Our emotions, our desires and our attitudes are littered
with illusions, but have a substantial base in reality as
well. How to cut through the complications to the core principles
which drive minds in their pursuit of happiness and their
avoidance of unhappiness. ETA: 2015. |
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The concept of democracy reflects the principle that, since
we are a multitude of free will individuals, the will of
the majority should be sovereign in any political institution.
The last few centuries have shown how the continual attempts
to subvert that sovereignty to serve one person’s
desires, or an oligarchy’s desires, can be stymied
by institutional balances of power. But with more clarity
in our political principles, that balancing could be done
even more effectively, both on a national and on an international
level, which would lead to a more civilized future. ETA:
2017.
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What is life? Is it an eternal autocracy, an accident of
chance or yet something else? The logic which points to
life being an eternal democracy also leads to the comfortable
conclusion that life can be lived well based on the same
principles regardless of which metaphysical theory proves
(or never proves) to be true. ETA: 2019.
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In early December 1963, the 14 year old son of the mayor
of Waukegan, Illinois has a nightmare that his father will
be assassinated, just as President Kennedy was. The next
day he overhears the local mafia boss putting pressure on
his father, and fears the worst. The boy tries to prevent
the expected disaster, but is kidnapped as part of an internal
mafia struggle, and is forced to travel south in the company
of the 22 year old son of the mafia boss’s rival.
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A Russian post-war orphan, Alyosha grows up in New York
City in the 1950s with his best friends from the orphanage.
But the girl he idealizes becomes increasingly bitter, and
then cruel, putting the conflict between Alyosha’s
friendship with her, and his patience for her antics, to
a severe test in this Dostoevskian tale. ETA: 2014.
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