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Thank you for posting the link to the Linh Dinh interview. Really looking forward to reading it.

Obviously, the Robinson Jeffers Boxing Club was a brilliant idea... and so it had to be destroyed before it got off the ground. I still hold out hope that it will one day be resurrected... and that many franchises will follow!

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Just finished reading your 2019 interview by Linh Dinh, Craig. Such a privilege to get to listen in on two great minds commiserating over our current and ongoing malaise. Also kind of interesting that the interview was just pre-covid, which has of course shaken up The Scene somewhat.

I really appreciated finally getting to hear the whole Robinson Jeffers Boxing Club story in one go - having only been privy to bits and pieces of it on OU until now. I do find it extraordinarily depressing that white people in small town America, hard hit by Deaths of Despair, could be incited to hang out their car windows and scream, "Racist" and "Nazi" at you - for trying to set up a program to help white men at risk of committing suicide.

Could any of the white men involved in inventing and developing the wonder that is the modern automobile have ever imagined such an insane scenario?

It seems to me that our biggest problem is that we are too easily weaponized against ourselves. And then I find myself being "led into temptation" to despise the cowardly whites attacking you... which is of course just reinforcement of more of the same.

I'll be the first to admit I don't know what the solution to all of this is. So much of what those of us who can "see" are doing to address our situation seems like just nibbling around the edges of the problem. I try to think of our "nibbling" as being like one of those natural processes, where it looks like nothing is happening, until things happen all at once - catastrophically and irreversibly.

Which brings me back to the spiritual perspective. I don't subscribe to any particular church or religion, but I do listen to people who seem to have learned and worked out more about the spiritual angle than I have. One thing I have heard a number of times from a number of sources is that the current spiritual age we are in is one of Self-Sacrifice (in line with the popular story of Christ sacrificing Himself on the Cross). Further, we are supposed to be in the process of moving from the current Age into a new one - the next one being the Age of Brotherhood.

I hope and pray (and try to have faith) that those of us making the sacrifices right now - as you have been doing for so long, Craig - will be the first to taste the fruits of the Age of Brotherhood.

Thank you for being a Brother to all of us.

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