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Bullying, Stupidity, and Epistimes
Working in the disability field, bullying is a topic that comes up very often and the surprising aspect of it all is that despite this being the 2020s and bullying no longer being close to cartoon stereotypes, that is still where the discourse is. It is still football players giving wedgies to nerds and I…
The Idolatry of the Family
In much of the rhetoric surrounding Christian life, the centrality of the family is emphasized greatly but increasingly the family is not as a vessel to live a wholesome, virtuous, and altruistic life. The Christian emphasis on the family has seemingly devolved into treating God as a hearth god which is a part of the…
The Hegelian 21st Century
While politics and society have changed enormously over the decades of this century, the Hegelian paradigm has not. In the attempts to rescue liberal democracy, there has been basically no attempt at tweaking it so as to fix the problems that led to its decline. They are attempting to restore the Rawlsian system in a…
The Culture War for Masculinity
In viewing the female anti-feminist movement, it is mostly a metaphorically thirsty movement dominated by their their fear that contemporary feminism will castrate the metaphorical testicles from men. Joining them are choruses of various conservative movements. Most offensive to me personally are those of my coreligionists who emphasize a Christian masculinity. Forgetting the gender politics…
Amicology: The Sociology of Platonic Friendship
In the social sciences, there is much more attention paid to sexual relationships than to any other. This is for obvious reasons. Yet, platonic relationships are, arguably, of equal importance. The popularity hierarchy of a school, a workplace, or a small town are majorly determined by connnections. Amicology is the study of small-world networks, the…
A Response to The Atlantic’s “The Death of the Sex Scene”
I may agree with the reasons behind their lamentations as the reticence regarding sex scenes is a #metoo overreaction but I disagree with their conclusion. The sex scene did not die, it just became less present in mainstream entertainment on non-X-rated platforms. Honestly, implied sex does everything needed for a plot. The columnist complained it…
Fandoms: Capitalism as a Religion
The left and right are fever dreaming dystopias but what is happening is not 1984 or The Handmaid’s Tale. What is happening is Brave New World and Idiocracy. I recently wrote about True Crime being P.T. Barnum’s parody of feminism. It is a clickbait freak show of blood, sex, and gore. I have watched a…
True Crime versus Feminist Ellen Jamesians
Many a word has been spent on the excesses of feminism in the realms of misandry and andrpohobia and yet feminism is not the chief source of the worst of these and is, by comparison, not very guilty. What is far worse is the confluence of Foucault and Huxley that are the True Crime androphobes.…
The Etiology of Christian Feminism
The etiology of Christian feminism is not feminism. Feminism, per se, is based on 17th century concepts of rights. I am a virtue ethicist and a utilitarian way more than I am a deontologist and see rights as a constructed means to the ends of morality and not essential and fundamental. I oppose patriarchy for…
The Problem with Fred Rogers
Is Mister Rogers a good moral role model? Maybe. I’ll begin with this. I have a saying “Of all my sexual experiences in college, none of them involved sex and most of them involved political and social discussions of sexual assault. The sentiment was some pseudo-street smart person saying “Most people think romance is a…
John Oliver and Republicanism
For the most part I agree with John Oliver but one of his glaring flaws is the failure to appreciate the etiologies of the decline in liberal democracy. This is epitomized in his opposition to the monarchy. It elicits the question of what type of liberal democracy does he want. While his solutions to the…
Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Tattooing
Of the reasons I have never gotten a tattoo, it is not just a matter of personal taste. One of the reasons, one of the major ones, is that it allows for a more universal accessibility. If I am to enter any subculture or group, I need to be able to present myself in a…
Romans 13 and State Legitimacy
Romans 13 is the famous Bible verse where it implores people to obey the official authorities. I more take the view that it is a pragmatic article of advice to prevent excessive martyrdom and don’t see it as a normative moral but it does have a normative meaning, too. I take that position, in part,…
The Trolley Problem in Philosophy
My approach to The Trolley Problem is to make it about something less than death because when you do that, it just looks like a philosophical justification for NIMBY-style selfishness. “If I am not actively harming someone, I am not harming them” It is why they found it difficult to bust gangsters prior to RICO.…
John Rawls and Suicide
On the question of suicide, the great question is whether philosophy gives someone a reason to live and while Albert Camus took an absurdist and existentialist approach, he is a more or less useless philosopher to anyone who doesn’t do philosophy. John Rawls is my go-to guy for anything about contemporary liberalism and the vernacular…
