Book 66
FOREWORD (66)
BOOK 66: CONSEQUENCE
66. On Anger
Book 66: The Prolepticon is considered by me to be a huge success even if no one ends up reading it or appreciating my words. For over ten years, I vented my frustration with Western society and the university culture through writing hundreds of essays on various topics in political science, philosophy, psychology, and media.
Originally, this book was to be titled, “A Million Angry Words” because I was enormously proud of having converted those several hundred essays (in excess of a million words) to only 25,000 words of distilled, rational thoughts.
I changed the title out of self-respect for what I had achieved in altering my attitude. This book is not a reflection of anger, but rather, it is a productive conversion of anger. I have written this book without the anger and contempt that I felt when I produced the essays which these sixty-six entries were based on.
That being said, in converting essays that occasionally ran past 5000 words, these sixty-six entries have omitted a lot of good anecdotes and useful information I had researched for the topics. The caveat for engaging with Book 66 is that you accept my knowledge and opinions as exactly that, and you understand and appreciate that I am not presenting myself as an “expert”. To that effect, I didn’t bother with citations but most of my research is easy to access and in the public domain.
I am a trained media scholar, and arguably, I am an expert film critic, however, for the most part I think of myself as a Renaissance man as well as an outsider to the status quo of society. I’m not angry, but I’m not happy either.
Book 66 presents human-based problems, but it also hints at solutions to those problems. The more those solutions are implemented, the more I will become a happy person.
For the most part Book 66 has been written for the sake of posterity. I don’t necessarily believe that anyone living today will embrace my ideas, but I am entirely convinced that if the human race makes it two more centuries, then those people in the future will see my thoughts, ideas, and solutions as having been productive offerings.
I consider myself an individualist socialist which is to be distinguished from collectivist socialism. I have yet to meet another individualist socialist, but I have been fortunate to spend time with some keen-minded people who were capable of appreciating some of my ideas as well as caring about my outlook on the world and my concern for the fate of humanity.
Worth noting, this foreword is also the last entry in Book 66.
66. On Anger
Book 66: The Prolepticon is considered by me to be a huge success even if no one ends up reading it or appreciating my words. For over ten years, I vented my frustration with Western society and the university culture through writing hundreds of essays on various topics in political science, philosophy, psychology, and media.
Originally, this book was to be titled, “A Million Angry Words” because I was enormously proud of having converted those several hundred essays (in excess of a million words) to only 25,000 words of distilled, rational thoughts.
I changed the title out of self-respect for what I had achieved in altering my attitude. This book is not a reflection of anger, but rather, it is a productive conversion of anger. I have written this book without the anger and contempt that I felt when I produced the essays which these sixty-six entries were based on.
That being said, in converting essays that occasionally ran past 5000 words, these sixty-six entries have omitted a lot of good anecdotes and useful information I had researched for the topics. The caveat for engaging with Book 66 is that you accept my knowledge and opinions as exactly that, and you understand and appreciate that I am not presenting myself as an “expert”. To that effect, I didn’t bother with citations but most of my research is easy to access and in the public domain.
I am a trained media scholar, and arguably, I am an expert film critic, however, for the most part I think of myself as a Renaissance man as well as an outsider to the status quo of society. I’m not angry, but I’m not happy either.
Book 66 presents human-based problems, but it also hints at solutions to those problems. The more those solutions are implemented, the more I will become a happy person.
For the most part Book 66 has been written for the sake of posterity. I don’t necessarily believe that anyone living today will embrace my ideas, but I am entirely convinced that if the human race makes it two more centuries, then those people in the future will see my thoughts, ideas, and solutions as having been productive offerings.
I consider myself an individualist socialist which is to be distinguished from collectivist socialism. I have yet to meet another individualist socialist, but I have been fortunate to spend time with some keen-minded people who were capable of appreciating some of my ideas as well as caring about my outlook on the world and my concern for the fate of humanity.
Worth noting, this foreword is also the last entry in Book 66.