The Way of Silence (Sphinxes). Artist: František Kupka. Date: c. 1903 AD. Medium: oil on pasteboard; 58.5 × 69 cm. Collection: National Gallery Prague.

captive dreamer “Somehow a guy four centuries ago caused too many current cultural ills."—Releasing modern persons who implemented civilization degradation policies from accountability. Making impossible to address any current problems.

Never mistake the righteous visceral disgust of other people for a symptom of "social anxiety". I work a 'disgusting' job, but nothing makes me more ill than other people.

It is my final night of being a teenager, though I don't think I ever really was, for if these years were meant to be carefree, the luxury was kept from me, and if they were meant for melodrama, I certainly refrained from such errors.

𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒶 If you think having a PhD is, these days, any guarantee of even the most basic intellectual competence, then you're not right-wing. (You're also not intellectually competent). Maybe a century ago it was, when the (I believe still formally applying) condition of one's doctoral

レオン・ボンヴァン《田舎の風景》1865年、ウォルターズ美術館

ジョン・ホワイト・アレクサンダー《一条の日光》1898年

Equally, when I was being "educated", my true will was never to die, but to live.

I've always been 'right', but Stalinism makes more sense to me than geriatric Rightism by a longshot. I understand why many teens default to it-- then they are sort of enraptured into the culture of Woke, and perhaps castrated into a blood cult like transgenderism.