Become a beacon. The more the world lowers itself, the more you will find yourself exposed, even at sea-level heights. Become a beacon through steady conviction. Become a beacon by rejecting the allure of easy indignation, by not renouncing yesterday’s truths to abide by today’s doctrinal demands of polite-society.
Beacon construction has both never been easier and never been harder: all it takes is standing firm, yet, this is easier said than done in a world that is crumbling all around you! Many who once thought along the same path as you have turned off your formerly shared road and have turned on you and all others who remain on it. To not isolate ourselves, we must learn to forgive the new in our old friends. And when we reject the old in ourselves, we should do it like an animal shedding its skin, not like a repentant criminal turning himself in.
But more than anything, I love my old friends who renew and refinish (but do not replace) the best of their virtues time and again. With an understanding look, we reveal to one another our mutual yet independent struggle against the increasingly incentivized forces urging self-deception after deception. Like beacons passing in the night, friends, let us give rise to briefly shared anachronistic worlds of light.