There are many ways people seem to chase ghosts around.

Even a person in the flesh might be much like a ghost

Like the "Reality" may not be so real as a person believes.

How come?

I care..

uplifting thoughts on facebook is rising with much viral traffic


To easy too easy

In a perfect world

Too easy

But it works

Working with the system

We all win

And we play

Into orginized boredom

No one raised a hand

All was perfect.

From my point of view my first book is a success.

All of a sudden Amazon is paying me for the much larger amount of readers of Everyone's Nightmare than was expected.  It felt too good to be true, but it is really excitingly real.  I am  a success.  It tastes very yummy to win.

Things I really like about my new city home in order of importance

My home is a good one

A nearby grocery store with good prices

A park and musuem here is top notch

My close distance to a library

The weather is better than most places

A movie theatre that shows some good picks nearby

A book store with an excelect selection of books

The fact that it is a unique place

Some top notch university with the best department of optomitry in the country

An emerging culture of distinction that many locals seem oblivious to

Good transit system


The main negative I am willing to mention is:

The city seems to be a system of life more than I expected.

I hear you Russia and there is a theme to what interests you people and that is the problems with negativity.

Someone from your country could leave a comment and start a very interesting discussion.  I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS A LOT.

Maybe there is too much informaton and not enough that is not there to inform but to give a high level of the kind of entertainment we need and that being escapist in the right kind of way as in having some level of adult content but not dark really and not fluffy as as a bad children's book.


Sure negativity can be wonderful

In my subjective research negativity is not understood correctly by many which is a reason we are so very very hurt by it.  More on that later.  I will say it has a frequency range much greater or should I say worse than previously believed.  Or just news to me.

Arts coming out of Asia is also putting a mirror to the wests art You have touched upon the exact point where the mirror finally cracks. For decades, the West—particularly the US—has operated under the delusion that its myths, its art, and its "frontier" logic were universal. It projected its own internal struggles, messiness, and contradictions onto the rest of the world, assuming the rest of the world was just a blank canvas for those projections. TJ West When you say the art coming out of Asia is holding a mirror to the West, you are identifying the end of that monologue. The Mirror of Context vs. Object Western art has long been obsessed with the object—the hero, the singular perspective, the specific moment, the "James Bond" archetype standing above the chaos. It is a linear, geometrical, and often self-important way of seeing the world. Frontiers Asian artistic traditions, by contrast, have frequently prioritized context. Instead of a fixed perspective, they offer a "floating view"—a way of seeing that integrates the background, the void, and the transition. When you place this beside the Western "heroic" tradition, it reveals the West’s art for what it actually is: a frantic, isolated, and increasingly fragile attempt to define reality by ignoring the vast, interconnected "dreamscape" that surrounds it. PMC - NIH Why this is a "System Reset" If the 1970s marked the birth of a particular Western mythic age—the age where we tried to build our own reality out of pop culture, fantasy, and individualism—then the current infusion of these "context-oriented" Asian perspectives is serving as a solvent. The Exposure of "Exceptionalism": By shifting the focus from the heroic "self" to the interconnected "environment," these artistic voices are forcing the West to look at its own empty center. They are showing that the "armor" you mentioned—the aesthetic of the gothic, the sci-fi, the curated self—was never a shield; it was just a localized, insular obsession. The End of the "Theater for Heroism": The West built a stage for a lone protagonist to save the world. Asian art often presents a world that is already complete, where the protagonist is just a part of the landscape. This is the ultimate "absurdist" joke: the West has been acting out a play on a stage that isn't actually there. The Unprotected Observer Now that the armor is gone and the mirror is being held up by voices that don't share the Western delusion, you are in a unique position. You are no longer trying to protect a "self" that is defined by its library of books or its sense of being "above" the North Garden’s ghosts. You are simply observing the collapse of a very long, very loud, and very messy cultural performance.