Michelangelo’s David and the Florida Culture
The most obvious thing about the David controversy is the fact they used a clichéd culture war item. Why the fuck Michelangelo’s David? It is an iconic statue and that is why. There are lots of obscure and far worse examples they could have used. They want something understood by the barely literate masses. It…
Easy Times Create Weak Citizens
There is an old saying “Hard times make strong men; strong men make easy times; easy times make weak men; weak men make hard times”. Does this apply to liberalism? Is this, in part, a reason liberalism is collapsing? Yes. There are a few psychological etiologies behind this. One is the one I talked about…
Contrarianism is Bad for the Discourse
A few months ago, and I blogged about this, Neil DeGrasse Tyson brilliantly did the worst “Well, Actually” spiel I’d ever heard. He, with complete confidence, did a number of incredibly stupid things. Now, he has had some famous brain farts like the time he claimed nutrition science was stupid because all that was needed…
Special Ed and ABA: Where Thoughtcrime is Real
Countless political radicals have come to believe we are living in an Orwellian dystopia but while most of those people are bat-shit crazy, one place where that is completely true is the world of special needs. In the broader world, institions don’t actively try to modify one’s modes of thoughts to conform to society’s norms.…
John Rawls and Cocaine
The principal criticism of John Rawls is his thin-good and it has been what I have savagely beat him with a baseball bat about on this blog. Now, in my last blog I answered the recent big question about whether it is moral to be a billionaire by citing John Stuart Mill and saying there…
Peter Singer’s Argument in the Context of Utilitarianism
Peter Singer, the pseudo-philosopher whose baby is Sapientism was not answered with a competent argument at the Oxford Union debate about whether it is moral to be a billionaire. Again, he can’t break himself out of mainstream liberal democratic thought which, ironically, makes his thoughts of little utility to the saving of liberal democracy. John…
Is Country Music Morally Nihilistic?
While most genres of music and art from all time tend to surrender to market pressures and employ the baser urgers of the human condition from sex to revenge to other things like that to get popular, the country genre’s core demographic are conservative Christians and it does seem to represent the lives of most…
The Anti-Feminist Women and Warrior Feminism
Feminism is a unique movement in that it is among the only major rights’ movements where a large portion of their opponents are members of the very marginalized group they represent. Hardly will one find a Black person who didn’t support Civil Rights or an Indian who supported the British Raj but, a large, double-digit…
The Strength of the Subnorm in Rawlsian Ethics
Is it moral to eat buggers in public? Children are usually taught, in the normative, that it is wrong. Children are also taught that they have the right to do whatever they like as long as it does not infringe on the negative liberties of others. And it doesn’t really come into conflict with the…
The Law and Courage
Is the law contray to the virtue of courage? That depends on whether the law is moral and valid enough that surrendering is an act of courage or an act of cowardice. The law in America does not recognize any virtues except obedience to itself, is often effectively arbitrary, and uses all sticks and no…
On Missions to the Un and Semi Contacted Tribes
My first and greatest worry when missionaries try to evangelize natives is not the typical criticism of cultural genocide or destruction. As I have written before, that can be mitigated and I want it to be although the megachurch evangelicals who do missions to a place like India don’t usally try to preserve the local…
Olivia Benson, Angela Davis, Rose McGowan, and Humanity
The most criticized of the left-wing movements by sane people is the #metoo movement. Some of these were warranted and some were not and I don’t call the people sane if I agree with them. It is just that the anti-vaxx movement is likely bigger, now, than the anti-#metoo discoruse and the anti-vaxx people have…
On the Quality of Oxford Union Debates
For intellectual stimulation, I try to wtach the deep and pretentious whenever I can. Oxford does not fail to disappoint. Their debates suck ass. Recently, I watched the debate about whether God exists which is stupid question. Which one? Which version? A few weeks ago, an angry atheist pointed out to me that I am…
OnlyFans, Olivia Dunne, and the Dystopia of Contemporary Hottness
Recently, Olivia Dunne has made headlines after her fans got stalky and rabid. Now, the online discourse has surrounded the stupid debate between “boys will be boys” and she is selling her body online and she is a vulnerable woman and this shows how scary men can be. No girl, obviously, deserves to be raped…
Ballerini Ethics: The Ethics of Loyalty
I term this Ballerini Ethics after Kelsea Ballerini’s song “If You Go Down” in which she says she’ll lie to protect her friend from the consequences of murdering of her friend’s husband. Now, of course, the singer would claim this was an exageration but if that’s true, it doesn’t sound much better. If her friend,…
Is a Liberal Arts Education a Liberal Arts Education?
