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Timothy Williams's avatar

I have had zero success answering weakness with rhetoric. The only satisfying answer is to cultivate strength.

Strength is objective and measurable. Strength can never be be granted or denied to us, nor can it be counterfeited by any man.

200 pounds is always 200 pounds in the hands of every human being. 200 pounds is unmoved by any fashion or wishful thinking.

We gain strength only as we test our limits and correct our errors. That struggle teaches us restraint, honesty, ambition, humility, physiology and faith. Struggle grows into training, and training hardens into habit. The man who has gained the most strength has completed the deepest study into these virtues.

So I believe you are correct when you say that strengthening one's tribe is an end in itself, and to your critics who insist that skill is somehow more important than strength, I will answer from my athletic experience that strength is the parent of skill.

However skilled a man may be, getting stronger only makes him more effective and unlocks even more skill.

Just get stronger!

If nothing else, it drives them crazy.

Godspeed Rolo.

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John Carter's avatar

>until you take steps to embody the verb and not the noun of the ideal that you claim to care about, you are simply experiencing an identity crisis.

Words to live by. Should be tattooed on the head of everyone who professes an ideal.

There's also something in here about revealed preferences of white liberals revealing them as the real racists or something.

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