It’s Splendor or Squalor – and everybody’s gotta take a side…Photo by: Martin TalbotGot a taste for a mouthful of big words? My favorites are these: Ontologically-consonant teleology. What that means is conforming your moral philosophy to the true facts … Continue reading →

Building on the idea of the number line of morality discussed in Chapter 7 of Man Alive, this video from September of 2012 takes up the idea of ripping off the band-aid — getting pain out of the way quickly … Continue reading →

From September 16, 2012, just after Benghazi. I may come back to this sometime soon, because Islam is a particularly brutal example of the intellectual and spiritual ossification that results when a high-C tyranny achieves a relatively-stable state. What would … Continue reading →

Everything is all one thing, so this is a video essay about art about music about morality about song-writing about marriage about redemption – simple stuff. This is egoism in action, me being me. This video connects directly to the … Continue reading →

Here’s my quick take on the presidential election, one day prior to the event: Mitt Romney is going to win an Electoral College landslide. My state-by-state prediction is shown below, but it’s not based on any sort of arcane science. … Continue reading →

My book Man Alive! is six months old today. I celebrate this auspicious occasion by defending the undeniable ontological fact of human free will while dismantling two specious arguments on the subject. The first, put forth by an academic completely … Continue reading →

So. It’s like two months since I’ve made a movie, and I’ve been feeling overfull of things to say. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I had wanted to say to The 21 Convention, and I ended … Continue reading →

[This week’s movie is concerned with the kind of behavior many people deride as being “arrogant” — behavior I consider thrillingly normal in human beings. The text quoted below comes from a post I wrote at BloodhoundBlog.com. –GSS] Extracted from … Continue reading →

Today’s Spreecast explores an argument from Man Alive!, specifically from Chapter 2, which is currently under discussion at FreeTheAnimal.com: 1. “We now know we know nothing!” Either your mind is inherently unreliable or the world outside your mind is fundamentally … Continue reading →

My second Spreecast was better and worse than the first. It was worse because we got hit with a few technical gremlins, resulting in the videocast being split into two segments, which are embedded below. But it was substantially better … Continue reading →