Leftist: "Capitalists have destroyed the American working class with their greed!"
Me: "By importing cheap foreign labor?"
Leftist: "...no"
Me: "Oh, by lobbying for onerous regulations to stifle competition"?
Leftist: "...no"
Me: "Oh, by offshoring crucial industries to lower their labor costs?"
Leftist: "...no"
Me: "How then?"
Leftist: "...with their greed!"
Hope everyone has a very, very tight weekend. Please, if you can, try your best to be an Agent of Stoke. A Prince of Pump. Shit rules. Even if things may be feeling kinda lame. Get stoked. Chill. Let go of the BS if it comes for you and tries to lay claim upon your peace.
And yet, and yet... The Creator of this vast Cosmos chose this tiny speck of sand to come and let Himself be killed for us and our sins.
Also for you.
Epic, isn't it?
Today we celebrate the life of the greatest Roman to ever live, Gaius Julius Caesar. Cowards and traitors took his life but his legacy lives on through the rest of the Roman Empire and even to today.
When you say “great men of history” he is always at the top of the list.
Unpopular opinion: this book is almost 30 years old and in all honesty didn't age very well. If you own a copy do yourself a favor: bury it deeply in your bookshelf and forget about it forever.