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In the review of Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative I cover my discovery of his book on my shelves. Here I wish to explore the implications, by which I think I mean metaphysics, but in a good way, that is… —poetically, of Ardrey’s use of Petter’s term noyau. The discussion of noyau, or noyaux in the French plural, is a…

In reshelving books on their shelves recently, with the two bookshelves themselves only returned to their place in the living room after we replaced the flooring, my eye lingered on a book cover. I did not recognise it, but it was familiar in the way one's infancy can return feelings. The book as then both unknown and known at the…

Reason ① versus Reason ② while currently reading Terry Eagleton's Culture and the Death of God Recently I’ve been circling like a vulture… I am a vulture… I am the… i am vulture thermalling above… — the gap. …looking for the signs of death below on the plains of rationality so I can feed my family in the nest, dear…

We often try to impose the world on reality. (this is most marked in case of narcissistic ‘sweorlds’) However this imposition is impossible because the world does not exist, and reality does not and can not care. Still, many of us try, which is the first mistake we make which allows us to learn about reality, but repeated the same…

Imaginary conversation with a dumbfounded respondent as I try to get what I mean by 'worlding' across as a framework fo the self/world ratio or Janus dance. Look, is romance a risk? (yes) and when you move to take that risk, i mean, have you always rejected that risk? (no) so, when you take the risk on in a romance,…

To be a moral person requires empathy. It does not require a morality. Narcissists use moral principles to game their local system all the time. Why does being moral not require morality? Becasue reality does not care about reality. It has no bones to pick. It does not care what we do with reality, or don’t. Caring about reality is…