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James Altucher — Ready, Fire, Aim and Other Strategies He's Learned From Interviewing 500+ Peak Performers, Plus How He Uses Them To Pursue Multiple Careers, From Investing to Chess and Startups to Standup
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Welcome to the Conscious Creators Show; where through intimate and insightful interviews with authors, actors, musicians, entrepreneurs and other podcasters, you'll learn tools and tactics to 10x your creativity and strategies to grow and monetize your audience.
On today's episode, we learn from James Altucher, an entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist and podcaster, who pursues creativity every day. Hear how James has prioritized building skills through an exciting career that spans multiple careers, from investing to chess and from startups to standup. We also explore common themes he's discovered in his pursuit of learning from 500+ top performers on his show.
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James outlined his vital daily practice in a viral blog post. When he doesn't do this practice consistently, his life feels off.
He needs a daily practice to be at his best.
Sometimes when you're an entrepreneur so many things can go wrong. It can be very difficult and stressful.
There was a time when James felt blocked and on the precipice of depression. He realized he wasn't doing his daily practice and even just starting it again helped him.
Are you taking care of yourself in tiny ways? Are you just attempting to do 1% more for your physical health, emotional health, creative health, and spiritual health?
James describes an experience where someone was stealing from him and he decided to take extreme ownership.
Are you improving your relationships and distancing yourself from toxic relationships?
Are you eating well, sleeping well, and exercising?
James likes to get good at the things he's passionate about.
By interviewing peak performers and reading about them he seeks to understand how to skip a line.
Are there smart things you can do to achieve better performance faster?
There's a physical and emotional component to getting better at something.
When you skip a line in any field, you're going to have people who don't like you.
In order to achieve any kind of peak performance, you have to find your own unique voice in that area of life.
If you just improve a little bit each day, your improvement gets compounded.
James shares the story of how Richard Branson started Virgin Air.
The ability to "ready, fire, aim" is a key characteristic of high achievers.
Peak performers have a dedication to learning.
In general, peak performers are very kind people that you want to be around.
James shares an experience that demonstrates Ken Langone's intensity.
Many peak performers are very intense and they know exactly where to drill down to get the most information possible and as quickly as possible to understand the situation.
Peak performers bring intensity and curiosity to everything.
Brian Grazer produces movies because he's insanely curious. He schedules one curiosity conversation every week.
Peak performers don't accept no as an answer. Tyra Banks knew ANTM would succeed but was turned down again and again.
James has confidence when he is excited about something.
He's only able to persuade people when he's excited about something.
In his late 40s, he decided he wanted to try standup comedy once. He tried it and loved it.
Smoking crack bias = thinking the activities you have invested in have value no matter what.
Always ask what you aren't looking at.
A lot of the skills people think they need to learn are not actual skills.
Entrepreneurship is not a skill. It's an umbrella of skills.
James found standup comedy to be a very complicated skill to acquire.
They discuss the cumulative effects of becoming good at one skill and how that does and does not transfer to other areas.
Standup comedy helped public speaking but public speaking did not help standup comedy.
In the 90s, James created websites for big companies and started his first business. He quickly realized you need to be able to convince people about your vision.
Because he had a technological background, he knew every company needed a website.
There's no wall between business and creativity.
Art is very much a business endeavor.
Building a platform is a business skill.
His morning is devoted to writing and creativity. Writing has been the flagship of his creativity for thirty years.
Software development helps James to understand or manage software development projects. He keeps track of the latest developments in software so that he's never behind the times. He programmed software to model the stock market.
Having a software background helps you to understand what is the simplest, most rational solution to a situation.
When you have too many factors, you're probably analyzing incorrectly.
He professionally self-published Choose Yourself.
Figure out who the gatekeepers are and how to get around them.
In every area of your life, you can choose yourself.
He wasn't focused on money and instead did what his art wanted him to do.
The best way you can prove yourself is by being the best you that you can be.
He still feels insecure and has felt that way since he was a child.
James shares his funny Madoff story that doesn't work for standup.
James tells us about his HBO web show.
Interviewing is an ongoing thing that you learn. I think it's an art form.
When interviewing, prepare really well so that the person is shocked by how much you know about them.
Sometimes a good podcast is really about the entertainment value. You only need a little bit of the podcast to be educational.
No matter what, you have to be good at something.
Deliver value. Be entertaining. Find the right platform.
3 Key Points:
Decide to be 1% better each day in ways that serve your emotional, physical, creative, and spiritual health.
Learning from others allows you to "skip a line" and get better at gaining a skill more quickly.
The cumulative effects of becoming good at one skill can often transfer to other skills.
"I like to get good at things I'm passionate about." – James Altucher
"In order to achieve any kind of peak performance, you have to find your own unique voice in that area of life." – James Altucher
"If your compass is pointing in a direction, that's the only direction you should go in." – James Altucher
"There's no wall between business and creativity." – James Altucher
"Figure out who the gatekeepers are and how you get around the gatekeepers." – James Altucher
"How to Be the Luckiest Guy on the Planet in Four Easy Steps"
Extreme Ownership (book)
Ken Langone
Brian Grazer
Stillness Is the Key (book)
Choose Yourself! (book)
Joe Rogan podcast
Andrew Warner podcast
James Altucher's TikTok, Podcast, Website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram


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Helen Slater Lets Emotions Fly in 'The Good Mother'
By Stacy Jenel Smith, June 02, 2013 12:01 AM
If you saw M. Night Shyamalan's brilliant 1999 The Sixth Sense, you got a glimpse of the mental disorder Munchausen by proxy syndrome - in which a child's parent or other caregiver secretly creates an illness in the child in a twisted effort to get attention, sympathy and respect. And you may have thought to yourself, "Gosh, this would make a great Lifetime movie." Right? I know I did.
Well, I'm here to tell you, come Saturday, June 8, Lifetime unveils that movie. It's The Good Mother starring Helen Slater. Slater, whose work we've enjoyed from Supergirl through The Legend of Billie Jean and The Secret of My Success, has been toiling away of late on ABC Family's The Lying Game. Playing the woman afflicted with the rare and bizarre ailment known as MBPS gave her much more to do.
"There was something so satisfying about playing something with that emotional range. I would have to say it's the most satisfying role I've had on film or television," Slater told us. "She's really hiding who she is. That was what made it such an interesting role; wanting to appear a certain way, then when the stress gets too much, just losing it, emphatically and explosively, in an operatic way, when she can no longer keep up the veneer of perfection."
Slater, who cofounded the New York theater group The Naked Angels with Gina Gershon, is the genuine article as an actress. She loves stage work and does improv regularly. She approached The Good Mother with care. "I did coach for the part," said Slater, who has a teenaged daughter in her off-screen life. "But once I was getting to set, it was kind of 'Let go, let go, let go.' I mean, you have to reach a point where you let go when doing something like this. I would talk to my husband as I was about to leave and he'd say, 'What's today?' and I'd say, 'Oh, I'm killing the children.' "
The Good Mother has been fashioned more as a thriller than a docu-drama, and Slater says she's glad about that. "It's obviously very dark subject matter. This mother who really loves her children but is making the children feel sick because she wants to feel needed and loved. I think the way it's couched for this movie, where you really don't know what is going to happen and there are so many interesting twists and turns, makes it really an incredible ride."
