PILGRIMAGE

The world is not starving for more information. It is starving for men who know what is worth suffering for. You cannot reason a family out of a life lived through a screen, and you cannot compete with an algorithm by explaining to a fifteen-year-old that it is bad for him. You can only put something better in front of him and let him walk into it.

(Composed after the 2021 Three Hearts Pilgrimage) "In contemporary America, most people are not moved by claims of truth or goodness....