day no. 17,105: the ordinary czars of the bizarre

“A great man in any age must be a common man, and also an uncommon man. Those that are only uncommon men are perverts and sowers of pestilence. But somehow the great Victorian man was more and less than this. He was at once a giant and a dwarf. When he has been sweeping the sky in circles infinitely great, he suddenly shrivels into something indescribably small” — G.K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature

The base line for mankind is debased debauchery. Perverts are fallen more than most, but more men sink to the level of perversion than rise to the level of nobility. Anyone can let gravity do its work and sink deeply into sin. Only the faithful can ascend with Christ to such heights as the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

"All noble things are as difficult as they are rare." — Spinoza

You cannot be great without being a bit different because most men cannot or will not be great; and if they were, we would need to come up with a new word for those few courageous souls who rise above the ordinary greatness of their peers.

"Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work" — Gustavo Flaubert

Common men can achieve uncommon greatness by faithfully following the orders of Christ continuously. His commands, regularly obeyed, accomplish uncanny grandeur. They do the good works of God. The natural man by the grace of God can build a supernatural legacy. 

In short, we must be weird for the right reasons and not for the usual reasons people settle on for being bizarre.