What's The Point Of Living, Anyway?

Why red-pill conservatives have to do more than merely point out evil

‘Ah, how beautiful it is!’ - Theophanes (r) and Andrei Rublev (l)

Ben Sixsmith published a challenging short essay on his Substack over the weekend. In it, he talks about the usefulness of “taking the red pill” — that is, of rejecting pie-in-the-sky optimism in favor of taking a hard look at the world today. Sixsmith writes:

It is good, to some extent, th…