art should be beautiful

My favorite Chesterton idea is that you don't need the middle path but a marriage of extremes. You need to be intensely invested yet totally relaxed at the same time. Hate the world enough to change it, love it enough to consider it worth changing. Not balance but insane juggling

I care about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry understood

One of my favorite interviews.

But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we might lose our patience but never our sense of humor. — Gabriel García Márquez, 2002

“true friendship is defined by achieving virtue together, on a path walked and fought together.” This is so good.

Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like, such as reading to your little boy..keeps the devil down in the hole. #NickCave youtu.be/G8qmV6MYCF4?si…

Saturday meditations

“Good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created… It is also one reason why conservatives suffer such a disadvantage when it comes to public opinion. Their position is true but boring, that of their opponents exciting but false.” Sir Roger Scruton

Ultimately Clark says that flourishing civilizations have two things beyond a base-level of material prosperity: confidence and belief. “confidence in the society in which one lives, belief in its philosophy, belief in its laws, and confidence in one’s own mental powers.”

The endeavor to live on other planets challenges human adaptability and resilience, pushing the boundaries of what humans believe is possible. This could metaphorically and literally expand human consciousness by showing what humans are capable of when faced with extreme

Hope is experienced in relationship to a superordinate goal. - Dr Jordan B Peterson Vision & Destiny

“Who else even aspires to these standards.”

Some of the most viral posts on X come from accounts that celebrate the beauty of what the old world built. Their content gets so much engagement because it highlights a simple truth: the modern world is starved for beauty. A thread of some of the most viral posts 🧵