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North Koreans work as manual labourers abroad to raise money for Kim Jong Un's regime.
Hundreds of North Koreans in Europe are forced to work non-stop and send their earnings to prop up Kim Jong Un's lavish lifestyle.
Undercover BBC journalists spoke to some of them in Poland and Russia.
One worker said: "You have to give up being human."
Meanwhile, Kim Jong Un has been living in a palace, spending his country's wealth testing multiple missiles while millions of his citizens starve.
Hundreds of North Korean nationals in Europe and Russia are forced to undertake manual labour without breaks, sleep at their workplace, and send their earnings to prop up Kim Jong Un's lavish lifestyle, BBC Panorama has reported following an undercover investigation.
An unidentified North Korean worker in Vladivostok, Russia, told the programme: "You're treated like a dog here. You have to eat trash. You have to give up being human."
He added that he and his fellow workers had to hand over most of their earnings back to North Korea via an intermediary, known as a "captain."
"Some call it 'Party Duty.' Others call it 'Revolutionary Duty.' Those who can't pay it cannot stay here," he said. "Ten years ago it was about 15,000 Robles ($242/£170) a month, but now it's twice as much."
These wages, combined, can generate as much as $2 billion (£1.4 billion) a year, The Washington Post reported.
It is then used to finance Kim Jong Un's lavish lifestyle and nuclear development programme, North Korea's former deputy ambassador to the UK said.
Thae Yong Ho, who defected from the regime in 2016, told the BBC: "It financed the private luxury of the Kim family, the nuclear programme, and the army. That's a fact."
The North Korean leader recently travelled to China in a bulletproof train containing flat screen TVs and Apple products — a great show of luxury while millions of his citizens remain undernourished or lack basic access to healthcare. He also tested multiple short-range, medium-range, and intercontinental ballistic missiles last year.
A North Korean supervisor in Sczcecin, Poland.
North Korean slaves in Poland, are also forced to live where they work and aren't allowed to take any breaks, the BBC reported.
"Our guys are stationed in Poland only to work. They only take unpaid holidays. When there are deadlines, we work without breaks. Not like the Polish. They work eight hours a day and then go home.
"We don't. We work as long as we have to."
There are about 150,000 North Koreans foreign workers worldwide, many of whom are in Russia, China, and Poland. About 800 are in Poland, mostly working as welders and manual labourers.
The UN in December ordered countries to stop authorising visas to North Korean workers and to send them home within two years.
Poland said it stopped issuing visas to North Korean workers, but that doesn't mean the activity has stopped.
A Polish manager secretly filmed by the BBC acknowledged that he continued to employ North Korean workers, but complained that it was getting harder to get permits for them.


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Structural Cycling is a term I recently thought of to characterise the type of cycling I do mostly. It signifies cycling as a structural part of one's life. It is not essential for survival as are eating and drinking but has status equal to, say, tooth cleaning, nail cutting, shaving, hair washing, tidying the house, etc – not essential but important to a sense of wellbeing and done as a matter of routine. The good thing is that cycling is more fun than the others and something you also do for its own sake.
Like many schoolboys of my day I rode a bike to school, at least up to the age of about thirteen. Schools used to have bike sheds. My school's was actually more than a shed, running along inside what was known as the lower cloisters, with enough space for a couple of hundred bicycles (those were the days). When the Beatles came out I stopped cycling, and started again some twenty years later in the 1980s. I sold my school days bike to a friend called Midge Magee, or maybe swapped it for something – I wanted it back soon after, but he refused. Anyway, during the 70s and early 80s I kept myself fit by running. For some reason I reckoned around where I live was too hilly for riding a bike, which is strange because now I seek out the hills.
On the spur of the moment I went out and bought a bike for Sandra: a Peugeot Scorpion ATB (all-terrain bike). Mountain bikes had just appeared in the UK and this was halfway between a road bike and an MTB. I borrowed it that same evening and the next day went back to the shop and bought another for me: a Peugeot Black Mamba ATB with a slightly higher spec. It is true how hilly it is around here but these bikes had mountain gearing and from then on I began to cycle regularly, from the mid-80s onwards. I still do, but when I first got the Peugeot I had a day job and now I don't.
Until 2008-ish I never thought of myself as a 'cyclist' – I just rode my bike. In summer I cycled before work, usually up to the top of Winter Hill. This is not far from my house but rises about 850 feet. I cycled up and back again, then went to work in my car. I'm surprised I managed this because I'm a terrible riser in the mornings, but I did, and sometimes again in the evening, a round trip lasting almost exactly 35 minutes (30 up and 5 down). Or maybe ride up the the evening only. The point was: the daily ride. A day with no ride is not the same as a day with a ride.
For winter evenings I had a figure-of-eight route that climbed the same height (850 feet) but didn't mean going to the top of Winter Hill in darkness and winter weather. At weekends, Sat Sun year round, my route was about 20 miles, mostly off-road on moorland tracks. I knew nothing about bikes, nor wanted to. The 'maintenance' I did was, at most, a quick wash down and spray WD40 on the chain to stop it rusting. For anything else, including punctures, I took the bike to my LBS about a ten minute walk from home (if I punctured I just walked). That is a factor, I think, because for daily cycling not to be an intrusion into the rest of one's life it must be easy, quick, simple, and with the minimum preparation and put-away time. Chuck the bike in the garage, quick shower, done (nowadays, with more time to spare, I also take pleasure in the machine itself).
Occasionally I went on longer rides away from home: Welsh forests or the Peak District with Mike, my cousin, but mostly I cycled my regular local loops in almost exactly the same way I do now, day in, day out. And for all those years until I got a road bike in 2008 I took no interest in actual bicycles or the wider world of cycling as such (except for Le Tour). Structural cycling does seem to capture my type of bike riding. No day is complete without a spin. It is worth mentioning that my father, throughout his late 70s and all his 80s, cycled 11.5 miles/day exactly, often in several stints but always the same daily total. I try to average 20 miles per day but do not always succeed if the weather is especially bad – as it has been recently. Walking is no substitute but sometimes it has to do.
Having said all this after almost thirty years of structural cycling I really enjoy special days out in, for example, the Yorkshire Wolds with Chris Bailey, and the longer distances – the occasional 100 miles with friends, and of course cycle touring holidays with Sandra – but unless someone rattles my cage I tend to be lazy and stick to my routine. As my teachers used to say: "He must try harder."
I almost abandoned my Peugeot bike but then decided to restore it, including a repaint. The repaint is a slight change of plan but I haven't yet chosen a colour – maybe yellow, maybe dark grey. Sandra's Scorpion is in the back of the garage where I suppose it will stay for a very long time.
