I HATE YOGA

Get out of the safe space. Get into the arena.

So now, in addition to free speech, merit and parental rights being coded as “right wing,” if you believe in ambition and working hard to achieve your goals, you are also “right wing.” Possibly even worse than that — “alt-right!”

Tell your kids to work hard, get ahead? Well, that’s white supremacy.

The entire American ethos and project is “right wing” according to the mainstream media. And they aren’t letting up.

All of San Francisco walks around touting harm reduction and equity and “big business is bad and mean.” And now their downtown is a hollowed out shell of its former self. It feels like hell walking down the 6th street corridor, with passed out homeless drug addicts strewn about with their drug kits lying close.

But according to the most “progressive” left-wingers in San Francisco, this is a lifestyle choice and who are we to judge?

My god, the hypocrisy. Because in SF you can’t throw a rock without hitting a tech bro with an app or an AI something, hoping to hit it big and make billions. Not millions. Billions. Make no mistake these guys are all in on capitalism and ambition. For themselves. Even when hiding behind labels like “democratic socialist” and their former Bernie Bro status.

The “progressive movement” touts equity and discourages a pull yourself by your bootstraps ethos. Not everyone can do it! It’s racist! they shout.

For the last two decades — maybe more — the culture has furthered this idea that any bad feelings are bad. Working too hard = bad, you’re a “work-a-holic”; Working through pain = unnecessary; Enduring discomfort = why bother?

Anxious? You have a disorder, take this pill.

Offended by something someone said? You need a safe space and round the clock therapy to recover.

Hate puberty? You must be in the wrong body, here take these puberty blockers.

What a destructive weakening framework. It suggests we all just lie about medicating ourselves. No wonder Gen Zs have moved home with their parents in record numbers. Far too many don’t want to take shitty jobs, doing shitty work until they can get something better, so best just to live rent free at mom’s house.

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Ambition and achievement are marks of conservatism in today’s world. Despite the fact that there are over 60% more Democratic billionaires in the US than Republican.

Oprah has a net worth of $3 billion. Selena Gomez is reportedly worth $1.3 billion. Beyonce . . . $800 million (ok, not quite a billionaire).

Are they alt-right fascists? Republicans? Because you don’t accidentally accrue a net worth in the billions without relentless ambition. Somehow these women avoid the slander because they adopt a leftie stance which inevitably includes “equity” mumbo jumbo. Meaning: they pretend to advocate for equal outcomes so their fans like them.

But they don’t believe in equal outcomes. They want their better outcomes for themselves. They are hypocrites. They are marketing themselves (surprise!) as equity mavens to make more money. For themselves! Oh the irony! They have no firmly held beliefs or principles. They say one thing and do the exact opposite.

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I believe in busting my ass. I believe in hard work. I hate being comfortable. I hate yoga.

I hate yoga. You heard me. It’s slow and boring and you’re supposed to just breathe and it’s ok to just lie on your mat for an hour if that’s where you are and the hardest part, according to the instructor, is showing up. So if you need to just lie in child’s pose for the whole class, do it.

I HATE YOGA.

I reject comfort.

I reject safe spaces.

I reject self-acceptance and om-ing and just being where you are.

I love sports and competition.

Sports are not inclusive. Sports are not yoga.

Competition is exclusive. Not everyone gets to play. The drive to get to play, to make the team, to improve your time, is what makes you better.

If you’re excluded, work harder.

Push yourself.

Embrace discomfort.

And growth.

And challenge.

And things that are hard.

Embrace striving. And losing. And falling down. And getting up.

And pushing yourself to get better. To be better.

Be relentless. Not ruthless.

Be dogged. And tenacious. And continuous. But not cut throat.

Reject peace and staying where you are and revel in the messiness and disquiet of endeavoring to move forward.

Become a better athlete. A better person.

Strive to live up to your principles.

And know, that they aren’t principles if they are easy to live up to.

Be willing to endure the pain and hardship of living up to them. (Or accept the fact that you don’t actually have them.)

Get out of the safe space.

Get into the arena.

Fight to be better. To get better.

FIGHT. FALL. GET UP. KEEP GOING.