note: MUST FIND WEDGE DESERT BOOTS
We are coming of age in a culture not of un-enjoyment, but of anti-enjoyment. Passion is not just superfluous – passion is weakness. If you like things, you might like the wrong things, and then you’re WRONG with a capital “DOUBLE-U” with a capital “D”, and then you’re BAD and ugly and FAT and SUPER FAT. The Internet can’t figure out whether it wants to beatify things or damn them, so it just gets all sorts of contentious.
“…To participate in this chic backlash against passion is to have a small mind. In my humble, unimportant, normal-sized opinion, it is better to have a small BRAIN than a small MIND. If you have a small brain, you can still be a good, kind, hard-working, dumb person who can manage some sort of farm or daycare. If you have a small mind, however, you very well might hurt people with it.
“…Spending your youthful energy on combative, kinetic apathy is a waste. Stuff is AWESOME, GUYS. Something about everything is awesome.
"“Stand up for one sec- trust me. Ok: put both feet flat on the ground, about 16 in. apart. Now lean to your left and raise your right heel so that the right foot is on a tippy-toe and the left foot is still flat. Keep leaning… Now slowly put your right heel back down and return to your center, feet flat, standing up normally.
That’s exactly what my building did when the bomb exploded; The whole fucking building felt like it was about to tip all the way over, and then it swayed back.
It was 1 wtc, north tower, seven years ago today.”