Posted by Patrick on December 18th, 2012.
'Structural cycling' is a good term for something that is an integral part of life. I usually have one day a week when I don't cycle which allows for days out with Dennis, avoiding lousy weather or just having a bit of a rest but I'm not happy if I have to miss more than that. I've lost 3 days so far this week due to pre Xmas commitments and heavy rain 🙁 I'm plotting a longer ride tomorrow to compensate!
We had bike sheds at school but no one used them and my dad wouldn't let me cycle to school. It was 6 miles and I knew I could get there quicker by bike than bus but my parents' thought I would arrive too tired to concentrate on my lessons! Of course the opposite would have been true, I would have been much more alert than I was after sitting in a stuffy bus for half an hour.
Matt Seaton, in his book 'Two Wheels' says 'A day without cycling is a day wasted' – I couldn't have put it better myself!
In comparing cycling with tooth cleaning perhaps I should have stressed a bit more how cycling is much more fulfilling! I have also lost structure recently – to the weather (will it ever stop raining?) – and also to DIY. On the bright side, at least the 'jobs' have coincided with dark nights and the crap coming down from the skies. Seriously, is this what climate change means for the UK? I got soaked this morning, cycling just two miles to town and back. I'm getting worried about it all, wondering if it's permanent and whether we should start planning to move somewhere permanently south of the Jet Stream. Mind you, it's also been wet in France.
I'm embarrassed to mention how many days I've wasted in the past few months, although I did give Titanium Man a shakedown a week ago.
I don't cycle every day unless touring but I cycle three days a week or four if the weather is good. I don't enjoy it every day, probably because it would be too many miles, as I tend to cycle about 110-120 miles in total every week all year round, with more in the summer.
I walk on the inbetween days, something between 5 and 8 miles, usually.
I too, like Patrick, will repeat routes that I like ad nauseam. I've cycletoured in Brittany ten times or so, from Roscoff. I haven't got fed up of it yet!


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Like oil & water, they don't mix.
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All of this is not to say that mistakes have not been made by armed security in the past. They have. That said; looking ahead, we may see more and more shipping companies reluctant to place security on board in certain areas. At the same time, more and more of the best security professionals may be leery of putting themselves in harm's way only to be caught in the middle of a similar diplomatic row. And, that just might translate into more ship hijackings.
Joseph Keefe
For many businesses on the collective, global waterfront, it is going to be a challenging year for one reason or another. Hence, you can be forgiven for forgetting that it wasn't too long ago that the most pressing matter on the plates of blue water shipping executives was protecting the mariners that get deep draft shipping from point A to point B from the scourge of so-called 'pirates.' The romance quickly went out of that word as vessels were boarded in remote places like the Gulf of Aden, West Africa and then, in obscure places in the Far East. The Maersk Alabama episode brought the problem into the glaring spotlight, followed by a reasonably well done Hollywood dramatization that used the incident as the springboard for a full length movie.
Before that, however, the problem spawned entire trade shows, a cottage industry of private security companies specifically focused on the maritime sector and a broader discussion of what to do, why and how to do it. Those discussions continue today. Large, multi-national coalitions and navies put in place several patchwork fixes that did some good, but at the end of the day, showed that trying to kill ants with a 50 pound sledge hammer was at best ineffective. It still is. It's (in part) why the era of the 600-foot warship being the primary vehicle for maritime security is rapidly coming to an end.
By far, the most effective means with which to deal with the 'piracy' problem turned out to be embarking small teams of professional, well-trained armed guards onto merchant vessels. That solution has worked quite well, by all accounts. Governments like it because it takes the financial burden off the taxpayers and foists it onto the shipping companies (who, presumably, when possible, pass it along to their customers). The shipping companies like it because it works. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am not aware of any merchant vessel that has ever been taken while private security was on board. Unfortunately, the costs associated with these services are predictably and prohibitively expensive and ultimately they impact the world's supply chain.
Leaving aside (for a moment) the root causes of piracy – off Somalia, most stakeholders would agree that it simply emanates from the ongoing lack of a functioning central government in that strife-filled region – the task of solving the end result of the problem merely masks the real issues that cause it, no matter where it happens. Nevertheless, when friends and neighbors outside the maritime cluster would ask me about the issue, their comments almost always went something like this: "Why don't they just put guards on board and shoot these criminals when they attack?" And, I would answer patiently, "It isn't that simple." To which they always replied, "Well, it sounds simple to me."
It isn't that armed security is a bad idea; actually it's a far better solution than putting the guns in the hands of the mariners themselves. Having sailed on a variety of merchant vessels, I don't think I'd be comfortable with a good percentage of the folks I sailed with being given arms. And, trust me on this one; you don't want mehandling a loaded weapon. Sailing as an officer with the civilian-operated U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command in the 1980's, I was aware that there was a gun locker somewhere on the vessel. I can't remember ever seeing it opened and I was glad of it. Over time, the best reason NOT to arm the crews might have come from an experienced U.S. Master Mariner who told me, maybe tongue-in-cheek, "I want the cook putting out a meal, not playing Rambo on the stern." But, I'm wandering off message here.
In the second week of January, the wire services reported that an Indian court had sentenced crew members of a U.S. vessel to prison terms of up to five years for illegal possession of arms in Indian waters. To say the verdict has inflamed regional and global politics would not overstate the situation. Reportedly, foreign nationals from Ukraine, Estonia and six former British armed services members were arrested in 2013 from the 'Seaman Guard Ohio' when they could not demonstrate that they had permission to carry weapons in India's water. 35 crew members are said to be involved, some of whom spent nine months in prison. Out on bail, they cannot leave the country.
According to Reuters, "The ship was operated by a U.S. maritime security firm and the incident highlighted the loosely regulated practice of placing guards on ships for protection against pirate attacks." "Loosely regulated" is one way to describe the practice, but in reality, the maritime security industry has arguably done a decent job in regulating themselves and ensuring that, in most cases, good standards and rules of engagement have been put into place. There are even voluntary international organizations that these firms can join and in turn be audited for compliance. All of that, however, doesn't solve the myriad rules and regulations unique to dozens of countries where these guards might pass through on the way to their assignments, or where the vessels themselves transit in the course of seagoing commerce.
What is currently happening in India may well be an unfortunate political spat, grossly unfair for the mariners and security personnel caught in the middle, but it shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone. And just because the Somalia geopolitical situation continues to be at best unstable, doesn't mean that other countries that do a better job with the rule of law shouldn't enforce their own laws – whether or not we agree with them, or not. On the other hand, until the problems ashore that lead to piracy at sea are solved, professional armed security for merchant vessels might just our best bet.
Separately, some stakeholder reports now predict a spike in merchant vessel hijackings in high risk areas during the coming year. From where I sit, the practice of placing armed security on merchant vessels is still probably the best of many possible solutions to the challenge of 'modern piracy.' That doesn't mean there aren't some kinks to work out of the system. Beyond this and until a more international agreement on the rules for this method of protection can be standardized, then we are likely to see more of what just transpired in India. But that common ground may prove to be just as elusive as the solution to the root cause of piracy itself.
