⚜ 𝐂𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐀𝐑 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇨🇾 :
Tell me, then: what is the point?
What purpose is there in striving, when all that a man gathers may be taken from him; when even his children are not truly his, the legacy he bleeds to build may be scattered by indifferent hands before his bones are cold? In ages past, life was brutal, yes. Infection could steal a king as easily as a fucking beggar. A wound from a rusted sword, a fever in the night, a winter without mercy. Yes, these were enough to end a man before his name had fully formed upon the world. And yet, even then, there remained a terrible dignity in existence. A peasant, born in mud and hunger, might still rise beyond his station. Through war, cunning, devotion, or sheer violence of will, he might become knight, lord, conqueror, saint. The ladder was narrow, blood-slick, and cruel but it existed and it had MEANING. What ladder remains now? Everything that man is in the modern world has been reduced to fluorescent mediocrity: offices without soul, systems without faces, laws without honour, nations without myth. We live beneath an omnipresent machinery so vast and bloodless that it could unmake even the wealth of Elon Musk with the wave of a hand, the stroke of a pen, or a single quiet call made behind a closed door. There is no great war worthy of song. No empire for which to bleed. No true king to inspire reverence. No hero before whom the heart may kneel. No legend left for a man to become.
You cannot carve your name into stone as Alexander did. You cannot ride beneath the gates of Babylon, nor walk the marble halls of Rome at the height of its dominion. You cannot even die beautifully, because the wars of this age are not fought for glory, but for contracts, committees, and causes so hollow that even the dead would refuse to rise for them. Granted, war was selfish but not hollow back then. There was always something to fight for. And so we inherit a world after myth, after glory, after meaning. A world that has preserved life only by draining it of grandeur. Tell me, then, why should any man bother to live? what the fuck is there to attain that hasn't already been taken from us?
2026-06-07 00:29:48