sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
Be bored more often.
Go for long walks. Meditate. Journal your thoughts. Read new books. Spend time alone without devices. You would get to understand yourself a lot much better. Your brain gets the best ideas when it is left to wander.
In those quiet moments, you'll uncover clarity and inspiration that can't be found in constant stimulation.
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Vice is the conservative moat because the conservative movement has spent decades making it so.
Evil done while doing pursing good is good, after all, as Conservative Catholic intellectuals made clear when defending the torture of our captive enemies, and as SCOTUS affirmed in Trump v. USA.
Once Pat Buchanan declared war on American culture, and Jonah Goldberg explained that all fascism was actually liberalism, the conservative license to embrace vice to defeat evil was absolute.
In this moral milieu, adultery is proof of virility and attractiveness. In this moral milieu wealth and alleged intelligence substitutes for virtue. In this moral milieu Biden's attending church every week is proof of his perfidy.
See how easy it is?
