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Dear Doug,I've been an admirer of your writings (at least some of them) for some time. I've read a number of your books and found some merit in them, including:Future MenFederal HusbandRefor… Read More

Agnosticism (1)What is this shit?Agnosticism (2)Maybe there is shit or maybe it happens; then again, maybe not.Altruism (1)Want some shit?Altruism (2)Let me give you my shit.AmericanismWho g… Read More

By David Van BiemaWith reporting by David Bjerklie, Alice Park/New York, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Jeff Israely/RomeThere are two great debates under the broad heading of Science vs. God. The mo… Read More

Ever wondered why we are where we are?   Well here is no small reason. The 20th Century's Frankfurt School.   This will open your eyes.Sources   https://www.darkmoon.me/2… Read More

 I read the J. M. Cohen translation of this work. The below quotes are taken from that version.My General commentary on this book is here.I am going to devote a few words to the role th… Read More

Sally Cookson's Jane Eyre continues touring the UK and Devon Live reviews the Plymouth Theatre Royal performances.A 10 strong team of actors and musicians under director Sally Cookson h… Read More

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insider… Read More

"Reality doesn't care about winning arguments; survival is what matters." —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (page 13). [1] In his latest b… Read More

It sure sounds like the Scientific American writer, science popularizer and philosophical scrivener of sorts is just that, about halfway through this piece, where he claims that a bit of ani… Read More

The idea of psychosocial developmentPsychosocial improvement theory – the theory of psychosocial improvement of personality created by Erik Erikson, in which he describes the 8 stages… Read More

Haven’t we all wondered what our first thought would be if we woke up one morning and found ourselves transformed to an unidentified, beetle-like insect? No? Anyway, that ques… Read More

For almost two centuries, we have seen various attempts to overthrow the assumptions, beliefs, premises, and conclusions of Christian ethics, sometimes called Judeo-Christian ethics. &n… Read More

Via a Boston Review piece about a new biography of Simone de Beauvoir, which notes, inter alia the hypocrisy in The Second Sex behind the various abusiveness she shared and spread along with… Read More

Elizabeth Loftus, blithely forgetting she said what she did.Having an infinite, or practically so, memory capacity seems fantastic, no?No, in reality.For the few people who have something li… Read More

Some proclivities are sui generis, perennially present as a life unfolds. That is the sense I get when George Saunders expresses the discomfort he still feels about his childhood failure to… Read More

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Is Noam Chomsky perhaps above my intellectual pay grade? Yes.Genius? No. Including and above all, not a genius on linguistics. Neuroscience has shown the brain is NOT "massively modula… Read More

These grand quotes will inspire you. Grand magnificent and imposing in appearance, size, or style. A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging grand quotes, grand sayings, and grand p… Read More

American education has entered a dark age, writes William Deresiewicz, the author of Excellent Sheep, on UnHerd. Photo: Zeeshaan Shabbir/Pexels He’s taught at elite colleges and discov… Read More

Donations help support this Blog Carl Gustav Jung– defender of Freud and the Jews: A chapter of European psychiatric history under the Nazi yoke Carl Gustav Jung: Defender of Freud an… Read More

Is Mommie Dearest A True Story? Seriously, I have no idea who would want to watch this movie. As Joan Crawford’s relationship with her daughter Christina deteriorates from cruelty to j… Read More

From Work to Text by Roland Barthes | Critical Summary                                    … Read More

  Jacques Lacan is known for his controversial approach to psychoanalysis. The three orders—Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real—are used in Jacques Lacan’s thought to subdi… Read More