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My Book ‘If These Fists Could Talk’ – Now Available on Amazon
My book If These Fists Could Talk: A Stuntman’s Unflinching Take on Violence is now available on Amazon. The eBook version is $7.99 and the paperback version is $12.99. Both are available at the following link. Please spread the word and, if you buy a copy, be sure to leave a review! https://a.co/d/9Vhz1wS
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The Myth of the Kinless Caveman
One of the prevailing myths in the West is the idea that, at some point, ancient humans (or “hominins”) wandered about, reproducing here and there, without any real social structure. I’m not sure how that would have ever been possible. Even if we assume that humans gradually evolved from primates, we would also assume that…
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Divination and Carpentry
I have a hunch that divination is the way in which manic-schizoid personalities impose their interpretation of symbols on the world, while carpentry is the tendency for autistic personalities to impose their meanings on the world. The two seem to run against each other. I see a parallel in my current reading of Jung. In…
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2025 – The Year of the Myth
I’ve never been one to enjoy myth, but I’m on a quest to find a myth of the origin of human violence, or ROBA. I actually don’t believe there is one. I believe it’s been with us since the beginning. So there’s no myth. ROBA is simply who we are. Or, I should say, humans…
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The 2024 Research Recap
I read a lot in 2024. You can see the list here, but yesterday I did a live stream where I review all the 66 books I read. It’s 4.5 hours so it’ll only take up a little more than half your day! Call For Help – Thumbnail and Publishing Templates If anyone is willing…
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2024 Research In Review: 25,590 pages across 66 books
This was a very fulfilling year of reading. Most books I read were non-fiction. I read very slowly, at around 15 pages per hour, and I take a ton of notes. My bogey was 68 pages per day. I hit 25,590 which is 70 pages per day, which was a major grind. I read from…
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My Myth Is Not Your Myth
I’m reading Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols at the same time as another YouTuber. It’s not my first foray into Jung’s thinking; I read through Hall and Nordby’s A Primer of Jungian Psychology while living in a hotel in India, which was almost 7 years ago, but I filled it with notes, mostly stuff…
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Do Linguistic Declensions Influence Pantheons?
I’m reading through some Indian myth right now, and I’m blown away by the number of gods that just represent the sun. There are multiple gods and goddesses representing the earth. There are many war gods (principally Indra, but also Soma). The Indian pantheon has been quoted as numbering the millions, but this probably assumes…
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The Holy War of Modern Synthesis
The mainstream theory of violence, and most of human biology, stems from modern synthesis, which combines Darwinian natural selection with Mendelian genetics, with a dose of Malthusian population theory. One of the main thrusts of modern synthesis was put forward by Ronald A. Fisher in 1930 in a book called The Genetical Theory of Natural…
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Gemini Is Wrong About Violence
I debated Google Gemini about violence. It didn’t go well… for Gemini. The baseline question was: What’s the difference between human and animal combat? Gemini’s response was something like this: Gemini: Humans use planning, have more intelligence, and utilize tactics. Me: Don’t animals have all those things? Does human combat differ from animal combat only…