Is RTR crackpottery? Judge for yourself: http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR Brutalization of the child "off limits" domains of morality Ethics: the relative and the objective Questioning the one-way street of authoritarian morality The psychological payoffs for evasion and obedience Catastrophizing http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/what-is-catastrophizing/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion Practicing RTR http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/stolenconcept.html Listening to feelings Questioning one's premises--can we look to peer-reviewed psych/phil journals for answers? Focusing on the psychological/philosophical essentials Being aware of the argument from morality The Argument From Morality by Stefan Molyneux http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux7.html The payoffs for love of domination--and for enabling it Experiments in liberty--questioning liberty is questioning oneself Having compassion for other people's feelings, and challenging "authority" http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalization.html Illogical philosophical catch phrases--Ayn Rand astutely noted that evil philosophies are systems of rationalizations Defining self-esteem--self-confidence and self-respect Staving off the feeling of being unfit to exist with defense mechanisms and pseudo self-esteem The brutalizing process of relativistic ethics and eating invisible apples (blue pill city) There are no conflicts among people's self-interest and self-esteem The error of "getting" a child to eat dinner...developing a context for normalization An anarchist’s declaration by Mike Gogulski http://www.nostate.com/an-anarchists-declaration/ Expressing anger in trying to understand the optimal context of childrearing Getting rid of parasitic memes John Gottman's (http://www.gottman.com) research: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling 'The Four Horsemen': Why Marriages Fail by Alix Spiegel http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4823861 http://www.gottman.com/press/releases/detail.php?id=13 Living an authentic life in relation to one's own mind, based on objective reality The Anatomy of Slavespeak by Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml The Nature of Government by Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07b.shtml The most important thing to show kids, besides your happiness: authentic and principled expression of values and virtues The truth shall set us free! Peer-reviewers' fest of altruism Developing self-trust in one's own understanding of objective morality--and living it! Just For Fans of Stefan Molyneux (when seemingly nice people turn nasty) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY30C6Grv3o The Art of Self-Discovery by Nathaniel Branden (examining subconscious premises) http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38 The Art of Living Consciously by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=28 Taking Responsibility by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=36 Personal evolution also means the evolution of our culture bumper music "See You on the Other Side" by Ozzy Osbourne http://www.ozzy.com/music/ozzmosis

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