The old saying is that the best revenge is to live well. Now that’s not really true. The best revenge is luring your enemy into a convenient catacomb, shackle him to the wall and brick him into an alcove where he’ll die of hunger and thirst.
But living well means enjoying the things that make life full and rich. And the secret to overcoming the toxic effects of the death cult that attacks our lives from all directions is not to spend all our time fighting it. Sure, we must expend a certain amount of our time in fighting it. There are political battles and cultural battles and personal battles. But if we let this fighting take up all our time then we lose. Because we never have a chance to bring the good things into our lives that make us happy. Our lives are robbed of beauty and joy. We survive but we can’t thrive.
So, what we need to do is look at the things that give joy to us and make sure that we make time for them. And we need to pass these things along to the young people. Because the Left is attacking many of these things and trying to eliminate them from the world. They have declared all of western civilization, racist. Western music, western art, western literature, all of it is suspect. So, Shakespeare is evil unless all the good characters are portrayed by transgender actors or something. And Mozart is evil unless there is a female rapper twerking to it somehow. And worst of all is Christianity. The Bible is evil unless there is a lesbian minister declaring that Jesus was gay.
Now you can spend all your time battling the woke scolds who declare all these fatwahs against our culture. But instead it is better to spend time enjoying these forbidden things. Go to a Shakespeare play or any play. Or if you can’t find a non-woke production then buy the DVDs of the old productions. Go to a concert. It doesn’t have to be classical music. I also like country music. Maybe you like jazz. Find a concert and go listen to something that makes you feel alive. Have a few beers (not Bud Light) and a burger and go with people who enjoy that music too.
Find a local theater that has revivals of old movies and find the movies that you like there. And read the classics. And by classics I don’t mean ancient. Anything from more than seventy years ago is safe from the taint of our modern disease. And even today there are authors who aren’t infected. Look up reviews by people who aren’t woke, like me.
And if your tastes run to action-adventure movies or punk rock or metal then let these things be what you search out. After all, these are just as forbidden as Shakespeare and Mozart. They aren’t woke enough for our current rulers. They still have too much freedom in their DNA.
And make sure you bring along the kids when you do these things. They aren’t exposed to anything normal in their outside lives. Everything in the social media world that they live in is steeped in the TikTok, YouTube orthodoxy that reinforces all the lies and prejudices against the good and beautiful things that existed in the past. They are proselytized to think all the strange and weird things being pushed are normal and healthy. So, make sure they are exposed to as many of the healthy and normal influences as you possibly can.
So that’s a simple message. Make sure that you leave plenty of space in your life for the enjoyable and exciting things that the present culture is trying to eliminate. Fighting the culture war will take care of itself. And by enjoying your life and sharing it with the young you help to squeeze out the influence of the Left from your life. And that is priceless.