Watching The Century of the Self has offered new insights into how our globalized world works. The following is a summary of what I learned from the documentary and some of my own thoughts concerning consumerism and modern-day democracy.

Just recently, yesterday in fact, I read an article written by Lewis Wallace about being trans* in the workplace. He specified he was “transgender and transsexual and androgynous and passes sometimes as a (young) boy,” but he usually is read as female. Wow. That is quite a…

Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Individualism and the heroes in her book were based on her first love, a serial killer named William Edward Hickman. The villains were based on those who “drove him to it,” tried and executed him. So, all of society then is to blame.

It seems to me that Ayn Rand’s uncritical admiration of a personality…

I recently watched the first part of the Century of the Self. RW libertarians seem to be victims of decades of brainwashing by commercial advertising, which has its roots in Freudian psychology, Edward Bernays, et al. What is funny is pushing…