Like oil & water; Pirates, Politics and Protection simply don't mix. We may have to change that reality. – MarPro.
Source: http://www.maritimeprofessional.com/blogs/post/pirates-politics–protection-15005
The Maritime Security Alliance is a platform of maritime stakeholders aimed to provide ships with non-lethal, non-violent protection against maritime crime. Continuous innovation and creative thinking of its expert team will improve security conditions for seafarers by ensuring effective, legitimate and affordable self-protection measures.
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Racism: What It Is and What It Is Not (Part III)
By Craig Frisby
Part II of this series illustrated how the concept of "racism" has come to mean whatever anyone wants it to mean—which, over time, has diminished in its power to illuminate or intimidate.Unfortunately, this message has not reached followers of the "White Fragility" movement and its numerous ideological offshoots.
These movements are energized, nurtured, and spread by the denial and mischaracterization of two fundamental truths about human diversity. First, subpopulation groups—no matter where on the globe they live or how they are subdivided—differ, on average, in the central tendencies of hundreds of social, cultural, biological, and psychological variable distributions. This is observed even in countries where almost everyone belongs to the same broad racial group, yet are still subdivided by social class, language, tribal affiliations, or ethnicity.
These average differences include, but are not limited to, health behaviors, temperament, the distribution of general cognitive ability, personality traits, cultural values and priorities, occupational choices, religious affiliations and practices, economic accomplishments, musical or athletic interests and accomplishments , biological traits, medical vulnerabilities, and involvement with the criminal justice system. Modern progressives, fueled by Marxist ideology, interpret reality as if there cannot be any average differences between human subpopulations that has any relevance for social outcomes. The cold reality, however, is that perfect statistical equality in outcomes across racial/ethnic groups has never existed at any time, on any variable, at any place on the globe—having little or nothing to do with "racism" (however this maybe defined), discrimination, or longstanding "systemic oppression."
Since this reality is unacceptable to radical progressivesin America, then objective ability, behavioral, and skill performance standards must be maligned, lowered, altered, or abandoned altogether in order to force artificial equity down the throat of American society in areas as diverse as higher education admissions, public school discipline policies, civil service exams, teacher certification exams, and gifted education entrance requirements in public schools. In some public schools, gifted education programs are simply shut down altogether because the racial disproportionalities in enrollment embarrass educators. In the grand irony of all ironies, higher education's social justice warriors claim to be enemies of "institutional racism," but nevertheless have been found guilty—on the basis of hard numerical evidence—of actual institutional racism in their discrimination against high-scoring white and Asian applicants.
In introductory statistics, the concept of variability is just as important when understanding score distributions. Thus, a second and equally established principle of human diversity is the wide variability in hundreds of social, cultural, and psychological variables among individuals within broad subpopulation groups.
Discussing the full extent of statistical variation within subpopulation groups on human traits is well beyond the scope of this essay. Although no analogy is perfect, a simple illustration may assist readers in appreciating the reality and importance of statistical variation generally, as well as individual differences specifically. In the analogy to follow, readers can simply substitute "temperature" for any reliable measurement of a psychological or biological trait, and "months of the year" for human subgroupings.
To illustrate: countries that lie along the equator generally do not have four distinct seasons marked by drastic temperature variations. In contrast, most Americans will agree with the statement that "The spring season has higher temperatures, on average, than the fall season." However, there are certain days in March that are colder than some days in September. Additionally, the months of March, April, and May—though all belong to the spring season—differ between each another in their average temperatures. Yet it is also true that the absolute difference in temperature between the coldest and warmest days in March is often larger than the maximum difference in average monthly temperatures across each of the three spring or fall months. As if this were not enough, the difference between early morning and noontime temperatures on March 3 may be larger than the maximum range of average daily temperatures for each of the 31 days in March.
This basic statistical principle of human variability cautions audiences against lazy group stereotyping based exclusively on the first principle regarding subgroup average differences. Thus, it is easy to see why it is absolutely necessary to integrate both statistical principles in understanding human traits, both on an individual and group level.
Militant progressivism, however, pays no attention to any of these principles. When ideological brainwashing is at the top of the academic agenda instead of the careful study of empirical truth, reality must be grossly mischaracterized to fit whatever talking points are central to the ideology. In the White Fragility movement, individuals are characterized as little more than flat, cardboard cutouts designed to serve as stock representatives of their racial groups—displaying no nuanced variation in thinking, opinions, background experiences, attitudes, or psychological traits.
Many whites simply do not like being told that their skin color—in and of itself—is the crucial factor that determines their conscious and unconscious thinking, particularly on racial issues. Similarly, many blacks do not like being characterized as porcelain victim dolls ready to shatter into pieces whenever a white person commits an innocent microaggression. In order to understand why these hostile reactions to the White Fragility concept exists among both groups, we need only to remind ourselves of the narrow definition for "racism" discussed in Part I of this series.
Recall that, in Part I of this series, the term "racism" remained tethered to its root word, and was narrowly defined—in part—as an ideology which holds that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities. In addition, this definition for racism characterizes all members of a racial group as possessing characteristics or abilities that are specific to that race. In the DiAngelo universe, it appears unthinkable that Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, or Native Americans may believe that they are superior to other groups, or that Whites may be harmed by hurtful negative stereotypes.
When both blacks and whites react negatively to White Fragility theory, they are responding viscerally to the breezy assumption that skin color determines the full range of their private attitudes or feelings—and that these attitudes/feelings are exclusive to only blacks or whites. In fact, the discomfort many feel in discussing sensitive racial issues publicly is no different from the discomfort anybody would feel if asked to openly discuss (in front of total strangers) how much money they make or the floral pattern of their underwear. Said differently, human beings are "fragile" about many things – with racial issues ranking far down toward the bottom of the list for many persons.
Social justice brainwashing movements thrive on nutrients from the following four basic food groups: (1) a selective ignorance of history; (2) frustrated, insecure, and disgruntled minorities; (3) well-meaning whites who are easy fodder for phony white guilt; and (4) lucrative opportunities for political grandstanding (see the "There is another class . . . " quote from Booker T. Washington).
Young high school and college students, whipped into a frenzy by the latest police shooting, act as if American history suddenly began with the death of George Floyd. Are they aware that literally billions of dollars have been poured into civil rights enforcement organizations, affirmative action incentives, Head Start preschool programs, school busing for racial integration, generous grants for urban development, minorityscholarships, Title I programs in schools, and corporate diversity training—most of which began decades before they were even born?
Well-intentioned whites exhaust themselves in desperate attempts to obey the latest prescriptions for "how to be an anti-racist," only to discover that the moral goalposts have been moved (yet again)—and that nothing is ever enough to satisfy the race scolds.
