Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

GETTING MY MIND IN ORDER : CURRENT TOPICS OF INQUIRY

Current topics I’m working on (obvious probably):

1) Structure of the presentation of content in the book. I keep coming back to the 48 laws of power, except that each ‘reading’ is from each of our mythic periods.’ This has been with me since the beginning and every time I think differently I come back to it. But I’m also abandoning the essay form, and coming closer to the legal or ‘great book’ form, supported by parables (references). The problem is that I just don’t believe I have the stamina or time to compile those references without employing a grad student or two for every chapter and verse.

2) What does the next western civic ‘religion’ look like after Democratic Secular Socialist Humanism (Neo-Puritanism) if we are to reconstruct the distributed civic society, and in doing so restore distributed ownership, care-taking, and policing of the commons? I think a few of us have a pretty clear idea of how to construct the institution itself, and provide incentives to participate in it. So my opinion is continuing to solidify on the church/bank/regiment model

3) Can I articulate sufficiently how the great lies are constructed using obscurant loaded and framed languages distributed in overloaded volumes? I think I have a good sense of it but I feel like if I spent another year on it, that I would nail it. I don’t feel I have that year.

4) Can I turn strict propertarian construction into a series of lessons that it is easy to learn? I think I was approaching it too editorially and can show how to construct it with a simple process and some examples. . But I think I will do that near the end, once I’ve created many examples to draw from.

5) Should I bother to write a computer model to demonstrate it even if doing so will incur a penalty of locking the work to a technical period in time? (it’s easy to model propertarianism). I think I might write it for myself just as Axelrod and company have, but I think I won’t reference it in the work.