[From a viewer named Clouds:]
The recent videos have been great, Eisel. Keep winning, as they say. Of course I remember the livestream era fondly, but I'd say your most recent couple of videos have conveyed a lot of your thematic central tenets with an incredible succinctness, and.... not sure how to describe it per se... unburdenedness? You seem happier, perhaps. Maybe I have an incomplete picture since it's been a while since I've kept up with the channel, but it seems gone are the days of the furrowed brow and sharp inhale, long exhale, and other gestures indicating the severity of the point. The gym crush video would be a great a-bas-le-ciel 101/channel introduction. All that is to say, I hope you're doing well these days. Seldom is there a channel that kills it with this level of consistency and boisterous novelty for so, so many years.
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[And I reply:]
Every day I wake up happy, every day I go to sleep happy: aside from physical pain and exhaustion, I am basically happy without interruption for all the hours in-between. Part of what I'm doing on the channel now is just demonstrating what it means to be happy, as a retired intellectual —and I do indeed mean that I have retired from the work of becoming an intellectual —if not quite all of the work of being an intellectual —but the work that remains is a joy. Too few people know that joy.
