The real always finds a way to reassert itself

Broke millennials and gen z realizing en masse that, on top of everything, they cannot afford to help their senile parents in any real way will snap their last thread of sanity and the dam in this country will finally break

One thing I wish I’d understood when I was younger is that malignant people don’t want to win as much as they want to drag you down to their level, often without realizing it.

How badly did Boomers screw up that their kids can’t afford kids and their parents are on tv saying WW2 wasn’t worth it?

We like to believe that a brush with death or dramatic undoing causes people to reflect and change their ways, almost like an alchemical reaction, but the truth is even if shaken for a moment almost everyone reverts to factory settings. Bastards are bastards for life.

It’s taking every ounce of willpower I have to not wrap myself in blankets and eat boiled potatoes until the sun comes out again.

In some strange way growing up in the de-industrialized rust belt is like being from the future. What outsourcing did to us AI is about to do to everybody else.

Hunter Ash In the future social trust should be considered as seriously as GDP or national security.

sometimes I wonder why everything feels so insane and then I remember that we are living at the crux of the intelligence explosion curve right as world war II is about to be gone from all living memory

Many millennial women were raised on this weird mix of traditional rules and boomer platitudes like “prioritize male comfort and loyalty above all else”, but also “marriage is just a piece of paper - do whatever you want” that scrambled a lot of us.

You could never have prepared me for the level of apathy people show to entire forests being overtaken by blood-sucking, disease-ridden parasites.

Someone should go to jail for forcing us to see a million horrible Planet Fitness logos every time we watch the ball drop on New Year’s Eve.

“The essence of a thing is that it has no essence” is the core 21st century idea that is the basis of every other bad idea out there. It’s intellectual defeat taken to its logical conclusion.

Whenever I see these videos I think of Chesterton's point that believers allow for one great miracle (the divine) while materialists are forced to believe in a billion smaller ones every single day.

Be very wary of anyone you meet who is normally all syrupy sweet but oddly coldhearted towards certain animals - tossing rocks at fish, giving away a loyal pet for petty reasons. They conceal something very dark about themselves.

Remember when the most exciting thing on the news was Napster vs. Metallica?

If you have close fulfilling relationships and autonomy over your own time you’ve made it in almost every way that matters

Dreaming of days spent aimlessly wandering Roman streets, slipping into quiet churches, and looking up

The Fall of Hyperion may be my favorite book. RIP to a real one. One day they will make a movie or premier tv show out of the series and it will likely be terrible but at least people will finally discover a sci-fi epic that surpasses Dune in its scope and prescience.