Sensitivity to giving racial offense now resembles the theatre of the absurd. Students and administrators at one prestigious school of music stretched logic to its breaking point by linking the George Floyd protests with the lack of African American representation and interest in classical music. High-profile political figures humiliate themselves before TV cameras in order to pander to racial grievances, only to be mocked by the same persons to whom they are pandering. This is heady stuff for the twenty-something-year-old college student shouting about racism through a bullhorn. How do these activities help young people (financed by hard-working parents and generous scholarships) to gain basic and essential competencies in their chosen fields?
When the gullible treat persons from minority groups with the soft bigotry of paternalism, they are completely unaware that their beliefs and attitudes are essentially no different from the "old fashioned white racism" that they presumably loathe.
White Fragility/White Privilege theory cannot explain why virulent antisemitism and ethnic cleansing exist in predominantly white countries where whites viciously slaughter other whites. Nor can it explain why the continent of Africa has experienced the most horrific period of tribal bloodshed and killings in its history between black Rwandan tribes, who—as far as is reasonably known—contain no white members. White Fragility theory provides no explanation for why Black children and youth are systematically murdered every month in major American cities by rival street gangs—who couldn't care less about sharing the same skin color. Nor can it explain why Malcolm X, arguably the highest profile antagonist to white America in his early rhetoric, was killed by black men—who in the final analysis were motivated by the most basic of human emotions: jealousy.
The hollow canard that "people of color cannot be racist" (defined here as animosity and violence directed at persons because of the color of their skin) is a disingenuous smokescreen shown to be false whenever opportunities for basic human revenge present themselves. When put into a position of real or imagined power, "persons of color" in these instances show no reluctance to demand or extract "payback" against individuals from other racial groups.
Human beings display a great capacity for good, but also a great capacity for evil. Basic human nature has never, nor will ever change as long as human beings continue to exist on planet earth. The White Fragility movement and its offshoots have been shown to be intellectually and morally bankrupt, providing no answers for improving troubled societies—whether they be in America or abroad. Higher education deserves better.
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Craig Frisby
Craig Frisby is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri College of Education.
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Craig, This is your best. Well written. Tight logic. Thanks for your work in putting it together. Ray


Another big news is hitting in the market now. As the dollar rates in Pakistan are going to high for up to 142rupess. This sudden increment can make a huge impact on the economy of Pakistan.
However, earlier the dollar rates would be around 134, but now in today news, the rates are increase for up to 142 pkr. This sudden increment can surely affected badly to the Pakistan's foreign debt also.
Also, we have also assumed that this reduction in the value of rupees can make many huge changes which affect externally and internally to Pakistan's debt.
Therefore, an economic expert Mr. Muhammad Sohail said in a live show on TV channel that surely in up coming weeks, the value of rupee could definitely slump to further low as around 150 pkr.
Moreover, to this, other experts also throw their point of views that the current weakness in the value of rupee might be happen because that Pakistan still haven't obtain a bailout package from the IMF as because of their strict conditions.
Although, Mr. Asad Umar, the finance Minister of Pakistan also said that Pakistan doesn't IMF loan as because the country crises has already cut it half down, so Pakistan don't feel to get aproach to IMF loan.
However, according to our sources, this increment in dollar rates happened second time in just 7 days. As earlier, in November 23, the dollar rates would be around 134 pkr and now November 30, dollar rates are going up to 142 pkr.


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April 25, 2019 Media
Top 10 Best Horror Movies All Time Hit In Hindi
10. The Unborn (2009) In Hindi
Enter a world of unrelenting evil as terror finds a new form in this shocking supernatural thriller from the co-writer of The Dark Knight.
Director Suzy Brack
Starring Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good
9. Amityville : The Awakening (2017) In Hindi
A single mother moves her three children into a haunted house, unaware of its bloody history.
Director Franck Khalfoun
Starring Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan, Jennifer Jason Leigh
8. Constantine (2005) In Hindi
Based on the ground-breaking comic book "Hellblazer," Keanu Reeves plays John Constantine, a modern-day mystic on a personal quest to send demons hiding on Earth back to Hell
7. Abraham Lincol : Vampire Hunter (2012) In Hindi
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Actors: Anthony Mackie, Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, John Rothman, Marton Csokas, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell
6. Evil Dead (2013) In Hindi
Five friends have found the mysterious and fiercely powerful Book of the Dead which releases a violent demon on a bloodthirsty quest to possess them all.
Director Fede Alvarez
Starring Jane Levy, Jessica Lucas, Ellen Sandweiss
5. Oculus (2013) In Hindi
Ten years ago, a horrifying incident left two young children orphans. The brother was charged with murder, but his sister believed that the true culprit was a haunted antique mirror and is determined to prove that it was what destroyed their family.
Director Mike Flanagan
Starring Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff
4. Sleepy Hollow (1999) In Hindi
Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2) is Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investigator determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman. Christina Ricci ( Monster) is Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful and mysterious girl with secret ties to the supernatural terror.
Starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson
3. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) In Hindi
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deliver sensational, Oscar-winning performances in this "shockingly powerful thriller" (New York). "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times) and "spellbinding" (The Hollywood Reporter), this terrifying masterpiece garnered five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill is murdering women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide clues to the killer's actions.
Genres Suspense
Director Jonathan Demme
Starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
2. Crimson Peak (2015) In Hindi
From director Guillermo del Toro comes a supernatural mystery. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak.
Genres Suspense, Drama, Horror
Director Guillermo del Toro
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston
1. Poltergeist (2015) In Hindi
In this terrifying take on a classic, a suburban family tormented by inter-dimensional spirits must save their daughter from being lost to the ghosts forever!
Director Gil Kenan
Starring Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jared Harris
Top 10 Best Horror Movies In Hindi Reviewed by priyanka biswas on April 25, 2019 Rating: 5
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Leadership, vision, passion: who's got it?
Having a vision is important. It gives you a compass. A political direction. Whatever else happens, and a lot happens in politics, a vision will keep you facing and moving the right way
Got vision?
Peter Botting
On 1 May 2012 11:18
The easiest way to be the passionate politician that so many claim to be is simply to believe in something. It is easy in politics, especially when your social world and your political world overlap, to just "go with the flow" without identifying - and testing - and probing, exactly what it is you believe.
But why do you do what you do? What do you want to achieve? Why do spend the time and the money on politics that you do?
I have asked hundreds of wannabe MPs which laws they would introduce, abolish or amend. Surely, that's not too much to ask of someone who wants to become a legislator? Some have said "Can I get back to you on that?" Others have answered fluently and instantly. But although it is an interesting question and one that focuses the mind of aspirant Parliamentarians, it is a question levelled at strategy or tactics. There is another question that is more important.
What is your vision? For this country and your constituency. After all, politicians are people who influence policy. And unless you are happy with "busy, busy, busy" activity rather than movement, policy must work towards a destination, a goal: a vision.
So what are the characteristics of a vision? A few thoughts:
1. A vision is big picture. It is forests, not trees.
2. A vision should be very retail. It should be clear and concise. Very brief. Very portable. It needs to be passed from person to person. In pubs. In homes. At work.
