day no. 16,726: a softball question

"Bret Harte tells the truth about the wildest, the grossest, the most rapacious of all the districts of the earth—the truth that, while it is very rare indeed in the world to find a thoroughly good man, it is rarer still, rare to the point of monstrosity, to find a man who does not either desire to be one, or imagine that he is one already." — G.K. Chesterton, Varied Types

A good man may be hard to find, but a man who wants to be good is hardly rare. Furthermore, a good man is a hard man. He is hard for his people. A bad man is soft, effeminate; but make no mistake, he is hard on his people. He has conquered his fear of failure by celebrating his shame. He calls attention to his courage in embracing his cowardice. And modern man has, in the process, accomplished what Chesterton warned... he has become a monster.

"If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of." — Jordan B. Peterson