Absolutely wild how dead the open internet is. Everything is on TikTok, Instagram, Discord, or Facebook groups now. None of those are searchable (if Google even worked). Reddit wikis and discussion are ghost towns. Non-academic research is impossible.
«In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock»
At risk of stating the obvious but what's pushing me forward is Love. It's not a platitude. Loving something or someone (not necessarily a partner) can turn the weakest man into an unparalleled transcends version of him. It's real. It's the essence of the human condition.