{"id":74929,"date":"2026-10-30T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=74929"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:02:47","slug":"qotd-opus-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/qotd-opus-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Opus Dei<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Opus Dei<\/em> means “God’s work”, and while I don’t expect everyone to go out and join, that’s THE principle \u2014 work! Everything, no matter how small, contributes to final victory. You are<\/em> the message. You are<\/em> the work. Everybody, no matter how old or infirm or weak or poor or whatever, can do something<\/em>. Dress well. Stand up straight. Sit down in a public park and read a book, a real physical book, not some glowing screen. If you’re walking and you see trash, pick it up. Set some great art<\/a> as your computer’s background at work. Listen to some classical music. Put a quote from a Dead White Male on your email auto-signature.<\/p>\n

Something, anything<\/em>. Why? Because fuck them, that’s why. They’re ugly and stupid and base, because all those things \u2014 ugliness and stupidity and baseness \u2014 are just a degraded version of contemptus mundi<\/em><\/a>, contempt for the world. That’s what nihilism IS, at bottom \u2014 fake and gay contemptus mundi<\/em>. “This world is all there is; this world is awful; therefore the only thing to do is wallow in awfulness. We choose ugliness and stupidity and baseness for their own sake, because we choose to wallow.”<\/p>\n

The world isn’t<\/em> awful. It’s beautiful. Even if you don’t believe your Creator made it just for you \u2014 and He did<\/em>, but you can choose not to believe that \u2014 just listen to the “Ode to Joy”. There’s at least as much beauty as ugliness in the world, however it got here and whatever its purpose. Maybe it really IS all meaningless, just atoms and void. Even so, why wallow? Choose what’s beautiful while you can enjoy it. And even if you can’t enjoy it for its own sake, choose it because the Left will hate you for it.<\/p>\n

Stick a thumb in their eye at every opportunity. Make that<\/em> your number one scruple, because seriously: Fuck them, that’s why.<\/p>\n

Severian, “The Way Ch. 10: Scruples”, Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2022-07-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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