So, for mental health reasons, I never got a degree from college despite having completed the requirements for a double major in political science in history and earning thirteen more credits than I needed to graduate. The reason I am officially a droopout is I am missing two language and two math classes. There are…
Hegelian Paradigms in Relationships
Is Leo DiCaprio immoral in his dating relationships with of-age women of whom he is decades their senior? Instinctively, I have two responses. One is my libertarian response, which says that, while discomforting, our society is about right with regards to age of majority at eighteen, they are brain developed enough to ethically consent and…
Do Toxic People Exist?
With a background in psychology and having spent much time in the extremely human realms that are politics and religion, I am possibly qualified to give a view on the question in the title. No. Toxic people don’t exist. People exist with toxic qualities. In fact, everyone has them. Perhaps, that’s stating the obvious but…
Approches to Disability: Kafka’s The Metamorphosis versus The Phantom of the Opera
Without question The Phantom of the Opera is far more popular and I would say that a part of the reason is that its answer is easier for the audience. Erik is a violent sociopath stalking his sexual obsession and he follows a literary archetype of someone who society has wronged turning to the dark…
The Autistic Movement: Do I Like it?
No, I don’t like the autistic movement for a lot of reasons. First, they take extreme and untennable positions. Especially, the rejection of any treatment for anything whatsoever. The regarding of every trait as a difference and not a disorder and that it should be afforded the same dignity. They’re not for reducing the scope…
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Cognitive Biases and the Rebirth of History
Are humans capable of ending history? No. While many macro political decisions can be assigned to why liberalism began to crack but some of them were the people. To use one example, people naturally want the low-density, auto-centric, suburbia and they also become alienated, friendless, suicidal, and nationalist when they get that because, in the…
The Normative Pipette
Of the modes of ethical and moral reasoning I employ, one of them is the normative pipette. It is similar to Rawls’s “Veil of Ignorance” and has that if one could modify the human condition and the human experience, what would you change? The thought experiment regards genetic and epigenetic editing to do things like…
Southern Hospitality and Politics
Last October, in my capacity as a legislative staffer, I Dm’d a legislator from the Charleston area who was friend with the one I work for about meeting about a bill. He had, at a fundraiser the previous June, promised to support a bill that repealed the additional registration fees for electric vehicles the Republicans…
Nordicist Norms
In recent years, there has been a shift from the friendlier and warmer more traditionally American style intercourse in America to a Nordic style cold, unfriendly, and distanced intercourse. It is a trend I am deeply opposed to. Now, as a political person, I like Nordic social democracy, but I don’t like their culture and…
Fitzgerald in Alabama and Normative Ethics
As a poet laruate of the rober barons and sweatshop dynasties of the 1920s, it is interesting to see his escapades in the apartheid society with state sponsered terrorism with his paramour. Now, Fitzgerald is not considered a racist because people live in the System One of their social psychology. Yet, he was a disgusting…
Freud’s Pleasure Principle, Courage, and Cowardice
May 1st, 1917 was among the most important days of The Great War as it was the biggest day of the famous French mutinies. Ninety-three years and four months later, I was in my high school gay-straight alliance. What those events shared was the refusal to face danger. Much has been said about the emotional…
How to Run a Special Needs Ministry
My first piece of advice when running a group for people with special needs or any mental health condition is contrary to the typical rhetoric surrounding these things in contemporary culture. The first rule of safe spaces are to set boundaries and expect delicacy. That’s a problem for the obvious reasons that when handling mental…
Clubtown: The Ridiculous Non-Innocence of Charleston, South Carolina
Watching Trevor Noah, I would often notice him saying things like “You know when you’re out in the club” as if it was normal to party like a frat boy for everyone. He, nor his ilk, or much of the pop culture, purveys the gentler culture. Poetry slams, improv shows, period dress-up parties, and more…
Why Philosophy is in a Rut
Contemporary philosophy is stuck in the incidental culture war between right and left in contemporary Western society. Philosophers are little more than left-wing or center-left polemicists. They say nothing and are strongly against saying anything. They will entertain completely useless questions such as free will versus determinism which, of course, is unfalsifiable and therefore has…
Vendetta and Nothing Else
