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- The Games People Play
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- It’s the vegetables, stupid
- The American Comedy Rolls On
- Neoliberalism Must Die
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- Midwife’s Advice
- The Uninvited Guest
- Trump and Luther: Unlikely Bedfellows
- The Key
- The Hitler Complex strikes again
- The Archetypal Human
- An Update
- The Presidential Myth
- Power and the Esoteric
- Livin’ in the Past
- Zero Sum Mythology
- The Three Pillars of Enabling
- The Trump Comedy
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 8: The Modern West as Cultural Holon
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 7: A Quadrant Analysis of Corona
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 6: Quadrant Fundamentalism
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 5: Wilber’s Quadrants
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 4: Wholes and Fields
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 3: Organisms and Civilisations
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 2: The Levels of Being
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 1: Introduction
- Patrick White’s “The Vivisector”
- From Alma Mater to Edax Mater
- Taking a Break
- The Universal State of America: Book Now Available
- The Universal State of America Part 5: Once more on pseudomorphosis
- The Universal State of America Part 4: Trade Wars and Psychic Battles
- The Universal State of America Part 3: The Civilisational Oedipus Complex
- The Universal State of America Part 2: The Unity of Microcosm and Macrocosm
- The Universal State of America Part 1: Coming Soon
- Tabula rasa squared
- A little bit of history repeating
- Life Lessons from Kurosawa Films Part 2: The Hidden Fortress
- Monstrosities R Us
- Intellect vs Will
- Life Lessons from Kurosawa Films Part 1: Sanjuro
- Welcome to the Machine
- The Religious Crisis of the Modern West
- The Encounter with the Soul
- The Hyper-Masculine
- King Lear’s Soul
- No post this week
- Shakespeare and the Archetypes
- Hamlet: The Tragedy of the Orphan
- To Lawn or not to Lawn
- Once More on the Esoteric
- The Great Levelling
- Can we afford that?
- A Theory of Everything
- The Intellectual Proletariat
- Exchanging Value
- Govern me harder, mommy
- On Solar and Lunar Knowledge
- Sabotage
- Get behind me, Technocracy
- Imperialism 3.0
- Play it again, Sam
- Christian Existentialism Part 6: The Rise of the Irrational
- Christian Existentialism Part 5: From Luther to Feynman
- Christian Existentialism Part 4: The Boiling Point of Water
- Christian Existentialism Part 3: Necessity vs Faith
- Christian Existentialism Part 2: The Worship of Idols
- Christian Existentialism Part 1: The Confrontation with Nothingness
- The Devouring Mother 2.0
- In Search of the Sacred
- Dictators and Deep States
- Poverty vs Subsistence
- What Lurks in the Shadows
- The Death of a Chicken
- The Nuremberg Defence Mark 2
- The Shadow of Innocence
- A Quick Note
- I want to trust the science
- The Inverted Maslow Hierarchy
- The Complexity of Social Systems
- Some thoughts on The Voice
- Divination, Intuition and the Irrational
- The Tyranny of the Minority
- The 4-Day Work Week
- On Keating and AUKUS
- Accidental Ornithology
- Egomania
- Something Different
- Re-thinking Spengler Final
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 10: The USA (Universal State of America)
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 9: Escape from the Tyrannical Father
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 8: Kings and Commoners
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 7: A Pop-Culture Interlude
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 6: Rogue Priests and Rebel Commanders
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 5: On Elitism
Hi Simon. Interesting take on a sad activity. There is another one (!!!) who has a supportive mother who assists…
Chris – in Europe there used to be one day of the year, it might have even been Christmas day…
Hi Simon, I’d not been following this story closely, but thoroughly enjoyed your analysis and interpretation. You could say that…
I knew there must be an old Fast Forward sketch on this subject. The fencing (taking offence) bit at the…
Yep she’s actually a great representation of everything that is wrong with modern academia and social science, and has projected…
Well, I just realised a rather crucial point in the story of Raygun. Australia was founded on British imperialism. The…
Scratch that. Found a list of her stuff. So, apparently you can now be a full time academic and just…
Skip – she’s got more than one dissertation? Dare I ask what the topic was?
The fact that she took herself seriously from the start marks her out as someone who is well divorced from…
Well, whether the collective Child of the West is being raised by a Devouring Mother or a lesbian aunt, I…
@Simon I get your point about the game payoff. Still. This doesn’t really look the work of the Mother (Devouring…
Irena – we need a little more of Berne’s theory to explain this. Every Game has a psychological payoff for…
@Simon But the superego didn’t do a particularly good job of protecting the id! Quite the opposite, one could reasonably…
Irena – yes, but the superego also says – “I’ll protect you if you get hurt” (because I want you…
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Sandra – geez. Yes, that fits the Devouring Mother pattern to a tee. I doubt it will be too long…