I’m torn on this because on the one hand I��m excited to have my kids play this because I recently introduced them to my wholesome N64 games, but on the other it’s just another example of our stuck infantilized nostalgia-driven culture.
Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.
This one quote sounded familiar.
This is why secular arguments against abortion will ultimately fail.
Secular culture is moving towards being ok with killing humans, if it’s convenient.
'If the human being is treated as something to be perfected or surpassed, it becomes easier to accept that some lives are less useful, less desirable or less worthy'
Pope Leo XIV
Magnifica Humanitas
Latinos don’t feel the need change skin color is because their culture is more than skin color, it’s food, traditions religion, ect… so for Latinos to be represented they only need to add bits of those in. For black Americans their skin color alone is their culture
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.
now take this information and flip it. constantly pointing out the things you are grateful for can train your brain to notice more things to be grateful for. constantly noticing abundance will train your brain to notice even more abundance. flip the script & stay in control.
When I look at my kids, I have 2 thoughts:
1) I have never loved anything as much as I love them.
2) I have never looked forward to 8:30PM so much in my entire life.
Dostoevsky wrote this after nearly being executed:
“When I look back at my life, I feel pain not because of suffering, but because of wasted time. I see how carelessly I lived, how often I ignored the quiet voice of my soul, how rarely I understood the value of a single moment. Only when death stood before me did I realize that life is not merely existence—it is a miracle. Every minute is a treasure, and in every breath, there is the possibility of happiness.”