Culture isn’t stagnating; it’s evolving in ways that we’re struggling to recognize and appreciate. The challenge lies not in reviving what’s dead, but
increasingly convinced the work of a truly great editor or writing teacher is to keep asking “why do you care?” until you reach the live wire under th
new word request: nihilism that results from a lifetime of resisting nihilism & failing

When we live outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather thanfrom our internal knowledge and needs, when we live away fro