3. It needs to be credible. Otherwise people will simply not buy it. And the media will rip it, and the "visionary", apart.
4. It has to be focused on the good of your community, constituency or country rather than yourself or your party.
5. By definition, it is on a time-line. A vision is a place or a thing not yet reached or attained. This is where we are. This is where we were. This is where we should go. Such a vision, if well communicated, will persuade people that short term pain is worth it. That there will be "jam tomorrow".
On a personal basis, it is to do something, not just to be something. Which is why being an MP is not enough. Being an MP is just a tool, a platform, to help you achieve your vision.
When you know what the vision is you can develop a strategy to get you to the vision. When you have decided on a strategy, you can develop tactics to meet the strategy. But the vision comes first. The vision is the overriding idea, the dream. The vision should be the anchor that holds the rest together.
Sometimes, just sharing the vision, like Martin Luther King did, gives the vision a life of its own. His speech is worth a listen – recommended for all politicos.
Which other leaders have this "vision" thing? There must be 10 surely? Can we get to a list of 20?
Here, I have listed four leaders of vision. Two are still in power. Who else should be on the list? Am I even right?
Helmut Kohl. His vision: the reunification of Germany.
I lived in Germany while Helmut Kohl was Chancellor. It was great to watch this man speak. A conviction politician. His vision and his passion persuaded leaders of other countries, leaders of opposing political parties, the media - and most importantly, the people of West Germany.
Does Ken Livingstone pass a fit and proper person test?
The battle for the Conservative Party must be played out publicly
The true root of this 'omnishambles' government is a lack of leadership
PMQs and the Hunting party on Cameron's day from hell
Vision verdict: 10/10. Two countries are now one. It is probably fair to say that this would not have happened without his vision, focus and effort.
Legacy and Impact: 10/10. Country changing. His legacy and impact are facts. Not every leader combines two countries peacefully and with the support of the people of both and the international community.
Margaret Thatcher. Her vision: that Britain would no longer be the "sick man of Europe". To make Britain healthy again.
In this I am sure I will be contradicted here by many who have studied Lady Thatcher and her career and achievements and by those who know and knew her - but that is my retail summary, my perception, of her vision.
Vision verdict: 10/10. It is Europe that appears ill at the moment - propped up largely by the German machine.
Legacy and impact: 10/10. Country changing. The nature of her legacy and impact is hotly disputed - but no-one disputes that she left a legacy or that she had an impact. Even the left would acknowledge that she put Britain 'back on the map".
Sheikh Mohammed. His vision: that Dubai become what it is today and more.
Desert replaced by roads and iconic buildings within a 5 - 10 year period. Transforming a desert emirate into a financial centre and a tourist resort. Pretty big picture stuff.
Vision verdict: 10/10. What he has achieved in Dubai is mind-boggling. By "enabling" and setting things up and then letting businesses get on with it. Still in power, he still has a big "to do" list. We all have "to do" lists - but this man has a record of delivering on his promises. And he does it in a country with zero income tax and zero VAT.
Legacy and impact: 10/10. Country changing.
Barack Obama. His vision: crowd-sourced and quasi-delegated.
The 2008 Obama campaign has to be on this list. The "Yes we can" vision harnessed different things for different people - and made it all the more powerful for being so. This crowd sourced and delegated dream or vision may be less concrete than the other three, but it was no less powerful.
Vision verdict: 10/10. His election could almost have been the vision - and was an unimaginable dream. He gets 10/10 for that. Will he get another term? What will he do with it?
Legacy and impact: Too early to say really - he has had only 3 years in office, the 3 other leaders had (or indeed are currently enjoying) much longer periods in office so it is a bit unfair to compare.
Having a vision is important. It gives you a compass. A political direction. Whatever else happens, and a lot happens in politics, a vision will keep you facing and moving the right way.
Political vision is different from political management. Vision can become legacy. Management seldom does.
Peter Botting is a professional corporate, political and personal messaging strategist. He was integral to the NO2AV campaign and helped put the UK Anti-Slavery Day into law. He tweets at @PeterBotting and you can find more of his work at www.peterbotting.co.uk
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Morning sickness is one of the most common symptoms of pregnancy.
Almost two thirds of all pregnant women will suffer from some degree of morning sickness. It is more common and usually more severe in women who are pregnant with more than one baby, i.e. twins and triplets.
There is a positive side to morning sickness – women who suffer from nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to suffer a miscarriage.
Symptoms include loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting.
Typically, morning sickness is at its worst in the morning, but it can strike at any point, during the day, evening or night.
In most cases morning sickness begins around fourth week of pregnancy, which is soon after your missed your period and just after a positive pregnancy test.
It usually starts to settle down at around 12 weeks. Some women will experience slight worsening of their nausea at around 16 weeks, after which time it will start to settle down. A small percentage of women will continue to feel unwell all the way through the pregnancy.
In most cases morning sickness does not harm you or your baby. Severe morning sickness however, which includes severe, repetitive vomiting, dehydration and weight loss is different and requires prompt medical attention.
Is there anything I can do to manage my morning sickness?
Don't eat anything that makes you feel nauseous, eat what you can, in general high carbohydrate/high protein meals are generally well tolerated.
Drink as much as you can – sips of flat lemonade, flat mineral water, weak tea, and ginger tea. Sucking on ice cubes can also be helpful.
Rest as much as you can, avoid physical exercise such as gym. Take a day off work if possible and sleep. You will feel a lot better the next day.
Over the counter vitamin supplements such as combinations of Vitamin B6 and ginger might help. High dose Vitamin B6 can be harmful, so, if in doubt, talk to your Obstetrician.
Prescription medicines can be used to alleviate your nausea if necessary. Your Obstetrician will be able to advise you which ones are safe to use during your pregnancy.
Caring for women's health and supporting couples on the journey through pregnancy and childbirth.


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"Lord of Lowbrow" Artist The Pizz 1958-2015
by CaroPosted on August 31, 2015
The art world's heart has a hole in it today. "The Pizz" (a.k.a. El Pizzo a.k.a. Stephen Pizzurro), the self-described Lowbrow artist who evolved into a celebrated influence to a generation of artists, has left us. He was only 57. Born in 1958 and raised in a large Italian family in Orange County, California, The Pizz grew up creating art – he once said that he began drawing since he had a pen in his hand. He caught his first big break working on Rat Fink comics for his personal inspiration, cartoonist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, before going on to design cover art for punk label Sympathy for the Record Industry, and eventually entering the gallery world with fellow notable artists like Robert Williams. With his signature dark glasses and a most impressive "fuzzy chin", The Pizz was a familiar figure at openings and events. He even made appearances on reality TV and in film documentaries, including Flake and Flames (2013) and The Treasures of Long Gone John (2006).
