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“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
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Zero tolerance punished by extermination is the natural order for every Cautious tyranny.
Backseat drivers are not a problem – until they seize the steering wheel. But once they do, the loop amplification of persistent, failed compliance displays will induce the Cautious tyrant to fix people in the only way they can be … Continue reading
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize cheapens true greatness even as it insults his actual achievements.
Most people who dress like this for work are Untouchables who collect their wages out of their instrument cases, mostly in coins. This man is an Irreproachable who just won the Nobel Prize for literature. What explains the difference in … Continue reading
President Fallguy: How YOU can win this presidential election.
“I say, I say, but that’s not FAIR!”No matter who wins the election, your freedom will lose. An unmoored electorate must move ever leftward, and, regardless of the results on election day, Foghorn Leghorn has successfully unmoored the Republican party … Continue reading
The DISC of Ayn Rand’s anti-family philosophy and how it promotes human misery.
You wanted to know what explains the Incandescent/Cautious female harridans and the Cautious/Incandescent male involuntary-celibates of the libertarian movement: It is this formula for human misery concocted by Ayn Rand.This started as a comment. Then it grew. If you have … Continue reading
Making Tracks: Practical tips for driving very far very fast.
When the only thing that matters is putting miles behind you, this is how to get the job done.Photo by: Dennis YangToo many things I would rather didn’t talk about right now – Islamism, Trump, Easter, etc. – so this … Continue reading
The DISC of clowns: Understanding outsized Incandescents by their subdominant motivation.
“Dude. I’m not even Incandescent at all. My owner is. Underneath all this gear, I’m totally Sociable, I swear!”Photo by: PetfulSunday at Church I talked about deploying my notion of the subdominant motivation in my recasting of the DISC system … Continue reading
Jeffrey Tucker asks, “Why is this happening?” Liberty languishes because libertarians don’t reproduce.
Pictured at the right is a tweet I saw yesterday from Jeffrey Tucker, a big-shoe libertarian. Why, he wonders, is human liberty being Trumped by an obvious thug? He names six reasons, none of which are wrong, but he omits … Continue reading
Using emotions as tools of cognition: Pain is nature’s way of telling you you’re getting something wrong.
’Tards gonna ’tard. Don’t let them do it to you – and don’t do it with them!Photo by: JD HancockI’ve spent six months, now, pummeling The Ayn Rand Institute. This is precisely as fair as Donald Trump picking on poor, … Continue reading
Yes, emotions are tools of cognition – and emotional repression is a time-tested tool of tyranny.
Why would anyone ever want to suppress that?Photo by: Loren KernsAdam Talbot, may fortune smile upon him, asks a question that’s not about San Bernardino or Donald Trump: I am wondering about dealing with emotional reactions. What do you think … Continue reading
In its ugly #abortion evasion, what else are @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute neglecting?
“What, me worry?”After almost three months of exposure of the gruesome nature of the intrauterine infanticide championed by novelist Ayn Rand, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute has to-date had this to say: “La, la, la, la, la!” That’s … Continue reading
What’s the best tactic in the Ruling Class-led war on humanity? Convincing you not to have a family.
To the extent that a woman is doing with her life what any man can do, then, by all means, all hail the winsome Miss Spinster. But to the extent that she is not doing what only she as a … Continue reading