I do enjoy the people who imagine they'd have stood up to Hitler and walked with MLK. Their convictions are of course safe today and represent contemporary mores. They mistake their adherence to this as the genuine conviction required to actually take an unpopular stance when the time comes.
Covid outed them all as frauds in my view. Just one reason it is studiously ignored by the laptop class.
Not sure why, but when I was in third grade, I was convinced that I was the reincarnation of Crazy Horse. That notion ran strong in me until I was 12 when I came upon the complete works of Ian Fleming (minus "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang") and I entered my <Bond, James Bond> phase. Because, you see, what those men did... that's what I would have done.
There’s something about childhood intuition can be oddly prophetic, or at least telling. Crazy Horse to James Bond is quite the arc…sacred warrior to smooth operator. Maybe there’s a thread between them—a kind of unshakable code. Sounds like you’ve always known what kind of person you’re meant to be.
I had a similar prophetic calling to Mister Rogers since preschool and it never left.
I recently discovered Weird Logic. He and/or she has an uncanny ability to avoid triggering me to disagree about this or that (quite a feat for someone like me who tends to find fault with nearly everyone). I'm not sure whether this reflects an adroitly creative knack for pleasingly slippery zingers that seem to agree with me on the appropriate targets while preserving a winking Middle from the "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right" in which many of us feel stuck -- or whether I actually do agree. Time may tell.
Really appreciate this. I try not to write to be agreed with—I write to make space for deeper thought. If it feels like I’m walking a strange middle, maybe it’s because I’m more interested in what’s true than what’s “correct.” Grateful you’re along for the ride—wherever it ends up.
Worth it for the Pippin and Merry meme if nothing else. "You do not know your danger, Theoden. These hobbits will sit on the edge of ruin and discuss the pleasures of the table, or the small doings of their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers, and remoter cousins to the ninth degree, if you encourage them with undue patience." They do right.
But yes, that calm of Gandalf the White, I have some sense of it after coming through all the stuff they piled on us.
This was so apt: “That’s the thing when you cling to comfort and ego. You think you’re defending truth. But the ego prefers the certainty of survival over the certainty of progress. It moralizes avoidance. Brands fear. And weaponizes intellect to dodge actual introspection that would lead to progress. Not out of malice—but because real truth scares the crap out of them.”
That was an excellent piece. It really echoes a lot of what I’ve come to understand through my own process. I’ve been studying how psychological manipulation—especially from the far left—shapes people over time. My focus is more on the quiet, long-term impact—the spiritual and emotional erosion that happens without people realizing.
Weird Logic grew out of a need to help people rebuild from the inside out. It’s less about ideology, more about restoration—something closer to what CS Lewis was doing in his own way.
It kept reminding me of "Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. There's nothing new under the sun."
One can even dial it back to the first One who got denied, ridiculed and murdered - Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, as a believer myself, I'm not sure I would have been one, if I was alive back then. Egos and fear prevail in most humans, and rare are the ones who vehemently seek, regardless of how unpopular it might be to do so. Acknowledging our weakness is the first step to respect the ones who overcame it.
I do enjoy the people who imagine they'd have stood up to Hitler and walked with MLK. Their convictions are of course safe today and represent contemporary mores. They mistake their adherence to this as the genuine conviction required to actually take an unpopular stance when the time comes.
Covid outed them all as frauds in my view. Just one reason it is studiously ignored by the laptop class.
Not sure why, but when I was in third grade, I was convinced that I was the reincarnation of Crazy Horse. That notion ran strong in me until I was 12 when I came upon the complete works of Ian Fleming (minus "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang") and I entered my <Bond, James Bond> phase. Because, you see, what those men did... that's what I would have done.
There’s something about childhood intuition can be oddly prophetic, or at least telling. Crazy Horse to James Bond is quite the arc…sacred warrior to smooth operator. Maybe there’s a thread between them—a kind of unshakable code. Sounds like you’ve always known what kind of person you’re meant to be.
I had a similar prophetic calling to Mister Rogers since preschool and it never left.
Love it!
I recently discovered Weird Logic. He and/or she has an uncanny ability to avoid triggering me to disagree about this or that (quite a feat for someone like me who tends to find fault with nearly everyone). I'm not sure whether this reflects an adroitly creative knack for pleasingly slippery zingers that seem to agree with me on the appropriate targets while preserving a winking Middle from the "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right" in which many of us feel stuck -- or whether I actually do agree. Time may tell.
Really appreciate this. I try not to write to be agreed with—I write to make space for deeper thought. If it feels like I’m walking a strange middle, maybe it’s because I’m more interested in what’s true than what’s “correct.” Grateful you’re along for the ride—wherever it ends up.
Worth it for the Pippin and Merry meme if nothing else. "You do not know your danger, Theoden. These hobbits will sit on the edge of ruin and discuss the pleasures of the table, or the small doings of their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers, and remoter cousins to the ninth degree, if you encourage them with undue patience." They do right.
But yes, that calm of Gandalf the White, I have some sense of it after coming through all the stuff they piled on us.
This was so apt: “That’s the thing when you cling to comfort and ego. You think you’re defending truth. But the ego prefers the certainty of survival over the certainty of progress. It moralizes avoidance. Brands fear. And weaponizes intellect to dodge actual introspection that would lead to progress. Not out of malice—but because real truth scares the crap out of them.”
It's an effective TL/DR for this article that I read last week: https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/how-the-woke-manipulate-the-center
That was an excellent piece. It really echoes a lot of what I’ve come to understand through my own process. I’ve been studying how psychological manipulation—especially from the far left—shapes people over time. My focus is more on the quiet, long-term impact—the spiritual and emotional erosion that happens without people realizing.
Weird Logic grew out of a need to help people rebuild from the inside out. It’s less about ideology, more about restoration—something closer to what CS Lewis was doing in his own way.
Had lots of giggles reading this one. Touché!
It kept reminding me of "Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. There's nothing new under the sun."
One can even dial it back to the first One who got denied, ridiculed and murdered - Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, as a believer myself, I'm not sure I would have been one, if I was alive back then. Egos and fear prevail in most humans, and rare are the ones who vehemently seek, regardless of how unpopular it might be to do so. Acknowledging our weakness is the first step to respect the ones who overcame it.