At that time, Lowbrow Art was just a bubbling underground art scene and today works by The Pizz are considered as one of the original sources of "cartoon expressionism", inspiring waves of artists to build upon. Artists like The Pizz, Coop, Anthony Ausgang, and many others drew from the well of hot-rod influenced Kustom Kulture, surf, skateboarding, tattoo, underground comics, Beatnik and tiki styles and brought it to galleries like La Luz De Jesus as fine art like no other. For over 20 years, The Pizz's brutal, colorful, and enthralling graphics presented a surreal alternative to our consumer-driven pop culture. Using the sensibility of cartoons, his paintings pop with the things he loved: eye-catching pinups, pimps, perverts, pirates, post-apocalyptic demigods, motorcyclists and fast cars. Dedicated to an art form that was generally frowned upon by society, he helped to create a new genre of imagery that was undeniably interesting; unapologetically presented to a myriad of folks from all walks of life, not just the pedigreed elite. As he said, "It's a tumultuous adrenaline-soaked hellride of a lifetime leaving a mountain of debris and unspeakable carnage in its wake. Yeah, it'll scar your fragile psyche for miles into the hereafter."
Correction: We have been notified that The Pizz's birth name was incorrect and fixed it. Apologies for the mistake.
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Why I Don't Read or Write True Crime, Part One
by DoolinDalton
I don't read or write True Crime. At least not anymore. And not for a long time. Given the popularity of the genre, and the subject matter of this site, I do not expect this to be a popular opinion.
But bear with me. Let me explain.
I grew up in Spokane, Washington. During my early teens the city was terrorized by the "South Hill Rapist," a serial rapist who focused mostly on the aforementioned South Hill, an affluent walking suburb of the city. When he was finally caught and convicted, the South Hill Rapist turned out to be Frederick Harlan {"Kevin") Coe, the son of the managing editor of the one the city's two major newspapers, Gordon Coe. In a twist right out of a Hollywood movie, Coe Sr. was responsible for monitoring a tip line set up by his paper, The Spokane Daily Chronicle, intended to help find the rapist who turned out to be his own son.
By the time the Spokane police caught up with him, Kevin Coe had been running amok for the better part of three years, and brutally raped dozens of women. His parents were socially prominent, "pillars of the community," and his mother was also a whack-job (who first tried to give her son an absurd alibi, and then went to jail herself for trying to hire a hitman to kill both the presiding judge and the prosecutor in her son's court case), so his trial, where the brutality of his rapes was put on lurid display, was a regular media circus.
As such it is unsurprising that Coe's crimes, capture and subsequent trial attracted the attention of one of America's great True Crime writers, Jack Olsen. Olsen, who had famously written for publications from Sports Illustrated to Vanity Fair, and everything in between, spent eighteen months researching and writing a book about Coe, the critically acclaimed Son: A Psychopath and His Victims.
I was sixteen when Coe was caught and convicted, working my first real job, at a hospital which sat right at the foot of the South Hill. And my parents bought and read Son when it came out a couple of years later. And once they had finished it, I did too.
Olsen, a Washington state transplant who passed away on Bainbridge Island at the age of seventy-seven in 2002, was a hell of a writer. I was transfixed by Son, both recognizing and not recognizing the setting as my own hometown. This monster, Kevin Coe, drove the streets where I drove, ate where I ate, hung out in the parks I and my friends frequented, shopped where I shopped, and raped a whole bunch of innocent women along the South Hill's High Drive, where I dated a few girls and attended more than my share of parties.
It was not the start of a lifetime spent reading True Crime books though. And it wasn't until years later that I even gave much thought to the question of why. I found the story compelling. The setting, Spokane, was a place I thought I knew well, and yet I learned a lot about it I might have otherwise never learned, simply by reading Olsen's book. And, as I said above, Olsen could tell a story.
I just didn't find anything particularly compelling about the psychopath at the heart of the story. As I got older this proved to be the case with the relatively few other well-written, exhaustively researched True Crime books I read: Vincent Bugliosi's superb take on Charles Manson and his cult in Helter Skelter. A compelling account, and horrifying in the details of the things those hippies did on Manson's orders. And it's a story rendered all the more remarkable because it was written by the man who brought the whole lot of them to justice (Bugliosi prosecuted Manson and his followers for their killing spree). And yet Manson? A career petty criminal who never killed anyone himself, but somehow managed to convince others to kill for him. I was no more interested in him than I was in Coe.
The guy who prosecuted Manson and then wrote one hell of a book about it.
I started Ann Rule's classic The Stranger Beside Me, which dealt with her collegial relationship volunteering at a Puget Sound suicide hotline with eventually convicted and executed serial killer Ted Bundy, but didn't finish it. Something about the way Rule both documented her relationship with Bundy and also excused herself for profiting from that relationship, which she continued to cultivate for her own ends long after Bundy had been arrested and sentenced put me off. I just found it gross. All of these poor women who suffered at Bundy's hands, terrorized, tortured, and brutally murdered, and Ann Rule's giving the guy publishing advice while he's in jail awaiting sentencing on kidnapping charges.
Did Rule have any inkling what Bundy had done? She mentions earlier in the book that she discussed with a police detective the possibility of Bundy being the killer the police were searching for who had identified himself as "Ted" to a potential victim at a popular Lake Washington park where another woman disappeared that same day. But after his kidnapping conviction she withheld opinion (at least for the time being), and even offered to co-write something about his experiences and split the profits with him.
I stopped reading not long after that.
And in this particular profit motive, Rule was something of a trailblazer. Nowadays you have popular podcasts such as "My Favorite Murder," which bills itself as a "true crime comedy" podcast, and boasts thousands of fans ("Murderinos," in the show's parlance). I thought it only fair to sample this podcast before mentioning it in this post, so I listened to a few of its episodes. Definitely not my thing.
And then I mentioned in passing that I was writing about both True Crime and the current True Crime podcasting craze during a conversation with a friend and fellow writer who once harbored ambitions of writing within the genre (he has since moved on to other genres). His response was worth quoting, so here it is, with his permission:
I especially dislike the hybrid true-crime memoir. If I'm immersed in a compelling story of murder, I don't want to see the storyteller run the camera on themselves and tell us all about their relationship problems or their ailing grandparents or their struggles to get into grad school unless they have a direct and compelling connection to the people, places and events of the murder story. (And "she was my second cousin, two twins over, we hung out a couple times at summer camp" doesn't cut it.) It is cognitively dissonant in the extreme; it is the bait-and-switch technique of a literary used-car salesman. "Murder, grief, loss, community impact ... but let's talk about my ex-boyfriend for the next fifteen pages and then weave in the fact that I lived in the murder town for a few months." Who decided there was an audience for that?
The comfort food of a literary non-snob
Now let me be clear: I have things I love to read that would likely make you laugh out loud. I am not above diving in to pure escapism strictly for escapism's sake. I am many things: but a literary snob is not one of them. And I'm not slagging people who like to read this stuff, or enjoy these podcasts. I just don't, and I figured if I was going to broadcast this opinion, I really ought to deeply examine why.