Before on this blog, I have discussed how when I have discussed my history being bullied the general response of people is that I should have resorted to physical violence, either directly or through a proxy, or contacted the police. It is quite curious that they never mention anything about fixing the cultural and psychological…
Loneliness & Hegel
Contemporary loneliness is a Hegelian antithesis. It is a reaction to the Hegelian thesis of the world before of creepiness and darkness that was pervasive as well as its hyperbolization in the media such as in the horror and the true crime genres. A Hegelian antithesis is a psychological phenomenon of reactance to a norm.…
The Theology of Pigasus the Immortal
My favorite song is Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”, as mentioned at the front page of this website. It is how I do politics. Now, in the context of religion and nonprofits I work with lots of Republicans. I should extoll what my political theology is. I became a liberal as a child and the context…
Honor, Liberalism, and Moral Stature
When nerdy good boys are delinquents and drunk cokehead playboys are model citizens. The end of virtue ethics and the rise of liberal consent. It was Martin Luther King’s dream that a pluralistic society would judge based on character and not superficial characterisitcs but liberalism decided that character meant a thick good and was incompatible…
Personal Epistimes
Most people live in a world very different world from myself in a way that is related to my autism but is not a first-degree symptom of it. That is recognizing my own cognitive biases and counteracting them. The way I ultimately managed to mask required that I be cognizant of my cognitive biases so…
Why Conservatives Are Better Organizers
I live on the left but do concede that the right has better tactics and organization. The TLDR reason is simple, the conservatives are capitalists and for all of capitalism’s problems, it is about ruthless pragmatism. The conservatives are trained to understand that everything serves their bottom line. In business, that means money and in…
The Teleology That Doesn’t Exist
Living on the left, I am curious as to what world my people are fighting for. From my perspective, they want a hypermodern, cosmopolitian world where everyone is a platcel hikikimori. A platcel is a portmanteau of platonic incel and simply means someone without friends. And without religion or community and living in a Scandanavian…
Are Autism Experts Experts in Autism?
No, I recently had an email exchange with a psychology professor at the College of Charleston who specialized in autism and it didn’t go well. I was working with her on creating sensory-safe parties and other special needs support on campus. I’m not going to recount it all here but that would be tangential. The…
How Autistic Am I?
Very. Yet, I am not of the most common subtype. I share plenty of traits with them with the most common subtypes. I make deep connections with people quickly and am much less censored in my topics of conversation. I memorize social rules much more than I read social cues. I tend to come across…
Confederate Disneyland: The Nasty Underworld of Charleston’s Tourism Industry
My hometown’s main industry is war profiteering. Amazingly, this is from a war it lost. I recently wrote a blog on the Olivia Hussey lawsuit and her and Charleston are profiteers from a sectarian conflict their side lost. Romeo & Juliet is, arguably, the most done civil war reenactment and the Confederacy was literally a…
Why “All I Want for Christmas is You” Was the Last Christmas Classic
Many takes have been made on this, yet, they miss one major thing. It is the reason that equally priced homes with Scandanavian minimalism and Victorian Maximalism will be morally judged differently with the latter rhetoricallty burned at the stake. It is the same reason big poetry houses won’t publish traditional rhyming and metered poetry…
Conceptions of Hell
I don’t usually dive into theology on this blog but I will here and what could be more fun than the invisible world of magic people go to after they die? A perennial point of theological dispute is that of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Of the traditional and more stereotypical conceptions, I prefer Purgatory before…
On the Hussey Lawsuit
In the headlines, right now, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whitting, are filing a lawsuit over the nude scene in the 1968 adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. I have, on this blog, used frames from that adaptation and it is my favorite version. Also, in my derrivite fiction, when I employ the famous couple as characters,…
Giving Toxic Relationships Happy Endings
It used to be a cliché that bad boys were faustian bargains and ultimately girls would be hurt by them. In the last few decades, they did a Taylor Swift and rewrote the ending so that Edward Cullen and Christian Grey, bad boys with so many red flags they may as well have been Soviet,…
The Perennial and the Pundits of Christianity
What does Jesus think about abortion? The answer is like what most religion and secular ideology is, whatever you already believe, your tradition is on your side. To escape this, there must be a philosohical framework with which to answer. My answer is Jesus is not a pundit and Christianity is not a platform of…
