J.-m. Kuczynski

There are two economies: a fake one consisting entirely of fake jobs that are being automated away and only exist because of the usual tape-d...

Thanks to today's hook-up culture, men are less required than in times past to sublimate their sexuality, leading to an epidemic of perpetual...

Harlan Sanders was a chef whose company (Kentucky Fried Chicken)makes food. Bill Gates was a computer scientist whose company (Microsoft) mak...

It is said how actions differ from mere causes and, therewith, how selves differ from mere objects.

Rehabilitation is about identity-restoration. It is about replacing self-destructive behavior that has superficial roots in one's identity wi...

If someone is a failure and he is also mentally ill, it is tempting to blame his failure on his mental illness. But that is never the right e...

Degree of fatness tends to be inversely proportional to degree of agency.

People who have religion believe that there is a standard of truth and goodness that is above and beyond the opinion of their fellow mortals....

Instead of writing a book or article, which contains at most one paragraph's worth of actual content, why not just write that one paragraph?

Darwin and Freud both had a 'sixth sense' about people and were able to read people instantaneously. But where Freud saw the id and in that w...

Winners don't quit and quitters don't win. Divorce is quitting, and that is why divorce is wrong.

In some cases, rigidity is about unresponsiveness to data; and in other cases, it is about responding to data in two opposing ways.

Many of the so-called 'canons of rigor' that are applied to scholarly work are really artificial bureaucratic stumbling blocks that have noth...

The character-traits and behavior-patterns that people adopt in an attempt to contain their badness themselves become outlets for their badne...

Non-biological systems are entropic systems. Biological systems are counter-entropic systems.

People have panic attacks when they are in a situation in which they are actually threatened but where they cannot admit as much without havi...

An overly aggressive criminal justice system is emasculating the American workforce.

Most professors are bureaucrats in disguise, and there is no real content to the work they produce, only recycled para-content.

Thoughts on psychopathology in relation to the bureaucratization of education.

It is explained why having little time to write may improve one's writing.

Just as many people go into psychiatry not because they do understand people, but because they don't, so many people go into philosophy not b...

Bureaucrats have replaced thinkers.

There are two kinds of moral systems. There are those that embody sincere beliefs as to how to optimize the human condition. And there are th...

In this book, it is shown that moral integrity is necessary for psychological integrity and, therefore, that it is not possible to live well ...

Dialogues about OCD, anxiety, freedom, knowledge, and personal identity.

Paranoias are unconscious desires that are represented in consciousness as fears. In being paranoid, one unconsciously desires what one consc...

Porn stars are lazy and like to have a good time. That is why they chose to do porn, and that is why they like to do drugs. A desire to 'numb...

If somebody is legitimately intelligent and knowledgeable, the more you seek knowledge in them, the more you find. If somebody is a fraud, th...

Zeros have replaced heroes. We used to be human beings. Now we are husks.

This paper correctly models the data-set that the James-Lange theory of emotions ('we are sad because we cry; we don't cry because we are sad...

Minor setbacks can and should be turned to one's advantage.

Anyone who is honest has something to say and is thus a writer, even if has never have written a word. And no one who is dishonest is a write...

Lack of coordination is an expression of internal conflict.

Religion is about doubt; it is about the doubt that the spiritual person has when he is rational enough to question his spirituality but not ...

Various thoughts are stated and developed as to how to improve oneself and as to the nature of the forces, both internal and external, that p...

While it is true that more than half of psychiatrists are either morons or radically ill-willed or both, it is not true that psychiatry is an...

A conservative person is someone who is clinging to an existing, though obsolescent norm. A conservative is fundamentally passive. He does no...

Some people are killers because they are psychopaths. And some people are psychopaths because they are killers. And the one sort of a person ...

For intellectuals, and probably others, one form of escapism is a kind of constricted and shallow hyper-realism—the hyper-realism of ha...

It is generally held that being realistic is about turning one's back on one's dreams. But the exact opposite is the case. True realism is ab...

It is established that from the viewpoint of what might be referred to as ‘personal’ or ‘individual’ economics, this ...

There is a presumption to the effect that specialization is about depth. This presumption, though true in some contexts, is false in others. ...

Serial killers do have conscience. It isn’t that they lack conscience. It is that their consciences lack some of the capabilities that ...