When I was in college I took a philosophy class in which the professor had us read M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie, and Hannah Arendt's stunning Eichmann in Jerusalem wherein she explored the seeming ordinariness of fugitive Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann, an architect of Hitler's "Final Solution" (extermination of the Jews), had fled Nazi Germany shortly after the end of World War II, and successfully evaded capture in South America for nearly two decades until Israeli intelligence agents tracked him down and captured him outside Buenos Aires, Argentina in May, 1960. Then they smuggled him out of Argentina, to Jerusalem, where the Israeli government put him on trial for war crimes. For her portrait of Eichmann, who was soft-spoken, slightly built, balding, near-sighted, and possessed of the demeanor of a clerk, Arendt coined the phrase, "The banality of evil."
Which takes me full circle: Coe, Manson, Bundy. A hundred naked meth addicts running from the police in a variety of episodes of "COPS." Banal, bland, uninteresting monsters, not worth giving a second glance or a moment's attention.
Why should their willingness to visit untold misery and pain on innocent people profit them in the slightest? What is it about their innate viciousness that renders them worth my time and attention? Again, if you find this sort of thing compelling, you want to know what makes serial killers tick, I can understand and respect that. It's just not my thing.
But that's only half of the reason why I don't read or write True Crime.
The other half I'll expand upon in my next post in a couple of weeks, when I talk about my day gig, and how it's brought me into close contact with a variety of criminals and their victims.
See you in two weeks.
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Labels: Brian Thornton, nonfiction, true crime, writing
Elizabeth Zelvin 17 September, 2020 11:07
I'm with you on looking askance at the motives of those who lionize serial killers and other psychopaths, tacitly (or not) withholding empathy (if they have any) from the dead and others who suffer as the result of crimes. I think it's an aspect of our culture's cult of celebrity, which has led to a society that has difficulty distinguishing between government and reality tv.
DoolinDalton 17 September, 2020 12:42
You really put your finger on it, Elizabeth. This surfeit of empathy for the suffering of innocents continues to baffle me. There is a ton of empathy out there in this society. I see it every day. I benefit from it every day. I just don't get the conflating of "celebrity" with "fame resulting from accomplishment." The two are not the same thing.
Eve Fisher 17 September, 2020 13:39
I'm with you - if a serial killer / rapist / child murderer is the hero, I'm out of there. And like you I've have noticed, as the "true crime" genre has increased, that empathy for the victims has decreased dramatically, while victim blaming has increased. I don't like it at all.
Great point, Eve. And I probably ought to be clear: I have no problem with historical treatments of actual crime. The first such treatment I ever read was an appendix to Jeff Rice's THE NIGHT STALKER (the "vampire-in-modern-day-Las-Vegas" novel featuring investigative-really "tabloid"-reporter Carl Kolchak, and on which Darren McGavin's movie/TV series of the same name were based). Rice did a fair amount of research into Jack the Ripper and wrote up an appendix examining his Whitechapel crime spree, but it was hardly "True Crime" in that it was really an exploration of the known facts of the cases, and especially revealing about the poor victims. It really was interesting.
Tangentially and related again to the notion of the ebbing of society's empathy for the victims of "celebrity killers," there was a TV miniseries a few decades back about the Ripper murders where the great Michael Caine did a star turn as Fred Abberline, the Scotland Yard police inspector in charge of the Ripper investigation, and at one point Caine, displaying exasperation at the Ripper's post-mortem mutilation of one of the victims, delivers the line: "This woman wasn't murdered! She was plundered!"
Such concern for the victims is not something I've seen a whole lot in the types of True Crime media I've critiqued in this piece. Thanks for pointing that out!
Barb Goffman 17 September, 2020 15:17
I don't read any true crime. The two true-crime books I've read left me feeling dirty. I love fictional murder. Real murder is way too disturbing.
I think you get right at the heart of it, Barb. Fiction allows us to experience vicariously things we might never expect to feel in real life, and it does so at a remove, while still, if done well, having a powerful impact on us as readers. And it does so at the expense of no one. No one has to ACTUALLY die in order for us to see how Bosch/Millhone/Plum/Marlowe/Kadesh/NameYourProtagonist is going to solve this LATEST mystery...
Kat Richardson 17 September, 2020 15:59
All of that. And I'm particularly revolted by the variants, like DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, which seem to revel in the grotesque, and take liberties of "supposing" details of death and horror minute by gruesome minute on the page. Blech! Gleeful profit is bad enough without the authorial intrusion of deliberate torture porn dressed as "reconstruction."
I think I get what Larson was trying to do with DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, which, as a piece of historical nonfiction really was a piece "of its time." When Larson wrote it, the notion of "creative nonfiction" was taking the publishing world by storm, resulting in big money sales for authors jumping on that particular train. Seems like this is what Larson was doing with DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, and for my money, succeeded at the "creative" part and less so at the "nonfiction" part.
For an example of historical crime taking a bird's eye view of a particular incident, contextualizing it and then laying out the impact it had in both the real world and in fictional treatments of the same era, I have to say that Richard Rayner's superb A BRIGHT AND GUILTY PLACE: MURDER, CORRUPTION, AND L.A.'S SCANDALOUS COMING OF AGE really hits the mark. Dealing with such events as the water theft racket that William Goldman used to such devastating effect in his script for CHINATOWN and the murder-suicide of the son of the owner of the oil company from which an increasingly alcoholic Raymond Chandler was about to be fired (and which event he would later use his insider's knowledge of to inform the plot of his first novel, THE BIG SLEEP), and a whole lot more. For a native Los Angeleno such as yourself, books like this are required reading.:)
Robert Lopresti 17 September, 2020 16:54
There is a book I highly recommend called I WITNESS, edited by Brian Garfield. Essays by mystery writers about their experiences with true crime. An absolutely stunning number of them had been near victims of murder or kidnappings when they were children. Seemed to affect them...
I will definitely add that to my TBR list. Thanks Rob! Reminds me of the story I heard Lee Child tell (he's told it a lot) about how, after getting laid off by the BBC after eighteen years of making documentary films for them, he had recently relocated to his wife's hometown of NYC, was walking in Central Park, and someone tried to mug him. He took the guy's gun away from them (Lee's an East End kid from London, born and raised) and made the guy give HIM his wallet. Thanks again for the recommendation!
Leigh Lundin 17 September, 2020 21:34
For a long time, I considered true crime books as unsavory. As I began writing, I began reading news accounts, articles, reports, and interviews. I don't imagine these are any better than true crime nonfiction, but it helped me understand more about my chosen genre.
Some was stomach churning and I'd turn away. I, for one, can't bear slasher movies.
But I began to realize I owed something to victims. I coerced myself to witness a tiny part of what they went through. I can think of little worse than dying by torture… alone. In a way, I like to think my presence, so to speak, leaves them not quite alone. Is this weird of me?
I don't think that's weird of you at all, Leigh. I think it's commendable. And noteworthy. And thought-provoking. Thank you!
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