O.W. Root
@NecktieSalvage
Author of The Fitting Room, Modern Lives - Writer for @mich_enjoyer, host of Pleasant Peninsula Podcast - Columnist for @theblaze - Style Consultant -
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There are other things you can't skip over as a developing country. One is modernization which includes a degree of comparative secularization. Long term, no one yet has gone around this, stably.
You. Cannot. Skip. Industrialisation. As. A. Developing. Country.
This is an extremely beautiful and healthy way to view your role in life and the world in general. It’s also completely true. You aren’t living then, you are living now, so do it.
You were born exactly when and where God wanted you born. You weren’t meant to live in the antebellum South or Merry Old England. You are here and now for good reason.
America has, basically, always been about risk, enterprise, and the chance to make your own destiny. When people try to make it into something else it’s because they are weaker, less confident, and more risk averse than their ancestors. Accept risk and freedom to thrive.
America was literally founded, without exaggeration, by people who abandoned Britain for money — in the hopes that they wound find prosperity in a society less defined and dominated by ancestral privilege. That is the reason this country exists. x.com/mgs2twiops/sta…
I love mornings at my parents’ house, where we grew up. It’s just woods all around, the house is basically on a sand dune, it feels wild like the house was just plopped down in the middle of the trees, because it basically was.
I just love how full the jacket is cut here. The length too. How it should be, esp with DBs. Far far more elegant, mature, and confident. This complements everyone, but especially someone of Brosnan’s age. Compare it to the chopped, short DBs you see. A world of difference.
Pierce Brosnan for Armani
I seriously think it's because we all hate going to the dentist, we are all kind of afraid and tense about people messing with our mouths, and so some nice, pleasant women around make everyone basically feel more at ease or like "What could go wrong?"
It’s so wild how every dentist’s office is some old guy and then a massive harem of beautiful young female assistants. What’s going on? How did dentists get around the whole thing?
This is super interesting. I am the same. I only see my kids as they are when they are. I don't reference their past ages or selves. This is so fascinating because I/we don't do this with adults we know. We reference how they were before pretty often, but with kids we are in the…
It's weird because at any given time I perceive each one as whatever age they are, not really mediated through what they were a year or three ago. I can't even really remember how they used to be. I always thought it would be otherwise.
Before I had kids I had no idea how old kids were. 3 months, 1 year, 2 years - I had no clue. I didn’t know what the lines for baby, infant, toddler, and child were. I think that’s how most men without children are, how would we be different? But you learn pretty quick.
I have to say, I am not a fan of nuts in brownies. Just give them to me straight. I don’t need the nuts.
If your gap between the way you imagine the world to be and the way the world actually is keeps getting larger it means you are on the looney toons train.
