rob hardy

if you're trying to slay Moloch in any realm other than the territory of the human heart, you're gonna fail over, and over

you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail

life is heavy enough without you adding your own self-seriousness to it, you've got to learn to take yourself lightly, life falls into place after that

“A person should have two therapists. A man who is stern and tells them how it is, and a woman who's gentle and always supportive. Ideally, the two therapists would be married to each other and had sex about 9 months before the person was born."

If you relate to power as something to be opposed and fought, you have surrendered your own.

Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way that they’ve been hijacked as ideological programs of cultural change by many elite universities. I mean humanities broadly understood as the exploration of what it truly means to be human and the... See more