Author Archives: diestl

A House With Rules A nation is a house. It has walls. It has a foundation. It has rules for the people who live inside it. You don’t walk into another man’s house and start rearranging the furniture. You don’t kick holes in the walls because you prefer a different design. And you certainly don’tContinue reading “Freedom Under Threat”

There are people on social media who wake up every morning angry, searching for anything, anything at all, that can be twisted into outrage. A crumb of negativity is enough to keep the fire burning. But life is happening somewhere else. It’s in the quiet of a park bench, the rhythm of water against theContinue reading “The World Beyond the Hypnotic Screen”

When you build something incredible from nothing and it begins to make sense, that’s when they arrive. People who had nothing to do with its creation suddenly looking for leadership. Not willing to start at the bottom. Not willing to learn the small duties. Not willing to carry the weight. They want a chair nearContinue reading “Skip the Steps. Expect the Fall.”

I don’t know who’s writing the scripts for a lot of these shows on Amazon, Netflix, and the other streaming platforms. Sometimes it honestly feels like AI wrote them. The dialogue is so bad it doesn’t even sound like real people talking. It’s like they’re trying to be clever, but it never lands. The charactersContinue reading “Tampon flavored Fanta”

For centuries we’ve believed in fairytales. Storytelling through the spoken word. Stories in books. Movies pretending to be truth. News telling us what to think. Religions promising certainty. We imitate the scripts handed to us instead of becoming ourselves. Propaganda rarely feels like propaganda. c 2026 Chu The Cud All Rights Reserved

The identity you built for yourself isn’t permanent. Let yourself evolve. Because the man who refuses to change eventually becomes a prisoner of his own design. c 2026 Chu The Cud All Rights Reserved

Alpha. Sigma. Something marketable. As if men are brands. As if strength needs a logo. I don’t posture for rank. I don’t withdraw to appear mysterious. I don’t orbit the room. I don’t flee it either. I stand. Not loud. Not hidden. Just rooted. I don’t chase hierarchy. I don’t resent it. I accept responsibilityContinue reading “Sovereign”

California continues to push new housing. Unaffordable apartment complexes are opening all over Los Angeles, yet the homeless population keeps growing. The same old roads carry more and more people, but no meaningful road expansion or infrastructure improvement is happening. We keep building up, but we’re not building out, and the strain is starting toContinue reading “California Love”

Narcissism loses its head to the blade it engineered. I didn’t vote for Joe Biden, but I hoped he would do a good job. I didn’t wake up every day rooting for him to fail, because if a president fails, the country pays the price. I didn’t suffer from some kind of political derangement, wishingContinue reading “Narcissism loses its head to the blade it engineered”