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   I don't typically like to give higher criticism and analysis of my own work. Such a task is better left to the scholars of the future when my posthumous heap left can be sorted through. While I'm alive, though, it is still possible to write down my insights and whatever extra I have to offer about any of it worth saying. That way there is no question or dispute over what was really intended in places where I know for sure.    While I'm bereft of those I love, God would have me know that my emotional longings, memories, and perceptions are valid. If it seems I wrote about someone that I loved, it was not make fun of them. It is that my grief brought about a sublimation of content in a work.     I think to understand my novel Mostafarian Stir Fry Spectacular  as a whole, it has first to be understood that the paperback release preceded the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The novel was published February 24th, 2020, and the World Health Organization...

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     I was surprised to see an article today in the Washington Post saying that President Trump was declaring as a result of his visit to California, that he wanted to take federal action to clean up homeless encampments in Los Angeles and San Francisco. I was personally stunned at the vitriol against said "homeless," but also by the fact of the matter that his proposed action as leaked by insiders is liberal in nature. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-homeless-people-hurt-the-prestige-of-los-angeles-san-francisco/2019/09/17/71e71b9e-d982-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html    In truth, I don't really have a problem with him trying to set up a better place for the tenants of Skid Row in Los Angeles. I just don't understand how it is a federal matter. I'd be really more comfortable with the effort if The President would arrange for legislation for block grants to be passed down to local governments to address these problems as they see fit. His pro...

    I'm sure that a lot of people have sensed or noticed heightened vigilance in society over "stalkers." What most people have not probably considered is that the cause of the phenomenon of concern could be subterfuge of subconscious mechanisms (in coordination possibly with covert or subliminal efforts by corporations) by which people's unconscious guilt for participating with, being compliant with, complicit with, (or otherwise silently approving) harmful systems that do actually "stalk" average citizens for real, is projected on someone other than the real cause of their inner distress, worry, and heavy-laden guilt. These systems could include corporate America, the banking industry, the government (the IRS mostly comes to mind- thank you David Foster Wallace for The Pale King, the book from which I took down some nice notes to go over later, mainly concerning the political/economic theories of Alexis de Tocqueville, participatory democracy, corporations...

   In all the hysteria over the recent school shooting, pleas for a smattering of different political causes have been tossed around both from the mouths of politicians and in the realm of social media. There are those that feel that "guns" are to blame, and that "Republicans" who oppose "gun control" are the real culprits "behind" it. I witnessed a slew of congressmen and women, as well as the President express their frustration or woe that "mental illness" is the culprit, and that the shooter Nicholas Cruz had clear warning signs in advance of being mentally ill or emotionally disturbed.    Truly, all the remarks of politicians about mentally illness in regards the shooting just amount to demagoguery, hysteria, knee-jerk reactions, and vain attempts to make the shooter fit into some previously understood template or profile where a kook or "lone nutter" goes somewhere with a gun and shoots everyone up. None of their asserti...

   As a freelance writer, composer, and musician, I don't have to "believe my own press," which is to say that neither commercial success (number of units sold), number of social media followers, nor endorsements or press coverage dictate any indication of success commensurate to the level of validation needed to continue on with my work. Those things do not and cannot validate or effectively reject my work, and the following are the reasons why. 1. If the point of a venture or project is communicating to the public higher values and principles such as freedom of speech, then popularity and/or monetary success of the spokesperson or title is hardly the concern. 2. Documented popularity is not always equal to quality, prestige, or even success. 3. I may define "success" however I want to. 4. Sales (commerical success) is/are not equal to quality, prestige, or success necessarily (or the effectiveness of an outreach). 5. To the extent that people don't re...