“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” — Friedrich Nietzsche If we are to understand the true nature of evil in our world (which could also be described as unconsciousness), then it…

When my 12-year-old daughter asked for permission to get a woonani, as if I knew what a woonani was, I initially assumed that she was referring to a product of some kind. “All of my friends have one,” she whined, adding to my impression that it was something rather innocuous…

Part 11: Game Changer In order to mark the transition from boyhood to manhood, some Native American tribes used handmade hooks to pierce the flesh, before lifting boys into the air using ropes. They would then hang like this, often for days on end. The genital mutilation of boys is…

Part 10: The Song of the Woonani “When food is prepared with love, the people who eat it can feel that.” — Eric Ripert Sex and food are intimately connected, both being necessary for the continuation of life; which, not coincidentally, is also why they are the two most pleasurable…

Part 9: Eye of the Beholder Life in Wootopia was, quite literally, an inversion of the outside world, which had resulted in the stark contrast that Nina had spoken about, and which she continued to speak about, to Daniel. …

Part 8: An Inconvenient Truth Back on campus, Daniel was about to be interviewed for the documentary, so we decided to stick around and watch, along with a dozen or so other students. They had him seated at one of the picnic benches, with a nice view of the lake…

Part 7: Zombie Apocalypse “Let the dead bury their own dead.” — Matthew 8:22 There was a cemetery, not far from the school. And, as strange as it may seem, given all of the other things that I could have been doing, I had accepted an invitation to go there…

Part 6: Know Thyself There is a dark truth about human love, or what we have mistakenly come to think of as love, which The School of Life (YT) encapsulates in the following quote: “You will never find the right person. Such a creature does not exist. You are irredeemably…

Part 5: Hot Potatoes “I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.” — Rita Mae Brown Hedonism gets a bad rap, these days, because it has come to be associated with shallow, mindless excess, often with negative or potentially negative ramifications. But, ultimately, everything…