I'm a racist. But that does not mean I'll go out of my way to harm someone of another race, like everyone assumes when you say that. I just want to keep my stuff mine, and you keep your stuff yours. We can come together, exchange stories, laugh, do business, learn about each others' cultures and customs, but you just keep yours over there and i'll keep mine over here. It's as simple as that.
For me, the worst aspect of life is that even if you want to be left alone, life will find a way to fuck with you. To insert itself into your day via some unexpected call, visit, letter, email, someone crashes into your car or whatever. You just want to be on your way, be left alone, but life simply will not let you. You are forced to interact with it. I have no idea why but for some reason that's how life is. You can set up a shack on Mt. Everest, and life would find a way to bother you.
I spend most of my day trying to energize myself, to be as productive as i can be(writing code). But evenings are tough because it is impossible to chill and calming down take a lot of time. And even though eating carnivore is the best WOE, if you can get your hands on dry-aged quality steaks at fair price, I found that having starchy carbs in the evening calms the mind down like nothing else. Like with any thing in life, you win some, you lose some.
I remember a Joe Rogan podcast, I would say in 2016, where he essentially talked about phenomenon of wokeness and I always thought that is when it officially begun. People knew about it before that, but it was usually just "underground" talk. But he brought it into light and I think it got publicly accepted on societal level from thereon as being the beginning of the decline.
You can respect only someone who is better than you. It's as simple as that. Respect is acknowledgement of someone's superiority. Not necessarily as a person in general, but due to some achievements, or show of strength. Whatever it might be, you accept you are lower in the rank and you accept the other's superiority. And there is nothing wrong with knowing where you belong and where you stand in the world.
Because you still have hope that this war will end with your honor intact. Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.