You Can’t Tax a Kiss

It’s tempting to try to put a price tag on every activity. Therapy seems expensive, because it costs a bunch of money. As always, the question to ask when evaluating transactions is “compared to what?” Rent in New York City is expensive, but when I compare it to living anywhere else in this country, I [...]

The Universal Solvent

Honesty is the universal solvent. It melts the cruft off of any relationship in seconds.
Honesty is a strong acid. Most relationships cannot survive exposure to much honesty. The bonds are weak. The compound sputters upon exposure and dissolves.
Honesty is beaten, raped and ridiculed out of most children out of the billions living on this planet. [...]

1247

I listened to 1247 today. It wasn’t easy for me to – I’ve been concocting reasons to avoid going over it for the past few days. I felt very anxious when I started hearing myself speak and wanted to shut it off. I found myself very irritated by my breathing into the microphone, noticing that [...]

Guts

It’s impossible to stand firm for anything when you’re still dominated by primal fear of your parents. Most children are born into the world afraid – which makes sense, as it’s a rude awakening relative to the comfortable and largely secure environment that they start out in. That ordinary and healthy fear can be assuaged [...]

You Should Be Afraid

The media is agog once again over the threat of anarchism to Western Civilization. Parents who have been dumped by their adult children are quoted extensively in the piece, and members are quoted out of context, singled out and portrayed as “followers” to a Canadian “pied piper.”
I would have been quite happy to be interviewed [...]

Whiz Kids

I accorded a certain respect to Chris Hedges when I was a teenager. I regarded him as a model journalist. I believe I wrote about how his book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning on many of my college applications.
Some of the admissions officers must have been impressed, because I was approved for [...]

Human Horticulture

Why is it so hard to get ahead?
In establishment literature, the American economy is frequently referred to as a dynamic free market, the most productive economy in the world, an engine of unstoppable wealth creation.
The glowing language does not ring true for the majority of people, who find themselves shepherded into stultifying “careers” in which [...]

Anarchist Mind Control Threatens Foundations of Culture

Vicious anarchists prowl the internet, using subliminal messages and psychological tricks to undermine family relationships and to destroy civilized society. Some say that this diabolical conspiracy is responsible for the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, 9/11, the end of Christmas, the cancellation of Firefly and global warming.
Canadian podcaster Stefan Molyneux has reportedly been responsible for producing more [...]

Applied Thought

The choice to think or not to think is of primary importance, but the more important choice is whether or not to actually apply the products of your mind to reality.
If you produce concepts that are contradictory, then you are wasting your time at best and causing damage to your mental health. To inflict error [...]

Why Sanction Murder?

War is the health of the state.
If you give sanction to the state, you support war.
“When you praise a politician, when you join a political party, you stand in blood. You wade in blood.”
From the LA Times:
The Raad brothers, and tens of thousands of children like them in this poor walled-in Shiite Muslim district, have [...]