Author: Mr Nobody
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Answering a question about evil
Understanding evil is a painful but necessary step on the path to personal enlightenment. Agree or disagree? My reply: Yes, but not everyone is adapted for it in the same way. Not in the way some people are. Some people are very good at looking at and intimately understanding and experiencing evil, and some aren’t.…
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Is Justin Trudeau a bad leader?
Here’s what I think of Justin Trudeau. I think he’s a kid who got himself into a situation beyond his capabilities. He never expected to end up as the dictator of Canada due to a widespread crisis. And maybe he likes it just a little, and it’s brought out new and surprising things in him.…
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Crying, and the pains of growing up
I have two young girls, and thanks to one of them especially, I see a lot of tears. In fact I see more tears in one week than I saw in my entire childhood from all the combined members of my family. I see her cry more about getting up in the morning than I…
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Sexual attraction and revelation
While man may be an object of physical attraction, he can never be the object of the same kind of physical attraction that women possess. As Camille Paglia says, male striptease can never compare to women’s, because in men there is no mystery to be revealed, only exposure. Only the foolish presentation of the possibility…
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Whoopi’s inquisition
Like many people, I somehow couldn’t avoid hearing about how Whoopi Goldberg claimed the Holocaust wasn’t about race, was made to apologize, unapologized, and moved on with her life. It was one in a series of strange moments The View has served up. And like everyone, I had an opinion. This matter is both more…
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Reading Camille Paglia
I have been reading Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae with a great deal of annoyed delight. I say delight because it is wonderful to find someone talking openly about so many of the things I have been thinking about for so long. I’m annoyed because it’s so frustrating to always be discovering that someone has already…
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The embarassing and overlooked gifts of the Jews
One thing you learn if you grow up in a good church is about the dangers of Pharisaism. If you don’t know who the Pharisees were, they were the best people. Social leaders, influencers, educated, active in the community, obsessed with being ethical, respected, innovative. They had ethical living down to an absolute science, always…
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Is the persona a false appearance?
I’ve taken some time to think about this from different perspectives. It’s true, in a way. A persona is a kind of appearance. And it emerges out of our collective interaction and negotiation. It is a practical social tool. But it’s also more than that. The persona is what emerges out of us in response…
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I’m on Substack!
If you like this blog but want a different format, it’s available on Substack now. https://mnobody.substack.com In the future I’m hoping to provide some podcasts and read alongs, which will be accessible from that page. But if you want to latest published articles, the WordPress site is, for now, the best place to get them.…
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The revolution isn’t behind us, it is today
I think people misunderstand how experimentation works on a social scale. Innovation doesn’t render up its results immediately, it renders them up on a generational time scale. When you run an experiment, when you genuinely innovate with the structure of society and truly try something new and different and disruptive and progressive, you cannot tell…
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