Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.
The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.
Expert victimologists estimate that 91. 2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.
The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic, essentially inviting elites to interpret what the common people believe and want. In litigious modern America, that would be a judicial elite telling us how we meant to vote or should have voted.
. . . a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.
Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.
Poetry cannot be translation
If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.
There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.