I know it's popular with the manosphere to say "no one is coming" or maybe even more self-aggrandizing to say "burn the boats". With technology even if you wanted to, that is barely possible. This chest puffing is in direct contrast to Caesar crossing the Rubicon River and setting a course to failure and death or to that of transcendence/victory. Making a choice like that is the opposite of dilitants stumbling around fixed lines in Olympus Mons.
"Ours has become a society where folks believe that one positive action can balance out other, negative behavior or consequences." Lance's cancer foundation comes to mind...
I'm with you, I want the experience to be hard-won. Even now in my 60's, I have no interest in an e-bike, or in following a route I never "got around" to climbing behind a guide. That mindset may mean doing lesser objectives, but the afterglow burns brighter and longer.
I know it's popular with the manosphere to say "no one is coming" or maybe even more self-aggrandizing to say "burn the boats". With technology even if you wanted to, that is barely possible. This chest puffing is in direct contrast to Caesar crossing the Rubicon River and setting a course to failure and death or to that of transcendence/victory. Making a choice like that is the opposite of dilitants stumbling around fixed lines in Olympus Mons.
"Ours has become a society where folks believe that one positive action can balance out other, negative behavior or consequences." Lance's cancer foundation comes to mind...
I'm with you, I want the experience to be hard-won. Even now in my 60's, I have no interest in an e-bike, or in following a route I never "got around" to climbing behind a guide. That mindset may mean doing lesser objectives, but the afterglow burns brighter and longer.
Maybe Kammerlander was actually pissed about 'Red Bull' doping? :-)