I am the measure of all things.

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9:42 Beach.avi Woopnik1 30 views 3 weeks ago A day at the beach of Newport Beach, California. This is my first "beach video". I usually avoid the beach. I am not a "beach person" and I do not like water in general. I ...
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12:39 Last Day 2.1.avi Woopnik1 83 views 3 months ago This is another Version 2 of one of my videos. It is an artistic rendering about my visit to Lake Arrowhead, California on New Years Eve weekend 2011/2012.
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15:40 Thoughts about Erotic Love.avi Woopnik1 237 views 4 months ago Thoughts about the misleading character of Erotic Love. Erotic love, or physical love is often greatly misunderstood. People often make the mistake of thinking that, bec...

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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.

I am an atheistic mystic. I believe in a rather unique blend of Freud and Marx. Freud, of course, emphasized the unconscious, biological drives, repression, and so on. In other words, Freud postulated that our characters were determined by biology. Marx, on the other hand, saw people as determined by their society, and most especially by their economic systems.

I am adding to this mix of two deterministic systems something quite foreign to them: The idea of freedom. I allow people to transcend the determinisms that Freud and Marx attribute to them. In fact, I believe freedom is the central characteristic of human nature!

Freedom to create and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

I should add here that freedom is in fact a complex idea, and that I am talking about "true" personal freedom, rather than just political freedom (often called liberty): Most of us, whether they are free or not, tend to like the idea of political freedom, because it means that we can do what we want. A good example is the sexual sadist (or masochist) who has a psychological problem that drives his behavior. He is not free in the personal sense, but he will welcome the politically free society that says that what consenting adults do among themselves is not the state's business! Another example involves most of us today: We may well fight for freedom (of the political sort), and yet when we have it, we tend to be conformist and often rather irresponsible. We have the vote, but we fail to use it! I am very much for political freedom -- but I am especially eager that we make use of that freedom and take the responsibility that goes with it.

If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.