Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour (1642) at the Louvre
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- Simple Reality: The Essence
- ABC’s of Simple Reality
- ART and Simple Reality
- Introduction – Art & Simple Reality
- Chapter 1 – Simple Reality and the Birth of Western Art
- Chapter 2 – Architecture
- Chapter 3 – Dance
- Chapter 4 – Essays
- The Simple Truth
- Darwin and P-B
- The Didact
- Tongue in Cheek
- Excuse Me!
- Authors Know Best
- The Clapping of Tongues
- Blessed Richard the Hermit
- Canine Consciousness
- Solitude
- Success
- Another Escape
- Enlightenment
- The Shifting Observer
- Survival of the Fittest
- Yearning for Utopia
- Behold, the Sun
- The Pogo Paradox or Chicken Little?
- The Universal Terrorist
- That’s Right! Not!
- Not You Again!
- Knowledge, Illusion and Groupthink
- Laughing and Lying: Why We Can’t Stop
- Hero’s Journey
- Death and Transfiguration
- In Consideration of the Ultimate
- The Inward Light
- That’s Me, That’s Not Me
- Chapter 5 – Film
- Illusion or Reality? Which is Which?
- Lost in Space with HAL: Episode I
- Lost in Space with HAL: Episode II
- The Power of Suffering
- The Spirit of America: A Mockumentary
- Suffering and Sentimentality
- Inanity and Insanity
- Old Paradigm Denial
- Zombies in Paradigm B
- The Observer
- American Fools
- Gi’mme a Drink!
- The Nitty Gritty of Walter Mitty
- “Peaking” at Death
- Building a Cathedral
- Seeing Our Shadow
- A New Me
- Chapter 6 – Graphic Arts
- Chapter 7 – Humor
- Chapter 8 – Illusion
- Chapter 9 – Journalism
- Chapter 10 – Music
- Chapter 11 – Painting
- Chapter 12 – Performance Art
- Chapter 13 – Photography
- Chapter 14 – Poetry
- Chapter 15 – Prose
- Introduction – Prose
- Biography and Memoirs
- Novels
- Don Quixote in Search of P-A
- Castaways All
- Impotent Philosophy
- Hawthorne’s Hope
- The House of P-B
- A Tale of a Whale (P-B) or A Whale of a Tale (P-A)
- Loss of Innocence
- The Imposter President
- Bucking Misogyny
- Jesus Wrestling with Satan
- Suffering Transformation
- Asleep and Awake: Two Stories
- The Birth of the American Novel
- Symptoms or Causes
- Conrad the Observer
- Veneer of Civilization
- Dark Determinism
- The American Promise
- Beware the Story
- The Universal Man
- Existential Despair
- The False Self on Main Street
- Romantic Self-Indulgence
- The American Inquisitor
- The Storyteller
- Better Anger than Despair
- Dystopia Myopia
- The Illusion of Order vs. Anarchy: Utopia vs. Dystopia
- America: Black & White – The Darkness and the Light
- Magic Illusion
- Turning Within
- Zombieland: Fiction is Reality, Reality is Fiction
- Which Fantasy?
- Short Stories
- “Sir, is this supposed to be happening?”
- The Perennial Pilgrimage
- The Fall of the House of Paradigm B
- The Bartleby Decision
- The Curse of the Prophet
- Storied Fear
- P-B: Perrennial Noir: No Escape
- The Insightful Muse
- Despair
- The Irreproachable House
- Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen
- Diseased
- Going Home
- Chapter 16 – Rhetoric
- Chapter 17 – Sculpture
- Chapter 18 – Television
- Chapter 19 – Theatre
- Introduction: Thespians All
- All the World’s a Stage
- A Guide to Writing Plays
- Escaping and Purging
- Oedipus Asleep
- Sophocles and Suffering
- The Middle Path
- Trapped in Suffering
- William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare and Feminine Insights
- La Comédie Moderne
- Grace, Works or Predestination
- The Farcical False-Self
- Pirandello the Profound
- Folly: Acting and the Cult of Celebrity
- Thornton Wilder
- Eugene O’Neill’s America
- Theatre as Social Criticism
- Intuition in the Theatre
- Tennessee Williams
- Arthur Miller
- Absurdly Real
- A Modern Buddha
- Stephen Sondheim
- Humor, Hysteria and the Holidays
- Suffering is Universal
- Mamet, the Hound of Heaven
- Look in the Mirror
- What is Normal?
- La Vida Loca (The Crazy Life)
- America: A Trilogy for the Theatre
- Perfervid Cupidity: A Dialogue
- Chapter 20 – Web Media
- Insights
- Table of Contents – Insights
- #1 – Is It Time To Panic Yet?
- #2 – What’s Your Brand?
- #3 – Can We Go Home Again?
- #4 – Panic in Dystopia
- #5 – Let’s Talk
- #6 – The [G]Rand Illusion
- #7 – An Authentic Hero
- #8 – I Share, Therefore I Am
- #9 – Is Religion Killing Us?
- #10 – Relax! It Will All Work Out
- #11 – Is The Universe A Friendly Place?
- #12 – The Animal That Kills
- #13 – Blustering, Bumbling Braggadocio
- #14 – The Coming Apocalypse
- #15 – Planned Obsolescence
- #16 – Vive La Difference or Maybe Not!
- #17 – Oxymoronic America
- #18 – Are Males Really Necessary?
- #19 – Common Sense
- #20 – Which Side Are You On Boys?
- #21 – The War Lovers
- #22 – Was Racism in America Inevitable?
- #23 – Our American Culture: An Addictive System
- #24 – The Truth Matters but What Is the Truth
- #25 – Intuition or Intellect? You Choose
- #26 – Faked Out
- #27 – The Ever So Gradual Awakening of David Brooks
- #28 – A Happy Ending? Forget That!
