day no. 15,240: fuel burns better and hotter than fodder

"We must let the tares grow until the harvest. But the best thing to do, when you can’t uproot the tares, is to water the wheat. Nothing keeps back tares like good strong wheat." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour"

Nothing combats bad culture like good culture. When you are in a gun fight, you need bullets to fire back at your assailant. If you find yourself in a culture war, you are going to need some culture to fire back at your adversary. If you only look to disassemble and critique the faults in their artillery, you will find yourself buried under a pile of rumble. But if you are dedicated to manufacturing ammunition, producing culture and casting vision, you have an arsenal that can do some damage. You will no longer spend your time talking about surviving the culture and will spend your energy on demolishing the other one.

In other words, fuel burns better and hotter than fodder.

You can look for things that should burn well or you can acquire more accelerant.

Good strong wheat changes the landscape more effectively than agonizing over the presence of weeds. Watering wheat is a better strategy for killing weeds than starving everyone by obsessing over the weeds.

Matthew 13:24-30
He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

"Jesus called it a wheat field, not a tare field." - Bran Sauve'

Though Jesus assured us there would be tares in the field, He also reassured us that the field is defined by the presence of wheat, not the absence of tares.