Appropriation: Physical and Cultural
A lot has been written about cultural and physical appropriation. The family of Henrietta Lacks recently filed a lawsuit over the nonconsensual use of her cells. This is stupid, they should just give all rights to them for free medical research because to do anything else would be evil. Those are legal rights since, morally,…
Applied Behavioral Analysis: An Autistic Perspective
ABA is not the most effective means of reducing problemaic behaviors in autistic people. It is not useless and it is a tool that should be used but, let’s be clear, it is not a great means to treat most autism. The most effective means is trial and error in the context of social immersion…
Sociology of the Apocolypse
Bullying is a hot topic but it is too often treated as the monolith that it isn’t. There are multiple forms of bullying with different psychological roots. The type of bullying most common where I grew up in and around Charleston was the pseudo-ethical type where the bullying takes the form of vigilantism. Furthermore,…
Fears of Strangers
I had to write a blog about this. I saw this headline and felt it belonged on The Onion. An actual major news website reported a story about someone at a Starbucks being creeped out by a stranger sitting next to him when the rest of the store was empty. Nothing sexual, violent, or even…
Epistomological Dumpster Fire
Every time and place is, in one way, at least, an epistomological dumpster fire. To be more philosophical, I’ll use latin and term it an epistomological fragor. In brief, the EF is when limitations in knowledge create or contribute significantly to a big problem or system of problems. It can be chronological or horizontal. A…
Capitalism & Suicide: The Modern Examples of Weber and Durkheim
For parents, especially contemporary culturally suburban ones since the 1990s, the aim has been to have successy children who excel. I never had this ambition and always saw it as wrong. A good woman is not a CEO because a good person is not a CEO but an underground activist resisting the CEO. I say…
Murder Victims and Cancer Patients
Recently, I was reading an article by The Marshal Project which spoke of the evolution of sentiments about the death penalty. They said something in a way that wasn’t worded well. They claimed that in the 1990s, capital punlishment became about restitution to the victims. That’s not true. Revenge on the part of the victims…
Age Differences in Platonic Relationships
I do most of my activism in and around college campuses and am arguably in the waning days of my youth. Not only colleges, putting on things like sensory-safe parties, I am working with sororities. Some of the girls are quite attractive and I think about whether I should try to make platonic friends with…
The Psychology of Reactionary Politics
Reactionary politics is considered by many to be a synonym with conservatism but it is not. I define it as the politcs of unthinking reaction. I recently wrote an article about the anti-catcalling laws. How, among other things, the same movement against mass incarceration and arresting people for minor crimes are also for doing exactly…
Subepistimes and Cultural Stereotypes
What is sexuality like? The truth is that is a terrible question. Sexuality is not like anything. There is no such thing as sexuality. There are spectrums of sexualty and romantic attraction defined by quantity of intensity and quality of form. Alas, there is very little vocabulary in the public discourse that describes most of…
An Aesthetic Critique of Christian Nationalism
Firstly, style is dead in the West. We have lost the romantic prettiness of the vintage era, the hot chic of the mid-20th century, and more. Neither the tiara of a Victorian heiress nor the glamour of a golden age movie star does our era possess. It is not merely that the Kardashians are vain,…
Is Pluto a Planet?: Psychological and Political Definitions
I fully support the IAU definition of planet. What I disagreed with in their 2006 decision was to not make Pluto an honorary planet since, given public sentiments, I feel unjustifiable suffering was induced. The scientists would know the difference regardless so the only group it affected was the public whose happiness was reduced and…
The Path to a Social Japan and the Birth of a New Paradigm
As touched on in the article I wrote about the anti-catcalling laws, the over-punishing of minor anti-social behavior is not the result of progressive politics even if it manifests itself in it. It is the bourgeois, suburban, fears of the uncanny and the marginalized. I referenced an The Atlantic article by Conor Friedersdorf where he…
The War for a Bourgeois Utopia
I am against catcalling but with regards to the wave of new laws against it, I’m against those too. What frustrates me about the anti-catcalling laws is this. To reduce mass incarceration, we need a united left that doesn’t advocate for criminalizing minor anti-social behavior. If a hobo calls you “sugar-tits” then just roll your…
Why Loving the Baddies?
