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
We may be living the end of politics. For if it is true that politics is a field that has been opened by the existence of the revolution, and if the question of revolution can no longer be posed in these terms, then politics may disappear.— Michel Foucault, 1977 LA Review ofContinue Reading
This book is free to read in full online: The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse, by Joanna Zylinska. The chapter titled, The End of the White Man, proposes that one interpretation of the Anthropocene could be that it is a call to arms by white supremacists…. Continue Reading
I thought I’d open a thread as I’m struck by the meme of “toxic masculinity” which I have been coming across these days. I’ve been indulging myself in some Jordan Peterson video viewing. There was a great video the touched on matters spiritual that touched on the Mind-body thing butContinue Reading
A thought provoking essay on the current dust-up in CanLit circles around the abuse of power at the gateway…. Why They Hate Margaret Atwood ….and an article that applies to the subject of desire and CanLit….. Does anyone have the right to sex? — Amia Srinivasan Fred: March 26.18.Continue Reading