@@MythicDawn so glad you are - thank you.

yes - thank you. The book really is "sociopathy 101." Being open to feedback is certainly one of the good bits, so thanks for the note on the name. Brian Greene is the "don't die is my golden rule" guy. If ONLY everyone who read the book approached it like you do - and if only Robert Greene took the responsibility to admit to this HUGE ethical problem with the book being positioned as self help. Thank for the views - feel free to like share and subscribe. - So glad to know that you'll be seeing the episodes as we go. :)

To grasp "the one ring" (power as such) to believe that you wield it for good ends is the first step in "The Fall" - Camus knew this well. I've never seem Robert Greene own up the the enormous moral hazard this book presents. He is a Machiavelli for the 21st century - but one who has never to my knowledge written a "Republic" - a book of grounded ethics to balance out the analysis or raw, sociopathic use of power.

When one takes "assume formlessness" lightly - it makes them unreliable and very difficult to trust. When they take "assume formlessness" seriously - this is the exact image of the ancient Egyptian conception of eternal damnation, (you can look it up, the final bit of the Journey of the Duat) - hell for an Egyptian was to be eaten alive and made formless into eternal entropic static - chewed up by the Hippo-Lion-Gator goddess Amit when the weighing of the heart comes up. Greene's book is effectively a reworking of the Screwtape Letters.

Amazing - great to hear, Sandra. What ding of design do you work with?

Write me what you are thinking about.

so it is - thank you, it has been a long day. :)

self help things are fun. Not really my specialty although I could go on about it. The idea with this is that design businesses use these tools to help deliver great things to clients (at least Living Process, LLC does.) and so - I could also do some videos on business known best practices. I have opined in the past on cultural and relatinonship dynamics (dealing with hypergamy etc) - not sure if people WANT to hear about that. - Maybe they do.

@@livingprocess8850 fair.

nice - and important that you used "fundamental process" method in a form language to arrive at the results. Sounds very meaningful and significant.

Do you work in the deign field or was this more of an independent project?

Although i have no academic background in architecture I've worked on and off in construction for 7 years in a family owned business . Since then i've been studying Alexander's method in hopes of applying it to future projects. Ive been itching to put it in practice and this personal project was a humble opportunity at it. His work has sparked a spiritual connection for me, and the disemination of it is a new north in my thinking and writing processes. @@livingprocess8850

Athens' democracy was ruled by the ecclesia, the Romans had a separation of powers (bicameral legislature) like we do. We have a senate AND a popular assembly. We have term limits - so did the Romans, we are a federal republic (like Rome) while Athens was a city state with (later) an affiliate empire. At the start of "storm before the storm" historian Mike Duncan does an excellent job of outlining the analogy between the ~US and Rome. Rome was all immigrants - the Athenians claimed to be autochthonous. - It goes on and on.

@@livingprocess8850 I still disagree on the comparison with Rome, Athens is still the better comparison , USA is a naval power not a land power as Rome was. Like Athens it goes on endlessly praising the virtues of democracy and freedom without practising or genuinely implementing those virtues either at home or abroad, the Athenians saw themselves as a nation regardless of being called a city state or not, they also had set times in public office, As for the claim they were all indigenous in origin as opposed to USA population being made up of diverse immigrants who came seeking shelter. Well it's simply not true. Athens was flooded with refugees from Messenia at the end of the bronze age and on many more occasions afterwards. The position of the Delian League to Athens is a perfect analogy to NATO and USA. It seems clear USA comparison with Rome is false,self delusion, self flattering and wishful thinking at best. Rome was as outlined a land power. USA a sea power, it's military strength exercised through it's navy as with Athens, it leads bullies and coherces members of a military Alliance ((NATO) in it's own interests for primarily economic reasons against their own interests. As with Athens and the Delian league it uses NATO to overthrow other governments it doesn't like abroad, whilst claiming to be a democracy itself it's perfectly ok with supporting anti democratic tyrants and oligarchs elsewhere when policy dictates. USA power really started growing in the wake of the world wars similar in some ways to the Greek conflict with Persia and the period between around 479-430bc. Most of all it now being a naval power wants to confront a land power Russia or if not Russia China. It USA overestimates its own abilities to project it's power and through it's crazy mad notion of American exceptionalism parallels the madness hubris and overconfidence of Athens. The USA empire is nothing like the Roman empire its again more similar to the Athenian in that it is commercial and trade driven rather than an integrated political unit. No the parallels stand a better comparison with Athens than Rome and an Athens on the brink of the Peloponnesian war. I would also point out that Rome although a republic was itself just a city state until the time of Augustus when it became an empire, even then citizenship wasn't granted to all its parts until the third century and then for the purpose of taxation. The fact that USA has a body of government styling itself a senate has no more to do with Rome than many other countries with legislative bodies also calling themselves senates such as the Irish republic. Copying Roman legislative bodies names doesn't mean your Roman its either vanity or simply meaningless as regards any relationship to that former polity. Your comparison with Rome is erroneous, do you elect two cousuls each year to run your republic? No. Do you appoint a dictator in times of war ? No. So actually nothing like the Roman Republic and nothing like the Roman empire which replaced it.