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People shut down if they are given too little or too much stimulation, this being the essence of activation theory.

According to acquired needs theory, there are three kinds of people: those who seek power, those who seek adulation, and those who seek accomplishment. All people desire all three, but in any given person one of these desires predominates. The identity of the dominant desire is fixed by one's innate psychological constitution, but the exact manner in which one goes about fulfilling this desire is determined by experience.

A brief discussion of the psychology of aggression.

Feminism is an excuse for women to talk about love and sex, while retaining a veneer of respectability.

The world described by Orwell in 1984 is a giant bureaucracy. Stalin's Russia was a giant bureaucracy. Totalitarian states are giant bureaucracies.

It is generally thought that the psychopath has no superego. This is not so. The psychopath's superego functions only intermittently. By contrast, the non-psychopath's superego exerts a steady pressure on his psyche. The psychopath's superego, though existent, is, as it were, external to the ego over which it has jurisdiction, whereas the non-psychopath's superego is not so neatly separated from the corresponding ego. But the psychopath's superego is quite as existent as the non-psychopath's.

God is externalized conscience. Where there is God, there is religion. And to that extent, religion is not a bad thing.

To the limited extent to which people commit crimes, they do so not to victimize members of the group in question but rather to rebel against oppressive anti-hate crime laws.

Marx was wrong about economics but right about the mind. His wrong statements about society are true statements about the mind. And that is why people are drawn to his work.

Today's philosophical establishment hyper-values nullities, so as to avail itself of undeserved money and prestige; and when those nullities are exposed for what they are, it's as though they never existed.

A dialogue about business.

A description of the relationship between deductive thought and artistic creation.

A dialogue about music and math.

The most important precepts of logic are stated.