My third quarter: Two new books, ten hours of new video and you.

I’ve been organizing this year’s work into quarters, just to keep track of how I’m doing. I don’t know if this makes any difference, but keeping the inventory is impressive – to me at least.

And my third quarter turned out to be a pretty big deal. I wrote two new books, both of them based on new and deeper understandings of the idea of the self I’ve been playing with for the past 35 years. Nine empathies illuminates the biological basis of empathy in self-preservation strategies, and Shyly’s delight demonstrates how those strategies play out iteratively in human social relationships.

Both of those books owe to my thinking on the astoundingly destructive Stefan Molyneux cult-of-personality, about which I wrote a ton along with making several videos. The net result is that I finished the third quarter with a grand unifying theory of human social interaction. This is impressive to no one but me, so far, but that’s the way things always work around here.

At the beginning of the year, I made a video explicating my plan to build The Church of Splendor. I’ve not moved beyond making videos, so far, but I’ve made a bunch of them, preaching ‘religiously’ every Sunday. I know someday many more people will be interested in what I have to say, but I know, too, that someday my faculties will fade. I’ve been on my very best game for the past three years, and I am pressing as hard as I can to get said what I know while I am best able to make my case.

My video output for the quarter consists of ten new hours of Splendor, typically accompanied by my plonking guitar. As with everything I do, this matters to me more than to anyone else, for now, but in the fullness of time, the videos I’m making will change lives dramatically for the good. I wish I had more money to dress up the show, but I don’t hate things the way they are now: I like it that people have to evaluate the facts of nature appropriately in order to reap what I sow. When my ideas are more popular, I will very probably trust the audience a lot less.

Even so, I’m very glad to have you with me. For now I am making things as difficult as possible for you, this so both of us know why you’re here. If you’re benefitting from what I’m teaching, you should share the good news, but I know that’s hard for you, too. Sufficient unto the day.

And sufficient unto the quarter. Here’s my third quarter in video, in order, all in one playlist: