Reimagining Rebellion

Reimagining Rebellion

Reimagining Strength

Why Holding It Together Is the Implosion You Were Trained to Call Virtue

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Gary A Lougher
May 05, 2026
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Sunday I wrote about the quiet collapse inward. The held-in feeling. The body folding while the calendar stays full.

A few of you wrote back. One of you said something I want to sit with: “Yeah, but isn’t holding it together what we’re supposed to do? Isn’t that strength?”

That’s the question. And I think the answer the culture has given us is wrong in a …

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