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I think we deserve   a soft epilogue, my love.   We are good people   and we’ve suffered enough.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Modernity is essentially a war against finitude or limitation of any kind. Modern people—openly or tacitly—reject the idea that there should be any limits on the mind’s ability to understand or to improve upon nature, or themselves. They regard the cycles of nature and the cycles of life as something to be overcome.    Why shouldn’t youth last forever? Why can’t we overcome death? Why can’t we have babies in our seventies? Why can’t we engineer better tomatoes? Why can’t we spend more than we earn? Why can’t both parents have careers? Why can’t we have stable marriages and sleep with whomever we like? Why can’t money buy happiness? (It might not have in the past, but things have changed, haven’t they?) Why can’t we enjoy all our consumer goods, and still be ‘green’? Why can’t we have a cohesive society made up of people who share neither culture nor language? Why can’t women be as masculine as men and men be feminine? Why can’t Heather have two mommies?      We reject any suggestion that there may be necessities in life, meaning things that can only be one way, and not another. And we especially deplore the idea of biological necessity—i.e., the idea that the body may limit us. Radical Traditionalism is, at root, a call to return to our ancestors’ acceptance of finitude: their recognition that certain things are unchangeable, and that all attempts to change them lead to disaster.

I’ve been feeling so many things.

Do not break a heart that considers you it’s most precious treasure لا تكسر قلباً يراك اجمل ما يملك

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

ما خفيته بقلبك ينقرأ في عيونك What you hide in your heart is read in your eyes.

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.

Always question where you’re loving from.