The Democrat leadership race between poll leaders Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden presents a fundamental ideological split within the party that expressed itself in the last leadership contest between Sanders and Clinton. The schism then and now is centered on notions of socialism as expressed by the liberal youth vote versus theContinue Reading
The Poet Annie Freud is the eldest daughter of the late British painter Lucien Freud. Her poem, The Best Man That Ever Was, was recorded in 2007 in London. The mischievous tone the poet takes in this vivid audio piece about a man and woman sharing an intimate moment made me thinkContinue Reading
Not sure where to situate this, but I’ll put it here. As I go into the 12 Rules book, I am uneasy about the defence of dominance position it adopts which I can see easily becoming an apology for authoritarianism. So I’ve been drawn to another Youtube blogging phenom, Joe Rogan. Continue Reading
So here’s an audio hour with JP and Fry exchanging with Michelle Goldberg and Michael Eric Dyson.Continue Reading
A best selling self help book is Robert Greene’s, The 48 Laws of Power, published by Penguin (Business) in 2000. I found it a very complimentary addition to JP’s latest offering, 12 Rules for Life. The first paragraph in Greene’s book eerily describes something of JP himself. ‘The feeling of havingContinue Reading
“Look for your inspiration to the victorious lobster, with its 350 million years of practical wisdom. Stand up straight, with your shoulders back.”Continue Reading
Reading JP’s first sentence triggered a memory and visual association concerning something I had read some time ago about Jean Paul Sartre and a drug adventure gone bad which was documented by his partner Simone De Beauvoir. De Beauvoir in her autobiography, The Prime Life, mentions a lobster incident. AfterContinue Reading