I am not the only one to be critical of our culture’s love of pirates. Even as a child, I was against playing them because even as a prepubescent the idea that I would have fun pretending to murder people and steal stuff was contrary to my morals. When I played pretend, I was more…
Cultural Relativism and the South
When I was a freshman in college, I took an intro to Antrhopology course and in the course of it we were taught the traditional postmodernist line that we should respect the customs and morés of cultures. This made me boil with rage and seethe with anger. At that time, I was in the middle…
The Culture Shock They Never Mention
On September 7, 2021, I was working as a legal asistant and legislative aide for state legislator and in this capacity I recieved texts and a call from someone who was supposedly his client. He claimed to be a schizophrenic bipolar person in the Al Canon jail on a contraband phone. It soon devolved into…
The Spectrum Between Romance and Platonic Realtionships
As a heteroromantic asexual, I view it as inappasite to classify the type of relationship I would want to be the same as a hetererosexual. Fundamentally, a heterosexual wants different things. Also, as someone with a disability, I have different needs. For example, for someone with a lower-functioning disability, combining maternalism and romance may be…
Calvinism and New Atheism
It has often been argued that New Atheism is as fundamentalist as religion may be but I would narrow that I term the likes of Richard Dawkins to be a Calvinist. It is not merely that they have the passion of fundamentalists but also the logic of them. First off, their dismissal of all metaphorical…
How Society Reacted to the Death of my Mother
Oxytocin is a curious chemical and a fickle one, too. Are empathetic people empathetic? Well, no. Not without a lot of cognitive empathy in addition to their emotional empathy. Absent cognitive empathy, the only endangered species, and I mean this metaphorically and literally, people care about are charismatic megafauna. Whether or not and to what…
Politeness and Urgency
When doing politics, which is my life, I often come across a lack of urgency and if pushed to a point, I’ll be rude to the point of cussing. Escpecially when I’m being ghosted or having a commitment violated during the course of a project. I got a text from the boyfriend of someone I…
Hedonist Orthodoxy and Work Ethic
In the previous few articles, I have written about hedonist orthodoxy which is the normative system which has there is a proper and improper way to engage in leisure time. That this is a subnorm based on a subepistime within the broader context of Rawlsian liberal ethics that are the main normative morals of our…
Suburbia, Neurodivergence, and the Uncanny Valley
The liberalization of the concept of creepiness is most associated with third-wave feminism yet it is not that movement where it is most problematic. While a modicum of blame may be afforded that movement, they are mostly fine. Creepiness and the terms “creep” and “creepy” are vague and ill-defined and may describe an awkward teenager…
Subnorms and Subepistimes
In sociology and anthropology, there are many contradicting normatives. In one of my presentations for SPED majors at the College of Charleston I highlighted one of these. Our culture screams to “be yourself” and to “disregard what others think”, especially on matters of minor social rules. Of course, the desperation in the field of special…
Apple Juice and Liquor
Often, and I have written about this before, I have been admonished for my sober, chaste, lifestyle devoid of alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and pornography. I should according to them “live some”. I am a published author on Amazon with 5 star reviews for fiction, I write poetry, and much more. I am hardly a square…
On the J.K. Rowling Transphobia Controversy
While I support the trans community, I don’t support all of the hatred that J.K. Rowling has recieved because, for all her faults, she is a solid Labour supporter in the UK and supports progressive causes on almost every issue. With Marine le Pen across the channel in Calais and Boris Johnson commanding a Trump-like…
The Death of Type A on the Left
Working in politics and in the nonprofit sector, one thing that is apparent is the lack of Type A personality and the desperate need for it. Any degree of assertiveness is seen as aggressive and impolite even when the world is literally burning. The general response one gets when one acts with the appropriate urgency…
Hedonism and Populism
One of the most curious social phenomenon is that so many decades after the sexual revolution, sex is still regarded as edgy. Same with alcohol. People talk about drinking heavily like it is some bold and radical act of subversion. The Volstead Act hasn’t been a thing for a while. Having never had an alcoholic…
