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The old saying is that the best revenge is to live well.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s not really true.\u00a0 The best revenge is luring your enemy into a convenient catacomb, shackle him to the wall and brick him into an alcove where he\u2019ll die of hunger and thirst.<\/p>\n

But living well means enjoying the things that make life full and rich.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Sure, we must expend a certain amount of our time in fighting it.\u00a0 There are political battles and cultural battles and personal battles.\u00a0 But if we let this fighting take up all our time then we lose.\u00a0 Because we never have a chance to bring the good things into our lives that make us happy.\u00a0 Our lives are robbed of beauty and joy.\u00a0 We survive but we can\u2019t thrive.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 And we need to pass these things along to the young people. \u00a0Because the Left is attacking many of these things and trying to eliminate them from the world.\u00a0 They have declared all of western civilization, racist.\u00a0 Western music, western art, western literature, all of it is suspect.\u00a0 So, Shakespeare is evil unless all the good characters are portrayed by transgender actors or something.\u00a0 And Mozart is evil unless there is a female rapper twerking to it somehow.\u00a0 And worst of all is Christianity.\u00a0 The Bible is evil unless there is a lesbian minister declaring that Jesus was gay.<\/p>\n

Now you can spend all your time battling the woke scolds who declare all these fatwahs against our culture.\u00a0 But instead it is better to spend time enjoying these forbidden things.\u00a0 Go to a Shakespeare play or any play.\u00a0 Or if you can\u2019t find a non-woke production then buy the DVDs of the old productions.\u00a0 Go to a concert.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be classical music.\u00a0 I also like country music.\u00a0 Maybe you like jazz.\u00a0 Find a concert and go listen to something that makes you feel alive.\u00a0 Have a few beers (not Bud Light) and a burger and go with people who enjoy that music too.<\/p>\n

Find a local theater that has revivals of old movies and find the movies that you like there.\u00a0 And read the classics.\u00a0 And by classics I don\u2019t mean ancient.\u00a0 Anything from more than seventy years ago is safe from the taint of our modern disease.\u00a0 And even today there are authors who aren\u2019t infected.\u00a0 Look up reviews by people who aren\u2019t woke, like me.<\/p>\n

And if your tastes run to action-adventure movies or punk rock or metal then let these things be what you search out.\u00a0 After all, these are just as forbidden as Shakespeare and Mozart.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t woke enough for our current rulers.\u00a0 They still have too much freedom in their DNA.<\/p>\n

And make sure you bring along the kids when you do these things.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t exposed to anything normal in their outside lives.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 They are proselytized to think all the strange and weird things being pushed are normal and healthy.\u00a0 So, make sure they are exposed to as many of the healthy and normal influences as you possibly can.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s a simple message.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Fighting the culture war will take care of itself.\u00a0 And by enjoying your life and sharing it with the young you help to squeeze out the influence of the Left from your life.\u00a0 And that is priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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