ourselves in a terror beyond our comprehension. Maybe it will be like the philosopher Thomas Hobbes described it in the wake of the terrible English Civil War, when civilization was nearly thrown aside. Violent, solitary or tribal, nasty, brutish, short, a wicked and selfish war of all against all. It looks like the favelas of Brazil.

Maybe we'll end up conquered, fighting among ourselves while our enemies feast on our folly. Maybe we'll end up holding it together, for a little while anyway, under a tyrant who can, for a time, make it all stop and demand order. Maybe we all just end up learning Mandarin and get along mastering the ins and outs of social credit existence.

Civilization is worth fighting for, and catharsis is the kind of momentary pleasure followed by pain that every virtue stands in opposition to. In a civilization we, and each of our children after us, can live as individuals, free to pursue our dreams in sufficient safety and opportunity to generate abundance. Catharsis will be a groupish disaster with all the allure and hangover of a drunken mosh pit.

Again, I'm not expressing myself the way I see this issue in my mind. It's such an important message that I just can't get right, no matter how I try.

What I will say is that, for any differences in the particulars my great friend Charlie Kirk and I have had, Charlie Kirk stood for, lived for, and acted to his dying breath for civilization. He was far too temperate and wise, even at 31, for catharsis.

How can I be sure?

Under strange circumstances once, I found myself out on a skiing boat on a lake with Charlie Kirk. Music was playing, we were having a good time enjoying the morning. Charlie, with his standard grin, bare chest in the sun, laughed a little and explained himself, "I had fun once, guys, and I hated it."

Then he made our host change the music from something fun and hip to... classical. And we ran up and down the lake alongside all the other party boats listening to Bach, Vivaldi, and Stravinsky, not having fun even once and loving it. Charlie Kirk lived for civilization, and nothing remotely like catharsis would have been near his mind, heart, or soul, even in its darkest, most frustrated moments.

Charlie wanted to win, but he wanted to win so that we can move away from evil and move away from cathartic, orgiastic destruction and toward civilizational order, where his family and children could grow up as strong, proud Americans.

That's how I know that Charlie understood the choice I still cannot articulate. We have two options, and only two. They are catharsis and civilization.

Charlie Kirk lived that we would have civilization. May Charlie Kirk not have died such that we spiral into catharsis and evil.

[J @_0mniman]

@paytonjjones Skin on skin.

[J @_0mniman]

Taylor's about to dump Travis.

[J @_0mniman]

I want to read the thirstiest fan mail Robert Stack got when he was hosting Unsolved Mysteries.

[J @_0mniman]

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[J @_0mniman]

I love how in a lot of movies whenever someone offers their guest coffee it's served with cup & saucer all proper like. I'd just give you my Batman mug.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“Virtue signaling is not a virtue. Virtue signaling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.”
—Norman Doidge

(if you don't understand what he’s talking about, you may want to consider the possibility he’s talking about you)

[J @_0mniman]

When I was in second grade I thought Bon Jovi was metal. "YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME! YEAH, ROCKIN'!"

[J @_0mniman]

To conclude that Travis Kelce will be abusive to Taylor because you observed him yelling at his coach about a play seems like a miscalculation to me.

[J @_0mniman]

Gloria Estefan telling me the rhythm's gonna get me. LOL Joke's on her. The rhythm got me years ago.

[J @_0mniman]

@averykimball 😃

[J @_0mniman]

@pearlythingz For some reason, this came off as a red flag in itself. She had an eight-year-old son.

[J @_0mniman]

@pearlythingz Exes with criminal records. Abusive exes. Weird to say this but I heard a story about an ex from a woman I was seeing. When her man was hitting her, she tried hitting her own head on furniture so she'd knock herself out.

[Amy Alkon @amyalkon]

Medieval, low-intelligence incels, believing on the level of a five-year-old: Sold the ludicrous fiction that they will be awarded virgins who won’t have periods if only they murder other human beings who are Jews (and other such crap this evil fuck tells them to turn them into fodder).

The mass slaughter of Jews lonnnnnnng predates the statehood of Israel. It’s not about land. It’s about primitive fucks who have little going for them who need to hate and murder to feel any sense of having some worth. (See next tweet)

[J @_0mniman]

I've become the guy that shakes the pill bottles at Walgreens at 2 am.

[Sarah Haider 👾 @SarahTheHaider]

I believe I am leaving my nihilistic era. Future is bright, actually.

[Jimmy 💃🏻 @jimmy_farring]

Just watched a crane fall and pummel a building on the other side of the block!
#nyc #fire

[J @_0mniman]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[J @_0mniman]

@Aella_Girl Nothing as long as you're not being dehumanized.