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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Friday, July 23, 2004
Attn. NRA: Laws are enforced by criminals with guns... Linda Ronstadtism is hardly confined to the left. Consider this from the NRA's legislative action site: Self-defense took a big blow this week when the Utah Supreme Court upheld the right of America Online (AOL), America`s largest on-line service provider, to fire three employees whose firearms were stored in the trunks of their cars in the parking lot of an AOL call center in Ogden, Utah. In a decision that diminishes rights guaranteed under both the Utah and the U.S. Constitution, the court acknowledged the individual right to keep and bear arms, but said the right of a business to regulate its own property is more important!It's the same damn issue as the Aladdin, the right of the owners of a property to control what happens on that property. In a sane society, you could yell anything you wanted to in your own damn theater. You could store anything you wanted to in your own damn garage. But if you agree voluntarily to conditions of employment on another man's property, then run to the legislature to coerce that man and break your agreement--then you are the bad guy from whom people should seek to defend themselves. Monday, July 19, 2004
BetterVegas: Memo to Elton John This is not censorship. This is freedom. The freedom of a surly drunk to make an ass of herself in public. The freedom of her audience to object to her behavior. And the freedom of her employer to put her out in the street. They practice the same flavor of freedom up the street at Caesar's Palace and all over Las Vegas, particularly, and it seems likely that Linda Ronstadt has delivered an extremely lucrative message to all manner of famous future has-beens. Elton John doesn't need Las Vegas nearly as badly as Linda Ronstadt does--or did, that is; she's blown that opportunity for good--but, even so, I'll bet he's capable of catching a clue. Sunday, July 18, 2004
Love among the INTJs... John Kennedy at No Treason asked a talk radio question about the Briggs Meyers make-up of the core cadre of NT usual suspects. (I came out INTJ there, my lifelong norm, where I am ESTJ on the test version cited here.) The project ended up raising some interesting questions, which it could be I'll get to if time ever permits. But in the mean time it got me thinking about INTJs as a species, about their charming peculiarities. In the car I've been listening (and listening and listening) to Steely Dan's Gold collection, and, of course, Steely Dan is the world's first and so far only INTJ rock band--witty and cerebral, aloof if not enitrely insectile, always hiding behind the joke. The song quoted below is one Donald Fagen contributed to the (awful) film Bright Lights, Big City. Very New Yorky, like the film, but the line "She's a concept more or less" is the ultimate statement of young INTJ love. Truly, I think Western culture, ultimately, is the triumph of the INTJs, who in every other human culture are martyred for daring to have a brain. But I don't forget for a moment how funny they--we--I--can be at times. Century's End |
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