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“I’m such an alpha! … but got divorced. Twice.”

Written: 2020-12-31

Does the title not say it all? If you’re so “alpha”, why then did you get a divorce? Because you aren’t, and the woman you are now married to and who serves you a drink, thinking you’re so tough or whatever, may simply be more submissive in general; or not as young anymore to simply leave, maybe having a sort of “last minute panic”, a fear of being left on the shelf. Or both.

At some point, one has to face up to the fact that only for God are we irreplacable, as Don Colacho puts it. This fallen world is mostly a genetic lottery anyway, so no one can boast about anything really.

Obligatory look in the mirror with the help of our friend Gómez Dávila:

Only for God are we irreplaceable.

The modern mentality is the child of human pride puffed up by commercial advertising.

Each one of man’s new conquests is the new plague that punishes his pride.

Each gesture of pride stops up a spring.

Every cry of human pride ends as a cry of anguish.

The only evil which we can hate without fear of harming some good is that which is rooted in pride.

Whoever takes pride in “having lived through a lot” should keep quiet so as not to prove to us that he has understood nothing.

The scent of the sin of pride attracts man like blood attracts a wild beast.

I have only one theme: pride.
Every stain is a vestige of it.

Until man rouses himself from his current orgy of pride, it is not worth the trouble attempting anything.
Only looks not thrown out of focus by pride attain that lucid vision of the world which confirms what we preach.

Just as much as by the fact which humbles our pride, I am delighted by the noble gesture which dispels the fear of our radical baseness.

Pride’s shadow smothers the sprouting of a thousand infamies.

To satisfy man’s pride is perhaps easier than our pride imagines.

Sexual promiscuity is the tip society pays in order to appease its slaves.

Sex does not solve even sexual problems.