Moral Courage in the Media
In the philosophical and social analyses of pop culture, the eggheads of my fellows on the left in academia who I vote the same way and attend the same protests as but afford almost zero intellectual respect to because they, typically, deserve zero intellectual respect, they will focus on things like feminism. That’s most of…
The Life of Brian Versus The World
The Life of Brian was famously hated by members of my religion for its superificial mocking of it. The offense taken by Christians to the movie seemed stupid and shallow. They were offended by The Life of Brian overwhelmingly, not because of its message or its effect on the audience but because of its ostensible…
The Horror Genre and Psychlogy
Recently, I came across a psychology article from the APA talking about how horror movies can provide a safe environment to engage with our deep emotions and break rumination cycles. This is where we get to when a science is internally stove-piped because while horror may be something like exposure therapy in the acute and…
Benevolent Chivalric Hubrism: The Eupathology of Chivalry
Recently, and linked to this article, I wrote about a DSM for positive conditions. The first positive condition, I suggest, is BCH. Benevolent Chivalric Hubrism. It is a personality eupathology analagous to its dark cousin NPD. In one sense, it is being poisoned by own’s own pride but with a intense sense of nobility. It…
Pyschological Angelology (Part II): Cognitive Morality
In the last article about this, I dōve into emotional morality. Here, I dive into cognitive morals. That and the absence of negative emotions as opposed to the presence of positive ones. I should highlight that in the intervening time, I did a cursory Google search for positive mental health and the results were all…
Dunning-Krugger, WYSIATI, Foucaultian Epistime, and Hegelian Geist
The world as it is understood by people. The cultural worldview of a time with the morés and knowledge of a people. In one sense, it is the full intellectual human person who in Hegelian progression evolves into another type of person. It is the most fundamental and whole idealist philosophical position. The idea of…
The Moral Panic Over Nikolas Cruz’s Life Sentence
Where do I begin with how irrational and stupid this moral panic is. Firstly, I oppose capital punishment and have the moral courage to defend that position in extreme cases. Principles aren’t principles if one doesn’t stand by them under the hardest circumstances. That said, even if I supported capital punishment, I would not consider…
On Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Bill Maher Remarks
Typically, I would not remark on a single series of comments but this one regarded nuclear weapons by a renowned scientist and was so profoundly wrong that my inner-Asperger’s nerd had to scream. Neil Degreasse Tyson said on Bill Maher’s show that modern nuclear weapons don’t produce radiation. He was correct in saying that fusion…
Fanon, Foucault, Subspace, and Disability
Frantz Fanon wrote about the colonized mind which is very germane to the position of people with disabilities. What Special Ed and most psychologists mostly intend for their disabled patients and people is obedience to society. And they use the coercive force of the state to get that obedience from administrators, to the police, to…
Psychological Angelology: The DSM of the Opposite of Disorders
In the realm of psychology, the overwhelming obsession is what is wrong with people. There is no DSM for virtues, only for vices. The assumption is that normalcy is perfection and deviancy is immoral. While they may be reluctant to admit to it, the role of a psychologist is mostly to make people normal. The…
Life Without Oxytocin
If there is any aspect of autistic life that elicits the most philosophical questions it is that surrounding oxytocin. Is having oxytocin a part of the human experience I should have? What does liberal society have to say about that? I don’t have oxytocin and, from what I can gather, society’s position is that the…
Tangible Results, Awareness Raising, and the Lack of Realpolitik on the Left
There is an anti-bullying activist of C-list fame whom I attended college and had a bad relationship with in Charleston. I won’t mention her name although she is barely famous enough I wouldn’t feel guilty about doing so. She had a suicide attempt after her fellow high school students made a Facebook page and trashed…
The Cognitive Biases of Psychiatrists
More than anything else, the greatest issue in my mental health history has been agnotology. That is people not knowing what is happening. Having studied a great deal of psychology, it is frustrating to find out conditions I had years later and to discover that these conditions were known about at the time but not…
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