THE FUTURE: CANCELED FOR LACK OF INTEREST June 26, 2009
They’re telling me you don’t want the future. Just as they’ve been
telling me for years — for decades, really — you have no interest in
freedom.
Who are “they”? Practically everyone I am compelled to deal with
in order to do what I do: agents, editors, publishers, booksellers,
critics, other writers, even individuals who run blogs and websites
and tell me to my face what a terrific fellow I am — while saying
behind my back that time has passed me by and that I’m a relic of the
past. Yeah, you …
ATTACK OF THE SCENE-STEALERS June 11, 2009
Over the years, a strange transformation has come over me and my
work.
When I started writing novels, they were all about the Grand Idea.
Everything else, the characters, the settings, the circumstances, was
created to highlight and showcase that set of principles that we call
libertarianism. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with any of that, of
course.
I’m not exactly sure when it began to happen, whether it was an
abrupt occurrence or happened gradually — it’s extremely difficult to
tell that kind of thing with your own creations — …
WANNA BUY A FUTURE? June 2, 2009
One of the most important lessons in improving your life consists
of unlearning verbal habits that you may not be aware are holding you
back.
If, every time you made a typo, broke a dish, or pulled the last
shot in an otherwise accurate string, you said something under your
breath — like, “I’m so stupid!”, “I’m a clumsy oaf!”, “I can’t shoot
for sour owlshit!” — that was highly self-denigrating or insulting,
what you said, through repetition, could become a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
What you’d be doing, whether you know …