mj

It’s not a market collapse that I see coming out of all this. That’s fire. All I can see is the long gray slog of stagflation. And I think that’s worse.

It’s a very weird place for an economy to find itself, where the entire idea of ‘risk’ gets obliterated because of an intentional erosion in the full faith and credit of the US government, and I think that all of our economic models and projections about what happens next are going to be wrong.

But what is good taste? It’s commonly mistaken as personal preference, but it’s more than that — it’s a trained instinct. The ability to see beyond the obvious and recognize what elevates.

In the words of Joseph Campbell, “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

Nietzsche saw this truth with fierce clarity: only those who live dangerously, who throw themselves into the abyss of effort and uncertainty, truly live at all.

Verily the lust for comfort murders

the passion of the soul, and then

walks grinning in the funeral.

His logotherapy framework posits that humans thrive when they have a “why” to live for, often forged in hardship. A life too comfortable risks stripping us of that “why,” leaving us adrift like so many of us today.