- #29 – Gobble Gobble
- #30 – The Disintegration of the American Economy
- #31 – Discontinuation Syndrome
- #32 – Fear and Loathing in America
- #33 – Seeking Power by Creating Fear
- #34 – American Dystopia
- #35 – Community in America: Toxic Groupthink
- #36 – No Thanks, I’d Rather Suffer
- #37 – American Foreign Policy: Grand Strategies or Grand Blunders?
- #38 – Too Late Or Is It?
- #39 – Strategy and Tactics: Catastrophe in the Colonies
- #40 – Dead Souls
- #41 – Soul Sickness
- #42 – Feeding Our Ravenous Dark Side Identity
- #43 – Fake News – Confused?
- #44 – Everyone Knew
- #45 – Listen My Children and …
- #46 – Seduction and Denial in Iowa
- #47 – Our Pathological President Errr … Precedent
- #48 – Who Are We?
- #49 – Predator and Prey: Survival of the Fittest
- #50 – Bowling Together
- #51 – Lower Expectations
- #52 – The Apprentice
- #53 – The Great Lie
- #54 – Transcending the Nightmare
- #55 – We Are One Human Community
- #56 – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
- #57 – Sink or Swim
- #58 – It’s Time
- #59 – Objective Reality
- #60 – We Croak
- #61 – The Search for Enlightenment
- #62 – Truth, Beauty and the Process of Awakening
- #63 – Stranger Than Fiction
- #64 – Foreign Policy Fiasco
- #65 – The Split
- #66 – The Great Choice
- #67 – It’s High Time for a New Story
- #68 – What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
- #69 – Don’t Move
- #70 – Ozymandias
- #71 – The Beauty, the Joy, the Music
- #72 – Don’t Lean
- #73 – Proliferating Paranoia
- #74 – Complicit
- #75 – Pain and Suffering in America
- #76 – Iconoclast
- #77 – The Poison of Belief
- #78 – Smoking the Toad
- #79 – Provocation: Poking the Pig
- #80 – Racists Ruse
- #81 – Bashing Bots
- #82 – Sex and the Single Girl (or Boy) – Not!
- #83 – The Hustle
- #84 – Resist not … (Matthew 5:39)
- #85 – How Ironic!
- #86 – Flying Too Close to the Sun
- #87 – Choose Life
- #88 – Feeling the Lash
- #89 – Insight
- #90 – We Don’t Know What Love Is
- #91 – What is Happiness?
- #92 – Tenuous Connections
- #93 – What’s Your Choice, Heaven or Hell?
- #94 – Chaos and/or Utopia
- #95 – Rapture or Reality
- #96 – Creating Community as an Art
- #97 – The Christian Myth
- #98 – The Deadening of the Soul
- #99 – A Brave Stupidity
- #100 – What We Have is a Failure to Communicate
- #101 – A Zombie Military
- #102 – Do the Right Thing
- #103 – Genesis
- #104 – The Seven Deadly Habits of Self-Destructive People
- #105 – The Fictionality of Nationhood
- #106 – Got Microbiota?
- #107 – Quick Evolution
- #108 – And the Problem Is … ?
- #109 – Silence, Simplicity and Solitude
- #110 – Neo-Transcendentalism
- #111 – A Fatal Belief
- #112 – Delusional Romantics
- #113 – Transcendence
- #114 – Oh My God!
- #115 – You Choose!
- #116 – We Can All Do Better
- #117 – To Be Or Not To Be
- #118 – Peace Be Unto You
- #119 – Don’t Miss the Point
- #120 – The Mean Streets of America
- #121 – Liar, Liar
- #122 – Karma
- #123 – Wise Choices
- #124 – America: Which Way Forward
- #125 – Dead Man’s Hand
- #126 – What Makes a Deplorable Deplorable?
- #127 – Self-Affirmation
- #128 – American Predators
- #129 – Auto Estima
- #130 – First the Bad News
- #131 – And Now for the Good News
- #132 – The Technology Cop Out
- #133 – Greed or Gratitude
- #134 – Ghost Stories
- #135 – Deeper
- #136 – Psychopaths Galore
- #137 – The Lemming Syndrome
- #138 – No Sense or Sensibility
- #139 – From Reductionism to Wholeness
- #140 – Fear and the Bible
- #141 – Universal Perfect Justice
- #142 – Time
- #143 – Christ
- #144 – The Schizo President
- #145 – The Curriculum
- #146 – Brain Damaged
- #147 – Holden Caulfield Where Are You?
- #148 – Monkey See, Monkey Do!
- #149 – Matter Doesn’t Matter
- #150 – We All Fall Down
- #151 – Affluenza: The Dogged Pursuit of More
- #152 – The Silly Sad-Sacks of Silicon Valley
- #153 – Self-Imposed Nonsense
- #154 – The Hero’s Journey
- #155 – We Don’t Understand
- #156 – We Have Met the Deplorables and …
- #157 – Do the Math
- #158 – Managed Retreat
- #159 – Paradigm B: The Land of Self-Defeat
- #160 – Wake Up! Before It’s Too Late
- #161 – Suicides, Depression, Addition. Oh My!
- #162 – Are We Coming or Going
- #163 – Regression
- #164 – Redemption
- #165 – Jekyll or Hyde. Your Choice!
- #166 – Twitterverse Addiction
- #167 – Discovering Religion Anew
- #168 – Inner Wisdom
- #169 – The Prophet Within
- #170 – The Canary is Dying
- #171 – Who Does He Think He Is?
- #172 – Mr. President Your Nose Seems To Be Growing
- #173 – The Chaos Machine
- #174 – In Search of Paradigm A
- #175 – The Illusion of Freedom
- #176 – Ya’ll Just Don’t Get It!
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