On Living in an Idiotic Age (2026)

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things - praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts - not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

- C.S. Lewis

'On Living in an Atomic Age' (1948)

The human and sensible things I know people are doing are remembering to take their meds, fighting ICE, loving on their kids, rewatching the extended editions theater re-releases of Lord of the Rings, and obsessing over that gay hockey show.

If you want to make C.S. Lewis happy, go watch that gay hockey show.

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, Heated Rivalry Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max