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I write this from my daily commuter train. I’m on my way home. My wife is making dinner. My 1-year-old daughter is just learning to say “Daddy,” and hopefully, she’ll make an attempt to do so when I come through the door.
Charlie Kirk’s daughter, not so much older than my own, will not have that opportunity tonight. At the moment, I am thinking about that girl and her family. I did not know Charlie. But like most of us in the conservative movement, I knew and appreciated his work as the co-founder and public face of Turning Point USA. With his campus activism, his goal was always to challenge orthodoxy and to inspire an interest in the permanent things.
His death is that. Permanent. We have lost Charlie and, in this life, we will not get him back. In this moment, death is close. To many of us, it’s an unfamiliar feeling. I believe that what separates modernity from everything that’s come before is that: proximity to death.
Relative to almost all of human history, our jobs are safe. Our diet is healthy. An ambulance is only a call away. A constellation of companies has formed to provide convenient solutions to our every discomfort, inconvenience, and problem. We have more distractions and entertainment than our minds could absorb in a hundred lifetimes.
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Charlie Kirk’s daughter, not so much older than my own, will not have that opportunity tonight. At the moment, I am thinking about that girl and her family. I did not know Charlie. But like most of us in the conservative movement, I knew and appreciated his work as the co-founder and public face of Turning Point USA. With his campus activism, his goal was always to challenge orthodoxy and to inspire an interest in the permanent things.
His death is that. Permanent. We have lost Charlie and, in this life, we will not get him back. In this moment, death is close. To many of us, it’s an unfamiliar feeling. I believe that what separates modernity from everything that’s come before is that: proximity to death.
Relative to almost all of human history, our jobs are safe. Our diet is healthy. An ambulance is only a call away. A constellation of companies has formed to provide convenient solutions to our every discomfort, inconvenience, and problem. We have more distractions and entertainment than our minds could absorb in a hundred lifetimes.
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Charlie Kirk Understood the True Value of Life
Charlie Kirk's untimely death at just 31 prompts reflection on mortality and the cultural distractions that obscure our awareness of it.
